"Village head, is this thing really useful?"

Zhao Xiaodong pointed to the bamboo that had just been washed clean of lime slurry.

Lu Qiqi ignored Zhao Xiaodong's words, thinking that everything would be clear once the bamboo paper was finished.

She instructed, "Get soaked."

After saying that, several villagers took gourd ladles, scooped a ladleful of children's urine from the bucket, and poured it onto the bamboo.

While a boy's urine doesn't smell as strong as an adult's, the sheer volume of it, when accumulated in a bucket over time, naturally makes the smell stronger.

The villagers have smelled the fertilizer water countless times and are used to it.

On the contrary, Lu Qiqi was overwhelmed by the pungent smell and quickly took a few steps back before the smell subsided.

When Zhao Xiaodong saw the villagers pouring urine onto the bamboo, one ladle after another, he couldn't help but feel sorry for them, remembering the hardship of accumulating this urine over a long period of time.

Seeing one of the villagers spill the boy's urine on the ground, he finally couldn't help but say, "Slow down! Use it sparingly!"

"I've been saving this stuff for over twenty days and only managed to get a dozen or so buckets. I still have so much bamboo to use, so don't spill it!"

When Zhao Xiaodong called out to him, the villager holding the gourd ladle looked up at Zhao Xiaodong and said dismissively, "This is just a child's pee. If it spills, I'll just have my son pee more."

"You don't seem to mind the back pain when you're standing, but next time you try to collect these, you'll see how hard it is!"

Zhao Xiaodong was furious. He had been pulling up the pants of the village children for almost half a month and had only saved up this little bit.

If you spill it all on the ground, wouldn't that be disregarding the effort he put in?

Lu Qiqi watched the argument between Zhao Xiaodong and the villagers and raised her voice, "Zhao Xiaodong is right. It's not easy to collect this boy's urine. Everyone should not waste it. Otherwise, all this bamboo will be wasted if it is not fermented with boy's urine."

Upon hearing the word "waste of effort," the villagers dared not act rashly, as this item was indeed not easy to find.

It's even less likely that the village children could accumulate a large bucketful in a single day.

The bamboo was all doused with boy's urine, and Lu Qiqi then had the bamboo piled up.

Then take a few pieces of tarpaulin, cover the bamboo with them, and weigh it down with a few large stones to allow it to ferment.

Once white mold grows on the bamboo, it means that the bamboo has fermented properly and can be washed. After that, the bamboo is crushed and can be used to make paper.

However, before making the paper, Lu Qiqi asked Doctor Huang to go up the mountain to help find a kind of jelly leaf.

Boiling these leaves into juice and pouring it into paper pulp has a good separating effect, preventing the bamboo paper from sticking together when the water is squeezed out.

When Lu Qiqi returned to the courtyard in Tianxin Village, she saw Doctor Huang sitting in the yard drinking tea.

When Doctor Huang saw Lu Qiqi return, he put down his teacup and said with a smile, "Miss Lu, Doctor Luo and I went up the mountain to collect herbs today and found the leaf you painted. Can you tell if it is the one?"

As he spoke, Doctor Huang walked to a bamboo basket, bent down, and reached into the basket to rummage around.

"Hmm?" Doctor Huang fumbled around, trying to find the leaf, but couldn't. He asked, puzzled, "Where is it?"

Lu Qiqi stepped forward, wanting to see what was going on, but was stopped by Doctor Luo's words.

Doctor Luo angrily shouted, "Fool! You took my basket! Are you after the herbs I dug up today? Did you deliberately take the wrong basket?"

When Dr. Huang realized he had made a mistake, he quickly put down Dr. Luo's basket to avoid being scolded by him again.

Hearing Doctor Luo say that he coveted the herb was utterly absurd, he said with a wry smile, "Doctor Luo, I was the one who told you about that herb, how could I covet it!"

Dr. Luo scoffed, "Who knows, you might regret it!"

Lu Qiqi ignored Dr. Luo's words, ever since Dr. Huang had ruined Dr. Luo's life.

These days, Dr. Luo has been finding all sorts of ways to torment Dr. Huang, but Dr. Huang is actually enjoying it, feeling that he has learned a lot from Dr. Luo's teachings.

He was extremely grateful for what Dr. Luo had taught him.

Dr. Huang didn't want to explain, because the more he explained, the more Dr. Luo would make a fuss. It was better to just accept whatever he said and go along with him.

“This is it,” Doctor Huang finally took out a few leaves from his basket and handed them to Lu Qiqi.

Lu Qiqi stroked the leaf in her hand, her eyes brightening slightly, and said, "This is the leaf I've been looking for. Where did you find it? Are there many leaves there?"

She asked two questions in quick succession, speaking so fast that Dr. Huang was momentarily at a loss for words.

Doctor Luo said, "It's in the mountain where they collect the Resurrection Grass. This stuff grows like crazy, as if it's free."

As he spoke, he muttered again, "Good medicine that can cure diseases and save lives is so hard to come by!"

Lu Qiqi heard that the rapid growth of the rubber leaves indicated a large quantity.

Making bamboo leaves requires a lot of sap leaves, great, now I don't have to worry about it anymore.

She said, "Dr. Huang, could you take the villagers of Tianxin Village to familiarize themselves with the route tomorrow? That way, they can pick the fruit when they need it."

Dr. Huang smiled and said, "Of course, there's no problem."

Lu Qiqi was in a great mood after receiving the reply.

Most importantly, she heard that Zhang Shiqiang had been imprisoned a few days ago, and that no one was allowed to visit him. He was also given the same food as ordinary prisoners, and it was the county magistrate who personally gave the order.

Suddenly, the trend of the magistrate of Heshun Prefecture proclaiming himself king changed.

However, none of these things were Lu Qiqi's concern; she was simply trying to get information out of Zhang Shiqiang, that idiot.

What made her happy was that Zhang Shiqiang had been punished, and that such an arrogant person had suffered a prison sentence. Just thinking about it made her feel completely relieved.

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