Chapter 65: Soap
The next day, Zhao Yunlan still drove the ox cart to the small courtyard of the Liu family in the morning to take care of the peppers for a while, and came back in the afternoon to start tinkering with the lard soap.
Hey, Zhao Yunlan doesn't know what the specific ratio of this lard and plant ash is, if it weren't for the pancreas in ancient times this time, she wouldn't know when she would be able to think of this thing!
To say that she had been brushing the dishes with plant ash before, Zhao Yunlan couldn't remember that the teacher had talked about soap in ancient times in high school history class in the past. Later, Zhao Yunlan also went to the Internet to look for information to see the specific method. Although I don't know if those ratios are correct, let's try it slowly!
Zhao Yunlan first put the flowers picked before into the pot and dried them with a fire kang and put them up for later use, then lit a small stove and put a small pot on the pot and began to boil the lard, afraid that it would not be successful for a while, so she only added a small amount of lard to boil, and after the lard was boiled, she added the precipitated filtered grass ash and kept stirring, stirring until it was similar to a paste, and I don't know if this time the grass ash was added too much or what's going on, the paste is not obvious, Zhao Yunlan's hands are sore, and she doesn't feel particularly mushy, I had to find a bamboo tube to put it up and mark it with the 'one' number. I found a shady place and waited for it to solidify.
Zhao Yunlan also recorded the ratio of lard and plant ash of No. 1, and just waited to see the situation after solidification.
When Zhao Yunlan poured the plant ash liquid, she thought that she still had to filter it a few more times, but the plant ash liquid was only filtered once, and it was not particularly clear. The items in the No. 1 tube, which were considered soap, looked gray.
Zhao Yunlan planned to do the second one, after all, this solidification will have to wait for a long time, do a few more to see the situation, the second Zhao Yunlan changed the ratio, was stirring, suddenly looked up and saw the jar of salt, then remembered that some salt water should be added to stir together, but the second number quickly became a semi-solidified state. Zhao Yunlan was a little happy.
This is how the 'second number' was completed, and the second number was put into the bamboo tube with some dried flowers.
Zhao Yunlan made five different proportions of lard soap in a row, each of which was recorded in the book, just waiting for these to be completely solidified and tried out.
Li Mingli and Li Mingmei took Xiaobao to surround these bamboo tubes, and they were all curious.
Xiaobao still wanted to reach out and touch it, but Zhao Yunlan picked up Xiaobao and left with a hug, and instructed the brother and sister: "You two don't touch them!" ”
Knowing that Zhao Yunlan made this pancreas with lard, Li Mingren now admires his wife more and more. In addition, since following Zhao Yunlan's schedule to study, Li Mingren feels that his learning efficiency has improved a lot, and he goes to run every day, helps with work, eats Zhao Yunlan's cooking, and his body bones are getting better and better, and he seems to have grown taller.
When Li Mingren was thinking about it, Zhao Yunlan came in and said faintly: "Tomorrow's small test, oh!" The location of tomorrow's quiz is located next to the latrine! ”
Li Mingren came back to his senses in fright: "Huh? Why next to the latrine? ”
Zhao Yunlan: "Won't there be a stinky number in your examination room?" In case you get to this position in the future exams, you need to get used to it in advance. ”
Li Mingren: "......"
Zhao Yunlan walked out with Xiaobao in her arms again, Li Mingmei was cooking these days, Li Mingmei also learned a lot of dishes with Zhao Yunlan, and the taste was not bad.
Now there are Li Mingren in the work at home, Wang's body and bones are much better, and occasionally he will help to do some light housework, Zhao Yunlan runs at home every day in the town. It's quite idle to go home, and occasionally the work in the field is too busy, and Zhao Yunlan will follow, and the days go by like this.
The peppers in the town began to bear fruit, and the small green peppers made Zhao Yunlan very happy.
Old lady Liu was also infected by Zhao Yunlan's atmosphere, and asked people to take out fifty taels of silver.
Old lady Liu: "Mrs. Zhao, these fifty taels are your wages during this time, at the beginning, Mrs. Zhao didn't talk to me about wages, see that Mrs. Zhao comes here on time every day to take care of and record these peppers, these fifty taels are just to talk about their hearts, what needs Mrs. Zhao wants in the future, the old man can do it and help." ”
Zhao Yunlan didn't take the fifty taels, but said, "Old lady Liu, can the women exchange these fifty taels for one of these pepper trees?" ”
Old Lady Liu thought about it and didn't speak, Zhao Yunlan was also nervous at the moment, and looked up at Old Lady Liu.
Old lady Liu said: "I originally wanted to give it to you, but this is a royal gift, so it is not easy to give it away." But it's the fruit! When the fruit is ripe, Zhao Niangzi can pick it. ”
Zhao Yunlan cheered in her heart, what she wanted was this fruit, and she thought that this pepper tree should not be able to get it, so if the goal of asking for it was set higher, the possibility that Old Lady Liu could send this pepper would be higher.
At that time, you can keep some of the seeds in this pepper and plant them.
Zhao Yunlan nodded happily: "Thank you, Old Lady Liu." ”
Old lady Liu also smiled: "These fifty taels are still for Mrs. Zhao, Mrs. Zhao must not postpone." ”
Zhao Yunlan was ashamed of her careful thinking at the moment, hey~
Zhao Yunlan couldn't resign the fifty taels, so she had to go home with the fifty taels.
Old man Li looked at the fifty taels on the table, surprised and delighted, this helped the noble man to grow flowers to get so much money.
Zhao Yunlan felt guilty, she knew that she was asking for peppers generously.
But now with fifty taels, the income from the store plus his own head flower share, he can build a house.
Zhao Yunlan thought about building a house for a long time.
At night, Zhao Yunlan occupied half of Li Mingren's table and drew sketches of the house she wanted to build.
Li Mingren looked at the drawings in Zhao Yunlan's hand one after another, and asked, "Lady, are you going to build a house?" ”
Zhao Yunlan nodded and continued to draw her own drawings, but her painting skills could only be understood by herself.
Li Mingren whispered beside him: "Why don't I help the lady draw!" ”
Zhao Yunlan looked at Li Mingren: "You said it earlier!" ”
Li Mingren was stunned, and Zhao Yunlan urged Li Mingren to draw one first.
Li Mingren drew a rough picture according to Zhao Yunlan's idea, and Zhao Yunlan was very satisfied. But there are still many rules for building a house here, Li Mingren explained them to Zhao Yunlan one by one, and Zhao Yunlan stared at Li Mingren with resentful eyes in the back.
Li Mingren felt a chill and shrunk his neck.
Zhao Yunlan said viciously to Li Mingren: "I want to live in a big house, you must be admitted to Xiucai next year!" ”
During this time, Zhao Yunlan went to the small courtyard of the Liu family and saw that those buildings were very fond of it, thinking that his new house could be built like that, so he said to Li Mingren, who would have thought that there is an important condition to forget, the Li family is still a civilian, and many buildings cannot be built, even if they can be built for various reasons, then the Li family will be targeted sooner or later.
Zhao Yunlan had no choice but to shelve her house construction plan, and Zhao Yunlan sighed for a while! Li Mingren only felt terrible next to him.