Chapter 286: Making lip balm (first update)
Chapter 286 Making Mouth Grease (1st update)
Jiang Zhiluo's heart was beating fast. Just looking at Cui Hejin's eyes, she felt that there was a soul-stirring power in them, which made her eyes feel like an electric shock.
I feel an inexplicable sweet feeling in my heart.
“Actually, I don’t want you to work hard, you know I don’t care about that.”
“I only make money so that we can eat well and use it well.”
As for the Wei family’s affairs, Jiang Zhiluo doesn’t want to talk about it for the time being.
She didn't want to involve Cui Hejin, and she didn't want him to be in any danger.
“Take these!”
Perhaps Cui Hejin needs the money, and she will feel bad if she can't take so many banknotes.
Cui Hejin's eyes became deeper and did not close.
Jiang Zhiluo felt inexplicably that Cui Hejin seemed a little sad at this time.
"Why don't you accept it? This is for family use. My money should have been given to you."
Her heart trembled and she could only hold it first.
Well, in fact, these banknotes are just banknotes if they are left there. If they are used to make business and make money, they will earn more money.
“Then I want to build a shop with these banknotes and open a shop.”
Cui Hejin said softly: "It's okay, as long as you are happy."
Yeah, she can do anything with a banknote.
Jiang Zhiluo sniffed and thought, even though he had no memory of his previous life, he was still treating her well.
It gave her an indescribable feeling in her heart.
Jiang Zhiluo walked forward and reached out to hug Cui Hejin.
“I think you’re really nice.”
Cui Hejin sighed softly and gently touched Jiang Zhiluo's hair.
The two of them walked further into the mountains and picked some things, but Jiang Zhiluo suddenly saw sugar cane.
This is the discovery of sugar cane in another valley deep in the mountains.
Jiang Zhiluo couldn’t believe it at all, “Why is there sugar cane here?”
But Jiang Zhiluo can feel that the climate in this small valley is warm and humid, so sugar cane grows here, right?
And there is a patch of sugar cane here.
Cui Hejin whispered: "When I was in the capital, there were businessmen from the south who would sell some sugar cane."
When he was a child, the house also bought sugar cane, and he ate it once.
But the main purpose is to chew out sweet juice.
“I didn’t expect there could be sugar cane here in Beizhou.”
Jiang Zhiluo nodded and said, "Sugar cane does exist in the south, but I didn't expect it to exist here too."
“Sugar cane can be used to make sugar just like beets.”
Cui Hejin listened to Jiang Zhiluo's words and roughly understood what she meant, "It will be very hard for you to make balm and lip balm and then make brown sugar."
There are so many things going on all at once, and I can’t keep myself busy at all.
Jiang Zhiluo thought for a while and said: "I still focus on making balm and lip balm."
“But I can hire people from the village to make brown sugar.”
“Teach them to make sugar from beets and cane.”
“It happens that brown sugar is scarce in the north, and there are many people using brown sugar. I will teach you how to make brown sugar so that it can be sold in the north.”
“With this craft, people in the village have something to do during the off-season, and they can earn some copper coins to support their families.”
During her time in Donghe Village, Jiang Zhiluo also found that the people in the village were very nice, although everyone liked to gossip.
But it was also during the off-season time when everyone had nothing to do, so they liked to talk about some trivial things, but they were harmless.
Everyone is kind in nature, and they listen to advice and will not cause trouble.
They all work on their own three-quarter acres of land in their homes.
So she is also willing to teach the villagers a craft.
And even if everyone accidentally leaked the method of making sugar, it would have no impact on her.
Because she didn’t originally want to be in the sugar business, she mainly wanted to be in the balm and lip balm business.
I just saw sugar cane and thought it was a waste to put it here.
You can also teach everyone to plant sugar cane in the mountains and sugar beets in the ground to make sugar.
Cui Hejin said softly: "If the people in the village know about it, they will be very happy."
Jiang Zhiluo smiled and said, "Well, I know that during the slack season, everyone really wants to go out to find work, but it's hard to find work at all, so everyone stays at home during the slack season." She heard Mrs. Cui say that before People in the village also went out to find work.
But it’s not that easy.
The waiters in other restaurants all enter the restaurant through trust connections.
At the dock, those waiting to be moved also have stewards. The stewards are familiar with the ship merchants. When a cargo ship comes, who will be asked to carry it and who will carry it.
Moreover, the work is very tiring, the wages are low, and they don’t even care about food.
Furthermore, those with some skills can set up stalls at the pier.
But how can they cook something delicious?
So most people in the village are still farming.
Everyone lives on the grain harvested every year.
So Jiang Zhiluo actually wants to help everyone.
Of course making brown sugar is also good for her.
She can conquer the northern market.
It's just that she has to think about it carefully when she goes back.
When she went back, Jiang Zhiluo also saw many hawthorn trees, "There are still hawthorns here, but they are not mature yet."
“You can come and pick them when they are ripe.”
Cui Hejin said: "Want to eat hawthorn?"
Whatever she wanted to eat, he planned to go out and buy it for her.
Jiang Zhiluo shook her head and said: "No, I just think these hawthorns can be used to make fruit peels and lip balm."
Cui Hejin never thought that hawthorn could also be used to make lip balm.
They also returned with a full load when they returned.
Materials such as comfrey, jasmine, osmanthus and roselle are first dried on a dustpan.
Set aside the mulberries and raspberries that are used to make lip balm.
Mrs. Cui and Cui Qingci saw that they were back, so they also came out to help.
“Zhiluo, do you want to dry all these?”
Jiang Zhiluo explained: "Mom, those are used to make ointment, and these are used to make lip balm. Wash the mulberries and raspberries first so that I can pound them all with a wooden mortar."
The mashed juice is filtered and used to make lip balm.
Making balm takes some time, but making lip balm can be simpler.
Mrs. Cui and Cui Qingci listened to Jiang Zhiluo's words and helped wash them.
When pounding with a wooden mortar, Cui Hejin came up to help.
Jiang Zhiluo is much more relaxed.
After working hard for a while, after lunch, I continued working in the afternoon.
Crush the mulberries, add camellia oil, and then filter.
Strain the juice, put it into the honeycomb, and heat it again.
Stir while heating, wait until the honeycomb has melted and then turn off.
Pour the prepared lip balm into the wooden bottles that have been prepared in advance.
The small wooden bottle is filled with lip balm and looks good.
Cui Qingci was amazed, "Sister-in-law, if you do it like this, your lipstick will look great, delicate and beautiful."
Cui Qingci used to like to use rouge and gouache, so she naturally knows how good this lipstick looks.
Especially in this exquisite and beautiful small bottle, it feels really beautiful.
“The boxes containing rouge and gouache in stores in Beijing are not so exquisite.”
What Cui Qingci said is the truth.
Not to mention the exquisite carvings on the small bottle.
In the past, she would have bought lip balm like this just to buy a bottle.
“And the color is nice too.”
Jiang Zhiluo filled more than 30 small bottles of lip balm in one go.
This kind of small bottle can be filled with just a little bit of lipstick.
"You and your mother can each take a bottle and use it first. I will give you other colors of lip balm after I make other colors."
(End of this chapter)