Start having a baby!I dressed as the mother of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty

Chapter 19 19. Flowers Bloom Splendidly (ask for tickets and investment)

"Amorous feelings have hurt parting since ancient times, and Yongxiang has always resented Qiluo. It is a beautiful spring day, and there are more people falling from buildings than falling flowers."

Someone committed suicide again!

The dark years in Yongxiang, the hopeless torment, how many people can't bear it, and choose to give up their lives to end the pain!
Looking forward to leaving here as soon as possible, Wang Zhi looked forward to it every day, waiting for news from King Liang.But he can only spend his days thinking about his daughter.

Fortunately, with the management of gold and silver, and the care arrangement of the Yongxiang Order, Wang Zhi took Xue'er to manage the warehouse of the violent room.Silk and hemp are kept separately, and raw materials and finished products are managed in separate warehouses.

Yun Gu, the order of the violent room, was also respectful and kind, and changed Wang Zhi to a quiet room to live in.Although there is no satin quilt, it is clean and livable.

On this day, Granny Su sent the dyed cloth into storage.Seeing Wang Zhi hurriedly smiled and saluted: "Your Majesty, the servant girl sent three bolts of linen to the warehouse."

She was always glad that she didn't embarrass Wang Zhi too much at the beginning.Looking at this lady's handsome eyebrows, sweet words and soft words, friendly manners, and the protection of the Yongxiang Order and the Violent House Order, it seems that she is not a person who has lived under others for a long time.In the future, if he ascends the phoenix again, maybe he can get some rewards.

"Grandma Su," Wang Zhi asked, "the silk that came out of the warehouse a few days ago has not been dyed, is it okay? If there is any damage, tell Sister Yun as soon as possible, so that you can report it to Sister Yun for cancellation!"

"Returning to your mother! I have asked the police to look at it," Su Granny said with a worried face, "The silk is dyed red, but after being dyed red in the water, after washing, the color is gone, leaving a little red, which is also old and dull... "

"Oh?" Wang Zhi raised his eyes, "Is there no other way for Sister Yun?"

"I've seen the violent order, but I'm also depressed. I heard that it's the red silk that Mrs. Shen specially asked for..." Granny Su sighed, "If I don't do well, I don't know if I will be punished!"

After pondering for a while, Wang Zhi said softly, "May my mother-in-law take me to have a look?"

As a master of pharmacy, most of the courses are related to chemistry, and she has done a lot of separation, analysis and identification of plant components.What organic solvent extraction, high performance liquid chromatography column separation, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis... There are more than a dozen papers published in Chinese core journals.

Cloth dye?never did.Lipstick is done, what's the difference?There are thousands of plant components, including hydroxyl, carbonyl, carboxyl, benzene, amines, phenols, glycosides, anthraquinones, etc. In the final analysis, they are all carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, plus inorganic salts.Roll up your sleeves and give it a try!

Follow Granny Su to the dye vat to check.Several rough envoys and court ladies were fiddling with the silk silk to worry about.

Safflower is used as a red dye.This is a herbaceous plant called Honglanhua, which has small orange-red flowers.

Grandma Su and the others smashed the fresh safflower, mixed it with water, let it stand, soaked the silk silk in it for two days, then took out the cleaning residue and dried it in the air.

Unexpectedly, the red color of the washed silk was almost completely gone, and after drying, only dark yellow remained, which looked like old white silk.

Le Meng has done the component analysis of saffron before.This safflower is grass safflower.Many traditional Chinese medicine foot baths are compatible with this and wormwood.

Safflower contains two kinds of pigments, yellow pigment and red pigment.Only the red pigment has value for dyeing red.Red pigment exists in the form of safflower glycosides in safflower, which should be soluble in alkaline water and insoluble in acidic water.

What method is used to extract safflower element?Wang Zhi grabbed a handful of red flowers and meditated.

According to the common practice of traditional Chinese medicine extraction, organic solvents are used.But where can I find organic solvents in BC?Try alkaline extraction and acid precipitation.Plant ash is alkaline, where can I find acidic substances?

Granny Su invited the violence order.

"Your Majesty," Yun Gu bowed and saluted as soon as she saw Wang Zhi, "I heard that the bath beans are made by Your Majesty. Now that the silk is dyed, does Your Majesty have a good recipe?"

Xue'er replied proudly: "The rouge used by the empress is made of flowers herself!"

Wang Zhiheyan: "Don't exaggerate! Can rouge compare with dyed cloth? Cloth needs to be washed and dried, and it must not fade!"

Yun Gu has fixed her Yin Yin eyes on Wang Zhi: "Your Majesty! You must find a way to help the servants! This errand, if you mess up one thing, all the hard work before will be wiped out!"

"I can only try..." Wang Zhi said bravely.

So, under Wang Zhi's command, some people went to find plant ashes to soak in water, and some went to pick sour apricots and mash them to make acid water.

Smash and grind the safflower, let it ferment overnight, add water and stir well, put it into plant ash water and soak for a day, filter out the residue with fine linen, then add the filtered sour apricot water, stir and let it stand overnight.This is based on the fact that red pigment and yellow pigment are soluble in alkaline solution, red pigment is insoluble in acidic solution, and yellow pigment is soluble in acidic solution.

The next day, Yun Gu was the first to rush to the feed tank.When the material tank was tilted, the yellow water was poured out slowly, exposing the red paste at the bottom of the tank.Yungu raised her finger and twisted it lightly, the bright red color was as eye-catching as bright red blood!
"Quick! Bring the silk over here!" Yun Gu shouted excitedly.

Everyone added water to stir the red dye in the vat. Granny Su took a piece of silk and carefully put it into the vat and pressed it to the bottom of the vat.

"How long will this soak?" Yun Gu asked Wang Zhi.

"Let's see it again tomorrow!" Wang Zhi was confused.

"The servant girl is guarding here," said Granny Su excitedly, "I, I will double it in two hours, so that the color will be even. If it is finished, I will invite the empress and the violent order to see it!"

Before dawn, everyone went to the dyeing room.Granny Su leaned against the cylinder and snored like thunder.Several people held back their laughter and took out the silk from the dye vat.

"It's so beautiful! It's really dazzling red!" Everyone exclaimed, squeezed out the water, and wanted to rinse it.

"Slow down!" Wang Zhi stopped, "Put it in acid water for half an hour!"

Yun Gu asked puzzledly, "What is this for?"

"Fixing the color." Wang Yan said with a smile, "making the red more vivid and the color more solid!"

Yun Gu carefully folded up a piece of red silk, and bowed down to Wang Zhi with admiration: "Your Majesty is truly a god! Yun Gu throws herself to the ground!"

Wang Zhi stroked the silk, the bright color and texture of the silk refracted gorgeous soft light in the sun, and he couldn't help sighing: "If this is embroidered with brocade, I don't know how amazing it will be!"

Yun Gu shook her head: "The embroidery workshop hasn't produced any embroidery for a few years. The emperor has always been simple, and he doesn't allow fine embroidery and fine painting." She laughed, "Even the most beloved Mrs. Shen, the skirt is not allowed to drag the floor! The emperor himself They are all robes woven from coarse yarn. So it is one of the few things that Mrs. Shen wants red silk, and the servant girl must do it well."

"Everyone has the love of beauty. Could it be that when you enter the emperor's house, you have to put on a show for the sake of setting an example?" Wang Zhi slandered.

"I heard that Mrs. Na Shen is also beautiful," Wang Zhi asked, "Don't you just dress yourself up?"

Miss Yun smiled: "Your Majesty has never met Mrs. Shen? In terms of beauty, Your Majesty is inferior to her. In terms of pure beauty, no one can compare to Your Majesty. Who has ever seen a woman who is stunning without makeup?"

What he said made Wang Zhi shy.She told Yun Gu, "The red dye can be stored after drying, and it can be dissolved in water when it is used."

"That is to say, we can also dye cloth in winter?" Yun Gu asked pleasantly, "We only dye cloth when there are flowers and leaves for dyeing when the flowers are in bloom."

"Then take advantage of the abundance of materials and make dyes, which can be used to dye cloth at any time." Wang Zhi said, pointing to the waste silk, "Sister Yun, can I use those pieces of silk? "

When Le Meng went on a trip, she saw a tie-dye workshop in the ancient town and experienced it with great interest.But those are all handmade cotton cloths, can this silk be tie-dyed?She wants to try.

Yun Gu helped her with great interest.Layers of silk are pulled out, twine is tightly wound, and then soaked in a dyeing vat.

One day later, it's time to witness the miracle!

"Turning stone into gold!" Yun Gu was holding a ball of brocade, her hands trembling.

On the bright red silk, there are light yellow flowers blooming. There are strands of red between the petals, like the silk of the petals. Because of the gorgeous red, the flowers are more delicate, soft, and weak, which makes people feel pity at a glance. !
This was originally silk that was discarded after unsuccessful dyeing!The old yellow, because of the red background, actually gives people the feeling of glutinous milk!

"Mother, your hands are really magic hands that can turn stones into gold..." Yun Gu sighed, "I want to let Mrs. Shen choose the cloth. I'm afraid she won't be able to put down such beautiful silk!"

Granny Su and Xue'er happily touched the silk.Wang Zhi didn't expect that the use of waste can turn decay into magic!
"Your Majesty, let's make some more! Lots of flowers, red, yellow, blue, and green!" Xueer shouted happily.

On this day, Wang Zhi was keeping accounts in the warehouse. A beautiful and dignified lady stood at the door of the warehouse surrounded by everyone.

"Let me take a look, that Wang Yan, Wang Liangdi, who skillfully dyed the beautiful flowers!" She entered the door with a smile on her face.

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