Frontier Army Warrior

Chapter 998 Refined Salt

The terrain here is a bit complicated. The team of the Seven Heroes of the Yan family once took advantage of the terrain to escape the pursuit of pirates several times.

After the cavalry rushed into the city gate, they each looked for a place to dismount and rest.

Yan Xiaoyi brought Lin Feng all the way to a house in the city center.

Although this house no longer has a gate, the gatehouse is still standing and the yard is relatively clean.

"This is the headquarters of the Seven Heroes of the Yan Clan. You stay here and wait for Xiao Ding and the others to return."

Yan Xiaoyi spoke to Lin Feng and rode his horse into the house.

"What if Yan Xiaoding can't find me in that town?"

"Don't worry, if she can't find you in town, she will come to Long County first."

Yan Xiaowu, who was following behind him, replied casually.

Lin Feng dismounted and his warhorse was led away.

Yan Xiaowu led him to a room without a door.

"You can rest here for now. We'll make other arrangements when Xiao Ding comes back."

Lin Feng didn't care. Besides the broken sword, he also had a dagger and some food that Yan Xiaoding and the others had shared.

After half a day of bumpy ride on horseback, I was already hungry.

When we evacuated from the town, we didn't take the broken iron pot with us. After we finished the porridge, we needed to find something to cook.

Lin Feng wondered if these people had any salt with them. Even if they wanted to barbecue some wild game, it would be difficult to make it tasty without salt.

It's along the coast here, so it shouldn't be difficult to get some salt.

Even if the government has strict control, you can still make some salt yourself.

The salt we eat now is still in the crude raw salt stage. It not only contains many impurities and is harmful to the body, but also has a low output.

Many people cannot afford salt.

Lin Feng promoted the method of salt production in the Zhenxi Army, ensuring that his troops could eat refined fine salt. He also allowed Bai Jing to control the distribution of fine salt in the eight prefectures of Zhenxi under the government's control.

Outside the eight prefectures west of the town, fine salt is rarely seen on the market. Most of the salt is large yellow salt particles that are bitter and difficult to swallow.

Of course, even this kind of yellow coarse salt is not easily obtained. Whoever holds power will regard salt as an important strategic material and strictly control its use.

At nightfall, a letter came from outside the city, saying that Yan Xiaobing and Yan Xiaoding had finally arrived in Long County, followed by Yan Xiaoji and Yan Xiaogeng.

Six of the seven heroes of the Yan family have gathered together, only the eldest brother Yan Xiaojia is missing.

Yan Xiaobing was tall and slender, with arms and waist as thin as apes, and was good at riding and shooting.

He brought back two rabbits and a pheasant. When he saw Lin Feng, he was overjoyed. He piled all the wild animals in Lin Feng's house and urged him to cook them.

Lin Feng looked at the rabbit and pheasant in embarrassment.

"Hey, Xiao Bing, do you have any salt?"

Yan Xiaobing frowned and stood up. He fumbled around his body for a long time before grabbing a yellow salt grain the size of an egg, with a look of reluctance on his face.

"Master Shu, that's all."

"Anyone else have any?"

"There must be more, but no one is willing to take it out. It's too precious."

Lin Feng spread his hands and said, "There are no ingredients, just food. It will definitely not taste good. You should just cook it. It will all taste the same anyway."

Yan Xiaobing spread out his palms: "Isn't this much salt enough?"

Lin Feng took the salt block in his hand, held it up and looked at it carefully.

The salt block is turbid and contains too many impurities.

"This thing is also called salt. It can't be eaten at all. It needs to be further refined before it can be used as a seasoning for food."

Yan Xiaobing was stunned when he heard this.

"This still needs to be refined? Do you know how long I've treasured this salt?"

"This stuff is harmful to your body. You can't eat it like this."

"Would you mind getting more to harm me?"

Yan Xiaobing snatched the salt block from Lin Feng's hand, looked at it carefully, wrapped it in cloth, and put it in his arms.

Lin Feng smiled bitterly.

At this time, Yan Xiaoding stepped in from outside. The room was dim, even though a crude candle was lit.

"Master Shu, it's time to cook."

"I can't do it. There's no salt."

"Ah, salt, I have it."

Yan Xiaoding reached into his arms and took out a cloth bag. After opening it, he took out a block of salt that was slightly smaller than an egg.

"Do you think this is enough?"

She had a smug look on her face.

Unexpectedly, before Lin Feng could say anything, Yan Xiaobing had already sneered.

"Forget it, this salt can't be eaten. It needs to be refined."

Yan Xiaoding's two big black eyes were wide open.

"Don't try to trick me. You want to get some from me? Humph..."

Yan Xiaobing shook his head: "Let your Master Shu tell you, I don't need to fool you."

Yan Xiaoding turned to look at Lin Feng.

"That's right, this salt can't be used."

Yan Xiaoding frowned: "How do you say it should be used?"

Lin Feng said patiently, "Do you know what kind of salt the Zhenxi Army eats?"

The two looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time.

"I only know that the Zhenxi Army was powerful in battle. What's going on? Does this have anything to do with the salt they eat?"

"Of course it does. If you eat well, your physique will be good and you'll be full of energy. How can you not be good at fighting?"

Yan Xiaoding waved his hand: "Stop talking nonsense, just tell me, how do you refine salt?"

Lin Feng nodded: "First... we need salt."

"Isn't this nonsense?"

"Don't be impatient. Boil the salt into brine, filter out the impurities, fry it dry, filter out the water, grind it into a fine powder, and you'll get refined salt."

Yan Xiaoding and Lin Feng looked at each other again, and felt that they didn't understand what Lin Feng said.

Yan Xiaoding happily handed the salt block in his hand to Lin Feng.

"Okay, just refine my salt. I want to taste what refined salt tastes like."

Lin Feng didn't reach out to take it, but just shook his head.

"This is too little, not worth refining."

Yan Xiaobing hesitated: "What about adding my share?"

Lin Feng still shook his head.

Yan Xiaoding gritted his teeth and said, "Wait a minute, I'll go find Brother Xiaoyi."

After saying that, he turned and rushed out.

Yan Xiaoding collected salt blocks among her five brothers. Although none of them were willing to give them away, Yan Xiaoding was the only sister, so all her brothers and sisters gave in to her.

In a short time, Yan Xiaoding collected seven or eight pieces of salt, put them in a piece of cloth bag, and sent them to Lin Feng's house.

Because salt is an important commodity, it is very precious and hard to find.

After hearing Yan Xiaoding's words, several brothers handed over all their treasured salt blocks, but they were still worried and followed him into Lin Feng's house.

Including Yan Xiaoyi, the second brother of the Seven Heroes of the Yan Family, he also came into the house and looked at Lin Feng with puzzled eyes.

Lin Feng asked Yan Xiaoding to find an iron pot, which was not difficult to find in a team of 300 people.

He built a stove with stones in the yard and started a fire.

Rinse the salt block with clean water, put it into the pot and start dissolving it.

The six Yan brothers surrounded him, staring at Lin Feng's every move with wide eyes.

Soon, the salt block dissolved into liquid in the pot, emitting a strong sour smell.

Lin Feng used clean coarse cloth, folded it into three layers, placed a porcelain bowl underneath, then poured the solution in the pot onto the cloth and began to filter out impurities.

Less than half a pot of yellow salt solution was quickly filtered through coarse cloth into a clear water-like liquid, filling up half a bowl.