Chapter 7: Drafts

The next day, Xu Chuan woke up from the bed in a daze, and vaguely heard someone shouting for him to get up.

"Who? Disturbing dreams early in the morning, and not letting people rest? ”

Unconsciously shouted, and after seeing that the sound in his ears stopped, Xu Chuan turned around and continued to sleep.

I don't know how long it took, but the door was pushed open with a 'bang', the wooden door hit the wall, and the loud sound echoed throughout the east wing.

A roar followed.

"Rebel, it's three poles a day, and you're still snoozing!"

With a knock on the door and a roar, Xu Chuan was almost frightened, and the whole person instantly sobered up.

Sitting up from the collision, he turned his head to see the old man standing in his hall, staring at him with angry eyes.

"Whew~"

Patting his heart, Xu Chuan breathed a long sigh of relief, ignoring the old man Xu who was standing in the hall, he looked at the wooden structure of the antique house in a daze.

"Looks like it's really staying here."

Sighing, Xu Chuan got up from the bed, he hoped that he would wake up and return to modern times, but unfortunately the scenes in front of him were all prompting, suggesting that he would never go back.

After getting dressed, Xu Chuan walked to the hall and saw Old Man Xu standing in front of the table, still holding the rice paper on the table, which was the catapult he had drawn last night.

"What is this?" Old Man Xu looked at the drawing on the rice paper and asked with a frown, as if he didn't recognize the appearance of this thing.

"Simple catapult."

"What's it for?"

"Dealing with bandits."

“?????”

Old Man Xu stared at Xu Chuan with a puzzled expression, not knowing how the things on the drawings could deal with the bandits.

Xu Chuan is helpless, will this old man only strike iron? Can't read such a simple drawing? And don't you know the big word 'catapult' written on the drawing?

took the drawing from Old Man Xu's hand, pointed to the drawing on it, and said, "Do you see this round cloth pocket?" Put a stone in it, this tool can throw the stone at least a hundred meters away, so that it can cause damage to the bandits. ”

Xu Chuan explained, and then asked, "By the way, early in the morning, what are you looking for me?" ”

"It's early in the morning, it's three poles in the morning, and I'm still sleeping, it's really unteachable!"

Old Man Xu looked at the drawings in his hand, he still didn't understand it, and wanted to ask again, but he seemed to feel a little embarrassed, so he simply bypassed this.

"Yesterday, the bandits attacked again, and the guards died a lot, so the sacrificial ceremony will be held at the end of the morning today, so don't be late!" Old Man Xu snorted and walked out.

Xu Chuan nodded and responded.

The sacrificial ceremony in the old man's mouth is somewhat similar to the memorial to those soldiers who died in battle in later generations, and it is held once or twice a year in Sanzhi Town.

And every time it is held, it means that more than 100 guards have been mutilated by the bandits.

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Dressing and getting up, Xu Chuan walked out of the wing room to see that the sun did come out outside, but it was just sunrise, and the three poles on the sun were a bit exaggerated, at most more than seven o'clock, less than eight o'clock, after all, the sun in July was already early.

If you want to sleep lazy, getting up at seven o'clock is not at all for a modern person, but for people in this era, going to bed at nine o'clock at night and getting up at four o'clock in the morning is a routine operation.

It's just that for him, this operation is too cheating.

When I came to the courtyard, the maid in the courtyard had already prepared my toiletries.

Xu Chuan walked over and saw that there was a copper basin, a cup, a porcelain plate and a small piece of clean spun cloth on a wooden plate.

Inside the copper basin and cup is clear water, and inside the porcelain dish is a pinch of salt.

It's just that the color of this salt is yellow, and it is not as good as what he refined yesterday.

Seeing these things, Xu Chuan remembered that this was for washing.

After remembering his memory, he picked up the spinning cloth and looked at it curiously, according to the memory of his predecessor, he should have used this thing to clean his teeth with the salt in the porcelain plate.

It's just that he couldn't get his mouth down when he looked at the yellowed salt in the porcelain plate.

However, although this salt is very poor, it is actually only used by rich and noble families.

Compared with the official salt used for cooking, this yellowed table salt is more expensive, requiring a pound of silver and is specially used for washing.

Of course, the dignitaries and nobles are better off than the Xu family, and the salt they use is also better.

In the memory of the predecessor, there is also a kind of snowflake salt, I heard that it is as white as snow, and it costs five taels of silver a catty, and ordinary large families cannot afford to use it, only those upper-level officials can use it.

As for the ordinary people in the Sanzhi area, they actually don't need salt to wash in the morning, they use wicker and other plant branches to brush their teeth, and by chewing willow branches and other willow plant branches, the tree fibers in the branches are like a small wooden ruler comb, and the residue in the mouth is taken away.

Thinking of this, the corners of Xu Chuan's mouth twitched.

This way of brushing his teeth, he had seen it in Bei Ye's wilderness survival collection before, and he tried it once by chance, using willow branches, and his mouth was full of bitterness, which really made the tip of his tongue tingle.

Coming back to his senses, Xu Chuan looked at the yellowed salt in front of him, and finally couldn't get his hands on it.

He doesn't mind brushing his teeth with salt, he has tried it before, and brushing his teeth with salt can not only clean the mouth, but also reduce inflammation and swelling of the gum mucosa tissue, but with the salt in front of him, he really can't get off his mouth.

Shaking his head, Xu Chuan didn't bother to run, rinsed his mouth back and forth with the water in the cup, and then wiped it with a spinning cloth and it was done.

It seems that after the bandits are dealt with, things like toothbrushes and toothpaste are also things that need to be made, and this cleaning of teeth with a cloth is also something that he is not used to.

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