In the past few days, Tang Qinger has been thinking about what Zhao Zishu's shop sells at home, and only after thinking about it did she realize that she has another thing that she is proficient in, that is, beauty.

But making rouge gouache is also a difficult thing, so when Xue Qianxun and Zhao Zishu came to look for her at home, Tang Qinger said to Zhao Zishu: "You find me some books about rouge gouache." ”

Zhao Zishu was puzzled: "Wouldn't it be better for you to share these things with Qianxun?" ”

Tang Qing'er looked at him with unkind eyes and said: "It's you who want to open a shop, and it's not that he wants to open a shop, I don't know who else you want to ask for." ”

Zhao Zishu touched his nose, he almost nodded and forgot about opening the shop, and said in a happy tone: "What are you going to do, tell me quickly?" ”

"Well, I already have a preliminary idea, and I have to see if I can implement it, so I can't tell you yet." Tang Qing'er nodded, motioning for him to hurry up and help her find a book about rouge gouache.

On the day of the ervistation, Zhao Zishu hurriedly came to Tang's house, handed her a book and said: "I searched for a long time, but I only found a book that simply recorded the source of rouge gouache, but did not tell her in detail how to make them. ”

Tang Qing'er waved her hand and said, "Well, I know the way, you go first!" I'll let my brother call you when I have something. Then he began to read the book.

Zhao Zishu was thrown aside after being used, and he could only helplessly go to Xue Qianxun to complain.

Tang Qing'er looked at the book, and read that it was written: Ancient rouge is a kind of red pigment, produced in Yanzhi Mountain in the northwest Xiongnu region, Xiongnu aristocratic women often use "Yanshi" makeup to decorate their faces, Emperor Wu of the Later Han Dynasty in order to strengthen the connection between the Han Dynasty and the countries of the Western Regions sent Zhang Qian to the Western Regions, Zhang Qian's trip, brought back a large number of foreign cultures, including the lifestyle and national customs of various ethnic groups in the Western Regions, the introduction of rouge, only slowly rose rouge.

The so-called "rouge" is actually a flower called "red and blue", its petals contain red and yellow pigments, when the flower blooms, it is plucked as a whole, and then placed in the stone bowl repeatedly pestle mallet, after removing the yellow juice, it becomes a bright red dye, and there are two kinds of rouge for women's makeup: one is made of silk cotton dipped in red and blue flower juice, called "cotton marrying fat"; The other is processed into small and thin flower pieces, called "golden flower marry". In addition to red and blue, the raw materials for making rouge are chongjiang, pomegranate, mountain flower and Sufang wood.

In the Tang family, the Li family has never applied rouge, so Tang Qing'er doesn't know what the ancient rouge is, she won't use the ancient rouge, according to the records in the book, this rouge gouache is afraid it is not easy to make.

Tang Qinger sighed: If it is for beauty and eye care, she will get some honey milk mask, cucumber mask, egg white mask, etc., if you make a mask, there are also many things that need to be done, such as mask paper, how to shape a mask, how to extend the shelf life of the mask, etc., rouge gouache selection does not work, this does not work, then there is only the last way.

Because the Tang family is a farmer and does not have so many rules, like Tang Qinger last time he went to Xue Mansion as a guest, he saw Xue Qianxun grinding peas into fine powder when washing his face, supplemented by spices and traditional Chinese medicine, made into bath beans, and melted in water when used, washed with water, pea powder can not only decontaminate, but also has a certain disinfection effect, the price is high, only wealthy people can use it, and ordinary people mostly use honey locust, "soap," black meaning, soap made from the fruit of the original tree, its detergency is very strong.

If it is possible to make modern handmade soap, but there is no sodium hydroxide, this method is not good, dejected out of the wind to breathe, sober up, just heard her mother say to Jiao'er: "You mix the rice with the bud rice, boil it into porridge,"

Tang Qing'er had a flash of inspiration in her mind, jumped up immediately, walked back and forth in the house, and muttered in her mouth: You can cut the alkali soap sold in the town store into small pieces, put it in a jar, and slowly heat it over low heat and put in some roses, gardenias, chrysanthemums, or osmanthus and so on to boil it into soap with different tastes.

When Tang Liang came back from school, Tang Qing'er asked her mother for some money, and said to Tang Liang: "You go to the rouge shop to buy some soap and come back, and then go to Zhao Mansion to call Zhao Zishu and ask him to bring some sun-dried roses, gardenias, chrysanthemums, etc. from home, anyway, any flower is fine, let him bring some." ”

Even if Tang Liang was reluctant to go to the rouge shop, seeing that the eldest sister was so anxious, he hurriedly responded.

About half a time later, Tang Liang and Zhao Zishu came back together, the two of them were holding things in their hands, Tang Qing'er said to Tang Liang: "Don't you want to learn to do business?" ”

Tang Liang's eyes lit up and said, "Well, eldest sister,"

"Now is an opportunity, let you know that doing business is not so easy to do, you go out and find a half-old clay pot and put it in the corner," After that, Tang Qing'er found another vacant land, built a small stove with green bricks, first cut the alkali soap into small pieces, put it in the jar, slowly heated it over low heat, and said to Zhao Zishu: "Bring the dried petals in your hand,"

Now this atmosphere made Tang Qing'er very serious, and even Zhao Zishu was made Tang Qing'er say whatever he wanted, and hurriedly handed the petals in his hand to Tang Qing'er.

Tang Qing'er guarded the jar, found a small bamboo stick, stirred it carefully, and slowly heated it over a small fire, the yellow alkali soap had begun to melt, and she pondered in her heart, and she didn't know how the transparent soap base she had seen in her previous life was made.

Tang Liang next to him looked at the eldest sister who didn't know what she was busy with, and asked in surprise, "Eldest sister, what are you doing here?" Zhao Zishu also nodded beside him.

Tang Qinger said: "I'm making soap, soap is so named, it is to turn sapony into incense, all kinds of fragrances, roses, gardenias, chrysanthemums, begonias, etc., what you want to make is what it tastes." ”

"Huh? Can it really be scented saponine? "Zhao Zishu, like Xue Qianxun, has never used soap to wash his face, and he uses pea powder to wash his face, so he is a little unbelievable about what Tang Qing'er said.

Tang Qing'er saw that the alkali soap had almost melted, and said to Tang Liang: "You help me stir gently, stir it like this in the direction I just had, don't make it in the opposite direction,"

Tang Liang said categorically: "Don't worry, eldest sister, I won't be mistaken,"

Tang Qing'er nodded, quickly walked back to her room, brought out a clean white cloth, and went to the kitchen to get two bowls, seeing that the soap was almost boiled, she took Tang Liang's bamboo stick and stirred it gently, moved the clay pot to the fire, asked Zhao Zishu to put the dried petals in the bowl, and asked Tang Yang to stretch the white cloth open, put it on the bowl, pour the soap into it, add the dried osmanthus and stir well.

Everything came according to her thoughts, Tang Qing'er smiled, "It's good to wait for it to cool down." ”

Zhao Zishu looked at it suspiciously, "That's all?" ”

Tang Qing'er nodded, "We don't have time to find another container today, wait for Liangliang to see what the result is?" If that's it, I'm drawing a sapona style diagram, and it's not too late for you to find someone to make it according to this pattern diagram."

After enough for a while, Tang Liang nodded in surprise on the side and said, "Eldest sister, this smells so good, if we take it to the rouge shop and sell it, we will definitely grab it all." ”

"Mmmm," Tang Qing'er nodded approvingly, "If you can really do a good job, then it will be a success." ”

Tang Liang and Zhao Zishu nodded one after another.

The next morning, Zhao Zishu asked Xue Qianxun to come to Tang's house to see how the soap was made yesterday, Tang Qinger got up in the morning and couldn't wait to see what the soap made was after it cooled, Tang Qinger carefully took the soap body out of the bowl, took a knife to cut the soap body into pieces, took out a piece and sniffed it close to his nose, the aroma of roses was still very strong, and he handed it to Zhao Zishu and Xue Qianxun with satisfaction.

Zhao Zishu smiled with that soapy smile.

Xue Qianxun took it in his hand and put it under his nose and sniffed it, and also smiled, "Well, it's weird, it's much stronger than saponine." ”

Tang Qing'er nodded and said to the two: "I just don't know how to use the Dao?" In this way, the three of us each used this soap to wash our faces and see how it worked. "Tang Qing'er has a plan in her heart, Xue Qianxun and Zhao Zishu usually wash their faces with pea powder, but that thing has a strong ability to dirt, I don't know how about this soap I made?

After the two washed their faces, they both said, "It's really good, it's clean and fragrant." ”

Hearing this, Tang Qing'er almost jumped up excitedly, but her ideas were more than these, first of all, to make a model of soap, such as square, round or oval and other novel shapes, followed by the color, since rouge can have two colors, red and blue, the soap also adds a variety of different colors of juice, and will also present different colors of soap, the most beautiful is the fragrance, put all kinds of different dried petals sold in the town shop in the soap, the more flavors, the more types of soap, but there are many ideas, She wouldn't do it herself.

Then he said to Zhao Zishu: "You wait for me for a while, I will go back to the house and give you a few pictures, and then you take the drawings to find a craftsman shop, tell them the soap model I want, and then go to the shop to buy some well-known spices, and buy some of the same." ”

Later, Tang Qing'er asked Xue Qianxun, "Do you recognize people who can make saponin?" ”

Xue Qianxun shook his head: "I don't know, my family doesn't have such a deal, so I haven't dealt with them." ”

Tang Qing'er said to Xue Qianxun about her plan: This is a newly opened shop, if you produce soap by yourself, I'm afraid it will not be easy, after all, the real production, the proportion of raw materials is different, but if the method of making soap is produced by the person who makes soap soda, and it is sold in his own shop, wouldn't the money earn more, but the danger is greater, and the person who makes sapony learns how to make it, maybe he will run away with this recipe and go to other places to drum it himself, which is quite sad.

Xue Qianxun said: "I'll do this, you don't have to worry!" ”

Tang Qing'er nodded, she was so tired in the past two days, both mentally and physically, she had thought of everything she could think of, and she couldn't do anything about the rest, so she said to them: "Then you two will go and get busy with this!" I was tired and wanted to go and rest. ”

Xue Qianxun saw that Tang Qing'er was weak when she spoke, as if her strength had been drained all of a sudden, and hurriedly said, "You go back to the house to rest!" We'll do the rest! "Thoughtfully sent her back to her house.

After coming out, he glared at Zhao Zishu fiercely and said, "It's all you, there's nothing to toss around, look at her tired!" ”

Zhao Zishu apologized: "It's all my fault, I didn't expect her to be so active in this matter,"

Xue Qianxun said: "Anything related to money, she is more active than anyone else. "It's really in the eyes of money!