"This is the soap I made! The rich people in the town use bath beans and soap to bathe, which are expensive but not durable. Mine is good-looking and durable. It can be washed clean and the skin on the body will not feel dry after washing.

, and it also has the effect of whitening and nourishing the skin. This soap needs flowers and fresh milk!”

Gu Qing said and brought Li Zheng a basin of water, and then taught Li Zheng how to wash his hands with soap.

When Li Zheng smelled the smell, he felt that it was a rare thing. After soaking his hands, he saw that his hands were covered with deep grooves due to years of hard work. They were filled with black dirt accumulated over the years. He did not dare to reach out and touch the crystal.

of soap.

It was Gu Qing who took her hand and applied a layer of soap on it, rubbing it into bubbles. The faint fragrance of honey and flowers immediately filled the air, and her hands were washed clean by Gu Qing's gentle rubbing, and turned a few degrees whiter.

"This soap of yours is so easy to use!" Li Zheng is also a woman. No matter what age, women love beauty and cleanliness. "How much money would this piece of soap cost?"

"Aunt Li Zheng, I open a workshop specializing in soap making. How about we circle a hill in the village to plant flowers, raise bees, and raise sheep to produce milk and sell it to me? This way, we don't have to go to town to find odd jobs, and we can have a regular income.

Moreover, I will need manpower to open a workshop, and when the time comes, people from the village can come to work in my workshop to earn wages!"

In fact, Gu Qing had an idea when she took out the shower gel and shampoo for the first time, but she really had no capital at that time, but it is different now. She has money and land, and the 40 acres of wasteland she bought still has 30 acres.

It's not moving, it's more than enough to build a workshop.

"It's good, but" Li Zheng said worriedly: "It takes time to raise bees and sheep with this kind of flower. The benefits are too slow, and the villagers may not be happy!"

The people in Gujia Village have a clear understanding of what kind of temperament they have.

"The profits will not be slow!" Gu Qing patted her chest and promised: "I will build a workshop here and plant flowers in the village. I have found all the flower seedlings, so I will plant roses, which will bloom in a month. As for the bees, after autumn, the eucalyptus trees will bloom.

The gallnuts can be harvested once during the flowering period. Around the end of October, during the flowering period of the duckfoot tree, if the weather is good, the honey can be harvested once.

When the time comes, the roses we plant will bloom in large areas, and bees will also collect honey. Generally speaking, raising them in a living frame in mountainous areas will definitely yield a large amount of honey. This honey is a good thing. You can eat it yourself, sell it to me, or get it.

Sold in town.

As for the sheep, we can buy adult sheep, and I can lend the capital to the village. There is grass everywhere on our mountain, so we don’t have to worry about raising sheep!"

"What?" Li Zheng asked in disbelief: "You mean you will pay for all the money?"

Gu Qing nodded: "Yes, I will do it. If everyone is not willing, I will do it myself. I will buy a hilltop from the village and then hire the villagers to do the work for me. But the ugly words will come first. I will make money by then.

People in the village don’t just be jealous!”

Li Zheng took out a pipe and smoked it wildly for two times. His heart skipped a beat and he stood up and said, "Okay, I'll notify you now and see what everyone thinks!"

After Li Zheng left, Gu Qing boiled hot water and started taking a bath and washing her hair.

The wooden bucket for bathing is very large. It takes two buckets of hot water and three or four buckets of cold water to fill it up.

Although it consumes water, she doesn't wash in a wooden bucket every day. She basically carries a bucket of water and washes herself. She only needs to use the bathtub once every seven or eight days. Sitting in the bathtub, she feels comfortable both physically and mentally.

She used the soap she bought from the mall to bathe, and the others used the shower gel she bought from the mall to bathe. She used rice water to wash her hair, and used plant ash to wash her clothes... As for the bath beans, Xiangyi.

It is something that only the upper class can afford, but ordinary people have no place to buy it.

Gu Qing thought while taking a bath. Now that the standard of food, clothing, housing and transportation has improved, daily cleaning should also be raised to a higher level.

Instead of buying it from the mall, she might as well try making soap herself.

In her last life, she had seen many videos teaching people how to make soap. The production in them was so simple, and the entire process could be completed using local materials.

When she got up in the morning, Gu Qing planned to try to see if she could do it successfully. She only knew that she had to do it on paper.

It takes practice before you can draw a conclusion.

Zhu Han and the others went to town before dawn. Zhu Han went to the shop to watch, Yang Pei went to sell braised meat, Mo Li ordered pig offal, and Gu Qing studied how to make soap in the yard.

All the raw materials were placed in front of her: a pile of plant ashes, a can of boiled lard, a pot of wine, and a large ceramic pot.

Gu Yu was feeding chickens and asked curiously: "Sister, what are you doing? Do you want my help?"

Gu Qing nodded: "Okay, come here and help me first."

She couldn't handle it alone, so she said, "Put this pot on the stove first."

Gu Yu didn't know when there was such a pot in the house, but he didn't ask much, picked it up and put it on the stove.

Gu Qing called Gu Nuo to filter the plant ashes with her, filtering out some unburnt small pieces of wood and mud and stones. Then she poured the pure plant ashes into a porcelain pot, added twice as much water, and stirred constantly.

The reason why a porcelain pot is used instead of an iron pot is because after the plant ash is boiled and precipitated at high temperature, a high concentration of alkali solution will be produced. Iron and alkali will produce a chemical reaction, so avoid it as much as possible.

After the plant ash and clean water are fully mixed, firewood can be burned to heat it, and the fire will burn fiercely to increase the concentration of the lye.

How to determine whether the concentration of lye reaches the standard? The book mentions a method: put the eggs in. If they can float, it means success.

Immediately afterwards, pour the prepared lard and alcohol into the porcelain pot, and stir vigorously while turning on the fire.

Gu Yu was just a child after all. After stirring with a mallet for a while, he couldn't hold it any longer. He quickly shouted: "Brother Rong, come and help!"

Dong Rong didn't go out and kept busy at home. When he heard the call, he came over immediately.

He took the mallet and stirred the high-temperature solution, and asked in confusion: "Master, what on earth are you going to make? It looks weird..."

Gu Qing stared at the pot and said, "You'll know when it's done."

If they fail, their happiness will be in vain.

Dong Rong stirred harder and saw that the light yellow liquid gradually became transparent, and the layer of grease on the surface disappeared.

Gu Qing laughed, now he was 80% successful.

She dropped a drop of water into it, and the water completely melted in, which meant that the chemical reaction was over.

She poured in the salt water she had prepared, and the solution in the pot suddenly began to roll up and down, and then stirred rapidly. This step is called salting out, which is to separate the light yellow substance and increase the hardness of the finished product.

Finally, the pale yellow precipitate that emerges is soap.

Only then did Gu Qing realize that she hadn't made a mold in advance, so she had no choice but to ask Gu Yu to go to Old Gu's house to cut bamboo tubes, because the people in the old house knew how to weave bamboo, and there were several bamboos in the yard all year round. Gu Yu took them

He quickly ran over with a hatchet and soon brought back more than ten bamboo tubes.

Gu Qing poured the precipitated soft solution into the bamboo tubes, and actually ten bamboo tubes were filled.

She placed ten bamboo tubes on the windowsill and waited for them to solidify.

Both Dong Rong and Gu Yu's arms were thick with fatigue. They were very curious about what this thing was, but Gu Qing wouldn't say anything.

The two of them knew it when they took a shower at night.

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