jdhmnovel Chapter 177 Secret recipe?
Chapter 177 Secret recipe?
Yun Xi fished for a few more days despite the system's nagging, and then went to the glass kiln factory to ask the craftsmen to help make a set of tools for purifying essential oils.
Steam distillation is used to purify essential oils. The principle is very simple and easy to do.
There were many flowers at this time of year, and Yun Xi quickly purified several kinds of essential oils, as well as the by-product of essential oils - hydrosol.
She sent someone to call Chunmei and Qiuye back, taught them the purified essential oils and the purification methods, and gave them the recipe for making soap.
Essential oil soaps should be able to make a lot of money for the ladies.
Chunmei and Qiuye immediately knelt on the ground and swore to Yunxi that they would keep the secret and would never leak the secret recipe.
Yun Xi: "...Hurry up and get up. I believe in you."
It’s not really a secret recipe…
It made her feel quite embarrassed.
After dealing with this matter, the system began to mutter again: "Host, don't be so lazy. Even the donkeys in the production team dare not rest like this. Didn't you say you wanted to improve the farm tools? Why don't you just talk and not practice? Look at Chunmei and Qiuye, they took the formula and started testing it non-stop, and the finished product was produced the next day! Do you know where they are sending the products for trial use now?"
"Where?"
"Through the old lady's connections, they were given to several top noble ladies! Even the Grand Princess got one."
Yun Xi: "Then why don't you use my connections to send it to the palace? After all, I am a princess and I have a badge to enter the palace."
"I know you're lazy, but I don't ask you to do anything. Don't you want to reflect on this?"
"Okay, I'll reflect on it!"
Yun Xi pretended to think for a moment and said, "My personality is really perfect! Everyone is helping me and avoiding me."
System: "...Is this the result of your reflection?"
"Yes, there is no one better than me in the world."
system:"……"
After Yun Xi had some fun with the system, she asked it to get the blueprint of the curved plow and sent someone to deliver it to Yun's father.
The world currently uses a straight-beam plow, and the curved-beam plow has been improved on this basis.
The basic components of the straight-beam plow, such as the plow beam, plow tip, plow arrow, and plow wall, were retained. However, the plow beam was changed from a long straight one to a short curved one, which not only reduced the weight of the plow frame, but also overcame the defect of the straight-beam plow's "interference in rotation", making operation more flexible and labor-saving.
In addition, on the basis of the straight-beam plow, the curved-beam plow is equipped with a plow stalk and a plow stalk. The plow stalk, plow stalk and plow stalk form a system for adjusting the depth of the cultivated land. The organic combination of the three can meet the different requirements of deep or shallow plowing, and can standardize the adjustment of the depth of the cultivated land, which is convenient for intensive cultivation.
The curved plow also has a plow bottom (plow bed). The plow bottom is slender, lands stably, has a fixed depth, and is not easy to sway left and right. It is helpful to equip the plow arrows and plowshares, and it also saves people effort when holding the plow.
The curved plow can be used not only on plains, but also on remote hilly and mountainous areas, small fields, and mountain slopes.
Give the blueprint to Dad Yun, and he will ask a craftsman to build one for testing.
After staying at home for more than 20 days, Yun Xi got up early one morning.
Mu Sheng teased her: "Why did you get up so early today?"
Don’t you usually sleep until noon?
Yun Xi said helplessly: "I don't want to get up early, but I have something to do today."
"What's the matter? Do you need to go there in person?"
"I'm going to go take a look at the farm later. The seeds I planted last time should be sprouting now. I'm going to go see how they're growing. I'm going to stay there for another day."
"Then I'll go see you tonight and come back tomorrow morning."
"it is good."
Yun Xi accepted it gladly. There was no point in refusing anyway. This guy didn't mind being tired and just liked to run around.
Compared to the last time I came here, the farm has changed a lot. The plowed fields are neatly arranged in rows, and the cotton has sprouted. From a distance, it looks green, but up close, it is still quite small, and there is space between each plant. Whenever this happens, Yun Xi will think of the sentence "the grass looks green from a distance, but not close", which is a very vivid description.
Yun Xi was relieved that the cotton was growing well. She also explained some precautions, such as how often to water and fertilize. Another important issue in cotton planting is pests and diseases, so weeding and pest control are also needed in a timely manner. There are no pesticides here, and pest control is also done manually.
Yun Xi asked the system for a method to make biological pesticides, but to spray pesticides, she had to make a sprayer first, otherwise how could she spray. Fortunately, it was not time to spray pesticides yet, so there was still time to do these things. If it was too late, she could hire more people to do it.
Although cotton is good, it is really troublesome to grow. It is the most time-consuming and labor-intensive crop. Fortunately, she does not have to work in the fields herself!
After explaining the cotton matter, Yun Xi took Da Zhuang and others to the mountain in the afternoon and "accidentally" discovered sweet potatoes. In addition to a large area of sweet potato seedlings, there were also a few sweet potatoes scattered everywhere.
Yun Xi asked someone to bring some sweet potatoes back to the farm. She said to Yun Dad, "Dad, I am so lucky. I found something new when I went up the mountain. Let me tell you, this thing is recorded in a book I read before, and it is called sweet potato."
Yun Zhen: "Because its skin is red?"
"may be."
Yun Xi was very happy, while Yun's father felt complicated and lamented that his daughter's good luck was a little abnormal.
Yun Xi also knew that this was a bit unreal, but it didn’t matter. As long as she was not embarrassed, others would not be embarrassed either.
In the evening, Yun Xi had some people bake some sweet potatoes and boil some more. The sweet and soft sweet potatoes immediately won everyone over. After all, most people rarely have the chance to eat sweet food. Yun Xi prefers to eat the baked ones, which are softer and stickier. Some people prefer to eat the boiled ones. Even the water used to boil the sweet potatoes has a bit of sweetness and is drunk.
Mu Sheng, who came to see her, also liked it. But you can't eat too much sweet potato, otherwise it will easily cause gas.
Mu Sheng hid out several times in one night, and Yun Xi almost laughed to death.
Every time he came back from outside, he saw Yun Xi laughing there.
He hugged Yun Xi and rubbed her, "Okay, you knew it but didn't remind me."
The next morning, Yun Xi asked Da Zhuang to take the farmhands to the place where she found the sweet potato seedlings yesterday, pull out all the sweet potato seedlings, and start planting today. Planting sweet potatoes is very simple, just dig a small hole, pour half a bucket of water, plant the seedlings in, cover them with soil, and you're done.
Today, the farmhands went out to do this. All the sweet potato seedlings were planted quickly, but there was still a little shortage. Yun Xi told everyone that after a while, when these sweet potato seedlings have grown up, they can cut off a section for planting, and the final maturity time will be correspondingly delayed.
It takes about 4 months for sweet potatoes to mature. If you plant them now, you can harvest them by the end of September. Cotton takes about 5 months to grow, but because it is planted early, it can be harvested by the end of September. By then, everyone will be busy for a while.
But Yun Xi saw that everyone was busy and didn't seem tired at all. Perhaps for ordinary people, the hardship was not the labor, but the poor harvest after the labor, and that they couldn't fill their stomachs and saw no hope even after all the hardships.
Perhaps it was the previous success in growing corn and rice that gave everyone confidence, or perhaps it was yesterday's sweet potatoes that made everyone feel the sweetness of life, so even if they were planting new things they had never grown before, they were all very motivated.