The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 41 Making Paper and Making Pancakes

After a long time of practice, Chu Ying has been able to accurately hit the bouncing cloth ball. Chu Ying has been very coherent in the movements of taking the arrow from the quiver behind her back to putting the arrow on the string and then shooting out. Complete the launch of the arrow within seconds, and his accuracy is gradually improving.

Chu Ying made the cloth ball even smaller. There was originally a fist-sized cloth ball, but Chu Ying made it into a cloth bag one-fourth the size of a fist. Due to the limited width of the room, Chu Ying could only make the cloth ball smaller. Small way to simulate long range hunting.

The smaller the cloth ball made it more difficult, Chu Ying quickly loaded the arrow and then aimed and let go. Although she only wiped the edge of the cloth ball and shot it onto the wooden wall behind, there was still some hope.Practice is boring, but every small progress and breakthrough is the best motivation.

Chu Ying wiped off the fine sweat on her forehead, and changed into the thinner winter coat. Seeing that the wooden wall behind had been pierced by arrows and turned into a hornet's nest, Chu Ying planned to weave a reed mat and hang it on the wooden wall.

Some places on the wooden wall that were shot repeatedly are almost pierced. Although spring is coming, the weather is still very cold. I don’t want to be caught by the cold wind, so I still have to protect the wooden wall.

Chu Ying put the bow and arrow away, sat on the sofa and began to weave reed mats. Originally, the reeds in the reed house were used as kindling, but she had made sufficient preparations so that the reeds could not be used up.

Reed mats are different from bamboo mats. Because the reeds are hollow and cylindrical, it would be difficult to weave the reeds in the same way as the bamboo mats. The easiest, quickest and most convenient way is to wind the reeds together with thread.

First of all, fix a rope on a reed, and then wind it around each time a reed is added. Since it is to protect the wooden wall from being shot through, Chu Ying added another rope to the row of reeds already threaded. Use wires to fix a row at intervals, and it is advisable to use a binding distance that is difficult for fingers to pass between the two reeds.

After the reed mat was finished, Chu Ying hung the reed mat on the two beams and covered it on the opposite wooden wall, so that there was at least one layer of protection.The reed mat looked plain in color and firm in texture. Chu Ying, who originally wanted to use linen to separate the bedroom and living room, thought it might be more economical to use reed mats.

Chu Ying brought a few more bundles of reeds from the reed house, first cut the reeds to the same length with a sickle, and spread them on the ground. Chu Ying sat on the ground and slowly weaved the reeds. Move to the bedroom, tie the reed curtain on the side of the attic entrance in the middle of the room, and the ladder leaning on the beam is still stable.

The attic is built above the living room, and the living room with the attic is nearly two meters high, so there is no sense of oppression. The bedroom is where Chu Ying stays for a long time, and she hopes to be spacious enough.Chu Ying gestured that she needed three more, so she went to the kitchen to continue weaving reed mats.

When enough reed mats were made, Chu Ying moved them to the bedroom for detailed cutting, because they were placed in the living room to meet guests, Chu Ying trimmed the edges of the reed mats neatly, and people with obsessive-compulsive disorder would not be hurt. From the beginning, it took Chu Ying a long time to build the reed mat.

Chu Ying deliberately narrowed the reed mat on the side near the door, because if it is too long, the entire curtain will be heavy, and it will be very inconvenient when entering and exiting.Chu Ying wrapped the edge of the narrow curtain with cloth so that it would not be scratched when the curtain was pushed open to go in and out.

It was almost dark when it was tied up, but the reed curtain that looks like a thin wall is still pretty good, so that the original room is separated into a bedroom and a living room. The bedroom does not need to be very big. The heat is dissipated relatively quickly, just like the emperor owns the entire palace but only has a small sleeping place, which is for gathering Qi.

The closet Chu Ying also embroidered several concentric circles on it, which looked more lively and angry, and Chu Ying tied cloth heads on the top and both sides, so that the appearance was uniform and not too abrupt.Chu Ying put the small two-story cabinet she made originally on the bedside as a bedside table for candles.

After the room was tidied up, Chu Ying swept out all the reed knots that had been cut out, and then went to cook with peace of mind. Although the newly added things in the room seemed dispensable, they made the room feel like home, not just a a place to sleep.

There are many things that I am not used to when I come here. For example, there is no concept of underwear, cleaning is based on plant ash, and rich people use soap beans and other things. These can be adapted and solved, but there is no toilet paper and can only be solved with bamboo chips. The problem of the toilet was really embarrassing. Although she had such an experience when she went out to do jungle missions or survive in the wild, it was really unacceptable for Chu Ying not to have toilet paper all the time.

But the price of paper is high, and it is too extravagant to use it as toilet paper because it is thinner. Chu Ying went to the city market to look at it many times before reluctantly eliminated this fastest solution. I can hope to make paper by myself, but the ancient method of papermaking has many processes, including five steps: cutting bamboo and floating ponds, boiling 楻襻足火, swinging materials into the curtain, covering the curtain and pressing paper, and drying through the fire. The last time I looked at the paper workshop Those tools themselves are a bit confused.

Chu Ying read in Tiangong Kaiwu that there is a method that does not need to make paper. First, boil the material, then put the bluestone on the kang, set the fire under it, and then use a brush to dip in the paper pulp, and brush it on the stone surface thinly, exposing it. It starts with a piece of paper, and Chu Ying is not very sure because there are only a few words, but the method feels like pancakes.

Chu Ying continued to mash the paper pulp that had been vomited in the clay pot with a wooden stick. The pulp had been soaked for almost half a month and it was not very uniform. I will try to make paper tomorrow. When I think of pancakes, Chu Ying Looking at the chestnut cakes under the shelf, maybe I can improve my food and make something different.

But the theory is easy to practice, and Chu Ying was exhausted just looking for stones. When Chu Ying returned home, she poured out all the stones she had collected from her back basket, and then replaced the felt shoes with cotton shoes, and put the snow-wet The felt shoes were baking by the stove.

Chu Ying picked up the stones and put them in the fire on the stove. These stones are different in texture, but they are all larger and thinner, so that it is convenient to make the paper bigger when the time comes, and they can also be heated evenly and conduct heat quickly.

When the stone is dry and it dries immediately after dripping water, Chu Ying uses a brush made of cattail velvet to brush paper pulp on it, but the pulp is not pulpy enough, and when the paper is dry, there is only a thin layer, which can be easily torn off. It was broken, but it was considered paper anyway, Chu Ying folded the paper in half and then in half, so that it would not be particularly fragile with thickness.

Chu Ying made all the vomited paper pulp. Some of the papers were thick and some were thin, and some of them were torn when torn up. Although the process was difficult, she still made a stack of toilet paper, and finally she did not let herself down. For more than half a month.

Chu Ying put the paper-making stones on the shelf with bamboo clips and put them on the shelf. She tried a few more stones and picked the smoothest one. She put the stones in a clay pot and sterilized them with boiling water. The stones will be used for To make pancakes, you have to clean up.

After the stone rolled for a long time, Chu Ying picked it up and put it on the stove to bake. Chu Ying washed the clay pot and cooked the rice and put it on the stove to cook. The salted chestnuts are brushed on the stone, and when they are roasted, they are scooped up with a wooden shovel and turned over.

This stone can indeed be used to make pancakes, but the speed is not as fast as that of an iron plate, but it is already very good. Chu Ying knocked an egg on the pancake, and used a wooden shovel to hold it against the egg liquid to leave the stone. Chu Ying rolled up the pancakes, and it felt great to take a bite.

(End of this chapter)