Chapter 13: Contradictions

As usual, when she went to ask for peace, Mrs. Bai glanced at her daughters and said lightly, "I heard that Mother Wang said that your screen is almost finished, and now that it's the New Year's Day, let's relax." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"Yes, Mother. Although Bai Qiyu didn't do embroidery, he also saluted.

"Xiao Qi, how is your fragrance ready?"

Bai Qiyu's mind turned slightly, and he said calmly, "Mother rest assured, my daughter has prepared five bottles of each perfume, and the rest is ......."

Madame Bai obviously interrupted her impatiently, "Five bottles are enough, let it be more, if the raw materials are not enough, tell someone to buy it, and make something more chic, and let your eldest sister take it to the palace when the time comes." ”

It turned out that he was waiting for himself here, Bai Qiyu naturally lowered his head, but he didn't care in his heart, it was really ...... to use these pediatric tricks to embarrass himself

When she went back, Bai Jiuxiang took Bai Qiyu's hand and wanted to go with her, "Seventh sister, I'll go play with you." ”

As he spoke, he hugged her arm again, for fear that she would not agree.

Bai Qiyu smiled, "You're just restless...... I'm going to be busy today, don't bother me, it's coming to the new year......"

"Don't worry, I know you can't disturb the fragrance, I won't disturb you, I'll just watch from the side......"

Yi Tingxuan, Qiushui helped Bai Qiyu set up delicate small stone mills, spinning yarns, small steamers, special straws, translucent glass bottles and other utensils in the wing room, and went to move the spices over.

Bai Qiyu put some of the cleaned camphor leaves into the stone mill as usual, and the autumn water kept adding the leaves on the side, and Bai Qiyu turned the handle at a uniform speed to make the stone mill move.

Soon a thick green juice flowed from the side of the stone mill, and after a few more spun yarns, it flowed into a glass bottle......

Bai Jiuxiang looked at it in amazement, "Seventh sister, can leaves also make incense?"

"This is the leaves of camphor, and as long as it contains fragrance, it can be extracted to make incense. ”

Bai Jiuxiang looked at it strangely, paying attention to Bai Qiyu's every move on the side, occasionally asking a sentence or two.

The fragrant juice flowed out little by little from the small holes on the side, and after a simple filtration, the glass bottle below was gradually filled, and when all the leaves were finished, the autumn water began to burn the steamer on the side, and Bai Qiyu filtered the juice from the camphor leaves several times, and then began to prepare the ingredients.

Bai Qiyu used a straw to absorb the alcohol extracted from the high-concentration liquor and dripped it into a graduated glass bottle, and stopped when it was dropped to the seventh scale. Immediately, five drops of sandalwood essential oil were dropped into another scale bottle, then three drops of peppermint essential oil were added, stirred for a short time with a thin stick of glass, and then ten drops of the camphor essential oil extracted by pressing and extracted were dripped into it with a straw, and stirred it again at a uniform speed and regularly for a short while, at this time the rich fragrance could already be smelled, Bai Jiuxiang stared intently at every movement of Bai Qiyu, for fear of missing something.

Bai Qiyu slowly poured the alcohol in the scale bottle into the adjusted essential oil, while stirring gently, about three minutes later, the whole liquid was already a uniform light green, and the autumn water was handed a little camphor essential oil Songjiang Ling cloth, Bai Qiyu carefully tied the bottle mouth with a cloth, pressed it with a piece of flat glass as big as the bottle mouth, and covered it with a layer of fine cloth to wrap the bottle mouth again, which is considered to have completed the basic steps.

"Okay, wait for two days, and then add an appropriate amount of pure water to mix it. ”

Bai Qiyu handed over the glass bottle to Qiushui for collection, and then began to sort out the residue of the pressed camphor leaves.

Bai Jiuxiang saw that she collected those green pastes and put them into a small pot of water to boil, and couldn't help but be curious, "Seventh sister, can this still be used?"

Bai Qiyu plucked the silver frost carbon under the small steamer as usual, and said, "These residual essential oils have not been extracted, and they can be extracted again after steaming, and it is good to use them to make balsam powder." ”

"Oh. Bai Jiuxiang nodded as if she didn't understand.

After a busy morning, I used up all the camphor leaves I picked before, and made them into fragrance, balsam and incense powder.

"Miss Seven, Miss Nine, it's been a busy morning, let's take a break, it's time for lunch. Qiu Ling came in with tea.

Bai Qiyu was waited by the maid to clean his hands, and then sat down on the kang, and the rest of the cleaning work was done by Qiushui.

Bai Jiuxiang took the tea and handed it to Bai Qiyu, "Seventh sister, thank you for your hard work, it turns out that making incense dew is so complicated!"

And embarrassed, "I still asked you for so many ......."

"Actually, it's very simple, it's just that you look more complicated, you're my ninth sister, who else can you use if you don't use it, but you can understand the hard work of the seventh sister, which means that you have grown up!" Bai Qiyu laughed and teased her.

After a while, Qiu Ju and Qiu Ling set up lunch together, and Bai Qiyu and Bai Jiuxiang used it carefully.

In the afternoon, Bai Jiuxiang returned to her yard, and Bai Qiyu took a nap as usual.

At this time, the painting garden was not so stable.

Xiao Xi trembled and knelt on the bluestone floor tiles under the eaves, and Bai Shihua in the house said viciously, "Whoever dares to intercede, kneel with him, I want to see if this little slut knows who is her master." ”

A maid whispered, "Miss, don't be angry, Xiaoxi she was also confused for a while, and she ......"

"Confused? I don't think it's stupid, it's stupid! It's really useless, people just let her out in just two sentences, how do you know how this brain grows?" Bai Shihua scolded angrily, thinking of the events of the day before yesterday, and his anger burned.

But it turned out that Bai Qiyu asked Qiushui and Qiu Ju to pay more attention to Bai Shihua's yard, and Qiu Ju asked Xiaoxi for advice on female workers under the pretext of gradually getting closer to her.

On that day, Qiu Ju intentionally or unintentionally mentioned that Mrs. said that when she went to the capital, she would ask Bai Qiyu to accompany her, Xiaoxi didn't think much about it and just smiled, "Originally, this is not an uncommon thing, our fourth lady is naturally going to go, in the end, it is the birthday of the wife of the General's Mansion, although it is a scattered birth, but those princes and nobles will definitely go to some ......"

It was a look of honor......

Naturally, Qiu Ju told Bai Qiyu of this, and when she got the news, Bai Qiyu smiled and said, "It turns out that the fourth sister is fighting this idea, no wonder she always squeezes me in front of her mother, and she can't get along with me intentionally or unintentionally......."

He said, "Bring a word to Xiaoxi, and just talk to ...... Who doesn't rejoice in such a good thing......"

Qiu Ju inadvertently revealed this to Xiaoxi......

As you can imagine, this is adding fuel to the fire.

Now that Bai Shihua knew about this from Xiaoxi's mouth, she was naturally very angry, and she hated Bai Qiyu even more in her heart, you must know the main purpose of going to the capital, and she is the only one among the sisters who knows best, so she is naturally good at planning, but now that Bai Qiyu also knows, her advantage is half gone, how can she not be annoyed......

I really regret that I didn't let her die in the first place......

Since then, Bai Shihua has become even more unpleasant to see Bai Qiyu, but this does not affect Bai Qiyu, from the time she woke up, she knew that few of these people who came to visit her hoped that she would live well, and now it was just the intensification of the conflict.

As the saying goes, it's fun to fight with people!

In such a boring ancient world, if there is a fight in the boring life, you can still pass the time......

After Mrs. Bai finished washing, she sat down in front of the mirror table, Wen Hui carefully curled her hair, and Mother Wang took a small bottle of jade and came out, "Madam, let's use this lily fragrance today, I see that you have used it for a few days, and your spirit is much better......

"I've been sleeping better these days...... You bring that white jade bottle, the camphor jade dew that Xiao Qi brought yesterday smells good, give me a try. ”

I took a small square box from the makeup box, "By the way, I look good at this makeup powder...... I look good" and dipped some of the small cotton balls on his cheeks and smoothed them out......

Mother Wang took the jade bottle out, and when she saw that she was applying makeup powder, her skin was delicate and shiny, as bright as jade, and she couldn't help but exclaim, "What is she doing here, she is so brilliant......

Madame Bai looked left and right in the mirror, and finally nodded with satisfaction, "That's it...... still pleasing people."

"You say, with her noble temperament, if I send her to the palace and be the concubine of that ** ridiculous prince, what will happen to her?"

Wang's mother smiled dryly, "That... That's a blessing for her...... After all, it's the ...... of the palace."

Madame Bai stroked her sideburns and smiled without saying a word.

When asking for peace, Bai Shihua glanced at Bai Qiyu, who had an indifferent face, and smiled at Mrs. Bai, "Mother looks good these days, I heard that Seventh Sister has made a new kind of camphor jade dew, I don't know if Mother uses it well?"

Since Bai Qiyu dared to use it to make incense, he naturally understood its fragrance, and at this time, in the face of Mrs. Bai's questioning and solemn eyes, Bai Qiyu smiled faintly, "Then the fourth sister can know that the fragrance of camphor is actually beneficial to the human body and harmless?" As for the symptoms you mentioned, it's just because some people are allergic to it, just like allergies to flowers, allergies to food, these are normal, how did they get into the mouth of the fourth sister, as if I was using it to harm people......

This was said clearly and explicitly, and as soon as the words changed, Bai Qiyu bowed to Mrs. Bai and said, "Please also ask my mother to be aware of it, the fourth sister is sowing discord......

When Madam Bai saw that the fire had led her here, she was naturally unpleasant, and said with a slightly cold face, "Enough, you sisters don't make people worry...... It's coming to the end of the year soon, and the sewing room is when it's idle, so you all stay in your yard in peace, and then I'll have someone make a few spring clothes for you......"

Is it too early to make spring clothes at this time?

None of them here are stupid, look at Bai Shihua, look at Bai Liuyun's happy look, obviously heard the meaning of Mrs. Bai's words, Bai Qiyu couldn't help but sigh secretly, I'm afraid that the women here have been cultivating since their mother's womb, and they are only in their teens, which should be the age when they should be innocent, but they are all fine......