Chapter 60: Toothbrushes
A rooster crow, breaking the silent atmosphere of Shanghe Village, everyone got up early and was busy preparing for today's day.
"Morning, Miss Yunzhu."
Zhao Lan got dressed and just went out to do a few chest expansion exercises, when she saw Fan Yunzhu walking out of the house on the other side, holding a small pot of rice in her hand, as if she was preparing to make breakfast.
Nodding at Zhao Lan, Yunzhu took out a willow branch and handed it to Zhao Lan.
"What is this?"
Suspiciously took the willow branch handed by Yunzhu, Zhao Lan's face was full of puzzlement, why did he give me a willow branch early in the morning.
Seeing Yun Zhu brushing his teeth, Zhao Lan came to his senses, I wipe, I have heard that the ancient toothbrush is relatively simple, but I didn't say that to this extent, this toothbrush is too simple.
Looking at the willow branch in his hand, Zhao Lan was speechless, scooped out some water from a large vat in the courtyard and tried the ancient toothbrush.
A few minutes later, Zhao Lan opened her already numb gums and grinned helplessly.
Yes, modern people can't live at all when they go back to ancient times, and brushing their teeth with willow branches is completely torturing their gums.
No, if this continues, there is no telling how many children will have to suffer from this inferior toothbrush.
The process of improving the material culture of antiquity should be brought forward!
Zhao Lan rubbed her mouth while secretly thinking about the materials used to make the toothbrush.
What was the original toothbrush, it was like a thin bone with some bristles tied to it.
Pig bristles!
Zhao Lan's eyes were on Liu Er's house not far from Fan's hometown, and yesterday he seemed to hear a pig humming from his house......
"God damn it, who is such a beast, even my old sow will not let go."
Liu Er, who got up a lazy bed, just went out to feed the chickens and ducks raised at home, and suddenly found that he didn't hear the snort of the pigs at home. When he ran to the pigsty to take a look, he found that his old sow was tied to the fence of the pigsty with two legs, her mouth was tied tightly by a strip of cloth, and her back was bloody.
This is what he was going to ask the girl from the neighboring village to use, but now he was made so miserable that Liu Er couldn't wait to cut the thief with a knife now.
It's just that the culprit seems to have no sense of guilt, and is humming happily at the moment, holding a cadre to keep drilling his eyes on a small wooden stick that is slightly flattened.
When Fan Lao got up, he saw Zhao Lan lying on the table with a sword scraping around on the wood, and asked with a puzzled look on his face: "Hey, boy, what are you doing there early in the morning?" ”
"Toothbrush."
Zhao Lan replied with a dull head, then threw the short sword aside, picked up the pig's bristle that he had just scavenged, inserted it into the hole he had just drilled, and stretched it out from another adjacent small hole and strung it up.
What is a toothbrush?
Fan Lao watched Zhao Lan's step-by-step movements with doubts, until Zhao Lan finished stringing all the bristles and looked at the jagged cilia on it, Fan Lao opened his mouth and asked, "Could it be that this thing is used to brush your teeth?" ”
"Of course!" Zhao Lan took a big breath, picked up the toothbrush that was finally completed, which may be the most advanced toothbrush in the world at present, and carefully smoothed the uneven bristles with a short sword, and then wiped the sweat that did not exist on his head, and laughed: "Finally got it." ”
When Fan Lao heard Zhao Lan's words, he took the toothbrush from his hand, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully for a few seconds, then looked at Zhao Lan again, and said with a new face: "Boy, where did this thing come from?" ”
Zhao Lan shook her hair, picked up the willow branch she had just dropped on the table, handed it to Fan Lao, and chuckled: "Miss Yunzhu handed me such a willow branch in the morning, the kid thinks that this thing is really harmful to the health of the gums and mouth, so he made this thing, Fan Lao might as well try it, this toothbrush is very effective for you old people." ”
The gums and mouth or something, Fan Lao didn't understand, but he roughly understood what Zhao Lan meant, and when he heard that it worked well on the old man, he was suddenly a little eager to try. Seeing that Zhao Lan had already started to make the second toothbrush, he hurriedly beckoned Yunzhu, took a little green salt, dipped a little with the toothbrush, and according to Zhao Lan's method, he became the first experiencer of a toothbrush that had just appeared in the world.
"Boy, this effect is quite good, but why does the old man feel that this thing tastes a little weird, and where does the soft hair on it come from?" After Fan Lao finished the experience, he felt as if the taste in his mouth was strange, and he couldn't help but ask Zhao Lan, who was busy.
Zhao Lan heard Fan Lao's complaint, put down the hair in his hand, and said to him: "It's just some pig bristles, maybe you use it for the first time, and you are not used to it." ”
"What did you say?" When Fan Lao heard Zhao Lan's words, his voice suddenly soared two squares: "You said this is pig bristles." ”
Fan Lao's hand holding the toothbrush was trembling, and his mouth was shaking after just brushing, looking at the toothbrush in his hand for a long time, he was silent for a long time, and then he raised his finger and pointed at Zhao Lan, trembling for a long time, and then he said hoarsely: "You bastard, you actually use pig hair to make such objects, you are really, really, really not a son of man." ”
After saying that, he raised the toothbrush in his hand, looking like he wanted to fall to the ground, but he waved his hand up and down twice, but he still couldn't fall, and he snorted angrily and waved his sleeves, turned around and returned to the room behind him.
Zhao Lan looked at the back of Fan Lao leaving with a dull expression, and his head was full of questions.
What happened to me using pig hair as a toothbrush?
Didn't the emperor of the Ming Dynasty do the same, and it instantly swept the country, although my identity is not as good as the emperor, but how can I say that I am also a county king, am I guilty of making a toothbrush?
After thinking about it for a long time, Zhao Lan shook his head and made two toothbrushes from the remaining pig hair, it is estimated that this old killer is putting on a literati ceremony, and he thinks that the pig hair is not worthy of his literati.
Cut, I like to use it or not, but looking at him just like that, I am reluctant to throw away such a good toothbrush.
"Miss Yunzhu, I just made two toothbrushes, and I hope the girl will smile."
Finding Yunzhu who was busy in the kitchen, Zhao Lan handed a toothbrush in his hand to Yunzhu, smiled and said: "The willow branch thing hurts your teeth after a long time, Yunzhu girl will still use this in the future to protect her teeth." ”
Yunzhu took the toothbrush in Zhao Lan's hand, looked up and down and smiled at Zhao Lan, but before he could say anything, he heard a call from outside the courtyard.
The two walked out of the kitchen and saw Liu Er, who lived not far away, standing outside the fence.
"Yunzhu girl, it's terrible, there is also a thief in our village, just now the thief ran to our house and brought disaster to our old sow. The hair on that body has been shaved off, you have to pay attention, the poultry at home have to take care of it. ”
Liu Er stood outside the fence, admonished Yun Zhu carefully, and when he saw Yun Zhu nodding, he turned around and muttered away: "No, I have to go to another house to talk about it, but I can't let the poultry in the village be harmed by the livestock thief." ”