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Chapter 240 Donkey’s face is full of happiness!

"It's ready!"

The two of them looked at each other and nodded. Seeing that it was getting late, they both stood up and wanted to go back.

"Jianping, after finishing this pot, go back to sleep!"

"Well, Uncle, let me purify this pot first. This pot has a high concentration!" Sun Jianping slowly put the wire mesh into the boiling alkaline water as usual. By the light of the lantern, you can clearly see that a layer of wire mesh quickly adhered to it. Tiny white granular crystals!

This is the precipitated crystal!
"I want to watch, I want to go back with my brother!" Xiao Xingwen was very interested in boiling alkali. He stood on tiptoe to watch the reaction going on in the pot. Li Xiuzhi pulled him several times and refused to go home to sleep.

"Xingwen, you go back to bed first, you have to go to school tomorrow!" Sun Jianping smiled and rubbed the little guy's head, "Brother will steam a big steamed bun for you tomorrow!"

"OK then……"

The little guy bit his fingers and followed his mother back to the village, turning back every step of the way.

In the empty field, there were only two flickering lights left, which were the light released by the burning wood in the stove pit. Sun Jianping sat by the pot, yawned and looked up at the stars in the sky, and his heart gained wings again. , fly to distant places.

In the middle of the night, Cao Chungui drove his donkey, carrying two large bags of alkaline noodles ground into fine powder, to come to him. The little donkey was also sleepy and yawned all day long, and was very tired of working overtime all night!
"Jianping has polished these, what should I do?"

"Brother, please put it aside for now. I'll take care of it later."

"Well, I'll go back and take a nap first, and then I'll come back for you in the middle of the night."

"Okay, you can keep the little donkey!"

Cao Chungui walked back to the village with a big stride. Sun Jianping took the little donkey with an angry face and rubbed its ears as if it was mischievous. "Why are you unhappy about working overtime in the middle of the night?"

The little donkey raised its hoof and quacked twice.

happy!

Donkey's face is full of happiness!

Working overtime makes my master happy!

"Haha!" Sun Jianping smiled, pinched his long donkey face, took out the last two apples, and waved them in front of its eyes.

"One for you and one for me!"

When the little donkey saw the apple, its drooping ears immediately straightened up, and it stretched its neck anxiously, trying to grab the apple in his hand.

"Haha, what a greedy person!"

Sun Jianping handed the big apple to the little donkey and ate the small one himself.

The moon is out, and under the soft moonlight, one person and one donkey sit or lie down, sharing sweet and sour fruits. White steam comes out of the big pot beside them. When illuminated by the moonlight, it reveals a unique smell like a smoke cage with cold water. artistic conception.

When the pot of alkaline soil was finished, he didn't wait for Cao Chungui to come and change his shift. He simply turned off the fire and took out a dozen water rice dumplings that he had copied when he copied the eggs from a small bottle, filled them with clean river water, and then poured them out. The alkaline soil ground into powder is poured in, and thin cotton threads are hung inside for crystallization and purification.

After doing this, he rode his donkey and went home humming a tune.

The folk customs of that era were relatively simple, and no one would steal these things in the wild. After tying the little donkey back to the stable, and walking to the door of his house, he heard a meow.

Before he could turn around, he felt a thump on his shoulder. A heavy big cat jumped down from the roof and pressed heavily on his shoulder!
"Meow!"

I'm back, bro!

Sun Jianping bared his teeth and rubbed his shoulders that were scratched by the sharp claws of the old cat, "Where have you been shopping now?"

The old cat ignored him, jumped again, ran to the door with brisk steps, pawed at it, and the door opened in response.

Sun Jianping was so angry that his eyes turned green!
Can't you open the door? Why do you scream every day and in the middle of the night, asking me to open the door for you!
"Meow!"

The old cat squatted at the door, swung its big tail at him, and barked proudly.

People are not...

The test will test you!

Sun Jianping shook his head dumbfounded and strode to the door. The old cat ran at the front with brisk steps, jumped onto the kang, plunged into the bed that had been covered long ago, turned around, and revealed a fluffy cat. head.

Meow!
Little brother, come over and sleep with me!

"Jianping, you're back, I'm going to take your place!" Cao Chungui walked out of the west room fully dressed and looked surprised when he saw him sitting on the edge of the kang taking off his shoes.

"Brother, go to sleep. I'll have to fix those things tomorrow."

"Well, I was eating pig's trotters in my dream just now!" Cao Chungui smiled naively and turned back to the west room.

Lying in the warm and comfortable bed, Sun Jianping reached out to touch the old cat next to him. Suddenly, a small hand reached over and stuffed something into his palm.

Sun Jianping grabbed it and saw that it turned out to be a fruit peel.

"Brother, you eat, I'll leave it for you."

Under the moonlight, Xiao Yueyue's bright big eyes narrowed into slits, her white teeth bared, and she showed a bright smile!

At this moment, Sun Jianping felt a little touched in his heart!

"Yueyue gives my brother delicious food, and my brother will also prepare delicious food for you tomorrow!"

"Yeah! Brother is the best!"

The little child's heart is filled with great joy!

Before dawn, Sun Jianping jumped up. He didn't have time to feed the horses, so he went to the river to collect the water.

The sun has not yet come out, and the crescent moon hangs slantingly in the northwest sky, stained with white clouds under the light blue sky, indicating that the season has entered summer.

After several hours of purification, the cotton thread in the water bottle was covered with countless thin white sequins. These are high-purity sodium bicarbonate crystals with a purity of more than 98%!
Sun Jianping put on his gloves, pulled out all the crystals, and put them into several clean water bottles. As for the remaining water after purification, there are still many chemical components such as magnesium chloride, magnesium sulfate, calcium carbonate, etc., but he doesn't have it now. I don’t have time to think of a way to purify them all, so I just pour them all into the big iron pot, light the fire, and continue cooking!
As the water in the pot becomes less and less, the purified sodium hydroxide solution gradually turns into a sticky brown substance. This is the "old brine" that can be used to make tofu.

The alkaline land is full of treasures!

Lao Cao carried the basket and walked slowly to the rice field. When he saw several rice dumplings filled with countless flaky white crystals, he couldn't help but give a thumbs up!

This kid Jianping is really awesome!
What a treasure to be able to dig out from the old saline-alkali land!

Too dull!
"Uncle, come here and see how my alkaline noodles are doing?" Sun Jianping smiled and picked up a piece of crystal as thin as a cicada's wings and showed it off to him.

"Good stuff, good stuff!" Lao Cao took it, looked at the sun, and nodded repeatedly, "Are these things baking soda?"

"Well, when crushed, it becomes baking soda. It can be used to steam steamed buns, but it's not as delicious as my yeast."

"I don't know if the supply and marketing cooperative will accept it..."

"I don't plan to sell this thing to the supply and marketing cooperative." Sun Jianping shook his head, "The supply and marketing cooperative is too deceptive, and everything can't be sold at a high price. I'm thinking about sending these things to the grassland. Brother Bao Tu told me , they have a wool factory there, and you have to use this thing to wash wool.”

Before this kid even started working, he had already thought out his way out!

Lao Cao looked at Sun Jianping's handsome face and suddenly felt that he was old!

My old brain can’t keep up!
(End of this chapter)