Zizhuyuan is a courtyard of the Governor's Mansion, covering an area of several acres, close to the Governor's Mansion, in addition to the pine and cypress in the courtyard, the most is Zizhu. This courtyard was originally used to entertain and house guests of the Governor's Mansion and subordinates from other places, and it was bustling at www.biquge.info the end of each year when the subordinates who were officials outside the Governor's Mansion came to report on their work, and most of the time on weekdays it was idle.

Now there are three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry outside the Zizhu Courtyard, and the courtyard is full of officers and soldiers of the Duoyan Battalion, during which there are hundreds of households leading their subordinates to patrol back and forth, and under the strict guard of five hundred officers and soldiers, it is difficult for even a fly to fly in.

In the kitchen of Zizhuyuan, Guan Shanyue stared at Zhang Zechang with a solemn face, although he had already signed the confidential document, he still asked cautiously: "Zhang Zechang, Guan Mou will confirm with you one last time, according to the agreement on the document, everything you see and hear from now on all belong to Daning's top secret, if you reveal the news for a long time, Guan Mou will go to the Holy Lord to ask for a decree and punish your nine clans, can you hear clearly?" ”

Zhang Zechang frowned, in fact, he wanted to quit now, but he was curious about the kind of mirror that Guan Shanyue said could clean the oil stains and reflect the whole world. What made him even more scratchy was that Guan Shanyue also promised to build a factory after the matter was completed, as long as he was willing to serve as the head of the two factories, and promised to give him a monthly salary of twenty-four stones, which is equivalent to the monthly salary of a four-grade official, which is simply a good thing for pie in the sky, much more beautiful than being the unpopular Laizhou Mansion Daoji Si Daoji.

Don't look at Zhang Zechang as a Taoist priest, but he has no heart to be born at all, on the contrary, he is an official fan, thinking that he can manage hundreds of people in the future, his heart is pounding, he thought about it again and again, and decided to eat the cake painted by Guan Shanyue, "Back to the old man, the little old man will now bet on you for a lifetime of glory and wealth, if the slightest rumor leaks from my mouth, you will please punish my nine clans." The villain also has a reluctant request, and the trouble is that the adult will send someone to Laizhou Mansion with this letter to take the villain's wife to Duoyan City, so that the villain can do his filial piety. ”

Guan Shanyue's conditions are so tempting, it is a fourth-grade official's money, and only a fool will refuse. While taking Zhang Zechang's letter and handing it to Chen Ergou, he put on a mask made of white silk, and said: "I didn't expect you to be a filial son, and the matter of picking up your wife is wrapped up in Guan Mou, and I promise to take my old mother to Duoyan City smoothly." Also, you don't show up in the market without my order, and someone will be responsible for your safety in the future. ”

"Master Guan, don't worry, don't dare to say anything else, the villain is the most able to endure loneliness, I used to lock myself in the house in Laoshan to alchemy, except for eating and drinking, I didn't go out of the house at all, that time was not ten days and a half months." Zhang Zechang felt that it was very funny to have this palm-sized white silk on his mouth, and he blew the mask hard and puffed it up.

Guan Shanyue looked at Zhang Zechang, who was like an old naughty, shook her head helplessly, and said with a solemn expression: "Lao Zhang, put away your laughter, you can read the steps carefully, and you must keep it firmly in mind." ”

Zhang Zechang didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly followed behind Guan Shanyue with wide eyes, observing his every move without blinking.

The things in the kitchen are all customized from the steel factory according to Guan Shanyue's requirements, and they are all iron guys who are bigger and thicker.

Guan Shanyue tightened her cuffs and put on deerskin gloves, opened all the doors and windows in the kitchen, and asked Li Ergou and Batur to carry the iron drum with the thickness of a gasoline drum to the window of the house.

There were red tick marks inside the bucket, and the soldiers who had been waiting outside the door with the bucket for a long time hurriedly poured the cold spring in the bucket into the bucket.

When the water level reached the scale mark in the middle of the iron bucket, Guan Shanyue signaled his soldiers to stop fetching water, stood in the distance, scooped a scoop of quicklime powder with a large iron scoop with a long handle, and poured it into the iron bucket.

The quicklime powder was heated by water, and a burst of water vapor rose from the iron bucket, and the surrounding soldiers all let out an exclamation, if Guan Shanyue hadn't greeted everyone a long time ago, it is estimated that Chen Ergou would have carried him out of this "dangerous" place at this time.

After trying a few times in a row, Guan Shanyue's heart had roots, and he put two big scoops in a row, and the water in the iron bucket suddenly boiled, and he stood boldly by the iron bucket and stirred it with a steel rod that was the thickness of his arm that had been prepared long ago.

Add two scoops of quicklime, stir for a while, and so on, as the quicklime is added more and more, the water in the iron bucket becomes more and more turbid.

After adding a generation of quicklime, Guan Shanyue looked sideways at the scale marks in the iron bucket, and saw that the water had been transpirated and there was still more than half of what it was just now, so he instinctively began to add soda ash to it.

Guan Shanyue carefully picked up another iron scoop and added a scoop of soda ash to the thick iron bucket, the water in the iron bucket suddenly boiled with splashes, and after a squeaky sound, a pungent smell wafted out from the iron bucket, and the clouds and fog in the wide room became like a fairyland.

Guan Shanyue, who was closest to the iron bucket, bore the brunt, and despite wearing a homemade mask, she still felt a little disgusting, and hurriedly stepped back.

Chen Ergou and the others, who were standing behind Guan Shanyue, hurriedly picked up the pu fan that had been prepared a long time ago, endured the pungent smell, and drove the unpleasant smell out of the window desperately.

Guan Shanyue slowed down for a long time before he recovered, he felt that he had never been so eager for that kind of big industrial fan, "Ahem, ahem...... Day A he A mother, next time remember to move the iron bucket to the yard, this smell is too rushing, it's almost life! ”

Chen Ergou took the lead and let out a burst of laughter, "My lord, why don't you replace me, the strange smell in the house is almost gone!" ”

Guan Shanyue shook her head stubbornly, "It's Wei Er Chong, I forgot to stir it just now, it's no big deal, you keep fanning the window!" As he spoke, he picked up a big iron spoon and poured a scoop of snow-white soda ash into the iron bucket, and after a burst of cold water droplets burst in the boiling oil, the room turned into a cloudy fairyland.

Everyone worked hard to drive the water vapor outward, Guan Shanyue approached the iron bucket and stirred it quickly with a steel rod.

Hydrated lime and soda ash produce caustic soda, and after a quarter of an hour, after the paste in the iron bucket no longer emits hot gas, Guan Shanyue scooped the caustic soda into the large iron pot with an iron scoop.

Under the stove, Chen Ergou burned the fire by adding splitting wood to control the temperature. The caustic soda in the pot gradually became hot, and everyone waited with bated breath for a miracle to happen.

Guan Shanyue lost no time in letting Zhang Zechang pour the soybean oil that had been prepared long ago into the pot, while he himself used a large iron spoon to stir slowly in the pot, and after about ten minutes, the caustic soda was completely fused with the oil.

The temperature in the pot is about 40 to 60 degrees, and with the continuous transpiration of water and Guan Shanyue's constant stirring, the saponification reaction has been carried out for a quarter of an hour, and a thick layer of jelly-like material has gradually formed in the upper layer of the iron pot.

Guan Shanyue's eyes were full of peach hearts, he knew that the soap was made today, and said with a happy face: "Ergou, the fire has stopped, Batur, go and bring those wooden boxes and blue and white porcelain bottles made by carpenters!" ”

Batur snorted and rushed out, bringing in more than a hundred palm-sized boxes in a few moments.

The center of the lower part of the box is a recessed Aoxue Hanmei, and the upper part of the box is engraved with two protruding seal characters, which can be seen without looking closely, and Guan Shanyue called it a soap mold.

While the jelly-like soap had not yet cooled, Guan Shanyue and his own soldiers quickly filled up the molds one by one.

Looking at the table full of soap that was about to take shape, and there were still more than a dozen empty molds left on the side, Guan Shanyue suddenly remembered something, and ran to the flower room in the backyard of Zizhuyuan like a gust of wind.

In the conservatory, a hundred flowers bloomed, Guan Shanyue lightly picked a lot of plum blossoms, peony flowers, chrysanthemums, rose petals, and ran back to the kitchen like a gust of wind, panting and pouring a thin layer of soap, and carefully unfolded the petals, placed on the layer of softened soap, until ten petals of soap were made, he stood aside contentedly and admired it for a long time like a work of art, which made people put the remaining glycerin in the pot into the blue and white porcelain vase with oil gourds.

Guan Shanyue felt that her current mood was as if she had won a big battle, and beckoned people to put those soaps in a ventilated and cool place, thinking that these soaps are too alkaline now, and they can only be used after a few days of complete saponification reaction, she clapped her hands and said with a smug face: "This soap can only be used in two or three days, during this period, you can be optimistic, don't let the mouse give me a snort!" Zhang Zechang, do you understand? ”

When Zhang Zechang was in Laoshan, he made a furnace of Dan every once in a while, and making soap was simply pediatric compared to the cumbersome alchemy, he had already firmly remembered the steps in his heart, and quickly nodded and said: "My lord, the villain has just remembered it in his heart." It's just that there is one thing, the villain doesn't know whether to talk about it or not? ”