NOVEL NEXT Chapter 22 - Crystal Salt
The poor and helpless original owner was abused by these people… The original owner was only eighteen years old and was plotting to lose his life.
In the first few days after Mai Dongzi was reborn before she figured out this matter, she had planned to keep a low profile and stay away from the Xi family according to the original owner’s wishes. After she has the ability, she will find out who harmed the original owner and avenge the original owner.
But when she carefully thought about the space bracelet, she had different ideas.
The original owner was such a well-behaved and lovely girl; was she so calculated by the Xi family in vain?
If she left the Xi family like this, wouldn’t it make the Xi family master, his wife, and their daughter happy?
Because there was too little information, Mai Dongzi didn’t know why the Xi family master and his wife exchanged their daughter with the daughter of an illegitimate child, but there must have been huge hidden interests in it.
If she left the Xi family like this, it would be difficult to find out the truth about why the Xi family master and his wife did this.
The crime of being a fake daughter will always be pinned on the original owner’s father, and the original owner’s reputation as a fake daughter will always be pinned on her.
The Xi family head, his wife, and Erica Xi will stand on the moral high ground and suppress Mai Dongzi all the time.
After thinking it through, Mai Dongzi decided that she would go back to the Xi family.
She would return to the Xi family as the daughter of Atom Xi, with a more glorious and talented aura than Erica, take off the fake masks of the Xi family and his wife, and wash away the shame of others calling the original owner a fake daughter.
Mai Dongzi thought of these things because of the space deduction, and she became angry again for the original owner’s experience, but her expression did not change, her hands did not slow down, and she continued to cook food.
In the end, Mai Dongzi cooked a total of five pots of mutant beast meat and wild vegetable soup and then separated the mutant beast meat and wild vegetable soup into a square ceramic box that was twice as large as an ordinary lunch box, and this ceramic box also had a lid.
Mai Dongzi fired a total of ten ceramic lunch boxes. After filling them up, she put all the food into the space buckle.
Although she used her mental power to put the ceramic lunch boxes into the space buckle, she reached out to touch the ceramic lunch boxes, so outsiders would only think that she put these things into the space backpack.
Although the space buckle can only be kept fresh for one year, the fresh prey in the lowest-level space device, such as the space backpack, has a shelf life of only more than ten days, so she must deal with the prey within 10 days.
As we all know, cooked food can be kept longer in the space backpack; generally, a month is no problem.
The adventurer’s space backpack has a total of five compartments. Mai Dongzi put some of the food in it, and most of it was quietly transferred to the space buckle.
After preparing the food, Mai Dongzi changed to a clean pottery pot to continue boiling water. The water was only roughly filtered, not filtered several times as before.
Maidongzi hadn’t showered for several days. Due to the cleaning function of her combat uniform, her body was relatively clean, but her hair was covered in dust and sweat, and she didn’t even want to talk about the smell.
In addition, she didn’t have a comb to comb her hair, so she combed it with her hands after getting up in the morning and then tied it up. She didn’t know how tangled it was, so she had to wash it thoroughly.
Mai Dongzi was afraid that the lake water might contain tiny blood-sucking worms or parasites, as well as mutated microorganisms that she didn’t know about, so she didn’t dare to wash directly with the lake water.
Although she wasn’t afraid of boiled water, before ceramics were fired, she had a frying pan for cooking meat. Asking her to use a greasy pan to boil water for a bath and hair wash was a big deal for her. She would rather be dirty.
In addition to the ceramics that were specifically useful, Maidongzi filled two one-meter-high ceramic jars with boiled water and then stored them all in the space bag.
With this water, she would not be afraid of running out of water for the next month.
After preparing the drinking water, water for use, and food, Maidongzi began to tinker with salt.
The water in Oasis Lake contains a certain amount of salt, so the boiled water has a light salty taste.
After Mai Dongzi drank such lake water, her body did not suffer from hyponatremia due to salt deficiency in a short period of time, but it would be hard to say if it lasted for a long time, so she had to refine some crystal salt for emergencies.
Mai Dongzi put the wood ashes piled on the side into the ceramic vessel that was boiling water and stirred it, then used a rattan net she had woven yesterday to scoop up the coarser wood ashes in the water and then added new wood ashes to continue boiling.
After repeating this three times, the water in the ceramic vessel was already very turbid.
Mai Dongzi tasted it and found that the water was already very salty.
She was afraid that if she added new wood ashes, the salt in the water would be absorbed by the wood ashes. Then she placed two layers of rattan nets on the ceramic funnel and poured the wood ash water on it.
The wood ash water penetrated from the rattan net into the ceramic vessel below, and the larger wood ash particles remained on the surface of the rattan net.
When the audience saw that Mai Dongzi could think of weaving a rattan net without a filter, they were really impressed.
However, some viewers raised questions, asking why she didn’t use charcoal to filter.
After filtering five times in this way, although the water was still a little gray and black, there were no wood ash particles in the water. Mai Dongzi set the water aside.
Then she poured new water into the original ceramic jar, continued to pour dry wood ash into it, and repeated the previous operation again.
For a whole hour, Mai Dongzi repeated pouring wood ash into the water, stirring it, then filtering it, pouring it again, and filtering it again.
Repeating the same work, the audience in the live studio, who had a little less patience, could no longer stand such boredom.
But Mai Dongzi’s movements and expressions were still so unhurried and calm.
Although the audience, who had been slapped in the face by Mai Dongzi several times and were surprised, did not understand what she was doing, even if they were impatient, no one dared to be the vanguard and laugh at her. The impatient audience in the live broadcast room began to swipe the screen and ask each other what Lucy Xi was doing.
But no one answered, so everyone went to the professor at the Ancient Culture Research Institute.
Although the professor was also online, he could not give an accurate answer. But the professor is a professor after all, and he speculated that Miss Lucy should want to extract a substance from the wood ash.
So everyone had to be patient again and again. After dissolving all the wood ash, Mai Dongzi changed to a new rattan net, mixed all the wood ash water together, and then filtered it carefully until no more wood ash particles were filtered out on the rattan net.
At this time, the wood ash water was still a chaotic black and gray color. Mai Dongzi tasted it and was very satisfied with the saltiness of the wood ash water.
Because there was no time to dry the wood ash water naturally, Mai Dongzi directly poured the wood ash water into two porcelain pots and boiled them on the fire.
After dark, all the wood ash water evaporated, and Maidongzi harvested about 100 grams of black crystal salt.
Although the color and taste were not flattering, it was indeed crystal salt. With this salt, she would not be afraid of a lack of salt in the next 50 days.