Chapter 173
After a day or two, the cabbage will release water under the stimulation of salt. Then add boiled water and it will be ready to eat after ten to twenty days.
Thinking of the taste of sauerkraut, Yu Sui missed it so much that he pickled it in several clay pots in the storage room. Although most of the winter had passed, it was still nice to be able to eat it now.
After doing all this, Yu Sui took out the pheasant and gray-shelled duck down that Ashan had accumulated recently, preparing to clean it and then store it. If there were enough, he would use it to sew quilts or make clothes.
Ever since they learned that the fine down of pheasants and gray-shelled ducks had this function, in addition to picking up those from the traps, Notting and Ashan would specially catch a few and bring them back. They would leave the meat for the canteen, and send the fine down to Yu Sui.
I didn’t notice it before, but after using the quilt made of the down of the silver-winged tiger and the gray falcon, I found that the chicken down and duck down have a fishy smell. I washed it with hot water several times but still couldn’t get rid of the smell.
Yu Sui’s sense of smell is too sensitive now. There is no harm without comparison. After using a duvet without smell, he no longer wants to use a smelly one.
In the future, when there is enough down and everyone uses it or wears it, the werewolves will definitely be able to smell it, but the dwarves and argali people will not have this worry.
After all, pheasants are just ordinary animals, and gray-shelled ducks are only low-level magical beasts, while the silver-winged tiger and gray-faced falcon are of higher levels. Intermediate and high-level magical beasts already have the ability to self-clean, and the quality of their fur is also higher.
But there are not many high-level furry monsters of this type, and snow wolves are naturally at a disadvantage in hunting birds, so Yu Sui can only find a way to improve the problem of the chicken smell.
At this time, he began to miss the laundry detergent, fragrance beads and washing powder he used to have. No matter which one could remove the odor, soap would do...
A light bulb went off in Yu Sui's head. That's right, he could make soap!
Soap is too difficult to make, but the old-fashioned smelly soap with simple production techniques can be tried, and he has all the necessary raw materials.
I remember when I was a child there weren’t so many fancy cleaning products. We used the smelly soap sold on the street to wash clothes or our faces at home.
Yu Sui still remembers that the smelly soap should not be used too often as it would easily burn your hands. After all, the industry was not developed at that time, the production method was simple, and it was not that safe.
However, this kind of soap has a strong cleaning ability and can often be seen in many novels, so he still remembers how to make it.
I happen to have oil made from hedgehogs at home. Handmade soap usually uses more lard, but vegetable oil is also acceptable, and olive oil is the best.
However, olive oil from the other world is very expensive, and can only be exchanged with human caravans, making it inconvenient to use, so Yu Sui plans to use lard.
When lard is melted and alkaline water is added, a saponification reaction will slowly occur, and after solidification it becomes soap.
The principle is quite simple, but Yu Sui doesn't remember the proportions and there is no gram scale here, so he can only increase the weight of the alkali little by little.
After wasting several bowls of lard, Yu Sui's forehead was covered with sweat. He continued to study the proportions with a frown on his face.
Now he could finally understand how Bombur and Barlow felt when they made gunpowder. If the proportions were wrong, it would be a waste. The method of making soap was relatively simple. He couldn't imagine how many brain cells would be damaged if he were asked to make gunpowder.
He did this many times until the lard in the bowl finally turned into a light yellow cream, and only then did Yu Sui let out a long sigh of relief.
This was too difficult. Before he forgot the proportions, Yu Sui took out a large basin and simply made a large basin of soap. He would wait until it solidified and then cut it. Anyway, he was not the only one using it.
After finishing, he took out a pen and paper and wrote down the soap-making process, so that he wouldn't forget it the next time he needed to make it and have to try again from the beginning, which would be too frustrating.
This kind of technical work should actually be taught to dwarves. Yu Papi wiped the sweat from his forehead and complained silently in his heart.
If only there weren't those two covetous forces on this continent, he could pull all the dwarves into his own tribe, and then he wouldn't always feel short of manpower...
However, if those two forces were not there, the scattered orcs would also be harassed by humans. The deterrent effect of Warcraft on humans is not as great as that of the elves and the Golden Kingdom.
There are pros and cons to every advantage, and Yu Sui can only sigh.
The dwarves of the Black Map tribe have finished digging the cellar and have recently started to make various agricultural tools to be used for farming next year.
Although the dwarves are short, they have bulging muscles on their arms and are natural blacksmiths. However, this is the first time they have made the farm tools needed by the snow werewolves. Previously, they had made them according to the size of the tauren.
When living in the human world, dwarves disdained to make farm tools and only created weapons and armor. All of these props made by them were of the highest quality.
After arriving at the Fantasy Continent, in addition to making weapons and various props for the two forces, the most common thing they made turned out to be farm tools. However, the dwarves were happy to do it. In addition to being able to exchange them for food, this was also their way of repaying the Tauren.
Now the dwarves of the Tu tribe have added the task of making farm tools for the snow werewolves. In the past few days, dwarves have been climbing up and down the big snow wolf that has transformed back into a snow wolf to measure its size.
The farm tools suitable for werewolves are not only different in size from those for tauren, but the tauren need to hang the plow around their necks to exert force, which would easily suffocate the werewolves. So the dwarves modified the original tools to make them suitable for werewolves.
This is also the reason why Yu Sui felt embarrassed to ask them to help make soap again. His good winter life has become so busy. It’s good enough that the dwarfs didn’t despise him for being a black-hearted boss.
Bombur has been obsessed with making gunpowder recently. He and Barlow are covered in dust every day and often do not go home. They work in the mine all night long. Yu Sui had to leave a snow werewolf warrior with them, otherwise it would be terrible if they were attacked by monsters.
Their progress was amazing. After Bombur returned from the minotaur, he asked Black Rock to take him to the nearest extinct volcano and collect a lot of sulfur.
Barlow also put aside his beloved knitting business and devoted all his energy to making gunpowder.
They knew the importance of it. They could study the raw materials at home, but when they officially started experimenting with gunpowder, they found a place where no one was around.
After Yu Sui learned the news, he felt that it didn't matter where the experiment was conducted, so he suggested that they go to the coal mine to help blast the coal and save the tribesmen some effort.
This idea was unanimously approved by the two. They had already lived at the coal mine for a while. The coal brought back by the tribe these days did not need to be processed anymore and was just brought back in small blocks.
Sure enough, after knowing the principle, the outstanding craftsmen like the dwarves made rapid progress in making gunpowder.
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