[Infrastructure] I'm not a god

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Ruan Yi did not go out with the picking team the next day. Zhan Yu told him that he would go to hunt in the morning, but he would come back early at noon, and then take him to the place where the animal skins were processed.

For the free morning, Ruan Yi didn't go wandering in the tribe. He knew that some people in the tribe always kept them at a respectful distance, and he didn't want to make fun of himself.

In order to solve her drinking water problem, Ruan Yi accidentally discovered a natural water storage vessel—a climbing vine similar to a gourd.

However, how to turn raw gourds into dried gourds that can be used to hold water still needs some processing. Ruan Yi used this morning to do such a thing, and finally hung up strings of gourds and dried them with hot air.

The gourd that Ruan Yi obtained is a food that is regarded as a fruit in the tribe, but it tastes strange and is not very popular, so it is relatively rare, and it will harden when it gets old, and it cannot be chewed at all.

This was exactly what Ruan Yi wanted. He saw it from someone else's hands, so he exchanged the string of old gourds with other better fruits, and both parties were very happy, each satisfied with the result of the transaction.

Just processing some gourds is nothing more than lighting a fire to boil the gourds, and then peeling and drying them in the shade, but because Ruan Yi does it alone, it will cost him nearly a whole morning.

Ruan Yi persevered for the convenience of drinking water in the future.

After finishing everything, Zhan Yi also came back from the outside, Ruan Yi remembered to check whether it was a saline-alkali land, felt happy, and lifted his spirits again.

Zhan Yu brought back a bunch of animal skins, and many Ruan Yi couldn't identify the animals, but the damage of these animal skins was very small, and most of them were intact.

Zhan Yu knew that Ruan Yi was dealing with the gourd matter, so he asked him a symbolic question after seeing that he was done, and got Ruan Yi's affirmative answer.

The saline-alkali land is not far from the tribe. The Hengshan tribe is located at the border between the forest and the rocks. Generally, the activities of the tribesmen go to the forest with water and rich food sources. The tribesmen live in the rocks and deep in the natural cave. In the cave that was dug out.

There are basically no green plants in this mountain rock, but only mud and gravel. Now that Ruan Yi thinks about it, he feels that there may be a saline-alkali land here.

Ruan Yi was so happy that his heart was pounding until he saw a piece of frost-colored land that even oozes yellow and white coarse salt particles.

Salt is of great significance to the self-consistent operation of normal physiological functions of the human body, and is an absolutely indispensable material for survival.

Ruan Yi couldn't help reaching out to pick up some crystal particles on the ground, but he didn't put it in his mouth to taste. He was already sure, but he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Although saline-alkali land was discovered, according to the impression in Ruan Yi's mind, the composition of saline-alkali land is complex, and the content of table salt (that is, sodium chloride) that can be eaten by humans is generally not much, compared with seawater or inland salt lakes. The source of edible salt can be obtained directly by drying the salt.

Moreover, in this primitive society, with such crude means and conditions, it is even more impossible to hope to extract high-purity table salt.

Of course, this is a bit frustrating for Ruan Yi, a modern person who is used to eating refined salt, but for primitive people, he is not so particular.

They didn't know the existence of salt and its importance to the human body before.

Ruan Yi stood up and shook off the grains of salt between his fingers. He carefully observed the range of the saline-alkali land where almost no grass grew, and suddenly found some abnormalities worth noting.

He found that the trend of this so-called saline-alkali land seemed a bit like... a river that had dried up recently?

It may be a bit inaccurate to say that the river course is a stream.

Ruan Yi had another guess in his mind, and this thought made him short of breath.

Ruan Yishuo followed the strip-shaped irregular saline-alkali land to the source, and finally found a surprise in the depths of the rocks—a salt lake.

Now Ruan Yi's mood went through ups and downs, almost weeping with joy, he grabbed Zhan Yu's hand, and said in an excited voice, "Brother Zhan, Salt Lake, there is actually a Salt Lake here!"

Well, maybe the salt lake is a compliment to the degraded small lake in front of you. Ruan Yi guessed that the salt lake should be shrinking year by year, and now it has reached the edge of disappearing and annihilation. Fortunately, before it really disappeared, Ruan Yi I found it, and I can make it play a little bit of the last heat.

In any case, the salt was found, and it was table salt!

Since there is a salt lake, there are white particles oozing from the previous saline-alkali land, and the content of sodium chloride in it is higher than the general saline-alkali land that Ruan Yi knew, even coarse salt particles!

Ruan Yi was so happy.

Zhan Yu looked at Ruan Yi's extremely excited appearance, but it was actually a little hard to understand.

Perhaps, salt is really a good thing as he said.

"This is where the people in the tribe process the animal skins. It turns out that this is the salt lake you mentioned. The water really cannot be drunk because it tastes extremely bitter. The people in the tribe call it the Kushui Lake." Zhan Yu said to Ruan Yi.

Ruan Yi was surprised and speechless. In fact, he didn't know what to say. The people of the Hengshan tribe really guarded a treasure mountain, but they didn't know how to use it. In the end, they only used it for animal skins...

This explains the importance of knowledge and civilization to a certain extent.

"Actually, this taste is not bitter. It should be called salty. This is what salt tastes like. It's just that if you eat too much salt, you will feel bitter in your mouth."

"Brother Xi, don't deal with the animal skin here. I know a better way. Let's collect some salt first, and then I'll give you a barbecue when we go back?"

"But isn't it still a while before night? I'm not very hungry."

"Brother Xi, I want you to taste the taste of salt first, you will definitely like it, promise me?" Then you will understand and agree with me.

"Ok."

Just looking at him, he couldn't help pampering him and fulfilling his wishes.

On the way back, Ruan Yi also picked up some lime, preparing it for processing the animal skins later.

It can be made into simple lime water, which can be used as strong alkali.

"Brother Xi, is there any sour fruit here? I want to exchange for some."

"Do you like this kind of fruit?"

"No, I have other uses." Ruan Yi was planning to squeeze the juice to use as a weak acid, and also to better process the animal hides.

"There is a family in the tribe who has them. If we need them urgently, we can find them later and exchange them for some."

"That's great."

Seeing Ruan Yi's happy appearance, Zhan Yu hooked his lips helplessly, is it so easy to be satisfied...