Smuggling Daming

Zhou Zhong grabbed a handful of salt and sprinkled it into the iron pot. A miraculous scene appeared. With the entry of salt grains, clusters of silk-like things appeared in the originally clear pot, and these things quickly The coagulation of the liquid quickly became a paste-like object, which looked white with yellowish color, somewhat like cheese.

"Wow~, something is growing out of the water!" Seeing something really growing out of the clear water, the naive Duo'er really thought it was a trick, and jumped up and down happily.Bracelet's face was filled with more doubts. She asked herself that she had read a lot of books, but the knowledge in the books was not enough to explain everything in front of her.

Compared with the two excited girls, Zhou Zhong seemed very indifferent. He saw the teacher do this kind of saponification reaction in the experiment class, and he even recalled that memory several times just now. He did it from memory, and the effect was within his expectations, so there was nothing surprising about it.

With the progress of salting out, a layer of white and yellowish soap base has been bleached in the iron pot. Note that this is soap base, and it cannot be called soap and scented soap for the time being, because there is still a final step to be done, but the last step needs to be Some other things are impossible to achieve in one step today.

Zhou Zhong picked up the soap base in the pot and put it on a clean white cloth. He didn't throw away the remaining solution in the pot. Instead, he filtered it several times with gauze and poured it into a clean porcelain bottle.The solution left behind is a mixture of glycerin and water, which can be rubbed on the face as a lotion, just right for gifting with soap.

"Brother, is this the gift you prepared?" Zhuo'er finally recovered from the shock at this moment, but when she saw the strange-shaped soap bases on the white cloth, her face showed a bit of distress.Although she didn't know what these things were used for, they still looked too ugly. How could it be possible to give them away?

Zhou Zhong saw through Bracelet's mind at a glance, and said with a smile at the moment: "Don't worry about Bracelet, this is only a semi-finished product. When it is finished, you will find that it is not only not ugly, but also very practical. It will be fully completed, it will take some time to prepare, and I also need your help!"

"Me? How can I help?" Zhuan'er was also a little surprised when she heard this. Although Zhou Zhong said before that the two of them should complete it together, after seeing the series of miraculous changes before, Zhuan'er has already expressed her concern for it. I completely lost confidence in myself.

"Of course it can help. What I'm going to make is something called soap. Its function is similar to that of the pancreas we use, but its appearance and effect are better. Now I have made the soap base, and I need to add it to it later. A kind of spice, but I'm not very good at spices, so I want to ask you to help me!" Zhou Zhong said very seriously.

As a girl, Zhuo'er used to like to play with sachets and the like, so she naturally knew a little about spices, so she immediately smiled and said, "Brother, you want spices. It's very important." It's simple, I will mix a few spices myself, and I will write down the ingredients I need later, brother, you can buy them for me."

"Great, let me tell you that Bracelet can be of great help!" Zhou Zhong also laughed and said after hearing this. He already knew that Bracelet would be equipped with spices, so when he was planning to make soap, he had already thought about it. The bracelet is also involved.

After dinner in the evening, Zhou Zhong approached Housekeeper Xu and asked him to order a few things for him, such as molds for soap, boxes for soap in the future, etc. In addition, the raw materials for spices needed for bracelets were also handed over to Xu. The butler will do it, after all he is the most familiar with the land in Songjiang Mansion, so it is appropriate to do these things.

A few days later, the spices and molds were also ready. Zhou Zhong boiled a pot of water in a large pot, then cut the soap base into strips and put them in an iron basin, and then boiled them in the pot over the water. The soap base melted quickly. At this time, Zhou Zhong added the spices made by the bracelet into it, stirred quickly and poured it into the mold to cool.

"Crack!" After the soap in the mold cooled down, Zhou Zhong turned the mold over and patted it on the table. Immediately, a row of six plum blossom-shaped soaps appeared on the table. These soaps were exquisite in shape and light yellow in color. , and at the same time exudes a faint fragrance of plum blossoms. If you look at it suddenly, you may really think it is a few plum blossoms in full bloom.

"Beautiful flowers! Brother, are these soaps for sister Lingyun?" Bracelet's eyes widened, and she said with an incredulous expression. She really couldn't imagine that a few days ago, the strangely shaped soap base passed her brother's hand. The processing turned out to be so delicate.

"That's right, these big brothers prepared a return gift for you!" Seeing how Zhuo Er liked it, Zhou Zhong said proudly, "But we can't give all of these soaps to Xie Lingyun, I think it's enough to give her a piece, and the rest Let's share the five yuan, this thing is much more useful than soap!"

"Just one piece?" Bracelet frowned slightly after hearing this, "Brother, is it too little for us to give only one piece, or I don't want my piece, and make two pieces and send them to Sister Lingyun?"

Bracelet participated in the whole soap making process. She knew that the cost of the soap in front of her was not high. I like it very much, but Zhuoer always feels that it is not good to use dozens of Wen as a gift in return.

How could Zhou Zhong fail to guess what Zhuang'er was thinking, and at that moment he reached out and patted Zhuang'er's small head and said, "Silly girl, don't look at the cost of making soap, but as the saying goes, things are rare. Expensive, I am the only one who can make soap in Ming Dynasty, and the function of soap is not worse than that of pancreas, but its appearance is more beautiful than pancreas, so if I set the price of soap at the same price as pancreas, or even a little lower , will definitely attract others to buy, so don't underestimate this piece of soap, if you sell it, it will not be cheaper than the rouge Xie Lingyun gave you!"

"But...but the cost of soap is so low, brother, if you sell it at such an expensive price, it will become...become..." Bracelet'er wanted to say the word 'profiteer' at the end, but she couldn't. Can't say it.

Looking at this innocent younger sister, Zhou Zhong sighed in his heart, but he said with a smile on his face: "Bracelet, you are so stupid, the production cost of soap is indeed very low, but you forgot to count one thing, soap. It took me a long time to come up with it. It can be said that every piece of soap is condensed with my hard work. Therefore, on the surface, the cost of the soap is only a few tens of pennies, but if you add the hard work spent by my brother, then one piece sells. A dozen taels of silver is already very cheap!"

Hearing Zhou Zhong's explanations, Zhuan'er nodded in a half-understanding manner. Although it seemed that there was nothing wrong with her brother's reasons, for some reason, Zhuan'er always felt that there was something wrong with her brother's words, but She couldn't tell what was wrong.

Seeing that Zhuoer finally stopped worrying about the price of soap, Zhou Zhong took out twelve small flat porcelain bottles and put them on the table, then picked up the large bottle containing glycerin hydrate, filled each porcelain bottle and filled it with a cork. Plug it tightly, and use two small porcelain bottles of glycerin for each piece of soap to wipe your face.

"You're done!" Zhou Zhong looked at the results of his hard work in the past few days with satisfaction, then turned his head to see Bracelet, and immediately said, "Bracelet, do you want to try the effect?"

When Zhou Zhong said this, he didn't allow Zhuo'er to object at all, he jumped up excitedly to bring a basin of hot water, and then motioned Zhuang'er to try the effect of the soap.Bracelet was a little embarrassed at first, but she couldn't stand Zhou Zhong's instigation, finally bent down and washed her face with soap, after drying, she poured glycerin from the bottle and wiped it on her face.

"How is it? Do you feel much refreshed?" Zhou Zhong asked impatiently.

I saw Biao'er's two slender hands gently stroking her cheeks, and after a while, she said excitedly: "It's really refreshing, it's similar to the feeling after washing your face with soap before, and after applying it in the bottle After using something on my face, my face feels smooth and tender, and my face doesn’t dry out when the wind blows on it, it’s really great!”

"Haha, that's natural. The thing in the bottle is called glycerin, and it's meant to protect the skin. Our bracelets are already beautiful. If we do these skin care every day in the future, we will definitely be able to become a beautiful beauty!" Zhou said. Zhong also laughed and said.In fact, he had secretly tried the effect of glycerin yesterday, otherwise he would not have dared to experiment with the bracelet.

Next, Zhou Zhong took out another gift box, and put soap and a bottle of skin care glycerin into the gift box. This is a return gift for Xie Lingyun. As for the remaining five copies, Zhou Zhong kept one for himself, and the other four for himself. Bracelet, Duoer, Aunt Wang and Su Niang are divided, so it can be said that no woman in the family will be left behind.

The gift was ready, Zhou Zhong wanted to find an opportunity to visit Xie Lingyun with the bracelet, and give her soap as a return gift, but what Zhou Zhong didn't expect was that Xie Lingyun would be the first to visit Xie Lingyun before he could visit her. She came to Zhou Manor to see him for the second time, but she didn't come to ask for gifts, but to check how Zhou Zhong's second book was written?

Although Zhou Zhong was busy making soap during this period, he did not miss Jin Ping Mei’s writing. Now that Xie Lingyun came to see Jin Ping Mei by herself, Zhou Zhong couldn’t help showing a nasty smile on his face. He couldn’t wait to take a look now. What kind of reaction will Miss Xie, who has always been calm and rational, read Jin Ping Mei's extraordinary book?

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