Sister Han is good at farming

After the sky cleared up, the four brothers Nguyen Thanh Thanh and Nguyen Van Kim, as well as the five brothers Nguyen Thee Xing, Nguyen Thee Fei, Nguyen Thee Gao, Nguyen Thee Zhuang and Nguyen Thee Meng went down the mountain together.

Going down the mountain with them were Ruan Qingqing's six servants, Ruan Wanyu and his wife, Ruan Wanzhu and his wife, and Chi the hunter and his son.

On the first day after descending the mountain, we did not start making adobe bricks, but instead built a simple thatched house and settled down.

Thatched houses are basically built in each family’s original house.

"Miss, how are we going to build this house? Do you have any rules?"

In the evening, in the newly built thatched house, Liu Yi asked Ruan Qingqing.

"Uncle Liu, you and the other four uncles will make more adobe bricks. We will build a house on the previous foundation according to the previous scale. However, time is urgent, so we will build the main house on my side and the house in your yard first. After planting wheat and rapeseed, we can build other places one by one."

Liu Yi hesitated for a while, "Other things are easy to deal with, but these tiles and window paper are difficult to deal with."

"It's okay. Let's not worry about the tiles for now. Let's just cover the roof with thatch for now. When we have time in the future, we'll cover it with tiles..." Ruan Qingqing said as her voice lowered.

She had seen how to make tiles in the book "The Exploitation of the Works of Nature", but there was a huge gap between what she saw in the book and what could actually be made.

She doesn't have much time to waste on it now. The most urgent thing is to build a house that is windproof and rainproof, and then cultivate the land to grow food that can be eaten next year.

After several months of exhaustion, everyone was running out of food. The only thing they could rely on now was the sweet potatoes planted on the newly reclaimed land on the mountain.

As for the window paper...

If she guessed correctly, apart from the people in their village, there were basically no people in the entire Lulin Prefecture and even in the surrounding Jianghuai Prefecture, Jiangxia Prefecture, Yuanxiang Prefecture, and even in several counties of Lingzhu Prefecture and Shaoyun Prefecture adjacent to Yuanxiang Prefecture.

In other words, now they are almost isolated in Qingshui County by the vast land. If they want to survive, they can only rely on themselves. If they want to seek external assistance, they must build a carriage or a large ship that can cross the Qianlong River.

However, these two things are nothing less than fantasy to them now.

So you have to make the window paper yourself.

As far as she knew, window paper was generally made of hemp paper, which went through several processes including material preparation, cutting the pulp, pounding the pulp, and washing the pulp.

The specific process is: first select common materials such as reeds, cattail sticks, ramie, hemp and rope ends that have been soaked in clean water and soaked in lime water for a day, then steamed in a large pot for a day and a night. After the fibers are completely softened, take them to the river to thoroughly wash away the lime and other impurities, and then put them on the stone mill here to grind them into pulp for an hour.

The pulp is then chopped up with a guillotine and pressed into a loose state with a tool. Afterwards, it is placed in a stone jar and pounded with stone tools to make the plant fibers softer and finer. Finally, it is placed in a stone trough and slurried into uniform pulp.

Then they copy and press the paper. After pressing for an hour, they are peeled off one by one and pasted on the wall to dry.

Finally, the dried paper is cut into appropriate sizes and soaked in tung oil, which makes the paper fold-resistant and waterproof, but not greasy to the touch. Only then is the light-transmitting and durable window paper completed.

This is a tedious and complicated job, which requires finding lime, grinding, and making tung oil. Making tung oil is not an easy job either, and requires five steps: picking barrels, drying, grinding, frying, and refining oil.

Now everyone is busy building houses and preparing the land to grow crops. Who has time to make tung oil?

Ruan Qingqing was so worried that her head ached.

Manpower, manpower...

Suddenly, she had an idea. The adults were busy, but the children were busy, right? Old Ruan's family, along with the families of the eldest and second aunts, had quite a few children. Because of the drought, almost all the trees at the foot of the mountain had dried up, and only the trees on the mountain were still alive. It just so happened that they lived on the mountain, so picking tung seeds was perfect.

Although the quality of tung seeds is good and the oil yield is high when picked in winter, the daylily will be cold when it is harvested in winter. The quality is worse and the oil yield is lower in summer. Anyway, they are just making window paper and don't expect a high oil yield, as long as it can produce oil.

In addition, they can also peel some ramie for papermaking, which can be used for papermaking, net weaving, and cloth weaving.

After thinking all this through, Ruan Qingqing let out a sigh of relief.

"We can make the window paper ourselves then."

Liu Yi was filled with shock, "Young Miss can also make window paper?"

"I only know a rough idea. I won't know the details until I actually do it," Ruan Qingqing explained.

Because she had a solution, Ruan Qingqing slept soundly.

By the time Ruan Qingqing had made enough earth bricks, it was already August. She could no longer care about making bricks, and hurried to prepare the land to plant wheat, still planting ten acres of wheat.

In October, Ruan Qingqing's family began to prepare to build a house.

Just as they started the construction, Ruan Wanyu brought her husband Cao Xiunian to the yard next to her main courtyard to give them instructions on the "jiangshan".

"Master, the layout of the house we built is basically the same as before. The difference is that we built a pigsty next to the toilet. We can raise a pig and kill it for New Year's Day. We will also enclose an area here to make a duck house. The roast duck made by Fourth Brother's family was very famous before, so we will have no problem selling the ducks we raise. We will also enclose an area here to make a chicken coop and raise a few hens to lay eggs for Jinbao and Yuanbao to eat."

Ruan Qingqing stood aside with her arms folded. When she finished her spitting speech, she smiled coldly: "Aunt, this is the foundation of my house! Did you get my consent before building a house on it?"

Ruan Wanyu rolled up his sleeves, his face full of anger.

"Qingqing, this is your fault. I didn't open the door for you three months ago. Do you have to bear a grudge until now? You are so petty! How big a yard can you and your ten servants live in? The yard next door is big enough for you to live in. What's wrong with my family building a house on this land? How does it bother you?"

"I'm sorry, I'm really getting in the way. First of all, this foundation was made of stones that my father and I brought back from Qianlong River. Secondly, my parents are just temporarily fleeing, not that they will never come back, so the size of the yard we lived in before will remain the same in the future.

Besides, this is the foundation of my house. Why do you want to build a house on it without my permission? Are you being shameless or being thick-skinned? "

"Oh, Qingqing! Why are you so unreasonable? We just want to borrow your land to save time and build the house earlier, so that we can bring Jinbao and Yuanbao down the mountain earlier. The weather is getting colder, and we are afraid that they can't stand the coldness on the mountain."

Cao Xiunian frowned.

"If you're worried that they can't stand the cold, you can let them come down and live in the thatched hut first! Why do they want to occupy my land? They didn't even say hello beforehand, but just came here and planned it. What's the matter? Do you think that you can be bullied when my parents are not around, or do you think that just because you've been living and eating for free at my house for a while, everything in my house belongs to you and you can use it as you please?"