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Chapter 117 Soap
During these few days at home, Fuzai has become more friendly and not as weak anymore.
Ye Wan said that Fuzai looked skinny and listless, and that he might have been bullied and not well fed in that nest, which was why he was so skinny.
He is the only dog at home, and he is well fed and well cared for. The cat and the little fox at home are too lazy to pay attention to this silly dog.
It is living a comfortable life at home and has become visibly more lively. It seems to know who its breadwinner is now, and it no longer shows its teeth when people at home want to touch it.
In this regard, Jiang Ci just wants to say that we should know the times.
As soon as Jiang Ci entered the gate, Fuzai entangled her legs and feet, so she bent down and touched its head.
After two touches, he will stop clinging to people's legs.
The little raccoon lying on the fork of the tree watched the movement below and saw that Fuzai was no longer pestering Jiang Ci, and his patterned tail was not shaking as fast anymore.
He put his head on his paws and took a nap again.
"I just came back from outside. You must be hot. There is a frozen white melon in the well. Jingsheng, go get it out and cut it up for us to eat."
These white melons were planted in the back garden. They were all grown and can be eaten in the next few days.
The white melon is somewhat similar to the modern small white melon, the skin is not exactly the same, and the size is about the same as the small white melon.
Lin Jingsheng took out a small white melon, cut it open, removed the seeds in the middle, and then handed it to Jiang Ci.
Others like to eat the seeds inside, which are very sweet.
Jiang Ci couldn't swallow the seeds. The first time she ate it, Lin Jingsheng saw Jiang Ci spit the seeds into the泔水桶.
They were eating when they heard a noise at the kitchen door and they all turned to look.
Then, the泔水桶 was overturned and Fuzai was licking the white melon seeds inside.
“It eats everything.”
The silly dog looked back after he finished eating and found so many people looking at him. He started wagging his tail and ran over here.
The rain and dew swirled around everyone's feet for a while.
"This bastard is both stupid and clever."
Jiang Ci and Lin Jingsheng started to get down to business.
"Ah Sheng, get some water. We need to wash these mint leaves."
After washing his hands, Lin Jingsheng went to the well and fetched a bucket of water to carry over.
Ye Wan and Lin Shan didn't ask them what they were going to do.
Ye Wan went into the house and continued sewing clothes. The clothes in her hands were made for Jiang Ci.
Lin Shan was weaving bamboo baskets. Now, quite a few bamboo baskets were used every time the soap was transported to the dock.
"I'll wash it. You clean the mortar and bring it over."
Jiang Ci put the washed mint leaves into the mortar and added some water.
"Crush these and get the juice."
"okay."
Lin Jingsheng is very strong and his movements are quick and agile, so it is much easier for him to do it than for Jiang Ci to do it himself.
Lin Jingsheng poured the crushed mint juice into a basin, then filled the mortar with it and added some water and continued to crush.
Until all the mint leaves they stepped on were crushed.
Jiang Ci also washed the gauze used for filtering and poured all the mint leaves that had just been beaten to extract juice onto the gauze.
Lin Jingsheng held the top of the gauze and squeezed out the juice until no juice could be squeezed out.
Jiang Ci looked at the green mint juice in the basin and said, "You can add it directly to the soap."
"Then the soap made here is green, right?"
"The added proportion is not large, and the soap should be a light yellow-green color."
There are usually two ways to use peppermint as an additive. One is to add it into the water phase, and the other is to use peppermint extract oil.
The process of extracting oil is relatively complicated and the cost is relatively high.
Jiang Ci was eager to see what the soap would look like after adding this plant additive, so she chose the water phase addition method.
There is also soap made with mint as an additive, which should sell well in the summer, but by the time they make it and start selling it, summer will be over.
Mint has anti-inflammatory, antipruritic and bactericidal effects. People with oily skin or in summer prefer to use mint as an additive.
The same goes for the mugwort in the backpack, which are more suitable for summer.
Using this method, they turned the mugwort liquid under the basket into mugwort juice.
Lin Jingsheng looked at the mint juice and wormwood juice they had prepared and asked Jiang Ci, "Is there anything else that can be added to the soap?"
"There are many things that can be added. We can also add the marigolds from our mountain, and we can also add some flower petals."
"Won't the petals get damaged inside if they're done?"
"No, when I use it, it's still brightly colored."
Jiang Ci slammed the table and said, "Oh, I think I forgot to tell you! These soaps can be used for bathing."
“You can also use it for bathing!”
"This soap with plant additives will cover up the faint smell of lard, and it can be used for bathing. The mint and wormwood juices added have certain effects."
“Then these will definitely sell well!”
Ye Wan's voice came from the kitchen, "Are you two done over there? It's almost time for dinner."
"All right."
After dinner, Jiang Ci told them what he and Lin Jingsheng had just done and what they were used for.
They all looked at him with admiration, and they all felt a little embarrassed when they saw him.
In the afternoon, when the soap factory just started working.
Jiang Ci and Lin Jingsheng each carried a basin of mint juice and mugwort juice and walked over there.
There wasn’t much, just half a basin.
"The boss is here!"
"Jingsheng, Brother Ci is here!"
Everyone greeted them warmly.
They went directly to the place where soap was to be prepared, and Jiang Ci told them how much of this water to add to the proportion they had originally prepared.
Waiting there with them while the bucket of soap is mixed and poured into the film.
Place these templates in a relatively outer place.
Jiang Ci: "Let it dry here. I'll come back to check it out in a few days. If there's nothing wrong, the soap factory will have to add more staff in the future."
"With more manpower, our entire village will be busy and no one will be idle."
"Eighty percent of the people are not enough!"
Now that they had a direction to move forward, they were no longer so idle. The two of them sat in the room, discussing further matters regarding the soap factory.
"We will not expand the soap business now. We will open up the remaining stoves and use them all to make this soap. If the demand is greater in the future, we will build another factory next door."
"Then we need more people to make soap."
"It should have been increased a long time ago, but we just haven't found the right people, so we have to let them carry on all the time."
"I can think of two better options. One is to find some retired soldiers I trust, like I did at the beginning. The other is to buy them and hold their indentures in my hands, which is more reliable."
“Buy people?!”
Jiang Ci was also surprised to hear this method. Although she knew that this was a society where slavery was legal, no family in their village was rich enough to buy people to serve them.
Many wealthy families in the town had them, but Jiang Ci never paid attention to them.
But this is indeed a safe method. "If Ah Ci is unwilling, we can find some people who have retired from the battlefield and sign contracts with them as well."