Lin Qiu and Song Mu have been taking their pups out every day recently, taking walks with other pups, basking in the sun, and rolling around with each other. The pups have all grown a lot stronger.
But they are the youngest cubs in the tribe. At such an age, even a few days' difference will make a big difference in size. Faced with their brothers who are a circle bigger than them, the little tiger cubs cannot beat them and can only rage helplessly, holding their hind paws and biting them.
They are just a group of little tigers whose teeth haven't even grown yet. It doesn't matter if they lose the fight. If they go too far, Tan Yuan and Song Mu will take them away.
While talking to Dongxue, Lin Qiu was studying how to make soap with wood ash and animal oil. The animal skin had been used for a whole winter season. Song Mu washed and scrubbed it for a long time last time. Today, he took it out to dry, but it didn't look very clean.
So Lin Qiu thought of soap. In fact, last summer, she had been looking for soapberry trees, but she never found any. Lin Qiu had to give up natural soapberry and make soap through chemical reactions.
However, Lin Qiu only knew the principle but had never actually put it into practice.
She soaked wood ash in water, filtered it, burned it to purify it, and then mixed it with oil, and then found the most suitable ratio.
Dongxue hugged her knees and watched Lin Qiu tinkering with it. She didn't understand, but her face was full of admiration: "Xiaoqiu, you are really amazing."
Lin Qiu was at a loss for words. She hadn't done anything yet, but Dongxue was already praising her for being so great.
"Do you know what I'm doing?"
"Didn't you say this soap can be used to wash hides and take baths? You're amazing."
Dongxue didn't understand either. It was obvious that water could be used to wash the animal skins, so why was Lin Qiu stirring it here?
And she even added oil to it, so wouldn't it get dirtier the more she washed it?
Dongxue murmured in her heart, but she felt that Lin Qiu must have her reasons for doing this, and she even lent a hand from time to time. Song Mu wanted to come over to help her, but Dongxue was unwilling.
As Lin Qiu thought about it, he said to Dongxue, "If it works, when the flowers bloom, we can add some flower petals to it and then take a bath with soap. Then we will have a scent."
"Ah? Is this okay?" Dongxue suddenly became excited. "I once asked Tan Yuan to pick some flowers and soak them in water for me to wash. He put a lot of flowers in, but they didn't smell particularly fragrant."
Lin Qiu said: "It's not enough to just add it, we have to extract it."
"What is extraction?"
"You'll see when the time comes."
While Lin Qiu was stirring the oil-alkali mixture, he kept Dongxue in suspense. Dongxue nodded blankly: "Okay."
Even if Lin Qiu said it, she might not understand.
Now the weather is gradually getting warmer, and the midday sun is a bit hot.
At noon, Song Mu urged Lin Qiu to go home, and took Tan Yuan and Dong Xue back with him.
Song Mu was holding Lin Qiu's stuff in his hands, followed by the kid struggling to climb up the slope. He looked down and said, "Hurry up!"
“Ah…”
The legs of the cubs were not even as long as their father's fingers, and they ran up the slope using all four legs.
Song Mu said, "Whoever gets home first gets an extra piece of jerky."
“Ahhhhh!!”
They are still drinking milk now, but the roots of their teeth are starting to itch and they want to eat dried meat to grind their teeth.
However, they cannot digest this thing if they eat too much, so Ling Yun and Song Mu will not give them too much, and will only give them a small piece every other day.
After hearing what Song Mu said, the four kids even used their ears to run up the slope, and began to overtake Song Mu.
Lin Qiu couldn't help but laugh: "You really know how to trick children."
Song Mu looked at Lin Qiu helplessly: "Xiao Qiu...you know these brats are troublesome."
"Is it too much trouble? I didn't force you to be a father."
"I don't mind it, I like it," Song Mu said half-heartedly, looking at Lin Qiu with lowered eyes, "I like looking at the cub."
Lin Qiu grabbed Qiao An, who was running at the back, and said, "You usually don't like to move, but now you can't outrun them, right?"
"Wuwu..."
Qiao An was panting heavily in his mother's arms, his pink little tongue was soft, and he gave up the game on his own initiative.
I can’t run away from it. I can’t run away from it at all.
Lin Qiu held Qiao An in his arms and walked with Song Mu behind him. He looked at the four cubs running in front of him with their fur shaking, and smiled lovingly.
Five little cotton balls, so cute.
When they returned home, Lin Qiu continued to adjust the ratio of oil and alkali. This is not a simple matter of adding alkali when there is too much oil, or adding oil when there is too much alkali, because once mixed together, the oil and alkali will solidify, so the ratio must be adjusted correctly from the beginning.
For this, Lin Qiu wasted a lot of things.
Wood ash is nothing, because everyone burns a lot of firewood in the cold season, and the tribe is not short of firewood and hay, so there is no need to worry about waste.
It’s just that fat is a little difficult to get. The tiger tribe’s beastmen like fatty meat very much. It is high in calories and does not get stuck in the teeth, so they don’t store too much.
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