Chapter 164: Boiling Essential Oils
When the old ladies in the village sent the picked osmanthus flowers to their homes, Yunyi had already refined the alcohol that had been distilled many times.
Due to the limitations of distillation tools, the refined alcohol is not as pure as the alcohol of the previous life, but it is more than enough to make perfumes.
After paying the copper coin, the group of old ladies left Yunyi's house happily.
"Brother Yi, you have collected so many osmanthus flowers, if you don't use them, it is estimated that they will soon be broken."
Before leaving, Zhao Chunhua couldn't help but remind Yun Yi.
"I will use all these osmanthus flowers tomorrow, sister-in-law, you can rest assured!"
"During this time, sister-in-law, you should worry more about snacks, and try to pick as many osmanthus flowers as possible while the flowering period of osmanthus has not passed."
"If someone from the neighboring village is willing to pick, we will not refuse to come, and all of them will pay according to 20 yuan per basket."
Since Zhao Chunhua's connections are wider than Yun Yi's, Yun Yi is relieved to hand over this matter to her.
"Brother Yi, do you really want so many osmanthus flowers to make osmanthus cakes?"
"Even if you can make so many osmanthus cakes, it won't take long for them to spoil!"
Hearing that Yunyi was going to expand the scale of the acquisition of osmanthus flowers, Zhao Chunhua immediately became anxious.
A basket of twenty cents is enough for these peasant families to spend for a while.
"Sister-in-law, tell you the truth!"
"I didn't buy these osmanthus flowers to make pastries."
"Yesterday Youwei said that the fragrance of these osmanthus flowers is very good, so I thought about buying some osmanthus flowers and making a few bottles of perfume for Youwei."
"Even if you let go of the acquisition, I'll give you a bottle when the time comes."
Seeing that Zhao Chunhua was also thinking about herself like an uncle, Yun Yi simply told her true purpose of buying osmanthus directly.
"Making perfumes?"
"What is perfume?"
Hearing Yun Yi say that the purchase of osmanthus was not for making pastries, Zhao Chunhua was instantly speechless in surprise.
If you spend a lot of money to buy so many osmanthus just for the fragrance of osmanthus, what a waste it must be!
"Sister-in-law, for our peasant family, perfume is indeed very impractical."
"But for those noble ladies of dignitaries, perfume is an extremely rare treasure."
"As long as I can make this perfume successfully, the money I will earn in the future will definitely not be less than that of the textile workshop."
Seeing Zhao Chunhua's expression, Yun Yi hurriedly explained to him the profit of perfume.
"Than ...... More profitable than a textile workshop? ”
Although Yun Yi was very sure, Zhao Chunhua didn't believe it very much.
Zhao Chunhua has heard of osmanthus cake, but this is just a kind of food, even if the price is very expensive, but it will not be too outrageous.
You must know that the osmanthus tree in the back mountain has existed for many years.
If these osmanthus flowers really have such great value, why didn't anyone buy them before?
Seeing that after saying so much, Zhao Chunhua didn't believe it very much, and Yunyi simply didn't bother anymore.
"Sister-in-law, these osmanthus flowers have already paid anyway, and there is no reason to return them."
"When I make this perfume tomorrow, you'll know how valuable it is."
The lethality of perfume to women should not be underestimated.
As long as you refine the essential oil of osmanthus tonight, when the time comes, you can use alcohol as a base to blend it, and you can instantly stimulate the fragrance in the essential oil.
As long as the perfume can be made, I don't believe that Zhao Chunhua can resist the charm of perfume.
Sending Zhao Chunhua away, the sun slowly disappeared into the horizon.
After dinner, Yun Yi went directly to the quilt to rest.
Early the next morning.
As soon as the rooster crowed, Yunyi got up from the bed.
Since he got Zhuge Ming's Five Fowl Opera, Yunyi has started practicing every day.
After cultivating during this time, Yun Yi not only has a much stronger physique, but even his Tai Chi kung fu is much more refined than in his previous life.
Although it is still much worse than Zhao Laosan's fierce kung fu, in the face of three or five great sweats, he also has the ability to protect himself.
Although Yun Yi also wanted Shen Youwei to practice the Five Fowl Opera with her, but after seeing Yun Yi's movements, the little girl decisively chose to give up.
In fact, to be honest, the movements of the five birds are indeed much weirder than those of Taijiquan.
In the end, it was easy to say that Shen Youwei accepted to follow Yunyi to practice Tai Chi to strengthen her body.
When Yun Yi put on a posture, the door of the courtyard was pushed open by Zhao Laosan from the outside.
Yun Yi turned his head and saw Zhao Laosan, who had rabbits and pheasants hanging on his waist, walking into the yard with dew.
The two said hello, and after Zhao Laosan put down his prey, he began to practice with Yunyi.
When Zhao Laosan was in the army before, he suffered a lot of open and dark injuries on his body.
Now that I'm young, I don't see anything wrong with it.
But when you get old, you will inevitably suffer from illness.
However, since practicing Wufowl Opera and Tai Chi with Yunyi, Zhao Laosan was surprised to find that most of the dark injuries on his body were actually healed.
Since then, Zhao Laosan's hunting time has advanced a lot.
In this way, after he came back from hunting, he could just catch up with Yunyi to practice with him.
A set of movements was practiced several times, followed by Tai Chi moves.
When Yun Yi's forehead began to sweat, he slowly called it a day and ended the practice.
When she came to the well platform and washed her face, Shen Youwei had already prepared breakfast.
After greeting Zhao Laosan's father and daughter, the four of them began to eat a hearty breakfast.
After breakfast, Yunyi made a pot of tea again, and then began to boil osmanthus essential oil.
Since there were no chemical preparations in this era, Yunyi chose the most primitive essential oil refining method.
He first put the osmanthus in the pot, and then added half a pot of water that had been boiled in advance.
After putting the device for distilling alcohol yesterday on the table, Yun Yi began to boil the osmanthus in the pot.
As the boiling time became longer and longer, the osmanthus in the pot gradually faded in color.
Then at the end of the condenser, an oil-like liquid dripped out, and then it was picked up by Yunyi in a large ceramic bowl.
Seeing these oily things appear, Yun Yi's heart suddenly settled down.
With these essential oils, the perfume making thing is more than half successful.
At the end of the distillation, the large bowl already has half a bowl of liquid.
Since there is no sodium chloride to speed up the stratification and reduce the solubility of the essential oil in the water, Yunyi can only rely on standing to separate the essential oil from the distilled water.
After boiling the essential oil, Yunyi returned to his idle fish-like life.
He first inspected the construction site by the river and then went straight back to his home.
Due to the worries of Uncle Tang and Yun Peng on the construction site, and the villagers are all trying to make money, no one will be lazy and play foreign labor.