Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 94 Unusual Traces

In fact, it is not unbelievable that soap can become so popular in this era.

You must know that bathing has a special meaning in the Chinese national culture. Sacrifice, ceremony, tomb sweeping, marriage and marriage are all related to bathing and burning incense. As early as the Han Dynasty, officials had a rest day once every five days. Mu means taking a bath. Taking a bath at home has become an official requirement. Until the present dynasty, Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was born as a farmer and hated corrupt officials the most, so he canceled the holidays for officials. Saying it is still a big deal.

High-ranking officials and nobles scorned the low-class people as muddy legs. After Hong Chengchou was defeated and captured in Songshan, he had to wipe and wipe swallow feces on his clothes as soon as possible.

But what are the things used for bathing now, bath beans, soap, saponins!

Until later, soap was sometimes called pancreas by people, which shows its influence in China, but this thing is really pancreas, a pig's pancreas, mashed and added with soybean powder, spices, Chinese medicinal materials, etc. The black dumpling is made of pig's digestive juice and oil in soybean flour for low-level saponification to remove dirt. It looks as ugly as it can be.

Even if it doesn't look good, it's still expensive!The worst one costs one tael of silver. No wonder, how many pigs are killed a year in this era of underdeveloped productivity?Where are there so many pig pancreas for bathing?

There are also bath beans, which are also carefully prepared with soybean powder, medicinal materials, and spices. There are several recipes recorded in Sun Simiao's "Qian Jin Fang". As a reward from the emperor to the ministers, but at least one formula requires five or six kinds of medicines, and eagle droppings are used as ingredients, which is also expensive.

Even so, the bubbles produced by these two things are really pitiful.

Commoners mostly use soap locust or plant ash to decontaminate, and the decontamination ability of those things is even more mediocre, especially plant ash, which has to be smeared black, which is naturally not favored by those high-spending lords.

In order to maintain the skin, it is said that the noble ladies in the West even moved out the iron maiden. A humanoid iron figurine is full of inward iron thorns. It is said that a virgin in the [-]th or [-]th period was put into it to bleed all over her body, just to bathe the noble lady. Skin beautification, it can be seen that people are crazy about bath products, using Song Qingshu's soap to make a tub of bubbles in just a few swipes, no wonder Shi Tianfu is so confident.

This thing can be made with lard and caustic soda, and the high-end wine is soaked in high-grade wine and mixed with floral and fruity aromas. Even Song Qingshu can make a thousand and 800 yuan a month, but he is very deep. Knowing the unchanging law that rare things are more expensive, coupled with the fact that he has been busy getting married recently, Song Qingshu only gave Shi Tianfu more than 400 yuan from busy work in the past few days, and agreed to reduce production to 200 yuan next month. Yuan.

For the sake of commercial secrecy, he also bought additional sulfur and nitrate as a cover. It happened that these two things could also be transported to Funiu Mountain to make gunpowder stocks without wasting them.

In such a fulfilling and busy life, several days passed, and there were only three days left before the agreed marriage day. The three of Song Qingshu and his wife also began to write invitations busily. It's different, now Song Qingshu knows a lot of people, Hong Chengchou is definitely invited, and Shi Tianfu, Zhang Xianzhong, Bai Wenxuan, the sworn brother and second brother, it's a pity that Qu Botao hasn't come back from Guangdong, otherwise On the goods, he will definitely be able to ruthlessly slaughter this old man for a dowry.

Holding the pen, Song Qingshu gave a sinister smile, scratched Qu Botao's name, threw the discarded invitation to the side, and then quickly wrote Zhang Xianzhong's name on the next one.

Coincidentally, Zhang Xianzhong and Bai Wenxuan have come to the door with presents before finishing writing the character Zhong , Bai Wenxuan's broken flying fish suit that could be thrown away has long since disappeared, and the ancestral broken knife on his waist has now been replaced with a new Bailian. It still looks like a tiger baring, it hasn't changed at all.

"Hahaha, third child, it's really different for people who start a family and start a business. They are becoming more and more like a master. If this continues, I will go out with you in the future. Old brother, I will almost become a follower!"

Compared with Zhang Xianzhong in history, he lived much more comfortably. His yellow beard, which looked like a tiger's beard, was actually taken care of. As soon as he entered the door, Zhang Xianzhong's hearty jokes had already spread.

I really said Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived, Song Qingshu greeted him with a smile, and also jokingly said: "Brother don't want to tease my younger brother, I will treat you as a follower wherever I go with you, and treat my younger brother as if you caught me." Thief!"

The three exchanged pleasantries, Zhang Xianzhong and Bai Wenxuan put the gift aside, Song Qingshu left Caiwei to write the invitation, and the three men shamelessly went aside to drink and have fun.

Although it is possible to strictly control the female relatives these days, under high pressure, some rebellious girls still sneak out to play. Desserts are very attractive to little girls. In order to entertain these female relatives, Song Qingshu specially opened a door for them , set aside a space on the second floor to cover it with a white curtain, after drinking a few glasses of beer, Bai Wenxuan was drooling and peeking at a woman like he had never seen before, talking to each other recently What did he do? After hesitating for a while, Zhang Xianzhong opened his mouth with some difficulty.

"Brother, originally you were overjoyed during this period, so I shouldn't have mentioned it to you, but this time is a rare opportunity, brother still has to ask you for help, do you have any spare money?"

Zhang Xianzhong is much more righteous than Li Zicheng, not to mention what happened in Funiu Mountain a while ago, he instigated him to kill hemp and hemp, and Song Qingshu opened Zhuangzi with money, he also responded without blinking an eyelid. , Now that he has something to say, Song Qingshu patted his chest without even thinking about it.

"How much!"

"It's 500 taels in total! But Bai Lao Er and I have already pooled 300 taels, so just add another [-] taels!"

If Song Qingshu was really in trouble a few days ago, but today is different, he patted his chest indifferently, Song Qingshu said with a smile: "Little brother Yinzi has it, but it is still in the hands of the partner, and the two brothers will go get it with me later." Just one click."

Zhang Xianzhong was overjoyed immediately, and slapped Bai Wenxuan on the back of the head, and with a yellow beard, he yelled, "Thank you, third child, I'm ashamed to bring you out like I've never seen a woman!"

Seeing Bai Wenxuan's embarrassed look, Song Qingshu couldn't help jokingly said: "Is it because the second elder brother has a crush on some famous actor in a brothel, and wants to comb it with money?"

"Fart, if this kid knows that he is looking for a woman, it's okay!" Zhang Xianzhong laughed and cursed again, and then poked the chest of Bai Wenxuan who was full of dissatisfaction and muttered with a smile: "This kid is lucky, he is going to be promoted! Moreover, he is a sixth-rank military officer with a hundred households in Jinyiwei, but this poor man spends money, no, I am licking my old face and getting money for him everywhere, he is fine, he is like a second-rate kid every day without knowing the urgency at all!"

Song Qingshu was overjoyed when he heard this. Jinyiwei has hundreds of households, and he is already considered to be the master of the place. This ancient sworn brothers are not talking about it, but they really have to treat each other as brothers. He promoted himself It is also rising with the tide, and when the time comes, officials and businessmen will collude and work together, are you still afraid that the money will not come?Surprised, Song Qingshu couldn't help but hugged Bai Wenxuan with joy.

"Congratulations, second brother! I will call you Lord Baihu from now on!"

"Come on!" Bai Wenxuan is really heartless, and he muttered with a dissatisfied look about to be promoted: "Wei Qianhu scrapped away all the fucking money from Jinyiwei Qianhu , except for a change of clothes, Dao Laozi can't change it, it's worth it!"

What Wei Qianhu was talking about was Wei Wenzhong, the manager of the Shaanxi Qianhu Institute. Song Qingshu, who heard Bai Wenxuan's words, couldn't help being stunned, and asked in amazement, "Wei Qianhu is leaving?"

It's not that Song Qingshu and Wei Wenzhong have any friendship, but this person was a shield for several of them in the Zhu Cunbiao case, and now he has become a moth like the son of King Qin, and every incident related to this case can bring back Song Qingshu's fragility nerves.

He was worried, but Bai Wenxuan didn't care about his appearance at all, and he still muttered with a sour stomach: "No, this guy got enough money in Shaanxi, and this time he exchanged his money for a Jinyiwei to direct the frugal affairs, so he ran back. He has become an official in the capital, but this old dog is too ugly to eat. He scraped off the silver in the Jinyiwei Thousand Households, so that the brothers have no place to spend their salary next month. Zheng Baihu is so anxious to get promoted. It’s also because he’s empty there too!”

Hearing this, Song Qingshu felt a little relieved, people walked to low places, and water flowed to high places.People wanting to be promoted has nothing to do with him, but before he was about to relax, Zhang Xianzhong's words made his heart skip a beat.

"I heard that Prince Qin's mansion also contributed to this matter. The son of King Qin really knows how to be a man. The second son of the hundred households also wants to improve the face of the son. Otherwise, there are so many general flags, how can he get the turn of a newly promoted man?" The hairy boy?"

The Palace of the Prince of Qin was also involved, and Song Qingshu suddenly felt something was wrong. He had met the son of the Prince of Qin several times, and neither Zhu Cunshu nor his confidant eunuch, Eunuch Kan, had such scheming. The fox sold himself, Zhang Xianzhong, and Bai Wenxuan. In terms of usefulness, both Zhang Xianzhong, who is a headhunter, and Bai Wenxuan, who is a Jinyiwei, are more useful than himself. But Zhang Xianzhong's Bai Wenxuan just sent a little eunuch to condolences, which shows that the son of King Qin really has no political acumen.

But the Duke of Qin's mansion has worked hard, and it's not the son of the Prince of Qin, so who is it?for what purpose
Song Qingshu couldn't help but fell into deep thought. Looking at his appearance, Zhang Xianzhong waved his hands in dissatisfaction: "You are good at everything, third child, but you think too much. I knew that the prince of Qin is so righteous. I have taken the credit for myself, how can I get that old dog Wei Wenzhong cheaper?"

"Forget it, let's not talk about this, you will be happy in two days, and the second child will be promoted, we brothers are happy, drink!"

Watching the two foolish sworn brothers raise their wine glasses together, and sighed, Song Qingshu could only put aside the worries in his heart and put on a smile.

"cheers!"

(End of this chapter)