"Really?"

Red Sleeves happily looked at his master and asked, Red Sleeves doesn't want to sell slaves, you must know that if there is no income, even if all the house slaves are sold, the Qin Mansion will not be able to maintain it sooner or later.

"Really, Red Sleeves, we do the perfume business, do this perfume business, we will definitely make money, make a lot of money." Qin Duan excitedly hugged the red sleeves and spun around in place a few times.

"Master, what is perfume?" Red Sleeves, who was a little dizzy by the old man's head, asked curiously.

"This ......" Qin Duan didn't know if he explained himself, so he said, "You will know this later, you now call Yingchun, Magnolia, and Little Cherry over, the master has important things to explain." ”

"Yes, sir."

Seeing the happy appearance of the old man, Red Sleeves was also very happy, and went out to arrange for someone to call Yingchun, Magnolia and Cherry over.

Looking at the red sleeves that went out, Qin Duan still couldn't stop being excited, he finally thought of a way to make a lot of money, although Qin Duan didn't know much about the process of making perfume, but to make some simple perfume, Qin Duan felt that he should have no problem, even if it was a simple perfume, in this world, only he knew the process of making zuò.

What does this mean, this means monopoly, monopoly means making a lot of money, which is why those state monopoly industries in modern society make so much money, because it is a monopoly, this thing is here, the price has the final say, if you want to use it, you have to buy it if you don't buy it, you can't find a second store.

"You're here, you're the master's most trusted person, and now the lord has a few things to tell you to do, you have to keep it secret, you can't sue anyone, you know?" Seeing that his favorite maids had arrived, Qin Duan spoke.

"Yes, sir." Several maids all nodded and said, all excited that they were the most trusted person of the master.

"Magnolia, you go outside to buy some roses, and when you return home, you pick all the petals and put them in the basin for the master, you go and do it, don't let others know." Qin Duan explained to Yulan.

"Master......" Yulan said as she looked at Qin Du with some embarrassment.

"What's wrong, what's wrong?" Qin Duan looked at the maid Yulan suspiciously and asked.

"Master, it's winter, and the roses haven't bloomed yet." Magnolia whispered, the roses will bloom, it will take many months, where to pick them now.

"Oh, let's go daffodils, at least one or two pounds of petals."

Qin Duan said, Qin Duan almost forgot that there were no greenhouses planted in this era, and there were no roses in winter.

"Yes." Magnolia took the silver and went out to find daffodil petals.

"Yingchun, you go find some dishes and chopsticks." Qin Duan explained to Yingchun.

"Yes." Yingchun also went out to find dishes and chopsticks.

Soon, Qin Duan arranged everyone's work.

In his previous life, Qin Duan had some research on perfume and knew that to brew a bottle of perfume, he needed a lot of petals, but in this world, petals were not worth much at all, and the raw materials were very cheap.

To make zuò perfume, we must first make flavor, and naturally extract the juice first, and it is best to extract the juice with solvents. But in this extremely rudimentary condition of this world, where to get any solvent, only the pressing method and the distillation method are the most practical, the pressing method is too troublesome, and it is too wasteful of petals, so Qin Duan chose to use the distillation method to extract the essence.

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After all the things were prepared, he found a remote uninhabited room in the courtyard, cleaned up a little, and Qin Du commanded the four maids to work.

"Red sleeves, Yulan, you put up this pot, you go to find some firewood for spring, and you are responsible for lighting the fire for cherries." Qin Duan commanded in an orderly manner.

Soon, the broken pot had been supported, and half a pot of water was poured in, and Qin Duan asked Yingchun to find a sieve plate and put it on the water surface to ensure that the water would not be stained if it boiled. He poured most of the water into the wooden basin that the maid Yulan found, hollowed out the bamboo tube, inserted one end into the hole of the pot, and connected the other end to the bottom of the wooden basin.

After a qiē stop, grab the daffodil petals and put them on the sieve plate on the broken pot, plug the lid of the pot, and let the cherries start a fire.

Seeing the fire at the bottom of the pot burning more and more, Qin Duan was proud for a while, he had chased women in his previous life, and he also bought some perfumes, but this method of making perfume was to look at the spare by the way, but he didn't expect it to come in handy today.

This steam distillation method is simple and easy, as long as the flowers and water are heated all the time, the essence in the flower is steamed out, mixed in the water vapor, and the bamboo tube leads to the cold well water, and the flavor is automatically separated from the water and becomes essential oil.

However, this pot was bubbling everywhere, and the mouth seal was not tight, Qin Duan found a few thin bamboo tubes and inserted them, leaving one for adding water, and the rest were all passed into the water basin, and the thin seal was pasted with thin mud.

This first pot of distilled essential oil quickly appeared on the water surface of the wooden basin, Qin Duan scooped it up with bamboo slices and smelled it, the fragrance was a little faint, but he could still smell the smell of daffodils.

The house was full of fragrance, bathed in the fragrance of daffodils, Qin Du couldn't help laughing, Lao Tzu was going to get rich.

After the excitement, Qin Duan carefully poured the daffodil essence into a porcelain bowl, and after half an hour, Qin Duan collected two full bowls of daffodil essence.

"Sir, is this what you mean by perfume? Very special fragrance, a bit like rouge gouache, but no, it smells much better than the fragrance of rouge gouache. Redsleeves asked, looking at the liquid in the bowl suspiciously.

After all, Red Sleeves came out of the Xu Mansion, and the wives and ladies in the Xu Mansion often used good rouge gouache, and Red Sleeves smelled the smell of those good rouge gouaches, but never smelled this smell. This smell seems to be specially brewed for women, with a faint fragrance, strong but not strong, which makes people never get tired of smelling it, and even a little addictive.

"What do you think it tastes like?"

Qin Duan smiled mysteriously and said, in this world, this perfume is the first to be invented by himself, if there is a Nobel Prize in this world, should he send one to himself, Qin Duan is secretly complacent.

"It's fragrant, it's pure, it's pure, I like it very much, but the taste is a little stronger." Redsleeves thought for a moment and said.

"Hehe, it's right to be stronger, this is the essence, when it is diluted with water and alcohol, the fragrance will not be so strong, and it will smell very comfortable at that time."

Qin Duan said with a smile, but listening to Red Sleeves say this, Qin Duan remembered an article he had read before, called Smelling Fragrance and Knowing Women.

The gist of it is that a woman's needs can be seen from the type of perfume she uses. A woman who likes a light fragrance pursues spiritual love over the body, while a woman who likes a strong fragrance is a woman who is in high demand.

From here, it can be seen that Red Sleeves is a woman who pursues spiritual pity over physical love, and Qin Du can't help but feel happy in her heart.

"Sir, is this what you mean by perfume?" Red Sleeves asked again, after all, that "perfume" is related to the Qin Mansion's plan to make money.

"Almost, right?"

Qin Du said, after all, the essence is made zuò out, the perfume is very easy, just dilute it, soon in this world, there will be perfume, and I don't know how many women will thank themselves at that time.

"Master, it doesn't seem to be as fragrant as just now." Yingchun said.

Red Sleeves also sniffed it, and said to Qin Dui: "Really, master, the fragrance has been talked about a lot." ”

Qin Du couldn't help but pat his head at this time, "Damn, how did Lao Tzu forget such a final link!" ”

Although the essential oil is the essence of the flower, but after being separated from the water, and then put it in a bowl to dry, the aroma will naturally run away, not to mention that his process is rough and simple, and the essential oil obtained is less than one-fifth of the flower, and if it is not sealed, there is not much to get.

"Perfume bottle!"

Qin Du patted his head and shouted, how could Lao Tzu forget this last thing, there is no perfume bottle, and the essence taken out is still fragrant after weathering!

"Sir, what is a perfume bottle?" A few maids asked curiously

Qin Du looked at their thirsty for knowledge, and said the slender shape of the perfume bottle with his hands and feet, telling them how transparent and beautiful they were, but they were all in this era, where had they seen any perfume bottles, and they didn't even know what glass was!

Qin Duan had a headache, there was a problem at the critical moment, there was no perfume bottle, and today's efforts were all in vain! Walking back and forth, thinking of countermeasures, when I was helpless, I almost fell down when I tripped under my feet, and when I looked down, I saw that it was a thin bamboo tube used for drainage and transportation.

Qin Du couldn't help but be stunned, and when he was enlightened, he patted his thigh and said, "Haha!" Lao Tzu has a way! After saying that, he rushed into the forest, and quickly took a bamboo pole the thickness of two fingers, made a small vessel, and carved a stopper, and a primitive bamboo perfume bottle appeared in front of him.

As soon as this last difficulty was overcome, Qin Duan hurriedly arranged for a few maids to continue extracting essential oils, and after two hours of hard work, bamboo perfume bottles filled with the essential oil of daffodils were placed in front of him, looking at this pile of results, Qin Dui's heart was filled with the joy of success.

"Master, can you give me a bottle of this perfume?"

Red Sleeves looked at Qin Du expectantly and said, Red Sleeves also likes the smell of this perfume very much, if you rub it on your body, how good it would be, it is fragrant, the master will definitely like himself more.

Although the other maids didn't say anything, but seeing Qin Duan's gaze betrayed their thoughts, they also wanted this perfume too, for women, perfume has a fatal ** power.

"Not for the time being, they're just flavors, not perfumes."

Qin Du said, but looking at the maid's disappointed look, Qin Du said again: "After diluting them into perfume, I will give each of you a few bottles of perfume." ”

"Really, thank you, sir." A few maids said happily.

"Red sleeves, you go to the study with the master, and the master has something to arrange for you to do?" Qin Du said to Red Sleeves.