On the Difficulties of Escape in Ancient Times

Xiao Xiao felt that the commotion last night had seriously disturbed her sleep, and she had a reason to sleep in the next day.

The mornings and evenings in the second half of August are already chilly, and it’s particularly comfortable to lie in bed under the covers.

"Third sister, please wake up quickly," Xiao Lian rushed in like the wind: "Hahaha, the sweet potato is taking shape."

It's a pity that she is not a real genius, nor does she have various technologies and hard work. In the past two days, Xiao Xiao also focused on experiments, just to note down the most suitable ratio.

Stir the plant ash water, and the filtered mixed liquid is lye. Add filtration to obtain the filtered mixed liquid, which is lye.

Add the boiled lard, heat to the appropriate temperature and stir to combine.

Stirring is time-consuming and labor-intensive, but the mixing ratio of the amount of lard oil to the amount of alkali is the most important, and it is also an empirical ratio that must be obtained through many experiments.

It had been canceled more than a dozen times before, which made Mrs. Xiao very distressed, so she could only ignore it.

Wu was willing to help, but Xiao Xiao suspected that she wanted to take the opportunity to eat some lard residue, so she just watched the lard boiling the whole time, and it was careless to ask her to work.

Mrs. Liu feels like vomiting these days when she smells the oily smell, so she can only stay away.

Fortunately, Xiao Dalang was outside to help with errands, her grandfather was making wooden grinding tools according to her requirements, and the Xiao sisters and Lin sisters were helping her with the work, so she didn't give up halfway.

Now that Xiao Xiao heard Xiao Lian's words, he didn't even bother to meet Zhou Gong: "Go and have a look."

After pouring out the soap from the rough wooden box and touching it, Xiao Xiao breathed a sigh of relief: "Go wash your hands and wash your clothes to try the effect."

Fortunately, she still wanted to make fragrant rice noodles all at once, so she really thought too highly of herself.

If you want soap, you have to add milk, honey, flowers, and preferably alcohol to the soap to make a perfect soap.

It's a pity that she doesn't know the art of alcohol distillation.

There is no milk to buy here, honey is too expensive, and I have no plans to buy flowers. When the peach blossoms bloom next year, there will be free ones.

But holding what seemed to her to be a crude and crude soap, she also felt that this was enough for the time being. Otherwise, even if she had a way to make a fortune, without the support of a big boss, she might lose both her life and wealth, and even her life in serious cases. No guarantee.

I tried washing the cloth used to wipe my face, and it was clean in no time.

I applied soap again and rubbed the stains on my clothes. After cleaning, only a faint mark remained.

"It's very useful," Xiao Xiu couldn't hide his joy: "Then we can start making more and sell them, right?"

Xiao Xiao nodded: "Let the eldest brother buy some suet first."

Okay, now she also understands that saponin-flavored soap is so expensive. It can easily cost more than 20 yuan or a penny. The best soap in the shop costs one or two taels of silver.

This is because the lard oil is expensive, and the additives in the panko are also expensive.

However, even so, she did a rough calculation and found that even if this simple soapberry was sold for twenty cents a piece, she could still earn fifteen cents.

Because their plant ash is free, labor is also free, but the lard oil has to be bought with money.

What’s even more depressing is that now everyone loves pork suet and wishes they could have it with every meal, but the price is five cents a pound more expensive than pork?

The other thing is to make more box grinding tools. My grandfather has been making them for the past two days and is becoming more and more proficient. There is no need to spend money to buy them.

In about two or three days, we will be able to sell the first batch of saponins.

They were still excitedly discussing how to sell it when the grandson of Li Zheng's family came over and called them to go to Li Zheng's house to discuss how to solve the unsolved case of Xu Sanlang's burglary.

Old Man Xiao and Old Lady Xiao couldn't get along well with each other, so they asked Dalang and the three sisters of the Xiao family to make requests, so they were taught what requests to make along the way. Mrs. Xiao was very direct: "We have to ask them to pay a lot of money."

She didn't know what she was thinking, so she simply asked Old Man Xiao: "How much do you think we should ask for?"

Old man Xiao said loudly: "I want twenty taels."

"Ah?" Not only Mrs. Xiao, but also Xiao Dalang and the others who followed them looked at Mr. Xiao with wide eyes, wondering if they heard wrongly.

Wu quickly stepped forward and asked, "Dad, did you mistake two taels of silver for twenty taels?"

"Our family didn't suffer much damage, but I heard that Xu Sanlang was sent to see a doctor before dawn, saying he couldn't stop the bleeding."

"They are so rogue, will they bite back and ask us to pay for the medicine?"

Now that her uncle and her husband are away, she pays special attention to the outside world. She takes advantage of the opportunity of washing clothes to go outside to listen to gossip by the river early in the morning.

Old man Xiao was too embarrassed to scold his daughter-in-law for being stupid, so he could only say with a straight face: "This can't be settled in one fell swoop. We must talk more to make it easier for them to bargain, right?"

Xiao Lian raised her chin and snorted: "They destroyed the trap set up by my grandfather and prepared to break into the house. They deserve it even if their legs are broken."

Xiao Xiao gave her a thumbs up: "Second sister, you are absolutely right. If you ask for high prices and pay them back on the spot, you will scare them to death."

"That's right." Mrs. Xiao's heart ached when she thought of her two sons who were serving hard labor, and when she thought of the ten taels of silver they were fined, she immediately gritted her teeth and said, "At least we have to let them pay ten taels of silver. It's a pity that the two mainstays of our family have no money. at home."

Therefore, when they entered Li Zheng's home, they all had a grimace.

Xu Laosan and his wife have also arrived.

Seeing the Xiao family come in, Xu Laosan's family wanted to make amends first rather than suffer misfortune later: "Sister, I'm so sorry. The boy is naughty and it's because we didn't discipline him properly."

"Now he can't stop bleeding from the bottom of his feet, and he's screaming in pain. He deserves it..."

Wu immediately spoke uprightly: "You have to be taught well, and you can't be sneaky. He is like this. If he doesn't meet someone as easy to talk to as us, he will immediately break his legs and twist them and send them to the Yamen."

Then he said again: "If you pay twenty taels of silver, this matter will be settled."

When Xu Laosan and his wife heard this, they both suspected that they had heard wrongly and couldn't help but look at each other.

Mrs. Wu understood their mood at the moment very well, because she had suspected that she had heard wrong before, so she kindly said again: "Twenty taels of silver in compensation."

"Are you dreaming? Are you suffering from hysteria?" Xu Laosan's family yelled: "You go sue him and lock him up. We can't get out so much money."

The money can be taken out, but they are very stubborn, how can they give it up?

Xu Laosan also agreed with his mother-in-law's words in his heart. If he was imprisoned for this matter, he would only be imprisoned for a month or two at most.

What about Saburo working hard at home to squeeze oil but still not earning half of his money?

What's more, Saburo is injured now and needs to take good care of himself for a while.

This deal is so bad that only a fool would do it.

Xiao Dalang was unsure, but he said with a strong attitude: "Then we will report it to the official."

Xiao Xiao knew what Li Zheng was thinking about: "We have to go to Huichun Hall and tell Dr. Jiang that all the bamboo sticks he asked our grandfather to make have been crushed. We have to send them to them after a while."