After traveling to ancient times, I became a superb shrew

Chapter 76 They Are Outsiders

She stuffed the brush into Dong Rong's hand: "Just these four characters, you can write them again, and it's better to draw something next to it."

Dong Rong has always been very distracted to do things that the head of the family ordered.

He spread out the paper and took the brush, but he didn't write for a long time.

Gu Qing didn't urge him either. Dong Rong could write and draw, so she would definitely live up to her expectations. If it didn't work, she could wait for Mo Li to come back at night and let Mo Li try.

After thinking for a while, Dong Rong picked up a pen and ink, and began to write on the paper. Instead of writing horizontally, he wrote two characters up and down, left and right, and the two lines representing rivers passed between the four characters. Winding up to the northeast, it is obviously just two simple black lines, but he sketched and bent them so casually, inexplicably becoming majestic and majestic, with a kind of positive beauty.

"Rong'er, you are really amazing!"

Gu Qing's eyes lit up, Rong'er expressed all the feeling she wanted, these few words were too perfect.

She took two blueprints and rushed to the old house of the Gu family.

Mr. Gu is weaving baskets in the yard. Bamboos are all over the mountains. After weaving them into bamboo wares, they can be sold in the town, and they can also be sold for some copper coins.

"Grandfather!" Gu Qing came in quickly, and put two blueprints in front of the old man, "Can you make these two things?"

Mr. Gu picked up the two pieces of paper and looked at them carefully: "This boxy thing can be made, it's not difficult, but how do you make these words?"

"It's like making a seal. The words and pictures should be reversed." Gu Qing said, "You can try to make one with radishes first. If it doesn't work, I'll go to the town and find someone to do it."

"Okay, of course!" Mr. Gu replied, "Give me two days, and I will definitely figure it out for you."

Gu Qing knew that the old man loves to delve into it when he is old, so she smiled and said, "Don't be in such a hurry, just make a show in three days."

Old man Gu didn't even ask her what she was going to do. Anyway, this eldest granddaughter has always been reliable, and she can do whatever she wants...Of course, the old man has automatically forgotten how generous her previous eldest granddaughter was.

When Gu Qing returned home, many people from the village came to deliver the adobes. She asked Gu Meng to help count them, while she counted and settled the accounts, and settled the money on the spot.

The adobes bought by each household in the village cost about 3 to [-] yuan, and they were all piled up in the open space next door.

In the morning of the next day, Dong Rong and Gu Yu found thirty men who had started working. These men were all people who hadn't found work in the town. Thirty cents a day's work is simply a great thing, and they didn't ask why Gu Qing's family wanted to build a house again, they rolled up their sleeves and bowed their heads and started working in a muffled voice.

The house built this time is different from the houses they built before. The adobe walls are built at a slant, and many ventilation holes are required, because making soap always requires high temperature work, and there are no holes for air to escape. something went wrong...

In addition to building walls, a large hearth for lighting a fire is also built. One is built in the middle of the room, according to the size of the pot.

This pot is a steel pot that Gu Qing bought in the shopping mall. There are also steel products in the dynasty, but she didn't know where to buy it for a while, so she went to the town and brought back four large steel pots. No one in the village said anything... After all, Gu Qing's family can not only build a big house, have a horse-drawn carriage, but also open a shop in the town. It's normal to buy a few pots now.

In less than three days, the soap workshop slowly took shape.

A big house was built next to the original house, which was very eye-catching, and many people in the village talked about it.

The old lady Gu couldn't hold back anymore, she pulled Gu Qing and asked in a low voice: "This house cost a lot of money to build, what are you going to do?"

Gu Qing knew that everyone would know about this sooner or later, so she simply didn't hide it, and said, "I'm planning to do another business."

She brought out a basin of water, put it in front of the old lady, and then handed over a piece of soap, "Grandma, wash your hands."

Mrs. Gu has a pair of rough wrinkled hands. The backs of her hands are full of grooves. There are black things everywhere in the gaps between her palms and fingers. This is the dirt accumulated over the years. not drop.

The old man glanced at Gu Qing's white and clean hands, feeling a little embarrassed for no reason.

In fact, people in the village have hands like this. She thought it was okay before, but when her eldest granddaughter suddenly asked her to wash her hands, the sense of shame came up instantly.

"Grandma, wet your hands first, then rub this thing on your hands."

Gu Qing demonstrated a little.

The old lady Gu did as she did, the product was slippery on her hands, and there was a layer of fine white froth on her palms, as if she had rubbed off some of the black stuff on her palms, and she quickly put her hands in the basin , Take it out again, and sure enough, your hands are a little bit clean.

"This, what is this?" Mrs. Gu was surprised,
"It can't be the kind of bath beans used by rich people, right?"

She has heard of this thing, but she has never seen it, let alone used it.

In her opinion, only bath beans can have such a good cleaning effect.

"When I was cooking that day, a can of lard on the stove was poured into plant ash, and it condensed to form this kind of thing. I tried it, and it turned out to be very useful, much better than simply using plant ash to wash things." Gu Qing Laughing, "Grandma, tell me, if I make this thing and sell it, will there be a market?"

"Lard? A can of lard?" Mrs. Gu stared wide-eyed, "This thing is made of lard, my God, I just washed my hands with lard!!"

A can of lard can be used in their family for a year!
How can this eldest granddaughter ruin things so much!
Gu Qing: "..."

Why is the old lady's focus always so strange!

She opened her mouth to explain: "Grandma, calm down, let me ask you, do you know how much a bath bean costs?"

The old lady Gu shook her head. She didn't know where bath beans were sold in the town, and how did she know how much it cost. She couldn't afford it anyway, and she didn't care about the price.

"The price of a bath bean the size of a baby's fist is around one tael of silver."

Gu Qing smiled and said, "This thing in our house is better than bath beans, but it has no fragrance... When I find a way to add fragrance to it, it can be sold for at least one tael of silver. Do you know how much lard can be bought for one tael of silver?" ?"

The old lady Gu quickly settled the accounts in her heart. Pure fat pork costs more than 20 yuan a catty, and one tael of silver can buy almost fifty catties, and can boil out forty catties of lard... After such a settlement, her old man's mentality became more and more uneasy. Steady, even short of breath: "This thing, can it really sell for a tael of silver?"

She grabbed Gu Qing's sleeve.

Gu Qing nodded seriously: "As long as this thing is on the market, it will definitely be sold at this price."

"Granddaughter, can't you meet everyone in the future and say how did you discover this thing? What if someone else learns from you and made it with lard and plant ash?"

The old lady Gu lowered her voice, "This thing will definitely sell, but if the formula is leaked and everyone flocks to make this thing, how can you make money?"

Gu Qing knew that the old lady was really thinking about her, and she didn't want the old man to think about it every day, she said with a smile: "I have been researching and improving the formula for the past few days, and this is made by adding some other things. Relying on lard and plant ash does not have such a good effect."

High alcohol and salt water, these two are the basis of the soap business.

The old lady Gu breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, you have to grasp the secret recipe in your own hands, Yang Pei and the others are outsiders after all, so don't tell them yet..."

(End of this chapter)