peasant young lady

Chapter 52 Antique lip balm

Yang Lihua opened her mouth wide in surprise, "Use this?"

"Otherwise, what are you using?" Cheng Xia glared at her, "Pick the flowers quickly, the more you pick the better, and pick the plump ones." Cheng Xia plucked a piece of rose and showed it to Yang Lihua, "This attracts insects." Or don't pick them when they are not in full bloom," Cheng Xia still wants to make rose jam with these roses, so they can't be wasted.

"Sister-in-law, how do you do it?" Yang Lihua asked curiously while picking flowers.

"Go back and I'll do it if you don't see it." Cheng Xia muttered, and immediately began to pick roses and search for chicken fir mushrooms everywhere. The taste of the chicken fir last time was so good that Cheng Xia couldn't help but repeat it. Do it once and try it.

Or maybe she is motivated, this time Yang Lihua didn't feel like she was working hard and being lazy, Cheng Xia didn't tell herself to pick out the rose petals quickly and carefully, the ones she chose were all blooming brightly, and the ones that entered her nose were all fragrant, so good It smells great.

It was ready in about half an hour. Cheng Xia also picked some coltsfoot and basil leaves, and then followed Yang Lihua towards home.

Before reaching the foot of the mountain, she heard people going up the mountain not far away discussing something, Cheng Xia didn't worry about it, but Yang Lihua gave her a tug, and Cheng Xia listened.

"Hey, you didn't know that the Qian's family came again today. They blocked the door of Cheng Er's house to prevent people from entering and leaving, but they scared the people of Cheng Er's house." A shrill female voice.

"What are the Qian family doing here again? Didn't they teach the Cheng Er family a lesson last time? They came to fight again. They dared to come here to find trouble because they had more sons. If they could show their confidence, Qian hoped to be bullied like that." Is it?" Another voice was so loud that everyone in the forest could hear it clearly.

"Hey," the first person to speak sighed, "This is not here to vent your anger for Qian Pan, but to clear up the responsibility. If you say that the two families are not authentic, now I am afraid that I will have something to do with you A few days ago, Cheng Er's family had to send Qian Pan and the child back to her mother's house, but was beaten by three brothers of the Qian family. After a few days of silence, she found that her newborn grandson was indeed not well. Although he was still alive, I can't even open my eyes, I'm afraid I'm blind. If my brain doesn't work well, then this child's life will be really hard. No, this time, Cheng Er's family has another crooked idea and wants to give the child to Qian's family Send it, the three brothers of the Qian family are married, which daughter-in-law is willing to share such troubles, so the fight started again."

"Hey, the life of the child is also hard," said the second female voice, "I heard that Qian Pan's father is willing, but her brother is not. Qian Pan's mother is already mad, and now Qian Pan's father is bedridden too Wow, I went to see it at noon today, Qian Pan is still in confinement, crying from time to time, Cheng Er's family doesn't cook, and the child doesn't have any milk."

"This matter, Lizheng has nothing to do with it. He doesn't listen to what he says. It's still a matter between the two villages. It can't be stopped. Cheng Qiu said in front of Lizheng that he wanted to kill that girl Cheng Xia. , It seems that I really hate it." A small voice suddenly added, Cheng Xia sneered, Cheng Qiu hadn't given up on this idea yet.

"Who said it wasn't? Let me tell you, if Qian Pan died directly in the lake at the beginning, it would have been settled without causing trouble to the two families. Now it's good, the mother-in-law's family is also troubled." A short stature But a female voice with a high-pitched voice joined in. Just as they walked up, they raised their eyes and saw Cheng Xia's icy face.

"Sister-in-law?" Seeing Cheng Xia's silence, Yang Lihua couldn't help reminding her.

"It's okay," Cheng Xia realized, with a weary expression, not wanting to speak, and went straight down the mountain.

When they got home, Yang Dalang had just taken a nap. Cheng Xia put the basket of roses in the house. Yang Lihua looked anxious and said, "Sister-in-law, don't we make lip balm? Why did you put it in your house?"

"Using yours is enough," Cheng Xia replied lightly, and put the rose buds picked yesterday outside to dry in the sun. Seeing Chen Shi and Lin Xiu come out, she asked if she could help like last time. In that way, she would peel and remove the flesh of the winter melon and cut it into strips of suitable size. She thought that she would start making candied winter melon as soon as she finished making the fat.

There is a market every five days, but she doesn't want to see the shopkeeper every five days. The work of the medicinal food workshop must be finalized as soon as possible, and the business plan and the medicinal food recipes to be made should also be determined as soon as possible. Three days later, the winter melon candied fruit is ready. , she found a chance to go to Chong'an County by herself.

The sooner the Herbal Food Shop opens, the sooner she can benefit. After all, she can't gain anything in the early stage and can only wait for the profit.

It's best to make a profit, if not, then she will cry to death.

When he came back from the market, Cheng Xia secretly gave Chen Shi [-] Wen and Lin Xiu [-] Wen secretly to hide the remaining money, and told Lin Xiu not to Let Yang Erlang know.So the two of them responded to Cheng Xia's request, and immediately started to take winter melons from the cellar.

Seeing Cheng Xia making winter melon preserves, Yang Lihua suddenly became happy, "Sister-in-law, are you going to teach me how to make it?"

Cheng Xia paused while cleaning the rose petals, and raised her eyes to look at Yang Lihua, who was looking forward to her beauty. She felt awkward no matter how she looked at it. She had a hunch that she would know what secret Yang Lihua had in the next market.

Cheng Xia didn't speak, and carefully cleaned a piece of the bright red rose petals in full bloom, and then dried it a little. At home, he found a medicine pot that was much larger than the mortar used for pounding garlic. Some people were sick and couldn't afford medicine, so they picked herbs and pounded them for use. Now they just came in handy. After cleaning the pounding hammer and medicine jars, they began to make lip balm.

In fact, it can’t be called lip balm. In ancient times, lip balm was also called lip balm. More precisely, it refers to creamy rouge, which is packed in a small box or a small jar, and it is directly dipped and applied when used.Famous lip balms in ancient times, such as Jiajian lip balm, Dianjiang lip balm, Lvchuangmi lip balm, pomegranate lip balm, etc. Most of the lip balms in the past dynasties are in the shape of jelly, which is very close to the lipstick of the 21st century, so it is also called lip balm. It is called "wax rouge" and "oil rouge".

This creamy mouth fat is mostly made of beef marrow or tallow, and the production steps are also very complicated.

What Cheng Xia is going to do now is somewhat similar to lipstick paper.Cheng Xia remembers that it was recorded in "Dream of Red Mansions" that the filtered and clarified red and blue flower juice and flower dew were steamed and folded into a paste, and stored in a box. Attaches to lips.Cheng Xia intends to use this method to make it, which is much simpler than using tallow.

Cheng Xia grabbed a handful of washed rose petals and put them in a medicine jar, and took out an orange from Yang Lihua's back basket. It was picked by chance when she was going down the mountain. Squeezed the juice into the rose petals in the medicine pot, and asked Yang Lihua to take out the liquor that Yang Lihua bought for Headhunter Yang at the market today, poured a little into it, and then began to grind it finely with a pounding hammer.

The pounding pot itself is made of very rough stoneware, and the frosting effect is already very good. After a while, the rose petals that filled the pot turned into a shallow layer of bright red juice. Cheng Xia added it in batches Squeeze the rose petals into the orange juice and grind them slowly, the finer the grinding, the better. When the rose juice has filled half of the jar, Cheng Xia asked Yang Lihua to bring a clean cage cloth, which is similar to the modern gauze Alright, I poured all the juice in the medicine pounding pot into it, and slowly squeezed out the clear big red rose water without impurities, so the first step was completed.

At this time, Chen Shi and Lin Xiu also peeled and peeled the two wax gourds and cut them into strips. Curious about what Cheng Xia was doing, they all gathered together to watch.

Cheng Xia couldn't find a smaller pot, so she asked Yang Lihua to light the fire on the stove, put the grate in the pot, put the jar of rose water on the grate, and steam it over water.

Lin Xiu felt extremely strange, "Sister-in-law, what are you doing?"

"She's boiling flower juice to make lip balm." Chen understood Cheng Xia's intention with just one glance.

Cheng Xia suddenly raised her head and looked at Mrs. Chen, who seemed to realize that she had said something wrong, smiled awkwardly, and said that she was afraid that Xiaolong would wake up, so she turned her head and left.

This Chen family seems to know everything about making pickled vegetables or lip balm. Cheng Xia is suddenly a little curious about who the person she married before is not easy to look at.

Soon the flower juice was ready, Cheng Xia carefully took it to the yard to cool, and then went to the room to ask Yang Dalang for wood pulp paper.

There are two main types of paper in ancient times, one is Xuan paper and the other is raw edge paper.There are many classifications of rice paper, such as raw Xuan, cooked rice, half-cooked rice, and the quality of various rice papers is also much worse. Which workshop made it.Like the one she bought for Yang Dalang today, the shopkeeper said it was the famous Xue Tao Jian, which is very easy to use.

But now Cheng Xia needs wood pulp paper, and Yang Dalang usually uses this kind of paper for writing, so it is very convenient to borrow it.

Yang Dalang naturally agreed, but he was curious about what Cheng Xia was going to do, so he followed along to see.

Cheng Xia cut the wood pulp paper into a moderate size, touched the dried flower juice and soaked it in the flower juice, and took it out and put it on Lin Xiu to bring it over Hanging on the bamboo curtain, spread out one by one, waiting for the flower juice to be completely absorbed.

Yang Dalang smiled, turned around and went back to his room to read a book.

Yang Lihua looked surprised, staring intently with her hands on her chin, and she still didn't forget to ask Cheng Xia a question, "Sister-in-law, can this be made into lip balm?"

"Yes, it's that simple. It's actually not difficult. Next time you want to do it, just try it yourself." Cheng Xia said, seeing that the spread out wood pulp paper was almost dry, and dipped it with a brush again. Paint it again, "When it is dry, paint it again. It is almost enough to paint it four or five times. Then let it dry directly, and you can use it when it is completely dry."

After Cheng Xia finished speaking, she clapped her hands and stood up, blinking at Yang Lihua who was eager to try, "My waist is sore after sitting for so long, I leave the method to you, you can do it yourself."

"Okay, thank you sister-in-law, I will do well."

(End of this chapter)