forest kingdom

The weather warmed up and the fish began to swim in the clear water.

"Quack~"

Yubao took a harpoon and started slinging it at the stream in front of his house.

It grabbed the wooden stick of the harpoon with both hands and slammed the metal harpoon into the meter-deep stream again and again.

The fish in the stream quickly ran out, and a large amount of waves fell in the bright sunshine.

The dogs and people nearby were not surprised by this. The women were busy clearing weeds from the flower and vegetable fields, or taking home the wild vegetables they picked.

The sun at two or three o'clock in the afternoon is very comfortable. Some young children who are still young and ignorant are basking in the sun with their mothers and grandmothers, while the older children go to the nearby church to study cultural lessons.

The manor is a very comfortable and nice place. Most of the people living here are middle and upper class people, and they are also old-school Star people.

Yubao is calling his good friends from afar to come up and play. Today, his little brother, the fish monster, went to the forest river downstream to help look after the big fish pond, and it’s almost time for him to come back.

Just when Yubao was calling his little brother, Lana came back from outside with two little nuns.

This year, the monastery has two more nuns. They are children sent by nobles from outside and are also daughters of frontline soldiers. The Prophet of Mercy has more than a dozen little nuns this year.

Lana took the two nuns to the chicken coop to pick eggs, which was something the children and Lana both loved to do. They picked up three baskets of fresh eggs for dinner.

"Yubao, stop playing and go check if the quilt is dry."

Yu Bao remembered that he had wet the bed and soiled the quilt this morning, so he quickly retracted the harpoon and stood up straight.

"Oh!" Yu Bao agreed obediently and ran to the high hillside.

There are wooden poles standing on the high hillside, with ropes hanging between the poles, on which white clothes, bed sheets, and thick quilts are hung to dry.

Yu Bao quickly ran to the Shanfeng clothes drying yard. The light slanting down the sloping hillside made the nearby quilts warm to the touch.

Yubao quickly hid in a quilt draped over a rope.

The heavy quilt was draped on the ropes on both sides. Yu Bao's head and arms propped up the quilts on both sides, forming a triangular quilt nest.

Yubao found his and Lana's big quilt, which had several square patches and many yellow stains on it.

Looking at the traces of bedwetting that still hadn't been washed off, Yu Bao looked very embarrassed.

I thought about it for several minutes but couldn't come up with a good solution. Yubao had tried to clean it by spraying water on it before, but it didn't work.

Lana and the nuns had no choice but to wait until next year to get a new quilt.
This is for the puppy.

Yubao has lived here for more than a year and is already familiar with everything.

Just when Yu Bao didn't want to bother with this matter, a steam train whistle sounded in the distance.

Yu Bao quickly poked his head out from under the quilt and looked in the direction of Oak City.

There are a total of three locomotives passing through the manor, and the whistle of each train is different.

The sound that rang today was the Prophet's bus. Sometimes the Prophet would come every day to learn about the craftsmen and fertilizers, and sometimes he would come once every two or three days.

He usually doesn't come over when it rains. Every day when it rains, Yubao will lazily eat and sleep at home, or go to listen to the nun singing with the watchdog.

As soon as Lawrence got off the train, he saw Yubao riding his dog over to say hello.

Yubao's body grows slower than the dog's. His dog has grown to the size of an adult goat, but Yubao remains the same.

Instead, the fish monster grew by thirty or forty kilograms, its height and waist circumference increased, and its arms and legs became stronger.

"Yubao, what's the matter?"

Yubao quickly brought a pair of pants worn by a girl and pointed at the yellow urine stains that could not be washed off.

Yubao is not the only one who wets the bed. All normal children wet the bed.

Lawrence asked curiously, “What’s wrong with this dress?”

Yu Bao stretched out his hand and touched the yellow spot with a finger that was slightly thicker than his finger, then pointed to a clean spot.

"Ah wow!"

Lawrence roughly understood that although Yu Bao could not speak human language, his mental fluctuations were close to those of a wizard to a certain extent. When he was emotionally excited, it was easy to understand what Yu Bao said.

"Don't worry, I understand what you mean. You want to clean these pants, right?"

Lawrence didn't want to communicate with Yubao through intense emotions, so he comforted Yubao gently.

Yubao nodded happily, "Wooah~"

Lawrence smiled and said, "That's easy. We can go to the monastery and use toothpaste and baking soda to wash it off."

Yubao rode the big dog and followed Lawrence to the monastery.

As Lawrence walked, he explained the specific reasons to Yu Bao.

"Many of the international students and nuns in the monastery have studied chemistry at the Saint's College. If you encounter something you can't solve, you can ask the nuns around you for help first."

"Not all nuns are like Lana. In fact, some nuns are very good and smart, and have many wise ways to solve problems."

Yu Bao nodded embarrassedly, "Woo..."

Lawrence comforted her, "Don't tell Lana, Lana is actually very good, she's just not good at studying."

"Wooah!" Yubao agreed happily this time and definitely would not tell Lana.

Lawrence came here today to deal with the steam train, but this kind of thing can be done every day and there is no need to rush.

Soon Lawrence entered the monastery and called the nuns together to wash clothes again and study how to make them cleaner.

Bedwetting by children was very common in the monastery, and it was also a troublesome problem in the icy land of this era.

Compared to improving steam locomotives, integrating the most appropriate laundry process and researching the correct soap formula are equally important.

Is it better to use cold water or hot water to wash clothes?

How to clean different stains such as oil stains, milk stains, urine stains, soup and rice broth, etc.

These may seem like insignificant things, but Lawrence takes them very seriously.

"I will stay here today, and I will send someone to invite the nuns and maids from Pumice Town, Dum Harbor, and Oak City to come and help. We will continue to study this together starting tomorrow."

Stana asked, "Master, your time is very precious. Why do you waste it on such meaningless things?"

Not only Stana thought so, the nuns in the monastery also felt that Lawrence should do more important things.

Even enjoying a comfortable life is a hundred times more important than studying how to wash clothes here.

Facing everyone's doubts and misunderstandings, Lawrence explained the reason seriously: "I hope you will not only learn how to wash clothes, but more importantly, I hope you can learn this research method and find this kind of exploration behavior interesting."

"It's not just about washing clothes. The Ice Land is now rich enough that many people don't need to struggle for food and clothes."

"After having enough time, I hope everyone can enjoy life with me. I also hope that everyone can not only enjoy but also create more comfortable and beautiful conditions."

“Don’t be like a pig, eating, drinking and sleeping all the time. After working to meet the basic living conditions, use your free time to do things that interest you.”

"If you are a housewife taking care of children, you can think about how to wash clothes better and faster, instead of getting used to it and not caring about anything and just getting by every day."

“It’s the same with food. Delicious food is never inherited, but created!”

"The delicacies here a hundred years ago, I don't think they are delicacies now. They are not even pig food!"

“Will the food we eat now still be considered gourmet food in the next 100 or 500 years?”

"Creativity! I hope that we can not only use our diligence and wisdom in washing clothes, but also use our creativity in food and more! Use your imagination!"

Lawrence introduced: "The craftsmen in Ironforge, the boatmen in Dum Harbor, and the carpenters in Flying Fish Harbor, many people are exerting their creativity."

"In the future, I hope to see everyone come up with delicious food, novel techniques, beautiful songs, and expressive dances."

The stock in Lawrence's brain has been almost used up, but fortunately he has now established a stable kingdom and cultivated many new-age ice people who are willing to think.

Every era will never lack people who dare to think, nor will it lack people with wild imagination.

Lawrence was rich and willing to accept talented people. His country was stable and strong, and most importantly, he was open-minded and allowed various schools of thought to contend with each other.

With the powerful appeal, outstanding female nobles and nuns and maids from several places gathered at the manor.

I originally thought it was a very important matter, but when I got there I found out it was a research on laundry.

Many people held basins of cold water with a look of confusion on their faces.

Lawrence would not let anyone work with doubts, so he quickly explained it again.

Once it's explained clearly, you'll know what to do.

While Lawrence and the nuns documented the various research processes, Lana and Yubao were responsible for hanging out the clothes.

Lana looked strangely at Lawrence and the nuns who were washing clothes by the water.

"Okay, why are you washing clothes?" Lana wrung out the clothes in her hands with both hands and threw them into an empty basin.

"Wooah!" Yu Bao responded casually, and used his feet to stomp around in the wooden basin containing wet clothes to remove the water.

Seeing Yubao like this, Lana casually said, "You play here, I'm going to work."

"Wooah~" Yubao doesn't have to go to work today. The prophet said that he will be paid as long as he washes clothes, and he will also be rewarded if he has a good idea.

Lana quickly went to hang out the clothes. When Yubao was a child, he couldn't lift heavy things, and Lana didn't let him do heavy work.

In fact, Yubao is quite strong, but he doesn’t like to show off violence like the fish monster.

After stepping on the clothes again, Yubao quickly picked up the child's dirty skirt and took a look at it.

The skirt is clean and there is no dirt on it.

Yu Bao put on the leather sandals with satisfaction, buttoned them up with his hands, and ran to Lawrence with the clothes to get the money.

"Quack~"

Lawrence was recording various methods with the nuns. When he saw Yubao coming over with a clean wet piece of clothing, he took it and took a look.

"Well, it's very clean. Did you wash it?"

Yu Bao nodded quickly and made a gesture of stepping on clothes with his feet.

Lawrence had just paid attention to the situation on Yubao's side and knew that Yubao had stepped on it.

"Very good, I'll give you a chicken drumstick for lunch and five copper coins."

Yubao happily accepted the reward. He made money again today!
Aruchu inquired, “Prophet, I also washed clothes, why did I not receive any reward?”

Lawrence touched Aruchu's head and said, "That's a good question. First, you are too weak to wash the clothes clean."

"The second is that the method you use is similar to the previous one. There is no difference."

"Yubao is not playing or being lazy when washing clothes, but providing a direction for washing clothes."

Lawrence pointed to the nun who was washing clothes nearby.

"You can look closely at the differences in the clothes people wash. The soaps we use nowadays do not have strong cleaning power, so it is difficult to wash clothes as clean as new ones."

Lawrence picked up the dirty clothes from the bucket, grabbed the clothes with both hands and simply rubbed the dirty parts.

"Simply rubbing and rubbing repeatedly can only remove the oil and sweat stains on the surface of the clothes. If you don't have enough strength, it won't be able to clean it thoroughly and it will easily tear the clothes."

"Beat the clothes repeatedly with a stick or gravity to remove dirt from between the fibers of the clothes."

"You see, when you wrap wet clothes together, a small space is formed inside the clothes, and some water is hidden in the gaps between the wool of the clothes."

"If you suddenly step on it or hit it with a stick, the water inside will flow in all directions, and when the water rushes out, it will carry away the dirt on the rope."

"Once the dirt is loosened, it can be washed away with water."

Lawrence briefly explained the principles. He had known about them for a long time, but he wanted the nuns to figure it out on their own. Lawrence felt that he could not lead them for the rest of their lives, and he needed to cultivate the research awareness of the others.

Aruchu and many of the nuns didn't understand what Lawrence was talking about.

Lawrence looked around and saw several nuns thinking about something.

No matter what, as long as there was only one person willing to think about it, Lawrence felt that his words had not been wasted.

What made Lawrence happiest was that Yubao's potential made him very satisfied. Although Yubao didn't understand any principles, he could always find good ways to solve problems.

In a good mood, Lawrence took the initiative to say: "Spring and summer are the times when clothes are most likely to get dirty. I plan to use the spring and summer water flow to make a special drum washing machine for washing clothes!"

"This will save a lot of laundry work and allow the nuns in the monastery to have more time to study and rest."

Technology is for life and also for lazy people.

Not only is Lawrence lazy himself, he also prefers to help others with the heavy labor, so he has more time to be lazy.

The nuns had no idea what a washing machine was, nor did they know that their great master was relieving them from the arduous work of washing clothes.

Every month, they have at least thirty hours of free time, without any bloodshed or generations of struggle. (End of this chapter)