History of Cannon Fodder Struggle [Qing]

Fortunately, this situation only happened in the first two days, and the family returned to quiet on the third day.

It's just that no one from the outside world disturbed her, and something went wrong at home.

As long as Ama and Minxing are at home, they rush to work, and they don't let her do it at all. Minning thinks that if this goes on, it will be easy to be abolished.

Fortunately, the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, and she managed to get the two big men to agree to her coming to celebrate the festival.

At this moment, Minning wondered if she wanted a relative to give her a gift. What surprised her was that even the neighbors came to congratulate her on her return. Why were relatives and friends indifferent?

After asking Minxing, he found out that Ama was not liked by his grandfather because he married their mother-in-law, so he was kicked out after marriage, and the two families hadn't contacted each other for more than ten years.

As for her family, Mrs. Zhang was just the daughter of a county magistrate who had just entered Beijing. When she came to the capital, she met An's father by chance. An's father fell in love with her at first sight. Shi.

The marriage between the two families failed, and An's father and his wife were kicked out.But the Zhang family is just a small county magistrate, who dared to fight against the Anjia clan, and left the capital quickly after marrying their daughter.

As for the marriage between An Jia's family and Han Junqi, no one knows the reason behind it.Father An has been a pawn guarding the Heaven and Earth Altar all these years, so it is not without the suppression of the Li family. I heard that there is a side Fujin of a county king from the Li family.

"For so many years, the two families have also lost contact." Min Xing said sadly.

Minning was noncommittal, "It's fine if we don't have relatives, as long as our family is healthy."

No one cares about the poor living in the busy city, and the rich have distant relatives in the deep mountains. This is just the norm in the world.

Two days later, Min Xing was not on the list when the result of the test came out, and he hid in his room after returning home.

Minning was a little worried.

After An's father came back, he was also a little worried. After all, the family still had to prepare a ransom money for Minning, which made him a little bit strenuous. If his son couldn't make up for the vacancy, it meant that he lost a continuous income.

In addition, the family has an extra mouth, all relying on his little salary, and spending money everywhere, seeing that the family is about to decline.

The father and son were worried together, but they didn't show anything in front of the two younger ones. They felt that they were men and it was their responsibility to support the family.

Minning is not stupid, she quickly found out what was wrong. She was immersed in the love and affection of her family in the past few days after she came back, and she never touched the spring water with her ten fingers.

However, she was used to observing words and expressions, and naturally found that the two of them sighed from time to time behind her back.

On the day of Mid-Autumn Festival, the whole family sat in the courtyard to enjoy the full moon. Father An suddenly said to Min Xing, "I have already made an agreement with your Uncle Wang. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, you will go to work in his grain and oil shop. There are many, but you study hard, and after you gain experience, you will take over the shop."

Min Xing remained silent, then picked up the bowl and drank the tea in one gulp, put the bowl on the stone slab, and made a crisp sound.

"Ama, I don't want to be a buddy." He didn't want to be confined to a grain and oil store for the rest of his life.

Father An asked him back, "I don't want to, buddy, what do you want to do?"

Min Xing lowered his head, "I think I'm still young and want to venture outside?"

Father An sighed, "Hey, Minxing, I know you young people are aggressive, but Ama has been like this all her life, and she has no ability to help you at all."

Min Xing raised his head abruptly, his eyes were a little red, "No, Ama, it's already the greatest kindness for you to raise me."

At this time, Minning, who had been listening for a while, also felt something.

She said, "Ama, it just so happens that my soap is almost ready to sell, why don't I ask my brother to help me during this time."

On his own, he doesn't know when he will be able to make a name for himself?

It's better to come and help him. Of course, Minning also wants to transfer this job to Minxing to take care of it.

She is naturally exhausted and can't make much soap by herself, so it's better to transfer all those chores, and she is only responsible for the most important process.

Father An knew the value of Minning's soaps, but he felt awkward, soap was just soap, why did it have to be called soap.

Well, this was made by my daughter, and she can call it whatever she pleases!

"Okay, I'll leave Minxing to you!" Father An made a decision.

Minxing, who was arranged, was a little depressed, thinking that Ama had sold him out to please his sister.

Then he thought that he was fine now, so he simply treated it as playing with his sister.

On the second day, Min Ning checked the soap she had brought back, because she wanted to earn more at one time this time, which was far from enough, so she ordered Min Xing to go to Zhushikou to collect a large amount of waste oil.

Zhushikou not only deals with live pigs, but also provides slaughtering services. Many restaurants in the city have selected pigs and let them slaughter them for delivery.

Although you have to pay some handling fees, it saves a lot of trouble.And the pig butcher threw some unused leftovers into the river next to him.

This time, what Minning wanted was the waste oil from the leftovers. This time, Minxing felt that she was joking. Can such a beautiful soap be made from that thing?

Min Xing has already experienced the benefits of soap, taking a bath with soap, and Ama no longer rubs his back for him.But now I want to tell him that this thing is made of lard, which makes him unable to believe it no matter what!

These are two totally incompatible things!

"No, I don't believe it." Minxing covered his nose and shook his head.

Minning was stirring lard. She threw a piece of wood into the pot, and they built a simple earthen stove in the yard. The smell of cooking lard was not so pleasant, especially since the lard hadn’t been washed. Throw it all into the pot.

After checking out the oil residue, Minning instructed Minxing to go to her room and fetch the paper bag on the table.As soon as Min Xing heard this, he couldn't wait to leave, he couldn't wait to breathe some fresh air through his nose.

After making sure that all the oil came out, Minning scooped the oil into a pottery pot beside him, and the pottery pot sat in the water pot, so as to prevent the pot from cracking due to excessive heat.

Fortunately, it is the time when autumn is clear and crisp, and the occasional heat is only at noon.

Borrowing the paper bag from Minxing, she instructed Minxing to fetch water to wash the pot, sat on the stove again and poured half a pot of water into the pot, and when it was hot enough to put her hands in it, she extinguished the fire and put the paper on the stove again. The dark yellow crystals inside the bag are poured into the water.

This is the crystal she obtained by boiling the plant ash lye when she was in Xiaotangshan before. Because she was not sure about the concentration, she threw the egg aside after the crystal melted.

If it floats, it means that the concentration has reached the standard. Tim, etc., finally let the egg float.

Take out the eggs, at this time the temperature of the oil has also dropped, but it is still a little hot, and after waiting for a while, when the temperature of both is warm to the touch, Min Ning instructs Min Xing to slowly pour the lye into the clay pot , the water-oil mixture quickly turned milky white to stop him, and she picked up a wooden stick and kept stirring.

It didn't take long for her to feel a little tired, so she changed hands again. In the end, Minxing took over the job, stopping and resting, stirring like this until the sun went down, and the pot became creamy.

Minning sprinkled some lotus flower powder, stirred it again, and then poured it into the mold.

The molds were bought from a carpenter, and the Mid-Autumn Festival had just passed, and there were a lot of mooncake molds piled up in his place. Minning was taken there by Minxing to pick out a few beautiful designs, and then placed an order to make a mold designed by her.

This sum of money for the model, together with the deposit, was paid twice, and Min Xing's scalp was numb. He was heartbroken for the money he paid, and worried whether he could earn it back.

"Okay, let's put it under the eaves to dry in the shade. After a few days, it will be demoulded, and it can be sold after another month."

Minxing has a headache. Is this thing as profitable as my sister said? If it can't be sold, how can I comfort her?

If he knew that the two pennies she paid for the deposit were earned from selling soap, he wouldn't worry so much.

After finishing his busy work this time, Min Xing thought it was all right. He didn't expect that he would get busy again the next day and continue to buy oil. He collects the leftover oil that is not needed on animals. After the oil is boiled, he collects it if he can’t finish it. It won’t spoil anyway.

And Minning was also busy collecting plant ash for soaking, and soon a large number of wooden barrels and oil tanks filled the yard, leaving only a narrow passage leading to the main house in the whole yard.

After a month of busy work like this, the temperature dropped and there was really no room for more things in the yard, so Minning stopped.

At this time, not only her savings were spent, but the money originally used to redeem her was also embezzled.

After the first batch of soap was made, Minning was fine, but Minxing was nervous.

"Is it okay, will no one want it?"

Min Ning was looking at the soap when he heard Min Xing asking questions endlessly.

She rolled her eyes, and No.30 answered him affirmatively for the second time, "Don't worry, I promise to make back the money I spent. Didn't I take you there two days ago? I don't remember that all the soaps were robbed." The previous batch of soap was too rough and the price was low, so in order to appease Minxing, I took him there specially to let him see the popularity of soap.

Min Xing also recalled, "That's right, how could no one want it?" He saw with his own eyes that the soap brought by his sister was snatched away.

Minning turned her head and continued to check. This time, it was different from the previous batch of soap. She made this batch more carefully, added lotus powder, took it and smelled it, and there was a fragrance of lotus.

She has ambitions this time, and wants to use this soap to get through the upper class, so as not to keep spreading it at the bottom, not only can't sell the price, but also lower the style.

At this time, the people in the upper class disdain to use the things that the common people use. If they hear that these things are used by the common people, they may not even try it.

How can you know if something is good if you don't try it?

Since ancient times, if you want something to be passed down from generation to generation, you have to start from the top, and the high-ranking officials and nobles accept it before it is passed on among the people.

The common people's thinking is very simple, the nobles must use it well!

"Okay, bring over the porcelain box with the lotus painted on it." Minning said to Minxing after checking.

Minxing agreed, and soon came over with a pile of porcelain boxes.

The box was found in a porcelain shop in the capital city, and a kiln was specially made for it to be burned. It was a little bigger than the rouge box, and her room was filled with piles of different shapes and patterns.

Put a piece of soap in a box, and the two acted together, and it didn't take long to finish the batch of soap.

Minning is well aware of the importance of packaging, a piece of bare soap and a piece of soap placed in exquisite porcelain, the value is completely different!