Ancient Eden - Chapter 126
Chapter 126
(39.4)
The package of nuts that the monkeys delivered were all raw. Mu Qing used a stone to crack the shells open and carefully peeled off the shells to take the flesh inside. She then put them on the stone slab and baked them until a delicious smell came out. They could then be eaten as a snack.
After Mu Qing finished peeling off the last round nut, she felt her fingers were a bit slippery, so she went to the stream to wash her hands. She moistened her hands with water and casually rubbed her hands for a few seconds, and a miracle happened.
Her hands actually started to form a lather, like soap lather, although it was not much, but it really looked like it.
Mu Qing was so excited that she rubbed her hands again, and foam formed a little more. After she rinsed the foam off her hands, she felt unusually clean.
Mu Qing hurriedly went back to the cave, picked out the round nut flesh that she had just peeled off of its shell, and rubbed it between her still wet hands. Foam appeared once again, and it smelled a little sweet.
She was absolutely overjoyed.
This could be used as a soap ah, besides the foam it made was so fine and slippery, washing her hair and body with it wouldn’t be a problem.
She hurriedly tried to find another one of this kind among the pile of nuts, but was disappointed to find none. There was just this one.
Perhaps the monkeys, when they were gathering the nuts, inadvertently mixed this fruit together with the nuts. But their thoughtlessness really made Mu Qing very grateful.
They had done her a great favor.
She decided to name it the soap nut.
Li Mang quickly brought her a large bag of the same nut outside of the valley.
For the first time in a long time, she felt satisfied that her body was finally washed and clean, and she could smell a sweet scent emanating from her hair, which had not happened for a long time. Then she asked Li Mang to wash his hair with the soap nuts as well. Li Mang was reluctant at first, but when he saw her taking out the scissors and threaten to cut off his hair, he immediately compromised.
Mu Qing helped him wet his hair by the stream, applied the soap nut on it, and slowly massaged to form a lot of foam, then scooped water with a coconut shell, and gently helped him rinse the foam off, and finally she even scrubbed behind his ears very carefully.
He was like a child, he would never think to wash behind his ears unless she did it for him. Every time she reminded him, he always nodded his head, but when she checked later, she would find out that he was stubborn and not listening at all.
After washing his hair, Li Mang stood up and bathed in the stream.
It was early winter, but he actually wasn’t afraid of being cold, so he dipped into the cold stream and took a bath as if nothing was the matter. She, on the other hand, could only use the large turtle shell he picked up outside to boil water for bathing.
The turtle shell was too big, almost as big as a round table. Underneath it, there was a layer of mud, using it to boil water or as a bathtub was very good, but it would be too big if she wanted to boil food and soup for two, besides it was very thick and not easy to heat.
More and more she was feeling the inconvenience of not having enough containers. And more importantly, she couldn’t let herself and Li Mang always eat food that was roasted over a fire, besides the issue of the taste, it was also detrimental to one’s health.
She needed pots to boil food, she needed dishes, and also jars to store water.
She had seen these the settlement before. It was probably pottery they had made themselves.
Translator : Laura
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