The girl's sudden shout startled Li Shi beside Xiao Ding. The second girl, who had just walked a few steps, also heard it, stopped and turned around to look at the girl in red and Xiaoding in surprise.

Zhao Laixi, who was on the side, was not surprised, and thought, this time it's okay, he slapped Xiaoding without waking up.

Xiao Ding frowned, but was speechless.

"Girl, are you awake?" Li Shi said gently.

The girl in red looked at Li, looked at Zhao Laixi beside Xiao Ding, and found the second girl not far away......

"Stinky rascals! What is this place? Where did you take me? The girl in red asked.

"I said you still have a long way to go? I kindly saved you, took you back to my house, and helped you find Lang Zhong to heal your injuries, and you treated your benefactor like this! Xiao Ding straightened up, lowered his face and said.

"I ......" The girl also seemed to feel that it was not good for her to scold people as a "stinky hooligan", so she softened her tone and said, "Did you help me invite Langzhong?" ”

"Yes, kid, Lang Zhong just left." Li said on the side.

At this time, Xiaoya Xiao'e Xiaozhu heard that the girl in the yard had woken up, so she also came out of the house and came to visit.

"This sister, you are so good-looking!" Xiao Zhu'er said milkily to the girl in red.

Being watched by so many people at once, the girl in red was a little overwhelmed, and she looked at Xiao Ding in a daze.

Xiao Ding rolled his eyes and glanced at her, and lazily introduced: "This is my mother, and they are my sisters." This one you have seen is my eldest brother-in-law Zhao Laixi. "After saying that, you're still slandering in your heart, aren't you very rude, why don't you speak now?

"Girl, if Xiao Ding has offended you, you don't have to be like him, he is a fool, and he was kicked in the head by a donkey when he was a child. Now that you've arrived at our house, you can recuperate here with peace of mind. Although our family is poor, we will not ignore you. Li said.

Yes? He turned out to be a fool! Kicked in the head by a donkey? Why didn't you see that he was stupid? No wonder he went to buy women's clothes! Hey, that's not right! The girl in red looked at Xiaoya Xiao'e. Halfway through, I seemed to catch a glimpse of a woman's clothes in a donkey cart. Could it be that he bought it for these younger sisters?

Since his mother said that he was a fool, he should not be wrong, and there was no need for him to compete with a fool.

Since she thought about it in her heart, the girl in red was relieved, opened her mouth and smiled reluctantly, and said, "Thank you Auntie for taking it in!" Your son and I may have had some misunderstanding, but it's okay now. ”

"That's good, that's good. I don't know what your name is and where you come from, girl? Li asked.

"I'm ——, my name is Tang Yunzhi. I am from Shuzhou, and I came to the Luoxia Mountain area to find a medicinal material. Tang Yunzhi, a girl in red, said.

"Oh, it turned out to be Miss Yunzhi, these are all my daughters, Tian Xiaoya, Tian Xiao'e, Tian Xiaozhu......" Li introduced them one by one.

Xiaoding saw that several women were chatting happily, and there was nothing to do with herself, so she came to the backyard and saw Tian Xiaofu burning hot buns on the stove, and the second girl was decocting medicine next to the big stove.

The Tian family only has a large stove, no small pots and small stoves. Erniu used a few bricks to prop up a clay pot, decoction in the jar, and a fire was lit at the bottom of the jar. Poor people in the countryside often decoction and decoction of medicine like this.

Originally, Xiaoya planned to come over to heat the buns, but Tian Xiaofu couldn't wait to eat them immediately when he saw the buns, so he reported that he came over to light the fire.

Xiao Ding found an old wooden barrel, filled it with water, and soaked the wolf skin that he had peeled off last night into the water.

For tanned animal skins, a few words flashed in Xiao Ding's mind, alum, table salt, and free sulfuric acid. He couldn't remember the meaning of these words, and he forgot the relationship between them. But he can recall another ancient method of tanning hides, the first step is to soak them in water and soak them softly.

The second step is to scrape off the meat and dirt attached to the leather board with a knife, and then put it in warm alkaline water and wash it with a brush to completely wash off the grease and dirt. It is also able to kill the parasites hidden in the fur. As for alkaline water, Xiao Ding thought that it could be replaced by a solution of soaphorn. In this era, people wash their hair, bathe, and laundry, and almost all use soap horn. Saponaria is alkaline, prepare more, chop it, squeeze out the juice and integrate it into the water, you can make alkaline water.

The third step is air drying, which can be sprinkled on the animal skin with lime or plant ash, and then placed in a cool place to air dry, so that the animal skin is completely dehydrated.

The fourth step is softening. You can use grease or animal fat to apply to the surface of the leather board, and then vigorously and repeatedly hammer and rub it to make the animal skin softer. The more thoroughly the pounding and rubbing, the softer the skin will be.

When the skin is completely soft, it can be made into animal skin clothing.

It would take days to tann a hide, the wolf skin had already been soaked, and Ding planned to proceed to the second step tomorrow morning.

At this time, the big stove has already boiled the pot, and it will be ready for dinner for a while and a half. In the medicine jar that Er Niu burned, the water was also boiling, and Er Niu just watched the fire not go out, and slowly fried it over low heat.

"Is that sister's leg really not healed?" The second girl saw that Xiao Ding was walking towards her after getting the wolf skin, so she asked casually.

"Not necessarily. There is no way for ordinary Langzhong, but I may be able to help her pick it up with my spiritual power. It's just that my current skills are still shallow, and my spiritual power is limited, so it's hard to say whether I can do it. Besides, I have never used spiritual power to help people heal their injuries, so I still need to slowly explore what I need to do. Xiao Ding said.

"Big brother, can I try a bun first?" Tian Xiaofu opened his mouth on the side, he had been waiting for a long time, and the gluttonous worms in his stomach had been screaming to eat steamed buns.

"Hehe, it's okay, I think the buns should be hot too, you go and greet everyone, let's get ready for dinner." Xiao Ding smiled and touched Xiao Fu's little head and said.

"Okay!" Xiao Fu answered and ran to the front yard.

Everyone had a very happy dinner, meat buns, the Tian family didn't seem to be able to eat them during the New Year.

Xiao Zhu'er took two buns with a bowl and sent them to Tang Yunzhi. She liked this beautiful young lady very much, and thought that she was good-looking, and the clothes she wore were also good-looking, and the jewelry she wore on her head, ears, neck, and hands were all good-looking. It turns out that girls can be so beautiful! She had never seen such a beautiful girl before.

On the low table in the room, Tian Dabao looked at Zhao Laixi, then at Xiao Ding, and then said to Xiao Ding: "Do you have any silver left today?" ”

"Well, there's seventeen taels left!" Xiao Ding said as he chewed on the meat bun in his mouth.

"Take it out after eating for a while, keep it for Xiao'e as a dowry, and for Xiaofu to marry a daughter-in-law." Tian Dabao said unceremoniously. He didn't mention how much money he spent today, since he had already spent it, it was useless to complain, and it was the right thing to ask for the rest of the silver.

Xiao Ding was stunned, he didn't expect his father to ask him for silver. Then I thought about it, it's all a family anyway, and it's the same for whoever you put it. He was also able to understand Tian Dabao's thoughts.

"I originally planned to use this money to rebuild the house, since my father has other uses, then give it to my father, and I will find a way to earn the money to build the house." Xiao Ding said, took out the seventeen taels of silver from his arms, and put it in front of Tian Dabao.

"Big brother, are you going to rebuild the house?" Tian Xiaofu was a little excited when he heard that Xiaoding was going to build a house.

"Well, with this plan, our house is too dilapidated, and it is estimated that it will be very cold in winter. When I make money next time, we'll start building a house. Xiao Ding said.

Xiaoya, Xiao'e, and Erniu on the side, their eyes were full of little stars, and they said in their hearts that we heard it right, this fool is going to make money to build a house, this can't be true......