Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 376 Soap Comes
The excitement of the father at the first sound was lost by Xu Wen's piss, and Xu Qing couldn't cut his own son's piss, so he had to wash his face with a bitter face.It’s better to take a bath at home. Although you can take a hot bath in Xuanwumen, you have to boil the water yourself, which is not as good as taking a flower petal bath in your own home.The point is, there are still a few women in thin shirts who are close to serve, that is the most rare thing.

Changing into comfortable and loose casual clothes, Xu Qing saw a few unused flower petals lying beside her, grabbed a handful, put it in front of her nose, and took a deep breath, refreshing her heart.In fact, the petals have been dried, and they are no longer as beautiful as they used to be, but they leave a fragrance that is not inferior to the past, or even better than the past.Flowers are like this, but shouldn’t people be like this?

But what Xu Qing is thinking about now is how to extract the fragrance of the flowers in front of him.If you want to extract the floral fragrance, you can use distillation to extract it, and you can also use oil to extract it, but the yield is very small.

So Xu Qing asked: "Shimei, how are these petals made? Why are they still so fragrant? How many are there?"

Huang Shimei also picked up some words: "This flower is very precious. When the flower is in full bloom, there is a special flower field that only blooms this kind of flower. When it is in full bloom, it is picked off, and then it is dried and preserved with many spices. Often Ten catties of flowers only cost a little more than one catty. An acre of flower fields usually only yields five or six catties. It turns out that I am in Cangzhou, and I am a lady of everyone, but I don’t need these dried flowers.”

Xu Qing was surprised, is this thing so expensive?I really didn't expect it, but it seems that as long as a handful of these petals are placed, they can emit a great fragrance in the water.It seems that these effects are relatively good, but the amount is not much, alas, that's all.Instead of making perfume, you can make some soap, use ground dried flower powder, and knead it together with soap.

Seeing Xu Qing's disappointed look, Huang Shimei couldn't help laughing. He said: "Our family is different. Our four imperial wives use these things from the palace. The emperor has emperors all over the country. Zhuang, unlike our Shantianzhuang, other places are planted with things that the royal family wants. It must be Guangdong and Guangxi, and Huangzhuang on the Yunnan side is like this."

Xu Qing came and asked with interest: "Then how many are there in our family?"

Huang Shimei thought for a while and came back: "The one I used today, there are still dozens of catties, and there are other floral fragrances, which you didn't use."

"Hey, why can't I use it?"

"There are differences between men and women, don't you know?" Huang Shimei smiled and said, "Brother Xu, why are you asking this all of a sudden?"

Xu Qing thought about it for a while and still bought a pass: "You go to the two catty ones first, and call everyone else over, and I'll make something for you."

"What are you doing again? Let me tell you, the menstrual cloth you made last time is a bit easier to use than the previous one, but there is no need to spend a lot of time to use it?"

Xu Qing asked curiously: "Have you used it? How does it feel? How is it better than the previous one?"

Huang Shimei regretted it, and she would not have brought up that matter if she knew it earlier, which made Xu Qing ask again.Seeing that Huang Shimei's expression was not right, Xu Qing stretched out his hand to lift her hem. For some reason, after not practicing for a long time, today's hand feels better. The layer after layer of complicated clothes was actually pulled away by Xu Qing. up.Seeing black and white inside, but nothing that he wanted to see, Xu Qing pretended to be angry and said, "Okay, you don't listen to me..."

There is no turning back when you open the bow, and there is no empty gun for flirting with girls. Now that the city gate has been opened, there is no reason not to go to the city for a stroll.

"Oh, brother Xu, there may be a maid coming here... oh..."

Half an hour later, Xu Qing and Huang Shimei came out.After taking a bath for half an hour, the maids waiting outside didn't dare to go in to have a look, because Huang Shimei warned them that if they saw a trace of flesh from Xu Qing's neck and above his wrists, they would goug their eyes.At this time, Xu Qing and Huang Shimei walked out of the bathroom in good spirits, and they breathed a sigh of relief.

Calling all the girls together, they saw Xu Qing took a two-foot-sized pot, and they asked, "Do you want to eat hot pot now?"

Xu Qing shook his head, sent someone to fetch two catties of dried flowers and one catty of lard, and opened the box he had brought at Xuanwu Gate.Then he said to the girls: "Just watch from a distance, and I will make something useful for you today."

Xu Qi asked at this time: "Then this time, can I use it?"

Xu Qing smiled and said: "This thing can be used by men, women and children, so naturally you can enjoy it too."

But Xu Qing lit a small pile of firewood under the pot, and beside him there was another pile of firewood that was only the size of a finger.Added about a catty of water to the pot, and when the water was hot, added two taels of lard. Seeing that the lard had just melted on the water, Xu Qing opened the box.

The box is well sealed, and it is divided into many small grids. Inside each grid, there is a smaller box containing one or two weights of caustic soda.He took out a small box from the small grid, opened it and poured it into the pot, took out another one, poured out a small half, and quickly covered it to protect the remaining caustic soda.

Xu Qing took a long chopstick and stirred it back and forth in the pot. The firewood under the pot was slowly burning.Only some white and slightly yellow solids were seen floating on the water.Isn't that floating on the water the soap?

I added a lot of water, but still kept about a catty of water, and turned over the floating objects to prevent lard and caustic soda from remaining in it.However, this process was relatively slow, and it took more than half an hour to see that the oil on the water surface was completely consumed.

During this most of the hour, Xu Qing was not idle, besides stirring and adding water, he also used a mortar to crush the dried flower pieces one by one.During the period, Xu Qing discovered that the remaining small particles in the petals had a stronger fragrance and were easier to crush into powder.This small grain should be the ovary, Xu Qing thought, how can it hide so many fragrances?However, whether it is not important, and no one tests us...

After the lard in the pot was completely consumed, Xu Qing asked someone to bring in a bucket of clean water, and washed the floating objects in the bucket.Then put it into a bowl and sprinkle the ground petal powder into it. At first, Xu Qing thought that this soap could be used just after it was made, like the one he usually bought, but now, he found that it was very thin.It's a pity that he seems to lose face a little in front of the girls.

Stir well and set aside to dry.

Xu Qing pretended to be calm and said: "Okay, things are ready, and they will probably be ready for use tomorrow..."

As expected, the girls were not happy, and said one after another: "It's still tomorrow, what do you mean by asking us to come now?"

Xu Qing sighed and said, "I'm afraid that you won't see me. Is it weird?"

"what……"

"Bah chirp!"

(End of this chapter)