Erni took a bite of the bun and said quickly, "I'll go with you. Your hand injury is okay. My mother asked me to keep an eye on you.
If there are clothes or shoes that need to be washed, or things that need to be carried, let me do it."
Su Qiao quickly stopped him: "No, you walk too slowly and you don't have enough strength. You can't keep up with my pace and you will waste my time.
And I won’t go far. I’ll just dig some common herbs halfway up the mountain and come back.”
"Then be careful."
Erni could only watch her walk quickly out of the yard.
She lowered her head and glanced at the small white cloth bag in her hand. She slapped her forehead in annoyance and said, "Oh, I forgot to give her this cloth bag."
"Forget it. The tooth powder won't be ready until three days later anyway."
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This time, Su Qiao did not go to the north mountain, but went to the south mountain.
Her purpose this time was not just to dig herbs, she also wanted to look for the pine trees she discovered in the southern forest when she was eight or nine years old.
Resin has a wide range of uses. It is one of the raw materials for making resin soap. Cooking it with alkaline wood ash can make the resin soap less likely to crack during the cleaning process.
It can also be used as papermaking glue to play a bonding role during papermaking.
The paper produced is highly water-resistant, preventing ink from penetrating and also improving the strength and smoothness of the paper.
Resin can also be used in the ink printing industry as a color carrier to increase the adhesion of ink to paper.
In short, it has many uses.
She was lucky enough that the pine forest she remembered was still there.
Probably because no one has picked the fruits for a long time, there is still a lot of resin on the tree trunks.
Su Qiao put down the backpack and started climbing the tree.
He broke off all the ready-made pale yellow crystals on the tree trunks, filling up one-third of the backpack.
Then she asked 444 to monitor the surroundings, took out her sword from the space, and started cutting the pine trunks of each pine tree.
After cutting every tree trunk until it was covered with wounds, she quietly left.
"It's a pity there are no plastic bags or buckets, otherwise I could have cut the bark a little and caught it directly."
Don’t be dissatisfied, just smile secretly as you have achieved so much at once!
Besides, if you hang a plastic bag or a small bucket on every tree, are you sure no one will notice
Su Qiao picked up two palm leaves and covered the basket with them: "That's right."
Forget it. There are a lot of pine trees here anyway. They will grow again after a while.
In the following time, Su Qiao concentrated on digging the herbs she was looking for. It was not until it was almost dark and her backpack was full that she quickly ran home.
Fortunately, she is in good physical condition and strong enough now, otherwise she would have collapsed by now.
Why don't you find a place to quietly dehydrate it, grind it into powder and then carry it back
Su Qiao looked at Xiao Si as if he were a fool: "Grind it into powder and carry it back. What will you say when they ask about it?"
She sneaked out last time and there were so few of them that they couldn't find her at all, but this time it was different.
So many eyes are watching.
Besides, she couldn't come here secretly forever.
That's only two or three days, how do you dehydrate these herbs
After dehydration, it has to be ground into powder and then mixed according to the proportion.
"Don't we have a kang at home? I can put these herbs on the kang and they should be able to dry without any problem."
Even if it can't be dried, she can just do some tricks in the house and it will work.
Su Qiao had thought of everything already.
If not, she would have gone to the pharmacies in town to buy ready-made medicines.
The reason why I didn't go was, first, it costs money to buy medicine, so the cost is high, and second, it was to prevent someone from finding out the recipe.