Chapter 69 Soapberry

"I heard that spices are added to the spices! Spices are not cheap. Let me smell it. Does it smell good?"

A group of women didn't even bother to take off their half-dressed clothes. They all gathered around to smell the fragrant soap that cost at least a hundred coins a piece.

Chen Huiniang held the piece of fragrant soap a little higher, and everyone took turns to get up and smell it, and they all took a long breath.

"It smells so good! What does it smell like?"

"It seems to smell like wild chrysanthemums? But chrysanthemums are not so fragrant?"

"It seems to have a bit of sulfur smell? It's not too strong, just light. It's mainly the scent of chrysanthemums."

"I can smell the scent of eucalyptus. Oh, it smells really good anyway."

"Look at this piece of fragrant rice noodles. It's so delicately made! I heard that the fragrant rice noodles are very clean when you take a bath. After washing, you will feel refreshed and your body will be white and smooth."

"Hui Niang, go try it quickly. Is it really so magical and useful?"

"Yes, yes, go, go, let's wait and see! Although we can't use it, it's good to have a look!"

Everyone urged Chen Huiniang to try out this fragrant soap. They all wanted to see how magical this gadget used by wealthy families was.

How could Chen Huiniang have the nerve to take off her clothes under the gaze of so many people?

Even though we are both women, it is okay to take a bath together, but if everyone is staring at you alone, it will still be embarrassing!

She squirmed and said, "Oh, what do you think I'm doing? Let's wash it together and use it together! Can't you tell if it works well or not by using it on yourself?"

When the aunt and daughter-in-law heard that Chen Huiniang asked them to use this expensive thing, they quickly declined: "Oh, this thing is precious. If you give it to us, it will be wasted. You should keep it for your own use! Let's just take a look." "

Chen Huiniang is not a stingy person, nor is Mrs. Qiao.

She said: "It's okay, let's use it together! We have been dirty for so many days, let's wash it well and feel refreshed."

After hearing what Mrs. Qiao had said, everyone thanked her gratefully.

"Then let's use it shamelessly. Thanks to your family, our whole village has benefited a lot!"

"Yes, good people are rewarded. Your Qiao family will definitely become a blessed and wealthy family in the future."

Mrs. Qiao laughed happily: "Then I accept your good advice."

Everyone quickly took off their clothes and got into the water, casually pulled a handful of water plants from the shore, and scrubbed away the thick layer of dirt on their bodies. They also rubbed each other's backs to scrub away the dirt all over their bodies. net.

I walked to the shore and shook off the water drops on my hands. Then I carefully picked up the piece of soap, rubbed it gently in the palm of my hand, and quickly put it back.

Then he carefully put a few drops of water on the palm of his hand with his other hand, rubbed some bubbles out, and applied it carefully on his face and neck.

After scrubbing his face and neck clean, he then scrubbed his body with a little bit of the foam mixed with dirt that flowed down.

Even though they didn't see many bubbles at all, the faces of these people showed a look of great satisfaction and enjoyment.

He also brought the hand that he had rubbed his face to his nose and smelled it: "Well, it smells really good! If you use more of this, wouldn't your whole body be fragrant?"

"Then you ask your man to quickly earn money and buy you a piece, so that it can be washed and fragrant for your man to smell every day, hahaha..."

"I would like to, but I can't afford it! Don't you want to?"

A group of women were laughing and joking, and Qiao Ran was watching all this silently from a tree not far away: "..."

well! I really pity these ancient people who can't even afford a bar of soap.

The people in my original world were so happy!

The three of them, Mrs. Qiao and her daughter-in-law, were not so careful, but they just rubbed a little more foam than others, and they were already very satisfied.

Chen Huiniang and Lin Guizhen also rubbed some more scented soap on Xiao Yue'er's body, washing her hair, face, body, and her whole body clean and refreshing.

"Wow, I smell so good!"

"Well, our Yue'er smells delicious. Mom really wants to take a bite!"

Lin Guizhen pretended to lower her head and bite the little girl who had been washed white and tender. Qiao Yue quickly dodged with a giggle.

Smelling the fragrant smell on her body, Qiao Yue was happy.

Now, Sister Honglian can no longer call her a "stinky girl"?

If she dares to say that she smells bad again, let her smell her fragrant smell and make her angry to death, hum!

The women here quickly washed their hair and bodies. The water in the mountain stream was too cold, and they did not dare to stay in the water for fear of catching the cold. They quickly washed themselves and went ashore to put on their clothes, ready to wash their clothes. .

Hearing that the children on the other side were still playing in the water, the women shouted to their children to bring their clothes for washing.

But the young boys were finally able to play in the water, and they were unwilling to go ashore so quickly to put on clothes, and they couldn't run over there naked.

Finally, these brats simply bundled the dirty clothes on the bank, threw them into the water, and let the clothes float downstream along the stream.

The women just watched the bundles of clothes floating by, which was really annoying and funny.

Sure enough, lazy people have lazy ways, and they can come up with such bad ideas.

Everyone picked up the clothes bundled into a ball, found their own boy's bundle, and washed the clothes in the water.

However, in the past, there were clothes pounding pestles made of stone slabs and wood in the village. Put the clothes on the stone slabs by the river and beat them with the clothes pounding pestle to wash them clean.

But there are no flat slates here, and they can’t be washed clean even with just hand rubbing. How to wash clothes?

When they were in trouble, they saw Qiao Ran walking over carrying a branch.

"Ran Ran, what are you doing with the branches?"

When Chen Huiniang saw her daughter walking over carrying such a branch full of leaves, she asked casually.

Qiao Ran threw the branch to the ground, picked a few round fruits from the branch and handed it over.

"Mom, you can use this to wash clothes. You can rub the bubbles on the clothes to remove the dirt. It's very convenient."

She had no choice but to see everyone worrying about how to wash clothes, and she couldn't get the laundry detergent out of the space for everyone to use.

He raised his eyes and glanced around, and found that the big tree he was in was actually a soapberry.

Soapberry is a traditional Chinese medicine included in the "Compendium of Materia Medica". It can clear away heat and eliminate phlegm, eliminate accumulation and kill insects. It can be used for malnutrition, diphtheria, cough, sore throat, ascariasis, abdominal bloating, bad breath, etc.

In addition to its medicinal uses, it also has another function, that is, it can be used as soap.

Its peel contains saponin, which can create a lot of bubbles when rubbed with water, and has strong washing ability.

I heard that when her grandparents were young, washing powder and laundry detergent were not widely available, and in remote rural areas, soap locust and soapberry were used to wash clothes.