Hua and several others were carrying the food needed for lunch down the mountain, and they saw her standing there with her hair disheveled, looking at the dark brown things in the basin in a daze.
Yuzi pointed to the soap locust in the wooden basin, "Xiaoqing, can this thing also wash your hair?"
Yao Xiaoqing woke up from her reverie, "Yes, but we can't use it now. We still have hibiscus, go and wash it!"
Taro smiled and said: "Hua, which one of you will wash it first? I just washed it with plant ash last night."
Hua smiled and said, "I'll go first. My scalp is itchy and uncomfortable."
Yao Xiaoqing taught Hua how to rub hibiscus juice, and then asked her to mix it with water and wash her hair.
She took a piece of soap locust thorn to the construction site, handed the thorn to Yao Hu and said, "Father, look, I want to pick some thorns back and lay a circle on the fence."
Yao Hu took it, looked at it, and broke it off hard. He found that the toughness and hardness of the spikes were quite good.
"You have a good idea. After we finish building the house, we will go collect it."
"This kind of tree is called the saponaria tree. The fruit on the tree can be used to wash your hair and take a bath. The furs we have saved can be washed with saponins after tanning, so that the skins don't stink."
After Yao Xiaoqing arrived, he found that Uncle Chong and Uncle Shui peeled off the animal skins that the tribe had hunted, spread them flat on the stone slab, used stone knives to scrape off the flesh and blood adhering to the fur, and used bamboo slices to spread it out to dry.
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After the animal skin is dried, they will go to the forest to peel off a kind of bark, boil it in water and soak it in water. After soaking until soft, they will scrape it clean with a stone knife, cut off the pieces of skin, and then spread the prey's oil evenly on the skin.
Then beat and rub it repeatedly with a wooden stick, so that the tanned animal skin is softer, but has a bad smell.
"Okay!" Yao Hu said with a smile, "Father knows that you love to be clean. When you are free in winter, let's clean all those leathers."
"Well!" Yao Xiaoqing looked at the fourth and fifth houses, "Father, you are getting better and better. It only took two days to build it so high?"
"Don't even think about it. Including Uncle Achun and the others, there are more than twenty people working. The wood and firewood they chopped back are piled at the foot of the mountain. They also built several thatched sheds to stack them."
"Yeah! In order to avoid being soaked by the rain and getting soaked, we don't have to cook it over the fire." When talking about cooking the fire, Yao Xiaoqing thought of the green bar trees in the mountain valley, "It's better to cut down some green bar trees and burn some charcoal.
, I’m not afraid even if it snows heavily.”
Yao Hu smiled and nodded, "Okay, just take them there."
Yao Xiaoqing waved to him, "I'll go to the cafeteria first. You guys will work for a while and then come back for lunch."
"Go!" Yaohu took the spike and went to talk to Dashi and others.
Yao Xiaoqing went back and gathered a handful of ashes, poured it into a bucket, stirred it for a while and then soaked it. After lunch, she took seven or eight women with her hoes to the mountain col to collect saponins, dig saponaria trees and hibiscus, and went back
plant.
After a while, the backpacks were filled with the sapodilla saplings and hibiscus saplings. The sun had not yet set after several people returned with the saponaria saplings and hibiscus saplings.
At dusk, Mu Feng and Zhi came back carrying rock salt. A few of them also carried a few saplings and more than a dozen fruits in their net bags.
Mufeng put down the rock salt, took a fruit and walked up the earth building, "Xiaoqing, look at the fruit we found."
"Guan Guli!" Yao Xiaoqing looked at the tawny fruit in Mu Feng's hand in surprise, put down the rake in his hand, and took the pear, "Brother, where did you find it?"
"We are now collecting salt rocks from the hillside where we dig taro. We found only two trees in the forest on the slope with fruit. Please try it quickly."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded and took a bite. It was sweet and juicy, "Yeah! It's delicious, sweet and crispy. I'll give it to my father to try."
Seeing that she liked it, Mufeng nodded with a smile, "We also dug up a few small trees and brought them back. Uncle Shui and Uncle Shan went to pick them up. Tomorrow, we will take Uncle Shui and the others there to pick all the fruits from the trees."
Yao Xiaoqing kept nodding, "Okay! When you see a fruit tree, dig up the saplings and plant them in the open space outside the wall. From now on, you will have fruits to eat at your doorstep."
Mufeng looked at her with doting eyes, "I'll listen to you, brother will pay attention to it."
Yao Xiaoqing's hands were full of pear juice, "The partition is ready, Uncle Shui and the others are waiting for you to come back and build a rabbit nest!"
"I'll go right away." Mu Feng rubbed her head, smiled and ran downstairs.
Yao Xiaoqing watched him go downstairs with a smile, put the leftover pear core aside, raked the grass into a pile and put it in the big bamboo frame upstairs, took the pear core downstairs and buried it behind the house.
The few ginger plants have also been planted, and the leaves have stood up. They are no longer so listless.
Returning to the yard, he pinched the soap locust in the basin and found that it had soaked until soft. Yao Xiaoqing brought the basin into the kitchen, dug out the soap locust seeds inside and put them in the dustpan.
Pick out the skin and put it into a stone mortar to pound the soap locust, put it into a jar, add water and boil it.
After the water boiled, the soap solution in the jar began to bubble. She took out a few sticks of firewood from the clay stove. After thinking about it, she grabbed a handful of salt and put it into the jar, stirred it for a while with a wooden stick, and used the remaining
Cook slowly over fire.
Hua walked into the yard carrying the dried chili seeds and shouted: "Xiaoqing, the chili seeds are all dried. Take them and put them away."
Yao Xiaoqing came out of the kitchen and asked, "Let me see how many there are?"
"It only looks like a handful after drying." Hua smiled.
Yao Xiaoqing took the dustpan and looked at it, "It's good to have these. If you plant them in spring and all the seedlings emerge and survive, you can plant them in several fields."
Hua nodded, opened her palms with a smile, and revealed an egg, "Xiao Qing, Yun Amu said that he picked up two eggs in the chicken shed this afternoon and boiled them for you and the leader to eat."
Yao Xiaoqing looked at the eggs in her hand and smiled excitedly, "That's great, we will have eggs to eat in the future!"
Hua nodded heavily, "Yeah! Two of the pheasants we caught and raised died, and the others were alive. Today we put a few more in. Uncle Shui said there are more than twenty, and there are more ducks than pheasants."
Xiaoqing, from now on, shall we collect eggs and duck eggs every day?"
"Yes, the ducks and pheasants you feed yourself will lay more eggs."
By the time everyone returned to the canteen, everyone in the Yaoshan tribe knew about the pheasants laying eggs in the chicken shed, and everyone became more confident in catching docile prey and raising them in captivity.
The next day, Yao Xiaoqing took a dustpan and placed it on the jar, poured the plant ash water soaked overnight into the dustpan, filtered out the impurities, and the lye flowed into the jar, and boiled it on the clay stove.
Pour half of the boiled plant ash water and mix it with the saponin liquid that has been filtered out of impurities. Put it on the stove and simmer slowly over low heat. Stir evenly with a wooden stick. After cooling, pour it into a bamboo tube.
Fill a bamboo tube and cover it with a wooden stopper.