Leisurely Daily [System]

While the fields were busy, the essential oil distillery in Hongjia Village was also busy.

Before dawn, many villagers from several villages near Hongjia Village carried oil lamps and walked to the distillery at the foot of the mountain together in the still dark night.

Before the door of the workshop was opened, the people outside the door were yawning, and some people who arrived first couldn't help chatting in small voices.

Someone asked the companion who came together: "How much did you pick yesterday?"

The man smiled: "It's almost a hundred catties."

The other party was surprised: "Then you moved very quickly, and you almost got thirty cents of wages." Then he was a little envious, "I only picked about eighty catties yesterday."

The man said: "You came a few days later than me, and you are not as proficient as me. You will be fine in two days."

The other party also nodded: "This flowering period is coming to an end, I have to take advantage of the last two days to work harder."

Because the flowers in Hongjia Village are picked to extract essential oils, the picking time is completely different from Xueyanghua.

The petals of snowflakes should be crushed and blended into the fat, no extra water is needed, and it is best to pick them after the sun comes out, when the flowers are in full bloom and there is no dew.Workers only need to go to work after sunrise and finish work before sunset. Although the wages are low, the schedule is very relaxed.

Flowers usually only begin to reveal their fragrance in sunny weather.But only the half-cup-shaped flowers that have just bloomed but not yet fully bloomed have the most intense aroma and the highest essential oil content.If you wait for the sun to come out and be irradiated by ultraviolet rays, the flowers will fully bloom after one or two hours. At that time, half of the essential oils will evaporate with the aroma, and the oil yield is very low. Pick with dew.Generally, it is most suitable for picking before the sun rises, from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] in modern time.

Because the time for picking flowers is too early, Jiang Fan's wages are not low. Most of them are the same as the flower pickers in Lishan Village. If it is heavier, the amount picked in a few hours is about the same as the amount of Xueyang flowers in a day, so the wages of the pickers are higher than those in Lishan Village.

Of course, the ten kinds of flowers on the mountain are not all the same size, and they also have different wages, but in general, there is not much difference.

More and more people arrived, and the chatter became louder. Soon, voices came from the distillery, and the workers guarding inside yawned and came out to open the door to let the flower pickers in.

The flower picking workers skillfully went to the designated place to receive the sacks containing the flowers. The picked flowers should be stacked naturally and fluffy. The workers should also try to avoid squeezing the flowers to avoid unnecessary losses caused by heat generation and oil evaporation.

The flower pickers went up the mountain and started picking flowers with their sleeves rolled up.They picked for a while, and then some workers carried the scales and drove the carriage up along the repaired flat mountain road, waiting by the side to collect the flowers.

When someone picks a full bag, weigh it on the spot, and then the flower collector will ask the village where he is, his name, find the corresponding record book, write down the name and weight, and then choose from a bamboo basket hanging on the shaft of the car. A few finger-wide bamboo pieces came out, with numbers engraved on them, representing the total amount, and a small hole was drilled at one end.

The flower harvester handed the bamboo piece to the flower picker and said, "It's ready."

"I know." The flower picker took the bamboo slices with a smile, and took out a rope from his collar. There were still several bamboo slices hanging on the rope. Go in, tie the knot securely, and carefully tuck it back into your collar.These are his wages for the past two days, and they are settled every three days. After work tomorrow, he can receive the wages for the previous three days.

There are ten hilltops in the busy area, and each flower has several workers who are responsible for collecting flowers. After harvesting a wave, the flowers will be brought down the mountain and handed over to the workers in the distillery for processing.

Generally speaking, it is best to process the picked flowers immediately. If there is no time to process them, they need to be stored in a timely manner. Jiang Fan hired experienced workers to soak and seal the flower petals with a certain amount of salt water, and then process them later. the same.

These flowers have a long blooming period, about 20 days, but the specific picking time is only five or six days. The workers are busy for only a few days every month from May to November, and nothing happens after that can do.But this job is very stable. The most important thing is that it only ends at one hour a day. Even if the average farmer is winter, there are quite a few people who start at this point. , It's only a few days, so everyone takes this job as a part-time job, and there are quite a few people rushing to come.

After the essential oil is extracted, it needs to be packaged separately.Because there is still a need to make perfume, which is directly mixed with essential oils and alcohol, the details of which are led by experienced old workers, and then repackaged. It is all meticulous work, so the workers in the distillery The working hours are relatively longer. Excluding the vacation time, I can basically do the full moon.

In mid-June, merchant ships from Baizhen Pavilion came by water again.

A group of porters who had been sitting leisurely at the tea stand on the wharf, one of the men saw the familiar logo of the ship in front of him, and his energy was lifted immediately. He poured a few mouthfuls of tea at the table into his belly, stood up and shouted: " Brothers, the ship is coming!"

He didn't say whose boat was coming, but these people all knew who he was talking about. Some rolled up their sleeves, some took off their clothes. These people swarmed to the pier as if they were about to fight.

The man in charge grinned, and laughed loudly at the man in Tsing Yi standing at the bow: "Guard Wang, you are back!"

The Shangjing Wharf is bustling, with countless ships unloading and loading here every day, and there are many porters, composed of different teams, naturally managed by a boss.This man formed a transport team by himself, because he was tall and strong, he was upright and righteous, but he was fierce when he should be fierce, so he was able to enjoy himself in this area, and he could receive work every day.

Since last year, every time a boat came from Lishan Village, the unloading job fell into the hands of this man, and no one dared to compete with him.

Wang Yuanzheng is now leading Jiang Fan's merchant ship back and forth, and he has become familiar with this man. Hearing this, he said with a smile, "Brother Liu, are you waiting again?"

The man surnamed Liu said with a smile: "It doesn't mean that your boat should arrive in two days. Brother, I naturally can't slack off."

While talking, the shopkeeper of the car rental shop near the pier heard the boat from Baizhen Pavilion coming, so he immediately had the prepared trolley pushed over.There is still a distance from the wharf to Jiang Fan's warehouse in Shangjing, and they have to be pulled by a horse-drawn cart. However, since they walked through the waterway, the horses Jiang Fan bought earlier have been kept in the village for use. Since then, they have been renting cars from the wharf to pull them. goods.

The ship docked, and the porters boarded the ship. Wang Yuanzheng left some people on the ship to watch over the people carrying the goods, and he and some other brothers stood by the cart to watch. When the first wave of goods was loaded, he would take them People pull the goods to the warehouse for stacking, and go back and forth several times until the goods are unloaded.

After a few days, customers who went to Jiaoyan Pavilion to buy things saw a sign in front of the entrance.People who come here often are no strangers to this. Usually, Jiaoyan Pavilion puts up a sign, either for rare discounts or new products.

The guests took a closer look, and it turned out that it was a new product on the shelves.

"What is this essential oil?"

"Oil, do you want to eat?"

"Perfume? Scented water?"

"Isn't that Hualu?"

Incense or sachets were popular in Dazhou. It was only a few years since floral dew was introduced into Dazhou, but because of technical problems, the cost was high, floral dew was the most expensive, and the fragrance was not as long-lasting as the former two, so people who used floral dew a bit less.

People want to know what essential oils are for, and even more want to know the difference between perfume and floral water, so everyone who enters the door is very curious and flocks to the counter to ask.

At this time, there were many people around the counter. Behind the counter, a row of small bottles of different colors were placed in front of Lu Yunying, explaining the uses of essential oils and perfumes to everyone.

Essential oils generally fall into two categories: soothing and uplifting.

Among the ten kinds of essential oils displayed in Jiaoyan Pavilion, these two types account for half of each, but if you count Zhishuihua and Jingxincao, there are more soothing types.

Like soothing, calming and calming is the most common, and some will boost the mood after calming the depression and anxiety, making the user feel happy.Some essential oils can also relieve pain, improve insomnia, and help users release stress.

Various essential oils have several functions at the same time, but what they all have in common is that they have the effect of nourishing and beautifying the skin.

Generally speaking, most essential oils cannot be used directly and must be diluted with plant base oils, but the essential oils produced by Jiang Fan’s flowers actually contain the gentle energy in the plants with life value, and can be directly consumed Things, just like the skin care products made from Xueyanghua, these essential oils can naturally be used directly.

The woman Jiang Fan met before, who begged Gu Fangqiu to sell her a pot of Zhishuihua, happened to be here today.

Gu Fangqiu still remembered her, recalled Jiang Fan's previous advice, and said to her: "At the end of the month, Jiaoyan Pavilion will put two kinds of essential oils on shelves, and those two kinds of essential oils are very good for your father, and the effect is better than using flowers .”

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Zhao gave Gu Fangqiu a very grateful salute: "Thank you, shopkeeper Gu, for reminding me. I will definitely come over to buy in person when the time comes."

Since Gu Fangqiu sold a pot of flowers to Mrs. Zhao, in Mrs. Zhao's words, his father seldom gets sick, he is quite normal, the family is much more peaceful, and the business is booming again. The past is full of a lot.

The ten types of essential oils that are only displayed in Jiaoyan Pavilion now sell for a high price of one hundred taels for a small bottle. According to the introduction by the teller, such a small bottle can normally be used for a month, but anyone who sees it is only two fingers wide, thumb The person in the tall bottle was very suspicious of the teller's statement.

Mrs. Zhao also didn't believe it. She guessed that the other two mentioned by Gu Fangqiu should be more expensive, but no matter if it was for her father or her own family, no matter how expensive it was, she would have to pay for it.