Chu Ying sharpened a wooden stick, used this length to separate the paper stacks one by one, wrapped them on the paper, glued them together on both sides, and then piled them in the outer hall, piled them in the room where the paper was baked Chu Ying was afraid that some small sparks would ignite the paper, so it would be wasted.

The stems and leaves left by the wheat harvest before were piled up in the yard, bundled and piled high, piled up dozens of stacks, even if it rained, it was fine, anyway, they were all used to make paper.

The firewood at home is not much saved, although the principle of the rocket stove can save firewood, but this steaming once will be boiled for several days, very waste firewood, and so on tomorrow morning Chu Ying will take the axe to chop some firewood, otherwise it will not be available here, and it takes some time to make materials and steam, and it is not busy all day.

It takes Chu Ying 3 days to finish the cooking at one time, not because there is too much time and not enough, but there is no pulp to supply after it is done all at once, so Chu Ying takes advantage of her free time to go to the mountains to chop wood, or change shifts with Ye Qiu to guard the cooked wheat.

Fortunately, there are still leftover green bricks bought last time, and then buy two large wooden barrels to cook wheat, anyway, there is still a lot of space in the cooking house to increase the stove, fortunately, this room has two windows opposite, otherwise it is strange that there is no heat stroke in this summer.

"Chu Ying, are you going to chop wood? I'll give it to you. Chu Ying looked at the big bundle of firewood that Wang Qiyuan was carrying, and she couldn't carry so much.

"No need, I'll do it myself, how hard you cut it."

"Anyway, it's also carried into the city to sell, I'll carry it back for you, your little arms and legs can't move much at a time." Chu Ying looked at Wang Jiyuan, who was shirtless and showed strong muscles, which were indeed beyond her reach.

Before Chu Ying could promise Wang Qiyuan, she walked down the mountain, "How much silver does it cost to sell this in the city?" ”

"5 Wen a bundle, my bundle is big, I can sell more, but I just sell it when I enter the city, and I don't expect to make much money."

Chu Ying looked at the two Wang Qiyuan fat firewood, if it was only 5 yuan, it would still be more cost-effective, after all, you can't cut trees directly in this mountain, you can only cut bushes and branches, and it is quite time-consuming and laborious to cut such firewood.

"Then Brother Wang has been busy lately?" Wang Qiyuan turned his head to look at Chu Ying, thinking that Chu Ying must have something to help.

"Of course not, it's not a busy time to farm, what? Is there anything I can do to help you? Chu Ying listened to Wang Qiyuan's free time, so she grinned and squinted her eyes and looked straight at Wang Qiyuan.

Being looked at by Chu Ying directly, Wang Qiyuan still felt a little uncomfortable, isn't this little baby going to sell herself? "Then I'll collect this firewood, it doesn't take much, one or two bundles a day is enough, what do you think?"

It turned out to be chopping wood, Wang Qiyuan was finally relieved, if Chu Ying wanted to sell herself, she could only obediently tie herself up and hand it over to Chu Ying.

"Okay, then I'll send it to you tomorrow. This bundle can't be counted, I promised to give it to you. But I can't charge you 5 Wen, these 5 Wen is to take a car into the city to charge this price, since you accept it, I don't have to go into the city, and you only charge you 3 Wen every day. ”

Chu Ying didn't know what the market price of such a big bundle of firewood should be, but Wang Qiyuan would not fool himself, he would only give himself more discounts, and he would definitely not cheat himself, and Chu Ying felt that it was already a good deal for 3 yuan a bundle.

After all, on this hot day, even if you carry the firewood back to Chu Ying, you can't bear it, and you don't know what's wrong, this body is a little weak in the summer, I don't know if I'm lazy or this body is going back to the factory for maintenance, waiting for the next time I enter the city, Chu Ying will go to the pharmacy to have a look.

"Don't you take this hemp? The head hemp "mango seed" to the "summer solstice" can be harvested, the second hemp in the "great heat" to the "beginning of autumn", the three hemp from the "cold dew" to the "frost" you look like you can collect the hemp, and then do not collect the old color is poor, the quality is not good, and it affects the growth of hemp in the next season. "If it weren't for Wang Qiyuan saying this, Chu Ying would have to wait until the summer solstice to collect it, then I'm afraid it would be a little over.

"How do you collect this? Are they all cut off? Cut it off and then what? Chu Ying only asked Qin Zhong how to plant the pockmarks, but how to collect them Qin Zhong didn't say, he had never touched this ramie, and he didn't know anything about this.

"But you've just planted, the quality of this first cut is too poor to be used, and you can cut it for performance when it grows well next time. After October, the cut stubble should be covered with horse manure or the like, and it should be a foot thick, or it will freeze to death in winter. Chu Ying thought that this cut could be used to change linen, but she didn't expect that she would have to wait for the next cut before she could use it, but this ramie skin can also be used to make paper at that time.

"How do you cut this?" Chu Ying followed Wang Jiyuan to the hemp field, only to see Wang Jiyuan bend down and grab the ramie root a little higher with his hand, and then pull up those leaves and pull them away, bend the ramie, stretch his fingers into the open opening, and peel off behind him, so that the bones and skin of the ramie are separated into two pieces.

Then take one piece in the left hand and the other side in the right hand, pull down to peel off the lower half of the ramie, and pull another ramie plant with the ramie skin in the left hand. "You can also cut it back and peel it, and leave a few inches of stems in it, and it will grow when the time comes."

"Do you have to weave your own cloth to pay your own taxes?" Chu Ying looked at Wang Qiyuan and smiled, "Do you know how to weave?" This uses bamboo pieces to hang off the outer skin, leaving the tendons inside, washed and dried up a little, and when it is dried, it is good to get the hemp spinning, you can directly change the woven cloth, and change the half stone for a horse. ”

"Half a stone?" Half a stone is 60 catties, and a piece of cloth is far less than this weight, so the conversion is a little unequal.

"When the time comes, it will be made into a thread, and the rice milk will be removed and then wound into a thread ball, and then the cloth will be slowly weaved, depending on what color you want to change, there are blue and red, and the one that is not dyed will be slightly cheaper, and the dyed one will be soaked in gray water and bleached. In previous years, it was almost this amount of change, and it was not much worse. Listening to the fact that there are so many processes in the back, Chu Ying feels that the exchange of half a stone for a horse is not so outrageous.

"Okay, I understand, Brother Wang thank you, I'll do the rest by myself."

"Ye Qiu should know how to get it, just ask her when the time comes." Although Ye Qiu had experience in farm work, she didn't hear her mention how to deal with these ramie.

"Okay, hurry up and go back to dinner, Aunt Wang must be waiting for you." After sending Wang Qiyuan away, Chu Ying took a sickle and cut a bundle and carried it back, the open-air work in this summer is not comfortable.

"Are you going to cut those ramie?" Ye Qiu took the spoon and watched Chu Ying come back with a bundle of ramie, this ramie would be cut just right in a few days, because it was a little late when Chu Ying was planted.

"Brother Wang said that it can almost be cut, will you get it? How do you get this peeled skin? Ye Qiu put down the spoon and went to the corner of the wall to take a long bamboo, made an opening on the side, and cut a triangle along the gap as the center line.

"It would have been more convenient to have a blunt disc, but that's fine." Ye Qiu sat on the wooden pier and tore off the ramie leaves first, then took 4 ramie stalks and bent them together to grab the rising ramie skin and pull it hard, and then put the ramie skin on the opening of the bamboo and pushed it hard, and the green skin on the surface of the ramie fell off.

"You would, I thought you would." Ye Qiu got up and patted the green skin on his body, and smiled back, "You didn't ask again." And he went on cooking.

"How can you do this, you have to report this kind of thing in advance in the future, it's not that you don't know that I won't do this, what if these cuts are late." Chu Ying sat on the ground and learned what Ye Qiu looked like just now, it was easier to tear off the ramie skin, but it was a little uneven to pull it off in the bamboo piece, this ramie skin always fell out, but after a few more attempts, he could barely pull out the ramie tendons, but Chu Ying didn't understand why a bamboo was so long, and it was not better to take a small section.

Chu Ying took a small piece of bamboo and made an opening like Ye Qiu, but it felt like there was no strength when he pulled it up, and it took more strength to scrape off the green skin outside, looking at the long bamboo, it was not as long as he wanted to be long, but short as he wanted, there was wisdom that had been passed down from generation to generation.

The long bamboo opens a few inches at one end, and where there is no opening in the back, there will be a strong way to press the opening in front, and when pushing down, the weight of the bamboo will add a downward force to the scraping linen, and Chu Ying can only do what Ye Qiu did.

"You are not in a hurry to harvest after planting, you can harvest it in a day or two, let's do this paper first, and we will collect and dry the hemp together." It turned out that Ye Qiu had already planned that Chu Ying would scrape these ramies and go to Tsubaki to beat the wheat, if the wheat was crushed, the effect would be better, and when the time came, he would have to ask the blacksmith shop for the price when he entered the city.