take a wife to support the family

Chapter 220 Rose Steamed Toiletry

Yingchun was recuperating in the house, and Lily stayed with her, fearing that she would be overwhelmed and do something wrong again.In the past two days, she hid all the knives and scissors at home, and did not allow Yingchun to enter the kitchen.

Yingchun watched her like a prisoner for two days, and promised helplessly: "Sister, I will never commit suicide again, what should you do, don't delay for me."

Her enemy is still alive and well, eating delicious food and drinking spicy food every day, and enjoying himself, so why is she going to die?

In the past two days, Song Haonian built a big shed in front of the flower field, built a stove, moved all the porcelain ordered earlier into it and put it on display.Originally, after the porcelain was fired, they should try to make some toilet water in order to improve the utensils. Unexpectedly, there was a severe drought first, followed by Lily's serious illness, and the matter was delayed.

It was so easy to be free for these two days. Seeing that the roses were half in bloom, there was no longer any delay, so I had to hurry up and get ready.

Lily went to Liu Yi's house, took Xing'er to accompany Yingchun, and said to them: "Xing'er has learned the nine-nine multiplication table from me. You can teach it to Aunt Yingchun first. After a while, I will be busy and come again." an examination."

Yingchun's eyes widened: I'm such a big person, and I still need a baby to teach me?

Xing'er was very excited, she kept nodding her head and said, "Don't worry, Auntie, I will definitely teach you well!" Why did Lily randomly check her a few words back then, she planned to apply them to Yingchun.

Seeing that Lily refused to change her mind, Yingchun curled her lips and lay back unwillingly. Xing'er took off her shoes and climbed onto the bed, sitting cross-legged at her feet, already muttering "one by one..."

Yingchun didn't like this milk doll at first, when Xing'er recited the multiplication table smoothly, although she didn't quite understand, she also knew that this little girl was not simple, so she couldn't help but look at her with admiration.

Children like Xing'er are the best, they like to pretend to be adults, knowing that adults have entrusted her with important matters, she is as serious as if she has received an imperial edict.So Lily handed Yingchun to her, and she was relieved.

Here Lily puts on a straw hat, goes to the side of the flower field, and sees that Song Haonian has already set up the porcelain for steaming the dew.It looks a bit complicated to hold the thing. It was originally a large pot with a circle of grooves burned along the edge, and a shallow basin that can be taken out in the middle.

There is an outward hole at one end of the groove, and the shallow basin can also be guided into the groove with a bamboo pipe, and then flow into the porcelain altar next to it along the pipe connected to the outside of the groove.

There is also a pointed lid in the shape of a bamboo hat on the large porcelain pot, which can fit tightly on the pot without any gaps.

A small part of the roses in the field have already bloomed, and the sweet fragrance is overwhelming. Every day, a basket of lilies is cut and sent to the tofu shop, where they are kept in jars at the door. Rewards to play.After the petals are dried, the fragrance is still strong, and it can be placed in a sachet.

Originally, the Liu Manor was also a big customer, but for the sake of welcoming the spring, Lily refused to visit for the time being. The people in the Liu Mansion also knew about it. They heard that Liu Yaowen told his father that he couldn’t get out of bed, and the young lady of the Liu Manor wanted to enjoy the roses. Flowers, I had to ask the maid to come to the store to buy them.

These roses are not big, unlike the ones Lily has seen in her previous life.At that time, the roses that people sent during the festival were mostly hybrids of roses and Chinese roses, with light fragrance, bright red petals, large and complicated.The roses that can really extract essential oils and floral dew are different, with many thorns, small flowers, rose red in color, and very strong fragrance.

Song Haonian asked Lily to stay under the shed, and cut two baskets of flowers with scissors by himself, and when they came back, the two of them buried themselves in the shed for processing.

The flowers are dried directly, put into baskets and sent to the Rose Manor, they can soak the petals in oil, and after filtering, it becomes rose essential oil.It is best to use olive oil for soaking petals, no matter how bad it is, it must be a good vegetable oil with high purity and no peculiar smell. People in Taiping County use either rapeseed oil or lard oil. Lily occasionally uses peanut oil and walnut oil, which also have a strong fragrance. It is more suitable for cooking.

Oil is very expensive, and many people are reluctant to eat more. When Lily first came to Song's house, she couldn't even afford to light an oil lamp. Although life is easier now, she can't use large quantities of oil to soak in essential oils.

Aside from the big money of the manor, who can afford rose essential oil, most of the flower farmers who bought the flower seedlings from his family would choose to dry them on the harvest day and send them back to the manor for processing.

Lily doesn't want to make a lot of money now, as long as the family can live well, so she doesn't want to make all the money Rose can make, since she can't do it herself, she doesn't have to rack her brains to do it.

On the contrary, you can steam some flower dew at home. Now, the flowers that Zi Song Haonian has cut are torn off petal by petal and put into a large porcelain pot. With clarified well water, a pot full of petals will float in the pot. .

Put the shallow dish in the pot to float, install the conduit, and cover the lid with the shape of a bamboo hat. Fearing that the seal is not enough, Lily wets a long strip of cloth and wraps it around the seam.

After Song Haonian built the fire, the water in the pot slowly heated up. The two of them heard the water in the pot boil and poured cold water on the lid of the pot, so as to promote the water vapor in the pot to condense into flower dew and fall into the water. Into the grooves and shallow trays, and then flow into the porcelain vase with toilet water on the side.

Not long after, the strong fragrance of flowers rushed straight into the nostrils, and the condensed dew fell into the porcelain bottle along the tube. Lily suppressed her excitement until the bottle was slowly full, and then she replaced it with an empty porcelain bottle, holding the porcelain bottle hard smell.

Unexpectedly, after smelling the fragrance of flowers for too long today, her nose failed, and she couldn't smell it for half a day, her name was Song Haonian, and Song Haonian couldn't smell it, so Lily had to take the bottle to find Yingchun and Xing'er.

Yingchun followed Xing'er to learn the multiplication table, and had already smelled the scent wafting in, but when they were in the room, the scent was not so strong that their noses would fail.

Lily was covered with the fragrance of flowers, and as soon as she entered the room, Xing'er took a deep breath: "Auntie, you smell so fragrant!"

Lily blushed, if it wasn't for Xing'er's young age and a girl, she would sound like a pervert.Yingchun also said: "Sister, you have a fragrance of flowers that can be smelled from far away."

Lily put the porcelain vase on the table, walked away by herself, and said, "You two smell it for me, does this smell good?"

Xing'er jumped out of bed and smelled it first, then raised her head and said, "It smells good, but it's not as good as yours." Yingchun also nodded.

Lily frowned, she could smell something now, she went to smell it, and sure enough, the scent in the bottle was not as strong as her body, and her heart skipped a beat: If it doesn't smell good, it means it's not successful.

After thinking about it, she felt relieved: even if she made dried flowers and sold them back to the Rose Manor, she wouldn't be losing money this year, and she could earn double or twice, even if she didn't succeed, it's okay.

Yingchun saw that her elder sister frowned worriedly, then smiled and walked out briskly.Xing'er said to Yingchun: "Auntie, Auntie looks pretty when she smiles, you should smile more too."

Yingchun's heart moved, she touched Xing'er's hair and thought: I can't laugh now.

Here Lily returned to the shed, and told Song Haonian that she had just discovered it, but Song Haonian really didn't take it seriously, and said generously: "Don't worry too much about this, everything is up to me."

After all, this pot has been steamed, although it is not very successful, it must be steamed.Unexpectedly, the second bottle has more fragrance, the third bottle has the most fragrance, the fourth bottle has a weak fragrance, and the fifth bottle has no fragrance at all.At this time, when the lid of the pot was opened, all the roses inside had faded to grayish white, and the essence had already turned into dew with the steam and fell into the porcelain bottle.

Lily suddenly realized: "It turned out that before the incense came out, the second and third bottles steamed the most incense, and finally the aroma was evaporated, and there was only water left."

At first, he had no hope, but unexpectedly succeeded in one go, this time he was really overjoyed, Lily hugged Song Haonian and kissed him twice on the face, Song Haonian hurriedly looked back, and saw Wang Yongxing and his wife and Song Ermei I was working with my back to them, so I was relieved.

Lily put a few porcelain vases on the table in the yard and asked Yingchun, Xing'er and a few hired workers to smell them one by one, and everyone came to the same conclusion as her.She was relieved now, knowing that it was not her own illusion, so she said confidently: "Since this is the case, we can process the flowers that have already bloomed."

Every day, I cut thirty or fifty branches and put them in the store for sale. Even if no one bought them, the store smelled delicious.She is even thinking about cultivating a small field of ornamental flowers next year, and using these flowers to hybridize with red roses, specially used to grow them in vases and hairpins, there must be many people who like them.

Seeing her distant eyes, Song Haonian knew what was on her mind, and hurriedly said: "It's a good thing you have thoughts, just don't tire yourself out."

Lily quickly regained her composure, and said embarrassedly: "That's what I was thinking. Let's talk about it next year. If you're busy, you can do it. If you're not busy, just care about Gao Le."

Now Song Haonian doesn't even ask her to leave the land, and taking care of the jasmine in the yard is the limit, Song Ermei laughs that the two of them really decided to start becoming landlords and landlady wives.

Some of the flowers that have bloomed are cut and dried in the sun, and some are steamed to produce dew, which can be sold to people in the county.Nowadays, people all over the county are looking forward to the rose dew, and with money in their hands, they can't buy it.

As long as her family sells goods, even if the quality is not as good as that of Rose Manor, they can make a lot of money.

This rose dew can also be divided into two types, one is light scented, which is good for wiping the face or putting it on the body, and the other is the strongest scent which can be drunk, and it is also good for fuming clothes and houses. Waste some.

When Lily talked about her plan, everyone smiled happily, and the work fell on a few hired workers. Lily said: "When these things can be sold for money, you can take a dozen bottles for your own use, or give them away. , affordable and beautiful.”

Second Sister Song said: "Don't talk about the rose dew, the bottle you made just looks so good. You can't buy it. Look, in the future, someone will use up the dew and resell the bottle, and it will sell for ten more. A few pennies."

Song Haonian said with a smile: "We order a large quantity of this thing. The kiln factory in Linxian County opens a kiln every few days, and can burn several hundred. It doesn't cost much at all."

Lily called Yingchun: "Come on, let me give you a starting point. How much does a rose seedling cost, how much does a porcelain vase cost, how much does a catty of fresh flowers produce dried flowers, and how much dew can be produced? Tell me, how much does a bottle of rose dew cost for me?" Is it suitable?"

Yingchun whispered, "It's only the first day I learned arithmetic..."

Xing'er jumped aside: "Auntie, Auntie, let me do the math for you!"

(End of this chapter)