Mingshi

Chapter 862 Soap
caustic soda!

This kind of thing is extremely corrosive, so Luo Xin told those servants.The servants carefully put the caustic soda into a smaller jar.Then they all looked at Luo Xin curiously.

Luo Xin arranged for another servant to carry the jar to the oil pan, pour the caustic soda from the jar into the oil pan, and ask another servant to stir it with a wooden stick. After the oil in the pan was evenly stirred , Luo Xin ordered his servants to continue cooking, and he went to have dinner.

After dinner, Luo Xin came to the kitchen in a hurry, Luo's mother followed to see the fun, and Die Er was also sent by Lu Rudai to see what Luo Xin was doing.Some servants also stretched their necks in the yard to look in, all of them looked like curious babies.

At this time, the liquid in the pot had already started to solidify, so Luo Xin asked his servants to bring the wooden box over, and then asked the servants to scoop out the solidified things with a spoon, and then poured them into the divided grids inside the wooden box in.When all these were done, he asked his servants to move the big wooden box to the yard and put it there.

At this time, there was still half of the very turbid liquid in the pot, and Luo Xin asked his servants to take out the liquid and put it into a large basin. When half of it was taken out, the remaining liquid became even more turbid , Luo Xin asked the servants to stop, asked the chef to take out the brine and pour it in, and then asked a servant to stir vigorously with a wooden stick.Then let the servants put a cotton thread into each candle mold, and then pour these things that started to solidify into the candle molds one by one. As a result, 86 candles were poured, and the servants also took them out and put them in the yard. inside.

"Xin'er, what you made is a candle!" Luo Mu asked.

"Yeah!" Luo Xin nodded.

"What's in that big box?"

"Soap!"

"What is soap?" Mother Luo asked curiously, and everyone listened with pricked ears.

"Things that can be used for bathing and washing clothes are many times stronger than soap locusts, and you don't need a mallet to wash clothes with it."

"Really?" Luo Mu didn't believe it: "Then that oily thing? Don't wash more and more oily!"

"After they are completely solidified, mother will know after trying."

Luo Xin said with a smile, and then began to direct his servants to fetch a jar, put the big funnel on the jar, wrap a large piece of charcoal with cotton cloth, put it at the bottom of the big funnel, and put sand in turn, Small pebbles, medium pebbles, large pebbles.After doing all this, ask two servants to hold the big funnel, and ask one servant to use a large ladle to scoop out all the muddy liquid left in the pot and pour it into the big funnel. Inside.Until all the cloudy liquid in the pot is poured into the large funnel.

When the last bit of liquid sank, Luo Xin had the big funnel taken away, and he stretched his head to look inside, his face showing joy.

Inside the jar is a layer of clear and transparent liquid, and the glycerin has been successfully made.Luo Xin ordered his servants to seal up the jar, and then happily came to the courtyard.At this point the soap and candles have both done the trick.Luo Xin asked his servants to remove the molds of the candles and put them together one by one. The servants looked at the candles curiously. Luo Mu reached out and touched the candles and said:
"It really looks like a candle!"

Luo Xin looked at his mother with a wry smile and said, "What do you mean by looking at the truth? This is actually a candle."

"But... I've never heard that lard can be used to make candles!"

"Come here, order one and try."

"I'm coming, I'm coming!"

A cook ran out bravely, took a candle and ran towards the kitchen, and then put the candle into the stove, and the candle was lit immediately.

"It's bright, it's really bright!" The servants cheered.

Mother Luo said with surprise on her face: "It can really be lit! And the smoke is still very small."

Then, Luo Mu excitedly looked at Luo Dao: "Xin'er, so, that fat...fat..."

"Soap!" Luo Xin said immediately.

"Yes, that's the soap. Is it really like what you said?"

"come here!"

Luo Xin scanned around, and finally set his eyes on the cook.The cook ran over in a hurry, and Luo Xin's gaze fell on his hand.The cook's hands were greasy, and he was helping out just now, so the greasy hands were still a little dark.Luo Xin said to his mother:

"Mom, do you see that his hands are dirty?"

The cook wanted to hide his hands behind his back, Luo Xin scolded:
"Hold it."

The cook raised his hands with a blushing face and explained: "Master Hou, villain... the villain is not usually so dirty. When cooking, he always washes it clean."

When everyone saw his greasy hands and thought about what he said just now, everyone felt sick and had a feeling of vomiting. Even Luo Mu felt a little uncomfortable at this moment.Luo Xin smiled and said:
"I know, it's only because you help me boil lard that I can do this today."

"Thank you, Lord Hou, thank you, Lord Hou!" The cook was so moved that he almost cried.

"Go get a basin of clean water yourself." Luo said.

"Hey!"

The cook passed the candle in his hand to a person beside him, then ran out, and after a while, a basin of clean water was brought.Then look at Luo Xin.Luo Xin pointed at the big box and said:
"Go pick a bar of soap off."

"Hey!"

The cook ran to the big box again, took out a piece of soap, and ran back again.

"Master Hou, here it is!"

"It's not for me, it's for you!" Luo Xin said with a smile, "Use it to wash your hands."

"Hey!"

The cook responded again, then soaked his hands in water, then soaped them, and rubbed them together.

"what?"

There was a burst of exclamation from around, and I saw a layer of bubbles on the cook's hands, and the cook looked at the bubbles on his hands in surprise.

"Wash in water!" Luo said.

The cook hurriedly put his hands into the water to clear it, and soon a layer of oil floated on the surface of the water, and the basin of water was already black.

"Change the water and wash again." Luo said.

The cook quickly changed another basin of water, this time without Luo Xin's instructions, he knew what to do.After inhaling it again, looking at his clean hands, he couldn't help saying happily:
"So comfortable!"

At this moment, Luo Mu was also interested, and ordered the servants to bring a basin of water, and washed it with soap.It was much cleaner and more comfortable than before.Immediately ordered the maid to put away all the soap, and finally thought about it again, and asked the maid to give the cook two yuan, telling him to wash his hands with soap in the future.Seeing his mother treating soap as a treasure, Luo Xin smiled and said:

"Mother, it's not difficult to make this soap. I'll make some later. Everyone in our family uses soap."

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