shock!Empress Dowager

Chapter 135 Making Soap
Because it was getting late, Liu Ailing simply washed a lotus root and stewed a pot of lotus root fish soup for everyone, and put a few petals of chrysanthemums in the fish soup for seasoning.Afterwards, a plate of stir-fried lotus root slices was fried, and a pot of noodles was served as everyone's dinner.

When everyone participated in digging the pond and planting lotus roots, Gu Ao couldn't wait to take the ginseng back to his room, then opened the wooden box and took out the small medicine box to start absorbing the energy of ginseng.

Different from the speed of absorbing medicine in the past, Gu Ao could clearly feel that the absorption of ginseng by the small medicine box has become much slower, but his body began to slowly become warm.

At the same time, he seemed to feel an inexplicable excitement from absorbing ginseng from the small medicine box, and this was the first time he had such a clear perception.

I don't know how long it will take for the ginseng to be absorbed by the small medicine box, so Gu Ao stopped worrying and turned around, took the tools and went out to help everyone.

Although digging a hole is a physical labor, it is nothing at all to Shi Miao and others who are already used to working.

In two hours, a large pool was dug out.

After that, everyone ate dinner first, and continued to work without much rest.

Gu Tianjiao, Zhou Youcai and Xu Yi dug a lot of silt from the waterfall and poured it into the pool, and the rest of the people began to dig out fresh lotus root and plant it under the silt.

It was already past eight o'clock after finishing all this, and the sky was completely dark. There was no water in the pond and the lotus root would be oxidized. Everyone took advantage of the moonlight to dig a small ditch from the waterfall to draw the water slowly.

"Phew! It's finally finished! He also said that he would slowly improve his life, and he worked overtime again today."

Throwing the shovel aside together after finishing, Zhou Youcai sat down on the ground and gently wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"I guess it's just this one time. Let's all go back to wash and sleep. Tomorrow I'm going to make candles and soap first, so you can find some light work first, and we'll start building roads the day after tomorrow."

Seeing that everyone was a little tired, Shi Miao smiled softly and spoke slowly.

Digging a pond and planting lotus roots was an impromptu idea of ​​theirs, and this kind of temporary overtime work can only be done persistently.

"It's almost there."

Hearing what Shi Miao said, Zhou Youcai spoke slowly.

In the past two days, he said that he went outside to relax, but he felt that he was more tired after going outside for two days, and he was not as real as sleeping peacefully at home for a day.

"Let's go."

……

That night, everyone quickly fell asleep because of exhaustion.

When we got up and had breakfast together the next day.

Shi Miao obviously felt that Gu Ao was different, his face became normal and rosy, and his small body seemed to be much stronger.

When everyone was not paying attention, Shi Miao said slowly: "It seems that this time the harvest is good?"

"Well! Thank you, Sister Shimiao, my body should be completely back to normal now! The small medicine box has undergone a big upgrade. The medicine box now contains all the basic Chinese and Western medicines, and some basic medical tools. Now You can also handle some simple minor operations.”

When Gu Ao mentioned this, his eyes were full of gratitude.

Without Shi Miao's ginseng plant, it would take at least several years for his body to be completely restored to normal with the help of the small medicine box.

"It's good to be normal, and I can treat you like a normal person in the future."

Shi Miao smiled lightly.

After talking to Gu Ao a few more times, Shi Miao stopped communicating with Gu Ao and started to make soap.

Regarding Shi Miao's soap making process, two curious babies, Miya and Gu Tianjiao, stayed by Shi Miao's side and began to watch.

Shi Miao found a piece of wild boar lard that Liu Ailing had saved before, as well as caustic soda and salt from the kitchen, and lit a fire to set up a pot.

Afterwards, she added water and caustic soda to the pot, and when the caustic soda boiled, she added oil and kept stirring and heating. Stir with chopsticks to allow the oil to fully saponify.Because the saponification process is relatively long, it takes a whole day.

So after finishing the basic work, Shi Miao handed over the pot to Gu Tianjiao and Miya to stir and watch.

And she herself took Jin Jin out of the house.

In addition to making soap today, she also has to make wax blocks that can be used for lighting.

There is no Shui Lanxing's technique of extracting paraffin from petroleum, so Shi Miao chose the ancient method of making wax blocks, and went out to find a small worm called ash worm, which parasitizes on the ash tree and eats it. It is the sap of the ash tree, and then the white wax will be secreted. As long as you find the white wax secreted by the white wax insect and separate it from the white ash tree, take it back and melt it and put it in a mold to solidify, then the candle can be made seriously. come out.

So the most difficult step for Shi Miao in this process is the process of finding the ash tree.

Without the Neptune, Shi Miao could only take Jin Jin to the east with the most woods based on feeling.

From morning to afternoon, Shi Miao found nothing about it.

Just when Shi Miao was about to give up and take Jin Jin to dig out the honeycomb to make beeswax, Jin Jin pulled Shi Miao's leg.

"Squeak~"

Looking in the direction of Jin Jinzhi, Shi Miao's eyes lit up, and she saw a tree three meters in front of her, with taupe bark and obovate leaves, wasn't it the ash tree she was looking for? ?
If you find one, there will be a second one. It's getting late, and the time is not good.

These ash trees are obviously old for a long time, and there are many ash insects parasitized on them. The ash on the surface of the bark is very large, and they are all in large pieces.

Without hesitation, Shi Miao took out the dagger, and started to frantically pry the ash off the surrounding ash trees.

Jin Jin also imitated Shi Miao's appearance. Although he didn't have a dagger, he could use his little claws to buckle it bit by bit. It speeded up Shi Miao's progress a lot.

After filling a whole bamboo basket with wax flakes, Shi Miao praised Kua Jinjin in satisfaction and returned back the same way.

"Jinjin is awesome, and helped me solve another big problem! Go back and reward you with canned peaches."

"Squeak~"

Hearing the canned peaches in Shi Miao's mouth, Jin Jin instantly became excited.

It loves peaches very much. When Liu Ailing made canned peaches for the first time, it hesitated for a while, but after tasting it once, it couldn't stop the car completely.

Since then, the road of thinking about canned peaches is gone forever.

Even fresh peaches, which used to be a favorite, are now ranked behind canned peaches.

It was already 06:30 after going back.

Gu Tianjiao and Miya, who had been waiting for Shi Miao all day around the stove, couldn't help but burst into tears when they saw Shi Miao finally came back.

Watching the process of oil saponification is so boring that people can't help but doze off frequently.

　Thank you "(^-^)" and Shisan Shishao for the tickets for these two days~
　　Thank you Abai for your reward~
　　I love you, ok~
　　
　
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