Why don't you build a village on top of the world tree

Episode Six: Making the Salt of the No-Layer on the Cloud

Even at the end of spring and summer, the excitement of skyscraping continued like a slight fever.

One reason would be that it is the first skyscraper on the north side of the world tree.

But there's not even some kind of event that looks like a skyscraper, and it seems the Takakus residents were hungry for the topic.

Instead of having any objection to the construction of installations for the production and export of salt from the clouds, which was requested by the next mayor of the city of Katella, who visited us at the Skyscrapers Memorial Festival in the spring, I think we all had the expectation that we would be able to build them just now.

"What about the side branches of the no-layer on the cloud?

"I cut down some and brought some"

Even as the population continues to grow, Billows, who has no shaking seat of power over Takakus, reports as he turns his shoulders.

They keep it inside a material hut built near a smoked hut in Teten with Mermie and a former Kubesta Village resident.

"I wish you could cut off the side branches in the same way for a few years, but given the steady supply, you'd better have an inserted tree field as soon as possible."

"I've already arranged it."

The method of purifying salt in this world is to peel and boil the skin of the side branches that extend from the branches of the world tree.

However, if you are producing salt from only the side branches, the nearby side branches will be depleted in a few years.

To prevent this, insert trees into the branches of the world tree and artificially create side branches to allow them to store salt to harvest as appropriate, and produce salt from the bark while utilizing it as firewood and wood.

"It'll take about two years for the insertion fields to take shape, but in the meantime, it's okay to bribe them with side branches, right?

"If it's about two years, there's nothing wrong with it."

Break up with Billows, who is on his way to training when I get inked, and I head to Teten's Smoked Hut.

Teten smoked huts in the cloud-naked layers were nearly three times the size they had been since they had been added to perform salt refining.

The familiar Teten manages this increased smoked hut and salt production facility by itself. Since salt does not envisage mass production and is only going to make quantities that can identify demand, it is his story that one person can turn enough.

Unlike the warehouse where the side branches of the Yunnan no-layer served as the material were housed, the facility was built by calling artisans from the city of Katella.

It's a form that brings in specialists with safety in mind to handle fire for a long time.

Although the outer wall made of fire-resistant warthog armor was originally black, it became white by applying lacquer from the top. There are several windows for ventilation, but they are relatively high, so it is not possible to see the inside from the outside.

It is also a consideration because tetens wear thin inside, and because tetens themselves atrophy when they have external eyes.

The roofing material was also made of demon worms, but it was a tile roof like a building in the cloud.

The tile roof made of warthog nail material has a heavy feel on top of its excellent fire resistance and is gradually being employed in charcoal-baked huts and so on from the fact that outside of Takakus it is possible at a glance to distinguish the facility where the heat source manager is located.

Due to its incompatibility with the chimney, a chimney has been set up behind the building to drain smoke.

"... it's money and water."

Look at the facility from the front, with emotions that only I can understand in this world.

The front entrance is a black kannon door made of demonic insect material. Sculpture is applied so as to connect the rhombic mould, adding an object mixed with the vermilion dye from the warthog and the liquefied yarn of the bird eater spider to the rhombic sculpture, making it a door with style rather than a reduction of appearance cheap.

This is another splendid and stylish Tang Dai wind on such a tight door. If this is all there is yet, the roof of the upstairs section, one step deep on the Tang Da Feng, is equipped with a thousand bird dai wind, an extremely splendid setting.

It's called smoke coming up from the chimney behind the building, no matter how you look at it anymore.

I designed it.

When I tried to design the chimney to suit me, I wanted the kind of impact that I really wanted to fix my gaze on the front, and it turned out to be a combination of chimney and chimney.

Nevertheless, the only thing that looks like money and water is the appearance. There's not only a hot tub in there, but there's no painting of Mount Fuji.

"Teten, we're coming in."

"… allow, do"

The front door of the kannon opening but usually holds one side fixed, so the only door I open is the one on the left towards it.

When I went inside, Teten was simmering gutsy and bark in a cauldron with the witch's regards.

Unlike a witch, she is wearing thin clothes and can see up to half her thighs.

"You've already started making salt."

"... practice, remembering"

As Teten said, a short distance away, in addition to notebooks and writing instruments for recording, there was a textbook that Teten apparently used in his training school days as a heat source manager.

"Does the cloud-no-layer and the cloud-no-layer also change the way salt is purified?

"... purity and sugar content, different. Temperature control and quantity of lime, many different"

"When it comes to it, is it difficult for people who can accompany the auxiliary role to be heat source managers?"

Turn around teten textbooks. They just add a slightly different amount of lime, leaving the egg flavor, or if the temperature changes, the tendency to sweetness becomes persistent or, conversely, light.

Because the sap is involved, it seems that we need to manage the various elements to match the taste of the salt we want.

If demand could be grasped, it would be easier to hire a replacement heat source manager for Teten sooner rather than later to build another facility and get him to replace salt making. Too much teten work as it is now.

I look indoors.

Back of the front door behind your left hand is a smoking facility. Large objects capable of smoking the meat of lamb birds at nearly ten kilometres at a time, able to cope with thermal, warm and cold smoking.

Behind your right hand is a kettle for purifying the salt Teten is now using. Sometimes it fits Teten, not so big a cauldron.

There is an open kitchen space between the smoker and the kettle, which is used to cut ingredients to be smoked and prepare somule liquids, etc.

The wall on the left hand side is equipped with a water tank for fire protection and still holds water. There was also a temporary vault of ingredients there. On the other side, that is, on the wall of the right hand side, there is a small space for rest, with a small chair and a square desk.

I sit back in my chair. Seat surface is low. Can't you help it because Melmie made it for Teten?

"The addition made it bigger, and you can't be satisfied with the cleaning if you're Teten alone. I'll help you, okay?

Only facilities that handle smoke and fire are prone to persistent dirt such as coal and fat. Moreover, hygiene control must be taken care of, as it is also the place where food is processed.

The cleaning business is also in this world, but we can't hire Teten homemade matra smoking method because it could spill out.

Before that, Teten doesn't want to put a man in the office.

Teten snorted, staring into the cauldron.

"... use it"

"I don't know if they'll ever use it."

Watch Teten do his job as he exchanges words.

It was a rather sudden addition, but it was also worth twisting my head to make it less difficult to use, and Teten's work was inexorable.

I don't know, Teten is graduating from the training school for heat source managers with excellent grades, and I guess the guidelines are good.

There are no steps in the building, and the floors are slip-resistant and machined.

"... done"

After a while, Teten takes the salt water out of the cauldron and begins to filter.

With the exception of bark fibers, which are coarse, almost like nets, the white crystals left on the last filter paper after being gradually transformed into fine nets of the eyes, excluding impurities, are salt.

It's a slightly sticky salt because of the sap involved, but if you skip the moisture, it becomes rusty.

"What are we going to do with the last remaining liquid part?

I wonder how to use the water after filtering off the salt.

Teten tilted his neck and looked at the filtrate.

"... naturally, throw away"

"You throw it away."

I don't think so.

I wonder if I can make tofu or something.

Beans can be found in this world, and you can just try to see if they clot - think and realize.

In the first place, this would not contain any ingredients.

Indeed, the dust should have been magnesium chloride. The magnesium itself is found in the chloroplast of the plant, and the bark also contains the chloroplast in the inner layer, but the content is not known.

I transfer my gaze to the bark fibers that are hooked into the net as impurities.

Although slightly discoloured, I could see the green bark. It has failed because of the extraction of the chloroplast.

In the first place, Teten should be treating anything other than salt as much as possible to prevent it from dissolving out, as the taste would also change if the chloroplast spilled out to make salt.

Conclusion, I can't make a leak. That's why I can't even make tofu.

"... Want a drink?

"No, I don't want it"

You looked so uncluttered looking at the filtrate, turning down the filtrate Teten had been offering, I stood up to taste the salt.

"Oh, my God."

Teten handmade salt, which I only tried to lick a pinch, had corners removed from the saltiness and spiciness due to the sweetness of the rich, saggy sap of the world's trees. It has an elegant aftertaste that spreads uncomfortably in the mouth and disappears.

A glimpse of one end of what is considered a luxury product is the salt of the no-layer on the cloud.

"This is still well worth the product as a seasoning, but I guess I should emphasize salt a little more when I try it as salt. Can't you keep the aftertaste up to the purity of salt?

"… if it leaves a aftertaste, ferment the bark"

"Do you let it ferment once to increase its sugar content? If this aftertaste is due to the sap, I wonder if it's a natural treatment."

"… of sap, the decomposition determines the aftertaste"

"That's pretty hard. In the meantime, why don't we hand out this salt to the young general at Bilose or the old couple of bakeries in the village of Kidato for their opinion"

"... I let it go"

"entrusted"

Leaving teten to move to the production of the improved salt, I went outside.

When this salt is finished, I wonder if it will be in the form of placing it first in an aerial market souvenir store to see the reaction, and then exporting it to the city of Kattella.

The sale of the salt of the no-layer on the clouds at Teten's hands was quite an object.

Even though the salt of the no-layer on the cloud lined up in the stores of the takakus souvenir store on the air market was supposed to sell out in thirty days, it sold out in five days.

Unlike imports from the east and west of the world tree, the cost of transportation is low enough that not only Tacax residents but also nearby town and city restaurants and smokers seem to have bought it.

Because retail sales were envisaged, it would only have taken five days to be purchased in bulk at the business level.

In the meantime, let's create a system of mass production by the start of winter support.

It should be noted that since it is the only salt producer of the cloudy no-layer on the north side of the world tree, it was decided to deduce the salt of Tacax as a specialty.