The movement outside had already alarmed several directors and deputy directors in the office, and they walked out of the office one after another, Shen Jianguo asked with a calm face: "What's going on, what's the noise?" ”

Song Qiong walked up to Shen Jianguo, looked at him and said seriously: "Director Shen, what you said, is the approved note still useful?" ”

Shen Jianguo frowned, and could roughly guess what was going on: "As I said, you can't use the materials in short supply, and the grease definitely can't, everyone is short of oil for eating and lighting the lamp, so you can only give you the materials that are pressed in the warehouse and cannot be used." ”

"Okay, you just don't need it." Song Qiongdao.

"I can't use it, and I can't squander it for you." Liu Yong, the deputy director on the side, said coldly.

Song Qiong glanced back at him: "I don't squander it, I only use a small amount, and I can buy it with money first, but if I make something, the society can only buy it back with money." ”

Liu Yong waved his hand in annoyance: "The club doesn't do business with you." ”

Peng Dashan saw that Liu Yong was also arguing with Song Qiong in the corridor, and immediately waved his hand impatiently: "Okay, go back to the office, stand outside, what do you look like?" ”

"If you have a morning meeting, go to the conference room immediately, and at ten o'clock, Director Shen and I will go to the county for a meeting." Peng Dashan waved his hand, as if to drive people back.

As for Song Qiong, a little person who has not officially joined the company, he is too lazy to take care of it, and it is not easy to take care of it, he can't just recruit him and expel him immediately, not to mention that the Song family will not agree, and it is not good to talk about it outside.

The honest employees in the unit are very easy to manage, and there has always been a lack of effective management methods for those stubborn old oilers.

Besides, this is something that Shen Jianguo provoked, so he didn't want to get involved.

Today's morning meeting should convey the spirit of the county economic work conference and arrange a plan for "increasing production and saving money," and the responsible persons of all units and units should attend.

After the people in each room dispersed and the participants entered the conference room, Huang Qi cautiously walked out of the office and comforted Song Qiong in a low voice: "If you can't do it, forget it, if you really use the lard to make soap, everyone is afraid that everyone will take it home, and cut a little stir-fry for each meal!" ”

Song Qiong couldn't help but be amused, and immediately felt that this joke was really too heavy. Looking up, he saw Tang Sheng walking out of the office and beckoned to him: "Brother Tang, can you help me find some information, I want to see what is the backlog of materials in our warehouse?" ”

Tang Sheng smiled bitterly: "Yes, but this is made as soap, can you also watch the dishes?" ”

Song Qiong spread his hands helplessly: "I have no choice, if it doesn't work, I have to find a way to buy some outside, and when I make the soap, I will see who can object." ”

Tang Sheng smiled bitterly and shook his head, Huang Qi said: "I'll go to the statistics unit to find out, their information should be clearer." ”

Tang Sheng and Huang Qi's minds are relatively simple, after yesterday's cooperation, they feel that Song Qiong really wants to do things, and they also want to see the success of soap making; In addition, since Shen Jianguo still recognized what he said, the soap-making project is not over yet, as long as Song Qiong can implement it within the limited conditions, they are willing to continue to cooperate.

In addition, as young people, Tang Sheng and Huang Qi may not like Wang Yaolin's work style.

The two of them also helped Song Qiong a lot.

Huang Qi went to the statistics unit and quickly took some information, Song Qiong quickly looked through it, he wanted to know what oil products the supply and marketing cooperatives had operated, and which oil products were backlogged.

The range of oils and fats is actually quite extensive, oil, gasoline, and diesel are all oils and fats strictly speaking, of course, ordinary oil, gasoline and diesel cannot directly make soap, but the main raw materials of synthetic detergents in the future come from oil refining products.

In addition, there are some oils that cannot be eaten, but can be used in industrial production, such as tung oil used in paint.

Song Qiong knew that a lot of oil could be used to make soap, but he didn't specialize in it, so he asked him to say at once which people didn't eat it, but the oil that could be used to make soap, and he couldn't say it at once, let alone what kind of oil was in short supply and which surplus was backlogged, so he had to look at these materials.

The information of the statistical unit is very clear, but the classification is not so detailed, edible oil is distributed in the food category, oil is a category, gasoline and diesel are in the energy category, lubricating oil is in the machinery category, and these materials are relatively short.

"Oil, oil, oil......"

Song Qiong kept looking for the word oil, and finally found several oils in the column of industrial raw materials, including tung oil, catalpa oil, flaxseed oil, skin oil and so on.

Looking at the sales and inventory figures again, he couldn't help but slap the table: "Just use tung oil." ”

Tung oil, catalpa oil can be used to make paints, coatings, skin oil to make candles, the use of flaxseed oil is also similar to tung oil, catalpa oil, the domestic industry in this area is not well developed, these oils are not very easy to sell, the supply and marketing cooperatives have a lot of backlogs in the warehouse, among which the number of tung oil is the largest.

"Tung oil?"

Tang Sheng was slightly stunned: "Is tung oil okay?" We have a lot of tung oil in the warehouse, tung oil was originally sold to paint factories for paint, the paint factory in the county has long ceased production, the city wants a small amount, last year's tung oil, has been put there, useless. ”

Song Qiong nodded: "Although it's not the best, tung oil can also make soap." ”

Song Qiong was ready to start work immediately, and some other raw materials were needed to make soap, but the amount was relatively small, and it was not as sensitive as oil.

Tang Sheng's face showed an embarrassed expression: "Chief Wang has said hello, and without his nod, no one can let you take anything from the warehouse." ”

Song Qiong couldn't help frowning, thought for a while, and said, "Since tung oil can't be sold, it should be easy to buy it in other places, right?" ”

Huang Qi was a little confused: "Are you sure you can do it?" ”

Song Qiong nodded: "Is it necessary for me to tell a lie?" ”

Huang Qi stared at Song Qiong for a while, gritted his teeth and said, "If you can really do it, then come with me, let's go to Shaxi Supply and Marketing Cooperative, they should have tung oil there." ”

Shaxi Commune is close to the county seat of Zhongling County, is the attached town of Zhongling County, Shaxi Supply and Marketing Cooperatives are on the riverside road in the east of the city, not far from the county supply and marketing cooperatives, less than half an hour by bicycle.

The director of Shaxi Supply and Marketing Cooperatives is Huang Qi's uncle Hou Chaonan, and he also held a meeting in the county supply and marketing cooperatives in the morning, but everyone in the club knew Huang Qi, and she took out a note written by Shen Jianguo, and easily took out a barrel of tung oil from the warehouse, as well as coarse salt, rosin, caustic soda, bubble alkali and other auxiliary materials.

The soap-making site was also chosen at the scrap station in Shaxi.

The people of Shaxi Supply and Marketing Cooperative, like the people of the county supply and marketing cooperative, were very supportive when they first heard that they wanted to make soap, but they thought that a few of their young people could make soap with a pot? There are some doubts.

Wu Guo, the head of the scrap station, is an old man in his fifties and almost sixty years old, after listening to Huang Qi's introduction, he showed a rough voice and said with a grin: "Song Wengen, I know, the model worker is a good person." ”

Then, without saying a word, he rubbed his rough hands, personally helped them clean up the site, and asked the people at the scrap yard to cooperate with them.

The environment around the scrapyard is messy, and sometimes some things are burned, such as burning the rubber wires, recycling the aluminum or copper wires inside, and some children in the factory will pick up such wires and sell them for money, and even steal the wires to sell.

Song Qiong and they found a cauldron, supported the cauldron, first put a part of caustic soda and water in the pot, burned it with fire until the caustic soda completely dissolved, and then poured in tung oil, slowly burned it over medium and low heat, stirring while burning, the mixture in the pot kept bubbling, and chemical reactions continued to occur, and gradually began to stratify.

With the help of the workers of the scrap station, Song Qiong didn't have to do it himself, he had been observing from the side, suddenly picked up a shovel, stretched it into the pot and soaked it for a while, after bringing it up, he found that the soap liquid was sticking to the shovel, and he was busy asking people to add some caustic soda water to continue stirring and boiling.

This step is saponification.

Until the soap no longer sticks and the soap in the pot is completely divided, then add salt and continue to boil for a few minutes, then let people stop the fire, remove the cauldron, and cover it with a wooden lid, canvas and a broken quilt.

This step is salting-out.

"That's it?" Wu Guo saw that Song Qiong asked everyone to stop, and couldn't help but ask with some doubts, could it be that the soap that can't be bought usually is boiled in a pot like this?

Song Qiong smiled: "It's almost, the soap base made now is already usable, but to get better quality, you have to add other oils, rosin and other accessories, and boil it a few more times." ”

The earliest soap was boiled with grease mixed with plant ash, which was not unusual, and could be made by hand.

Later, people relied on industrial products to forget these manual work.

Song Qiong asked everyone to go back to eat.

In the afternoon, Hou Chaonan, who came back from the meeting, learned about the situation and came to take a look, and saw Song Qiong and they were helping Wu Guo sort out the waste products in the scrap station, scolded Huang Qi with a smile, and patted Song Qiong on the shoulder: "Your father is a good person, I believe that you really want to do things, whether you succeed or not, it doesn't matter." ”

"Director Hou, can't you say something auspicious?"

It wasn't until before getting off work in the afternoon that Song Qiong asked people to lift the lid, at this time, the solution in the pot had been fully saponified and layered, and they poured the layered solution into two iron buckets, the upper layer was the soap base, and the lower layer was put aside, which could recover glycerin.

The soap base can already be directly made into soap, but Song Qiong still added some flaxseed oil, rosin, bubble alkali and other materials to the soap base, and boiled it again.

The next morning, Song Qiong had the soap liquid that had been cooled for nearly ten hours poured into the finished wooden mold and dragged it to the sun to be exposed.

By this time, the yellow viscous soap in the wooden mold had already taken on a certain form, and Tang Sheng, Huang Qi and others saw the tung oil turn into soap with their own eyes, and they were suddenly jubilant.

In the evening, the soap has solidified and formed, and after the mold, a large goose-yellow lump appears in front of everyone, and due to the effect of the mold, it is divided into a square grid.

Song Qiong used a saw made of iron wire to cut the soap cubes into small pieces along the grid line, and then continued to stand and solidify.

On the third day, Song Qiong took out these soap blocks, folded them one by one with wrapping paper, took out a brush, and wrote a few words on the paper: "Lijing laundry soap".

Succeed with flying colors!