Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Chapter 50: Water Palace Eel
The bottom half of the snake skin was filled with a layer of river sand, a layer of moss, and then another layer of river sand.

The dissolved water in the clam shell flows through, and after three filtrations, it becomes clear and flows into another clam shell. Liu Qing,
Then he would roll up a burning tree trunk and put it into the fire pit of the stone stove under the clam shell, and then add some dry grass and branches.
Suddenly, a raging fire broke out in the fire pit.

In about half an hour, the clam shell, which was as big as the mouth of a water tank and was filled with dissolved filtered water, was evaporated by the flames.

At the bottom of the clam shell, there is a shallow layer of white crystals with light gray.

Liu Qing gestured to the Blue Crab Left Hand Brother, asked him to pick off a small piece and hand it to himself, then he couldn't wait to put it into his mouth.

Suddenly, the salty taste stimulated Liu Qingsi to vomit the snake core, and she drank a mouthful of pool water before she felt relieved.

By the way, ever since Liu Qing turned into a demon, the snakes have rarely spit out their cores out of instinct, which shows how salty this salt is.

The saltier the salt, the more successful the salt making is. Moreover, after tasting it, there is not much bitterness in the salt.
I think, compared with the salt we eat in the world, it is only slightly inferior to the top-grade green salt, and compared with the fish maw salt that Xia Kehang bought with one or two ounces of incense silver earlier,

I don’t know how many times stronger it is.

If you want to improve the quality of the salt further, just add a few more filtering steps.

But Liu Qing didn't want to do that. He planned to take the salt to the lake market to sell. The river monsters were rough and couldn't handle such fine salt. These were enough for them.
It will definitely squeeze out the salt sold by the buffalo monster dealers so that no monster will buy it.

However, I still need to make some high-quality refined salt for my own consumption. Since I traveled through time, I have never eaten anything salty.
When Liu Qing thought of this, his mouth started watering.

Liu Qing took the salt out of the clam shell and swallowed it into his mouth. He roughly estimated that the salt boiled from a pot of brine the size of a river clam would weigh about two kilograms.
Converted into the measurement unit of river monsters, it is four fish bladders.

It is known that the lowest quality coarse salt of a fish maw is sold for one ounce of incense silver. The salt in Liu Qing's hand is several times better than the coarse salt.
Two taels of money is not too much, right? Then, these two pounds of salt from four fish maws is worth eight taels of incense silver.

Oh my God, Goddess Wangshu has become rich.

Thinking of the incense money rolling in, Liu Qing was excited and immediately ordered several river monsters and snakes and pythons under his command to continue boiling salt.

At that moment, Liu Qing transformed into the face of a hateful capitalist, working almost non-stop, scolding his monsters and horses to boil pot after pot of salt.

It was not until the sun went down and nothing could be seen that Liu Qing felt kind and let the monsters, snakes and pythons rest.

The Blue Crab Left Hand Brother collapsed on the ground, his eyes bulging out of their sockets and foaming at the mouth. The White Snake lay down next to the Left Hand Brother, its core hanging out of its mouth from exhaustion.
The scarred carp and the other three carps almost turned upside down, and even their gills, which opened and closed for breathing, looked so weak.

Not to mention the snakes and pythons that had not yet transformed into monsters. They all lay on the ground as if their spines had been shaken apart.

A feeling of resentment towards the hateful faces of the capitalists floated in the old forest on the east bank of Snake Pond.

Liu Qing looked at the space in his mouth bag, which contained at least ten kilograms of salt, and smiled happily.

Ten pounds, twenty fish maws, a full forty taels of incense silver, oh, Goddess Wangshu, praise you.

After the joy, Liu Qing saw the tired state of the cattle and horses, and felt a rare pity in his heart, so he immediately decided to reward them.

So Liu Qing climbed out of the Snake Pond and came to the forest to the west of the Snake Pond, where he found a black bear that had just ended its hibernation.
A chain of water spurted out, trapping its hands and feet, and then the tail whip swung a few times, and the black bear's skull shattered and died.

Facing the demon-like Liu Qing, a mere ordinary black bear was easily captured.

Since the Snake Pond was overturned by the earth dragon, the number of creatures in the pond has decreased sharply. Liu Qing began to stop eating the creatures in the pond intentionally or unintentionally. He dragged the black bear back and called the Blue Crab Left Hand Brother to wash and skin the black bear. Then he asked him to use his big claws to cut the bear meat into small pieces and inserted branches.

Afterwards, Liu Qing watched over the wildfire, roasting the bear meat while sprinkling salt on it. Suddenly, a rich aroma of meat floated in the night sky.

Although black bears are relatively thin in spring, bits of fat are roasted out under the scorching flames, shining with oily color and dripping into the campfire, crackling and causing flames to rise.

Several monsters, twitching their noses or swallowing their wicks, gathered around the campfire, swallowing their saliva non-stop.
If the river monsters were not afraid of fire, they would have pounced on it and snatched it away long ago.

Liu Qing rolled up a piece of roasted bear meat weighing more than half a pound and threw it to Blue Crab Left Hand Brother, who had done the most work today. Left Hand Brother couldn't wait to take a bite.
Suddenly, grease flowed down the corners of its mouth, and the rich, salty and fragrant meat flavor filled its mouth, almost making its already protruding eyeballs fall out.

"Hiss, sir, this meat is so damn delicious!"

You can't expect a blue crab to utter beautiful compliments; this compliment is already the limit of its limited vocabulary.

Later, Liu Qing distributed the barbecue to Bai Sheer, Scar Carp, the short-tailed water python, and other snakes and pythons.

Liu Qing himself also kept eating.

When he took a bite of the barbecue, the salty aroma was mixed with the rich meaty flavor. This familiar taste almost made him cry.

It’s been a while since I last had cooked food, and it still has a distinct salty taste.

A black bear, even though it had just ended hibernation and was rather thin, still weighed hundreds of pounds of bear meat. In just a few moments, it was devoured clean by a group of monsters, snakes and pythons.

After eating, they began to feel sleepy. The blue crab brother Zuoshou went to his new home, the locust tree that fell in the water. The scar carp and the others sank into the water.

The short-tailed water python, along with a group of other snake pythons, snaked its bloated belly towards the caves on the shores around the snake pond. However, because it had eaten too much, its bloated belly got stuck at the cave entrance and it couldn't get in.

The White Snake returned to the tree hole under the crooked mulberry tree, while Liu Qing swallowed the cooking tools into his mouth and sac, and finally covered the wildfire with mud mixed with dead grass and leaves.
This not only preserves the fire, but also prevents it from being blown by the wind at night and starting a fire. After all, forest fire prevention is the responsibility of the snake demon.

After climbing up the crooked mulberry tree, Liu Qing looked up at the sky and found that the moon, which had just come out, was covered by dark clouds.

The market opens on moonless nights, but it would be too late to reserve a spot if we go to Dayawan Lake now. It would be better to wait until the moon is waning, when we can sell the goods anyway.

Time is passing slowly.

After an unknown amount of time, Liu Qing, who had fallen into a deep sleep, was awakened by the sound of tortoise shells.

He opened his eyes and looked in the direction of the sound, only to see a dark shadow emerging from the waterway east of the Snake Pond.

Liu Qing blinked his eyes and looked closely. He saw the black figure wearing a herring skin coat, a crocodile skin cloak, lotus silk shoes, and holding a tortoise shell in one hand and a drumstick in the other.
There was an eel head on its shoulder, with no eel whiskers around its mouth. It was staring at Liu Qing with a pair of black eyes.

To be able to transform into a human form to this extent, he must have already achieved the state of refining Qi and becoming a spirit.

Liu Qing's heart moved, and he paused and asked, "Is it the eunuch eunuch from the Water Palace?"

(End of this chapter)