Chu Ying put all the soapberry seeds she moved back in a sack and put them in the attic, anyway, she also planted the pockmarks, so she went many times without anything, and finally put two-thirds of the attic, and the other third was chestnut powder.

Every day, Chu Ying went to the back woods to see if there were any small animals that won the lottery, and this time she saw a hanging gopher, this trap can hang the animal's legs so as to ensure that the animal is still alive, but this gopher is too small to die.

But fortunately, other traps caught a rabbit, Chu Ying tied the rabbit's legs in two with a rope, and then tied a rope to the two ends of the tie, so that he could carry it away.

Chu Ying didn't plan to eat the rabbit immediately, the grass on the ground grew very quickly in the spring, and every time Chu Ying cut it, he just put it on the ground to let it degrade naturally into fertilizer, and now he can give it these grasses to eat if he catches a rabbit.

Chu Ying picked a wooden shed close to the house without adobe bricks in a few sheds outside, and then spread some straw on it, and put the rabbit in a circle with a few branches below, and put some grass in it, because there was only one, Chu Ying didn't beautify the rabbit nest anymore.

Chu Ying put all the rotten wood behind the woods on the ground, separating them from each other, so that they could also collect them here at that time, because Chu Ying, who had a lot of water vapor recently, didn't sprinkle some more water, and then sprinkled chestnut powder after a few traps were ready, Chu Ying went back to the house to prepare to make soap.

Chu Ying took out a moderate clay pot alone, poured water and began to boil water, and when the water boiled, Chu Ying threw soapberry into it, and then slowly put firewood, because the water was only 100 degrees, even if it was reheated, it could not exceed 100 degrees, so it would be a bit wasteful to wait for the water to boil and add more firewood.

Chu Ying took out the jade pendant that Lu Ming gave him yesterday, and looked really transparent and green, so he was reluctant to take it away, Chu Ying took out the silver money and counted it, there was only 5 money and 57 wen in the house, Qin Zhong deducted the 1 yuan he bought ramie seeds and the 9 money and 2 money he withdrew last time, and there were still 3 taels and 7 yuan and 5 wen left, although it looked like a lot, but it was gone after buying the medicine twice.

Chu Ying put the jade pendant in the money box, and then went to pawn it to change the medicine in case there was no money at that time. Chu Ying poked the soapberry that had been boiled for a while with wood and continued to cook. Chu Ying looked at a pit 5 steps wide and 8 steps long that had been dug out by herself outside the door.

This is a deeper layer of soil specially dug by making adobe bricks before, because the surface is full of weeds and stone roots, so it is very laborious to dig out every inch, and now Chu Ying knows the bitterness of Brother Wang helping him hoe the ground before, which takes a lot of energy and time.

Chu Ying didn't want to expand outward, so she dug down, and Chu Ying dug out a ladder at one end, so that she wouldn't be trapped below and couldn't get up, but now that she had dug almost two of her own height, Chu Ying didn't want to dig anymore, and it would take a little more time to dig and carry it.

After the soapberry had been boiled long enough, Chu Ying scooped up the soapberry and put it in a clay pot, put the soapberry soup in another clay pot, and put the clay pot specially used to make soapberry soap on the shelf, Chu Ying took out the clay pot for cooking and cooked rice, and carried the clay pot containing soap liquid to the bathroom.

After everything was in order, Chu Ying took out a knife to peel off the skin of the gopher, remove the internal organs, wash it and put it in a clay pot for cooking rice, cut a few slices of ginger and put salt on it. After the gopher was skinned, it was very small, only the size of the palm of the hand, and it could only be regarded as an additional meal.

Chu Ying took advantage of the cooking to clean up the inside of the chicken coop, and looked at the chickens running around outside and didn't care about them, anyway, it was almost evening, and the chickens themselves were afraid of coming back in the dark. But the hen herself only lets it move in the fence, for fear that when the time comes, she will not be able to come back.

Chu Ying fed the hens, sprinkled grass and wood ash on the chicken droppings on the ground under the chicken coop, and shoveled them into the open space behind the house. There is already a lot of piled up here, and next to it is a toilet dug by yourself, on which are put a few wooden boards, which are empty in the middle, and sprinkle some soil every time you go to the toilet, so that the smell will not be so strong.

Outside the toilet, Chu Ying has built a shed, which plays the role of shelter from the wind and rain, and she can pick fertilizer behind the toilet, and she has already fertilized the wheat field before, but her fertility is limited, so she only applied fertilizer once. Now that there are more chickens, the is slowly accumulating, and Chu Ying also mixes the soil into it, so that the fermentation is more even.

After making it, Chu Ying took some of the boiled soap nuts, rubbed them out of foam on her hands, and washed her hands, although these soap nuts have been boiled for so long, there is still some soap liquid in them, and every time you take some to wash your hands, it will not be wasted.

Washing her hair Chu Ying has always been very resistant, although she has filtered the ashes of the plants and trees many times, it still doesn't look very clean, but there is nothing else to wash her hair, Chu Ying quickly rubs her hair every time, and now with soapberry soap Chu Ying boiled hot water after dinner and prepared to wash her hair.

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

Chu Ying tied up her hair behind with the strips of cloth she had sewn, and when she saw that the sun was not shining outside, she picked up a shovel and went out to see if the place outside could continue to dig, Chu Ying looked at the roots on the ground that were twice as thick as herself, if you cut it I don't know when, Chu Ying piled up the dry weeds on the ground next to the roots, and then lit a fire.

This tree root can be slowly burned into charcoal, Chu Ying picked up all the grass roots on the ground around him, piled up a few tree roots next to him and set them on fire, if you want to completely burn the tree roots, it is estimated that it will take a day. Taking advantage of the burning of the roots of the tree, Chu Ying shoveled the soil on the top layer and put it on the side of the mound.

It's really tiring to do farm work, but it's impossible for Chu Ying to sleep in bed every day, like that, she will never grow vegetables and wheat by herself, although she is tired, Chu Ying is still very relieved to look at the small farm that is slowly getting better.

But after digging for a few days, it rained, Chu Ying could only cook soapberry at home, and tried to make soap with soapberry and plant ash, the compendium of materia medica said that soapberry was boiled and mashed, and white flour and incense were used as pills, bathing the body, removing dirt and greasy, better than honey locust.

Chu Ying didn't have white flour, so she used chestnut powder, poured some into a clay pot first, and then added chestnut powder ** to form a ball. Chu Ying made 2 first, didn't do more, in case it didn't do well, it wouldn't be too wasteful to start over.

Because there are no preservatives, this soapberry soap will go bad after 2 to 3 days, but it is quite troublesome to cook every time, so Chu Ying is thinking about whether she can make soap. But I remember that I need to use grease and alkali to make soap.

Chu Ying filtered out the weakly alkaline water from the ash soaking water, then poured in the soapberry soap, and added some lard from last time, which was simply dark soap, Chu Ying stirred it with a wooden stick for a long time, because her arm was too sore, Chu Ying divided it 3 times before it was a little thick, Chu Ying poured the solution into a wooden box made of dovetail tenon and put it in a cool place.