Chapter 95 The Cui Family
Zilan gets along very well with her sisters. The girls taught by the Song family are not bad. They are of excellent character and temperament. They will not deliberately bully her and run a child. Instead, they will be more protective and take care of her everywhere, making her grateful.
That afternoon, the second grandmother and the others were going to have a meeting, and they were discussing buying some more temple fields for the clan to come back. It was also for the long-term plan of the clan. Not all clan members could be successful in the imperial examination and made their mark. Those who were not good at studying had to work on farming.
Temple fields are very important things in the clan. First, it helps the poor elderly and young people in the clan. Second, even if the family members are searched, there is a way out, because temple fields are not within the scope of the house search and can be retained.
Therefore, the tribe members fill in a certain sacred field every year as reserve, which is the foundation of prosperity.
The children didn't care about this when they were idle. Sister Ruqing took her to make Hexiang, and several sisters were playing with each other, playing piano or playing chess, and they were rarely relaxing for a moment.
Zilan and Ruqing did not make the same fragrance, she made the fragrance of thick plum clothes.
This incense uses two cents of Agastache leaves, two cents of early spring tea buds, ten cloves, and half a character of fennel; three cents of each of Sweet Pine, Angelica dahurica, and Linglingxiang.
Cut the above ingredients together and store them in a silk bag and wear them.
This fragrance is not as good as musk for older girls.
However, Sister Ruqing’s made is more troublesome, with osmanthus hair oil.
Choose unbloomed osmanthus flowers in the early morning, pick out the stems and stems of the flowers, choose clean flower slices, and take a bucket of high volume.
Take a pound of light sesame oil, pour it into the flowers, stir it with your hands and place it evenly in a porcelain jar, and seal the mouth of the main jar with thick oil.
Put it in the pot and steam it in water and take it out after a meal, place it in a stable and dry place, use it everywhere ten days later, and use it with your hands to remove the green liquid.
The key to collecting is to be tightly sealed and tighter. The longer the storage, the stronger the fragrance.
If you add yellow wax to the oil to make a cream, it will be particularly fragrant.
Ruqing started making this sesame oil a long time ago. Today, she took out the cream and put it in a porcelain box to seal it and handed it to Zilan.
"Sister Lan, I'll give it to you. After you've been here for a long time, my sister didn't give you any decent gifts. This is made by me by myself. My skin is prone to cracking in spring. I'll give it to you for wiping your face."
Zi Lan sniffed it happily, with a glimmer of joy in her eyes, "I gave it to me, thank you sister, it smells so good, I like it."
"It's good if you don't dislike it."
Ruqing also smiled happily.
Zilan put several scents made in advance, spring news, and scents of thick plum clothes, as well as Chunxin, and other scents in the snow, and said to the sisters: "This is made by my sister myself. If you don't dislike me, choose one, you can even smoke clothes and purses.
I did it in advance, borrowing flowers to offer Buddha. My sisters are all so beautiful, and they will definitely be more beautiful if they use it."
Shishi pinched her little face, "Oh! Why is your little mouth so sweet? Let's pick it up quickly, these are very smelly."
"My sister is really talented in incense. It's better to study hard. My sisters will rely on you for their incense in the future."
Guifeng also happily picked a favorite one.
"No problem, I will wrap it on my sister. I will make facial fat for my sisters in a few days."
Zilan patted her small breasts and confidently boasted.
The sisters hugged her and rubbed her, and they were so happy.
Zi Lan felt the friendliness of her sisters in her daily relationship, and successfully integrated into the Song family, received training on various skills, and became more familiar with each other.
But she really has no talent in embroidery and was scolded by her mother several times. However, the grandmothers never scolded her. Instead, they said with a smile that it is enough to make shoes and gowns to give her father and brother a filial piety. It would be better for our young lady to not need embroidery.
Zilan's embroidery is really hard to describe. People say that handmade embroidery is spiritual and is far from comparable to machines. The embroidery she embroidered is not as good as machines, which is simply terrible.
It was obviously accurate when making perfume, but when it came to embroidery, Yang was helpless and planned to find a few good embroidery ladies to match her so as not to make a fool of herself.
A few days later, she was going to go to her grandfather's house. In the spring, Yang became busy. She asked for a few expensive flowers and plants to give them to her. She is not selling them at the moment, and she mainly gives them to others, so she wants to make a name for herself.
Zilan chose a few very precious varieties, but Yang chose all the varieties outside, but the quality was better. Yang said that he should not be too unique and should do it step by step, so that people can know that I can raise precious flowers and plants, and it will not be surprising to take out good things in the future.
Zilan listened to Yang's arrangements and ignored these things. Instead, she made several facial fat and lip fat to give it to her sisters.
This one is Hexiangze method.
Soak the fragrance with sake, use cold wine in summer, warm wine in spring and autumn, and use slightly heated wine in winter.
The chicken tongue fragrance is also called Dingzixiang, which looks very similar to Dingzi, and is named after the four spices: aquamarine, alfalfa, and orchid. They are wrapped in new cotton and soaked in wine for two nights, and soaked in winter for three nights.
Put two cents of sesame oil and one cent of pig gall into a copper pot, add the fragrant wine soaked, boil for a few times, then slightly boil over low heat, then add the soaked spices and fry over low heat until dusk. Until the water is less dry and cooked.
If the fire tip is inserted into the test, the water has not been fully dried up; if there is smoke coming out and no sound is made, the water has been burned.
When the Xiangze is about to be fried, add a little Artemisia annua to color it. Cover the silk cotton at the mouth of the shallow-mouth bottle and pour it into Xiangze.
The hair is always yellow, so use this method to moisturize it. Add cinnabar to make lip fat, which can make the solid color rosy.
This method is recorded in [Qimin Yaoshu] and [Explanation Name].
The other one is facial cream fragrance.
Use beef marrow. If the beef marrow is too little, use tallow to mix the beef marrow. If there is really no beef marrow, use tallow to replace it.
Soak cloves and Agastache in warm wine. The soaking method is like the decoction method. The decoction method is the same when blending the fragrant tangerine.
Add Artemisia annua to the facial fat and color it, filter it with silk cotton, pour it into a porcelain cup to let it solidify.
If you do lip fat, mix it with cooked vermilion and wrap it with green oil. This recipe comes from [Explanation Name]
Both of these are very useful prescriptions. Zilan made them by himself. It was more troublesome to make them once. They made them more. After packing them, they can be used to give them to the sisters who have been handed over.
He also specially gave two boxes of Ma's sisters. As gifts given to the little sisters, the Ma's sisters have letters every month, and they also brought small gifts such as spices and vegetarian oil. Knowing that she liked them, she would collect them and ask someone to send them with her when she had good materials.
Zi Lan and Zi Yan took Madam Qi back to their grandfather's house in a carriage. Yang did not follow him because he had to manage the clan affairs and studied with his two grandmothers and sisters-in-law. Chunri is busy with affairs and has no time to go back.
Chapter completed!