Two maids were fat and thin, and the fat maid on the right was the one on the right. In fact, she looked pretty pretty, with very white skin and delicate features, but she was too fat, and probably had to be 150 pounds higher. As the saying goes, "One fat ruins everything." The aesthetic view of the early Tang Dynasty was not as good as she later. It is probably why she was given to Li Xiu.

The fat maid hesitated for a moment before speaking in a crisp voice: "Master, I... My maid's name is Yuechan, I am in my prime!"

Li Xiu didn't expect that the fat girl's voice was quite nice and she spoke very elegantly. She was fifteen years old at the age of her hair, but her body looked older than her actual age. Then Li Xiu looked at another girl, who looked at at most twelve or thirteen years old, and looked thin and small, but she looked a bit like Mrs. Liu.

"My servant is named Liu'er. This year, I'm 14th. I'll salute you!" Although this thin girl is younger, she is very clever and speaks quickly and crisply. At the same time, she bows to Li Xiu, and her whole body is full of cleverness.

"Very good, Yuechan and Liu'er, we are now a family. In the future, you two need to work together to take care of all the housework at home. In addition, you two live in the west wing. Now you are given a task, which is to clean the room together!" Li Xiu tried his best to look kind. The two maids were underage in their later generations. He always felt a little awkward when they called him, as if he was illegally using child labor.

"Yes!" Yuechan and Liu'er agreed, bowed to Li Xiu and then turned around to the wing room. They were all official slaves who had become lowly. To put it bluntly, their life and death are in the hands of Li Xiu, and if they escape, they will be killed. Therefore, unless the master is too harsh, ordinary official slaves rarely dare to escape.

The west wing room was always empty, with some messy miscellaneous items piled up inside. Li Xiu was too lazy to clean it up before, and it was covered with dust. However, the two girls didn't think it was dirty at all. They wrapped their heads with handkerchiefs and went in to clean it. The useful things were wiped clean and placed, while the useless things were piled up in the yard and planned to throw them out later.

It was getting late, and Li Xiu suddenly realized that he had neglected something. He was just asking Yue Chan and the others to clean the room, but forgot that there was only one bed at home and there was no extra bedding. Where did they sleep at night? Should the three of them sleep together? I'm going, this idea is really evil!

"Uncle Liu and his family have many children, so there must be no extra bed and bedding. You can't borrow it from Uncle Ma, right?" Li Xiu said at this time. If it were before, he would have borrowed it without hesitation, but the last time he borrowed a piece of panicles, he had already made Mr. Ma angry. This time, he really had no shame to borrow things again.

At this time, not only did Li Xiu notice the problem of the bed, but the two maids also discovered this problem. They looked at each other, then discussed it in a low voice, and then ran to the kitchen to start holding wheat straw into the room, which is the wheat stem left after the wheat was threshed. This thing is very flammable, so it is usually used as fuel.

"What are you doing?" Li Xiu hurriedly stopped them and asked. After finally cleaning the room, wouldn't it be dirty again if he carried the straw in?

"Master, I see that there is no extra bed at home, so Sister Yuechan and I discussed one and prepared to carry some wheat straw to keep warm. We have slept like this before." Liu'er said timidly when she saw Li Xiu stop them. Although she was smart, she was still a little afraid of Li Xiu, the master.

"You..." Li Xiu felt sad when he heard Liu'er's words. He didn't expect that this well-behaved little girl would have such a past. At that moment, he suddenly thought of something, so he asked, "Liu'er, I forgot to ask just now, who were you before, why were you all represented as official slaves?"

When he heard Li Xiu ask about his past, Liu'er and Yuechan looked at each other, and then Yuechan said softly: "Master, we used to be the palace maids of the Nanliang Palace. Later, Nanliang was destroyed, and we were taken to Chang'an with us, and then we were deposed as official slaves. Some sisters were given to ministers in the court, and Liu'er and I were sent to the Yeting Palace to wash clothes. We were only selected yesterday to give to the master!"

"You are actually the palace maids of Nanliang?" Li Xiu was very surprised when he heard this, and then said to himself, "This is a coincidence. Today, I just saw the emperor Xiao Xian of Nanliang, being killed during the day, and then I saw you. It seems that I am really destined to be with Nanliang!"

As soon as Li Xiu finished speaking, he saw Yue Chan on the opposite side suddenly pale, and the wheat straw in his arms also fell down, as if he was greatly frightened, which made him say strangely: "What's wrong with you, Yue Chan? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

"No...no!" Yuechan suddenly seemed a little panicked at this time, and Liu'er suddenly asked anxiously, "Master, has His Majesty the Emperor really been killed?"

"Yes, what's wrong?" Li Xiu found that Liu'er's face also showed a look of sadness. They didn't know the news that Xiao Xian was killed today, and Liu'er called Xiao Xian the Majesty. If others heard this, it would be enough to be beheaded.

"Oh, the people of Jiangnan all say that Your Majesty is a good emperor, and Your Majesty surrendered voluntarily. I thought Your Majesty could save his life, but I didn't expect him to die." At this time, Yuechan also said with tears in her eyes.

Seeing Yuechan and Liu'er's sad look, Li Xiu was a little surprised. It seemed that Xiao Xian's rule in the south was very popular. Even the two little palace maids were grateful to him. However, the more this happened, the more it meant that Li Yuan had made a mistake this time, because for the Tang Dynasty, it would be easier for him to comfort the people in Jiangnan. Now that Xiao Xian died, the south would be a little uneasy.

However, the above is nothing to do with Li Xiu. The most important thing he is to find a bed for the two girls. It is almost dark, and it is too late to buy it when he goes to the city, but this is not difficult for him. He looked up and saw that it was still a while before the darkness, so Li Xiu asked, "Who can cook for you two?"

"Me!" Liu'er immediately jumped out first and said.

"Very good, Liu'er, go to the kitchen to cook, Yuechan, please stay for me to make something. If you do this, you will naturally have a bed!" Li Xiu immediately ordered that he was going to make the soap, and then go to Ma Ye to borrow things in the name of sending soap.

Liu'er agreed and happily ran to the kitchen to cook. Yuechan was at a loss and stayed there. I wonder what he wanted Li Xiu to help her? However, Li Xiu quickly ordered her to raise a fire and then fed half a bucket of clean water. Only then did Li Xiu pour the oil he bought into and let the pigments and impurities in the oil enter the water. This was also a simple purification of the oil court.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Xiu poured the noodles alkali he bought into a large pot, then added water to dissolve it, and finally put the quicklime in. The quicklime dissolved in water to obtain calcium hydroxide, and then reacted with sodium carbonate to form calcium carbonate precipitate. The remaining is the aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide. Next, Li Xiu poured the oil into the aqueous solution and heated and stirred.

The alkali reacted with the oil, and soon the white and yellow soap base appeared, and it was all in a ball, which looked a little disgusting. Yue Chan seemed a little absent-minded about the series of magical changes in front of her, and she relied on Li Xiu's command to do things. During this period, she was almost burned by the sodium hydroxide solution, which made Li Xiu a little helpless. It seemed that Yue Chan was a little stupid in addition to being fat, so she could only arrange some simple work for her to do in the future.

Take out the generated soap base and put it in a clean small porcelain basin. Next, heat the soap base to turn it into liquid, add spices and then cool it into molding. This simple soap is made, which later generations called handmade soap online.

However, the soap base cannot be placed directly on the fire for heating, but the porcelain basin should be placed in hot water, because the melting point of the soap base is very low and can be turned into liquid in hot water. As for the spices, Li Xiu did not dare to buy them randomly. He only bought some rosin and added them, and also put some bean powder in them. This is said to protect the skin from roughness. Finally, Li Xiu found a square box and poured the liquid soap base into solidification. In this way, the most primitive soap was completed.

"Master, what are you doing?" Liu'er had already prepared the meal at this time, and asked as she held her little head with her hands on her hands and looked at Li Xiu's movements.

"This is also considered a pancreatic. You can wash your hands and bathe, and of course you can also wash clothes. However, the cost of making this thing is too high!" Li Xiu said with some grief at this time. Just a large piece of soap costs nearly six jin of money, which is not considered labor costs. After all, the soap is really not something that ordinary people can use.

"This is Panzi. I have only heard of it before, but I have never seen it with my own eyes!" Liu'er said happily when she heard this. When she was in Nanliang, she was a little palace maid who did miscellaneous work and had no chance to contact any noble people. Not to mention after coming to the Tang Dynasty, so naturally she never saw what Panzi looked like.

Compared to Liu'er, Yuechan seemed to have some knowledge. When she heard Li Xiu say that the soap was pancreas, she also showed a puzzled expression on her face, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she still didn't say it.
Chapter completed!