Fleeing from famine and farming: I made a fortune by relying on medical skills

"Okay, let's start teaching them how to read and write tomorrow.

Let Bai Shao teach, if they can't learn, just let Bai Shao teach them. When Xiao Qiuling heard this, she nodded in agreement.

These four little guys are really capable of tossing around, playing with the children in the village, or running around in the first four factory buildings at home, they can't be free.

Sometimes afraid that they would go up the mountain or play in the river, Xiao Qiuling had to keep an eye on them all the time, not letting them go to these places, for fear of something happening.

When the four little guys heard that their little aunt was going to teach them to be enlightened and read, although they didn't know what it was, the four little guys were terrified of their little aunt, and the little aunt got seriously angry, but she would really beat them.

Immediately, the four little guys looked at Huang Zisu pitifully, and Huang Zisu said, "Don't pretend to be miserable with me, and follow your little aunt to enlightenment and learn to read in the future.

If you don't learn well, don't say your little aunt hit you, I have to prick you with silver needles. "

Seeing that it was useless to sell miserably, the four little guys became dejected one by one.

"Fourth brother, you will help me collect some river clam shells later." After lunch, Huang Zisu told his fourth brother.

"Susu, what do you want river clam shells for? Did you come up with something new?" Cang Zhu said excitedly when he thought of this.

"Let's try it first." Huang Zisu nodded with a smile.

"Then what is the new product you developed this time for?" Cang Zhu asked.

"It's for washing clothes." Yes, this time Huang Zisu wants to use the clam shells to make soap.

This matter of making soap was reminded by her second sister-in-law before.

Said that the four little guys got so dirty that their clothes couldn't be washed clean.

She thought that in ancient times, the clothes were washed with plant ash, which contains potassium carbonate, which can remove oil stains.

But this way of washing clothes is too laborious. Before washing clothes, a lot of plant ash needs to be burned to clean them, and the cleaning is not very clean.

Also use many times of water to wash the ash from the clothes.

As for the rich and noble families, they only use fragrant soap to clean them.

Xiangpanzi is to take out the pig’s pancreas, remove the fat attached to the pancreas, wash and mash the clean pig’s pancreas, add sugar, soda ash and a small amount of soybean powder, and then add water to make a slurry. Knead into balls, put them in the sun to dry, and then the pancreatic soap is successfully made.

In ancient times, fragrant soap was something that only officials and nobles could afford.

Therefore, she wanted to make a soap by herself, so that ordinary people can also use it.

"It's used to wash clothes? Could it be to make fragrant soap?" Cang Zhu asked.

"Almost! Fourth brother, hurry up and get river clam shells, the more these things, the better."

"Okay! I'm going now." Cang Zhu nodded and walked out.

There was originally a big river at the head of Yunhe Village. Every year in autumn and winter, every household in the village would go down to the river to touch mussels for stewed rice beans. This is also passed down from their village. physical.

The shells of mussels can neither be used for decoration nor to feed chickens, ducks and livestock.

Every year when the villagers finish eating the mussels, they throw them in their backyards and in front of their doors.

Cang Zhu walked around the village and collected several mussel shells in baskets.

"Susu, I got this river clam shell back for you. I'll learn how to get it next." It didn't take long for the Huang family to know that Susu had developed a new product.

This new product is still used for laundry. No, the Huang family became curious and followed them to the kitchen.

Huang Zisu didn't say much, and let them watch what he was doing.

Just look at the process of their own operation, and they will know how to make this soap in the future.

Huang Zisu first cleaned the mussel shells, then put the mussel shells in a charcoal stove for firing, and pounded the burnt mussel shells into powder.

The main component of mussel shells after firing is calcium oxide, which is commonly known as quicklime. If there are no natural rocks containing calcium carbonate such as mussel shells and limestone, lime can be produced.

Of course, it would be even better if there was ready-made lime, instead of burning clam shells and grinding them to sieve.

After the clam shells are crisped, the yellow perilla is taken out one by one, crushed, and ground into powder.

After being ground into powder, the yellow perilla is sifted through another fine sieve.

The purpose of this is to make soap that is more delicate and has no rough feeling.

After grinding the clam shell powder, put it aside for later use.

Then, the yellow perilla is burned to burn the plant ash, which is to boil out the lye and provide alkaline substances for making soap to promote the saponification reaction.

However, when Huang Zisu was boiling alkaline water, she also put some sweet-scented osmanthus to boil together.

When the time comes, the boiled water will have a faint scent of sweet-scented osmanthus, and if you go to make soap, the washed clothes will have a faint scent of sweet-scented osmanthus.

The boiled lye is filtered out with gauze, the lye is added into the pounded shell powder, stirred evenly, filtered again with gauze, and then set aside to settle overnight.

After the second day, chop the prepared lard, put it in a large pot, cook it slowly over low heat, then use a colander to take out the lard, and let it cool for later use.

Pour the upper layer of alkaline water from the mixed lye layered overnight into lard at room temperature, then crush coarse salt, and add it to the mixture of lard and alkaline water.

Fine salt can be sucked with salt to make soap precipitate, and then stir continuously in one direction to fully mix alkaline water and lard to produce saponification reaction, converting fatty acids into soap and glycerin, when the oil gradually becomes sticky paste , it can be put into a bamboo tube and shaped.

Place it for three days, when the soap is fully condensed.Just unmold it from the bamboo tube and cut it into a bar of soap and let it age, the better it will clean your dirty laundry.

"Okay, you're done." After Huang Zisu gradually turned the oil into a sticky paste, which can be put into a bamboo tube to set it, she clapped her hands and said.

"Is this fragrant pancake ready?" Mrs. Huang Zhang read it from beginning to end, and saw that it is not difficult to make fragrant pancreas, just use river clam shells, plant ash water and lard to make it.

It seems too simple.

"It still needs to wait for three days. After three days, the shape will be finalized, and then it can be cut into pieces and used for laundry.

However, the longer you store it, the better it will clean dirty clothes.

After three days, let's take it out and wash the dirty clothes to see how the effect is?

If the effect is still good, our family can mass produce this soap.

In addition, the mass-produced soaps are not expensive anymore, they are sold cheaper, following the common people's route, with small profits but quick turnover. " Huang Zisu told her grandma.