Chen Yao pulled a dog baby crawling on the pebbles, and looked at Shi Niang who was raising a stick and knocking on her clothes by the river with complicated eyes.

Relying on the last bit of brown rice, Shi Niang carried him and the dog baby for a day and a night, and finally arrived in the town.

She has been washing clothes for five days, and she washes a lot of clothes every day, which is only five copper plates, which is not enough for the salary that used to cook a meal for him and the mother gave Shi Niang.

He really couldn't hold back, and brought the dog baby to Shi Niang in a half-pulled hug, "Mother, why do you come to wash clothes, your cooking is so delicious, just find a restaurant and do odd jobs, and make more money than washing clothes." ”

Liu Ruyue didn't stop what she was doing, put down the stick, and rubbed her clothes in the river, "Look, all of your children remember that I am very good at cooking, then, those who want to harm you, based on my experience of doing odd jobs in restaurants and restaurants, will it be easier to think of me?" ”

Chen Yao sighed, his eyes flashed red, and he said viciously, "Mother, I know, the killer can find us accurately and rush up directly to kill my mother, which means that there is an internal response in the convoy." ”

"Well, so, let's keep a low profile and try not to attract their attention."

Chen Yao was silent for a long time, and choked sadly, "However, there are only five copper plates a day, and only twenty-five copper plates in five days, I can't buy many meters, I can't go far, and when the time comes, I have to earn copper money by washing clothes, so I will move forward slowly, when will I be able to return home." ”

Liu Ruyue's heart was sour, she turned around, hugged Chen Yao in her arms and patted him on the back, "Child, I'm homesick." ”

"Well, I miss Daddy, I want to go back to Daddy, I'm afraid, I'm afraid that those bad guys will rush out and kill me like they killed my mother, go back to Daddy, let Daddy kill that bad woman, and then it's okay, I'll be safe, but...... But how long will it take to find my father? Chen Yao finally couldn't help crying in Liu Ruyue's warm arms.

Hearing his cry, Liu Ruyue seemed to hear her four children crying and asking when she would find them, they were scared, they missed her......

"Silly boy, my mother won't wash clothes all the time."

"But my mother can't cook, and the money from cooking is much faster, and my mother doesn't wash clothes, so what do you rely on to make money? Otherwise, I'll help my mother do the laundry. ”

"You help my mother take care of the dog baby, you help me, and besides, my mother has her own way to make more money, so that we can get to Dongting County faster."

After washing today's clothes, Liu Ruyue got five more copper plates.

Together with the previous 25 copper plates, there are 30 in total.

The purpose of coming to wash clothes was not for these copper plates, in fact, she still had a tael of silver on her before.

Although the wages of this laundry are small, she has to wash her clothes and eat and live, although she eats porridge and has a few grains of rice, and she sleeps in a firewood room, but it has saved her a lot of expenses.

And......

Liu Ruyue walked to the edge of the dam where her clothes were drying and took a look at the results of a week of drying in the sun.

Some of these flowers were the red, purple, and yellow wildflowers she picked on the side of the road when she was about to arrive in town, and some of them were small quantities of medicinal herbs such as moon flowers, dried roselle, comfrey, and angelica that she bought at the medicinal herb shop after she arrived in the town.

In the last life, she was also sold to work in a rouge shop, and the confidential Fang Zi owner was strictly managed, but the usual way to make lipstick was done by everyone in the shop.

The most important thing is the color of the lipstick, what flowers are in the formula, which herbs, and what is the proportion, this is the most important thing, as long as these things are not leaked, it will not affect the business of the owner.

Ordinary lipstick, many ordinary people will also make it, but it is not durable, and the color is not good-looking.

After all, ordinary people will not spend money to buy good almond oil or olive oil brought by Persian merchants, nor will they buy other Chinese medicinal materials to ponder, and the process of trying it is very expensive.

Even the grease made by the apprentices and workers in the shop can't be sold for a few dollars, because there is a big gap between the quality and the owner's own makeup.

Liu Ruyue also learned to make lipstick in the shop, because no one likes to talk to her with an ugly face, so she spent her mind on pondering lipstick, and she still thought at that time that she could not afford to find children in the future, and she could make lipstick for them herself.

Later, her lipstick got better and better, although it was not as good as the lipstick made by the owner's secret recipe for a hundred years, one could be sold for twenty or thirty taels of silver, but it could also be sold for seventy or eighty copper coins.

And now, during the time she was washing clothes, she divided these flowers and medicinal powders into three pots according to different ratios and colors, poured almond oil and soaked them, and dried them in the sun for a week.

Enough time is enough to make lipstick.

If you are in a hurry, there is no way to make lipstick, and living in the laundry field, with plenty of sunshine and food and shelter, really makes Liu Ruyue very satisfied.

She brought all three pots of raw materials into the house.

Chen Yao half-dragged and half-hugged the dog baby back to the house, "Mother, I wanted to ask before, what are you going to do with these things?" Do you want to make flower cakes? ”

Liu Ruyue hugged the two children to the bed, but now that the weather is hot, it is comfortable without a quilt.

"You take your brother over there to watch, mother, ready to make lipstick."

"That rouge gouache?"

"yes."

"Wow, my mother is so good, she can not only cook, but also make lipstick!" Chen Yao's eyes lit up, "My mother used to buy a lipstick, and she had to pay thirty or forty taels of silver each, so wouldn't we be able to become very rich immediately?" You can buy horses and cars and buy ...... right away."

"Most of the people in the world are still very poor, they can't even eat a mouthful of rice, and the lipstick used by your mother is the best in the rouge shop, where will I make such a good thing, even if it is made, I am afraid that it will not be easy to find people in this town who can afford it."

Chen Yao was deflated, but he was not as sad as he was during the day, no matter how cheap the lipstick was, it was faster than washing clothes, "Don't wash clothes in the future, washing clothes hurts your hands." ”

"Yes."

Liu Ruyue poured the almond oil soaked for a week into a large white porcelain bowl, took out the beeswax made from honeycombs that she had taken out on the road before, cut a piece and put it in the almond oil that had turned vermilion.

Put the large bowl in a pot filled with water, light the fire, and boil.

Another 20 lipstick ceramic boxes were lined up.

In fact, after buying so many dried flowers and medicinal materials, Liu Ruyue didn't have much money left, and she didn't have more money to buy fat white porcelain boxes, so she bought so many 20.

But the amount she prepared was a lot, and 20 boxes were far from enough.

Although you can sell some of it first, and then buy a box to pack.

However, Liu Ruyue didn't plan to do it all so exquisitely, because Dawanshansi was not a rich place, and there were probably not many people in the town who were willing to spend seventy or eighty yuan to buy lipstick.

She can't waste too much time setting up a stall here.

Therefore, Liu Ruyue put the shells one by one.