Crossing over reveals a waste's difficult journey home

In Jiang Tuan's world, how much is a jade box worth? How much is a refrigerator magnet worth?

It's like heaven and earth.

Now, the values ​​of the two have been completely reversed. Is this a typical example of scarcity making things valuable?

After sighing, Jiang Tuan decided to prepare another gift for Jiang Huai. After all, the gift he gave was inappropriate, and he needed to make up for this mistake himself.

He put a lot of effort into choosing the gift, mainly because he didn't know much and Jiang Huai was the prince, so he seemed to have everything.

Later, he went to learn the Daxia language from the prince, and then he came up with a good idea.

There were no normal tables and chairs in Daxia. When people ate and wrote, they knelt on mats with a low table in front of them.

On his first day, Jiang Tuan made a fool of himself because of this.

After this incident, he always wanted to make tables and chairs, but before making them, he realized that he should solve the problem of clothes first.

Because Daxia people don't wear underwear, they will expose themselves when sitting on a normal chair.

He could only ask Ning Ling to find someone to make clothes according to his requirements, and then find someone to make tables and chairs.

Normal tables and chairs are much more comfortable than kneeling, so when he made one for himself, he decided to give one to Jiang Huai as well.

Since they were going to give away things, it seemed a bit monotonous to just give tables and chairs, so Jiang Tuan simply drew the sofa, coffee table and even the pillows, and asked Ning Ling to find someone to make them into real objects.

After finishing preparing Jiang Huai’s gift, it’s time to prepare a gift for the little princess Jiang Yi.

Jiang Tuan had already thought of Jiang Yi's gift when he first met her. He wanted to give her a Daxia version of a plush toy and a slide.

How many little girls don't like stuffed toys? The answer is almost no.

Don’t ask what to do if there is no cotton or suitable cloth in Daxia?

At first, Jiang Tuan was also troubled by this problem, but then Ning Ling brought him a pile of duck down, goose down and animal fur.

The duck down and goose down were collected in the past two days for making down jackets.

Of course, these are only a small part. After being cleaned, they are brought into the palace for Jiang Qi to see. The others are kept outside the palace, ready to be used to make clothes at any time.

As for why not doing it now, one is the problem of fabric, and the other is the problem of what kind of product it should be made into.

After experiments, I found that down jackets made of linen are more likely to lose down in the summer, while down jackets made of silk are much better. However, silk is so expensive!

If silk was used, it would probably be possible for only nobles to wear down jackets, leaving civilians and soldiers out of the question.

Since cloth was not a problem, the clever people of Daxia began to think about how to make warmer clothes using the least amount of cloth. However, they had not figured it out yet, so they could only wait.

I can’t make a down jacket for now, but I can make some plush toys for the little princess.

Jiang Tuan used his mediocre drawing skills to draw a few cartoon dolls, including a rabbit, a kitten, and a pig.

When he gave his drawing to Ning Ling and asked her to find someone to do it, Ning Ling asked him a question he didn't expect.

"Sir, this is a rabbit, this is a pig, I know both, is this a giant insect?"

When Jiang Tuan first heard Ning Ling mention the big insect, he almost exploded.

Are his paintings so abstract that people can't tell whether it's a cat or a bug?

Then he realized that in ancient times, tigers were called big insects.

But what he drew wasn't a tiger, it was clearly a cat.

“It’s a cat.”

"What is a cat, sir?"

After talking with Ning Ling, Jiang Tuan found out that Daxia not only did not have much food, drink and daily necessities, but it even did not have cute cats.

What can we do without him? We can’t force Daxia people to know that there is a kind of cute animal in the world that looks like a tiger but is small and can act cute to people.

He had no choice but to add the word "king" on the cartoon cat's forehead, forcibly changing a cute cat into a tiger.

With the doll, Jiang Tuan began to design a slide.

What kid hasn’t played on a slide? If not, make one for him.

Anyway, making tables and chairs is just carpentry work, and adding a slide shouldn’t be a big problem.

A slide for little girls should first be cute, and a duck shape is just right.

Secondly, it doesn’t need to be too high, and protection must be done well, otherwise it would be bad if someone accidentally falls.

By the way, it would be best to add some color. I wonder if Daxia has any paint that is harmless to children. You can ask. If there is, add it. I guess the children will like it more.

While Jiang Tuan was wholeheartedly preparing gifts for his two younger generations, the people in Dashan Village had already come to the end of learning how to make tofu.

The clerk who led the villagers from the mountains to learn how to make tofu asked them, "How is your learning going?"

Liu Qinghe, the head of Dashan Village, replied: "Sir, I have almost learned it, but if I want to do it well, I still need to think about it."

"It's all right if you know how to do it. If you want to do it well, you have to practice it a few more times.

Now that you have learned it, is there any difficulty in making this tofu? If not, you can leave now. "

When Liu Qinghe heard the clerk's question, he rubbed his hands and put on a flattering smile on his face.

"Sir, there is no other difficulty, except for the stone mill. Our village doesn't have it. If we don't have it, we can't make tofu."

To be honest, when Liu Qinghe arrived at the government office of the Minister of Grain, the first thing he saw was the big stone mill.

Especially when the people who were teaching them how to make tofu put the beans into the stone mill and ground them into tofu paste, his eyes were wide open.

If they had such a thing in their village, they wouldn't have to go through the trouble of mashing the wheat.

By then, it will be easier to get a meal of wheat cakes.

So, while learning the tofu-making process, he kept thinking about how to ask this clerk where he could buy a stone mill.

Isn’t the opportunity here now?

"Stone mill!

Now the government gives you two choices: first, buy it. Second, the government will teach you how to make it, but after you learn it, you must make ten such large stone mills for the government as a reward.

By the way, besides the stone mill, there is also a stone roller, which is used to remove the husk of rice. If you learn it, you have to make ten for the government."

Liu Qinghe is a village head with ideas and vision, otherwise he would not have become the first village head in Daxia to lead villagers to learn how to make tofu.

After listening to the clerk's words, he hesitated for a moment and chose the second option.

It is said that if you rely on the mountain, the mountain will fall; if you rely on the water, the water will run away. It is better to have something by yourself than to have something others have.

It was convenient to buy a millstone, but what if it broke? What if they needed more? Whether they asked someone to go to the village to repair it or to buy more, they needed coins.

But for ordinary people like them, what they lack most is money.

Learning to make things is different. Although they need to make ten stone mills for the government, as long as they finish ten, the craft will belong to them.