Chapter 542 Professionals
After returning to the mansion, Bai Heran went straight into the medicine house. After Bai Zhenzhen came out of the palace, she originally wanted to find the ninth prince, but because she was really worried that her father would confront Concubine Li Xian, she simply didn't go anywhere and just sat in the carriage waiting for news.
The news has come now, and the Shen Palace cannot be reached because it is getting dark.
Hongshi told her: "Now I am a person who has a engagement, and if you run to a man's house at an early night, you will seem too unrestrained."
She thought this was the case, so she simply went there and stayed at home to look through the betrothal gifts she sent.
When Hong heard that Bai Heran was in the medicine house, she rushed Bai Haoxuan over and studied.
Since Bai Haoxuan made up his mind to study medicine with his second sister, he would read medical books almost every day whenever he had free time. Sometimes he would ask Bai Zhenzhen to take him to Jinsheng Pavilion together. Even Tianci Academy has been to Tianci Academy several times and gained a lot of experience from Donggongyuan.
Focusing on medical theory and pharmacology, she will naturally lose some of her usual homework. Hong didn't care much about this. After all, she had been used to seeing all the affairs of the officialdom in the past few years in Duke Wen's mansion. She would never want her son to go on a career in the future and get into that big dye vat.
As for the teacher, Bai Haoxuan is a concubine's son. Bai Xingyan has always only valued the eldest master in the mansion. He doesn't talk about the young master's homework and doesn't care about the young master's homework. So he is too lazy to say more. After teaching what he should teach every day, he will receive money every month, and he doesn't care about the others.
When Bai Haoxuan arrived, Bai Heran was picking medicine according to the prescription. When he saw him coming, he waved his hand: "It's just right, and my second sister is worried about not having any help!" He said that, and handed the prescription to Bai Haoxuan, "Pick up the medicine according to the prescription, grab twenty portions, and then grind it."
Bai Haoxuan was very happy and went to get medicine happily.
Bai Heran sat at the table and continued to prepare the grinded medicinal materials. But in fact, these things were not for medicinal purposes, but the first batch of rouge she prepared for the soon-to-open rouge shop.
After the trial of the concubines in the palace, Baiheran's rouge was a hit in the upper reaches of Kyoto.
After all, those concubines have relatives, and occasionally those who come to the palace to pay tribute will clearly see the changes in their own concubine's face.
Even if they didn't happen to enter the palace to pay their respects, the empresses would take the initiative to invite their parents' family to show off their faces.
After a while, people soon learned that it was Princess Tianci who developed the new rouge powder, which will soon replace the original Fenfang Pavilion and be officially sold to the public.
People were very happy. Firstly, the Fenfang Pavilion was really a scam, and secondly, Bai Heran, the name of the Heavenly Ci princess, was so famous and had a very good reputation. In addition, there was a trial of the concubines in the palace headed by the queen, who would not believe in the effects of these rouge powders!
So before the opening was opened, the orders were delivered to the mansion one by one. The stack of orders in front of her were given to her by the housekeeper Bai Shun when she returned to the mansion today. It is said that they were delivered to this day. She even asked her if she would accept it. If she didn't accept it, she would return it tomorrow.
Of course, Bai Heran has to take over. The Rouge Shop is to make money, and the concubines can try it out, that is, to obtain high-level resources. Now that the resources have been delivered to the door, there is no reason to keep them out again.
But the orders are really too many, and even with Bai Haoxuan's help, the progress is still very slow.
Yingchun was still busy outside but didn't come back. It was dark and it was hard to call the servant in to do things. So Bai Heran thought about it and called a maid in the yard: "You go to Xiangyuan and call the third lady over, and say I have something to do to find her."
When Bai Haoxuan heard her order, he knew that he must be asking for help, so he also arranged to call Bai Zhenzhen to call him, but was stopped by Bai Heran, "If I guess correctly, your sister must be counting the betrothal gifts now and she dreams of getting married, so we should not disturb her. Besides, she will go to the Jinsheng Pavilion tomorrow morning, and if we are busy for most of the night!"
Bai Haoxuan understood what she meant and went back to the house to continue picking up herbs.
There was also a little maid outside picking flowers with a basket on her shoulder. After a few days, Baihe dyed her head and ordered people to open a few pieces of land outside the medicine house and transplant a lot of flowers and plants just to make rouge.
Medicinal materials are supplied by merchants, but the ones used for making rouge require fresh flowers and trees. There is no better way to plant them except to plant them. Of course, it is definitely too late to plant them now, so these flowers and plants are transplanted from the mountains. Fortunately, in this season, the mountains are colorful and colorful, which is the best time for flowers to bloom.
The maid who picked the branches of flowers was named Shancha. It was the group that Nianxiyuan bought into the mansion immediately. Because she was good at serving flowers and plants, she recommended herself to come here to help. Bai Heran trusted the first group of people, so she left the garden here to Shancha to take care of.
Now that I heard that the lady needed help, Shancha called a few maids in the yard.
Soon, Bai Yanyu arrived. As soon as he saw Bai Heran’s stance, he knew that he was arrested. So without saying a word, he took his maid, Lichun, into the production of rouge.
But in fact, they don’t know much skills, and they are not even as good as Bai Haoxuan, who can already know most of the medicinal materials. So what they do most is grinding, grinding the medicinal materials picked by Bai Haoxuan into powder, and then squeezing the flowers picked from camellia into flower juice as Bai Heran’s instructions, and then placing them in different categories, waiting for Bai Heran to use.
Of course, in addition to these, some of the ground powders need to be boiled into thick soup, so there are two maids who are specially responsible for boiling them.
With the help of these people, Bai Heran's progress was very fast.
Bai Yanyu saw that she mixed various materials in a certain proportion, with skillful techniques and extremely fast movements, almost done in one go. The bottles of liquid rouge were quickly sealed and announced that it was completed.
Of course, there are more non-liquid forms. Some are dried after preparation, then grind them twice and three times until they are ground into fine powder like white flour. Some are made into paste, half-dry and half-wet, and put in a small porcelain box half the size of a palm, and are available in various colors.
She was interested in these things, so she handed over the work in her hands to Lichun and took the initiative to come over to Bai Heran and said, "Second sister may have heard of my grandfather who is performing opera. Not only can she perform opera, but she also makes good spices. I used to learn how to make fragrant powder. Why don't you give me some advice? I'll do it together!"
Bai Heran slapped his forehead and said, "Yes, why did I forget this! You and Aunt Lin always have various fragrances on them. I think you didn't buy them from outside, but you must have made them yourself. You should be better than me in this craft."
Bai Yanyu waved his hand quickly, "It must be better than others, but it won't work with the second sister. I just saw you making these things, and I'm afraid that the best incense makers in the capital will not be as good as you. The most important thing is that I have never heard of the many types of rouge you made, so this has nothing to do with your proficiency, it is mainly because of your short knowledge."
Bai Heran patted her on the shoulder, "Learn more and you will have insight. If you sit next to me, I will teach you the proportion first. As for the technique, you must understand it. It's nothing more than what kind of container to put it in."
Bai Yanyu nodded. Indeed, she would have the skills of making powder, paste or water, but she lacked the mastery of proportions.
With Bai Yanyu's addition, the efficiency was very high. But this girl was still addicted. In the second half of the night, the others were sent to rest by Bai Heran, but Bai Yanyu didn't leave, so she simply did everything from grinding to boiling. In the end, she was trapped in Bai Heran and was still in a state of energy.
Bai Heran slept directly in the medicine room, starting from dawn, and slept until midnight before waking up. As a result, when he opened his eyes, Bai Yanyu was still stirring the ointment there!
She had to admire this person's spirit, and she had to sigh that she had to explore everyone's strengths. Bai Yanyu's craftsmanship of making perfume can definitely be called professional. In addition, she has a prescription ratio, making this bottle of rouge and water powder is perfect, and even more beautiful than the ones she made before.
She got up, picked up the finished product made by Bai Yanyu and put it under her nose and smelled it. She nodded repeatedly, "It's really good."
Bai Yanyu was very happy, "I just didn't drag my second sister down. Sister, are there any other recipes? I will learn more and I will help you make rouge in the future! I heard that you will move all the workshops to Tianci Town in the future. Can I take me one of the rouge workshops? I will also move to the town to live and help you make rouge every day."
When she said this, there was an excitement flashing in her eyes. Bai Heran could see that she really liked this industry. Thinking about it again, it was not difficult to understand that every girl's family was originally irresistible to cosmetics. No matter in the past or present life, there was no woman who didn't study cosmetics, and few women would resist things like powder and perfume. Love beauty is a girl's nature. Bai Yanyu was cultivated by Lin Hansheng's charm since she was a child, and she certainly put a lot of effort into this.
"I will definitely welcome you to help me make rouge, but I can't move you to Tianci Town." Bai Heran told her, "It's not just you, Zhenzhen, Haoxuan, I can't take one away. In this Duke's mansion, all I can take away is me, the people in Nianxi Courtyard. If other people follow me, it's like a split. At that time, it's not just my father, but my grandmother will definitely not do it."
Bai Yanyu was a little discouraged, "You really can't go? Second sister, I don't like this family. Compared to being in this mansion all day, I prefer that when my grandfather came, my aunt and I could live in the opera troupe, at least I had freedom."
Bai Heran thought for a while and said, "Although you can't live in Tianci Town, you can still go back and forth occasionally. There was no rule in the mansion that would not allow you to go out for a walk. Besides, I live in Tianci Town, and you occasionally live in Tianci Town, and your grandmother wouldn't say anything. However, Yanyu, if you are willing to stay in Shangdu City, I can give you something to do--"
Chapter completed!