Chapter VII Incense Making
"I'll go and carry my uncle out to bask in the sun, it's not good to be bored in the house. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info "Aoko took out a board from the pyre under the shed, put it on two sheets, built a simple bed, and entered the house. As soon as I saw that the movements were so skillful, I knew that I had done such things before.
"Hey, her father hasn't been out of the house for a few days, I'll give you a hand." Xu followed in and put his man on Qingzi's back.
Liu Dazhu was not injured before he was tall and strong, but he had been lying in bed for two years, and he was reluctant to eat, and he was already skinny.
Qingzi didn't have a hard time carrying him, but he was low, and he had to bend down a little so that the feet on his back wouldn't drag the floor.
The black girl followed up the house to see that her father was lying on Qingzi's back, so she picked up the humming river on the kang and patted it gently, and the little girl had already picked up the quilt and trotted a few steps on the simple bed outside.
In the future, I will find a way to make a wheelchair for my father, Heiya thought to herself.
"Uncle Liu, aunt, and black girl, I'll leave first, and I'll come back to carry my uncle back to the house later." Qingzi said goodbye, turned around and walked out of the courtyard gate.
"Dad, you have a good sunbath, I told you that my sister didn't know where to get something just now, but it smells good, she said it can be sold for money." Xiaoya happily gathered around her father, chattering.
"Dad smelled it in the house just now, I've never smelled something so fragrant, where did your sister get it?" Daddy Liu looked at the lively little girl in front of him and smiled with satisfaction.
"I found it from the fragrant wood, and there was a bubble on the outside, and when I punctured it, it was fragrant oil." Heiya took the conversation, whether she could directly extract essential oils is still not confirmed, and she didn't think about whether she could say it, for fear that Xiaoya would ask more, so she hurriedly changed the topic, "Dad, do we have elm bark noodles at home?" ”
Elm bark noodles, in fact, the elm bark is dried and ground into powder, which can be eaten when there is famine or lack of grain, Heiya just saw that there are elm trees in the village, but I don't know if the people here eat elm bark noodles.
"When you were sick, Aunt Hua came over and sent some, but that one is too tendonous, you can only eat it with sorghum noodles, you want to eat it, and your mother will make some for you in the afternoon." Xu was busy with the vegetable patch at home, and when he heard the black girl ask, he said while busy.
"I don't eat it, if that one has other uses, mother, you can find me some." Heiya had seen it before, and the food at home was put in a basket and hung on the beam in her father's house, mainly because she was afraid of rat bites. She can't reach her small body.
"If you don't eat what you want, you won't spoil the food." Xu Shi said angrily.
"If the child wants you to catch some for her, it's not anything of value." Father Liu has always loved children, so he couldn't help but say.
"As long as you are a good person, I didn't say I wouldn't give it to her," Xu put down the work in his hand, wiped his hands and entered the house, stopped for a while and came out, and took a broken bowl with brown elm bark noodles.
The bowl at home is accidentally broken and reluctant to throw it, and the larger pieces can be kept to scoop rice and noodles, which is better than a gourd scoop.
"Hehe, thank you, father, thank you, mother, I won't spoil it, and when the incense is sold for money, I will buy a lot of food for the family." The black girl smiled, put Xiaohe beside her father, and trotted into the house with the broken bowl.
Xu Shi knew that the incense burned when worshiping the Buddha was offered, but she didn't think that Heiya could make it at all, and she ignored her when she heard the words, glared at Dad Liu and continued to work in the vegetable field, Dad Liu smiled honestly behind her.
"Sister, my brother said that he would buy white rice for the family when he earned money," the little girl leaned over and watched her sister fiddling with things with an expectant expression.
"Didn't you fall asleep last night, why did you hear my brother talking?" The black girl laughs, this little clever ghost.
"I heard it in a daze, and I heard you talk about meat, and I dreamed of eating meat last night." The little girl smiled and touched her head embarrassedly.
When their father had an accident, Xiaoya was only five years old, and she didn't know how many times she had eaten meat when she was so old, and the black girl rubbed her little brain, "When you earn money, Sister will buy you meat to eat." ”
"Well, I'll wait." The little girl responded crisply, smiling.
Without electronic scales and balances, Heiya can only estimate adding elm bark noodles, which is mainly for adhesive effect.
The cypress powder extracted with the ability is completely detached from oil and water, and the powder is fine, so Heiya decided to add more elm bark noodles, otherwise I am afraid that the incense will burn too quickly.
Without a suitable prop, she decided to make a tartar incense, and the extracted water liquid was too little, like concentrated hydrosol, and she slowly added water to the mixture.
Wash your hands clean, mix several ingredients together in the bowl directly with your hands, and hold them in your hands and knead them when they are in a ball.
Xiaoya looked at it seriously from beginning to end, looking at the yellow-brown thing in her sister's hand and couldn't help but say, "Sister, why did you make this thing the same as the one you pulled out." “
glared at Xiaoya angrily, "Can you pull it out so fragrant?" Although she does think it's a bit like that.
Knead the materials well, preferably for a few hours to allow several materials to fully combine.
If you prepare the ingredients in advance, the incense will be less pyrotechnic and the taste will be softer. If you can add a little honey in moderation, it can not only play a better adhesive role, but also make the fragrance with a hint of sweetness. However, there are no conditions now, and this old material for the aging of the cypress itself has a sweet flavor.
After the material was settled, it was put into the mold, and there was no ready-made mold, so she decided to make tower incense. Because this can be pinched directly by hand.
The material is kneaded into long strips, and then divided into dumplings of equal size, each ball is kneaded into a three-centimeter-high pointed cone, and after drying, it is the Yabai Ta incense.
The taste of Yabai is mellow and rich, and it will smell good without adding other accessories.
"Sister, I'll do this, I'll help you pinch." Xiaoya watched it for a long time, and she was finally able to get her hands on it, so she helped pinch it together, but she didn't expect Xiaoya to pinch it more neatly and beautifully than she pinched herself.
There were not many materials, and the sisters concentrated on pinching for a while, and the black girl counted them, and made a total of thirty-two.
It seems that some bad powders should be directly eliminated when decomposing, and ten drops of essential oil are used for thirty-two tower incense, which is definitely more fragrant than directly made of cypress wood.
"Sister, when will I be able to sell this for money?" Xiaoya looked at the fruits of her labor, and the five rows of small towers were neatly placed on the handkerchief of the kang head, and her heart was beautiful.
This handkerchief was still a gift from her father on her fifth birthday, a fine cotton material, and the little girl cherished it like anything, and now in order to make money, she contributed it without hesitation.
"Wait for a little bit of drying, then repair the type, repair it to look better, and then let it dry thoroughly for two days."
Although the Yabai powder is very fine, and they do it seriously, but in the end it is not as neat as the mold pressed, so they can only wait for it to be repaired with a small flake with a hard point.