The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 102
Chu Ying looked at the cloth that Lu Ming gave her. The words on it looked vigorous and powerful, and there was a picture explaining it every few paragraphs, which was very detailed. "This is?"

"This is a note I made by myself. It's written in ink. You can read it. It's a beginner's note. It's all based on the master's own practice. You still need to do ink a few times to understand and comprehend the trick."

"Why do you have this? Isn't this something that is rumored? Why don't you do it yourself?"

"What do I want to see but can't see? I just like to write things down. Making ink is too cumbersome and will stain clothes." Chu Ying looked at Lu Ming's spotless white robe and smiled.

"However, I don't know these characters. Can you explain them briefly?" Chu Ying looked at the painting and understood somewhat, but the characters were indeed her weakness.

"It takes nine tenths to make black pine smoke, and one tenth is the soot from burning tung oil and lard, etc. You can just look at the part of the pine smoke. Do you know how to get turpentine?" Lu Ming looked at Chu Ying Take out the paper and prepare to write something.

"I know, dig a small hole in the root of the tree and light a lamp and burn it slowly, so that the pine resin will flow out due to the heat." Chu Ying touched her numb calf, and changed from kneeling to sitting cross-legged. After all, she was so familiar with Lu Ming, she didn't pay attention to these things Etiquette doesn't matter.

"That's right, it needs to be drained cleanly, as long as there is a little bit of ink that is not drained cleanly, the ink will end up with dross that cannot be grinded. First, a domed hut made of bamboo strips must be built. The shape is the same as the awning on a boat. It is more than ten feet long. The pine wood has to be cut to a certain size, burned in the shed for several days, and then stopped, and the pine smoke is scraped off when it is cold."

Lu Ming looked at Chu Ying's half-short and half-horizontal characters, and the somewhat understandable paintings. Chu Ying's serious look with her head down was very cute, and the broken hair behind her ears would fall down after a while. Sakura also took the trouble to pin the broken hair behind her ears every time.

"Because burning pine wood and smoking start from the first section, so the end is clear smoke, and the soot swept out is the best. It is used to make high-quality ink. The middle is mixed smoke, which is generally used as ink material. The front is only It can be sold to painters and painters to make black paint." Chu Ying originally wanted to ask why it wasn't used for printing, but she thought that even paper hadn't been popularized here, and printing should not appear until later.

"Other things, you should go back and look carefully and think carefully. You must have done poorly the previous few times. Just collect it and take it to the powder store in the city." Chu Ying dried the wet handwriting written on the note, Put away the notes made by Lu Ming together, get up and rub your feet for a while before you can walk a few steps.

"Go back early after taking the silver money, take two taels of silver, and don't make a special trip to buy anything you want for the remaining one tael, stay at home for a few more days, I won't recognize you no matter how tanned you are." Chu Ying snorted Lu Ming contemptuously, then she carried the basket and went to the cashier to get the money. Since she couldn't write her own name, she had to put her own handprint on it.

When you have time, you must learn to write well. Although it is a virtue for women to be ignorant here, it is not a good feeling to be illiterate. If you don’t understand anything, you have to ask others.

After taking the turpentine to the pharmacy to sell, Chu Ying went to the pottery pot shop and asked the boss to order four larger pottery pots. It would be great if there was an iron pot. The iron pot has good thermal conductivity and is durable. Broken earthenware pots are much easier to use, but Chu Ying can only buy them when the court's salt and iron order is not so strict and the blacksmith's shop can lower the price a little bit.

Chu Ying also asked someone to order two larger steamers for steaming the raw materials, but the brushes to be used were still missing, and no one even made it to order. When passing by the poultry area, Chu Ying took the clay pots from the back basket. Come out, this clay pot was brought from home, last time I saw a lot of discarded inedible waste in the poultry area here, Chu Ying picked up a clay pot and wrapped it in sackcloth, otherwise the smell Grandpa Li won't let him get into the bullock cart anymore.

Chu Ying’s previous plan to raise larvae in a basket was implemented well. Because the basket was covered with a perforated lid, Ye Qiu didn’t seem to be very disgusted, and the chickens at home obviously liked to eat these larvae and grew up. Not a lot.

But if the rabbits and fish were not killed at home, there would be nothing to attract flies to lay eggs, and they would not be able to grow those eggs into fat larvae. Chu Ying could only bring some back when she went to the city.

At that time, making more baskets like that will give the chicks more nutrition. The offal of fish has a strong taste, and most of the offal of pigs can be eaten. Even pig lungs cost 2 cents a penny. Sakura can't afford it, so she can only pick the waste from the poultry side,
"What delicious food did you bring back? What are you bringing here? Are you going to get that again? Put that basket farther away, it still smells a bit hot." Chu Ying saw Ye Qiu who had retreated a long way, and the door closed. If he didn't enter, he hung the basket on the fence and added scraps to it.

Chu Ying went to the grove to pick up some pine branches and leaned them against the stove to let the little pine resin inside flow out. When no pine resin flowed out, Chu Ying chopped them into small pieces the size of fingers, and put the basket upside down on the ground , to light a fire with pine wood below, Chu Ying just wanted to see how the process was.

"Don't burn the house down." Chu Ying drank some lotus leaf tea and felt much refreshed, but she still had a fever. When she came back from the city, she felt a little uncomfortable. Before, she thought it was because there were so many people in the car, so it was extraordinarily hot. It's hotter, but sitting in the room is still steaming.

Ye Qiu looked at Chu Ying who was leaning against the wall and slowly falling asleep as soon as he came back. He called out a few times but did not respond, so he could only use his strength to hug Chu Ying, but touching Chu Ying's arms and face was a bit awkward. It was hot, so he put her down on the kitchen mat, took a face towel, soaked it in well water, wrung it dry and applied it on Chu Ying's forehead.

"Wake up...don't be so reckless. You are building houses and drying wheat. This is good. I am exhausted. Get up, let's go to the doctor." Ye Qiu shook Chu, who had passed out. Ying, she didn't respond after shaking for a long time, but shook out the pastries in Chu Ying's pocket.

"You little guy who loves to eat, wake up, we go to the doctor, you talk..." Ye Qiu shook for a while, seeing that Chu Ying didn't respond, he ran to call Wang Naiyuan.

"Isn't it good to go out in the morning? How did it become like this?" Ye Qiu changed a face towel and tied it on Chu Ying's forehead, took the money and locked the door, followed by Wang Naiyuan who had already carried Chu Ying and ran a long way.

"I don't know why it just happened like this. My whole body is very hot. Hurry up, where is there an ox cart..." Ye Qiu looked around and saw that there were no ox carts. After running, he didn't know when he would arrive at the doctor's house.

"Uncle He's house has a bullock cart ahead, you can go and ask, the one next to the poplar tree, I'll run first." Ye Qiu knocked for a long time before someone came out, but was told that the bullock cart was borrowed to pull goods Ye Qiu could only continue to knock on the doors of other houses and ask who had a bullock cart.

"Chu Ying, wake up, don't fall asleep, Chu Ying..." Wang Naiyuan only listened to Chu Ying's weak murmur in his ear, seeing Chu Ying's weak appearance, he only wanted to run quickly, and ran for a long time Already unable to support herself, Wang Naiyuan still walked quickly.

"Brother Wang, Brother Wang, get in the car." Ye Qiu saw that Wang Naiyuan was panting heavily, his jacket was already half wet, his steps were a little unsteady but he still walked, took Chu Ying and dragged Wang Naiyuan into the car.

Wang Naiyuan hammered his thighs and looked at Ye Qiu who was covered in ashes. He looked as if he had fallen a few times, his tied up hair was messed up and there were a lot of fallen leaves, sweat and tears on his face looked at Ye Qiu who was covered in dust. Tolerance pales.

(Thank you Linghuaxiang for the reward, okay, today is destined to be a sleepless night, the shopping cart is ready, get up...)
(End of this chapter)