With a large yard, the housekeeper has already begun to prepare for repairing and planting flowers and trees, and I believe that he will be able to move in by the beginning of spring next year, and Zilan is also very much looking forward to what his yard will look like after it is completed.

Zilan and Shuhui learned to paint with the painter, they are young, they have just started the enlightenment stage, and the learning task is not heavy, but they will take more time to learn the rules of etiquette, and the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting to cultivate sentiment, this is the required course for the young lady.

Tianyue is getting hotter, and the three of them have been coming to the Hou Mansion for more than a month, and they have adapted to the living habits of the Hou Mansion, Zilan is not allowed to touch the fire and hot water, but she can pick flowers by herself, grind and dry them for such a simple thing, and Hongxia will assist her to complete it by the side.

Zilan didn't come up with any new incense products, her age was not suitable, but she followed Hongxia to learn how to dry, how to arrange medicinal materials, and sometimes watched her make some simple incense products, usually she was a bystander and troublemaker.

Today, Hongxia is going to make a hair cream, and use this to apply hair to maintain long black hair, and treat itchy hair and white dandruff.

This recipe is also called borneol paste, as the name suggests, it uses borneol, agarwood, white sandalwood, Suhexiang, chicken tongue, tonka, cloves, sweet pine, wood, Huoxiang, Angelica dahurica, white aconite, fine pungent root, angelica, xiong?, Tianxiong, Xinyi, chamomile flower, black beak bean, parsnip, vitex, almond (soaked and peeled in soup), Qin pepper (slightly fried to remove water vapor) one or two, five catties of black sesame oil.

The production method is to remove the above 24 flavors, remove the oil and file finely, wrap it in new brocade, put it in a pot and fry it with oil, wait until Angelica Angelica turns yellow, remove the slag and put it into the porcelain.

In this way, the smell of borneol is fragrant, and it is clear and depressing; The chicken tongue fragrance has the function of dissipating cold in warmth; The incense recipes are scattered, the qi is dispelled, the wind is dispelled, and the dampness is dissipated. Almonds invigorate blood circulation and disperse stasis; Angelica dahurica, parsnip, Xinyi, fine pungent and pungent temperature, ascending head and face, dispelling wind and dampness, black beak bean, Tianxiong are all hot and spicy products, dissipating cold and dehumidifying, all medicines are decocted together, so that the medicinal properties penetrate into the oil, can moisten black hair.

This recipe comes from the "General Record of Shengji"

Zilan saw that Hongxia's technique was skillful and the fire control was very appropriate, and couldn't help nodding slightly, she was worthy of being taught by her mother, and this skill was enough to be an intermediate incense master.

"Sister Hongxia, can my hair be black and shiny after I use this hair cream?"

Zilan tilted her head to tease Hongxia, a little bored in front of the pot.

"Of course, this recipe is very useful, you see that your mother has used it for many years, and her hair is black and smooth, and if you insist on using it, it will be as beautiful as your mother."

Zilan smiled and nodded frequently, and said in her heart Of course it is easy to use, these medicinal materials, including borneol and chicken tongue incense, are very expensive spices in themselves. In my previous life, I used this recipe to raise my hair, which is particularly easy to use, but the cost of the materials is a little more expensive.

Hongxia's movements were very quick, and after a while, she filtered the dregs, and when the oil was slightly cold, she put it in a beautiful blue and white porcelain vase and sealed it.

Zilan picked up the bottle and sniffed it, nodded with satisfaction, the technique is skillful, and the fire is also very good, not bad.

"I'll take it and give some to my grandmother and sister."

"Okay, go down, slow down and don't fall."

Hongxia asked Mu Xiang to take something and accompany Zilan to the main courtyard.

Zilan trotted all the way to the main courtyard, "Grandmother, I'll bring you hair oil." ”

"Oh, my little girl, what have you done?"

The old lady stretched out her hand and hugged Zilan to the couch, hugged her in her arms, and sniffed the smile, "It's the smell of hair cream." ”

"Hee-hee-hee! Sister Hongxia made it, I borrowed flowers to offer Buddha, and used it to share with my grandmother, two aunts and sister, this can make the hair black, very useful. ”

Zilan held a porcelain vase to offer treasures.

"Okay, it's still my little obedient filial piety, and my grandmother made it with my little obedient."

The old lady smiled lovingly.

Xu Shi came in, "Mother, I asked someone to pick up someone at the dock, and it should be there in a while." ”

Zilan sat up straight, her eyes bright and bright, "Auntie, is my father coming back?" ”

"Yes, I said it was today, and I sent someone to the dock early in the morning, and you will be able to see your father soon."

Xu nodded happily.

"Thank you, aunt, Lan'er just said that she was going to send some hair oil to her two aunts and sisters, and it just so happened that aunts could take it back and use it."

Zilan's small mouth seemed to be smeared with honey.

"Yes, I said how to smell a fragrance when I enter the house, then I'm not welcome, the things made by my sister-in-law are very useful."

Xu smiled and nodded.

"Grandmother, my dad is coming back, will he bring us gifts?"

Zilan happily stumbled on the soft couch.

"Yes, I'll definitely bring it to you."

"It's a pity that Sister Hui'er isn't here, otherwise we can open the gift together."

Zilan sighed regretfully, Shuhui and her second aunt went back to their parents' house, her sister-in-law celebrated her birthday, and she would come back after a while.

The old lady is kind and not harsh, and she treats her two daughters-in-law very kindly, never cares about her son's house, let alone fills in the concubine aunt for her son, and the housekeeper is also handed over to the two daughters-in-law, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law get along very well.

"They'll be back tomorrow, can you keep it and tear it down tomorrow?"

"So what can I do? Not only do I want to dismantle mine, but I also want to dismantle Sister Hui's, but it's rude to dismantle other people's gifts, and I can't dismantle it when Sister Hui comes back, so I'll keep it and wait for her to come back and dismantle it myself, opening gifts is the happiest thing, you don't understand. ”

Zilan shook her head and looked serious.

The two of them laughed.

"My mother is also going to pick up my father, why don't you take me."

"Your mother went alone, I'm afraid of delaying your school, and besides, the dock is very hot, so what are you doing, your father will come back in a carriage soon." Your book can be memorized, go back to your father and check your skin carefully. ”

"I didn't steal it, I memorized it."

Zilan has to review her homework every night, after all, what she learned in her previous life and this life is different, so she really has to study hard, otherwise she will be punished.

"You can learn arithmetic, you can't be lazy with this."

The old lady smiled and nodded her nose.

Zilan grinned and threw herself into the arms of the old lady and coquettishly, "I'm not lazy, I can memorize it, and I will use it, I have helped my mother settle the accounts, I am a smart little girl." ”

"Well, that's the good baby."

The old lady nodded in satisfaction.

"Lan'er is very talented in arithmetic, and she calculates very quickly, and she can teach the two children to calculate accounts in two years."

Sister-in-law Xu also nodded slightly, and when she was seven years old, she could start contacting the housekeeper director, first of all, starting from the accounting, you must first learn to read the account book, the account book will read, you can see that the cat is tired, and you are not afraid of being pitted by the stewards.

"Yes."

As she was talking, there was a noisy and pleasant singing sound outside, and the voice was that her father Song Zhengtian was back.

The girl picked up the curtain, Song Zhengtian was dressed in a cyan robe, elegant and clear, although he was a little tired, he did not lose his handsome and graceful bearing.

"Son Zhengtian greets my mother-in-law."

Song Zhengtian is a son-in-law, and his son-in-law is half a son, and calling himself a son means close.

He knelt on the futon and kowtowed to the old lady.

"Hurry up, my son has worked the boat, you have suffered a lot outside all these years, you have done a very good job in office, and your father is very proud of it."

The old lady lifted her hands and asked her son-in-law to help her son-in-law up.