HCB Chapter 209 Lin Jingyou goes to Beijing to take the exam
Chapter 209 Lin Jingyou goes to Beijing to take the exam
In just half an hour, the cards were ready. Shen Wanning tried them out and they felt pretty good.
She came out with the cards, and Lin Jingyou followed her.
"Dad, Mom, let's play a game together! The name of this game is Landlord. These cards are..." Shen Wanning held the cards. They sat around the table and listened to Shen Wanning explain the rules of the Landlord game.
An hour later.
"Yes, A."
"I'm sorry."
"Royal bomb, haha, I only have one card left! 3!"
At this moment, Lin Dashan's stomach growled. Everyone turned to look at him.
Lin Dashan touched his stomach awkwardly, "I...I'm hungry."
Aunt Zhang slapped her head and said, "Oh, I was so busy playing cards that I forgot to cook. Luckily, there are some leftovers from yesterday. Let's heat them up and have a meal!"
After that, Aunt Zhang went into the kitchen to cook. Since there were only leftovers, Shen Wanning didn't go to help. She just sat in the yard and played with them for a while until the food was ready before helping to serve it.
When Wen and Xu came back in the evening, they found the four of them still in the main room, with candles lit and a brazier under the table, playing Landlord while warming themselves by the fire.
They watched for a while, understood the rules of the game, and quickly joined the battlefield.
On the third day of the Lunar New Year, a new round of Landlord game began...
It was not until the fifth day of the New Year that Lin Jingyou packed up his things and prepared to leave for the capital.
Shen Wanning and he went to the county town to rest for one night, and then Lin Jingyou set off for the capital with his classmates who had passed the imperial examination.
Shen Wanning, who had originally planned to send him to Fuzhou, gave up the idea.
After arriving at the county town, the night before Lin Jingyou was leaving, Shen Wanning exchanged all the beans in the live broadcast room for silver bills, took out two thousand taels of silver bills and secretly stuffed them into Lin Jingyou's pockets.
Lin Jingyou couldn't refuse and had to accept it.
Before leaving, Lin Jingyou hugged Shen Wanning for a long time, leaving only one sentence: Wait for me! I will definitely ride a tall horse and marry you in a grand manner!
Shen Wanning nodded without saying anything. It had only been a couple of months, so she didn't feel too sad.
As soon as Lin Jingyou left, Shen Wanning suddenly felt empty inside. She hadn't felt it when he first left, but suddenly someone she was used to was gone, and she felt like she was losing all her energy.
Fortunately, the milk tea shop resumed business soon, and she was also planning to research the soap business. Once she got busy, she felt that she didn't miss Lin Jingyou so much.
Not long after the milk tea shop continued to operate, Shen Wanning returned to Daqing Village and began to research soap.
Quiet Evening Breeze sent her a video about soap making.
Shen Wanning followed the video and dug some wood ash from the kitchen.
Xu even asked curiously, "What is Wan Ning doing with the wood ash? Is he going to use it as fertilizer?"
"No, sister-in-law, I want to try another job." Shen Wanning shook her head.
"What can you do with wood ash? It's so dirty, Wan Ning won't use it to cook food, right?"
"It's not for eating, it's for use. When it's ready, you'll know after trying it."
"Okay, then you go!" Xu continued to wash the vegetables, looking at Shen Wanning while washing them.
Shen Wanning first poured the wood ash into a basin, then added an appropriate amount of water, mixed it thoroughly, and then took a piece of linen to filter the water.
After putting the water aside to let it sit, she took the drawings and went to find Lin Dashan.
"Dad, can you see if this thing can be made?" The shape of the mold on the drawing is exactly the same as the shape of modern soap.
"This thing looks like a mold?" Lin Dashan said after looking at the drawing.
"Yes, Dad, this is a mold for making soap. I hope it will be made in the style shown in the drawing." Shen Wanning said.
"Okay, I'll try it first. It should be fine." Lin Dashan took the blueprint, found a piece of wood from the yard and started working on it.
Since it was necessary to hollow out the wood, it was a little difficult, so Lin Dashan's hands never stopped moving.
The next morning, Lin Dashan was still doing carpentry work in the yard.
Shen Wanning took a look at the water containing wood ash from yesterday and found that it had already separated into layers.
She poured the clear liquid into a bowl and went to the kitchen to get lard.
"Wan Ning, didn't you say yesterday that you wouldn't cook? Why do you still need lard?" Xu asked when she saw her holding a jar of lard in her hand.
"Sister-in-law, I'm not cooking, it's just that the thing I'm making requires lard." Shen Wanning explained.
Lard has solidified in winter. If you want to mix lard and wood ash water, you have to heat the lard to melt it first.
Put some lard into a bowl, add alkaline water extracted from wood ash, stir slowly with chopsticks, and finally add a small amount of salt. Wait for it to solidify slowly, and the soap is ready.
Since the mold had not been made yet, Shen Wanning simply put these things in the bowl.
Anyway, it's just an experiment, the shape is secondary. As long as my family finds it feasible, it's fine.
The weather was cold, and the addition of salt meant the soap cooled quickly. By the afternoon, a bar of soap had cooled completely.
Shen Wanning poured the soap out of the bowl and held it in her hand.
Aunt Zhang pointed at the soap in her hand, looking puzzled. "What is this? Can I eat it? Or do I need to heat it up?"
Sure enough, it might be because I usually cook too much food, which led them to think that everything I cook is food.
Shen Wanning explained helplessly, "Mom, this is not for eating, this is for use."
"Used? Why are things used made with lard?" Aunt Zhang was even more curious now.
I saw Xu still cooking in the kitchen, her hands covered in grease.
Shen Wanning called Xu over, "Sister-in-law, is the meal almost ready? Can you come over and try the soap?"
Xu wiped her hands on her apron and walked over. "What's the matter? What do you want me to do?"
"Sister-in-law, are your hands covered in oil?" Shen Wanning asked, pointing at Xu's hands.
"Well, for someone like me who works in the kitchen all day long, there will always be oil on my hands! It's okay, the oil will be cleaned up slowly after I do other things." Xu said nonchalantly.
"Hey, sister-in-law, try washing your hands with this soap." Shen Wanning handed over the bowl-shaped soap in her hand.
Xu looked skeptical. "If I remember correctly, this thing is made of lard, right? If you wash your hands with something made of lard, they'll only get greasier, right?"
"Sister-in-law, you'll know if you try it." Shen Wanning stuffed the soap directly into her hand.
"Let's go, sister-in-law, let's go to the well and try it." As he said that, he pulled Aunt Zhang and walked to the well together.
"Sister-in-law, wet your hands with clean water first, then apply soap on your hands, and finally rinse them." Shen Wanning said.