Chapter 518 A new scribe has arrived
"Bai Ying, come here and build a clay pot with me." Qin Xiaomi started to take Xiao Baiying to build a still with clay pots and pot spouts.
Second Aunt Qin was shocked before she saw even half of it.
She quickly turned to look at Uncle Qin and said something secret... Your ancestral graves are really smoking. Just by reading the books you left at home, she could actually learn the steam column copper steamer!
What's too much is that this girl dug so hard that she replaced the copper pillar with a long pottery spout. If the nobles of the aristocratic family saw it, they would be so angry that they would smoke on the spot.
It doesn't matter if you don't get angry or smoke. Just because of the same technology, one cost is as low as almost nothing, and the other costs as much as hundreds or thousands of taels. The latter is completely taken advantage of.
But Uncle Qin's face looked a little bad.
But he remembered Grandpa Qin's words and didn't ask what he shouldn't have asked. He only mocked Qin Xiaomi: "Ceramic pots also cost money to buy. If you harm the pots like this, if it doesn't work, you can't deduct your dividends and punish yourself. Ichiban? Remember, if you want to punish others, you must set an example first.”
Second Aunt Qin's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she immediately helped: "Niece, your uncle is right, you have to set an example, what's the point of just punishing others and not punishing yourself?"
Qin Xiaomi turned to look at them and gave them a toothy smile: "I have the ability. If you want to punish others without punishing yourself, you can build your own industry and be the boss."
The couple shut up... the stinky girl could only use the "short-tongued" thing to stop them.
"Xiaomi, the pine needles and pine wood are broken." Jiang Dalang brought two bags of crushed pine needles and pine wood. When he saw the economical version of the still, he could hardly suppress his ecstasy.
Susu……
Jiang Dalang bit the tip of his tongue to prevent the words from spilling out of his mouth.
"Xiaomi, what else do you want me to do?"
Qin Xiaomi looked at the two bags of pine needles and pine wood and said, "We don't have them anymore for now. You can go and do your own work first."
"Sure." Jiang Dalang was a little reluctant and said before leaving: "If anything happens, just ask someone to call me."
"Yeah." Qin Xiaomi nodded and continued working on her money-saving distiller.
After working on it for half an hour, I was finally ready: "Light the fire and start the pot."
Xiao Muxiang and the others did as they were told.
Four burners burn fire at the same time.
Two burners are used for distillation.
The two stoves are used to boil other medicinal materials in the recipe.
Qin Xiaomi took out bags of medicinal materials and crushed them with Xiao Liuqu. Some were crushed into powder, while others were crushed into small pieces.
Second Aunt Qin saw the opportunity coming and said hurriedly: "Niece, let aunt do these hard work, and you can rest."
Without waiting for Qin Xiaomi to say anything, he rolled up his sleeves and came in to work... If my niece was not happy, she would have scolded her long ago. This silence was her acquiescence.
After grinding the medicinal materials, Qin Xiaomi took out a small medicinal copper scale with extremely accurate tip and began to weigh the ingredients and prepare the pine ointment recipe.
Chrysanthemum powder, sophora flavescens, mountain peony, parsnip, snakeberry flower, honey orchid root.
After weighing the portions,
What follows is a long wait.
Uncle Qin and Aunt Qin really didn't have much time to miss work, so they left after half an hour.
At noon, the distilled pine clear water was enough to brew the medicine, so Qin Xiaomi asked Zhu Yiqing to take out a small pottery vessel and start decoction over a slow fire.
After frying for a quarter of an hour, pour the pine clear water with a strong pine scent into the clay pot and start brewing the medicine.
It was not until the beginning of the You period that the concoction was ready and the distilled pine oil was enough.
Qin Xiaomi: "Filter the concoction."
"Yes." Zhu Yiqing and the others were busy filtering the concoction. Because of the medicinal materials, the color of the concoction is very beautiful, it is light yellow with a bit of red, like tea, and the taste is also very light.
Qin Xiaomi: "Melt the beeswax." After adding the concoction, if you don't add some beeswax, the solidification effect will not be good.
But she felt a little distressed because this beeswax was a bit expensive. Fortunately, she only needed to use a little to enhance the solidification. If she needed to use a lot, which would greatly increase her cost, she would not make this wax.
Next, the distilled pine oil, concoction, and beeswax are mixed and stirred until the three are perfectly blended, and then it can be bottled.
I used a shallow, flat can for pigment powder, and I filled it with ten small cans.
"Little boss, how long will it take for it to solidify?" Xiao Muxiang was young and very curious.
Qin Xiaomi said: "At most half an hour."
However, in just over two-quarters of an hour, the pine paste was almost solidified.
Qin Xiaomi took a small jar, dug out a little, spread it evenly in the palm of his hand, and applied it on his hands... The texture was smooth, with a fresh and thick woody fragrance, and it smelled very good.
"Niece, the pine paste is ready. Let's try it on Auntie!" Aunt Qin ran away again, but she didn't see Uncle Qin.
Second Aunt Qin saw that Qin Xiaomi did not refuse, but used some pine ointment, and she was secretly shocked... This niece of Qinzhuang was incredible, she actually made such a high-quality ointment.
If you change it into a nice-looking bottle and transport it to the south or the capital to sell it, just such a small bottle can be sold for three taels of silver.
This kind of ointment, which can only be used by rich women, is so expensive.
These are all relatively cheap. A small bottle of the top-quality ointments, rouges, and lipsticks used by the ladies of noble families can be purchased for one tael of gold.
"It's just..." Second Aunt Qin smelled the back of her hand and said, "This ointment of yours is defective. There is a trace of medicinal smell in the pine scent. If this smell is mixed, it is a low-grade fragrance, and the selling price will have to be lowered. And You can’t do business with the nobles, who care about these things the most.”
"Second Aunt knows a lot about fragrance?" Qin Xiaomi said.
Second Aunt Qin pretended not to hear.
Qin Xiaomi did not continue, but said: "This pine paste was not sold to the noble lady, but to the common people."
Ha, Second Aunt Qin sneered: "Niece, it's not that my aunt wants to attack you. Which farmer have you seen who would buy ointment to apply on it?"
"It is a disease to apply balm in the countryside. Even if there is money to buy balm, the farmers will not buy it. Instead, they will buy two pounds of fat meat and boil it in oil!"
Qin Xiaomi said: "It is pine paste, not balm. This pine paste of mine is not for girls to put on their faces to add fragrance. It is for people with finger lacerations in winter and spring."
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"In winter, Master Huang got chilblains, and he spent a lot of money to get treated by Old Man Xun... But chilblains are only one of the hand and foot diseases in winter and spring, and many people have lacerations on their hands."
But there is a lot of work in the countryside, and even if your hands are lacerated and bleeding, you still have to endure the pain and work.
This caused the lacerations on the hands to worsen, and after one winter, the hands could no longer see.
"This is what my pine ointment is for. You don't need to apply it every day. Applying it every three days can prevent hand lacerations. Don't be afraid if your hands are lacerated. Applying it can relieve the itching and pain and speed up the healing of lacerations."< br>
It’s not like she’s sick, so how could she be making balm and selling it in the countryside?
If she went to Beijing or Jiangnan, she might make some specialized balms and sell them. Now she only makes consumables that are low-cost and low-priced but can benefit many people.
With a large number of people and continuous consumption, a small business can become a big business.
Second Aunt Qin was shocked when she heard this. When she came to her senses, she felt that Qin Zhuang's niece was crazy.
"Eldest niece, wait a minute. I'll call your uncle and surprise him." Aunt Qin ran out with the pine paste and found Uncle Qin who was talking to Qin Cunquan.
What's strange is that it was not Qin Cunquan who forced Uncle Qin to talk today, but Uncle Qin took the initiative to ask: "New scribe? His surname is Feng. Is he the son of County Magistrate Feng? Is he here to steal your position?" ? Then don’t you want to go back to work?”
"Quan Na, I'm not telling you, you are too useless. Not long after you became an official scribe, you will no longer be able to keep this position!"