"Here we are." A voice floated overhead.

Xia Shangshang looked up and looked forward, and was instantly stunned. In front of him is a small house made of bamboo, quiet and elegant, but to the excitement of Xia Shangshang, in front of the bamboo house, there is a large rose!

"Holy!"

Xia Shangshang hurried over, excitedly about to touch it. "Be careful! This thing has thorns!" Xiao Baimian immediately reminded, for fear that Xia Shangshang would be stabbed.

Xia Shangshang was excited to take care of this, so he quickly picked a rose and put it in the palm of his hand to watch it carefully.

The little white face saw that there were no wounds on Xia Shangshang's fair-skinned hands, and he was relieved.

"Tigress, do you recognize this?"

"God, you really treat me thinly! You can find roses here. Xia Shangshang said gratefully, and almost knelt down for God.

"Hey, little white face, do you sell this thing?" Xia Shangshang turned his head and said seriously at Xiao Bai's face.

"Can this thing still be sold? I saw that it looked good, picked it and planted it. The little white face scratched his head, looking puzzled.

Xia Shangshang was overjoyed when he heard this, it seems that this guy doesn't know the value of this thing yet! Xia Shangshang remembers that in the 21st century, as soon as Valentine's Day came, the price of roses skyrocketed. Even though it was expensive, it was hard to find a flower that day.

"In this way, I will give you a tael of silver every month in the future, and you will help me send this flower?" Xia Shangshang squinted his eyes, and he had a small abacus in his heart.

"A tael of silver?" The little white face pondered for a moment, pacing around the room and thinking carefully. "So be it! I don't want silver, you tell me the use of your flower, and you can pick it yourself in the future. ”

Xia Shangshang hesitated, he took the roses because he wanted to make rouge and lipstick. Xia Shangshang hasn't told anyone about this yet, but at the moment, he only asked about the use of roses, and didn't ask about his own practices, Xia Shangshang thought about it, and still told him honestly: "This thing, I want to use it for my daughter's family." Well, for example, it's something like a bracelet that makes people beautiful. ”

When the little white face heard this, he suddenly felt bored. didn't entangle, and said happily: "Cheng, then you can get it yourself in the future!" But! How do you eat this lemon exactly? ”

Xia Shangshang saw that Xiaobai's face was not interested in dwelling on this topic, and he was relieved. "This thing, every morning when you get up, cut a thin slice and put it in a water cup, put a little honey, mix it with warm water, stir it well, and you can drink it."

"Is this drinking? Not for food? Also, What is honey? ”

Xia Shangshang patiently replied: "Honey is something in the honeycomb, sweet but not greasy, and it is made of nectar from the pollen collected by the bees. Very nutritious. ”

"Oh~" Xiao Baimian suddenly realized, "However, no one should be able to easily get honey now, and you can mix it with white sugar and water." Although the taste is not as good as honey, it is not bad. ”

"That's right, this lemon, you can also squeeze out the juice and spread it when you grill the meat!"

The little white face was very curious about everything Xia Shangshang said.

Xia Shangshang pondered whether to go to the blacksmith shop at the head of the village to find a blacksmith to press an iron door for the family, the ancient wooden door was too unsafe. Xia Shangshang took out a set of paper and pencils, and immediately drew a set of design drawings according to the modern lock cylinder. The next day it was sent to the head of the village. Zhang Guofu, the boss of the blacksmith, looked at the design drawings of Xia Shangshang, although the style was weird, he could still beat it.

This striking iron, two taels of silver went again. Seeing that the house was about to be built, and when the time came, it would be a lot of silver to invite guests to dinner, Xia Shangshang felt less and less money in his pocket, and suddenly felt nervous.

The gouache last time was bought by Feng Niang at once, and there was no stock at home. Xia Shangshang thought about it, and in the future, he still had to find a shop to do some stable business.

However, the current priority is to make the rouge and lipstick first.

Xia Shangshang cleaned the rose pieces that were picked up in the little white face, picked out the petals that had turned yellow and discolored, leaving only the reddest and most tender part, and the remaining stamens Xia Shangshang put them in porcelain and used them to make aloe vera water, and also distilled them, leaving the hydrosol.

When the roses are mashed, they leave a thick and thick pulp. Xia Shangshang asked Su Yun for a piece of pure cotton muslin and filtered the rose dregs. He also took out this year's new silk, cut it to the size of a rouge jar, and soaked it in a thick rose pulp. When it is completely soaked and taken out to dry, it becomes a good rouge.

The practice of lipstick is a little more troublesome, and Xia Shangshang doesn't plan to do it now. It is useless to have rose petals in lipstick, and now there is a good grease in the process to dissolve it into the dye, but Xia Shangshang doesn't want to use things with added chemicals, she originally determined to make pure natural things.

I learned from Little White Face that there is no place to sell honey, and you need honey, flower petals, and finally grape juice soaked in wine for as little as 30 days to make lipstick. Honey is a must-have for coagulation into a paste. Not yet, Xia Shangshang had to choose to give up first.

Xia Shangshang went to the mulberry farmers in the village to buy a pound of silk for 2 taels of silver, and when he came back, he began to tinker. As soon as Su Yun opened the door after sowing seeds, she smelled the sweet and fragrant fragrance of roses, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's so fragrant!" ”

"Mother, are you back? Can you come and try this color for me? ”

Xia Shangshang adjusted his skills several times, and always felt that after the flower juice was squeezed out, the slurry was a little too red.

Su Yun looked at it carefully, and threw a few calendula from the side into it. Xia Shangshang carefully mashed it, and the orange and yellow color of calendula immediately melted into it to form a translucent color in pink.

"Wonderful!" Xia Shangshang was excited, and now this color was the effect she wanted. One more point is too yellow, and one point less is too bright. Xia Shangshang couldn't wait to see the effect of powdering on his face at that time.

"Sister Su! How do you apply this pigment? "The cries of workers were heard outside the door.

Xia Shangshang walked out immediately, Xia Shangshang had negotiated with the workers before, and the decoration of the home was all in accordance with the modern style. Try to be as concise and elegant as possible. As for the decoration style of the home, Xia Shangshang went to buy rotten colors and white paints, wanting to create a Mediterranean style.

After separating from Xiao Baimian, Xia Shangshang also went to Xiao Baimian to get a lot of chrysanthemum seeds, and planned to enclose two small fences on both sides of the house and plant them when the time came.

It was the first time that the people in the village had seen this kind of building, not to mention, although it looked a little strange, but it was quite fresh and beautiful. Xia Shangshang is personally involved in all matters of this house, and everything is in the style he wants. In modern times, such a small bungalow has to cost millions, and in ancient times, it only needed to spend some decoration money, which was really cost-effective.