Poor family farming: the sick and weak scholar's wife is very sturdy

Chapter 72 Milk Honey Soap

The wooden barrel is about 40 centimeters high and more than ten centimeters wide.

It was full of amber honey and tawny honeycomb.

"These are the ones that Xiao Wu and I climbed over three hills to get them!"

Yu Xilin said to Lin Xiao as if asking for credit.

"That's really hard work for you!"

Lin Xiao smiled and nodded to Yu Xilin.

"Just say thank you?"

Yu Xilin pouted, as if dissatisfied with Lin Xiao's perfunctory.

"Otherwise what do you want?"

Lin Xiao asked a little dumbfounded.

"How about this!"

Yu Xilin rolled her eyes, then said:

"I want to watch you make salt, how about it?"

"no!"

Before Lin Xiao could speak, Lan Lian had already rejected Yu Xilin's request, saying righteously:

"Salt-making technique is also a secret recipe, which should not be passed on."

"The production of mouth fat is a secret recipe, and the production of salt is a secret recipe. I can't know anything when I co-author it?"

Yu Xilin said a little depressed.

"Well, I can show you the last step of making salt, so it's all right?"

Lin Xiao thought about it, and felt that this method was good, so he opened his mouth and said to Yu Xilin:
"But after reading it, you can't pester me to look around!"

"Ok, no problem!"

Yu Xilin quickly nodded in agreement, with an excited look on her face.

When he and Lin Xiaowu went to the mountains to collect honey, he heard Lin Xiaowu say that making salt is a very laborious thing, and it takes a lot of time, so he is also very curious about the final steps of salt making.

Lin Xiao poured the concentrated salt water filtered through charcoal into the pot, brought it to a boil, and then kept the fire at a simmer to slowly evaporate the water.

During this process, the blue lotus will continue to fry the concentrated salt water until all the excess water evaporates, leaving only dry and crystal clear table salt.

When Yu Xilin saw the process of making salt for the first time, she was quite shocked, and at the same time became more and more interested in Lin Xiao.

How did this guy's brain grow, how did he come up with such a wonderful way to make salt?

"Little Linzi, where did you get this salt water?"

Yu Xilin asked curiously.

"Even if I tell you, you can't make edible salt, so put away your curiosity!"

Lin Xiao curled his lips and said disdainfully.

Although her words were belittling Yu Xilin, it was an indisputable fact.

The step of filtering alone is not something ordinary people can handle well.

With less charcoal and fewer times of filtration, non-toxic table salt cannot be produced.

Yu Xilin was only too curious, so he asked Lin Xiao, but after hearing Lin Xiao's answer, he dispelled his doubts.

"Xiao Linzi, how did you come up with this method of making salt? You're a bit smarter, aren't you?"

"Read more books, read more newspapers, eat less snacks, and sleep more. If you do these things, your brain must be smarter than mine!"

Lin Xiao tiptoed and patted Yu Xilin's shoulder, exhorting with a serious face.

"I understand reading. What does reading a newspaper mean? And snacks, do you mean snacks?"

Lin Xiao ignored Yu Xilin's bewildered appearance the whole time, waved his hand, and entered the kitchen with a wooden bucket containing honey.

She wants to extract the beeswax as soon as possible, and then make a batch of milk and honey handmade soap first, and then make a batch of wildflower handmade soap.

Summer nights are darker later.

After working for a long time, Lin Xiao didn't realize until he was so hungry that he protested. It was already past dinner time.

She didn't eat dinner, and neither did Lan Lian and Yu Xilin.

Who let her always occupy the only kitchen in the house?

"Lan Lian is really too, why don't you know to come and call me?"

Lin Xiao complained in his mouth, but felt very guilty in his heart.

She hurried to the main room and found that Yu Xilin was eating with Lin Xiaowu at the dining table, while Lan Lian and Lin Xiaowu's mother-in-law were eating and chatting at the door with their rice bowls.

"Xiao Linzi, are you busy? Are you hungry? Come and have dinner together, I'll save it for you!"

Seeing Lin Xiao coming out of the kitchen, Yu Xilin greeted her with a smile:

"Xiao Wu saw that we hadn't eaten, so he specially brought his own food to eat with us!"

"Oh, Mr. Yu, don't say that, you are a nobleman, we can't make you hungry, can we?"

Lin Xiaowu said with a smile.

"Master, I'll get you the bowls and chopsticks!"

Lan Lian put down her rice bowl and ran to the kitchen to get the bowls and chopsticks.

After approaching, Lan Lian realized that the bowls and chopsticks they ate did not seem to be their own, and they should have been brought by Lin Xiaowu and his wife.

There are three dishes and one soup on the table, and a large pot of brown rice.

"Head of the house, here it is!"

Lan Lian handed the chopsticks to Lin Xiao, and filled Lin Xiao with a big bowl of rice.

"Xiao Linzi, try my mother-in-law's cooking skills, I'm not bragging to you, my mother-in-law's cooking skills are no worse than the chefs in restaurants in the capital!"

Lin Xiaowu proudly showed off to Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao nodded and said, then put a piece of braised wild pork in his mouth, and his mouth was immediately full of delicious aroma.

"How is it, isn't it bad?"

"Hmm! It's really good, delicious! Thank you sister-in-law!"

Lin Xiao's expression of enjoyment made Yu Xilin and Lin Xiaowu look at each other and smile.

Lin Xiaowu's mother-in-law lowered her head shyly, not daring to look at Lin Xiao, and just immersed herself in the rice in the bowl.

"Xiao Linzi, you have been busy in the kitchen for a long time, what are you doing?"

Yu Xilin asked curiously.

"Making beeswax."

Lin Xiao answered truthfully.

"beeswax?"

Yu Xilin seemed to have heard this word somewhere.

"That's the raw material for making lip balm, so don't ask Mr. Yu."

Lan Lian reminded that she was afraid that he would break the casserole and ask the end.

Yu Xilin was stunned, and repeatedly praised:

"Not bad, it turns out it's the raw material for making lip balm, not bad not bad!"

Lin Xiao smiled slightly and asked Lin Xiaowu:
"Brother Wu, do you know where I can buy milk?"

"Milk?" Lin Xiaowu frowned and shook his head, "What is that?"

It seems that the people in Guannei in this era still don't know anything about milk!

When Lin Xiao was disappointed, Yu Xilin suddenly said:

"Milk? I've heard of this thing, but it doesn't seem easy to get it! What do you want it for?"

"Make Milk Honey Soap."

Lin Xiao answered truthfully.

"Milk and honey soap?"

Everyone was shocked, and Lan Lian's eyes widened in amazement. In her heart, she felt that the person in charge of her family was a god-man, omniscient and omnipotent!

"Milk and honey soap is a good thing. It can not only gently remove excess oil on the face, but also improve the elasticity and toughness of the skin and restore moisture to the skin."

Lin Xiao explained with a smile.

When she first crossed over, she found that people in the Great Xia Dynasty only used clean water to wash their hair, bathe or wash their clothes.

No one even uses free natural things like saponin and sapindus.

To be precise, I don't know how to use it.

(End of this chapter)