The happy life of the embroidered girl in space

Chapter 171 Desperate (1)
Ning Yuyao suddenly fell into a trance, and when she came back to her senses, she saw Mother Wei, who was going to make rouge tools, come in with two little maids. After the maids retreated, only Ning Yuyao was left waiter.

"Mom, can we really make rouge?" Qing Yang bent her lips and smiled, delicate and pleasant.

"That's not true, this is my mother's craftsmanship." Wei's mother obviously remembered the life of walking on thin ice in the palace, and smiled with emotion. Although the palace is full of crises, it is also full of flowers, and there are many real things inside.

"Okay, let's not talk about this, mom, let me first introduce to my sister how to evaluate the quality of rouge." After finishing speaking, Mother Wei picked up several rouge boxes placed on the table, "Rouge is also divided into three parts. Wait: high-grade, medium-grade, low-grade. First look at the rouge in the box in front of you, the color is bright red but not bright red, dull and dry as if lacking water."

Mother Wei took the wooden hairpin that was placed next to her, picked it up with the tip of the wooden hairpin and rubbed it with her fingers, and asked Ning Yuyao to try it again. Ning Yuyao pressed her fingertips slightly, and felt that there seemed to be something else in it. , It is not easy to knead, it takes more than a dozen times to lose the grinding feeling of fine sand, but even if it is kneaded, it is not refreshing, it feels very oily, this thing can also deceive a little girl who has never rubbed rouge Girl, Ning Yuyao couldn't help shaking her head secretly.

"Sister, you can feel it. This is the most inferior rouge. It is very rough and the color will be very uneven." He opened another box and said: "And this box of Liyan rouge belongs to the middle class. , is also the most commonly used rouge for ladies, although it is a little short, but the price is still affordable for most wealthy families."

Mother Wei paused for a moment and said, "It's like the hairpin powder bought by Princess Yue yesterday is of the highest quality, but the price is naturally different."

Ning Yuyao nodded, she understood the difference, just like the skin care products or cosmetics in her previous life, the prices are all different?

Mother Wei saw that Ning Yuyao understood, and then continued to introduce: "Although the process of making rouge is more troublesome, fortunately, the materials for making rouge are simple, just a kind of red and blue petals or other petals and some fragrant spring trees. It’s in your own yard.”

Mother Wei took out the best rose petals collected by Qingfu and Qingfu today, and slowly pounded the petals into a thick slurry with a clean stone mortar, then filtered the juice with fine gauze, and then cut the newly reeled silk into the size of the mouth of a rouge jar. Soak it in the flower juice, and when it is completely soaked, Mother Wei takes it out and dries it in the sun. After a few days, it becomes a high-quality rouge, but this is just a rough craftsmanship.

Ning Yuyao spent a few days in the room constantly twisting and drying the flower juice, and asked Qingyang to bring her the medicinal materials she needed, three or two each of Baizhi, Baifuzi, and Taoren.Naturally, if you want the rouge to be outstanding, you have to be different. Ning Yuyao thought about its function. Ning Yuyao asked Qingyang to cook the medicinal materials, stew them on a low heat, fry them three times, heat them three times and lower them three times. Then boil the concoction into a paste and remove the dregs, then add the pounded flower juice into it, continue to simmer slowly in a red stove, and stir while adding glycerin. After about an hour, the red paste appears. in sight.

The aroma of the rouge Ning Yuyao made this time is very pure, there is no smell of medicine in it, but the fragrance of flowers. Ning Yuyao is talented in this area, and her craftsmanship is also good. After two days of hard work, she did not miss it. Five boxes of rouge were produced, divided into two types: pink and red. Because the resin was added, the color was crystal clear and not dull. You can tell it's a good thing just by looking at it.

Ning Yuyao carefully put it into a porcelain box, exactly five boxes were filled, and after cooling, it solidified into a cream-like paste. She exhaled: "It's finally done this time." These are all natural things, no additives Any preservatives or anything.

The spiritual spring water in the space has a wide range of uses. Ning Yuyao secretly dilutes the water used in the Ning Mansion by Ning Yuyao. Even so, it is of great benefit to the people of the Ning Mansion. Even the servant's health is extremely good, and Ning Yuyao's cultivation level is getting higher and higher. Even if the spiritual spring water is not diluted on weekdays, Ning Yuyao can completely digest the spiritual energy in it.

Moreover, spiritual spring water can also enhance the fragrance and effectiveness of flowers, plants and trees. When making rouge this time, adding a drop of spiritual spring water to soak flowers and plants will increase the original fragrance by [-]%. The richer it is, the taste will be much better than usual even if you use the flowers soaked in Lingquan water to make scented tea or make desserts.

A drop of spiritual spring water can bring out the fragrance of a pot of flowers to the extreme in the fastest time. Even an ordinary flower cellar may not be able to release five points of the fragrance in the past year. The difference can be distinguished as long as you smell it. The profit in the rouge is even greater. Even if it is priced at ten taels of silver in the capital, ten taels of silver is nothing at all in a place where rich and powerful businessmen gather in the capital, and the rouge mixed with Lingquan water is definitely worth the price.

Thinking of this, Ning Yuyao asked Qingyang to send a small altar of sesame oil to her room, because the hair oil in the room was about to bottom out, so she thought about making some hair oil by herself with spiritual spring water and flower petals It might come as a surprise in the end.After a lot of tossing around, she finally got out a jar of rose hair oil. Ning Yuyao ordered Qing Yang to take her servants to a yard in Ning Mansion to chop some bamboo, put the hair oil in a natural bamboo tube, and use oil paper on the outside Wrap it well, and then you can mix some bamboo fragrance with the floral fragrance to make it more refreshing and pleasant.

Ning Yuyao packed ten of them in bamboo tubes, and the people around her alone gave away a lot, and Ning Yuyao divided the five boxes of rouge she made into two boxes, both of which were from the mansion. Sweeping maids, one of them has dark skin, and one has a lot of pimples on her face, so Ning Yuyao wanted to test whether the effect of rouge added with Lingquan water could improve some of the problems that Nan Nan still had.

Three days later, early in the morning, Ning Yuyao returned to the house after dancing, ready to take a bath and get dressed. Today is the wedding ceremony for Huo Hanyan, the daughter of the prime minister's mansion. Two days ago, Ning's mansion received an invitation from Huo's mansion. Therefore, Hui Niang is going to take the whole family to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and by the way, inquire about the important matter that the girl said last time.

Because she was going to a banquet or a ceremony, Ning Yuyao was dressed more formally today, a pink and purple jacket and skirt, the neckline, cuffs, hem, and skirt were all trimmed with creamy white brocade, embroidered with purple wisteria flowers, Then Ning Yuyao's shiny black hair was pulled up in locks by Mama Wei's skillful hands, layer by layer from tight to loose, and finally the tail hair was carefully tucked back Put it up, and then use a pearl silver hairpin to hold it in place. Although this pearl hairpin looks simple in style, the most eye-catching thing is the rare bead on the head of the hairpin. It is big and round, and has excellent fluorescence. It is a rare sea pearl, which was sent by Jing Xuyuan a few days ago, and then sent to Zhenbao Pavilion to make a pearl hairpin, in which gold and silver are used to not distract from the pearl's brilliance, and it looks like a whole.

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