Ming-year period, with the Mu Ying conquered Yunnan Huize after the move to customers, there was a determined woman named Mu living in Huize Lu machine village, Nai Shi Mu-country public and future generations, too husband, surnamed Li, is a strong dry farmers. Although the hard-working husband and wife, but the tax was too heavy, is not how life better. Year's harvest from time to time a little better, after the grain prices are low in agriculture, the same as poverty. Mu-girl naturally be smart, intelligence and office were straightforward, do things carefully, it is a clever wife. Her ingenuity, no matter what means something, and always want again and again. Cross-look, terong look carefully pondering scrutiny. Handle a matter, with a total to come up with a few practices. Take a broom sweeping the left to take, right hand, was out to take down both lines, others do not sweep clean, so long as her hands, what pit potholes Au blink of an eye kung fu, they were clean sweep. Everyone says: "Mu-set sweep sister's place, sleep on a slip of Gunpa up, the body will not be some trace of gray."
Mu-set girl likes to Tanabe angle, sur-groove ridge Zhai more Setaria viridis, Filipendula, small ivy, etc. Phi off from home, textile and some flowers blue, to mention pocket, small lanterns to their children to play. One day, she picked some of the multi-round stems slender aquatic weeds Bian Lege small hydrangea, Phi-opened after the plants found inside the existence of a soft, thin white grass die, she thought, this white Sang Sang, soft Huhu things, Pillow Cotton is used to install some good, smart in her hand turned from a round of wild flowers straight out of a Phi plants where the photogenic powder white grass roots core to. This is the easiest thing burning, may be placed inside to wick lamp lights than cotton lines much better lighting, light, fuel-efficient, light and bright, soot and small, it is called the Deng Cao, it is more appropriate than this analogy. As a result, Mu-set of this unknown girl to the grass in accordance with its use of the name "Deng Cao," Phi out of the core is called "wick."
She and her husband discussed later, the home plate with a mound of rice seedling bed-teng out of this transplanting of wild plants specifically. Through her, after diligent cultivation of such plants grow more Fei Shi, shoot the child is also longer, Phi wick out of a long, white and thick solid. The remaining grass shell can also be used for textiles and straw hat, rice pot cover, lid, baskets, baskets, pots like a small handicrafts. Later, she do with the Deng Cao raw materials, weaving, Deng Cao sliding seat cushion pad to sleep on the bed with, very soft, but also can be used as food packaging and drying purposes. These handmade fabric to get on the market for sale, cheap, lightweight and durable, was welcomed, lovers calculation and plant an acre than the kinds of ten mu of millet Deng Cao much larger income. As a result, they saw the kinds of wild plants into the house, year after year development, the more the more kinds of life are increasingly better. The same village neighbors, see Mu-set home the envy of all the changes, each coveted, but also secretly learned how to plant Deng Cao, But can not find the Phi Deng Cao and textile sliding seat tips to find the girl Qiu Jiao Mu who will gradually increase, but the set Mu his wife is very conservative, not the original teaching.
One year, due to falling sick from overwork, Mu-young and old, are scheduled for the whole family fell ill. The village has an over 50-year-old Yao Aunt, kind-hearted, helpful, see Mu-set family predicament, we offer one of the village, 20 women, to send food to send medicine to help her cooking life. Mu be deeply moved by his wife view of this scenario is very guilt, said: "folks are very good and I am sorry everyone." Mu-sick girl, a good set, the put Phi Deng Cao, compiled sliding seat craft passed to village women. Later, the village will be Zelu machine sliding seats, wicks sold in Northeast Yunnan and then spread to winding west, winding south, across the province, sold to Sichuan, Guizhou, and even imported capital.
