Jiang Li and Heiba were packing up their things, chestnuts, jerky, pine nuts, and more than a dozen baskets.

Heiba pointed to the pine nuts, "Red leaves, such a big food, there is nothing but the shell, what are you collecting it for?" ”

Hongye smiled and said: "The Yaoshan tribe has collected a lot, Yun Amu said to go to the river to get some fine sand back, put it in a stone pot and fry it, and if you have nothing to do in winter, you can sit on the kang and slowly peel it and eat it." ”

"Oh! Then we'll have to find a stone pot. Heiba looked at Jiang Li, "Leader, you can find the green witch to help us burn a few jars!" ”

"It's not just a jar, it's a water tank." Momiji snapped his fingers, "Look at where we live, there is a water tank in the stove room, two in the bath room and in the toilet, and at least three water tanks." ”

Jiang Li glanced at Hongye and said with a smile: "Okay, Hongye, after staying here for a few days, you have learned to count things." ”

Momiji was a little proud, "Chief, Yun Emu taught me, and she also taught me how to cook food!" ”

Jiang Li smiled and nodded, "Okay, in the future, you will make our food." ”

Seeing Jiang Li praising Momiji, Qiu glared at her with jealousy, walked up and deliberately bumped Momiji, Momiji stumbled and almost fell to the ground.

Jiang Li looked at her coldly and said coldly: "Qiu, I remember I told you that if you want to live in the Qingshan Tribe, you must keep your duty and don't think about what you shouldn't think." ”

"In the future, if you don't keep your duty, I will drive you out of the tribe, this is the last time I remind you, I hope you will remember."

Qiu was stunned for a moment, looked back at Heiba with red eyes, saw that he didn't look at her, and lowered his head and said, "I remember, I won't do this again in the future." ”

Jiang Li glanced at Heiba, turned around and went upstairs.

Da Liang turned around in a daze, "Why didn't you help her today?" ”

Heiba snorted coldly, "When we took her in, she wasn't like she is now. ”

Da Liang glanced at Heiba, "Then you used to protect her." ”

Heiba whispered, "Not in the future." ”

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The morning breeze blew, and a chill hit, Yao Xiaoqing took the medicine and Yao Hu to the medical room.

Shi Shan and You Lu had just finished eating breakfast, looked at the two of them and said with a smile: "Leader Yaohu, Qingwu, we will set off." ”

Yao Xiaoqing opened the medicine and put it on the table, "Leader of Shishan, these herbs are boiled and drunk, and the medicine powder is changed once a day, be careful not to break the wound."

Shi Shan smiled and responded, "Okay, I'll go back and let people bring animal skins and food to exchange for pumpkins." ”

Yaohu smiled and nodded, "Okay." ”

You Lu bowed his head at Yao Xiaoqing and said, "Qingwu, you saved my life, and if you have a place for me in the future, just send someone to bring a letter to you." ”

Yao Xiaoqing avoided it and saluted back: "I am a witch doctor, and saving people is what I should do." ”

After hearing this, Shi Shan nodded again and again, "Qingwu, we have written down your kindness." ”

Yao Xiaoqing smiled politely. The father and daughter sent the Shishan father and son to the gate and watched them walk towards the mountain.

Yaohu smiled: "Let's go, go back and help Jiang Li move things." ”

Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Take a few cattle out, put on the panniers and move over." ”

"Okay."

Jiang Li took Muba and them to carry the basket, and when they arrived at the door of the canteen, they saw several large vats in the open space, and there were more than a dozen large and small jars in the jars, as well as two baskets of charcoal, a basket of golden corn, and a basket of pumpkin.

Yaohu looked at him with a smile, "Jiang Li, these things are for you." ”

Jiang Li gratefully saluted Yao Hu and Yao Xiaoqing, "Thank you!" Thank you! ”

Yaohu waved his hand and smiled heartily, "Ah Worm took the ox away, put the basket and the vat in the bamboo basket, and moved it over in one trip." ”

"Okay." Jiang Li responded happily.

"The scalpers are coming." The voice of the worm rang out.

Ah Worm and Heiba put the panniers away, put the big vat into the bamboo basket, and the six oxen took most of the things away.

Everyone sent Jiang Li and his party to the gate, and Yaohu and Dashi went to the Qingshan tribe together.

Yao Xiaoqing took a few people with taro to take out the soaked ramie stalks in the ditch and peel off the ramie silk.

After a few days, the weather gradually cooled down, and the bast of the tree was already soaked. The conservatory has also been built, and the earth is being filled into it.

Yao Xiaoqing found a large vat, took taro and beans, cleaned and chopped bast, added plant ash and lime and put it into the big gang to steam.

They took turns to help light the fire, steaming day and night for five or six days, taking half of the fibrous bast out of the vat, cleaning and filtering, and repeatedly beating it into pulp with a stone mortar.

Remove the impurities in the pulp, pour the pulp into the pool and add water, and the pulp in the pool will become flocculent after being soaked in water.

Yao Xiaoqing and Douzi took turns to pound the pestle with wooden sticks and stir well, and finally added a liquid made of cedar bark to make the pulp stick and easy to separate.

Then put in the bamboo curtain and gently sway back and forth a few times, so that the pulp was interwoven into a thin sheet of wet paper on the bamboo curtain, Yao Xiaoqing tried a few times before successfully pouring the wet paper on the slate.

I made dozens of pictures in one go, and my gestures became proficient, and my hands were sore. Looking at the stacked wet paper, she couldn't wait to see what the finished product looked like.

Seeing the bluestone slab on the ground, Yao Xiaoqing's eyes turned, and he said to the taro who was trampling on the pulp, "Taro, lift that slate to that small furnace, add some firewood to heat the slate." ”

"Okay!" The taro called for the beans, and the two of them washed a bluestone slab with water, carried it to the mouth of the kiln and put it away, and began to burn the fire to heat the slate.

"Xiaoqing, the slate is hot."

Yao Xiaoqing put down the bamboo curtain, carefully lifted a piece of wet paper and spread it on a heated bluestone slab, and after baking for a while, the first white paper in history appeared in front of her.

Although the thickness is not very uniform, it is also white and clear, and this is the first paper she made by hand.

"There's paper! I've made the paper! Yao Xiaoqing smiled proudly, "Haha! Never use bamboo chips again. ”

Douzi and Taro looked at the white paper in Yao Xiaoqing's hand curiously, and the two looked at her with starry eyes.

Taro looked at the paper in Yao Xiaoqing's hand like a white cloud in the sky, "Xiaoqing, can I touch it?" ”

"Give." Yao Xiaoqing happily and proudly gave the paper to the taro.

The two happily took the paper and looked at it over and over for a while, "Xiaoqing, do you really want to wipe your ass with this?" The two of them looked reluctant, wiping their buttocks, leaves, and bamboo strips, and they could use this and that.

"Yes!" Yao Xiaoqing nodded vigorously.

Taro held it carefully, "Xiaoqing, I'm a little reluctant to wipe my ass with something like this!" ”

Yao Xiaoqing knocked her with a smile, "I don't want to use bamboo chips if I don't want to, I don't want to use bamboo anymore." ”

She thought of the women in the tribe, every few days when menstruation came, they would stay at home, and they would not even dare to go out. Now that she has paper, when she finishes weaving the cloth, she will make them a few menstrual belts, and the women will be able to go out in those days.

(End of chapter)