Chapter 13: Soap
The workshop of Taiyanguan is very large, divided into two parts, Cao Ying took Honeysuckle to slowly study the soap that Wei Yuan said. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the first few days, they put a little more oil and made it greasy, but now they can barely find the right proportion.
The Li family in Lu'an Lane has been a carpenter for generations, and they made a secret door in Lu'an Lane to take over the carpenter's work.
Although Lu'an Lane is an alley, it is just what the people who live here call it, and the houses on both sides are built randomly by various families with mud and grass, which is messy.
It's rare that Li Lao'er's family has a guest today, and he is from Lijia Village.
Li Lao'er wiped the chairs and tables early in the morning, he also came out of Lijia Village, and the villagers came to the city to visit, and then wanted to come to see him, and they were definitely going to entertain him.
The ten-year-old granddaughter sorted out the wooden blocks that were piled up on the ground little by little and put them in the corner, and when the sun reached overhead, Li Lao'er's house finally became a lot more tidy, and the man in the short shirt also entered the door.
"The fairy mother-in-law built a workshop, saying that she was helping the poor...... A woman has two cents a day, and she also provides lunch, how can we have so much money for plowing the ground......
"It's all light work, my little girl has gone to help, and she has a penny every day......"
"Now everyone wants to go to the workshop, and the lady in charge Cao said that when the workshop is bigger, let everyone go to work in the workshop......"
"Who do you say is that Cao Niangzi? She is the eldest daughter of General Cao's family! I was saved by the fairy mother-in-law! Now I'm helping the fairy mother-in-law to work! ”
"My daughter-in-law is here
In the workshop, I heard the fairy mother-in-law say that she wanted to make a wooden box, and I thought of you, and the daughter-in-law asked the housekeeper for this ......."
Li Lao'er didn't expect that his distant eldest nephew was here to introduce the work, and immediately became a little serious: "How big is the box?" What kind of material? ”
The man took out a few pieces of paper from his arms, carefully spread them out, and was relieved to see that there was no problem.
"Just follow the mold above, you make one of each first, and I'll send it to the steward to see......"
"By the way, make a few molds with the same style as this fancy one, so you don't need a lid......"
Wei Yuan's picture only drew some of the simplest flower patterns, moon, flowers, clouds, and a small pit next to it, so that it was easy to take out the soap.
Li Lao'er took the pieces of paper with a serious face, and swore that he would not pass on this thing, and after leaving the man to have a meal, he began to study these boxes.
The box is not difficult, and the enthusiastic Li Lao'er called his two sons over, and the seven-year-old grandson also followed and watched with his fingers in his mouth.
The three of them stayed up all night, and finally made those boxes, and they used the leftovers left over from the big furniture, after all, the box is not big, and one scrap can be used to make two.
Li Lao'er asked his second son to take the back basket and pack the box, and then pack some eggs, and send them to the eldest nephew's house in Lijia Village.
"Mother-in-law, do you think this is okay?"
Honeysuckle arranged the wooden box of the same size into a line and showed it to Wei Yuan. The craftsmanship at this time was indeed beyond Wei Yuan's imagination.
The craftsman on the lid of the box also traced the lines of the same color, and there was an old woman's appearance at the bottom of the box, which was outlined in three or two strokes.
"Yes, so be it."
The soap box market is not large, under normal circumstances, one per household is enough, and they are all ready to be sold to ordinary people, and it is useless to make it too fine.
It took a few cumbersome tricks, this kind of play is sold to high-ranking families, and the material must be different.
Wang Wu was also sent by Wei Yuan to burn glass, but now all that is burned is stone, and Wei Yuan doesn't care, these things take time.
And the stones are not bad, when the time comes, the Lingxiangzong will use bricks to build them, and Wei Yuan even asked Wang Wu to recruit some more people to burn bricks, although they can't be called bricks now.
Time flies, months in the blink of an eye.
Cao Ying's daughter Xin'er was taken to Guanli, and Wei Yuan liked this guy who pretended to be a little adult with his hands behind his back, and he always teased her occasionally.
The Li family in the capital also replied, saying that the Taiyanguan could be sold, and the money would be given to the patriarch.
It is estimated that they think that the ruined Taiyanguan can't sell it for much money.
The soap has officially entered Yanzhou City.
When Cao Wang attended a banquet one day, he asked people to bring hardcover soap, touched a little on his hands, and then cleaned his hands with tea, which immediately attracted the attention of many noble ladies.
The soap is engraved with this beautiful and delicate pattern, and you can smell the fragrant smell through the box, as well as Cao Wang's smooth and tender hands after using it......
Ladies are disdainful of those ordinary soaps, even if the price difference between the two is dozens of times, in their opinion, where can something tasteless and simple be called soap!
Ordinary women don't see it that way, and now whoever doesn't have a soap is to be ridiculed.
Although they are reluctant to use it at home, they will wipe a little bit of their hands before eating when they come to relatives, saying that they can not get sick.
The price is actually not how expensive, the box costs 10 cents, the soap is 15 cents, and you can buy it separately.
There is a cheaper one, which is a round soap, no floral fragrance, no carving, no colorful color, and the box is extremely simple, such a set only costs ten cents.
But most people can't afford to be worse than others, and they can't afford to buy hundreds of soaps used by those ladies and ladies, so they have to buy one with a shape and fragrance!
As the ladies thought, these women thought: What a soap that has no smell at all!
Zhao Qiu's goal now is to buy a cloud-type soap, and his sister has been thinking about it for several days, but twenty-five wen, he only has one penny when he grows so big!
It was the last time he went to his uncle's house, and his grandfather secretly stuffed it to him, and he liked to touch the lines on it the most, but he was afraid that the lines would be gone, and the money would not be used, so he carefully wrapped it in leaves and buried it in the courtyard.
When he was about to go out today, he deliberately took advantage of the old lady's inattention and found the money.
I heard that there is a fairy mother-in-law on Taiyan Mountain, she can fulfill all your wishes, and this soap is conjured by the mother-in-law with a spell, so it is so fragrant.
Those who don't have a fragrance are the fairy mother-in-law who forgot to find the flower fairy and put flowers in it......
Zhao Qiu wanted to beg the fairy mother-in-law, he could do anything, carry water, plant the land, harvest wheat, feed the chickens and herd the cows, and repair the house!
As long as I can change my sister to a cloud-shaped soap box.
Thinking like this, he was a little apprehensive in his heart, these things can be done by any peasant child, and I heard that Taiyanguan doesn't need to do these things, the fairy mother-in-law drinks dew......