I saw Zhou Zhong grab a handful of salt, and then sprinkle it into the iron pot, a magical scene appeared, with the entry of salt grains, a ball of silk-like things appeared in the originally very clear pot, and these things quickly condensed, and soon became a mass of paste-like objects, which looked white and yellow, some like cheese.

"Wow~, something grows in the water!" Seeing that something really grew in the clear water, the naïve Duo'er really thought it was a trick, and she was happy to jump and jump. Bang'er's face was more questioning, she asked herself that she had read a lot of books, but the knowledge in the books was not enough to explain all this in front of her.

Compared with the two excited girls, Zhou Zhong seemed very indifferent, this kind of saponification reaction he had seen the teacher do in the experimental class, just now he recalled that memory several times, each step was done in accordance with his memory, and the effects were also within his expectations, so there was nothing surprising at all.

With the progress of salting-out, a layer of white and yellow soap has been bleached in the iron pot, note that this is a soap base, and it cannot be called soap and soap for the time being, because there is still the last step to do, but the last step needs some other things, and it is impossible to do it in one step today.

I saw Zhou Zhong scoop up the soap in the pot and put it on a clean white cloth, and he didn't throw away the remaining solution in the pot, but filtered it with gauze a few times and poured it into a clean porcelain bottle. The solution is a mixture of glycerin and water, which can be applied to the face as a skin care lotion, just enough to be paired with soap as a gift.

"Brother, is this the gift you prepared?" The bracelet finally recovered from the shock, but when she saw the strangely shaped soap on the white cloth, her face showed a little embarrassment. Although she didn't know what the use of these things was, the appearance was too ugly, how could she take them out and give them away?

Zhou Zhong saw through the bracelet's mind at a glance, and said with a smile at the moment: "Don't worry about the bracelet, this is just a semi-finished product, and when it is completed, you will find that this thing is not only not ugly, but also very practical, but if you want to complete it, it will take a while to prepare, and you also need to help!" ”

"Me? How can I help? Bang'er was also a little surprised when she heard this, although Zhou Zhong had said that she wanted the two of them to complete it together, but after Bang'er saw this series of magical changes before, she had completely lost confidence in herself.

"Of course I can help, what I'm going to do is a kind of soap, the function is similar to the pancreas we use, but the appearance and effect are better, now I have made the soap base, and then I need to add a spice to it, but I'm not very good at spices, so I want to ask you to help!" Zhou Zhong said very seriously.

As a girl, Bang'er used to like to fiddle with some sachets and other things, and she naturally knew a little about spices, so she immediately showed a smile after hearing it and said: "It turns out that brother, you want spices, this matter is very simple, I will mix a few spices myself, wait for me to write down the raw materials I need, brother, you can help me buy them back." ”

"Great, I'll just say you can help a lot!" After hearing this, Zhou Chong also said with a smile, he had long known that the bracelet would be accompanied by spices, so when he was planning to make soap, he had already thought about letting the bracelet also participate.

After dinner in the evening, Zhou Zhong found Steward Xu and asked him to help him order a few things, such as the mold to be used for the soap, the box for the soap in the future, etc., and the spice raw materials that the bracelet needed to be used were also handed over to the Steward Xu, after all, he was the most familiar in Songjiang Mansion, and it was just right to do these things.

A few days later, the spices and molds are also ready, Zhou Zhong boiled a pot of water in the cauldron, and then cut the soap base into strips and put it in an iron basin, and then put it in the pot to boil through the water, the soap base quickly melted, at this time Zhou Zhong added the spices that the bracelet was made of, quickly stirred evenly and poured into the mold to cool.

"Smack!" After the soap in the mold cooled, Zhou Zhong turned the mold over, and then slapped it on the table, and immediately a row of six plum blossom soaps appeared on the table, only to see that these soaps were exquisitely shaped, the color was pale yellow, and at the same time exuded a faint plum blossom fragrance, if it suddenly looked, I am afraid that it would really be a few plum blossoms in full bloom.

"What a beautiful flower! Brother, are these the soaps you want to give to Sister Lingyun? Bang'er's eyes widened, and she said with an incredible face, she really couldn't imagine that the strange-shaped soap base a few days ago would become so delicate after being processed by her brother.

"That's right, these brothers have prepared a gift for you!" Looking at the look that the bracelet liked, Zhou Zhong also said a little proudly, "But these soaps can't all be given to Xie Lingyun, I think it's enough to give her one, and the remaining five pieces will be divided among all of us, this thing is much better than pancreas!" ”

"Just one piece?" After hearing this, Bang'er frowned slightly, "Brother, isn't it too little for us to send only one piece, or I don't want that piece, make up two pieces and send them to Sister Lingyun?" ”

Bang'er participated in the whole process of making soap, she knew that the cost of this kind of soap in front of her was not high, and a piece was only a few dozen yuan, although her brother praised the role of soap to the sky, and the appearance was also good, even she liked it very much, but Bang'er always felt that it was not good to use dozens of things as a return gift.

Zhou Zhong couldn't guess the bracelet's thoughts, and then he stretched out his hand and patted the bracelet's little head and said: "Silly girl, don't look at the production cost of soap, which is only a few tens of yuan, but as the saying goes, rare is expensive, only I can make soap in the whole Ming Dynasty, plus the function of the soap is not worse than that of the pancreas, but the appearance is more beautiful than the pancreas, so if I set the price of the soap the same as the pancreas, or even a little lower, it will definitely attract others to buy, so don't underestimate this piece of soap, if you take out the soap to sell, It's not cheaper than the rouge that Xie Lingyun gave you! ”

"Yes...... But the cost of soap is so low, brother, if you sell it at such an expensive price, won't it become...... became a ......" bracelet wanted to say the word 'profiteer', but he couldn't say anything.

Looking at this innocent sister, Zhou Zhong sighed in his heart, but he said with a smile on his face: "You are so stupid, the production cost of soap is indeed very low, but you forgot to count one thing, soap This thing took me a long time to come up with, it can be said that each piece of soap is condensed with my hard work, so on the surface, the cost of soap is only a few dozen yuan, but if you add the hard work spent by my brother, then it is very cheap to sell a piece of more than a dozen taels of silver!" ”

Hearing Zhou Chong's explanation, the simple bracelet nodded a little as if she didn't understand, although on the surface it sounded like there was nothing wrong with her brother's reason, but for some reason, the bracelet always felt that there seemed to be something wrong with her brother's words, but she couldn't say what was wrong.

Seeing that the bracelet finally stopped worrying about the price of soap, Zhou Zhong took out twelve flat small porcelain bottles and put them on the table, then picked up the large bottle containing glycerin hydrate before, poured each porcelain bottle full and plugged it tightly with a cork, and each piece of soap was accompanied by two small porcelain bottles of glycerin to wipe his face.

"That's it!" Zhou Zhong looked at the results of his hard work in the past few days with satisfaction, then turned his head to see the bracelet, and immediately said, "Bracelet, do you want to try the effect?" ”

When Zhou Zhong said this, he didn't allow Bang'er to object at all, jumped up and rushed to bring a basin of hot water, and then motioned to Bang'er to try the effect of the soap. The bracelet was a little embarrassed at first, but she couldn't stand Zhou Zhong's encouragement, and finally leaned down and washed her face with soap, dried it, and poured glycerin from the bottle and smeared it on her face.

"How's it going, don't you feel refreshed?" Zhou Zhong asked impatiently.

I saw that the two slender hands of the bracelet were also gently stroking her cheeks, and after a while, she said a little excitedly: "It is indeed much more refreshing, it is similar to the feeling after washing your face with pancreas before, and after applying the contents of the bottle, I feel that my face is very smooth and tender, and the wind blows on my face and it doesn't dry, it's really good!" ”

"Ha Luha, that's nature, the thing in the bottle is called glycerin, which is supposed to protect the skin, our bracelet is originally beautiful, if you do these skin maintenance every day in the future, you will definitely be able to become a great beauty in the future!" Zhou Chong also said with a smile. In fact, for the effect of glycerin, he had secretly tried it yesterday, otherwise he wouldn't dare to experiment with the bracelet.

Next, Zhou Zhong took out a gift box, and then put the soap and bottle of skin care glycerin into the gift box, which was a return gift for Xie Lingyun, as for the remaining five copies, Zhou Chong kept one for himself, and the other four were divided by Bang'er, Duo'er, Aunt Wang and Su Niang, it can be said that none of the women in the family are left behind.

The gift was ready, Zhou Chong originally wanted to find an opportunity to visit Xie Lingyun with the bracelet, and by the way, he gave her the soap as a return gift, but what Zhou Chong didn't expect was that before he could visit the other party, Xie Lingyun came to Zhou Mansion to see him for the second time, but she didn't come to ask for a gift, but to check how Zhou Chong's second book was written?

During this time, although Zhou Chong was busy making soap, he did not leave behind the writing of Jin Zhumei, and now Xie Lingyun actually ran to the door to see Jin Zhumei, Zhou Chong couldn't help but show a dirty smile on his face, he can't wait to take a look at it now, what kind of reaction will Miss Xie, who has always been calm and rational, make when she sees this magnificent book?