Chapter 110: Guo Chengling's sense of crisis
Lin Xiaowan now has no scruples about giving her family all kinds of modern high-tech things when she has no outsiders.
For example, I bought a pair of rubber gloves for washing dishes for Liu's family, as well as dish soap, but Lin Xiaowan took a bamboo tube and didn't take out the original packaging.
She added a mirror to herself, she didn't pick those bells and whistles, for fear that if someone came and saw it inconvenient, she bought a small one, as long as she could see her face.
As for skin care, she bought hand cream for Liu.
Her mother has been working all year round, and her face is rougher than more than one degree, and there are frostbite scars left on it, Lin Xiaowan looks distressed.
The smear on the face was smeared, and Lin Xiaowan planned to do it herself.
This time, in addition to doing acne treatment, Lin Xiaowan also plans to make a small bottle of skin rejuvenation lotion for herself and Liu's.
Lin Zhen and Liu were convinced of their daughter's words, and they believed whatever Lin Xiaowan said.
Guo Chengling just raised his eyebrows after hearing this, he knew that his little wife had a lot of secrets, so now she didn't know what to do.
Sometimes, Guo Chengling even wondered if the little wife had become a spirit, otherwise how could she conjure up so many strange things, and there were still so many strange ideas in her head.
After lunch, everyone went back to take a lunch break.
As soon as Lin Xiaowan woke up, she and the Liu family were left at home.
The two old men went to the mountains to cut bamboo, and Liu planned to circle a few pieces of land in his new home to grow some vegetables. They're going to cut down the bamboo on the fence today.
Lin Xiaowan washed her face, brought a straw hat, and went out with her mother with the sewn bag.
What they were going to pick this time were moon flowers and tea tree leaves.
The moon flower is used to make rose essential oil, and the tea tree leaves are used to make tea tree essential oil for acne.
Yueji flowers are very common, and they bloom on the side of the road, and Lin Xiaowan picked a lot of them in a while. She pressed it gently, pressing the petals more solidly so that she could decorate them more.
Tea tree leaves have to go to the mountains to find them, but fortunately, Liu knows the way and knows where to find it.
There are not many wild tea trees on the mountain, and Lin Xiaowan and her sisters found three or four after looking for a long time.
Liu picked up a good bag.
Looking at the tea trees that had been ravaged by them and bald, Lin Xiaowan felt that if she did it this time, she would have to find a place and grow more tea trees.
Both bags were full before they went home.
After soaking the flowers and tea leaves in lightly salted water, Lin Xiaowan put fine sand and large, flat stones in a hot pot.
The flower heads are facing downwards and the moisture is dried.
After they were all dried, Lin Xiaowan put them in the basket.
Tea tree leaves are also disposed of in the same way and put away for later use.
By the time this was done, it was already dark.
The two big men came back from a trip, and seeing that they were busy, they went to the new house to make a fence.
Coming back in the evening, the medicinal bath went on as usual.
Lin Xiaowan took advantage of the man's bath, brought the sun-dried water in the afternoon to the stove room, and took a bath in the dark.
On such a hot day, you can't sleep well without taking a shower.
The next day, Liu helped his daughter light the fire after breakfast.
Guo Chengling's injury healed, and he carried things up the mountain to hunt again.
His wife is getting better and better day by day, Guo Chengling feels that his status is in jeopardy, and he doesn't earn as much as his daughter-in-law, just like eating soft rice, which makes him feel a strong sense of pressure.
Lin Zhen didn't soak in the new house when he went to the ground, seeing that the empty house was becoming more and more like home, he had a sense of accomplishment more than anyone else.
Lin Xiaowan carefully selected a bottle of olive oil and a bottle of almond oil from the supermarket to make the base oil.
She mixes olive oil with dried tea leaves in a certain proportion, puts them in a casserole and simmers.
Due to the long boiling time and the fire could not be broken in the middle, Lin Xiaowan stayed in the stove room since she finished eating.
At noon, Liu was cooking rice on another stove, and she was watching the casserole beside her.
The stove is too big, and it is a waste of firewood to cook things like this, Lin Xiaowan feels that if she decides to do this in the future, it is better to buy some charcoal and a small stove to come back.
I can't relax when I eat lunch, Liu saw that she had burned a fire all morning, and her face was black and white, and she couldn't help but smile, and asked her daughter to go out and sit and rest for a while, she looked at it.
The first stage had to be boiled for about seven hours, and Lin Xiaowan didn't sleep at noon, and kept guarding until the afternoon before boiling out the first essential oil.
She strained off the boiled tea tree leaves with muslin cloth, poured them back into the casserole, added new tea tree leaves, and continued to boil.
Since there is no distillation equipment now, this primitive method can only be used, so it takes a lot of effort to obtain a higher purity essential oil.
Lin Xiaowan stayed up like this for two days before she boiled out a small bottle of tea tree essential oil.
She was relieved to buy a sealed glass bottle from the supermarket and carefully pack it.
Tea tree essential oil is done, and rose essential oil must be made.
The method is similar, but this time Lin Xiaowan used almond oil.
Her and Liu's skin are both neutral, not very dry and not very oily, just right to use this.
There are not as many flowers as tea tree leaves, and the two pots are boiled to make half a bottle of rose essential oil.
After the essential oil is done, the next step should be to boil medicinal materials.
Lin Xiaowan put the medicinal herbs to be used into a casserole, added water and soaked them for a day and a night.
When you get up the next morning, you can decoction the soaked herbs over the heat.
Bring to a boil on high heat, turn to low heat and cook for half an hour, then change to a simmer and cook for two hours.
After boiling, turn off the heat, filter out the medicinal juice, and then soak the medicinal residue in water and re-decoction.
This is repeated three times until the smell of the residue is weak.
After that, pour the filtered liquid after three times of decoction back into the casserole, accelerate the evaporation of water over high heat, and reduce the juice over low heat. Be careful to stir constantly during the process to avoid scorching the sticky bottom. At the same time, it is necessary to skim off the foam until it is thick, and the liquid does not spread on the paper.
The ointment boiled in this way is called clear ointment.
Add the essential oil and beeswax that have been prepared before, refine it over low heat, pour in the clear paste, simmer it over low heat, and stir constantly until the water drops into beads (that is, drops into water and condenses into beads without dispersing) and it is done.
The freshly made ointment can not be bottled directly, it can only be put into the porcelain bottle after cooling, find it without a cap, cover it with clean gauze at the mouth of the container, leave it overnight, and then cover the lid after it is completely cooled, it is the finished product.
Lin Xiaowan has been bored at home for the past few days, ignoring what is happening outside the window, and only boiling ointment.
The ointment was done, and Lin Xiaowan felt that she was about to die.
She secretly swore in her heart that the next time she went to the county, she would definitely buy a stove and charcoal and come back.
Burning the fire and boiling the medicine like this, she was dizzy and dizzy, and she couldn't leave people for a moment, Lin Xiaowan felt that she was blackened, and her body was full of the smell of smoke.
Fortunately, the first batch of finished products came out, and the day after tomorrow was the time to make an appointment with Yao's to hand over the soap, and then you could take it to your own stall to try it.
Guo Chengling has been lucky these days, every time he returns with a full load, I don't know if the animals have relaxed their vigilance during the time he is resting or what's going on, he has been quite smooth these days.
Liu was busy embroidering handkerchiefs, Lin Zhen was busy with things in the field, the family had their own tasks, and no one was idle.
Taking advantage of the free time when the first batch of ointments was ready, Lin Xiaowan went to the mountains for two trips, found a few more tea trees, picked a lot of tea tree leaves, and dried them for later use.
Lin Xiaowan wanted to think about it herself, but her parents at home were a little confused.
Liu and Lin Zhen were a little puzzled when they knew that Lin Xiaowan planned to set up a stall to sell ointment.
Wouldn't it be easier to ask her why she didn't sell it directly to the Yao family who cooperated.
Lin Xiaowan also thought about it before, but after thinking about it again, she decided to sell it herself.
Soap wants to cooperate with Yao's, and Lin Xiaowan thinks most about not wanting to be exposed in the supermarket.
After all, this is not something she made herself, and if someone asks, it will be too troublesome to explain.
Moreover, the tree is very popular, and it is inevitable that there will be a situation that you can't handle after a long time. Moreover, after a long time, some people will definitely notice that something is wrong, and what to do when the time comes, it is still a problem.
This is also the reason why Lin Xiaowan didn't say too much to Yao's quantity.
However, the last time we talked about cooperation, Yao's proposal to let her recruit people sounded the alarm for her.
They can't invite people, because the ancestral secret recipe itself is a cover, as long as someone inquires, they will definitely know that Lin Xiaowan's words are an excuse.
Therefore, Lin Xiaowan still has to think of a suitable reason to fool the matter of asking someone to help.
But the ointments are different, she knows all the manufacturing processes and the ratio of medicinal materials, and she knows better how effective these ointments and skin care products are.
Lin Xiaowan is planning to open a store of her own.
If she could, she would also like to start her own brand.
She'll find someone to work with, but not now.
But if you directly tell the Yao family to let them sell it on their behalf, no one knows who this ointment comes from, and Lin Xiaowan doesn't want to do this.
Therefore, she had to beat the reputation of the ointment from scratch little by little.
Lin Xiaowan told her father and husband about her plans, and Liu, Lin Zhen and Guo Chengling were very supportive of her.
Liu and Lin Zhen purely believe in their daughter, no matter what Lin Xiaowan does, they will support it, and now Lin Xiaowan is becoming more and more independent and acting a lot more steadily, which makes Liu feel a lot more relieved.
On the one hand, Guo Chengling considered the feasibility of his wife's idea and felt that he could give it a try, but on the other hand, he felt that it was not an easy task.
Although Lin Xiaowan is very confident in her ointment, Guo Chengling knows that if she wants to open a shop, there are still all kinds of troublesome things that need to be solved, but since the little wife wants to try it, it doesn't hurt to do it.
While feeling worried about Lin Xiaowan, Guo Chengling felt a strong sense of crisis in his heart.
He was a little dazed now, and the money he earned from hunting was very different from that of his little wife, on the one hand, he was happy for his wife, and on the other hand, he felt disappointed that he couldn't help much.
Thinking of the promise he said before to support her, Guo Chengling smiled bitterly.