Crossing the Unknown Country

Then they came to the library and handed in the copied books. Boss Zhao paid the bill with a smile. Su He then took out Su He and the dried mushrooms and handed them to him. Boss Zhao smiled and said, "How can this be so embarrassing? You are too polite."

Su He smiled and said, "This is something I just made. You can try it and see if it works. These mushrooms are all picked from the mountains, and the dried vegetables are picked and dried in our own fields. I just want to eat them for fun."

Boss Zhao accepted it with a smile, and this time he gave Su He some broken ink blocks and rough paper. Su He did not refuse and accepted it directly. This is the way of reciprocity, and this is how the relationship can become more and more harmonious.

Su He was very happy when he saw the ink block. He went back and crushed it. He found some pot bottom ash and mixed it to make some ink blocks. The one he made last time was usable, but it was not as fine and good as the ink blocks he bought. This time, he had the utensils and these broken ink blocks, so he could make some more. It should be successful.

There is also the ash from the bottom of the pot. Su He found in a Chinese medicine book that it is also called Baicao Frost. It can stop bleeding, strengthen the spleen and disperse knots, reduce swelling and heal sores. The bottom of the pot in this era is really the ash from burning herbs. Branches and hay are the common materials for burning here. There is no coal here. Anyway, Su He has never heard of it so far.

Su He read medical books and found that many things left in daily life can be used as medicine. It depends on how you use them. The yellow soil on the stove opposite the bottom of the pot is called Fulonggan, which is also a Chinese medicine. This Chinese medicine warms the middle and stops bleeding, stops vomiting, stops diarrhea, and reduces adverse reactions. It is a very good Chinese medicine. The urine scale in the toilet is a Chinese medicine called Ren Zhongbai, the thin coat in the egg is called Fenghuangyi, and human hair is also a Chinese medicine called Xueyutan. The more Su He read, the more he liked it. It turns out that many diseases can be cured with things at home.

Su He and her father had a great harvest this time. On the way, they met a man selling peaches. Su He bought all of them, mainly because she liked that peach pits could be used to grow peach trees. Su He bought a large basket. If she couldn't finish them, she could make jam, fruit wine, fruit vinegar, and dried fruit preserves. These peaches would not be wasted in her hands, and all of them could be made into food.

A week later, Su He sent another batch of hair ornaments and school bags to the jewelry store, this time with eight taels of silver. Because the school bags and hair ornaments were made by my aunt and grandmother together, there were a lot more. This way, both families had new income, and Su He knew that this would also be a new source of income for the family in the future.

Part of the peaches were shared among everyone, and the rest was chopped up by Su He to make dried fruit, because she didn't dare to make sugar-free jam without sugar. In fact, there weren't many left. There were guests at home, and there were so many people in her family, so there wasn't much left. Su He only had one request, that the peach pits be left for her, and she wanted to plant a peach forest outside the door, so that there would be a peach forest in the future.

Half a month later, the Su He family's well was dug and water came out. The clear water surface was at the bottom of the well, about two meters away from the well mouth. The well mouth could only accommodate one person, and the well mouth was not wide, so a fat person could not go down. The Su He family dug a small well, and the well for their own use did not need to be too deep, as long as water came out. If it was a dry season, they could just go down and dig some more. Because the Su He family was very hospitable, the well wall was smooth and the well platform was beautifully built.

After they left, Su He dug a small hole at the bottom of the wall, connected a bamboo tube to it, and connected one end of the bamboo tube to a ceramic jar. He scooped water from this side into the jar and passed it through the bamboo tube, and then used a bucket to catch it on the other side. He used fire to bend the bamboo by the well to make a siphon tube, so that water would flow out of the well with a move and a pump. The siphon pressure difference is at most ten meters, and their family only has two meters, which is enough. The whole family looked at the connection of the bamboo tubes in surprise. Some of them were hollow at both ends, and some had an opening on one side. In this way, the big tube was put into the small tube, and people could pump water up without any effort. In fact, this device is often used in modern fish tanks, and it only needs to be enlarged and the material changed.

In this way, the family's water supply was perfectly solved. Water supply will not be a big problem in the future, and the water supply problem of the two families was also solved. The next step is to dig a cellar. Start by digging from a hidden place in the kitchen at home. It cannot be found in a short time. After people go down, they cannot be found from the outside. Su He designed it many times, and finally made a spare stove according to the ancient method. You can go down with the pot. After going down, install the furnace. The cellar can also use the chimney for ventilation. The entrance and exit are perfectly solved. The family took time out every day to dig a cellar, and by the way, they dug one in the yard. The cunning rabbit has three burrows, which was perfectly designed by Su He.