Villager of Daming

Chapter 941: Cooking without rice brings disaster and blessing

"Sheep, raise, pig, no, um! Hehehehehe..."

Zhu Wentian felt tired. Taiyuan should raise a large number of cattle and sheep. What's the use of raising so many pigs?

People who want to raise pigs try to choose places with plenty of grain, especially those with two crops a year. Hunan, Hubei, and Sichuan have flat plains, which are more humid in winter, and vegetables can grow in the open air. This is suitable.

People in Shandong have high wheat production, including Henan and Hebei. Shanxi is coal, and if you compete with others, you have to fight for horses, cattle, and sheep.

Perennial herbaceous plants are planted on the loess soil to provide pasture resources, and horses, cattle and sheep can grow fat normally.

Pigs can eat grass, but they cannot be fed grass all the time, otherwise it will take two years to kill them, and they will have more lean meat and less fat meat.

"Yes! Yes! Hanhan is right, raise less pigs and raise sheep for meat. Goats have cashmere and goat milk, sheep have wool to spin wool for sweaters, and the worst wool is used for carpets."

As soon as Zhu Fan listened to the village guard's words, he thought about it again and found that it was true. If he couldn't raise pigs, he could only raise them in a good location by the river, or somewhere with a lot of wheat bran.

Good things such as bean cakes cannot be given to pigs. They are equally good for people to eat. Steamed bean cakes are very fragrant.

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That night, everyone had a good rest. After breakfast tomorrow, they had to rush on their way. The working machinery was always running. They would not leave with the team tomorrow. They would wait until the area was harvested and plowed before moving to another place.

During the day, some people had crossed the river to help people in Xugou County harvest wheat. There were few machines there, so most of the harvesting was done manually.

With the crowing of the rooster, everyone woke up after sleeping for another hour. At dawn, some people were muttering about eating chicken and brushing their teeth and washing their faces.

People make their own toothbrushes, or ask others to make a few. Someone kills a pig, or sells pork in the market. The pig hair is washed with plant ash and used as a brush.

There is no toothpaste, so I use salt. Salt is cheap. Taiyuan Prefecture uses salt from Jiezhou Salt Pond. Plus shipping, the retail price is two cents per pound.

Use plant ash to wash your face. Every household has it. If you don’t have it, go to your neighbor’s house and buy it for free.

In the past two days, people used public soap. The team did not bring too much soap, so they could not distribute one to each household.

However, after arriving in Yangqu County, the administrative center of Taiyuan Prefecture, the people in Xiaqiu Village immediately made new soaps and soaps. After the saponification reaction was completed, some of them were added with spices to turn into soaps.

It's not something you can just make if you want. It requires oil and alkali. It's too late to make stone alkali now, so I have to use the alkali I brought with me, which is produced in Tongbai County, Nanyang Prefecture.

The prince's team has toothpaste. You must bring your own and cannot give it to others, otherwise you will not have enough.

"No wonder everyone wants to be the emperor. As the emperor's son, our enjoyment is countless times better than that of ordinary people."

Zhu Fan sighed again, making people afraid of losing their lives.

"There is Xiaqiu Village, but there is no Xiaqiu Village. Where can we make the current toothpaste? We can only mix other things to make tooth powder. Unfortunately, the toothpaste is not sold outside. The cost is too high and the output is low."

Zhu Fang, the elder brother, emphasized the role of Xiaqiu Village: "All good things are made by Xiaqiu Village, otherwise everything we use will be the technology left by the previous dynasty."

"It's a pity that there is little oil. There is no shortage of things to make soda ash. Artemisia and polygonum are both available. Flour is a local food crop. If..."

Zhu Fan found that he encountered an unsolvable problem. If the people themselves did not eat enough oil, how could they use it to make soap?

"I told you not to eat blindly. You will vomit after eating and have pimples on your body. You, the elder brother, can't bear to see it? Can cockscomb fruit be eaten? Eat it, eat it, you know how to eat it. Where did you hide it last night? Why not? Do you feel uncomfortable? Drink soapy water and vomit, vomit quickly..."

Before Zhu Fan finished speaking, a woman's shout came from over there, which sounded scary.

No one needs to ask, someone has already come over: "Your Highness, yesterday the child went to the mountain to pick wild vegetables and saw the small green fruit, so he brought it back. Today a child ate it.

That's the fruit of Pistacia chinensis. In autumn, it grows into half a fan-shaped fruit. It's called cockscomb. When you eat it, you'll get pimples and red rashes on your body.

Then she vomited and her head hurt. The imperial doctor first induced vomiting, washed her with water with sapsang powder, and then gave her water boiled with Pistacia chinensis leaves to detoxify. Fortunately, it is not very poisonous, and Pistacia chinensis is used for medicinal purposes. Unlike acorns, it can be eaten and can be used to make jelly and so on. "

"Ah! The unripe fruits of Pistacia chinensis are poisonous. Can you use the leaves to cure them? The acorns are not tasty, and the jelly is just starch."

When Zhu Xi heard that the imperial doctor was there, he was relieved. The imperial doctor would not come to prove that he was sure, otherwise he would teach people to Xiaqiu Village.

Acorns are unpalatable, a bit bitter and astringent. They can be eaten without starvation when there is no food. They are better than grass roots and bark. It is said that Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty ate them.

Things passed quickly. The child couldn't eat, was vomiting, and was drinking mung bean water!

You need to kill a duck, stew it with poppy shells, add soy sauce, and finally collect the juice, which is similar to sauce, and give the child a duck leg.

After the child has finished eating in the evening, make sure it is ready tomorrow and give it a good beating, otherwise he will eat it again because there are duck legs!

Of course, as the elder brother, he was beaten first, and then he took his younger brother out and came back. Can’t you stand it?

Zhu Wentian speeds up. He has something to do. The people in Xiaqiu Village will understand it at a glance. Let's eat together and cooperate.

"After we finished eating, we just wanted to take a look at how many shrimps there were in the shrimp pots. Let's take some with us to eat on the way."

The manager made an excuse to eat quickly just to see the shrimps.

So they finished eating first, ignoring the others, and walked directly to the river. The leader and Hanhan were surrounded in the middle. Hanhan didn't bring a campfire frame or box like a barbecue, and he felt it was too heavy.

"Hanhan, we are all our own people, so whisper." The leader lowered his voice.

“I just remembered that the seeds of Pistacia chinensis can be pressed for oil when mature, and the oil yield rate is quite high!

Just like tea seed oil, it cannot be eaten directly and can be poisoned. It can be detoxified.

When used to make soap, neither type of oil needs to be detoxified, including cottonseed oil, which cannot be eaten directly without refining. "

Zhu Wentian was anxious as he was about to leave here. There were Pistacia chinensis on the mountain here. Children could pick it at will, but experienced children would not touch it.

Slightly older children, influenced by their elders and older brothers and sisters in other villages, grow up knowing what they can and cannot eat in the mountains.

Including the experience of avoiding poisonous insects and snakes, which is passed down from generation to generation.

The older child really should be beaten today. Didn't you tell the younger child when you went up the mountain?

What’s interesting is that when a child is beaten, he cries. The pain is far less than the pain when the child fights with other children. Even if the child is bruised and swollen in the fight, he doesn’t even complain of pain.

When a parent beats the child, the child cries and feels as if he is being beaten to death. Except for particularly bad parents, most parents just act like this.

Pistacia chinensis exists in Shanxi, and there are many of them. The wild ones existed even in modern times, not to mention the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Wentian never thought before he met her. Thanks to the help of his children, there was soap now.

"That thing will bear fruit the second year after it is planted?" Li Chang's eyes lit up.

"It only blooms and bears fruit in seven or eight years. It is highly adaptable and can stabilize the soil, prevent wind and store water. It is very suitable for the local area."

"Find a good place to raise the seedlings first, right? Then transplant the seedlings with the good soil below to other places, preferably where there are other perennial herbs and thorns?"

"Yeah! The insides are great!"

"Sure!" The chief nodded.

(End of this chapter)