She Only Cares About Cultivation
Chapter 284: 【283】Tasty and Pretty Fisherman 134 (1 more update)

Chapter 284: 【283】Tasty and Pretty Fisherman 134 (1 more update)

Starting a fire used to be particularly troublesome, every time requiring half a day’s struggle with a Fire Bow, although this method was bothersome, it was much simpler than creating fire by drilling wood.

Do you think all ancient people used a Fire Bow?

No, only the poor families used that thing, anyone with a bit of money would buy other tools.

The Yang Sui was a tool that utilized focused sunlight to start a fire, but the ability to start a fire was affected by the weather, thus it wasn’t widely adopted.

Therefore, with the advent of flint, things became much more convenient, because flint was made of flints or pebbles, and striking them to produce sparks would ignite the easily flammable tinder, achieving the goal of starting a fire.

Perhaps the most magical was the flint, which leveraged the principle of rekindling in physics to create the device; it was expensive, and ordinary families couldn’t afford it.

When Xiao Yu was on the island, she said she started fires with a Fire Bow, but in reality, she used a lighter, so she always started fires super quickly, while her brother would struggle for a long time, but the boy never suspected a thing, which was lucky for her.

After Yan Qing’s arrival, she had to use the Fire Bow to start fires no matter how troublesome it was, so after arriving in Beijing, when Yaya was around, she used the Fire Bow; when she wasn’t, she used a lighter.

After two days of continuous rain, they finally welcomed a bright sunny day, and today was exactly the day the broker led the long-term workers to their farm.

Yaya got up earlier than she did and said she wanted to go to the hillside behind to check if there were any mushrooms, which usually appeared after the rain.

Xiao Yu, taking advantage of her absence, hurried to start a fire and boil water to wash her hair.

There was a well in the courtyard which made fetching water quite convenient, there was another well at the end of the field, and the last one next to the hillside and field, totaling three wells. The reason she bought this manor so decisively was partly due to this, so 1,500 taels was really cheap. If it weren’t for someone needing money urgently, she probably wouldn’t have had such good luck.

As she knew, ancient people valued their hair and thus also valued washing their hair. The term "bathe" originally referred to washing one’s hair.

Civil servants during the Han Dynasty had a day off every five days, which allowed them to go home and wash their hair; this holiday was known as "rest and bathe."

Grandma Yaya’s hair was washed once every five or six days, but she couldn’t stand it, feeling that it would stink if not washed every three days. However, due to the poor conditions in ancient times, chopping wood, igniting fire, boiling water, washing hair, drying, and combing—all these steps were very time and labor-consuming, unlike her use of a lighter to boil water, which saved a lot of time.

Most people used soap pods, commonly known as soapnuts, to wash their hair. The method involved soaking the soapnuts in water in a basin and rubbing it repeatedly, or smashing them with a hard object. Once the water slightly thickened, they would remove the impurities, leaving behind an all-natural, herbal soap pod liquid for hair washing.

Washing hair with this soap pod solution had excellent cleansing and nourishing qualities, and also had the effects of darkening and strengthening the hair.

However, the smell was somewhat irritating, so she disliked using it. Of course, there were people who used the refreshing hibiscus leaves, employing a similar method.

She had heard that some people used spent tea cakes to wash their hair. These cakes were made from the residue left after extracting oil from oil tea seeds, and despite looking dirty, they had excellent antibacterial and cleansing properties.

She had also seen on TV people washing their hair with plant ashes, which are alkaline and work well in removing oil and relieving itchiness, even though they appear uncomfortable, they are quite suitable for oily hair.

Of course, ancient people had many methods for washing their hair, like Grandma Yaya, who sometimes used water from washing rice or even vinegar, emanating the distinctive scent of vinegar all over her body after washing her hair—a unique method indeed.

Therefore, considering all the above, it seemed that every hair-washing method was quite complex. If she could transfer the shampoo from the space, change the packaging, could she perhaps sell it again?