In a chaotic world of infrastructure development, a woman's path to survival after being reborn

There are always a few fruits that fall in the mountains and are not washed away by the flood, so it is not surprising to find them. Therefore, Aunt Liu and the others did not pay much attention to it.

Aunt Liu only gave him a verbal praise and didn't take it to heart, but when Pidan came back with the fruit he found, Su Li's eyes lit up.

Looking at the fruit covered in white frost in Pidan's hand, an image flashed through Su Li's mind. Recalling the description of the fruit, Su Li said somewhat uncertainly, "Pidan, can I take a look at this fruit?"

Hearing this, Pidan handed the fruit in his hand to Su Li and asked in confusion, "Auntie, do you like this fruit? But it's sour and salty, it doesn't taste good at all."

"Auntie, do you want some fruit? I'll share one with you when I find some later. This fruit really doesn't taste good."

Hearing the description of the preserved egg, Su Li had a vague guess in her mind. She then took the fruit and examined it carefully. She gently scraped the white frost on the fruit with her finger, and carefully tasted it. She became more and more certain of her guess.

"Preserved Egg, where did you find these fruits? Are there many? Can you take your aunt to see them?"

Upon hearing this, Preserved Egg scratched his head in confusion, not understanding what was so interesting about this sour and bitter fruit.

Before Pidan could even speak, Aunt Liu couldn't help but tap his little head and say, "Aren't you going to tell me where Aunt Su Li found this fruit?"

Reminded by his mother, Pidan immediately came to his senses and said, "It was right there, Auntie, I'll take you there. These fruits grow on very high trees, and there are many of them on the trees. We thought they would be delicious, and it was quite a struggle to get a few down, but they turned out to be so awful. I wish we hadn't gotten them."

Listening to Pidan's rambling, Su Li followed him to the tree, looked up at it again and again, and finally confirmed that she had not guessed wrong. Then she smiled and said to the aunties who had come with her, "This fruit is a good thing. It doesn't taste as good as ordinary fruit, but its effects are much greater than those of ordinary fruit."

Upon hearing this, Aunt Liu and the others who had come with her exchanged glances, and couldn't help but take the fruit from Su Li's hand and examine it carefully. They looked at it again and again, but couldn't see anything special about the fruit.

After guessing for a long time without figuring out the fruit's great use, Aunt Liu and the others couldn't help but ask, "Miss Su Li, this fruit just has a layer of frost on its skin, and it looks no different from ordinary fruit."

Hearing this, Su Li smiled and scraped the white frost off the fruit with her finger, saying, "Aunties, why don't you scrape off the frost and try it?"

Seeing that Su Li wouldn't explain, Aunt Liu and the others followed suit with puzzled expressions, carefully putting the scraped-off white frost into their mouths to taste it. The next second, their eyes widened, and they said, "This layer of white frost tastes salty."

Hearing this, Su Li smiled and said, "It tastes salty, so this is salt!"

Upon hearing this, Aunt Liu and the others stared wide-eyed at Su Li in disbelief, clearly unable to believe what Su Li had just said.

Aunt Liu and the others were silent for a while, then asked curiously, "But isn't ordinary salt crystalline? The frost on this fruit looks like granules or powder when scraped off, how could it be salt?"

Su Li had spent some time in the Zhang family's kitchen, so she naturally knew what salt looked like in this era. The Zhang family was considered relatively wealthy, and the salt they used was in the form of small crystals, though much smaller than that of ordinary households. Therefore, she naturally understood what Aunt Liu and the others meant.

"Whether it's salt or not, the salt aunties will know after they taste it. I'm sure you can't tell by looking, but you can taste it, right?"

Hearing this, Aunt Liu and the others, not believing it, scraped off some more white frost from the fruit. This time, they scraped off more frost than before, so when they put it in their mouths, they were shocked by the saltiness. They wanted to spit it out but felt it was a waste, so they forced themselves to swallow it.

Su Li stood aside watching, wanting to say something to remind them, but before she could speak, Aunt Liu and the others swallowed the salt.

"Hurry up and drink some water!" Su Li quickly handed over the water bottle she was carrying.

Although the saltiness still lingered in their mouths, it had subsided by now. Aunt Liu and the others refused the water bottle that Su Li offered, saying excitedly, "This stuff really is salt."

Hearing this, Su Li smiled and nodded, saying, "Now you should believe me, right? I wasn't wrong."

Aunt Liu and the others nodded repeatedly, then looked up at the fruit hanging high on the tree, their eyes filled with joy.

Su Li was also happy. This unexpected joy came at just the right time. It is said that firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea are essential things in life. People can eat less rice, but they cannot eat less salt.

Soldiers were responsible for protecting everyone, so they needed to have enough strength and enough salt. Therefore, salt was an essential item for fleeing famine and traveling.

This time, everyone was in a hurry to go down the mountain and hurry on their way because they were short of salt. They had planned to reach the next city as soon as possible to buy some salt. But now, the salt that was delivered to their doorstep was too good to pass up.

Seeing how happy Aunt Liu and the others were, Su Li couldn't help but smile and remind them, "Aunties, wait until you get the fruit down and collect all the salt off the skin before you're happy. You know, every minute you delay means you'll collect less salt, and that would be a huge loss."

Upon hearing this, Aunt Liu and the others immediately became nervous and nodded repeatedly, saying, "We must bring them back quickly. Just now, we saw a gust of wind blow down a lot of the frost on those fruits, and a lot of them disappeared at once."

Su Li didn't pay much attention to this, but she knew she had to hurry up and collect the fruit, so she nodded and said, "Then please go and call someone quickly so that we can pick all the fruit before it gets dark."

Salt-making technology was not advanced in this era, and salt was especially precious. In particular, at times like these, salt was controlled more strictly. Therefore, Aunt Liu and the others did not dare to delay at all and quickly got up and ran back to find someone.

Su Li is physically disabled and can't run fast, so she's staying under the tree to watch over the fruit and the child.

Pidan, who had been watching from the sidelines, noticed everyone staring excitedly at the salty and sour fruit he had picked. He couldn't help but ask curiously, "Auntie, do you know what this fruit is used for? Why are my mother and the others so happy, as if they've found money?"

"Isn't this just like finding money?" Su Li couldn't help but exclaim, but she couldn't say that. Instead, she cautioned, "Pidang, you can't just eat fruit randomly in the future!"

Pidan nodded blankly, but he was still curious as to why everyone was so happy, so he asked again, "What kind of fruit is this?"