Hua Ji carried the food needed for lunch down the mountain, and saw her standing there with her hair scattered, looking at the dark and brown things in the basin in a daze.

Taro pointed to the soap corner in the wooden basin, "Xiaoqing, this thing can also wash your hair?" ”

Yao Xiaoqing woke up from his contemplation, "Yes, it can't be used yet." Hibiscus and hibiscus, go wash it! ”

Taro smiled: "Flowers, which of you washes them first, I only washed them with plant ash last night." ”

Hua smiled: "I'll come first, my scalp is itchy and uncomfortable." ”

Yao Xiaoqing taught Hua how to rub the juice of hibiscus, so she let her wash her hair with water.

She went to the construction site with a soaphorn spike, handed the spike to Yaohu and said, "Father, look, I want to go and pick some spikes and come back and spread them around the wall." ”

Yaohu took it and looked at it, broke it hard, and found that the toughness and hardness of the spikes were quite good.

"You've got a good idea, when we finish building the house, we'll go collect it."

"This kind of tree is called the soaphorn tree, and the fruit on the tree can be washed and bathed, and the fur we save can be cleaned with soaphorn after tanning, so as to save the stinky skin."

After Yao Xiaoqing came, he found that the insect uncle and Shui Bo had peeled off the animal skins hunted in the tribe, spread them on the stone slab, scraped the flesh and blood sticking to the fur with a stone knife, and used bamboo slices to dry them.

After drying, they would go to the forest to peel a kind of bark and boil it in water to soak. After soaking softly, then scrape it clean with a stone knife, cut off the fragmented skin, and then apply the fat of the prey evenly on the skin, and then beat and rub it repeatedly with a wooden stick, so that the tanned animal skin is softer, but has a stinking smell.

"Good!" Yaohu smiled and said, "Father knows that you love cleanliness, and when you are free in winter, let's clean all those skins." ”

"Hmm!" Yao Xiaoqing looked at the fourth and fifth houses, "Father, you are getting more and more powerful, and you have only been building so high in just two days?" ”

"You don't want to think about it, plus Uncle Ah Chun and them, there are more than 20 people working in total. The wood they had cut down and the firewood were piled up at the foot of the mountain, and they built a few thatched huts to pile them up. ”

"Hmmm! Save yourself from being wet in the rain and spoiled, and don't boil the fire. Speaking of boiling the fire, Yao Xiaoqing thought of the green bar tree in the mountain recess, "I still have to cut some green bar wood and come back, burn some charcoal and put it, and I am not afraid of heavy snow." ”

Yaohu smiled and nodded, "Okay, you can take them there." ”

Yao Xiaoqing waved at him, "I'll go to the cafeteria first, and you guys will work for a while, and then you'll come back for lunch." ”

"Go ahead!" Yaohu took the spike and went to talk to Dashi.

Yao Xiaoqing went back and picked up a handful of grass and wood ashes, poured it into a bucket and stirred it for a while before soaking. After lunch, she took seven or eight women with hoes to the col to collect soaphorns, dig soaphorn trees and hibiscus, and go back to plant hibiscus.

After a while, the basket was filled with soaphorns, and when several people returned with soaphorn saplings and hibiscus seedlings, the sun had not yet set.

At dusk, Mu Feng and Yu came back with rock salt on their backs, and a few people were carrying a few small saplings, and there were more than a dozen fruits in their net pockets.

Mu Feng put down the rock salt, took a fruit and walked towards the earth building, "Xiaoqing, look at the fruit we found. ”

"Cans and cans!" Yao Xiaoqing looked at the yellow-brown fruit in Mu Feng's hand in surprise, put down the grass rake in his hand, and took the pear, "Brother, where did you find it?" ”

"We are now collecting salt stones from the slope of the hill where the taro was dug, and we have found only two trees bearing fruit in the woods on the slope, so taste it."

Yao Xiaoqing nodded and took a bite, sweet and juicy, "Hmm!" It's delicious, sweet and crispy, and I'll send it to my father to taste. ”

Mu Feng saw that she liked it, and nodded with a smile, "We also dug a few small trees and came back, and Uncle Shan went to take them." To-morrow take Shuibo and them there, and pluck all the fruit from the tree. ”

Yao Xiaoqing kept nodding, "Okay!" When they saw fruit trees, they dug up the saplings and planted them in the open space outside the wall, so that they would have fruit to eat at the door of their homes. ”

Mu Feng looked at her with doting eyes, "Listen to you, Brother will pay attention." ”

Yao Xiaoqing ate his hands full of pear juice, "That partition is burned, Shui Bo and they are waiting for you to come back to build a rabbit nest!" ”

"I'll go." Mu Feng rubbed her ball head and ran downstairs with a smile.

Yao Xiaoqing watched him go downstairs with a smile, put the leftover pear pits aside, raked the grass into a pile and put them into the big bamboo frame upstairs, and took the pear pits downstairs to bury the pear pits in the back of the house.

The ginger plants were also planted, and the leaves stood up, and they were no longer spiritless.

When I returned to the yard, I pinched the soap corner in the basin and found that it had been soaked. Yao Xiaoqing brought the basin into the stove room, pulled out the soaphorn seeds inside and put them in the basket.

The skin is picked out and put into a stone mortar, the soaphorn is mashed, put it in a jar, and boiled with water.

After the water boiled, the soaphorn liquid in the jar began to bubble, she pumped out a few sticks of firewood from the clay stove, thought about it, grabbed a handful of salt and put it in the jar, stirred it with a wooden stick for a while, and slowly boiled it with the embers.

Hua walked into the yard with the dried pepper seeds and shouted, "Xiaoqing, the pepper seeds are all dried, you take them and put them away." ”

Yao Xiaoqing came out of the stove room, "I'll see how many there are?" ”

"It's only a handful when it's dried." Hua laughed.

Yao Xiaoqing took the basket and looked at it, "It's already good to have these, if all the seedlings can survive in the spring, you can plant a few boxes." ”

Hua nodded, spread out her palm with a smile, revealing an egg, "Xiaoqing, Yun Amu said that he picked up two eggs in the chicken shed in the afternoon and boiled them for you and the leader to eat." ”

Yao Xiaoqing looked at the eggs in her hand and smiled excitedly, "It's good, we will have eggs to eat in the future!" ”

Hua nodded heavily, "Hmm! Two pheasants were caught and raised, and the others were alive, and a few more were put in today, and Shui Bo said that there were more than 20 pheasants, and there were more ducks than pheasants. Xiaoqing, in the future, will we pick up eggs and duck eggs every day? ”

"Yes, the ducks and pheasants that you feed yourself will lay more eggs."

When everyone returned to the canteen, the people of the Yaoshan tribe knew about the pheasants laying eggs in the chicken shed, and everyone was more confident in capturing docile prey and returning to captivity.

The next day, Yao Xiaoqing took a basket and put it on the jar, poured the ash water of the plants and trees soaked overnight into the basket, filtered out the impurities, and the lye flowed into the jar and put it on the tandoor to boil.

Pour half of the boiled plant ash water and mix it with the soaphorn liquid that filters out impurities, and put it on the stove and slowly boil it over low heat. Stir well with a wooden stick, pour it into the bamboo tube after cooling, and fill more than a dozen bamboo tubes with wooden stoppers.