In the blink of an eye, it was late December, and it was likely that I had been idle at this time in previous years to prepare for the previous year's work, such as oil extraction, flour grinding, etc., but this time I didn't.

This year has been a very busy year, with a lot of big projects to start and until now, I haven't stopped and taken advantage of the last period to expand the results.

I plan to spend more than half a month to continue to expand the roads on the island, and after several constructions in the past two years, the roads on the island have reached six or seven kilometers, which looks like a sense of achievement.

But it wasn't enough, the roads around the roundabout were only nearly two-thirds completed, and they weren't fully connected, so my obsessive-compulsive disorder made me want to continue building roads and connect them as soon as possible!

However, what I didn't expect was that the car was not braked at all, and it lasted intermittently for a month before stopping, although the whole person was tired enough, the result was very gratifying.

The entire island is surrounded by a circular passage, which is relatively flat and nearly two meters wide, so that there is no obstacle to walking, driving, or running, and the time spent patrolling the island will be shortened in the future!

It means to me like a highway when driving, and it will be much easier to go anywhere on the island in the future than before.

There's not much work left, just a kilometer or two of lateral roads that can be dealt with at any time, but the production of the bicycle may take some time.

There are a lot of things that take a month to build the road, and there is still about half a month to go before the New Year, and all the preparations before the New Year have not been carried out.

In previous years, I should have been almost prepared at this time, and I was even already resting, fishing and basking in the sun every day, but I am definitely going to continue to be busy recently!

In this way, the busyness continued until the first two days of the Chinese New Year, and it was not until the sheep were killed that the focus of work shifted back home.

This year's work intensity is very high, but it is mainly concentrated in a few large projects, and there is not much work on hand at this time, and it should be more leisurely next year.

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Two sheep are slaughtered before the Chinese New Year, and this time is no exception, all the steps are not much different from before, except for the disposal of sheep fat.

This time, the mutton fat was not used for stir-frying like the previous twenty or thirty sheep's oil, and the mutton fat of one of them was unsurprisingly made into candles, after all, as time went by, the number of times in and out of the cellar should be more and more, and the demand for lighting naturally increased.

And today we are going to talk about the sheep fat of another sheep, and its use is worth mentioning.

It stands to reason that it should also be made into candles for lighting, and the mutton fat of three or four sheep a year is not enough for lighting, but another whim of mine has deducted it and prepared to make something else!

Before, my mind suddenly came to mind to make candles out of mutton fat, and today I think of another rather useful substance--- soap.

In fact, there has always been attention to the products that need to remove dirt, but there has been no result, soaphorn has not been found, similar products have not been found, and later they can only choose to use plant ash.

The role of plant ash can only be counted as better than nothing, but it also solves the problem of whether there is or not, and there has been no new idea after getting used to it, until today.

The effect of soap is not very useful in modern society, and there are countless products that can replace it, but here it is a very significant achievement, because no other product can be made, and there is no need to even try.

I can still try it with only soap, and the chances of success are not bad......

The soap I want to make may be more appropriately called pancreas, not only is it more like the ancient method of making pancreas, but its effects and steps are also suspected of borrowing from ancient pancreas.

After all, modern soap requires a lot of chemical materials and machinery and equipment, which is far from being something I can do, and I would like to be like the protagonist in other scripts, but unfortunately reality does not allow it!

The existence of soap can be described as long history, as early as the primitive era when Ru Mao drank blood, there was its prototype, but the appearance and effect were not as good as later.

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After all, the times are always developing, and future generations can always improve on the achievements of their predecessors, until later pancreas with better effects are produced.

This also shows that the ancients were not stupid, their backwardness actually stemmed from the backwardness of the times, let us go back to their era, if they didn't have modern memories as if they were open, they would not be better than them, and it was even possible to be crushed by IQ.

It is impossible to know who invented the pancreas and what era it was produced, but I didn't expect to make pancreas again like them today, thousands of years later, in a highly developed modern society.

I have to say that this is a very sad thing, but I am the only one who is sad......

I still think it's more pleasing to call it soap, so let's call it soap.

The material of the soap is so simple that it cannot be described as simple, because it is only made by mixing two materials.

The most important of these is animal fat, but there are only a few animal fats that are more suitable, and sheep fat happens to be one of them.

Another big material is caustic soda, if there is caustic soda, you can add grease to make soap, unfortunately this is my unknown field, even if I know what caustic soda looks like when I was a child, it is impossible to find its raw materials, let alone make a finished product!

The only way to solve this problem is to solve this problem with other methods, or to replace the function of caustic soda with other items.

At this time, the first thing that comes to my mind is nothing else, of course, it is the almighty plant ash, which in my eyes is quite close to the word omnipotent, and it is the first thing that comes to mind every time I have a problem.

So it's no surprise that the substitute for caustic soda is plant ash, and I don't seem to have much other choice.

As for whether it can succeed or not, I can only leave it to fate, anyway, I expect the possibility of success is quite high, after all, this is a very simple thing, and the ashes of plants and trees do contain alkaline!

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The demand for soap is smaller than that of candles, so I only get a small piece of fat in the two sheep, about a little more than three catties, of course, I am not more concerned about the quantity, but whether it can be successful.

As for the production method, it is very simple, just like doing a very small thing, the only difference is that this little thing has never been done, and there is always some bottom in my heart, that's all!

The first step is to cut the mutton fat into small pieces and throw it into the pot to refine the oil, remove the remaining oil residue after all the oil is out and then cool it slowly.

On the other side, I chose two handfuls of plant ash to filter and wrap them in a cloth and wash them in a small amount of water, so that the alkali components in them can be fully integrated into the water.

At first, I thought about throwing a handful of plant ash into the cooled oil pan and stirring it, but then I thought that there would be residue mixed in it, and if I wiped it on my body while taking a shower, it might cause a wound.

So in the end, I chose a more secure way, just like making tofu, only extracting the essence and removing its dross!

When the temperature in the oil pan drops to fifty or sixty degrees, pour the grass and wood ash water into the mutton fat little by little and stir it continuously until it is viscous after a long time.

This step is very much like when you stir the jelly, it is very easy, and by this time the preliminary work is actually completed.

But I think the taste in the current raw materials is not very good, and it is more acceptable to add some fragrance, so I picked ten magnolia flowers that were dried in the past and ground them into powder and threw them into the pot to continue to stir evenly.

Sure enough, sometimes whims can always bring unexpected effects, and the smell of floral oil is much better, and it is estimated that it will be more pleasant to use in the future.

The soap mold is not particular, it is directly a few small pottery bowls are temporarily requisitioned, and after the soap is saponified, it can be cut in half to become two soaps, laziness has become a big enemy of me!

After pouring the mixed grease into a few pottery bowls, all the work is done, and it only takes a few days for the saponification to be used.

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When the time comes to find out three days later, I still have some expectations for the success of soap.

The results are a bit less than ideal, and the saponification effect is not too good, but it also has a jelly-like form, and it will be completely hardened in a day or two at most.

I can't wait to test its ability, it seems that Ueshima has not been cleaned for so many years, and if the effect is satisfactory, it will definitely be cleaned in the future.

I first put on a piece the size of a fingernail to wash my hands, and the soap on my hands was no different than usual, but after a few seconds, there was a little foam, and the dirt on my hands was much easier to clean than usual!

As a result, I regret very much, just like when I got the candle, I regret that I didn't realize that I made soap for so many years, otherwise I wouldn't have kept it dirty.

So I'm quite satisfied, even if it's not as good as soap made by modern means, it's still usable, and my requirement is to be usable!

The soap matter was handled, the mutton was marinated and smoked, and the ingredients for the New Year were well prepared, and everything went smoothly.

This Chinese New Year should be the most sumptuous year in so many years, I made six dishes, and the only place that can reflect a person's New Year is the richness of the dishes.

A table of hard dishes and a wine that has been brewed for months is so good that I drank too much and became a drunkard in a snort.

However, after a few months, the wine does not taste the same as at the beginning, and the taste is richer, which makes people can't stop!

After eight or nine years of busyness, I finally brought my life to a new level, and I could barely count it as having enough food and clothing.

Most of the things you need can be self-sufficient, and recently getting two boxes of treasure has pushed people to the pinnacle of life, and if you can't leave here, you can only count yourself as a bad person, and if you can leave, you can directly become a rich man.

A more realistic situation is that many big projects have been completed this year, and candles and soaps have been made, and most of the essential problems of survival have been solved, and life will only become easier and richer in the future!