The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 108 Scraping Ramie Skin
Chu Ying cut a wooden stick, used this as the length to separate the stacks of paper, wrapped them on the paper, glued them on both sides, and piled them in the outer hall, and piled them in the baking paper room Chu Ying was afraid A few small sparks will ignite the paper, and all previous efforts will be wasted.

The stalks and leaves of Chuying left from harvesting the wheat before were all piled up in the yard. The bundles were bundled and piled up very high. There were dozens of piles piled up.

I didn’t save much firewood at home. Although the principle of using a rocket stove can save firewood, it will take several days to cook once, which is very wasteful. Chu Ying will bring an ax to chop some firewood tomorrow morning. Otherwise, the supply here will not be available, and the retting and cooking will take a long time, and they are not busy all day long.

It takes Chu Ying 3 days to cook the material that is cooked once. It is not that there is too much time and there is not enough time, but that there is no pulp to supply after cooking. Chu Ying took the free time to go to the mountain to chop. Firewood, or the wheat material that Ye Qiu changed shifts to watch over and cook.

Fortunately, there are still some green bricks I bought last time, and I will buy two large wooden barrels to cook the wheat. Anyway, there is still a lot of space in the cooking house to add stoves. Fortunately, there are two windows facing the house. Otherwise, it would be strange not to suffer from heat stroke in this summer.

"Chu Ying, are you going to chop firewood? Here's the bundle for you." Chu Ying looked at the large bundle of firewood carried by Wang Naiyuan, but she couldn't carry that much.

"No need, I'll do it myself, how hard you cut it."

"Anyway, it was carried into the city to sell. I'll carry it back for you. You can't move much of your small arms and legs at a time." Chu Ying looked at Wang Naiyuan, who was shirtless and showed strong muscles. These muscles were indeed beyond her control. And.

Before Chu Ying agreed to Wang Naiyuan, she walked down the mountain, "How much does it cost to sell it in the city?"

"A bundle of 5 coins. My bundle is big and I can sell more. It's just a way to sell some when I go to the city. I don't expect to make much money."

Chu Ying saw that there were two fat firewood in Wang Naiyuan. If it was only 5 cents, it would be more cost-effective. After all, you can’t cut down trees directly in this mountain, you can only cut bushes and branches. .

"Then, is Brother Wang busy recently?" Wang Naiyuan turned to look at Chu Ying, thinking that Chu Ying must have something to help.

"Of course not. It's not busy farming season. What? Is there anything I can do for you?" Chu Ying grinned and squinted at Wang Naiyuan when she heard that Wang Naiyuan was free.

Chu Ying stared at Wang Naiyuan and felt a little uncomfortable. Could it be that this little girl is going to sell herself? "Then I will collect this firewood. It doesn't need to be too much. One or two bundles a day is enough. What do you think?"

It turned out to be chopping firewood, Wang Naiyuan finally felt relieved, if Chu Ying wanted to sell herself, she could only obediently tie herself up and hand her over to Chu Ying.

"Okay, then I'll send it to you tomorrow. This bundle doesn't count, I promised to give it to you. But I can't charge you 5 Wen. The 5 Wen is the price you need to take to the city by car. Since you paid Then I don’t need to go to the city, and you only charge you 3 Wen for that every day.”

Chu Ying doesn't know what the market price should be for such a large bundle of firewood, but Wang Naiyuan will not fool herself, he will only offer more discounts and she will never cheat herself, and Chu Ying feels that a bundle of 3 cents is already a good deal .

After all, it’s such a hot day, Chu Ying can’t bear it even if she carries the firewood back home, and she doesn’t know what’s wrong, her body can’t use her strength when summer comes, I don’t know if it’s because she’s lazy or she’s going back to the factory It's been repaired, and I'm waiting for Chu Ying to visit the pharmacy next time I go to town.

"Aren't you harvesting this hemp? The first hemp can be harvested from "Mangzhong" to "Summer Solstice", the second hemp is from "Great Heat" to "Liqiu", and the third hemp is from "Cold Dew" to "Frost's Descent". Harvest it, don't harvest it when it gets old, the color will be poor, the quality will be bad, and it will affect the growth of the next season." If Wang Naiyuan hadn't said so, Chu Ying would have to wait until the summer solstice to harvest, and I'm afraid it would be over.

"How do I harvest it? Cut it all off? Cut it off and then what?" Chu Ying only asked Qin Zhong how to plant the ramie, but how to harvest it? Qin Zhong didn't say anything, but he had never touched this ramie before. This is asking three questions.

"But you just planted, the quality of the first cut is too poor to be used, and it can be harvested after the next growth is good. After October, the cut stubble should be covered with horse manure or the like. It needs to be one foot thick, or you will freeze to death in winter." Chu Ying thought that after cutting this, she could use it for linen cloth, but she didn't expect to wait until the next time to cut it, but this ramie skin can also be used at that time Make it like paper.

"How do I cut this?" Chu Ying followed Wang Naiyuan to the hemp field, and saw Wang Naiyuan bent down and grabbed the root of the ramie with her hand, and then pulled the leaves away, breaking the ramie Bend, stretch your fingers into the protruding opening, and peel it back, so that the bone and skin of the ramie are separated into two pieces.

Then take one piece in the left hand and the other side in the right hand, pull down to peel off the lower half of the ramie, put the ramie skin on the left hand and pull another ramie. "You can also cut it back and peel it off, just leave a few inches of the stem, and it will grow again."

"Then from now on, do you have to weave these into cloth yourself to pay taxes?" Chu Ying looked at Wang Naiyuan and pursed her lips with a smile, "Do you know how to weave? Use bamboo strips to hang up the outer skin, leaving the inner tendons, and wash it a little." Let it hang out in the sun, and when it’s dry, it’s good to get the hemp spinning, and you can directly exchange it for the woven cloth, half a stone for a piece.”

"Half a stone?" Half a stone is 60 catties, and a piece of cloth is far less than this weight, so the conversion is a bit unfair.

"At that time, we will have to make thread, put rice starch on it to remove the lint, then wind it into a ball, and then slowly weave the cloth. It depends on what color you want to change. There are blue and bright red. The undyed one will be slightly cheaper. For those who are dyed, they need to be bleached with liming water. In previous years, this amount was exchanged, not much difference." Hearing that there are still so many processes in the future, Chu Ying felt that the exchange ratio of half a stone for a horse was not so outrageous.

"Okay, I understand, thank you Brother Wang, I will do the rest myself."

"Ye Qiu should know how to do it, just ask her when the time comes." Although Ye Qiu has experience in doing farm work, she didn't hear her mention how to deal with these ramies.

"Okay, let's go back to eat quickly, Aunt Wang must be waiting for you." After sending off Wang Naiyuan Chuying, she took a sickle and cut a bundle back, because working in the open air in the summer is not easy.

"Are you ready to cut those ramie?" Ye Qiu took a spoon to watch Chu Ying come back with a bundle of ramie. The ramie will be ready for cutting in a few days, because Chu Ying planted it late.

"Brother Wang said it's almost ready to be cut. Can you do it? What do you do with the peeled skin?" Ye Qiu put down the spoon and went to the corner to get a long bamboo. The gap is the center line, and a triangle is shaved off.

"It would be more convenient to have a blunt round piece, but this is fine." Ye Qiu sat on the wooden pier and tore off the ramie leaves first, then took four ramie poles and bent them together to grab the raised ramie skin and forcefully Pull it, and then put the ramie skin on the opening of the bamboo and push it hard, and the green skin on the surface of the ramie will fall off.

"You know, I thought you couldn't." Ye Qiu got up and patted the green skin on his body, and smiled back, "You didn't ask." Then he continued to cook.

"How can you do this? In the future, such things need to be reported in advance. It's not like you don't know that I don't know how to do this. What if it's too late to cut these things?" Chu Ying sat on the ground imitating Ye Qiu just now, and cut the ramie It’s relatively easy to tear off the skin, but when you put it in the bamboo strips, the force is uneven. The ramie skin keeps falling out, but after a few tries, you can barely pull out the ramie tendons, but Chu Ying doesn’t understand why To grow such a bamboo, it is not better to take a small piece.

Chu Ying took a short piece of bamboo to open her mouth like Ye Qiu did, but she didn’t feel very strong when pulling it up, and it took a lot of strength to scrape off the green skin on the outside. Looking at the long bamboo, she didn’t think it would grow if she wanted to. To keep it short, there is wisdom passed down from generation to generation.

The long bamboo has an opening of a few inches at one end, and the place where there is no opening at the back will press against the opening in the front with force, and when pushing down, the weight of the bamboo will add a downward force to the scraping, Chu Ying They could only do as Ye Qiu did.

"You don't need to rush to harvest after planting. You can harvest it in a day or two. Let's do the paper making first. Let's harvest the hemp and dry it together." It turned out that Ye Qiu had planned for a long time. After scraping the ramie, Chu Ying went to thresh the wheat material. If the wheat material was crushed, the effect would be better. When the time came to the city, she would have to ask the blacksmith for the price.

(End of this chapter)