Chapter 30 Perfume is poisonous

That night, Qin Mu will deliver the spices to King Qi's mansion.

It's really fragrant! Luluo grabbed a handful of spice and put it on the tip of her nose to smell it, squinting her eyes to enjoy the aftertaste.

Aster said: His Royal Highness, here are agarwood, balsam, dried jasmine, dried tulip, and dipterocarp. The slaves in the palace also have some understanding of these spices, and they are indeed excellent spices.

Well, that's fine. The things you give to the queen can't go wrong. Xiao Ming said.

Luluo asked, Could it be that Your Highness also wants to give these spices to the Empress, but the Empress has a lot of spices in her collection. Although these spices are good, they may not be attractive to the Empress.

Aster rolled her eyes at Luluo, Stupid, His Highness asked me to buy wine and spices, so I won't just send these ordinary spices.

Xiao Ming nodded, Of course, after two days, the equipment department will send the things, and this king will let you see it in person.

Three days later, Chen Qi brought over the stills Xiao Ming wanted, which were actually three connected pots.

At this time, Xiao Ming was not idle, but summoned the servants in the mansion to tell them the specific steps of distilling alcohol and purifying essence.

As soon as the still was delivered, the servants in Fuchu immediately set up the still and used a coal ball furnace to heat and purify the alcohol and essence below.

Because of this matter, the entire palace was busy. Except for Qian Dafu who brought people to mine graphite mines, Luluo and Aster also came to help.

Luluo and Aster have not escaped Xiao Ming's knowledge transfer in the past few days. After the alcohol and essence flowed out of the distiller, the two of them put the two together in a beautiful porcelain bottle and began to mix and shake them evenly.

In Xiao Ming's head, there are no less than tens of thousands of different types of perfume manufacturing methods.

Generally speaking, the composition of perfume is composed of essence, fixative and alcohol.

The essence is naturally the essential oil purified from various plants, and the fixative refers to things like balsam, that is, the ones containing more oil, similar to those in facial cleansers, and can also be used as foundation.

Xiao Ming was very clear about the ratio of these three items, because the first perfume production did not require any experiments at all, and it went very smoothly.

The final job is to mix the three things together and stir.

Two sets of stills, one for rice wine and one for essence, were operating at the same time, and the rest were shaking the porcelain bottles.

Xiao Ming also took a porcelain bottle and was shaking it. The weather was too cold. It would be better to exercise if you stood still.

His Royal Highness, when will this be shaken? After half an hour, Lu Luo was panting, spitting out white mist, and her face flushed red.

Xiao Ming said: You open the cork and smell it. If the smell becomes even, then it's almost done.

Luluo nodded her head, took out the cork and smelled it, and was stunned, Your Highness, this smells so good!

Aster also leaned in and smelled it, showing a surprised look, Although this spice is very fragrant, but the taste is different, it's just Your Highness, how do you use this thing?

In Da Yu country, spices are basically made into fragrant cakes, and the usage is basically divided into two types: application and smoke. His perfume is unique. He said: It's very simple, just take out a little and sprinkle it on your body.

As a woman, she is not disinterested in spices. Luluo poured a little perfume and wiped it on her face, and the scent wafted out immediately. It was the scent of jasmine.

The comfortable smell made Aster envy for a while, and she poured a little on her body.

Well, it's more comfortable than the fragrant cake, and the fragrance can last for a day. Xiao Ming said.

Luluo happily giggled and only laughed, smelling herself and aster from time to time, like a child who didn't grow up.

Aster smiled. This kind of thing called perfume by King Qi is indeed extraordinary. After all, this incense cake has to be smeared on the body, and it is easy to fall off, which is far less practical than perfume.

Your Highness, if this perfume is given to the Empress, the Empress will definitely be happy. Ziwan said.

Xiao Ming is now at ease, Luluo and Shiwan are both from the palace and naturally have the right to speak, Since this is the case, this king is at ease, this time the perfume can't be made less than 100 bottles, and the perfume in the hands of the two of you will be given to you. you guys.

Thank you, Your Highness! Luluo smiled and bowed to Xiao Ming, holding the porcelain bottle in her arms like a baby aster, for fear that Xiao Ming would regret it.

This time, the amount of rice wine was much more than the spice. After the spice was used up, there was still a lot of rice wine left.

With the thought of being wasteful and shameful and hard to swallow after drinking, Xiao Ming turned this inferior rice wine into a modern white wine.

Li San.

Xiao Ming still didn't know much about the servants in the mansion, and the only thing that impressed him was this Li San.

Because this Li San can speak well, and his work efficiency is also good, Aster's evaluation of him is also good.

Qian Dafu is very busy now, and Xiao Ming can't always hang out with Lulu Aster. After all, some occasions are not suitable for girls to follow.

Your Highness, the little slave is here. Li Sanxiao ran in front of Xiao Ming, Your Highness, what are your orders?

Looking at Li San, who looked like Sandezi, Xiao Ming said, Go prepare a few wine jars and distill out the rest of the rice wine.

Yes, Your Highness. Li San immediately instructed the other servants to go to the warehouse of the palace to get the wine jar, and continue to distill the rice wine here.

When making perfume just now, this rice wine was repeatedly distilled to obtain a high concentration of alcohol.

This time is different. Directly one-time distillation, the original green rice wine has turned into pure rice wine in a blink of an eye.

This time, the rice wine is also mixed with the sweetness of rice wine, but the alcohol content has been greatly improved.

The ancients said that a thousand cups would not be drunk. It was originally a low degree of rice wine, but when encountering his distilled rice wine, it would not be a thousand cups that would not be drunk at that time.

All day long, the entire palace was busy distilling rice wine and perfume, and all these raw materials were used up at night.

Li San, let someone put this distiller away. Don't let other people see it, and don't say what it's used for. Xiao Ming said, his technology had to be kept secret by himself.

Li San patted his chest and said, Don't worry, Your Highness, I won't say if you kill me.

Xiao Ming nodded, Well, yes, but there is one more thing to hand to you, these perfumes need you to be delivered to the mother-in-law of Chang'an City.

Chang'an? Your Highness, Chang'an is thousands of miles away. If Xiaonu goes alone and meets a bandit on the way... Li San said worriedly.

You don't have to worry about this. This time, this king will let you go to Chang'an with the Qin family's boat. Xiao Ming pondered.

Two days ago, he beat the Qin family with a stick, and he should have eaten a candied date. The carrot should be replaced.