Chapter 952: Entering the palace to give gifts
Li An attaches great importance to safety issues, and several of his wives have to go up the mountain to pick flowers, and in this Tang Dynasty with a better ecological environment, there will be wild beasts on the mountain, wild wolves, wild boars and other wild animals, that still exists, although the number is not large, hidden in the mountains and forests, but once it comes out to hurt people, it is very bad.
Especially for flower picking, the flowers at the edge of the mountain forest must be artificially destroyed and picked a lot, if you want to get more and better flowers, you must go a little deeper into the inaccessible mountain forest, and into the depths of the mountain forest, the probability of encountering wild beasts is more, so the safety issue must be paid attention to.
In order to have more and better harvests, many hunters often choose to go into the depths of the mountains and forests to hunt, so that the chances of getting prey will increase, and at the same time, the risk will increase a lot, in order to live, hunters take risks is very common.
However, hunters make a living by hunting, and naturally have the strength to protect themselves from being hurt by wild beasts, and a large group of women entering the deep mountains, the risk is relatively great, if there is no strong soldier to defend, in case a beast suddenly rushes out, it is very dangerous, and it is not good to hurt anyone.
"Husband, we can gather more than 300 people, how many guards are you going to prepare for us?"
Yan Ruyu thought for a moment and asked.
Li An replied: "Three hundred people should be divided into ten groups, each group of thirty people, five guards are enough, I will prepare fifty guards for you, which can fully guarantee your safety." ”
As a high-ranking official of the Tang Empire, Li An's personal guard is as high as 300 people, and these 300 people will always follow Li An, and the personnel can be changed, but the scale will not change in the slightest, which is why Li An's safety, and the use of personal guards is not restricted by the rules of the imperial court, and they can do whatever they want, and they don't need to report to anyone.
Because Li An is relatively wealthy, the equipment and treatment of these three hundred people are very high, and their combat effectiveness far exceeds that of ordinary troops, even if it is the most elite army in the Tang Dynasty, in the case of equal strength, it may not be the opponent of this guard, and it is more than enough to use fifty people to protect three hundred women from picking flowers in the mountains.
Subsequently, everyone moved the made clay to the laboratory in the big backyard, and then it was time for Ang Lee's personal performance.
Although the steps of making perfume are not very difficult by using laboratory equipment, it is completely possible to teach others and let others complete it for themselves, but this technology is very valuable, just give it to others, in case it leaks out, how can Ang Lee please the concubine.
Therefore, no matter what, Ang Lee can't let others help him refine perfume at will, in addition, the method adopted by Ang Lee belongs to the laboratory method, if it is a large-scale production, then it must be changed to a certain extent, and the laboratory method must not be the same, otherwise the cost will be relatively high.
Of course, there may still be certain problems with the methods that Ang Lee is taking now, and a certain degree of improvement is needed to make the fragrance more intense and applicable.
Therefore, Ang Lee will be busy in the next few days, and in addition, his wives also want Ang Lee to try to make perfumes with different flavors of flowers and plants, so Ang Lee will have to work harder.
In order to be able to refine more perfumes before resting, Yan Ruyu asked the maids to work harder, so that if there is enough flower mud, more perfumes can be made, and if there are really enough, Li An will not need to send them all to the palace, and it is not impossible to leave a bottle.
For the sake of his own health, Ang Lee must rest before the end of the night, and before that, he can make as many perfumes as he wants, and he can fill as many bottles as he can.
"Ah Lang, the time has come, it's time to rest."
A maid's reminder came from outside the door.
Ang Lee stretched his waist and looked up to see that the perfume had been refined into a beaker, and this beaker was five hundred milliliters, that is to say, Ang Lee refined ten bottles of perfume in one go, plus the two bottles that were previously refined, reaching the output of twelve bottles, which greatly exceeded Ang Lee's estimate.
With so much production, he can reserve one or two bottles for his wife to play with, but he has four wives, and if he favors one over the other, it will be difficult to talk in the future, so Li An feels that he should leave four bottles, one bottle of perfume per person, and the remaining eight bottles for Yang Yuhuan.
Ang Lee carefully poured the perfume from the beaker into the small bottles, and then put the instrument in order.
These small glass bottles were invented by Ang Lee before he went south to open up the Maritime Silk Road, in order to contain disinfectant, so that the disinfectant can be sprayed in the air to disinfect the room as necessary, and such small bottles can also be used to hold perfume, and the use method is the same as spraying disinfectant.
However, if you really produce perfume in the future, you must not use disinfectant bottles, because these bottles are too simple, not high-end at all, to make a special high-end atmosphere on the grade of the bottle, in addition, the volume of the bottle does not need to be fifty milliliters, the most high-end perfume, the bottle can have twenty milliliters, thirty milliliters and fifty milliliters, can be used to hold the mid-range, and low-grade, you can use a hundred milliliters of bottles, no matter how big it is, it is unrealistic, after all, this is for perfume, It is not filled with boiled water, the capacity does not need to be much, and the smaller it is, the more precious and delicate it is.
To make a high-end perfume bottle, you need glass and precious metal, and it will take a long time, and it can't be made in a short time, and Ang Lee has promised to give a gift to the concubine, so he can't wait for the new high-end perfume bottle to be manufactured, and he can only use this inconspicuous transparent glass bottle for the time being.
In the laboratory, Li An is not at ease, if he loses it, there will be no gifts to give to the concubine tomorrow, so Li An personally found a small bag, put all twelve bottles of perfume in it, and then took it back to his residence, so close protection, at least can make Li An more at ease.
"Husband, I've been busy for so long, how many perfumes have been made!"
As soon as Li An walked to the inner courtyard, he met the barbarian, and Yan Ruyu and the three of them were also not far away, and they all surrounded Li An'an when they saw him.
Li An looked at the ladies very curiously, and asked, "It's so late, why don't you sleep!" ”
Of course, soon, Ang Lee understood why, the first was that he smelled too much chrysanthemum perfume, and the whole person seemed a little excited, and the second was to see how much perfume Ang Lee had extracted, and if the quantity was enough, could he give them some.
"Husband, this bag must be perfume! Let's see. ”
Li Hanlu asked with a smile, and the eyes of the other three were also very warm, and it was obvious that perfume was very attractive to them.
Li An smiled, gently opened the cloth bag, and placed twelve bottles of perfume in front of the eyes of several ladies.
"Wow, husband, there are so many of them, do you really need to give them all to the concubine?"
Yan Ruyu's eyes lit up when she saw the twelve bottles of perfume, and the rest of the people also had similar expressions.
They probably all felt that since Ang Lee made so many perfumes at one time, they should leave a few bottles for them to try, and it was a bit of a waste to give them all to the concubine, and there was no specified quantity.
Li An smiled, looked at the four ladies, and said: "There are a total of twelve bottles here, if you give ten bottles to the concubine, you can leave two bottles, tell me, who is the right one to give it to?" ”
"Husband, I think eight bottles is enough, this number is also auspicious, don't give ten bottles so much, so that each of us can get a bottle, isn't it good?"
Yan Ruyu opened her mouth and asked.
Hearing this, Li An patted Yan Ruyu's head with a smile, nodded in agreement: "Okay! Since you all like it so much, let's get a bottle for each person! The remaining eight bottles are left for the concubine, take them yourself! ”
After speaking, he opened the cloth pocket and let the four ladies choose by themselves, in fact, they are all exactly the same, and there is nothing worth spending energy to choose.
Yan Ruyu and the four of them were very happy to choose a bottle of perfume, and then excitedly sprayed some on their bodies to make themselves more attractive.
Seeing the four ladies love beauty like this, Ang Lee's heart was very excited, women's hobbies are all figured out, since several of his wives like perfume so much, then, Yang Yuhuan must be the same, as long as this perfume is given to her tomorrow, she will definitely be as excited as her wife.
"Don't get excited, it's so late, it's time to rest!"
Ang Lee said with a smile.
"Husband, do you want to sleep tonight?"
Yan Ruyu asked with a smile.
"It's too late today, tomorrow! Let's all go back! Anyway, I'm going to sleep, I'm too sleepy. ”
Li An ignored them and went to the bedroom to sleep, while Yan Ruyu and the four of them still had no intention of falling asleep, and it seemed that they were really excited.
Back in the room, Li Ang, who was lying on the couch, could still smell the aroma of the room, and this kind of breath made Li Ang very comfortable and had a very intoxicating feeling.
This night, Li An slept very soundly, and when he got up, he found that his wives had not gotten up yet, it seems that they must have slept very late last night, otherwise, they would not have been in bed.
Li Ang doesn't have to worry about his wife, after they wake up, they will go to the mountains to pick flowers, so that they can sleep more, so that after they get to the mountain, they will not be able to pick flowers normally because they are too tired.
Before leaving, Li An explained that the guards were right, and they must protect everyone's safety, and before sunset, all the people involved in picking flowers must be brought back safely, and there must be no accidents.
The guards happily agreed, while Li An led a small number of guards to the palace with eight bottles of chrysanthemum perfume to deliver gifts.
'The spring night is bitter and the day is short, and the king does not rise early. At this time, Yang Yuhuan had not yet gotten up, she snuggled in Li Longji's arms, enjoying the king's favor.
Although she has woken up, she just doesn't want to get up lazily and wants to stay on the bed for a while longer, and Li Longji doesn't need to go to court often, so she doesn't need to get up early, and it's good to sleep more with the concubine.
When entering the palace gate, Li An saw Chen Xuanli, this old guy got up quite early and was explaining something at the palace gate, while the generals guarding the palace gate nodded frequently, looking quite humble.
"General Chen, it's early!"
Ang Lee took the initiative to step forward to say hello.
Chen Xuanli turned his back to Li An, naturally did not notice Li An's arrival, heard Li An's voice, turned his head to look at Li An, and greeted with a smile: "Li Shilang entered the palace so early?" Your Majesty probably hasn't gotten up yet! ”
Li An smiled and said, "I'm not looking for Your Majesty, I'm here to find the concubine." ”
Chen Xuanli smiled: "Are you stupid, the concubine and Your Majesty are together, Your Majesty didn't get up, and the concubine naturally didn't get up." ”
Li An patted his head and nodded: "That's right!" How did I forget about it? However, it's okay, the scenery in the palace is good! It's also good to be more yo-yo. ”
Chen Xuanli said with a smile: "That feeling is good! I'm most familiar with the palace, I can show you the way and chat by the way. ”
"Very well, General, please."
Ang Lee nodded in agreement.
Chen Xuanli and Li An walked into the palace together, walked for a while, saw a small cloth bag in front of Li An, and asked curiously, "Have you not had breakfast?" What's in the bag? ”
Li An didn't hide it, and said, "Old Chen! This is the gift I want to give to the concubine, didn't I promise the concubine a few days ago, of course the words have to count. ”
"What a gift for the concubine! Let me see. ”
Chen Xuanli curiously reached over and grabbed the cloth bag.
Li An gently opened the bag, took out a bottle of perfume, and sprayed Chen Xuanli's clothes indiscriminately, which frightened Chen Xuanli to retreat again and again, and kept asking, "What is it, what is this?" ”
"Smell it, don't you think it smells?"
Ang Lee said with a smile, and intoxicated with the fragrant air around him.
Chen Xuanli smelled the aroma in the air, frowned, and said: "It seems to be the fragrance of chrysanthemums, but it is much stronger than the fragrance of chrysanthemums, how did you do it, what is this called?" ”
Li An replied: "This is called perfume, it is a kind of women's product invented by me, it was just successfully developed yesterday, and it will be given to the concubine today." ”
"It's so fragrant, the old man thinks that the concubine must like it, it shouldn't be wrong, don't women like this kind of incense powder, the concubine is also a woman!"
Chen Xuanli gave Ang Lee's products a very positive evaluation, and felt that the products made by Ang Lee would definitely be favored by the concubine.
"Borrow your auspicious words, let's find a pavilion to sit down, I don't care if I always stand, I'm afraid you'll be tired."
Ang Lee said with a smile.
"Nonsense, the old man's body, even if you stand all day, you won't feel tired, go, go to the pavilion and sit."
Chen Xuanli has never been old, and always feels that he is young and will always be young.