The son crosses every night

Tanghua has long wanted to make perfume, but in fact he doesn't know how to blend perfume, so he can only look for information from Ruan Shijie and read some relatively simple tutorials.

In this era, not many people know how to blend fragrances. Most people use natural fragrances. They use aromatherapy to retain the fragrance as much as possible. There are basically no perfumes.

What Tanghua wants to do is a perfume that can be carried around.

His first batch of perfumes was mainly for girls, and he planned to produce a batch of floral fragrances, such as rose fragrance, jasmine fragrance, osmanthus fragrance and so on.

Because the oil production rate of these flowers is average, the yield of jasmine is not high, and the sweet-scented osmanthus is not in season, the first thing that Zhihua gets is the rose flower.

They have a very special kind of rose flower here, a rose is only the size of a copper plate, it is very fragrant when it blooms, and the fragrance can be smelled from far away, and this kind of flower is very prosperous, sometimes you can see this kind of flower in the wild, You can see the shelves full of flowers crowded together, the number is dazzling.

This kind of flower usually blooms in April and May, and when it blooms, many bees will come to collect honey.

The flowering time of the flowers they planted in Tanghua was a little earlier, and they began to bloom one after another in early April.

He didn't care much about these flowers at the beginning, mainly because the oil yield of the roses was not high. If they were not picked in large quantities and distilled at one time, it would actually be a waste of manpower and material resources.

He just let these flowers bloom like this, and it happened that they had bees over there. It would be good to let the bees gather a batch of rose honey this spring. This honey nourishes the heart and lungs, and is very nourishing.

Tanghua felt that his brother Ruan was busy with work these days, so busy that he was a little restless, and it would be good to drink honey water.

In addition to being a source of honey, those half-opened roses can also be picked and dried for scented tea.

Zonghua has asked Zhou Ji and others to collect a batch when it just blooms, and it will be delicious when paired with rose honey.

The first half of April is already very warm, even a little hot, and it is now the beginning of summer.

Tang Hua's rice seedlings have already been bred, and the plows that are going to be used to grow rice have come out. He and his staff are busy throwing seedlings to plant the field, and applying base fertilizer to the rice. Come to attend to his own private affairs, and prepare to distill rose water.

Zhou Ji is quite capable, and manages Zhuangzi in an orderly manner, and Jiang Hua rarely pays attention to this place on weekdays.

On this day, Tang Hua managed to find time to visit Biezhuang, and asked Zhou Ji to come over to talk.

Tanghua took a tour of his own village, and the village is doing very well. The fields are neat and tidy, and the mulberry trees have been planted. Now it is time to eat mulberries, and there are bunches of purple-black mulberries on the mulberry trees. Very mouthwatering.

Zhou Ji knows how to be a man, and he has sent mulberries to Jianghua several times.

Although Tanghua is not short of this kind of food, he is still satisfied with him. At least this person will wink and be self-motivated.

When Tanghua inspected, he found that many field servants in Zhuangzi were raising silkworms, and he could see that many mulberry trees had their mulberry leaves picked.

Looking up, there are many bamboos planted on it, and a lot of bamboo shoots were dug in spring, which have been dried in the sun.

Zhuangzi managed it well. Looking around from the foot of the mountain, the wheat is green and the seedlings are growing.

Walk a little further and you will arrive at the rose planting base. They have planted a lot of roses, tens of acres of roses a year, and you can smell the unique fragrance from a long distance.

When he got closer, Tang Hua realized that Zhou Ji's statement that the roses were all in bloom was not an exaggeration.

These roses are chubby, pink, tender, and tender, and they bloom in clusters on the flower shelf erected, crowded and densely packed, forming a sea of ​​flowers.

It was the first time Tang Hua saw such words, and was quite shocked for a while.

Seeing the expression on his face, Zhou Ji felt a little smug, there was no one in the entire imperial capital like them, who was willing to give out fertilizers from the fields to grow flowers.

Flowers can be said to be precious if they are said to be precious, but they are easy to feed if they are not. In the first year he can grow flowers like this, even if he doesn't say it, he is still a little proud in his heart.

Tang Hua didn't hold back his praise, he turned around, nodded to Zhou Ji, and said with a smile: "You did a good job, and you have lived up to my expectations of you."

Zhou Ji was overjoyed, and bent down to salute deeply, "It's a slave's honor to be able to share your worries for the young master."

"Come on, don't be modest, you hurry up and ask someone to pick off these half-bloomed roses, I'm useful."

"Yes, the slave is going to call someone now."

They may lack everything here, but there is no shortage of manpower.

After Tanghua gave an order, Zhou Ji went to transfer people, and immediately, more than [-] young women came to help pick flowers with baskets on their backs.

They were very careful in picking flowers, only picked half-opened ones, and tried not to damage the branches. Tang Hua nodded and led Zhou Ji to the yard.

"I remember that there are more than a hundred big pigs raised in our village?"

"Yes, the piglets caught at the beginning of the year have grown to half-grown, and they are all chubby. Do you want to go and have a look, my lord?"

"I won't look at it. There are so many pigs in our farm. Is there a special person in charge of pig food? Is there a guillotine for chopping pig vegetables?"

"There are two. Thirty old farm servants are specially arranged in the village to feed the pigs."

"Ask those who are used to chopping pig vegetables to come here, first wash the guillotine, and when it becomes a rose flower, send it over, and use the guillotine to chop the rose flower." Zhuanhua said: "Then ask someone to wash the pot, I will use it Find the three sets of wine vessels for steaming wine, and prepare some firewood, I will steam toilet water later."

Zhou Ji got the order and hurried to arrange it. He didn't dare to ask more questions, but according to Jianghua's request, he found all the people and fixed the things.

The little girl who picked the roses in front moved very quickly, and within less than a stick of incense, several baskets of roses were brought in, and the flower cutters also quickly took the guillotine and started cutting.

And the people who steamed the wine over there, Tanghua didn't let them steam it, they put the chopped roses in the pot, and then used the water vapor collection device to collect the flower dew.

The people below turned around, and soon the dew dripped into the jar.

Seeing that the flower cutters were not moving fast enough, Tanghua thought about it and arranged for another group of people to grind the flowers. They have a special water mill here. After opening the sluice, the huge water flow drives the stone mill to turn. Roses are nothing to worry about when they are worn.

Soon, barrels of flowers were ground into mud and sent out, and then sent to the pot to steam, and pots of flower dew were steamed out.

The freshly steamed flower dew had an astringent smell of green grass, and no one could smell any fragrance, and it was even more difficult to imagine that this thing would turn into perfume in the future.

Tang Hua didn't explain to them, but asked them to cover the jar full of toilet water with gauze, seal it with oiled paper, and store it away from light.

These are all jobs with little technical content. Tang Hua gave some guidance, and he didn't sit here. Seeing that his subordinates got started, he went back to Huangzhuangzi.

Gu Tangyu hasn't returned to the frontier yet, he's almost tired of staying in the imperial capital, he's so bored, he's really willing to come here to be company with Tanghua.

Tang Hua asked him, "Brother, don't you need to go back and see your brothers?"

"I have already sent a letter back. Uncle Huang asked me to stay here. I have no choice but to go back. Let's wait and see. Maybe there will be a turnaround in the future." Gu Tangyu lay on the reclining chair, "Yesterday my deputy general returned home. Write to me that they have started to plant vegetables, although it is a bit late, but the vegetable seedlings are already edible, and it is better than before."

"Do you just eat vegetables?"

"There are also meat dishes. Our camp is close to the mountains, and sometimes we go hunting and have a tooth sacrifice. We make do with all aspects, and our life is more or less the same."

"Brother, with so many of you going hunting, don't kill everything on the mountain."

"I know, I've put my hands away. How can we fight extinction? Besides, we don't go there often. After all, we are soldiers of the Dasheng Dynasty. We occasionally go out in the name of military training to toss and toss. If we go out all day, we might be punished." How can the superior scold you?"

Seeing his laziness, Tang Hua felt that something was wrong, he thought about it and asked strangely: "You have already returned, how dare the higher authorities deduct your salary?"

"Why don't these grandsons dare? They don't talk about deduction, they just say that they don't have enough food and pay. What can we do? Why don't we let them go." Gu Tangyu squinted his eyes, "The situation is still unclear. I'd better stay here for a while longer."

Tang Hua nodded, "Yes."

Gu Tangyu asked: "Don't talk about me, how are the branches you opened? But where did you encounter any trouble?"

"How can it be? With this identity, we won't run into trouble anywhere." Tang Hua summed up the records made this morning and said casually: "Ping Yuan just went to inspect Xiangyun yarn, and the yarn dyed this year is not bad. It’s just still figuring out what pattern to make.”

"This year's Xiang Yunsha still sells for 200 taels of silver?"

"Yes, we sell this technology as well as this fame. The price cannot be lowered, but this year, when you buy Xiang Yunsha, you will get a free perfume."

"What perfume? Is that the rose dew you made?" Gu Tangyu asked, "Didn't I hear that the rose dew you made had no fragrance at all?"

"It's not that there is no fragrance at all. The main reason is that the fragrance is not obvious just after steaming, and it will be fine after a period of time. We mainly don't use the rose dew, but use the essential oil contained in it. When the time comes, we will mix it with shochu."

"Wine?" Gu Tangyu couldn't figure it out, "How can these two things come together?"

Tang Hua smiled, "Others probably thought the same way, so they couldn't think of this way. Actually, it's not wine, but alcohol that has been repeatedly distilled and purified. When I get it right, you'll know."

"You don't even know what you're thinking?"

"It's not that I have a good brain. I can have today thanks to that 'dream'." Tang Hua remembered, "By the way, brother, my friend wrote back to you yesterday, and I sent someone to send it to you. Have you seen it?"

"I see, I'll come back in a few days, don't rush."

Gu Tangyu is now writing letters with Ruan Shijie, and Tanghua acts as an intermediary between them.

The letter they wrote was mysterious, and even Tang Hua couldn't see their sealed letter. He asked two people separately, but both of them kept their mouths tightly shut, and didn't reveal a single word, so that Tanghua still doesn't know what they wrote in the letter.

From the few words they occasionally revealed, Tang Hua could guess that they got along pretty well, at least not as tense as they were at the beginning.

Ruan Shijie is really on a business trip abroad, and they are far away.

This day, Tang Hua pushed the door as usual. Before pushing the door, he repeatedly gave himself psychological hints, hoping that after pushing the door, he could see Ruan Shijie on the opposite side.

Pushing open the door is still the familiar study.

He was a little frustrated, sat on the sofa for a while, glanced at the time, guessed that Ruan Shijie should have gotten up for a run, so he took out his mobile phone from the drawer and called him.

As soon as he opened his mouth, a frustrated voice passed, "Brother Ruan, I couldn't open the door to you today."

"It's okay, then you can chat with me." Ruan Shijie's breath seemed to be a little unstable, and he asked with a smile, "What did you do today?"

"Recorded data in the morning, chatted with my brother in the afternoon, and did nothing special. By the way, our cowpeas have grown. Today, we picked cowpeas for the first time and made cowpea fried pork. The taste is not bad."

"Congratulations, this year's cowpea harvest is very fast? I remember that it was not yet the season for harvesting cowpea at this time last year."

"Actually, not at all. I asked Zhou Ji and the others to compare the situation in Zhuangzi last year. Our cowpeas were harvested a few days earlier. The difference is negligible, but with more fertilizer, our cowpeas are very productive. It’s true, the whole shelf is full of small cowpeas, I guess we can dry a lot of dried cowpeas this year, and marinate a few crocks of cowpeas by the way.”

"Very good, where's your wheat?"

"It's still the same. The wheat hasn't turned yellow yet. It will probably take more than ten days to harvest." Tang Hua said: "We also invited people who look at the green to look at it, and they all said that our wheat is not bad. There should be a big harvest this year." Good harvest."

"That's too soon. After planting this stubble of wheat, do you still want to plant rice?" Ruan Shijie asked, "Then it's time for you to double-grab, right? Hurry up to harvest and plant."

"Yes, we plan to plant rice in two batches. The batch planted a few days ago was early rice. After the wheat is harvested, we can plant middle rice." Zhuang Hua said, "But I still have enough people here, so don't worry too much. this problem."

Ruan Shijie: "It seems that your side is not bad. By the way, I have a question for you."

Tanghua: "You ask."

Ruan Shijie smiled, and asked, "Did you forget to order the sickle? I don't think I've heard you talk about it."

"Ah?" Tang Hua was dumbfounded for a moment, he really forgot to order the sickle, he slapped his head, "Don't tell me, I really forgot, I will ask them to buy a batch tomorrow."

"This kind of mass customization, remember to bargain."

When Tanghua heard this question, the smile on his face deepened, "Why did you bring this up suddenly? You don't usually seem like a person who can bargain with others."

Ruan Shijie was a little helpless, "It's not about grinding the contract here these days. It's a big headache for me. Everyone is desperately bargaining. Our side wants to increase, and their side wants to lower the price."

"How did it go, was it successful?"

Ruan Shijie smiled wryly, "No, we are not the only partner to choose from, and our side desperately wants this contract, so we can't negotiate it for a while. If it is according to their side, we really can't make any money here. No. At this moment, if you don’t make a profit, you’re going to lose.”

Ruan Shijie is calm and decent most of the time, strategizing well, and seldom suffers like this

Tang Hua was a little distressed, and couldn't help but soften his voice, "Is it because of the request from above that you want to take this job?"

"It's not just the requirements of the above, I also want to continue. We are indeed behind in many things, even if we try our best to catch up, it will still be a while. If we can catch up with this job, we can save a lot of research time."

"Then do they know? It's the company you're negotiating with."

"They know that they have seized this point and are desperately lowering the price." Ruan Shijie's voice softened a little, "It's okay, our technology also has merits, and he would rather go to great lengths to lower the price than directly exchange for cooperation. Fang, it means that there is still something to talk about, it will take a few more days at worst, don't worry."

"I see, I'll wait for you to come back at home."

"Okay, I'll finish my work as soon as possible and come back to accompany you." Ruan Shijie said, "Chen Sui and the others know your identity. If you get bored at home, you can go play with them."

"I see. In fact, I don't really want to go out to play, I just want to stay at home."

Ruan Shijie smiled lowly, "You are young, what's the fun of staying at home, and you can go out more often when you have the opportunity. Later, you can send He Xiling a WeChat message to see if they are free. If they are free, they will come and take you out to play." .You relax, and you are so tired and stupid that you are so focused on your mess."

"Oh." Tang Hua responded, "I'll ask him after I finish the call."

"It's time for my departure." Ruan Shijie explained, "I've been negotiating recently, and I have to get up early every day to discuss the plan. It is estimated that my subordinates will come over soon. Let's hang up the phone first, and I will come back when I am free." talk to you."

Tang Hua was reluctant to hang up the phone, but he had business to do, so Tang Hua didn't want to bother him too much, so he could only say: "Okay, Brother Ruan, go and do your work first, and we'll talk when you come back."

"Okay, let's talk when we come back, take good care of yourself these few days."

"Well, I know you too, no matter how tired you are, don't forget to eat and rest."

After hanging up the phone for a long time, Tang Hua cheered up and came to He Xiling: Brother He, what are you doing?

- planning a big event.

He Xiling added mysteriously: Don't tell your brother Chen.

Seeing his attitude, Tang Hua immediately thought of one thing, and couldn't help being startled: No way, Brother He, are you planning a marriage proposal? !

He Xiling was holding the mobile phone, one second he was very confident in his plan, but the next second he yelled at him, he couldn't help but immediately froze.

Even Tang Hua could guess, didn't his A Sui have already noticed it?

-... Is it easy to guess then?

- I think it's easy to guess, maybe because I also have someone I like?