Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 268 Balm

Hualei was still hoping that Yumi could make a lot of money, but before he knew it, another way to make money had opened up before his eyes.

Maybe it's because I've been digging around in the cornfield too much. After a few days, the buds started to itch all over. Maybe they were stained with pollen. This is not good. There are still a few months before the corn matures. I'll be digging around in the cornfield for a long time. How can I sleep at night if I itch every day? I have to find a way to solve this problem.

So, Hualei flipped through various books on the bookshelf and finally found the recipe for making peach leaf talcum powder in one of the books.

Go to Baihuazhuang to pick fresh peach leaves without insect spots, wash them, and put them in a cool place to dry. Take the potatoes planted in the field, wash them, peel them, cut them into small pieces, add some water, grind them into pulp with a small stone mill, pour them into a wooden basin and let them settle overnight, then pour out the clear water on top, and you can get the potato starch pulp that has settled at the bottom of the basin, scrape it with a spoon onto a bamboo plate covered with gauze, and after drying it, you will get potato starch, put it into a small stone mortar, and pound it into powder with a wooden stick.

Grind the dried peach leaves into powder and put them into potato starch. The flower buds are specially added with other ingredients such as mint powder and angelica powder. After mixing, it becomes peach leaf talcum powder. If you smell the flower buds up close, you will smell a light natural fragrance, which is very pleasant.

Before entering the cornfield, apply talcum powder on the exposed parts of the body. Pollen hairs are more difficult to stick to the skin. After leaving the cornfield, wash it with a wet towel and it will not be itchy easily. Hualei also found that this is also very good for taking a bath, so she made some more and brought it to Xiaoyuan to use in the Imperial College building.

I also thought that because the manor had exchanged a lot of mugwort and mint some time ago, Lord Bai ordered a batch of mugwort sticks and mugwort incense pills in early January. At that time, Hualei set up a temporary team specializing in making mugwort sticks to rush to make this batch of goods. After the delivery, it was found that there was still a lot of mugwort, so now this mugwort team is still busy in Huaying Manor.

Perhaps this peach leaf talcum powder can also be used by the soldiers in Western Xinjiang. After all, the weather there is hot and the soldiers often sweat and feel sticky all over. It should be a good idea to use some of this talcum powder after taking a shower.

So he asked Uncle Fu to send a can of peach leaf talcum powder to Dingxi Marquis Mansion. Sure enough, Lord Bo ordered another batch of peach leaf talcum powder, not only to send it to Western Xinjiang, but also to send a lot for himself, saying that he would give it to colleagues and friends.

In this way, the mugwort group does not need to disband, and can continue to make peach leaf talcum powder. Anyway, peach leaves are plentiful, more than mugwort, so there is no need to worry about running out of raw materials. Moreover, after making it, Liang Xiangyi can take it to the south to sell it. The weather there is hotter and it is easy to sweat, so it will definitely be useful.

Sure enough, not long after, Liang Xiangyi took away a large batch of peach leaf talcum powder and sold it to the south. The business was quite good, and he immediately placed another large order with Hualei. Hualei's mugwort group continued to occupy a row of houses in Huayingzhuang.

Moreover, the peach leaf talcum powder produced was soon put into the flower fairy's shop and supplied to the wealthy families in the capital. Although the business was small, the sales volume was large, so the money earned was not small.

After the peach leaf talcum powder was in stock, Hualei ordered a ship to take the talcum powder, along with soap and toothbrushes, to Yongjia Prefecture and Ruyi's Chengyun Prefecture and started selling them. She also brought a large number of mugwort pills and moxa sticks.

However, there is not enough choice for just one peach leaf talcum powder. If you want to make money, you have to give others more choices. Hualei is thinking about making something, so he has been wandering around in the warehouse for the past two days.

Because the fleet goes out frequently, in addition to the number of items on the order, Hua Lei also asks the ships to bring more items from the farm each time. They can sell them in new places, or exchange them with local people for new and interesting items.

Hualei also told the crew on the ship that if they were not sure whether the samples were useful or not, they could bring back a few samples at first, so that even if they could not use them, it would not be a waste. If Hualei felt that the samples were useful, she could bring back more next time.

So there are many strange and weird things in the warehouse now. For example, the ships returning from Mobei often bring back some things that are relatively scarce in Shangjing City, such as spices, furs of various colors, and many strange stones of various colors.

The ships coming back from Liaodong Prefecture would bring back a lot of dried seafood, such as small shrimps, kelp and seaweed. Of course, there were also good things brought back from Yongjia Prefecture and Wuling Prefecture. Gradually, little by little, they accumulated into a lot, and now there are a lot of things in the warehouse.

Seeing that there are a lot of fresh mints in the warehouse these two days, Hualei felt that he couldn't let it go. Because mint can be picked several times a year, there will be a lot of fresh mint to pick next. So Hualei decided to make a mint balm.

Wash the fresh mint leaves with clean water, place them in a cool and ventilated place to dry, then put the mint into a mortar, and use a wooden stick to smash the mint leaves vigorously. Then pour all the smashed mint leaves and juice into a clean porcelain jar, pour in the boiled lard, soak for a few days, filter out the mint residue, and you're done.

If you think the taste is bland, you can mash fresh mint leaves and soak them in the lard, the taste will be much stronger. Then put a little beeswax in to melt, pour it into a small porcelain jar, and after it cools and solidifies, the simple version of mint ointment is ready. It is used to repel mosquitoes and relieve itching, and the effect is very good.

Soon, the mint ointment was put on sale in the Flower Fairy Shop, and it also followed the ship she and Liang Xiangyi took that left Shangjing City and went to various places in the Dasheng Dynasty.

Soon, Hualei used the fresh gardenias and jasmines that were exchanged to make refreshing and pleasant-smelling gardenia and jasmine ointments. Although the method is a little different from the mint ointment, the process is more cumbersome and takes more time, but it doesn't matter, as long as the price is raised, there will be no problem.

Then the two newly made ointments, peach leaf talcum powder and mint ointment were formed into a series to meet the discerning preferences of the young ladies from the aristocratic families in Shangjing City.

Now is the season when these flowers are in full bloom, so there are plenty of raw materials. The flower buds are also used to make jasmine soap and gardenia soap to enrich the soap category. At the same time, this has driven the sales of a large number of soaps.