【044】Alabaster
200,000 taels of snowflake silver is not a small amount, but it can kill all the demon souls. But just when Ying recruited them and was worried about how to get such a large amount of military expenses, Xiao Shizhu accidentally saw the rough skin of ordinary women in the underworld, and immediately thought of a wonderful way.
Although he didn't have a high diploma when he was in the world, because of the teaching of his master (the doorman of the orphanage), he was asked to read more books, and he did not refuse to read books, so he developed a habit of reading books whenever he came, and gradually became a miscellaneous scholar. In addition to the thousand arts that he is proficient in, he also knows a little about most other things.
He remembered that he had read about how alabaster was made in a magazine on earth. And he still remembers the recipe clearly.
The purpose of his original reading of this was nothing more than to chase girls, thinking that he would make a cream to please the girl and look at it with his heart, although after thinking about it later, he felt that everyone in modern society uses face masks, who still uses cream cream? But I never expected that it would come in handy in the underworld today.
The backward underworld, not to mention smartphones, and even alabaster are not available, which is a great business opportunity. The production of alabaster is also very quick and easy, first you have to prepare two pots, and then put the lipaswaxic acid in one of the pots and heat it to about 85 degrees, and at the same time as it dissolves, dissolve the sodium carbonate and potassium hydroxide in the same temperature water in the other pot, then add glycerin and stir well, and then slowly inject these mixtures into the dissolved lipofylic acid, and after mixing well for about ten minutes, this thing will completely dissolve. At this time, a ceasefire is enough, but it is still necessary to continue stirring. When the temperature drops to 20 degrees, add spices and store in a bottle.
Although there is no chemical industry in the underworld, fatty wax acid is stearic acid, which can be obtained by hydrolyzing animal and plant oils, and the process is not complicated, and sodium carbonate is even simpler, nothing more than soda, which can be bought everywhere. Xiao Shizhu still knows these common senses.
As for potassium hydroxide, although he can't refine it, it is dispensable when making alabaster. As for glycerin, although he can't make a synthesis, he knows how to extract natural glycerin. With these, after adding a little pearl powder, a box of alabaster is made.
As for the lack of stainless steel pots, he used copper pots instead to solve the problem.
After making up his mind, Xiao Shizhu no longer hesitated, hurriedly went to buy raw materials and make utensils, and began to boil alabaster.
After a day of hard work, and after seventeen failures, he finally made the first box of alabaster in the underworld.
But he was still not at ease, so he first used his face as a "guinea pig". I wiped it morning and night, and after three days, I found that my skin was not damaged at all, but it was a little delicate, so I proudly took it to the Ghost Mother Palace to show off to the Ghost Mother.
When he pretended to be mysterious and put the alabaster in front of the ghost mother without saying a word, the ghost mother, who was suspicious and full of curiosity, opened the blue and white porcelain grease powder box that was only half the size of a fist and saw that there was no fat powder in it, it was all the emulsified products of white flowers, and then she smelled a faint fragrance emanating from it, which made her feel relaxed and happy at this moment.
Her curiosity grew, and she became more interested in it.
So she cautiously sniffed her nose closer, and after inhaling, she squinted and said, "Well, fragrant." Then he raised his head to look at Xiao Shizhu, blinked and asked, "What is this?" looks like a little girl who doesn't know the world, how can she have the majesty of the lord of a country in the past.
"This can't be eaten. It is called alabaster, and the main raw materials are stearic acid, alkali, water and spices. But in order to make it have a good moisturizing effect, I also added glycerin to it. Xiao Shizhu smiled proudly, raised his right hand along the right side of his head, wiped his hair, and raised his head and said: "Because it can disappear immediately after being applied to the skin, it is similar to snowflakes, so it is called alabaster cream." To put it bluntly, this is a woman's skincare product. ”。
The ghost mother listened patiently, although she couldn't understand many words, she still looked at the box in her hand a few times curiously, and then sniffed it again with her nose, with a hint of intoxication on her face, and said in a long voice: "It's really fragrant." ”。 After speaking, she settled down and asked, "What does that do?"
"This effect is good, because it is an oil-water emulsifier based on anionic emulsifiers formed after the neutralization of stearic acid and alkali solutions, so it can isolate the skin from the outside dry air, regulate the volatilization of skin epidermal moisture, and thus protect the skin from dryness, chapping or roughness. A veritable woman's treasure. After Xiao Shizhu talked to her about it, he folded his arms around his chest and said: "There is such a saying in my hometown, there must be a lot of losers behind every successful man. So if you want to do business, it is the most cost-effective to earn women's money. ”。
"So you're going to use it to earn your military money?" the ghost mother smiled slightly, and looked at the box in her hand, and suddenly fell in love with the effect that it can protect the skin.
"Of course. After Xiao Shizhu finished speaking, he turned around and left. His purpose of showing off has been achieved, and he is intoxicated when he looks at the ghost mother, and he can't put it down so much, he must be able to sell well. Will this go back and catch up with more, and when?
"Hey. The ghost mother hurriedly raised her hand to stop him and said, "Your thing." ”。
Xiao Shizhu stopped, turned his head and glanced at the ghost mother, and after blinking his right eye, he said lightly without thinking: "I sent you." ”。 After finishing speaking, he strode towards the door without looking back.
Three days later, Xiao Shizhu worked overtime to make 500 boxes of alabaster cream, and together with Yingzhao Wu Zhiqi and the reluctant King Kong, they set up a stall on the street to prepare for a big sale.
Confident and proud, he was soon disappointed.
There are a lot of ghosts coming and going, but they don't buy them just by looking at them, and they are always resistant to unknown new things. Some didn't even look at it, and walked away. This caused Xiao Shizhu to waste a whole day, but not a single box of alabaster was sold.
When it was time to close the stall in the evening, everyone was a little discouraged. Xiao Shizhu looked at the signboard in a daze: "Women's Treasure - Alabaster" The seven big characters fell into deep thought.
After thinking about it, he found a serious problem, according to the ghost mother, the souls who can stay in the underworld for a long time are all white ding, so they are not a few literate ghosts?
Thinking of this, Xiao Shizhu suddenly wanted to slap himself a few big mouths.
At the same time, he was also inspired to come up with a good way to sell.
Early the next morning, after Ying'er went out to sell vegetables, she chatted with the third aunt and six mothers-in-law at the market as usual. She has been in Xiaoyu Mountain City for a while, and she has long been familiar with her neighbors. And even if it is a demon soul, the shadow of the gender mother also has the characteristics of gossip; if she doesn't gossip about other people's parents for a day, she will not be in decline in her heart.
After she and the three aunts and six wives talked for a long time, one of the women who looked to be in their early thirties suddenly looked at her, and said with a grin: "I said Ying'er, your complexion has been much more ruddy these days, and your skin has become a lot more delicate." ”。
"Really?" Shadow smiled slightly, waved her hand and pretended to be stupid, "How can there be?"
"Really. The man raised his head a little, lowered his voice again, and said to the shadow, "Is it that your family has recruited you back and will serve you at night?" After speaking, he covered his mouth and snickered with the other souls.
"These three aunts, it's all nonsense. Ying'er's face turned red, and she raised her hand and slapped the soul named Third Aunt on the shoulder a few times, and said shyly: "That's his credit, it's all the credit of my eldest brother." ”。
As soon as these words came out, the souls around her were stunned, and they all stopped laughing, staring at her slightly but unable to speak.
"Shadow, you're so daring. After a while, the third aunt asked weakly, "You won't have an affair with your eldest brother, will you?"
"Oh, what is the third aunt talking about?" Shadow screamed, stomped her foot and said angrily, "It was my eldest brother who invented a thing called alabaster." It's a credit to this thing. ”。 As he spoke, he put the vegetable basket on his wrist, and then took out a fat powder box from his sleeve and opened it for the third aunt to look at.
Several human souls looked at it curiously, then sniffed their noses, and a look of intoxication suddenly appeared on their faces, and they said in unison: "It's fragrant." ”。
"That's right. Shadow said and dipped a little alabaster with her fingers, and after wiping it on her face, she said proudly: "This is the thing that can keep my skin from dry and rough." ”。
After finishing speaking, she dipped a little more, wiped it on the third aunt's face, and said, "Come on the third aunt, I'll also wipe a little bit for you." ”。 The third aunt was caught off guard and was succeeded by her. Ben was still a little nervous, but after the alabaster hit his face, there was nothing unusual, and he was relieved.
"Third aunt, you make tofu every day, and you have to wipe a little skin to get better. Then, according to what Xiao Shizhu taught her before, Ying'er said to these souls: "This thing, it was originally a recipe that my eldest brother accidentally obtained, he said that it was used exclusively by the ancient gods, and he made it specifically to pay tribute to the ghost mother, and today I wiped it on you, you are blessed." After wiping this thing, now you are as beautiful as my lord ghost mother, and your skin can be broken by blowing. As long as you stick to using it to paint your face every morning and evening, you can be at least five years younger. ”。
"Huh?" the other souls exclaimed, envious with a little jealousy, and invariably fell on the third aunt's face, where the shadow had smeared the alabaster.
And the third aunt's face where she smeared the alabaster was also temporarily smooth and shiny because of the glycerin in the alabaster.
And who of them doesn't know that the ghost mother is one of the most beautiful female ghosts in the underworld, and wanting to be as beautiful as the ghost mother is the dream wish of the female ghosts in the ghost mother country, from fifty to thirteen and fourteen.
At this time, they saw that it really worked, and they were already convinced of Shadow's words. Not only that, but they also began to itch with this white, fine, and pleasantly scented paste.
Sure enough, after a while, they asked, "Shadow Shadow, do your eldest brother still have some stock?" ”。
"Okay, I'll get you a box for each of you later. When Ying'er heard this, she replied without hesitation: "My eldest brother is about to mass-produce this thing! ”。 After saying that, he took them to the locust tree bar......
Xiao Shizhu first used the shadow to sell in front of the familiar eight women, and gave them some for free to try.
Then, as he expected, these eight women got the free alabaster and got the treasure, and they exaggerated and showed off when they saw people. One to ten, ten to hundred, five days later, all the ghosts in the entire Xiaoyu Mountain City knew what alabaster was.
Then he struck while the iron was hot and set up a stall in the downtown area, with a price tag of one or two silver per box. And let Ying recruit a few of their demon spirits, and keep shouting according to the propaganda words he wrote, attracting passers-by to come and buy.
It is preached that this object is not only a woman's cosmetics, but also a god from heaven, and the ancient gods are dedicated to it, so as to mythologize this object. Of course, he also threatened that any male ghost who loves his wife should buy a box and give it to his mother-in-law, so that his mother-in-law can have beautiful skin like a ghost mother.
Under Xiao Shizhu's fierce blowing, within two days, 500 boxes of alabaster were sold out.