[Qing Chuan] The Empress Dowager Raising Cubs Daily

Qishou, Longxi and Yonggan cheered.

Qiqige closed the diary expressionlessly, and took advantage of the situation to put it in her arms.

Qi Shou noticed this.

He hastily moved over: "Ah—the queen's mother has been returned to my son! We have to continue writing!"

Qiqige kept a serious face.

She stared at the three of them vigilantly: "Didn't the Queen Mother just say that she was not allowed to write?"

Qi Shou nodded: "Yes."

Immediately afterwards, he changed the topic: "But Queen Mother also returned the other diaries to the sisters just now!"

"That's because they haven't finished their observation yet."

"We're not finished either! You see, this diary has just begun!" Qi Shou replied slyly.

Qiqige stared at him expressionlessly.

Qi Shou also blinked his big eyes and looked at her.

Just when Qishou was confident, Qiqige grabbed his cheeks and pulled him from side to side: "Well, you Qishou, you still want to fool the empress?"

"Where is the son? The Queen Mother wronged me!"

"Hehe! You think Aijia doesn't know your wolf ambitions! Huh? The observation is over? The observation of Aijia is over, do you mean to stop after Aijia is gone!?" Qiqige gritted her teeth and decided to give the brat a hard time. lesson.

"Woooooooooo!"

"Next time you dare to fool Aijia, just be careful of your ass!" Qiqige severely 'taught' the bad boy Qishou, and finally felt much refreshed.

Immediately afterwards, she swept towards Longxi and Yongqian sinisterly.

Qiqige smiled kindly: "Longxi, Yonggan, what do you think?"

The two shrunk their necks.

They looked at Qiqige purely and innocently: "My son... My son said without knowing anything."

If Qiqige hadn't known that these two children were also the instigators, she might have been deceived by their cute appearance.

But seeing the two trembling with fright, Qiqige reluctantly spared them.

She ruthlessly announced the confiscation, and at the same time proposed a new idea: "Since you guys like to record your life so much, have you ever thought about recording yourself?"

"Own?"

"Yes, you can write what happened to you, or what happened to your brothers and sisters when you were playing, and you can even write about the lives of the palace people." Qiqige guided the three of them not to focus on themselves , but to look at the wider world.

Qishou, Longxi and Yonggan were thoughtful.

They withdrew their gazes and nodded heavily: "I know!"

Qiqige breathed a sigh of relief.

Back she took a group of people to understand what is 'distillation'.

If you want to understand distillation, you must start with the changes in water.

Qiqige sent people to bring the stove for boiling tea, and took the kettle and cups as props to show everyone the changes in the water.

Light the stove and heat the kettle.

The ice cubes gradually melted into water, the cold water gradually boiled into hot water, and finally the steaming mist rose.

Qiqige lit the mist: "This is vaporization."

Everyone looked confused, Qiqige explained with a smile: "Look——"

Take a cup to block it.

Soon the dense mist condensed into water droplets and returned to its original appearance.

Everyone knows this.

So Duan Min asked weakly: "What is the use of such distillation?"

Qiqige smiled and took a pinch of salt and a spoonful of water, poured the two into a cup and stirred them evenly.Not only that, she also made a small filter with origami, simply filtered the liquid once, and then poured it all into a large spoon.

Everyone didn't understand what it was doing.

They looked at Queen Mother suspiciously, and stared at the spoon curiously.

Qiqige put the spoon on the stove.

Slowly, she stirred the liquid carefully until the liquid became thinner and grains of salt appeared at the bottom of the spoon again.

Qiqige smiled and said, "This is the effect of distillation."

Duan Min still didn't understand: "What does that have to do with fragrance?"

Gong Yu frowned.

Heshe Lige stared at the grain of salt, always feeling that something was different.She looked back at the grains of salt on the tray, and at the grains of salt left in the spoon. Heshe Ligege suddenly opened her eyes wide: "Huh? The grains of salt seem to have become whiter?"

Qiqige smiled and nodded: "This is purification."

She pointed to the petals sent by the palace servants: "That's the way to turn those petals into essence."

Hesheli's almond-shaped eyes widened.

She murmured: "Empress Dowager...this can turn coarse salt into fine salt..."

Qiqige smiled and nodded: "In the "Tiangong Kaiwu" written by Song Yingxing in the Ming Dynasty, there is a recipe for boiling brine to get salt, which is generally purified. For example, sucrose can also go through many processes. Finally, it is purified into white sugar, but the method is a bit complicated, and the effect is not obvious, so only the princes and nobles will use it."

Hesheli was thoughtful.

She lowered her head and thought to herself, while Gongxi shook Qiqige's arm: "Emperor Niang, let's try it! I want to see how the petals are purified and become fragrant."

Qiqige smiled and nodded.

She handed a basket of petals to Gongxi: "Okay, then go and wash the petals first."

Duan Min had no interest in these things, and wanted to leave after patting his ass.

It's a pity that Gongxi would never let her go, and grabbed her to go outside.But Duanmin held on to the idea of ​​dragging his back even if he died, and grabbed a Qishou, and Qishou grabbed a Longxi, and Longxi hugged Yongqian, and walked out in a long line.

Qiqige looked funny.

She muttered softly from behind: "Ai Jia thought what she saw was a group of small crabs!"

Zarut asked curiously: "Why?"

She looked suspiciously at Gege and his elder brothers who were going away: "Why can't my slaves see...the two princesses and elder brothers...how do they look like crabs?"

Qiqige secretly laughed.

She beckoned and signaled her four companions to come to her, then lowered her voice and whispered: "You can try catching some small crabs later! Put a lot of crabs in a basket, and a single crab can easily crawl out, but if Pack more and there will be almost no crabs to crawl out of!"

"Hey!?"

"Is it still like this?"

"That's right." Qiqige smiled, "The crab below will grab the leg of the crab above and pull it back, which is the so-called dragging the legs! Think about their actions just now, don't they look very similar?"

The four of them were taken aback at the same time.

Recalling the long line of people who left just now, they burst out laughing, then quickly covered their mouths, blushing.

Qiqige blinked: "Don't say it!"

Otherwise, these children are afraid that they will fall out again!

Qiqige walked in front with ease.

The hard part is that the accompanying readers who followed from a distance saw the elder brothers and princesses who were entangled together, and they couldn't help but think of crabs...crabs...crabs...

"Come on, let's wash the petals together!"

"Hurry up, hurry up—"

"Huh? Why are you so dazed? Are you listening?" Gong Yu shouted loudly.

"Wow!" Heshe Ligege was taken aback by the big face in front of him when he came back to his senses.

"What are you thinking about?"

"Crab...?" After saying the words, Hesheli's eyes widened and her cheeks were flushed, wishing to dig a hole to get in on the spot.

"...Huh?" Gong Yu was at a loss.

"Ah... not... this me..." Heshe Lige was teary-eyed and was about to cry.

Qiqige laughed out loud.

At the same time when Hesheligege's eyes turned to resentment, she clapped her hands pretendingly: "Okay, everyone, come here and prepare together!"

In the past few days, she has done several rounds of hydrosol, and Qiqige can be said to be practice makes perfect.She took the washed peach petals and put them all into a tall copper pot.

Then light the fire and the rest is anticipation.

As the temperature rose, a slightly turbid liquid soon flowed from the long thin mouth, falling drop by drop into the large bowl below.

Followed by a rich aroma.

Gongxi and the others rushed forward, sniffing the fragrance of peach blossoms, and at the same time gasped in wonder.

Qiqige ordered the people around her to fetch mountain spring water.

Under the curious eyes of everyone, she added peach blossom hydrosol into the clear mountain spring water and poured it into a cup: "Do you want to try it too?"

Just one bite.

The aroma of peach blossoms overflows between the lips and teeth, and the compelling aroma can be smelled in the words.

This is amazing.

The most reticent Ergenjue Luoshi held the peach blossom pure dew in both hands, with little stars in his eyes: "Wow——"

Not to mention others.

Duan Min is not sensitive to aroma, but it doesn't mean she wants to smell bad.She turned her head around and came up with another idea: "Then can I use this to take a bath? Will my body smell good after washing?"

"I'm afraid it will be too thick." Qiqige was startled, "You can spray your face to make your skin less dry. Besides, if you want your body to smell better, you don't need this, it's better to use balm Woolen cloth!"

"The balm in the palace doesn't smell as good as this."

"You can also make the flavor you like." Qiqige disagrees, "The balm is actually very simple."

"Can the balm be made by yourself?"

"Of course, peach blossoms, peonies, wintersweet orchids... There are only things you can't think of, and there is nothing you can't do." Qi Qige casually introduced two kinds.

After the pot of peach blossoms was distilled and all the pure dew and poor essential oils were taken, Qi Qige made a pot of tansy again.

This kind of hay, which is famous for rosemary in later generations, has a soft, elegant and sweet aroma. It can be used to treat insomnia, palpitations, headaches, etc. It also has the effect of strengthening the heart and promoting peripheral blood circulation. It is very suitable for the empress dowager, and it is also very suitable for Overcrowded people.

Qiqige cut the dried tansy into sections and put them in the copper pot. While waiting for the pure dew, she smiled at Duanmin and the others: "Except for the flowers and plants that Aijia said, you can also think about it." Whatever flowers you like, we can make them at that time."

The pure dew of tansy is also gushing out gradually.

Completely different from the scent of peach blossoms, the scent of tansy is clear and refreshing. As soon as you smell it, you can feel refreshed, and the refreshing effect is very strong.

"This taste is completely different."

"Yes, the effect is completely different." Qiqige replied, while using the smallest spoon to scrape off the tansy essential oil floating on the top bit by bit.

Even if the essential oil of tansy is more than that of peach blossom, a large barrel of tansy can only produce a little essential oil, barely enough to fill half a jar.

Half a jar would be nice too!

Qiqige looked at it contentedly, and then put it in Tana's hands: "Send this jar to the emperor, and ask Liang Jiugong to use two drops when the emperor takes a bath, or you can put it on a handkerchief and put it on the table. Use it beside the bed as incense, or use it together with the almond oil sent by Ai’s family last time, you must be careful when using it..."

Qiqige babbled a lot.

It's just that she was a little worried that Tana could not remember everything, so she simply ordered everyone to try it out, took Tana back to the study, and used paper and pen to record the commonly used essential oil prescriptions.

Qiqige wrote a large page eloquently.

It's just that after finishing writing, she hesitated a little: "Looking at Aijia, I'd better do more, and Fuquan and Changning can't miss that."

Tana smiled in her eyes: "Let the palace servants do the rest."

Qiqige shook her head: "The emperor's is made by Ai's family, so the other ones must be made by Ai's own hands. We can't favor one over another."

Think about it and do it.

Qiqige put the wolf hair on the pen holder, got up and took Tana to the yard again.

Just halfway there, her footsteps stopped.

Qiqige sniffed, and frowned in confusion: "...Tana, do you smell any strange... smell?"