The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 74 Making Fake Candles
Chu Ying built the last earth brick, spread thick straw on the roof framed by bamboo slices, and then moved the rabbit nest in with Ye Qiu, but there was a longer rabbit nest due to the restrictions of the door and the wall. Unable to crooked, Chu Ying looked at the shelf stuck in the middle at the door, and really wanted to beat her brain hard.

Don't be afraid of god-like skills, but pig-like brains. She should have taken the shelf in before building the wall. She was really careful to make the Wannian ship. Chu Ying could only use an ax to chop the shelf in half. After moving in, they are tied together with ropes. Under the shelves are supported pillars, so even if they are cut in half, the two shelves can stand independently.

After the surrounding shelves are all set up, Chu Ying installs the door, and then separates the rabbits by color and size, and puts a few soon-to-be-born rabbits in a larger nest. I don’t know whether to help the rabbits give birth, and neither does Ye Qiu. very clear.

Chu Ying could only add food to the rabbits first. Seeing that it was going to rain tomorrow, Chu Ying mowed more grass for preparation. Ye Qiu tore down the wood where the rabbits stayed before and cut it out with an axe. Press the fence on the hole.Insufficient wood is topped with ordinary firewood.

"Oh my god, I haven't seen you for a few days. Another room has opened up here. Your candles have been sold out, 35 cents a piece. Is there a loss?" hillside.

"How about it? Come and take a look. My rabbit nest took a lot of effort and took a lot of time to get it right. Ye Qiu has been sunburned, and me, look, look, you still Can you see me?"
Wang Naiyuan touched Chu Ying's face, "I can see that these are 12 pieces of silver coins, a total of 4 coins and 20 coins, and one of 37 coins is not a loss, right? I don't need that much, and those candles are useless. The classmates saw that I used it very well, and they all clamored for it, so they sold some."
"It's not a loss." 37 coins are 2 coins more expensive than those sent to the pharmacy. The main academies use more candles, so the sales will be faster, and the pharmacy also needs a lot, but it's not that expensive to use.

So Chu Ying didn't want to give up on the candle business here, even if she only made 2 more money, the money will be made faster.Chu Ying asked Ye Qiu to collect the money.

"Who are they buying here? They must be from a good family." The price of 37 cash is still quite expensive. This money can buy a lot of things, and the average farmer probably cannot afford it.

"They are all children from rich families. Those scholars from the same village let them all get together and read books by candlelight." Wang Naiyuan's method is very good, but can this candle only be made of pure pine resin? ?If you can use cheaper materials, then those from ordinary families can also use them.

After all, candlelight is not as powerful as an electric lamp, and the light area is a bit small, and reading under dim candlelight is not good for eyes. Chu Ying looked at the cattails that had grown in the pond.

"You actually have 34 rabbits in this house. I guess you brought the whole rabbit nest." Rabbits are naturally fertile, and there are no restrictions in the wild, so these traps will not catch all the rabbits. It's just a small part of it.

"Enn, those few are about to give birth in time, and these few seem to be there too, and now they are all ready to move, wanting to contribute to me as a baby bunny. But the weather is getting hotter, and I have to give them something to cool off Things, or one by one will be on the table." Chu Ying put handfuls of grass in the small enclosure in front of the rabbit's nest.

"That's right. Rabbits are not easy to keep. They are very wild. If they eat something bad, they will have loose stools. They will die when they have loose bowels. The rabbits that come back from hunting in the village don't live long. You keep them pretty clean." Wang Naiyuan looked at Chu Sakura separated the rabbits of different colors, and this rabbit cage is very special, and she really put her heart into it.

"They will lick themselves, Brother Wang, here are 30 candles, you can take them when you go back, the price is still the same." Chu Ying took out some candles she made later.

"Okay. Are you ready to practice calligraphy?" Chu Ying's face was a little red with embarrassment. These days, she was busy building a rabbit nest, and she had never touched the books Wang Naiyuan gave her.

"I knew you were too busy to have time to read it. Forget it, take a look if you have time. I'm leaving first. I have to go back and have dinner with my mother. I'll be leaving tomorrow."
"Go, yes, bring some fish, you wait." Chu Ying picked up the net and netted two big fish and put them in a wooden basin for Wang Naiyuan.

"Is this a fish that grew out of the lake mud I dug before? It's too fast." Wang Naiyuan looked at the fish that was as long as three palms.

"Isn't it a fairy? It grows so fast. I caught these. Those small fish are no more than the thickness of a finger and can't be eaten. They may grow bigger in a few months." Chu Ying, a fish in the pond, besides putting some Rabbit Baba went in, and chestnut powder was added, because the fish needed a lot of nutrients to grow up slowly.

"That's right, thank you." Chu Ying looked at her yard outside the door, waiting for Ye Qiu to cook, and watched Wang Naiyuan, who had just returned, come back with a piece of bacon. "My mother asked me to bring this, she said it must be sold, and it has already eaten several of your rabbits."
"Haha, okay. Thank your mother for me."
While waiting for the meal, Chu Ying was thinking about how to reduce the cost of candles. Watching Ye Qiu put a slice of bacon on the pancake and slowly roll it up, and then let it slowly heat up, maybe she can add more Add some cattail fluff or cattails.

Chu Ying first picked a cattail from the pond, put the cattail in the middle, and then dripped turpentine on it. When the turpentine cooled a little and became a little hard, she pinched all the resin on the cattail, and then kneaded the cattail into a It was round and round, and when it was ready to dry, Chu Ying picked it up and lit it, the cattail inside burned faster, and even the turpentine outside melted faster.

"Why do you still put something in it? Can it work well? There is more smoke than the one that only uses turpentine, it's not good at all." Chu Ying blew out the candle, but the cattails inside burned faster, Chu Ying Sakura had no choice but to put the candle upside down on the table.

This plan was considered a failure, but Chu Ying soaked the cattails directly in turpentine, thinking that it would be better if more turpentine was melted into the cattails.

In fact, I don’t have the need to study slowly like this, but the low-end consumer market is vacant. If you can make cheap and good-quality candles, you can promote the progress of candles entering the daily life of ordinary people. After all, animal oil is used, which is a bit wasteful.

"Go to bed soon, don't play with fire, be careful of bedwetting at night, it's so big, how embarrassing is it?" Chu Ying snorted softly, packed her things, counted them carefully, and then lay down in bed, watching Under the candlelight, Ye Qiu wiped something on his face.

"What are you wiping? Are you trying to scare me at night so I can wet the bed?"
"Yeah, yeah, it's just facial fat, and it was brought over before it was used up. Second Miss, do you want it? You usually don't use these things."
"No, I'm all asleep." Chu Ying was curious about the appearance of this ancient face, but she was too tired to build the wall by herself, so she fell asleep after blinking a few times.

(End of this chapter)