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After the meal, everyone felt a little full and tired.

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin just wanted to sleep quickly. It was the first time they had done such heavy work in their 20-plus years of life. They both felt that their shoulders were about to be worn out by the straps of the backpack. Fortunately, the two old ladies worked frequently and their shoulders had calluses long ago, otherwise they would have suffered more.

"No one needs to get up early tomorrow. Just sleep in as long as you can. We'll slowly make dinner after we wake up." Since they came here, except for the few days when they hit their heads, they basically didn't sleep in. After finally finishing a big thing, they both tacitly prepared to sleep in for a day.

After this announcement, you can see the personalities of the children.

When Dashu, Huiniang, Sanni and Taoer heard that they could sleep in the morning, they all waved their hands and said that they could get up early to work and let their mother and other brothers and sisters sleep in. In their eyes, there was too much work to do in the fields, so there was no time to sleep in. They were just living a life of worry.

Erhe and Sizhu, however, jumped for joy when they heard that they could sleep in, and just wanted to enjoy themselves.

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin naturally wouldn't let the diligent children work and the others sleep in, so they strictly restricted them to sleep in until the sun was high in the morning. If anyone got up to work before dawn, he would be punished by not being allowed to eat ice jelly at noon.

The children knew that their mother loved them, so they responded obediently.

That night, both families fell into a deep sleep after a tiring day.

Zheng Yuan woke up once in the morning and saw that it was still gray outside. He couldn't help but curse himself for being so unlucky that he woke up so early. He turned over and fell into a deep sleep again. When he woke up, the sun was already high in the sky. He stretched and felt refreshed. It turned out that sleeping was a very happy thing, and what was happier than sleeping was taking a nap.

I pushed open the door and walked out, and found Xu Hui Niang cooking and San Ni cleaning the yard. Before I could ask, San Ni had already said carefully: "Mom, my sister-in-law and I didn't get up early. We just got up a while ago. We just got up because we couldn't sleep any more."

Zheng Yuan was amused. She was afraid of being scolded for getting up early to work. She touched Sanni's head and said, "Mom knows. You got up to cook for everyone. That's great!"

Xu Hui Niang was listening in the kitchen. After hearing what her mother-in-law said, she felt relieved and went back to the stove to start stirring the millet porridge in the pot.

Zheng Yuan walked into the kitchen, saw the porridge in the pot and nodded: "Hui Niang, you've worked hard. I'll take out some kimchi and chop it up to go with the porridge. As for the other dishes, you can just make some on your own."

Xu Hui Niang nodded embarrassedly: "Mom, it's not hard."

Zheng Yuan took a basin of water outside to wash up.

While rubbing her teeth with her fingers dipped in salt, Zheng Yuan thought, No, I have to go get some toothbrushes and this toothpaste. She has been brushing her teeth so carelessly in the past few days that she feels something is starting to ferment in her mouth.

After washing up, Duan Minmin and her family also arrived. Zheng Yuan knocked on the doors of several boys and asked them to get up for dinner. Several boys came out with sleepy eyes, looking like they were still asleep.

After dinner, the two decided that they still had to divide up the work. There wasn't much to prepare today for the market tomorrow, and it wasn't a good idea for a bunch of people to stay at home.

So, the two arranged for the three sisters Dashu, Erhe, Hui Niang and Taoer to weed in their respective corn fields, while Sanni and Sizhu helped them at home.

The children had no objection and went out carrying their hoes, feeling very satisfied after having rested for a whole morning.

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin planned to go to the market in the town tomorrow. The consumption capacity in the town was not as good as that in the county, and they only had the morning market. At noon when the sun was hot, they estimated that everyone would go home, and they could only sell for a while, so they should prepare the same amount as before.

They didn't have to prepare anything for lunch today. The main thing was to think about what they could make and sell. Making ice jelly was a strenuous job, and it was very tiring but the money earned was just so-so.

Thinking of the embarrassment of brushing teeth in the morning, Zheng Yuan said, "Amin, did you learn how to make toothpaste in college?"

Ever since she made saltpeter with mud from the toilet, Zheng Yuan has always had high expectations for chemistry student Duan Minmin. She can make all kinds of things by adding various chemical reagents in proportion. It depends on her to make a fortune.

Seeing her expectant look, Duan Minmin tapped her head and said, "Do you think I'm taking some magic class? I can make whatever you want, right?"

Hearing her say this, Zheng Yuan hung his head in frustration, but Duan Minmin changed the subject: "But, I do have some impression of how to make this toothpaste."

Zheng Yuan's eyes lit up.

"It's just that it's probably unlikely that I can sell it for money."

Zheng Yuan glared at him: "Why do you speak incoherently? My mood is up and down like a roller coaster."

"Ha ha ha ha......"

"What are you laughing at? Tell me how to make this toothpaste. Forget about selling it. It's also good for us to make some for brushing our teeth. My hands are getting bald from rubbing them with my fingers every day." Zheng Yuan urged.

"My fingerprints are almost gone." Duan Minmin raised her index finger and handed it to Zheng Yuan.

"In fact, this toothpaste is not difficult to make. The main function is to brush away the dirt on the teeth and freshen the breath. If it is the same as modern ones, then we can add an antibacterial function. In this case, we can find some charcoal or shells and grind them into powder as a friction agent, add mint or tea powder or other things as a freshener, and then add a little salt to achieve an antibacterial effect and it's done."

After listening to her, Zheng Yuan finally understood why it was unlikely to be sold. Not only was this thing difficult to make, but salt and other precious things were also involved, so the price couldn't be too low. But in this era, for the villagers who couldn't even get enough food, who would spend a lot of money to buy toothbrushes?

Then the target group can only be the rich, but shells are not available in coastal cities, so they can only use charcoal as a friction agent. This thing is black and is not presentable in the eyes of the rich. Those who can afford it will buy fine salt to use. Who would buy this black thing?

Therefore, they can basically only make this thing for their own use. If they want to sell it for money, they have to study it carefully.

But since they know how to make it, they can make a jar and use it to brush their teeth. They really can't stand the feeling of not brushing their teeth for a long time.

Just do it.

Zheng Yuan pulled out a few pieces of black charcoal from the stove, took out a stone mortar and handed it to Duan Minmin, asking her to clean the mortar and start grinding the charcoal powder. He also arranged for Sanni to light the fire, and Sizhu found a jar, washed it, and dried it for a while to prepare the prepared toothpaste.

She walked to the backyard. She remembered that there was mint beside the ditch where water came out of the kitchen in the backyard.

Sure enough, the mint bushes by the ditch were growing well because of the nourishment of the kitchen waste water. The amount used was not large, and it was enough to pick in a few strokes.

Returning to the kitchen, Zheng Yuan briefly rinsed the mint leaves and shook off most of the water. He scooped out the water from the pot, put the mint in the pot and started baking.

After a while, the mint began to turn yellow and dry. Seeing that it was almost done, I immediately scooped it up and set it aside to cool before grinding it.

Duan Minmin's charcoal powder was almost ground, and Zheng Yuan put the dried mint leaves in, grinding and stirring, and soon the mint leaves were ground and mixed together. No salt was added, after all, salt was expensive and the family still ate coarse salt.

The two looked at the toothpaste they had ground, no, it was tooth powder, and they curiously leaned over to smell it. When they smelled it, fine and dense dust drilled into their noses, and they sneezed several times in succession. When they looked up, they found that the other's mouth was covered with black carbon powder, just like Big Bear and Little Bear, which made the four of them laugh.