Xu Qingshan is not a Sven person, he gobbled up when he ate, and the speed at which he picked up the vegetables was so fast that people were stunned. Ruan Yimian had just eaten two beans, and the bowl of braised chicken with dried bamboo shoots was half missing. After Huo Aowu sat down, he didn't care about eating himself, so he silently picked up the dishes for Ruan Yimian.

Ruan Yimian looked at the bowl full of chicken and pork ribs, her heart was warm and a little embarrassed. He carefully sandwiched a piece of pork ribs and put it in Huo Aowu's bowl: "Brother Huo, you can eat it too." ”

Huo Aowu nodded, Xu Qingshan frowned at him and Ruan Yimian, and after being glared at by him, he honestly lowered his head to eat.

Ruan Yimian blushed and nibbled on ribs, pretending not to see their movements.

After eating, everyone went back to work, Ruan Yimian boiled a large pot of coarse tea, and each of them filled a jar.

After helping Aunt Zhang clean up the stove room, Ruan Yimian went home by herself. There's nothing he can help with here, and Aunt Zhang won't let him do hard work such as carrying water and chopping wood.

Although there is no hurry to do rouge, since you are idle, you can still start preparing early.

When she got home, Ruan Dexian had not yet returned, and Lu Caimei was cutting cotton cloth with rouge, and two sieves of pomegranate flowers were drying in the hall, and the petals were still with water droplets, as if they had just been washed.

Ruan Yimian was a little surprised: "Mother, the pomegranate flower was received so quickly?" ”

"Yes, that's all, they went to the mountain to pick it every day in the past two days, and now there are few flowers on the mountain, fortunately, you have an idea to find them to collect, otherwise we will go to the mountain to pick it ourselves."

Lu Caimei threaded the needle and threaded while talking to her son with great interest.

"When I went this morning, they had already gone up the mountain, and I had to go to the mountain to find someone. When they heard that our family was going to pay for it, they were also very happy, saying that they didn't need ten cents, they could sell it to us for eight cents in a basket, and I didn't accept Cao Chunfeng's doglegs, and those people were not happy! ”

Which people to find to collect pomegranate flowers and how much money to produce, Ruan Yimian and his father and mother discussed it last night, and today Lu Caimei went up the mountain, so according to the discussion, only find those few people who are really difficult at home to collect.

But this basket of pomegranate flowers can be exchanged for ten yuan, which is really tempting, and the man in the village who is in the prime of life goes out to do a day of hard work, and it is only forty or fifty yuan! Those people scrambled to be the first, in order to grab this money-making business, they didn't bother to ask Lu Caimei what they were doing when they collected the pomegranate flowers, and they started to lower the price by themselves.

The people who are good friends with Cao Chunfeng are not very good at home, otherwise they would not have shyly sneered at Cao Chunfeng. This time, in order to earn the ten cents, they talked to Lu Caimei again, but Lu Caimei refused to accept them, no matter what they said, they didn't let go, they were not happy, so they began to say sour things in a weird way.

But this time, Lu Caimei didn't need to open her mouth, and those who wanted to sell pomegranate flowers stepped forward and scolded those people to the blood.

Lu Caimei was a little funny when she talked about this: "Those dogs were scolded so much that their ears were dripping blood, and Bacheng was going to arrange us with Cao Chunfeng again!" ”

There was a lot of gossip about him in the village, and Ruan Yimian would cry quietly because he was called "sick seedling" when he was young, but now he doesn't care much about it.

"Then let them go."

Now that the pomegranate flowers have been recovered, it is only when his father buys all the raw materials that he can start to make.

Ruan Yimian also took out a pair of scissors and cut cotton cloth with his mother. Originally, there was only one pair of scissors at home, but this new one was specially exchanged for rice with Ruan Yiquan after selling cotton rouge.

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The next day, Ruan Yimian still went to Aunt Zhang's house to help in the morning, and when she came back in the afternoon, she began to make rouge cream.

The rouge method is simple, just hand it over to his mother, the rouge cream is made of expensive materials, and it is more complicated to make, Ruan Yimian spent all her energy on this.

Add comfrey or mashed pomegranate flowers to the osmanthus oil, put them in a clay pot, and steam them on a small stove over a warm fire and water, stirring while cooking, and boiling the color of the flowers and plants.

After boiling, allow the liquid to cool, and then filter the residue with gauze.

The filtered liquid is added to beeswax and alum and steamed for a quarter of an hour, and then injected into a wooden box while it is hot, and after it cools and solidifies, it becomes rouge paste.

There is a difference in the color of the rouge paste made of comfrey and pomegranate flowers, the color of comfrey is more red and bright, and the color of pomegranate flowers is lighter. Both rouge balms have a slight scent of osmanthus oil, which not only enhances the complexion but also moisturizes the lips.

Ruan Yimian planted an osmanthus tree at home, and there are still some osmanthus flowers left from last year's picking. If you have enough time, you can also use osmanthus to make homemade osmanthus oil, but it takes ten days to make oil with dried flowers, and it doesn't take so long to see flowers, but you can't buy fresh osmanthus at this time, so you have to use the osmanthus oil you bought first.

In addition to this colored rouge balm, Ruan Yimian also made another balm without comfrey and pomegranate flowers, without color.

This balm is filled with more dried osmanthus and osmanthus oil, and the fragrance is a little stronger than the other two rouge balms, and the texture is more moisturizing.

I originally wanted to make it for his mother to rub his hands and face, but I thought that the grocery store might accept it, so I simply made a few more boxes.

There are ten boxes of each of the three pastes, a total of thirty boxes, but Ruan Yimian has been doing it for nearly two days.

It is said that doing rouge is not a tiring job, but Ruan Yimian is weak and tired, and just pounding those petals will make him tired.

When she was pounding the flowers, Ruan Yimian thought of Lin Qiu again. Lin Qiu treated him very well, these rouge recipes were the Lin family's money-making livelihood, and they were very precious, but he gave them to himself without reservation.

What kind of state the petals should be pounded into, what heat to use when steaming, and how long to cook, he carefully explained to Ruan Yimian several times.

I don't know if Lin Qiu is doing well in the Jiang family now, and the money from selling rouge is enough for him to buy some food he likes?

Ruan Yimian regretted a little that Jiang Qingyao was so stiff, he didn't even think of a way to save Lin Qiu now, so he could only save more silver, and when Lin Qiu was sold, he would try to buy people back.

But now that he and Jiang Qingyao are divorced, there is no way to contact Lin Qiu, and if Lin Qiu is sold in advance, he will not be able to receive news here. If something happened to Lin Qiu because of this, then he would really regret it for the rest of his life.

Lin Qiu would ask the servant woman's son to go to the rouge shop in the county town to sell rouge on the fifteenth day of every month, Ruan Yimian was a little hesitant in her heart, whether to go to the rouge shop to guard, and when she saw the little brother, let him help pass the word to Lin Qiu.

But Lin Qiu didn't know him yet, how could he gain Lin Qiu's trust and let him ask him for help if he had something?

Ruan Yimian lay in bed at night, still worried about this matter in her heart, but after thinking about it in the middle of the night, she didn't come up with any good way.

Unexpectedly, within a few days, things took a turn for the better.