After the divorce, I became a mountain god

After chatting with Zhang Kai for a few more words, Xu Bo'an hung up the phone.

However, Xu Boan had no idea how to sign for and place the horse.

After thinking about it, Xu Bo'an fell asleep.

When Xu Boan woke up early the next morning, the weather was not very good. There was a strong wind and it looked like it was going to rain.

Xu Bo'an stayed in bed and did not rush to get up. He leisurely observed the lives of the little guys in the mountain village in the bonsai.

Although I used to be a leader in a company and had relatively free time and didn’t have to rush to work and punch in, it is still different from being a freelancer.

The former is still concerned about work constraints, while the latter is completely relaxed without any constraints.

Xu Bo'an carefully observed every tree and blade of grass in Kaoshan Village. At this moment, most of the people in the village had already gotten up.

The few who stay in bed are usually children, or they were busy doing something last night.

For example, Master Zou Shengsheng, I don’t know if he slept in because he processed gold until very late last night.

As life in Kaoshan Village is gradually returning to normal, Zou Shengsheng's craftsmanship has come in handy again. Xu Bo'an remembers that he saw him carving something the last time he came.

Li Erhu and Wang Guifen seemed to have just woken up. Li Erhu was scooping water with a gourd-shaped ladle, and in his other hand he was holding something wrapped in cloth on a wooden stick, which looked like a handmade toothbrush.

The next moment, Wang Guifen came over and reminded him, "Dad, you can't brush your teeth with salt today. It's such a waste. You're such a spendthrift. You're wasting such a precious thing."

Li Erhu chuckled and said, "No, no, it's not that the village chief called me yesterday. I just ate garlic and my mouth tasted very strong. I was anxious to rinse my mouth. I used refined salt. I can't bear to use it again."

Wang Guifen nodded and said, "I see that the willow tree outside has sprouted some buds. If you have time today, go cut some suitable willow branches. It's not proper to always use this dead wood to brush your teeth. Even if you tie a little coarse cloth around it, it will still hurt your teeth."

Li Erhu quickly brushed his mouth up and down with a simple toothbrush, then took some unknown earth-colored mud-like stuff and held it in his mouth for a while, then brushed his teeth with a simple toothbrush before rinsing his mouth.

Xu Boan was surprised and asked immediately, "Li Erhu, let me ask you, what was that thing you used to brush your teeth?"

Hearing the words of the Mountain God, Li Erhu knelt down hurriedly. Just as he was about to say hello, he suddenly remembered what the Mountain God had asked him about when he brushed his teeth.
Li Erhu was panicked for a moment. Why did the Mountain God suddenly ask this? Could it be that he knew that he brushed his teeth with refined salt and came to punish him?
You have to know that the refined salt they used was all gifted to Kaoshan Village by the Mountain God out of his great grace, and then every household got some.

Right now, the mountain god seems to be thinking that I'm wasting his kindness!
After all, it is really too much to waste such a precious thing on brushing your teeth.

Because Xu Boan subconsciously asked Li Erhu alone, Wang Guifen still didn't know what was going on.

Wang Guifen became very curious when she saw her man suddenly kneeling down for no apparent reason, without saying a word and with a dull look in his eyes, wondering what he was thinking.

"Dad, what are you doing? Why are you kneeling down for no reason? Are you okay?" Wang Guifen asked in confusion. As she spoke, she walked over, as if she was going to help Li Erhu up.

Li Erhu hurriedly shook his body, avoiding Wang Guifen's arm that was supporting him, and explained in a panic: "You bitch, stop messing around, kneel down quickly, the mountain god has appeared and is asking me a question!"

Wang Guifen was shocked when she heard this, and she knelt down beside her husband Li Erhu and said respectfully, "I didn't know that the mountain god had come to visit me. I am very rude and disrespectful. I hope the mountain god will forgive me!"

Xu Boan said disapprovingly: "Okay, it's nothing. I saw Li Erhu brushing his teeth and asked him what he used to brush his teeth."

This time Xu Bo'an spoke directly to the couple, so they both heard what the Mountain God said.

Wang Guifen was also stunned when she heard this, and instantly thought that the Mountain God was here to hold them accountable. After all, the refined salt was given to them by the Mountain God to eat, not for them to waste.

It's like a philanthropist donates some money to a poor student so that he can buy school supplies, but the student turns around and uses the money to go to an Internet cafe to play Red Alert or Half Life. This is a bit too much, and the philanthropist will definitely not be happy if he finds out.

Wang Guifen thought that the mountain god suddenly asked this question. It was most likely that the mountain god heard her when she was questioning her husband just now. She couldn't help feeling guilty and self-blaming.

It's all my fault for talking too much. My husband also made an unintentional mistake.

Before Wang Guifen could recover from her self-blame, she heard Li Erhu kowtow hard and said with a firm face: "Grandpa Mountain God, please forgive me. I was confused and used refined salt to brush my teeth. I was wrong first and I am willing to accept the punishment from Grandpa Mountain God. I hope Grandpa Mountain God will let me bear all the responsibility!"

After saying that, Li Erhu started kowtowed again on the spot!

Xu Boan was confused when he heard this. What was going on?

What's wrong with brushing your teeth with refined salt? Isn't this funny?

Moreover, I clearly saw that when Li Erhu was brushing his teeth just now, the small handful of mud-like stuff he pinched was brown, and it didn't look like refined salt. Refined salt is pure white, and I am not color blind.

Xu Boan immediately questioned, "Wait a minute, don't kowtow yet. What is refined salt? Isn't refined salt white? I know it, but the earthy mud-like thing you pinched just now doesn't look like refined salt. Could it be that thing is also called refined salt?"

Earthy mud-like stuff?

Li Erhu was also startled when he heard this, and subconsciously stopped kowtowing. He looked at the gourd-made water scoop not far away, and next to it was the earth-colored mud-like thing that the mountain god mentioned.

Wang Guifen's face immediately brightened when she heard that. It turned out that the mountain god was asking about this thing. She had actually misunderstood it.

Without waiting for Li Erhu to speak, Wang Guifen hurriedly explained: "In reply to the mountain god, the thing my husband used to brush his teeth just now is our own tooth paste, which is made by simply mixing some wild herbs." Tooth paste? So that's why, no wonder that thing looks like mud.

But is it reliable to use this thing to brush your teeth?
Otherwise, just give them some toothpaste yourself.

Xu Boan continued to ask: "Do you all use this dental paste to brush your teeth?"

Wang Guifen smiled awkwardly and said, "Grandpa Mountain God, I won't hide it from you. Yesterday, my husband was in a hurry to go out, so he used the refined salt you gave us to rinse his mouth and brush his teeth to get rid of the garlic smell in his mouth. It was not intentional to waste what you gave us. Normally, we would never do this. I hope Grandpa Mountain God will forgive me."

Xu Bo'an smiled when he heard this, and said, "Haha, it's okay, you don't have to be afraid, it's not a big deal, since the thing has been given to you, it's yours, you are free to use it however you want."

When Xu Bo'an was in school, there were two poor students in his class. They both did well in their studies and applied for scholarships for poor students.

One of my classmates was basically self-sufficient by living frugally and working part-time to earn money for his studies. He sent all the money back home to subsidize the household and to reduce the suffering of his parents, except for keeping some for emergency expenses.

Another classmate also worked part-time in the school cafeteria for a long time. The cafeteria paid for his meals and the school waived his accommodation fees. After receiving the money, this classmate actually went to learn how to drive.

This made many people feel a little indignant at the time.

After all, they feel that the money should be used for study and life, or to subsidize the family. Expenses such as learning to drive are not really a necessity.

However, after the incident became a big deal, a leader stood up and said something fair.

As long as the child's actual situation is in compliance with regulations and there is no deception or falsification, the child is free to decide how to spend the money.

Whether he uses the money to buy paper, pens and books, or to support himself and his family, or wants to buy luxury goods to regain his self-esteem, or wants to travel to relieve his depressed emotions, it is his freedom.

Although this money is for scholarships, who can say that it is not beneficial to his physical and mental health after being spent in different channels? Isn't this also helping his studies?

Xu Boan deeply agrees with this. Although money should be spent wisely, we are all adults. Who doesn’t have his or her own ideas?
Everyone has a different idea of ​​a blade.

Later, Xu Bo'an clearly remembered that after his classmate learned to drive, he worked as a substitute taxi driver on weekends. This earned much more than his part-time job in the cafeteria, brought him more income and reduced his living burden.

Those who questioned him gradually stopped mentioning the matter.

So after Xu Bo'an gave those things to the little guys in Kaoshan Village, he no longer cared about how they used these things.

As long as they are not deliberately wasting money and are not waiting to live off the mountain god, Xu Boan will not interfere in their lives.

After hearing the mountain god's magnanimous words, Li Erhu and Wang Guifen finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Erhu hurriedly thanked him and said, "Grandpa Mountain God is so magnanimous. This is a blessing for common people like me."

Wang Guifen also said: "Grandpa Mountain God, you just asked about brushing teeth. Not everyone uses this thing to brush their teeth. Poor people like us use it, but those powerful and wealthy people all use tooth powder.

But tooth powder is too expensive, we can't afford it, so we found a way to research this kind of tooth paste, although it is not as effective as tooth powder and salt, but it is worse than nothing. "

Xu Boan nodded slightly when he heard this. He also remembered that people in ancient times used something similar to toothpaste to brush their teeth, but there was no modern process and technology at that time, so they could only use some Chinese medicinal herbs such as Gastrodia elata, Ligusticum chuanxiong, and Asarum that have cleansing and anti-inflammatory effects and grind them into powder to clean and protect teeth. This is tooth powder.

Xu Boan asked again: "Okay, I get it. By the way, I just heard that Wang Guifen asked Li Erhu to cut some suitable willow branches. It seems that they are also used for brushing teeth. Is that what you mean?"

Wang Guifen quickly replied, "Grandpa Mountain God is very wise. You are right. It is true. Because of the drought, there were no suitable willow branches. So we used our fingers and wooden sticks to brush our teeth. But it was inconvenient. Wooden sticks were not easy to use. So we mixed some cotton cloth with it, but the effect was not very good. Now that there is water, many willow trees in the forest have water and sprouted. I thought about asking Erhu to get some for brushing teeth. They are much better than these wooden sticks. They can be used like a small brush when bitten hard. They can brush cleaner than these ordinary wooden sticks."

Xu Boan suddenly understood what was going on when he heard this.

When Xu Bo'an was a child, he often played with willow branches. The branches are rich in fibers and are very difficult to break completely. He had to twist them continuously. After twisting them, the fibers inside really looked like a small brush.

I have to say that the ancient people were really smart. They actually figured out how to brush their teeth with willow branches.

Xu Boan was just thinking about it when Li Erhu took over and said, "That's right, these willow branches are very useful. Usually, you can soak them in a bowl of water. When you use them, bite the top of the branch hard and it will flatten it, and bite out the wood inside. It's very comfortable to use it to brush your teeth!

But when I was working in the city before, I also saw the master using something called a toothbrush. I heard that it was made of pig bristles inserted into bamboo, and the bamboo handle could be inscribed with words or painted. It was very beautiful. I heard that brushing teeth with that thing would make them clean. At that time, I heard people say that a toothbrush of that kind cost fifty coins.

When Wang Guifen heard that it would cost so much money, she took a deep breath.

"It's so expensive! Fifty cents! I can buy a lot of wheat bran with that! That thing is easy to make, how about we make some and sell it?"

Wang Guifen and her husband are skilled in bamboo weaving. They are very skillful and ordinary manual work is not difficult for them.

Li Erhu smacked his lips and said, "Bamboo is easy, but what about pig bristles? They are very expensive and we can't buy them!"

Pig bristles are some hard and ductile hairs that grow on the neck and back of the pig. These hair roots are uniform, tough, elastic, resistant to moisture and heat, and friction, making them very suitable for making brushes.

There aren't many of these on a pig, and pigs are very expensive, so it's not easy to get a large amount of pig bristles.

Xu Boan smiled and was just thinking about giving them some toothpaste and toothbrushes when he suddenly heard his cell phone ring. (End of this chapter)