【Quick Wear】My Years as a Mother-in-law

"You're stupid. It's the same principle as silt. When water dries up, silt remains. Seawater is high in salt, so when the water dries up, salt remains." Chief Li waved his hand. "Don't worry about it. At least we have salt to eat."

"Yes. It's really salt. Come on, make rice soup for everyone and add more salt. I feel weak all over these days." Li Wuniu danced with joy and ignored his father's words.

After drinking the porridge, everyone felt full of energy. This is the benefit of eating salt.

Of course, being full of strength was just an illusion. Dizziness and vertigo from hunger was the norm. Every member of the tribe, including herself, looked worse than refugees now. Yun Xi touched her face. Her eye sockets were sunken, and the skin on her cheeks tightly wrapped around her bones, without a trace of excess flesh. If someone saw it at night, they would think they had seen a ghost.

I don’t know when I can recover. The original owner’s body has suffered too many losses.

Let's get down to business first. Yun Xi asked everyone to take two filters and filter in the same way as she did. The fire under the two iron pots was burning continuously. Clan leader Li stood beside the pots, adding firewood to the fire, and by the way, poured the burned salt into a dry bamboo tube.

At the end of the day, 42 kilograms of refined salt were produced, which means one person can produce about 3 kilograms of refined salt a day.

"Son, take four people with you to send this salt back. We are all exhausted, and Da Niu and the others must be even more in need of salt." Patriarch Li handed the bamboo tube to his son.

"Okay, I'll send it over and come back as soon as possible?"

"Not enough. Look at how the house is going. Isn't it time to put the finishing touches on it? Although it rained a few times, it should be almost done by now." Chief Li pulled him aside and gave him detailed instructions. "If the house is almost done, bring the people who are gathering wild vegetables and half of the people who are building the house. Let the rest finish building the house, laying the blue bricks, and taking care of the fields. Bring a few iron pots. We can use the summer to dry more salt while we have some free time. We don't know what will happen in the future."

"Okay, I remember."

Everyone started to filter the brine together. The speed was quite fast. They worked without distraction and could produce 45 kilograms of refined salt a day. They worked until August and then had to go back to harvest the rice. They cut the rice but did not pull it up by the roots, leaving it for harvesting the regenerated rice.

The weather here is similar to that in the southeastern part of Jiangsu Province, with a subtropical monsoon climate and two harvests a year. As for the mountains where I hid before, it has a temperate monsoon climate. Although they are not far apart, the climates are completely different, but both have two harvests a year.

In my memory, Lishugou Village has a crop rotation model of rice and wheat. Peanuts, beans, corn, etc. are planted in dry land, which is also a crop rotation. As for the vegetable fields, they also rotate crops. Cucumbers, beans, etc. are planted in spring, and cold-resistant vegetables such as cabbage, radishes, and spinach are planted in autumn. There is no shortage of vegetables to eat.

But we can’t plant wheat this year because there are no wheat seeds.

Yun Xi was caught in the vortex of salt production and was so busy that she was dizzy. Seven days later, Li Chunsheng came with Li Meizi and her younger brothers and sisters. Yun Xi taught them again and everyone started to speed up the salt production. They were busy until August and produced a total of 10,000 kilograms of refined salt, which was distributed to each person, 100 kilograms per person.

Chief Li gathered everyone together to prepare to go back and harvest the grain. "We'll divide the salt when we get back. After we finish harvesting the grain, we'll make some more."

Chief Li had it in mind. Since there was no one around this year, there might be no one around next year. So he had to make more salt while no one was around. Before leaving, he had people build more than a hundred large pits, bring in full seawater to dry them, and wait for the autumn harvest.

"Okay, listen to the clan leader."

The Li family members felt that their lives were becoming more and more promising.