The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 50 Making Soap

Chu Ying put all the saplings she brought back in sacks and put them in the attic. Anyway, she planted the pockmarks herself, so she went there many times for nothing, and finally put two-thirds of the attic, and the other third Arrange chestnut powder.

Every day Chu Ying went to the forest behind to see if there were any small animals that won the lottery. This time, she saw a hanged gopher. This trap can hang the animal's legs to ensure that the animal is still alive, but the gopher Too young to die.

Fortunately, another trap caught a rabbit. Chu Ying tied the rabbit's legs with a rope, and then tied the tied ends with a rope, so that she could carry it away.

Chu Ying didn't plan to eat the rabbit right away, the grass on the ground grew very fast in spring, every time Chu Ying cut it, she just put it on the ground to let it degrade into fertilizer naturally, now that she caught a rabbit, she could turn the grass feed it.

Chu Ying chose a wooden shed near the house without earth bricks among the sheds outside, spread some straw on it, and surrounded it with a few branches to form a circle, and put the rabbit in it. Put some grass, because there was only one, Chu Ying didn't do much to beautify the rabbit's nest.

Chu Ying put all the rotten trees behind the forest on one piece of land, and separated them at a greater distance, so that she could gather here when the time came, because Chu Ying, who had a lot of moisture recently, did not sprinkle any more water, and waited to put a few traps After finishing it and sprinkled it with chestnut powder, Chu Ying went back to the house and prepared to make soap.

Chu Ying took out a moderate pottery pot alone, poured water and began to boil the water, and when the water boiled, Chu Ying threw Sapindus chinensis into it, and then slowly put in the firewood, because the water was only 100 degrees, even if it was heated again, it would be too hot. It's only 100 degrees, so it would be a waste to wait for the water to boil before adding more firewood.

Chu Ying took out the jade pendant that Lu Ming gave yesterday, and it looked so clear and emerald green that she couldn't bear to pawn it away. Chu Ying took out the coins and counted them. There was only 5 coins and 57 coins at home, and Qin Zhong deducted them. The 1 renminbi I bought for ramie seeds and the 9 renminbi and 2 renminbi withdrawn last time left 3 taels, 7 renminbi and 5 renminbi. Although it looks like a lot, it will be gone if I buy two more medicines.

Chu Ying put the jade pendant in the money box, in case she runs out of money at that time, she can pawn it to change her medicine.Chu Ying poked the Sapindus chinensis that had been boiled for a long time until soft and continued to cook.Chu Ying looked at a 5-step-wide and 8-step-long pit dug out by herself outside the door.

This is the deep soil that was specially dug to make earthen bricks. Since the surface is full of weeds, stones and tree roots, it is very laborious to dig out every inch. Now Chu Ying knows the bitterness of Brother Wang helping her to hoe the ground. It takes a lot of effort and time.

Chu Ying didn't want to go further, so she dug down. At one end, Chu Ying dug out a ladder, so that she wouldn't be stuck at the bottom and couldn't get up. But now that she had dug almost two times her own height, Chu Ying didn't want to dig any further. Now, it will take a little more time to dig and carry, and when the Sapindus is ready, Chu Ying will have to open a new piece to dig the soil.

After the Sapinbs had been cooked for a long time, Chu Ying scooped up Sapinds and put them in a clay pot, put the soup of Sapinsias in another clay pot, and put the soap that was specially used to make Sapinsia soap The clay pot was placed on the shelf, Chu Ying took out the clay pot for cooking to cook, and carried the clay pot with soap liquid into the bathroom.

After everything was in order, Chu Ying took out a knife and peeled off the skin of the gopher, removed the internal organs, washed it and put it in a clay pot for cooking, then cut a few slices of ginger and added salt.After the gopher was peeled, it was very small, only the size of a palm, and it could only be regarded as an extra meal.

Chu Ying cleaned the inside of the chicken coop while cooking, and looked at the chickens running around outside, but didn't care about them. Anyway, it was almost evening, and these chickens came back out of fear of the dark.But the hen only lets it move within the fence, for fear that it will not be able to come back when it goes too far.

Chu Ying fed the hens, sprinkled plant ash on the chicken droppings under the chicken coop, and then shoveled them into the open space behind the house.There is already a lot of chicken feces piled up here, and next to it is the toilet dug by myself. There are a few wooden boards on it, and there is an empty space in the middle. Every time I go to the toilet, I sprinkle some soil, so that the smell will not be so strong.

Chu Ying built a shed outside the toilet to protect her from the wind and rain. Behind the toilet, she could pick fertilizer. She had already fertilized the wheat field before, but her own fertility was limited, so she only fertilized once.Now that there are more chicks, the chicken feces are gradually increasing. Chu Ying also mixes the soil in, so that the fermentation will be more even.

After it was done, Chu Ying took some of the boiled Sapindus chinensis, rubbed it into foam on her hands and washed her hands. Although the Sapindus sativa had been boiled for so long, there was still some soap in it. will be wasted.

Chu Ying has always been very resistant to washing her hair. Although she has filtered the plant ash many times, it still looks not very clean, but there is nothing else to wash her hair. Chu Ying quickly rubs her hair every time. After the meal, Chu Ying boiled hot water to wash her hair.

Chu Ying's hair is not considered long, but it is time-consuming to wash it. The ancients also washed their hair every three days and bathed every five days. However, there was no hair dryer, so Chu Ying could only dry her hair by the stove. Hair took a long time.

Chu Ying tied her hair back with the cloth strips she had sewn, and looked at the sun outside, so she picked up the shovel and went out to see if the area outside could continue to be dug. Chu Ying looked at the tree on the ground that was twice as thick as herself. The root, if you cut it, you don't know when it will be cut, Chu Ying piled up all the dry weeds on the ground next to the root of the tree, and then lit a fire.

This tree root can be slowly burned into charcoal. Chu Ying picked up all the grass roots on the surrounding ground, piled up the grass roots on the nearby tree roots and set them on fire. If the tree roots were to be completely burned, it would take a day to burn.While the tree roots were burning, Chu Ying shoveled all the soil from the upper layer to the mound on the side of the knife.

Doing farm work is really tiring, but it is impossible for Chu Ying to sleep on the bed every day. That way, she will never grow vegetables and wheat by herself. Although she is tired, she is very relieved to see Chu Ying, a small farm that is slowly getting better. .

But after a few days of digging, it rained, so Chu Ying could only cook Sapinberry at home, and tried to make soap with Sapinberry and plant ash. In the Compendium of Materia Medica, it is said that Sapinberry is boiled and mashed, and mixed with white flour Make pills with various incenses, bathe the body and face, remove dirt and moisturize, it is better than acacia.

Chu Ying didn't have white flour, so she used chestnut powder, first poured some into a clay pot, then added chestnut powder and kneaded it into a ball.Chu Ying made 2 first, and didn't make any more. If she didn't do well, she could do it all over again, so it wouldn't be too wasteful.

Because the soapberry soap has no preservatives, it will go bad after 2 to 3 days, but it takes a lot of time to cook every time, so Chu Ying is thinking about whether she can make soap.But I remember that making soap requires oil and alkali.

Chu Ying soaked plant ashes in water to filter out the weakly alkaline water, then poured it into soapberry soap, and added some lard that was boiled last time. It was simply dark soap. Chu Ying stirred it with a wooden stick for a long time, because the arm It was too sour, and Chu Ying had to stir it 3 times before it became a bit thick. Chu Ying poured the prepared solution into a wooden box made of dovetails and put it in a cool place.

(End of this chapter)