dream of red mansion

Chapter 16 Alkali

Jia Rong was very fortunate. He thought that in today's situation, he would have to be beaten. Unexpectedly, Jia Zhen guessed Jia Jing's thoughts, and didn't mention the matter of beating him until he resigned. He just told him to get out. .

After exiting the meeting hall respectfully, Jia Rong was thinking that it would be nice if Jia Zhen ignored him like this in the future.

Jia Qing wandered around the Ningguo Mansion for a while, thinking it would be fine to go back to the courtyard, and was about to go to Huifang Garden to have a look.

"Second Uncle~"

Before reaching Huifang Garden, there was a coquettish call from behind.

Looking back, Jia Qing couldn't calm down anymore.

Not far behind, Qin Keqing was coming, followed by two servant girls.When he got close, Qin Keqing said: "Daughter-in-law, my second uncle is welcome."

Hearing this voice again, Jia Qing tried to pretend to be calm, and said, "You don't need to be too polite."

Qin Keqing wondered secretly: No one here has ever known my nickname, where did Second Uncle know it?But she couldn't ask about it, so she had to keep it in her heart.

But every time Qin Keqing saw Jia Qing's calm look, he wanted to laugh.Simply because there is no one else around now, there are less taboos, so she decided to tease this little kid who will always look like a little adult.

"Second Uncle~ How can Second Uncle call someone by her boudoir name directly?"

The two little maids behind them made a series of low-pitched ridicules in unison.

Jia Qing felt his body shaking, and secretly cried out in his heart that he couldn't take it anymore.Tilting his head, not looking at that charming face, he changed the topic and said, "Where are you going, nephew and daughter-in-law?"

Qin Keqing looked at the reaction of the little man in front of her, and she loved her more and more. She gently brushed a strand of black hair beside her ear, and then replied: "My daughter-in-law is going to sit with my mother-in-law. I don't want to meet my second uncle here. My daughter-in-law is very happy." Be happy."

Out of the corner of Jia Qing's eyes, she saw that gentle movement, and heard her last words in her ears, screaming in her heart: I must die, I must die!Knowing that he would lose his composure if he didn't leave, he hurriedly said, "Oh, I'm going to play in Huifang Garden, so I won't tell you." Then he turned around and ran away.

After running for two steps, he stopped again, turned around and said, "I heard people say in the morning that Big Brother Zhen will return home today." I didn't care if others heard me or not, and continued running after I finished speaking.

Qin Keqing was behind, watching Jia Qing turn a corner and disappear.But he was wondering what Jia Qing's last sentence meant. Could it be that he also saw that Jia Zhen had bad intentions for her?
After thinking about it, he is only a little old, how could he understand these private things.As the person involved, she only realized this not long ago.

Smiling, throw away these thoughts.After thinking about it, he turned and went back to his yard.

Jia Qing ran into the gate of Huifang Garden before stopping, leaned against the garden wall, patted his chest, and calmed down after a long time.

Qin Keqing's charm is so great that even a person who is not yet qualified to commit a crime can't resist him, let alone Jia Zhen, a vicious ghost.Thinking about it again, in the original world, Qin Keqing was acquired by Jia Zhen, and finally passed away, feeling as if a big stone was blocked in her heart, and she was extremely aggrieved.

"Hmph, since I came to this world unintentionally, I must not let people like Jia Zhen do whatever they want."

With indignation, Jia Qing had no intention of visiting the garden anymore, and turned back to his own yard.

In Jia Qing's bedroom compartment, Xie Luan was doing work with a needle and thread in his hand, and was chatting with Pei Feng who was sitting next to him who was bored.

"Hee hee, sister Xieluan, do you think our second master is interesting or not? We caught our second master yesterday and said he wanted to call for help."

"Hmph, but he's so stingy, even asking him to give us that flower is not allowed, hmph, a cheapskate!"

"Okay, sister Peifeng, don't complain, the second master is also afraid of Jin'er and the others, after all, there is only one white peony."

"Yo, you're starting to take care of me now? Our second master is so charming. He's only seven or eight years old and he's fascinated by our sister Xieluan? Hehehe. Hehe."

Pei Feng couldn't stop laughing as she spoke.

"You?~ You rotten little hoof, if you don't put it away, it will be to your advantage that Grandma will find out about it!"

"What are you afraid of, the second master in this yard has the final say! The eldest grandma doesn't care about our yard, we are talking about it, who can control it?"

Before he finished speaking, he heard the door in the courtyard being pushed open, and then a voice sounded:
"Sister Xiaoluan, it's so hot, I want to take a bath! Sister Xiaoluan~ Where is she?"

Peifeng laughed in an instant, and said mockingly: "Look, I didn't talk nonsense, but someone came to the door right now. I still need you to take care of the bath, hehehe"

Xie Luan blushed, but soon returned to normal, ignored Pei Feng, who was obviously abnormal, and responded loudly, put down the things in her hand, stood up and walked out of the cubicle.

After Xie Luan walked out of the room, Pei Feng stopped laughing, with a regretful expression on her face, paused, got up and followed out.

Jia Qing went into the bathroom on the east side of the courtyard, near the flower hall, sat on a chair, and waited for the maids to come to the water boiler to fetch water.

It's not that he doesn't know how to pity and cherish jade, it's that his current body is not as good as a maid, and he can't help much, so he can only sit and enjoy the blessing.

Fortunately, there is hot water ready at any time in the boiling water room, and even a few maids can't run back and forth a few times.

Half a quarter of an hour later, the maids adjusted the water temperature, put away the bathing items, and went out with the wooden bucket, leaving only Xie Luan in the bathroom.

Jia Qing stood up, waiting for Xie Luan to come and undress him.
Thinking of bathing, he had some experience.

When he first woke up, he was only over three years old, and his body was weak, so he had to let Cui Liu bathe him.Later, when he arrived at the Ningguo Mansion, he originally refused to come, but Cui Liu said he was too young, so he just disagreed. After two years of tweaking, he finally let Cui Liu 'gloriously raise' him.He thought that he could get rid of this kind of fragrant punishment, and he could do it himself, after all, Cui Liu was his elder.
Later, Cui Liu asked Xie Luan's two maidservants to wait for him to take a bath!

What surprised Cui Liu was that Jia Qing did not object after that.
And this girl, Peifeng, is almost one year younger than Xieluan, and she is not as honest as Xieluan.

Several times, she avoided being lazy while serving Jia Qing in the bath, leaving only Xie Luan to take the bath alone. As time passed, the task of serving Jia Qing in the bath became the task of Xie Luan alone.

Xie Luan blushed, and slowly walked over to undress Jia Qing.Even though she has served Jia Qing to bathe for two years, she is still a little shy, after all, Jia Qing is getting older every day.

After taking off all his clothes, Jia Qing climbed into the big bathtub.The water was warm, and it was very comfortable to soak in. Behind him, Xie Luan was also slowly pinching his small shoulders with her soft hands.

Jia Qing gave a comfortable "hmm" and said to herself, "I wouldn't even give it to a god for a day like this!"

"Sister Xiaoluan, give me a back massage!"

After a while, Jia Qing turned around and lay down beside the barrel, urging Xie Luan to say.

Xie Luan obediently moved her hand to Jia Qing's back, and began to massage gently. She was always obedient when she waited for him to take a bath.

After a while, Jia Qing almost fell asleep, and suddenly felt cool and refreshed, and it turned out that Xie Luan was smearing soap on his body.

The so-called pancreas is a small piece of something specially made by pig pancreas, lard, etc. plus some other substances, which is specially used for bathing by rich families.It is similar to the principle of making soap.

He stood up so that Xie Luan could smear it on his body.

Looking at the small box next to the soap, Jia Qing suddenly thought that it would be great if he could make modern soap, which would be much easier to use than this expensive soap.

I still remember that the simplest raw materials for making soap are oil, sodium hydroxide, and water.Grease and water are easy to solve, the key is that there seems to be no sodium hydroxide in this era.

The most convenient way to make alkali is to use salt as a raw material to produce it, but that requires electricity, so he can't use two magnets and one iron wire to produce electricity, right?I'm not saying it's possible, I just think it's stupid.
Then there is only the last method that is possible in this day and age that I can remember: direct use of natural alkali.

He knew that some soda lakes or soda mines often have lumps of soda stones, which are not real soda and contain a lot of impurities and mixtures.I just don't know if people in this era have used this kind of thing, but you can ask the little girl next to you.

"Sister Xiaoluan, have you ever heard of alkali stone?"

"Huh? What?"

Xie Luan was a little distracted.

"Sister Xiaoluan, have you ever heard of alkali stone?"

"Oh, I don't know about alkali stone, but I have heard people say alkali, it seems to be plant ash or something."

Hey, as long as you have this thing, it will be easy to deal with. When the time comes, find it and purify it, maybe you can make a cute little soap with fragrance and foam.

Jia Qing, who was in a good mood, was washed clean by Xie Luan, climbed out of the wooden barrel, and stood on the designed wooden bench, asking Xie Luan to wipe off the water drops for him, put on clean clothes, and do not need to move a little during the whole bathing process hand.

(End of this chapter)