Chapter 11: Red Mansion 11
planning
Shizuka glanced at Sister-in-law Li, knowing what she was excited about, but how to say it? She has her deed in her hand, so what if she tells her? This is just a small pastry recipe, if you want to make it delicious, you have to experiment many times, right? Shaking her head, let Sister-in-law Li write down the recipe and leave it alone, let her experiment by herself, she just waited to eat.
Back in the study, Shizuka began to write about the self-made method of essential oils, well, there are two kinds of essential oils, one is the soaking method, and the other is the distillation method, but unfortunately the distiller doesn't remember what it looks like, so it's better to use the soaking method first and then upgrade to the distillation method after remembering it in the future.
So she slowly began to recall the steps: the soaking method requires the use of base oil, stainless steel pots, vegetables, and cotton gauze. This base oil is made of olive oil, so people have to find seeds to plant, and this steel? I'm afraid there is no steel pot now, so let's look for it first.
First, put the dried peach blossoms in a pot with the carrier oil, simmer for more than 6 hours, and then strain them into a bottle with cotton gauze. If you want to get a stronger essential oil, you can re-add the filtered oil to the plant, then pour it back into the pot and continue cooking. Cooking for about two or three rounds is fine.
The slower method is to mix the oil directly with the dried peach blossoms and soak them in a bottle for more than two weeks. This avoids heating and reduces the loss of beneficial substances.
The most critical components of the distillation vessel are: the heater, the container for water, the container for the plants above the water container, the condenser pipe, the oil-water separator After the plants are placed in the container, the water is heated under the still, so that the substance of these plants, whether they are flowers, leaves or trunks, is emitted, and finally condensed into a mixture of hydrosols and essential oils. The water and oil are then separated, and the oily part obtained is the essential oil of the plant, which is then easily processed into cans. And the rest of the moisture is hydrosol.
Just wrote dozens of pieces of paper in such a miscellaneous manner, and when she heard Xiaocui come over and ask where lunch was placed, she said that she would eat in the flower gallery pavilion in front of her, and by the way, it was all green in spring.
The first thing Xiaocui served was to make a morning peach blossom cake, which was pink and tender and delicious to look at. Shizuka's eyes lit up, it was what she had seen on the Internet, she picked it up and tasted it, well, it's not bad, the taste is good, it's just too sweet, why do people here love sweetness so much? Aren't you afraid of diabetes?
"Let Sister-in-law Li make a portion with honey, don't put too much, you can take the sweet ones and eat them yourself, my portion is not so sweet."
Xiaocui happily ran away when she heard this, Shizuka called Xiaohong, Xiaohong rarely appeared by her side now, she was a little strange and wanted to ask what she had been doing lately. Xiaohong squirmed a little and saluted, and Shizuka asked her a little strangely, "What's wrong with you?" "Miss... Miss, before my mother went to the capital, she found me a fiancΓ©, afraid that I would be too old for them to take care of me. After speaking, his face turned red unconsciously.
Xiaohong is the youngest daughter of Steward Wu. Steward Wu's mother-in-law also went to the capital with Steward Wu, leaving her youngest daughter to accompany the young lady in the Zhuangzi.
Shizuka raised her forehead and lowered her head and laughed, this Xiaohong is one year older than her, and she is only 10 years old after the New Year, right? Why is Steward Wu so anxious? Alas, there are still five or six years to go, so you are not in a hurry to get married, right?
Xiaohong smiled and said to Shizuka, "Miss, my mother asked me to marry early and then be your housekeeper's daughter-in-law, hehe, Miss won't marry anyway." I just want to follow Miss for the rest of my life. β
Shizuka nodded with a smile, touched her head and said, "Although you are a year older than me, I have always regarded you as a sister, and your personality has always made me ignore your age, and when you get married, I will give you a big gift to make up for makeup." β
Xiaohong nodded happily, and then asked An to go back, her mother found her a housekeeper to teach her some things, and she has been learning this recently, so she didn't appear by Miss's side.
Shizuka went back to the study after finishing the meal and began to write the current plan, and after writing, he found a new housekeeper, the original Jin Butler was going to follow Steward Wu to the capital, he was Steward Wu's apprentice. So Steward Wu's cousin in Yangzhou City, surnamed Zhao, he is 28 years old this year, he is an intern shopkeeper in someone else's shop in Yangzhou City, and was invited by Steward Wu to help the housekeeper, Shizuka used him for two days and felt good, young people don't have so many concerns, dare to say and dare to do.
Seeing him come over and not say much, he gave him the plan he wrote, and after reading it, he was relieved, he was originally pulled by his cousin to be a housekeeper for a nine-year-old girl, and he felt uncomfortable, thinking that he was a big lady who didn't care about everything, and he had to work hard for several years. After taking the plan in his hand and looking at it, he finally settled down in his heart.
Shizuka looked at his expression calmly, nodded slightly, and said, "I want to have a loyal housekeeper, and many of my plans must be executed according to my orders to achieve the best results." In addition, I don't want to let others poach the big housekeeper who I have worked so hard to cultivate, if you are willing to follow me, I have three plans, one is to sign a death deed, the second is to sign a living deed, and the third is to sign a contract. β
Steward Zhao pondered for a while and asked, "What do you say about this living deed and contract?" β
Shizuka took a sip of tea and said, "The living deed is to sign me a 20-year deed, during which you betrayed me, and I have the right to sell you." At this point, she looked at him with clear eyes. It seems that she is just a child, and not a businessman with whom he negotiates.
"The contract is to sign a commercial contract for us, you do things for me, I will pay you, and if you betray me during the period, I can report to the official to deal with it."
After Shizuka finished speaking, she waited there quietly to see how he chose. As for the specific matter, she didn't say anything, Steward Zhao frowned and didn't say a word, obviously knowing that there were too many loopholes in her statement. However, she wouldn't make a loud reminder, he knew that. So I began to beat a drum in my heart, if I chose the wrong one, I guess the trust of the young lady would be gone.
There are three boys and two girls in Zhao's house, and only the 12-year-old eldest son is with him, although he can't study, but the youngest son is 6 years old and can already be enlightened.
But now the family is in difficulty, and it is difficult to find something to do, the housekeeper of this Lin Mansion has 8,000 yuan a month, less than 1 tael, which is not enough to support the family. Originally, the intern shopkeeper could still have 1 tael of silver, but he was pulled here by his cousin to be a housekeeper, and if he didn't sell himself, this money really couldn't support his family.
Shizuka saw that he wanted to speak and stopped, and said casually, "Let's talk about your concerns and choices first." β
"I want to sell the death deed, but I have more sons, and I have started to enlighten again. I'm afraid, I'm afraid of delaying his future. Steward Zhao gritted his teeth and said.
"Oh, this thing, your son has just been enlightened, can you provide him with books for a few years? Can you get ahead after only a few years of studying? The pen, ink, paper, and inkstone for reading need a lot of silver, do you think that if you are given ten taels of silver a year, you can provide a show? Shizuka smiled and shook her head. If I solve your worries, do you choose to sell the death deed to me? β
Steward Zhao immediately knelt down and said, "If Miss can solve my son's future, I am willing to follow Miss forever." β
"Wrong, it's not to solve his future, but for him to study, but there is no guarantee that he will be admitted to Xiucai."
"Yes, yes, it's to solve his reading problem." Steward Zhao smiled a little stupidly at this time, it seems that he doesn't have the shrewdness of the first meeting, and he pities the hearts of parents all over the world, all to give their children a future.
Steward Zhao didn't need Miss to say, he wrote the deed of purchase with a pen. Here, the head of the family is a slave, so the whole family will be marked as a slave.
"In this way, you send your daughter-in-law and son and daughter to the capital, and your youngest son will be my brother's companion to read, start with playmates, and study together when you reach the grade, and let Steward Wu find one if you are enlightened. You just stay in Suzhou to help me, that is, to separate your husband and wife. β
Steward Zhao scratched the back of his head, waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay, it's a good thing to be taken care of by the master." It's okay to separate, otherwise that mother-in-law annoys me every day. β
Shizuka was a little embarrassed for a while, how could she talk about this with a male servant, and her old face turned red. immediately woke up, and then said, "In the future, you will have 10 taels of silver per month, and how much you sell will be paid according to the sales, and your daughter-in-law will let Steward Wu give it, and there will be dividends at the end of the year,"
Steward Zhao was stunned when he heard this Yueyin and what was the achievement, what was the situation? Shizuka didn't pay attention to him when she saw him like this, so she just said, "My plans are only the first step, but the preliminary work of this first step is very important, and there are a lot of them, all of which need to be kept secret, I will give you the first start-up capital of 3000 taels, and these raw materials are the ten miles of peach forest in my backyard." I'll give you the recipe in the plan in two days, and I'll re-sort it out, so you don't understand it. Also, you bring a deputy housekeeper out to manage the trivial affairs of the family, and you will take care of my affairs outside, of course, you will also take care of the major affairs of the family, and you are now the chief housekeeper. β
When Steward Zhao heard this wave of surprises, he was shocked, scared and glad all of a sudden, fortunately he chose the death contract, otherwise he would let himself know so much? So I didn't think about it anymore and asked more, and after taking the plan, I withdrew and said that I would talk back after reading it in detail.
Shizuka is happy, she likes such a person who can know how to advance and retreat, just give it, don't give it and don't ask. I am the master, how can I let my subordinates know so many whys?
Shizuka couldn't help but think of Lai Da in Rongguo's mansion, Zhou Rui's family, those slaves and bullies, and the maids and women there were all unruly, and Miss's boudoir could also be searched casually. It looks like a big family, but in fact, they are all male thieves and prostitutes, how does the book say "Rongning and Ningfu, except for the stone lion at the door, none of them are clean". Their young lady is not like a young lady, and the maid is not like a maid, and it is thanks to Mrs. Jia that she has lived there for decades, by the way, it seems that she never attends any banquets, right? Those ladies did it, she hasn't been there, maybe it's because she has read less, no one likes to talk to her, she won't go after a long time, so she doesn't know what outsiders are talking about, right?
also pursues women who are not talented is virtuous,, all of them are the same as Wang Xifeng, they have never read, so they don't know how to be afraid, and they dare to do all the disasters, just for those few taels of silver, she deserves to come from the end of the world.
Everyone knows that they love to give birth to this talent. One from two to three wood,
Crying to Jinling, things are even worse.