The whole family travels through time: escape from famine! No cheat codes yet!

In the past two days, Shen Youyou found that she was too naive. Not to mention getting bark, leaves, and seeds during the day, she couldn't even catch cicadas. In order to allow the men to dig the pit smoothly, the elderly, children, and women had to stay still if possible.

Although the weather is getting cooler now, you will still sweat a lot if you exert yourself. But when you rest on the shelf, because of the height and the breeze, it is quite cool and you don't sweat much.

This will save more water for the men who are working.

Shen Youyou was lying on the bed, talking to Doctor Guo on the opposite shelf: "Grandpa Guo, can you prepare Eucommia bark?"

The preparation of medicinal materials involves various factors: the processing method, the concentration of the salt water, the size of the fire...

Those who know how to prepare medicinal materials have all been immersed in it since childhood, and have explored and accumulated the knowledge bit by bit, and it is generally not passed on to others now.

沈呦呦可没打算用这些杜仲皮做橡胶，因为落叶含胶2%～3%，树皮含胶10%～12%，果实含胶10%～18%，种子含胶12%～18%。

At first she only planned to make the soles, but now she changed her mind and decided to make the big-headed plastic slippers.

It is almost October now, and the weather is getting colder. If they go to the north and it snows, they will have to carry dry food with them, and their shoes will get soaked and frozen hard, and their feet may even freeze off.

She would just get those big fat plastic shoes. If it was snowing and cold, they had wolf skins, so she would pad the shoes with wolf fur, making them like big cotton slippers.

It is also waterproof, can be made in one go, and doesn’t require her mother and other women to go through the trouble of making shoes.

"I know how to prepare medicinal materials. If you want to learn, I can teach you." Doctor Guo thought that Shen Youyou wanted to learn how to prepare medicinal materials.

"How much does a pound of Eucommia book cover cost?" This is the question she cares about.

Doctor Guo knew all these well, so he said without hesitation: "It's about 70 to 80 coins for the unprocessed ones, and 150 to 160 coins for the processed ones."

Wow! After he said this, everyone who heard it was shocked. What? Just one hundred cents?

Shen Changqing was so shocked that he stuttered: "Just these... tree barks, just over a hundred coins?"

This was beyond everyone's understanding. A day's labor only earned them a dozen coins, and a pound of bark was worth a hundred coins. So they had a mountain of gold in front of them!

Suddenly they became very anxious, more anxious than ever to dig out some water. If there was water, they would have something to drink and would not let go of any of the book covers.

Shen Youyou was actually talking with her eyes closed, so she had no idea of ​​everyone's expressions. She continued to ask, "Grandpa Guo, can you tell me about the preparation process? I want to see if it's cost-effective."

She still has modern thinking. If it is too troublesome, she will just sell it unprocessed. If it is quite simple, she will sell it after processing.

But her grandmother was the first to stop listening to her granddaughter: "What do you mean by cost-effective? It must be well-cooked. Then the price is half as high. Don't you know how to calculate?"

Shen Youyou opened her eyes and turned to look at her grandmother: "If it's too complicated and time-consuming, then the preparation is unnecessary."

"Oh, what's the big deal about wasting time? The least valuable things for ordinary people are our time and strength. How can we earn more than a hundred coins? Don't be silly."

Old Lady Hua's words were agreed by everyone except the three of them. Li Jingshu did not express any opinions and just did what she told him to do.

Shen Zhiqiu didn't say anything, not because he disagreed, but because he wanted to see if they could complete the process now.

If he could, he would choose to make it up, and say what he wanted to say at the right time. If it was in the past, he would definitely choose to save time and effort, because there was no shortage of food and drink at that time.

But it’s different now. They have so many employees now, and if he works a little harder he can earn half more. He will definitely choose the latter.

Because they are short of money. Once you get there, you will need money to settle down and build a house. If you don’t build a house, where will you live?

It costs money to buy land. How can you grow crops without land? If you don’t have crops, you have to buy them. How much money will be enough?

You don’t build a house or buy land, but you still have to eat, right?

If he has nothing to eat and is about to starve to death, he will use his money to buy food, but as for other things, he will not.

Although he is rich, he is always grateful for the little he gets and ungrateful for the little he gets!

Doctor Guo did not hide anything and explained attentively: "Remove impurities, scrape off the remaining rough skin, wash, and cut into pieces or strips. Take the Eucommia pieces or strips, add salt water and mix well, allowing the salt water to fully soak into the Eucommia skin."

Shen Youyou got to the point: "How much salt should be used and how long should it be soaked for?"

"Put about three kilograms of green salt in a hundred kilograms of Eucommia ulmoides and soak it for a day. Then stir-fry it over medium heat until it breaks into pieces and the surface turns black. Take it out and spread it out to dry in time. Let it cool thoroughly and it's done."

In fact, Doctor Guo really hasn't prepared Eucommia bark for many years. He prepares medicinal materials by feel, for fear that his technique will become rusty.

Now there is no need to worry about it. There are so many Eucommia trees, hundreds of them, and they don’t have that much salt.

The men had already dug the well to a depth of six or seven meters. From a depth of more than one meter, they increased their team size to six people.

There were two people on the ground carrying soil up with bamboo baskets.

Shen Zhiqiu's brother-in-law was originally a carpenter and had all the necessary tools. He built a well frame at the well, the kind with a crank attached.

The women tied the bamboo baskets with straw ropes that were more than ten meters long.

When the person below filled a basket with soil, the two above would shake the handle to lift it up, pour out the soil, and then put the basket down again.

There is no moist soil at all now, alas!

Li Jingshu could also understand what Shen Zhiqiu said. There was no cost for trial and error, because these people had worked so hard to dig wells for raw water that she felt she almost didn't have the strength to stand up.

Everyone was also worried. The only ones who were afraid of being too short of water were the kids and Mr. Shen.

The old and the young have weak resistance. Even people like Grandma Hua and Old Man Shen are trying their best to save water for the well diggers to drink.

At this time, Dahu and Erhu, Shen Zhidong and Shen Zhichun, who were digging the well below, were digging with shovels, sweating profusely, but they didn't even have time to wipe the sweat off their foreheads.

Every time they dug, they hoped to see some moist soil with a shovelful of dirt. They did not dare to be too greedy even if they imagined it. They did not even dare to think about seeing water flowing with a shovelful of dirt.

They were able to dig the well to its current depth by digging day and night. When it was not their group's turn, they would take the opportunity to sleep. They exchanged shifts every hour.

As for how to get up, Shen Zhiqiu came up with an idea to make a rope ladder with straw ropes and wooden sticks as thick as arms. The straw ropes were very thick and made very sturdy.

We can't dig a well and then let them fall.

The sun sets, stars twinkle in the sky, and the cold moonlight fills the entire forest.

The fire has been lit, and two groups of people have been replaced to dig the well.

From time to time, people would look up in the direction of the well, imagining that they could hear water coming out.

"Third brother, third brother, there is wet soil."

Although there was no water, just wet soil, a group of people, both men and women, came over to take a look.

Shen Youyou did not move. She had no strength and felt dizzy. Not only her, but most of the children and the elderly did not go down. The wooden shelf was quite high and they were already weak. There was a risk of them falling while going up or down the ladder.