Chapter 178: Fragrance Full of Courtyards
"If you are too poor, you will think of change" means that when you are so poor that you should try your best to make money, otherwise you will not have any underwear.
Li Su is very poor now, so he is trying to figure out a solution.
There are many ways to make money, such as selling poetry. I remember many peerless poems in my mind. I just found a scholar who was not honest and sold. It would be a profit if it was not too much or too little. However, the poems in the past caused a lot of sensation. Such things can be hidden from the people, but they can't hide from the monarchs and ministers in the court. Now Li Su has been regarded as a talented man by the monarchs and ministers in the court.
The selling of poetry is too much. If you want to live a more stable life, you must be low-key. You can show off your market under the reputation of a talented man, and your fate will usually not be too good. The hunter's first goal is always the hunter's first goal.
Li Su had no choice but to stop selling poetry.
Fortunately, in addition to selling poetry, Li Su also knows many other ways to make money.
For example...perfume.
The Wang brothers worked very hard and were very unsightly. The wild flowers on the wasteland were ruined by them. In less than two hours, the wild flowers all over the mountains were picked cleanly by them. There was no cover of wild flowers on the wasteland, revealing pieces of overturned land, as if they had been gnawed by dogs. There were also one or two dying little flowers with their heads drooping, dotting this unlucky place in scattered places.
Bales of wild flowers are concentrated and placed in a classified manner outside the winemaking workshop.
The winemaking workshop in Taiping Village has always been there. The workshop was built by the Cheng family. Cheng Yaojin originally decided to move the workshop to his own farm, but Li Su denied it during the negotiations. The reason was very simple, and he was too lazy to run back and forth.
The benefits of technology and intellectual property monopoly were quickly reflected. As the inventor of High-Level Wine, Li Su has become the highest-level existence in this industrial chain. The entire High-Level Wine Industry must be closely united around the inventors centered on Li Su.
The Cheng family had no choice but to do anything about Li Su's persistence. Cheng Yaojin happily built the winemaking workshop in Taiping Village. The Cheng family's carriages traveled continuously every day, and transported the brewed jars of fine wine into the city for sale.
The workshop was managed by the Cheng family's manager, and Li Su didn't have to do much. Today, seeing Li Su and the Wang brothers coming over with a bunch of purple and red wild flowers, the Cheng family was a little surprised.
Li Su asked the Wang brothers to evenly spread the wild flowers in the open space in front of the workshop, and then went into the workshop to find wine.
Making perfume is simple, it is nothing more than a fusion of flowers and alcohol. Alcohol is important and requires high alcohol.
The wine in the workshop was usually only steamed twice. Li Su tasted it and felt unsatisfied, so he asked the manager to send two wine-making craftsmen to come and vacate a steamer. He moved a few jars of finished wine and steamed it again.
The manager didn't say anything and silently cooperated with Li Su. Before being sent to the workshop, Cheng Yaojin had already explained that no matter what strange things the Li family's kids wanted to do, just cooperate and don't ask anything.
So the manager of the Cheng family kept cooperating silently, while staring at Li Su's actions without blinking.
Li Su ignored him. The manager sent to the workshop was a distant relative of the Cheng family and could trust him. Moreover, although the production of perfume was simple, even if he kept his eyes on him, he could not learn the key points of the production technology.
The most troublesome thing about making perfumes is to extract essential oils. Li Su vaguely remembers some steps, but the Tang Dynasty was too scarce and many things could not be found. They could only use other things instead.
After steaming the high-altitude wine several times, Li Su tasted a little more. Well, it tasted very strong and delicious... and tasted again. She felt dizzy and a layer of redness quickly floated on her face. Very good, the alcohol level reached, and she seemed... drunk?
He asked Wang Bao to make a piece of lard from the village, spread it evenly on the smooth porcelain pieces, and then placed the flowers on the porcelain pieces to expose the sun. After everything was arranged, Li Su shaking her face and burping, and waved to the manager and the Wang brothers. In the dull eyes of the manager and the Wang brothers, Li Su staggered home to sleep.
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A day later, Li Su finally extracted a little essential oil from the porcelain pieces, and then asked the Wang brothers to pick flowers, and then returned to his home with the extracted essential oil and alcohol. The next steps were not visible to anyone.
The Li family yard was filled with wild flowers, each of which was classified. The fragrance of roses and gardenia was the strongest. Pour alcohol and a little distilled water into a jar, carefully drip a little essential oil, and finally throw the petals that match the essential oil into the jar, hold the jar and look at the two brothers of the Wang family, and then hand the jar to Wang Zong.
"Shake." Li Su was simple and clear.
"What?" Wang Zong looked confused.
"Hold the can, shake hard, shaking like a storm. You are the most powerful among the three of us, and you can do this job."
Wang Zong grinned, then shouted "Get up!"
So in the Li family yard, Wang Zong held a large jar and shook it like the wind. The picture was very strange.
"What am I doing?" Wang Zhi leaned over and asked, looking at his brother enviously from time to time. He felt that his brother's actions were very eye-catching, and he was in the limelight.
Li Su scratched his head, Wang Zhi was not easy to arrange. In fact, Wang Zhuang was enough for this matter, and he couldn't use Wang Zhi at all, so he had to say, "Life well, remember not to stop breathing."
Wang Zhi: “…………”
"...Okay, go to the village to find a drum and beat it in front of your brother. Remember to have a sense of rhythm."
Wang Zhi took the order and happily went to find the drum.
The Li family's yard was quite stirring. Wang Zhuang became more and more excited in the rhythm of drums. He stood alone in the middle of the yard, shaking happily.
The Li family's housekeepers and maids poked their heads from behind the door, under the corridor column, and watched Wang Zhuo keep thrusting in surprise as he held the jar...
Noting that he was being watched by the maid of the Li family, Wang Bao became more and more vigorous, and he was pumping even harder like a chicken blood, and he couldn't stop at all.
After shaking the incense stick for a moment, Li Su probably figured it out. Besides, he had seen enough of Wang Zhuang's thrusting movements, so he asked Wang Zhuang to stop.
Wang Zong refused and continued to thrust.
Li Su stepped forward and kicked him in the ass, and finally calmed down unwillingly.
Uncovered the lid, it seemed as if a jumping elf ran out of it. The rich fragrance filled the yard in the blink of an eye. Even the butlers and maids who were far away couldn't help but sniff. The strong fragrance of flowers made the young maids' eyes shine, and there was a fanaticism that they wanted to possess it.
When Li Su accidentally saw the maids' eyes, he smiled. He was becoming more confident about the future market of perfume.
"Hey! It smells so good!" The Wang brothers stared at the can, their eyes full of incredibility. They looked up at Li Sushi, their eyes full of magic and worship.
Li Su stretched out a finger and stuck it into the can, dipped it out with a drop of perfume, and put it on the end of his nose and sniffed it carefully.
Well, the effect is good. Finally, you have to add a little musk as a stabilizer for the perfume to make the alcohol and fragrance less likely to evaporate.
The mission is done!
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The Li family finally had another way of wealth, and there was no problem solving the economic crisis. The son made money and his father was very worried.
The next thing to consider is how to make the reputation of perfume so that it can quickly become popular in the circle of powerful and middle-class women in Chang'an, and make all the money from women.
Wang Zong entered Chang'an City as Li Su's instructions and found a porcelain shop to customize a large number of exquisitely carved small bottles, half a liang or one liang pack. The shape of the flowers carved on each bottle corresponds to the perfume taste in the bottle, which is very thoughtful.
After the bottle was delivered to the Li family, Li Su couldn't wait to put three small bottles of perfume in her arms and hurried out.
By the river beach, Dongyang was still sitting on the stone early in a daze, waiting quietly for Li Su.
After holding hands, the relationship between the two became more and more intimate. They often hid in places where the guards could not see them and touched and grabbed them. Dongyang was embarrassed and pushed and half-hearted. Sometimes he resisted because of his strong sense of shame. Sometimes he was afraid that his lover would be unhappy and resisted his shame and cater to him. After a while, Li Su made rapid progress without realizing it, and had reached the point of putting his irregular hand into her clothes to search for the secrets.
Li Su looked very happy when she came to the river beach today, and the arc at the corner of her mouth was raised high, showing that she was in a very good mood.
Dongyang saw his happy appearance, and couldn't help but think of the bastard's appearance a few days ago. His irregular big hands kept touching her chest. When he thought of the picture, Dongyang suddenly felt his hands and feet soft, and the pair of buds on his chest were even more numb, as if an electric current passed through. This guy was smiling so happily today, and he didn't know what shameful things would happen later... Thinking of this, Dongyang blushed like a cloud of clouds, and he had the urge to run away.
"Bah! I smile so ugly, I must be trying to make a bad idea again. Let me tell you, you will never be allowed to touch me today, otherwise I, I... bite you!" Dongyang said with a blushing face.
"What are you saying? You can't understand at all..." Li Su sat down beside her like a gentleman.
Looking at the beautiful Dongyang, my eyes swept across her protruding chest, well, it's getting better and better...
"Come on, close your eyes and give you a gift..." Li Su said with a smile.
"No, how many times have you used this trick to deceive me? Every time I close my eyes, you will..." Dongyang lowered his head in shame and couldn't say anything.
"This time it's true, believe me!"
Dongyang turned around guiltily, glanced at the place where the guards were staying, struggled for a while, and finally closed his eyes with his fate.
I don’t know how many times I have been flirting with myself, what’s the point of refusing now? If you want to be flirting, just let him do it.
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ps: There is another update... Well, because I haven't had two updates for too long, I haven't grasped the time for typing, and it is estimated that it may be after 0 o'clock...
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Chapter completed!