The whole family travels through time: escape from famine! No cheat codes yet!

After working for most of the day, there weren't actually that many chestnuts. The final estimate was that they could only harvest 600 to 700 kilograms of chestnuts with shells, which would be just over 2 kilograms per person.

If we eat sparingly, it would probably last for three days. But everyone was happy enough and didn't plan to walk again today. We decided to find a place nearby to rest.

Old Lady Hua couldn't stop smiling, and said cheerfully: "We can grind these chestnuts into powder and make cakes with wild cotton. I think they will last us for quite a while."

When Shen Youyou heard this, she was amazed and thought, wild cotton is something that can be eaten with any flour?

Even if she didn't want to eat the sugar-roasted chestnuts, she wanted to cook or roast some, but it seemed impossible.

But except for a few little kids and Shen Youyou, who felt a little regretful, everyone had no objection to this proposal.

It has to be eaten with cotton cakes, otherwise it really can't withstand the efforts of nearly three hundred people.

They were really close, so they found a place with their backs against the stone wall and started to put the carts there, surrounding themselves. This was to protect themselves from any wild beasts that might come along. You can't say that just because you haven't seen a wild beast for a while, it means it won't appear. It's always better to be safe than sorry.

Everyone set up a rack and smoked the chestnuts according to the previous barbecue method. After the moisture was smoked dry, they ground them into flour.

Taking advantage of the time now, the men in the village went to look for stones that could be used to make millstones nearby.

The main thing is that they only have two small stone mills, and the rest are stone mortars.

If you can make two more small ones, it will be more convenient to grind other things later.

The women would set up a pan and bake grass seed cotton cakes. It would usually take at least two days to make each one. The cakes with wild cotton would be soft and would not be too hard even after two days. In addition, the weather was getting cooler, so they would not spoil as easily as before.

In the beginning, everyone cooked their own meals, but later, when the cattle and horses fell, they started to eat from the same pot, so now everyone cooks together.

Women know how to live. They make pancakes every day and never steam cornbread. In their words, "Won't steaming cornbread waste water? Make two pots of wild vegetable soup, half a bowl per person, and eat it with pancakes."

And a little salt will be sprinkled into the wild vegetable soup because they don’t have much salt left.

When I read novels before, other female protagonists either discovered salt mines, or discovered Rhus chinensis and Salicornia herba.

But she didn't encounter any of them. Let's not talk about the salt mine for now, that dream is too big to even think about.

Take saltwort for example. It usually grows in saline-alkali land. If you can find it, you can extract salt even by shoveling the soil.

As for the most likely Rhus chinensis, this plant likes sunlight and a warm and humid climate. It is not demanding on soil and can grow in a variety of environments. It is commonly found in sparse woods or shrubs on sunny slopes, valleys, etc. at medium and high altitudes.

The mountain they were on met all the requirements except for being wet.

It is very likely that there is Rhus chinensis here, and its fruits are salty.

But recently she couldn't even find wild grapes, so what other fruits could she use to extract salt?

As for finding it through animals, some herbivores will lick salt-containing stones or soil to obtain salt.

By observing the behavior of these animals, it is possible to find some rocky soil or even plants containing salt.

But the prerequisite is that there are animals for them to observe. They can't just observe mosquitoes, flies, cicadas, and grasshoppers, right?

Before going to bed yesterday, her parents were still talking to her about how, because of the salt shortage that year, our family spent a lot of money to buy ten large bags of loose salt, the kind that weighed 50 kilograms each.

Later they said that the lack of salt was a lie and they didn't get to eat it. Your mother even said that she would learn from your grandmother to pickle pickles.

As a result, so many years have passed and it has never been used, so I traveled through time.

Seeing the look on her parents' faces at that time, I felt quite regretful. I couldn't help wondering why they didn't send the ten bags of loose salt when they sent us here.

Even if the salt is ten years old, I guess his father wouldn't mind it.

But even if this time travel doesn't have anything she wants, Shen Youyou is not afraid. Her motto in life is: "As long as your thinking doesn't slip, there are always more difficulties than solutions."

I guess everyone can recite this sentence by heart.

Seeing that everyone was busy with their own things, Shen Youyou called her sisters and brothers to follow her. Today she would solve her father's biggest worry.

If you say that you won’t die if you don’t eat salt, then the White-Haired Girl’s hair turned white after not eating salt for a long time, but she was still alive and well.

But you have to consider that they had to walk for a long time every day to escape famine. How could they have the strength to keep going without eating salt?

In fact, when she was on the road, she found some spots of white powder on the soil. It was formed by the accumulation of salt. This phenomenon is called salinization in geography.

The formation of salinized soil is mainly due to the accumulation of salt in the soil, which may be caused by a variety of factors, including natural factors and human activities. Natural factors such as climate, topography, geological conditions, etc.

Not to mention the man-made ones, where else could there be in these desolate mountains and wilderness except them?

Of course, not all soils with white powder can be used to extract edible salt.

If the salt in the soil is accumulated due to pollution or other adverse factors, the extracted salt may not be suitable for consumption.

But in ancient times, there was basically no environmental pollution, and the geographical location here did not have any other factors.

Salinization in sparsely populated woods is usually caused by salt in groundwater moving upward and accumulating on the soil surface.

Shen Youyou, along with her brother and sister, held torches and saw the soil covered with white powder. She reached out and pinched a small bit, tasted it, and it was salty.

The others looked at each other in confusion, wondering why their sister had to eat dirt?

"Brothers and sisters, have you seen this soil with white powder? Take this white powder back and use it to make salt."

Shen Dabao was startled and imitated Yoyo's movements. He tasted the white powder and it tasted salty. He looked incredulous: "It is indeed salty."

This was amazing, and the older brothers and sisters all reached out to try it themselves.

You know, they are running out of salt recently, so they only put a little bit in the wild vegetable soup, which has no taste at all and almost tastes bland in the mouth.

And Yoyo never lies. If she says she can make waterproof shoes, she can make them. So she can definitely make salt from this.

What else was there to think about? They all turned around and looked for soil with white powder on it to collect.

Shen Youyou and Shen Erya collected this piece together.

The vegetation in this area is sparse, probably because of the high salt content. There are no weeds, even hay is rare, so it is easy to see the white powder.

It wasn't long before they had filled up their respective bamboo baskets, although most of them were still filled with soil.

As soon as he returned to the camp, Shen Zhiqiu saw the soil in the basket on Shen Youyou's back, and he didn't understand what his daughter was doing!

"Yo Yo, what are you doing again?"

"Didn't you say there was no salt? Of course I make salt!"

As Shen Youyou spoke, she took out a few wooden buckets, poured the soil into them, and asked her brother to get water.

But at this time my brother didn't move, and looked hesitant.

"What's wrong?" Shen Youyou asked in confusion.