As soon as Xiao Changzhen left, the entire Agarwood House was deserted.

The nurse Peach Blossom followed along with almonds and good ginger to Jinchun Hall, and Shen Qiutan even shamelessly stayed with Yao's for two nights. Although the Yao family always had a face, Shen Qiutan found that when she looked at Xiao Changzhen, her eyes would soften twice, and after a few times, Shen Qiutan turned back to her yard three times in one step.

In fact, it is still in a family, Shen Qiutan doesn't have to be like this, but the problem is that she has never regarded the Shen family as her home.

She is very unaccustomed to life without her brother.

Such a small lump, I watched a little bit fatter, a little bit able to sit and climb, and now it is suddenly far away, how can I be willing to ...... But there is no way to be reluctant, Qiao Shan also said that this is the best result for himself and Changzhen.

"The girl doesn't have to be like this, if you think about it too much, just go to see it often, and the blood and family relationship can't be broken." Bai Zhi persuaded.

"That's nature!" Shen Qiutan made a more detailed schedule with a stroke of his pen, the first one was to visit his younger brother at least twice a day, and the others were to study and make incense.

Seeing the choked Bai Zhi, the red bean was in a good mood, this girl looked like a smart person, but often spoke so amazingly that people couldn't speak, Bai Zhi saw that the girl was worried, so she wanted to persuade one or two, who knew that the girl had already thought of a countermeasure?

"Girl!" Xiaocai came in with a skirt, and when she saw Shen Qiutan put down her pen, she handed the two posts in her hand.

One is that Mrs. Tang invited her to her home as a guest, and the other is that Wang Yunfei invited her to a small gathering, saying that she wanted to discuss the ambiguities in the arithmetic competition.

Mrs. Tang's post is not surprising, but Wang Yunfei's is a little confusing.

Shen Qiutan put the post aside.

"Girl, Steward Joe asks to see you!" Before the side dish left, the little melon ran in again.

Shen Qiutan sat up suddenly: "Please!" ”

A few red beans and white angelica retreated, and Qiao Shan looked dusty.

Shen Qiutan personally took the cup and poured a glass of water: "Uncle Qiao Shan, sit down and drink saliva first." ”

"Hey! Good! Qiao Shan was indeed thirsty, a glass of water was not enough, he drank three glasses in a row, and then said: "The beekeeper has been contacted, and the price of the beeswax that the girl wants has also been negotiated, which is cheaper than we expected!" ”

He opened the small cloth bag he had brought back, revealing a piece of beeswax the size of a bowl.

The beeswax was clear in color and slightly yellowish, Shen Qiutan's eyes lit up, and the whole person became happy.

"This beeswax has been boiled by the beekeepers, and the dross has been filtered out, and if we bring it back to remove the dross, the price can be much cheaper. The girl wanted this beeswax, did she want to make batik or make candles? In the past half a month, he went to Sanshui County and the surrounding villages near the capital, and saw that his girl was full of interest and looked like she was going to do something big, and he reminded: "If we want to do batik, do we still have to purchase a batch of dyes together?" ”

Beeswax is not unusual, batik is not unusual, but I don't understand why the girl is in this business.

"No, let's do something else!" Although it is said that the officials do not compete with the people for profit, but dyeing cloth and even embroidery have long been monopolized by the Wang family and the eldest princess of Longqing, it is too difficult to come up with it, what Shen Qiutan really wants to do is lipstick.

It is said that women and children have the best money, and there is nothing wrong with it in this era.

At this time, there has long been rouge, and rouge is a general term for face grease and mouth grease, mostly using red and blue flowers as pigments, single color, mostly wood pulp paper, only color, and not much moisturizing effect, there is no luster, of course, there is no solid paste lip fat, but with more greasy and not so good taste of beef pith.

At this time, it is illegal for ordinary people to kill cattle, and those who can use cow marrow grease are all rich and noble families, and naturally they are not popular enough.

So, there should be something to do here!

Seeing that his own girl was selling Guanzi, Qiao Shan shook his head and smiled: "Okay, the girl has thought about it, let's just do it." ”

"Hehe, thank you Uncle Qiao Shan for your trust."

Shen Qiutan said again: "Actually, it's not a sale, it's just that I'm not ready yet." Next time, Uncle Qiao Shan will find someone to send a pot of spirits, I will make the finished product first and show Uncle Qiao Shan, is it worth investing again. ”

Qiao Shan nodded in response, thought about it and asked, "The little boy went to Jinchun Hall, can he still adapt?" ”

Shen Qiutan's face showed a look of longing and melancholy: "With peach blossoms following, it is generally fine, and it will be all right in a few days." ”

Qiao Shan smiled: "Look, the girl misses him more." ”

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The days flew by, and within two days of Qiao Shan's farewell, Shen Qiutan completed the rest of his schoolwork according to the schedule, and the spirits were also delivered.

Shen Qiutan entered his incense room, closed the door, and began to make lipstick.

In fact, in this era, there are many ways to make money, such as eating. Because cooking rice at this time is simply boiling, even the same is the vegetable, steaming, boiling, and roasting have been full of tricks, but the stir-fry method has not yet become popular, because iron smelting is mostly for the military.

The well-opened restaurants in the capital are nothing more than a lot of effort in the use of materials.

But there are many people to open a restaurant, and there are too many manpower and material resources to invest, and even your own energy, so the first step is to open a quieter rouge shop.

Besides, Shen Qiutan had already given birth to the heart of rouge, otherwise he would not have collected the petals of a yard early, and the color of the petals in spring is generally not dark, such as begonias and cherry blossoms, which can extract not much juice, but those few dwarf peonies have contributed a lot.

Take two-thirds of the beeswax, melt it twice with a small bowl, purify it again, add the peony flower juice that has been prepared for a long time, and finally pour an appropriate amount of spirits, stir well, while the beeswax that has been colored is still in a liquid state, pour it into the white porcelain rouge box that has been prepared for a long time, and then it is cooled.

Alcohol can not only promote the coloring of dyes, but also a natural preservative, this time Johnson only brought back beeswax, but no propolis, next time you can use propolis as a preservative.

Shen Qiutan made a few boxes of the remaining one-third of the size of beeswax in the same way, but the begonia flower juice was used, and the color was still too light, and Shen Qiutan dropped another drop of peony flower branches before dyeing it into a crimson pink color.

Early the next morning, Shen Qiutan couldn't wait to see his lipstick.

There is only one variety of peony planted outside the agarwood house, which is the double-petaled pool ink sprinkled with gold, according to the modern name, it is a deep rose red color, most of the beeswax, a total of eighteen boxes of this color of lipstick, and the rest have eight boxes of light color begonia red.

Shen Qiutan dipped the ring finger of his right hand and tried it on the back of his hand.

The touch is smooth and delicate, the fragrance is light, and the wine taste is a little heavy, but the color and gloss are not to be said.

Shen Qiutan called Mu Xiang: "Go and ask Uncle Wangshan and Uncle Qiao Shan if they are in the mansion, I want to go out for a walk." ”