After dinner, Cairu and Caihe squatted in front of the stove to wash the dishes. Lin Baoru took a fine sieve and began to collect the ashes of plants and trees in the stove, and while collecting the fine white ash, she pondered about making alkaline water.

In fact, compared with plant ash, there is another way to smash out the pig pancreas is more useful. Rubbing the pig pancreatic soap with sesame oil makes the hands and faces smoother, and the eyelids will not be uncomfortable all day long. It's just that her family was too poor before, and even if she had this idea, she didn't dare to mention buying sesame oil.

After all, people can't eat enough, where is there a copper plate to sell sesame oil!

But now it's good, the family sells some soap beans, and it can be regarded as making money. With plenty of money, she doesn't have the heart to think about other methods!

In her previous life, she remembered a little, and her grandmother also smashed the pig's pancreas with alkaline water extracted from plant ash. Later, the conditions were a little better, and the family began to use edible alkali, so my grandmother no longer made her own alkaline water.

She looked at the ashes of the plants and trees in the dustpan beside her, and recalled the simple experiments in the university laboratory in her previous life. At that time, the class representative also specifically said that the ratio of extracting natural alkaline water seemed to be three to seven.

It's just that when I was making pig pancreas myself, I had too many scruples in my heart, and I only thought about the caustic soda used by my grandmother. But I forgot that although I wash things with caustic soda to remove dirt, if I wash my hands and face, I will have a burning sensation.

And the easiest and best way is to use edible alkali. The alternative to edible alkali, in addition to the direct and simple method of adding plant ash, the better sense of use is to add alkaline water.

Thinking of this, Lin Baoru no longer sifted the ashes of grass and trees. She got up and washed the pot, and then added ash and water to it as she remembered. The ratio of three to seven, although not strict enough, is about the same at the glance.

Lin Baoru watched the ashes of the plants and trees slowly settle down, and the water surface was slightly submerged, before squatting down and lighting the fire. She didn't dare to burn the fire too hot, but when the water boiled, she stopped.

Waiting to see that the water in the pot was getting less and less, it was not until it was time for her to count silently in her heart that she put it down.

"Eldest sister, what are you going to do here?" Cai Ru looked at it a little strangely.

Lin Baoru first asked her to bring a dry bowl, and while pouring the water in the pot, she explained: "Before, we used grass ash to pinch soap beans directly, and when we washed our hands, the color in the water was somewhat ugly. So I thought, just boil the white ash, and then use the boiled water and pig pancreas, maybe it will be better. ”

The water poured into the bowl had to stand still for a long time, but Lin Baoru wanted to try it quickly, so she simply took a small amount of water and rubbed a piece of soap beans, just waiting for Ming'er to dry it to see the effect.

To be honest, although I took a course in cosmetic chemistry in my previous life. But at that time, she learned much more theory than practice, so her head was full of knowledge on paper, but she couldn't do what she thought about casually like the heroine of the crossing next to her.

After finishing these things, Lin Baoru saw that it was not too late, so she gathered Xiaoshan and told the story with Caihe on the kang. This time, she also learned well, and she didn't tell those fairy tales, so she picked the stories of strange women like Hu Sanniang to tell.

Sure enough, Cairu and Caihe listened to it with relish, and even the ignorant Xiaoshan slapped him when he heard Hu Sanniang fighting. When Wang listened, he frowned and puzzled for a while, puzzled and surprised for a while, and finally sighed that there was such a powerful person in the world.

After telling the story for a while, Lin Baoru took a few guys who were not sleepy and said a few sharp brain turns.

When she is free these days, Lin Baoru often takes a few people to do some small games or guess riddles. If she is handed over to Xiaoshan to do oral calculations, she will bring Lin Mancang and Cairu Caihe.

Sometimes, even the Wang family will be pulled by her to listen.

After listening to this for a long time, Lin Mancang was able to calculate a simple amount of a few yuan. Even if there are no Arabic numerals today, multiplication formulas can be used universally. The brothers and sisters of the Lin family, who were forced by Lin Baoru to memorize silently for a few days, are now used to opening their mouths, even if Lin Baoru casually mentions the numbers.

Several people listened to the story, and Lin Baoru was tested to count, and they just wanted to be proud for a while. On the sharp turn of the brain meridian, he was unilaterally tortured and killed by Lin Baoru.

So in the sound of Caihe and the little mountain ghost crying wolf, the family happily washed up and fell asleep. Of course, before going to bed, Caihe and Xiaoshan couldn't help but be teased by the Wang family, and then the two children who provoked them blushed and pouted and covered their heads and got into the bed......

A few people slept soundly this night, but Lin Baoru, who was in a daze, had a bunch of messy thoughts in her head. Or she really thinks about it day and night, she actually dreamed of herself wearing a mask in her previous life, and even seemed to see a small video of various ingredient party evaluations in a red book at that time.

After watching the video, she was still a little confused, and she was pulled back to the time when she followed the guide to the museum, and the guide explained to her the methods of those ancient skin care soaps......

Almost all night, she never fell asleep. But the only thing she was glad for was that those memories she had thought she had forgotten, or were vague, gradually became clearer.

Although some of the recipes are not very clear, but in the end there are eyebrows.

Early the next morning, when Lin Baoru got up, she felt sore and tired. She looked at the hill beside her, which was still sleeping soundly, and struggled to put on her clothes and get off the kang.

Xu was early in the morning, Wang added charcoal to the brazier, so it was not very cold in the house at this time.

She yawned and went to the brazier to look at the soap beans she had made. Before she took the dried soap beans and planned to try it, she suddenly found that the gray water of plants and trees that had been sitting in the bowl yesterday had now turned pale yellow on the transparent layer.

Lin Baoru looked at the pale yellow liquid with some surprise, and said in her heart, didn't she really boil the alkaline water by herself? Originally, she thought that after boiling it directly, still water could be used, but now it seems that the water that has been stagnant overnight seems to be purer.

Immediately, she was no longer busy washing her hands, and hurriedly took two small balls of smashed pig pancreas, mixed them with the water in the bowl and smashed them. Stay until the two small pieces are smashed and completely sticky. When it thickened, she kneaded it into shape and set it aside to dry.

Wang, who was cooking, entered the house and saw that his eldest daughter was still pinching the pig's pancreas, and couldn't help but say: "Even if you make money, you can't just open your eyes and do it." You're so busy every day, and you're not afraid of getting tired. ”

As a mother, no matter how hard life is and how tired she is, she doesn't want her children to suffer with her. It's like Lin Baoru's work now, compared to her previous work of going up the mountain to chop firewood and farming, I don't know how much easier. But every time she sees her daughter busy, she feels that her daughter is more affected than the children of other people.

Originally, Lin Baoru was just trying, so she smiled and said, "I know, I'll eat first, and then I'll fix these." After a pause, she still couldn't help but say with some joy, "I just boiled the ashes of the plants and trees, thinking of replacing the white ash with clean water and putting it into our soap beans. ”

When Wang heard this, he was a little stunned in surprise, "Can you still earn it?" ”

It's not that she doubts her daughter's words, it's really that she thought that the more than 300 yuan she earned on the second day of junior high school was already considered a good day. Those copper plates, even if they are the strong labor of other people's families, can't earn them back without a month......

Lin Baoru was happy in her heart, and couldn't help but nodded excitedly, "When the set starts, I'll buy some white bean flour, atractylodes, and eggs, and then find a way to try other recipes." ”

Anyway, she doesn't have any other skills now, first, she doesn't have a golden finger that turns a stone into gold, and second, she doesn't have a powerful and incomparable background and family background. So if there is a chance to smooth the current road to making money, then she will naturally not let go easily.

Compared with the idea of only wanting to earn the first pot of gold with soap beans made from pig pancreas, Lin Baoru is now more confident in the future.

After all, it is easy to crack the soap beans that she is now made of only pig pancreas and plant ash, but it is not easy to make soap beans with alkaline water in precise proportions like her.

And as long as the soap beans she makes, the sense of use and effect are better, no matter how much others chase the wind, they can't surpass her.

With this thought, Lin Baoru was even more happy, she approached Wang with a smile and said, "Mother, you will definitely be able to be a rich old lady in the future, hahahaha......"

Although Wang still didn't believe it in his heart, he listened to his daughter's words, and his heart also rejoiced.

Now that she is a person who has seen "big money", she is naturally much more optimistic than the previous self who complained at every turn.

So she didn't dampen her daughter's enthusiasm, she only smiled and responded, "Mother is waiting for you to let my mother wear gold and silver to be a rich old lady." ”

The two talked for a while, and Cai Ru and Cai He, who were cooking porridge on the fire outside, began to pick up the food.

Because Mrs. Liu said that she was going to come to the door today, the Wang family also specially discussed with Lin Baoru what to prepare for a while. Thinking that there was really nothing to entertain at home, she also specially asked Cai Ru and Cai He to go to Aunt Lu's house to see if she could even get some melon seeds and candies to sell to her family.

After this circle, a few warm-hearted people knew that there was something big in the second room of the Lin family. The Liu family feels that they have wronged Baoru's daughter, and now the family members are going to come to the door to give their future daughter-in-law a long face.

Lizheng's daughter-in-law was heartily treated to see Lin Baoru, and naturally happily beckoned her daughter-in-law to load a plate of melon seeds for Cairu. It's just the copper plate handed by Cairu, she said she wouldn't accept anything.

In the end, Li Zheng said on the side: "Don't give it, just think that your aunt loves your sister." Hurry back, don't be too late for a while, delay your mother and your eldest sister's business. ”

When Cai Ru heard this, she thanked her and trotted back.

And Caihe's side is the same, that is, Caihe's heart is smart, and his legs and feet are fast, so he finally put the copper plate in his hand on someone's table and ran away. provoked a few Aunt Lu, and screamed a lot in the back.

Before Cairu and Caihe returned, the courtyard of the thatched house was already lively. Outside the courtyard where there has always been little, there is still an ox cart tethered.

Cai Ru and Cai He watched from a distance, and there were people constantly moving things down from the car.

Wang, who had just coaxed Xiaoshan to eat, also listened to the liveliness in the courtyard with a blank face. She thought it was the Liu family who came, and hurriedly got up to greet her, but as soon as she lifted the curtain, her eyes turned red first.