You are unlucky and I am tough

Chapter 179 Making Soap and Planting Peppers

The carriage did not stop at the door, but went directly to the foot of Yunxi Mountain.

Peng Laosan was busy working in the fields with a group of people. They had turned over more than 50 acres in the past few days. When he saw the boss's carriage coming, Peng Laosan quickly stopped his work and went over to see if there were any instructions.

Cheng Shuang asked him and his son to move all the things on the carriage into the warehouse, and then asked Peng Lao San to call his other son over.

Now both warehouses are still empty, so they decided to make soap in the warehouses temporarily, and then ask someone to find a place to build a few houses to serve as soap workshops. It happened that the temporary stove built outside had not been dismantled yet, so it could be used to boil lard.

Peng He arrived quickly, and the two brothers stood in front of Cheng Shuang and Wei Qinglang politely, while Peng Lao San tactfully went back to the fields to continue working.

Wei Qinglang started by telling the Peng brothers what they had to do. The task was simple: making soap. They would be the main responsible persons, and the two most important materials, shell powder and alcohol, would be given to them to operate and keep.

"I'll pay you."

Cheng Shuang continued after Wei Qinglang finished speaking, "Five hundred coins a month, and I'll find five more villagers. You have to make three hundred bars of soap every day to ensure the supply. And the two things you have in your hands are my unique research and development. I will provide you with more after you use them up. You must keep them properly and don't tell anyone. If you leak them, I will not keep your family alive."

The management method of combining kindness and authority has always been effective. The Peng brothers immediately expressed their loyalty with deep fear and trepidation, "Madam Wei, don't worry, we will obey you and get things done."

"Yes, we are members of the Wei family in life and ghosts of the Wei family in death. If we reveal the formula, we will die a miserable death."

Cheng Shuang said calmly, "There's no need to swear an oath. Just keep your mindset straight and don't have any bad thoughts. The Wei family won't treat you unfairly."

After finishing the discussion, Cheng Shuang asked the two to go to the nearby mountains to find bamboo, cut down as many as they could find, and saw them into small pieces of the same size for later use.

When it was getting dark, Zhao Xiuwen's mother came to the house and expressed her willingness to work in their home. Cheng Shuang asked her to go to the warehouse at the foot of Yunxi Mountain early the next morning.

Wei Qinglang also went to find Xu Daqing, Cheng Fu, and two other young men of the same age in the village, and offered them a monthly salary of 500 wen to help make soap.

After arranging the manpower, Cheng Shuang washed the soapberries and soapberries she bought and placed them on a bamboo plate to dry. After drying them for two or three days, she ground them into powder and then started to study how to make shampoo soap and bath soap.

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After a busy day, I rested early and had a quiet night.

The next day, I woke up and had porridge for breakfast. Cheng Shuang taught Aunt Peng how to make porridge with boiled eggs, and added some chopped mushrooms. It was stewed until it was tender and fragrant.

Cheng Pan and Qiu Yan Dong Yun went to the mountains to pick up shiitake mushrooms. They brought back a basket full of them. Cheng Shuang took a look and saw that they were authentic wild shiitake mushrooms, so she taught them how to dry the mushrooms and use them for making soup.

Wei Nanxing was not at the dinner table again. These days, he would ride out on horseback before dawn every day to find a place to practice kung fu. He would usually not come back until noon, and as soon as he came back he would look for something to eat.

Wei Qinglang felt that it was not good to skip breakfast all the time, so he discussed with Cheng Guqiu to make some buns or pancakes and heat them in the pot every night, and asked him to take them out in the morning.

The family finished their breakfast while chatting. Cheng Shuang brought out the cooled medicine. Wei Qinglang and Wei Xinyi each had a bowl, and she watched them drink it.

Because last night, one of the two men poured his medicine out the window and the other poured it down the sink.

After drinking the medicine, Cheng Shuang took out a stack of oil paper from the room, and the family members worked together to wrap fifty bars of soap. Then they asked Wu Junniang to call her husband Song Gaoshan to go to the city to deliver the goods to Fu Yazhai.

After giving these instructions, Cheng Shuang took a gourd of alcohol and a box of shell powder and went to the warehouse alone.

Xu Daqing and others were already waiting at the warehouse door, including the two brothers of the Peng family, a total of seven people.

The two things in his hand were handed to the Peng brothers. Cheng Shuang told them the formula ratio separately, and then orally explained the soap-making process to the seven people present, including what each person was mainly responsible for, etc.

Zhao Xiuwen's mother mainly came to light the fire and help with some simple chores.

After Cheng Shuang finished explaining it, she led them to do it again personally. Everyone worked together until the afternoon, and a large vat of sticky paste came out.

The four men, who took turns stirring for more than an hour, felt their arms grow thicker and were amazed at the contents of the large vat.

The last step was to use bamboo tubes to pack the paste into shapes. Everyone worked together to pack more than seventy bamboo tubes, and after cutting, there should be nearly four hundred bars of soap.

The packed bamboo tubes were neatly placed on the floor of the warehouse. Cheng Shuang looked at them and thought of a problem: she had to custom-make shelves to place these soaps.

She thought about going back to Taohua Village in front to find a carpenter and order a batch of shelves. Unexpectedly, someone had already done it. Wei Qinglang not only ordered a batch of shelves, but also brought back two.

When Cheng Shuang came out of the warehouse, she saw a donkey cart parked outside, and the Wei Qinglang brothers were moving shelves off the cart.

The Peng brothers immediately went over to help and moved the shelves to the warehouse, which was just right for storing the soap to be formed tomorrow.

Cheng Shuang asked the Peng brothers if they had learned the production process, and after confirming that they had, she handed it over to them.

The Peng brothers held the warehouse key and felt that they were valued by their master. They secretly made up their minds to do a good job.

More than fifty acres of land at the foot of the mountain have been plowed. Cheng Shuang and Wei Qinglang walked around the field together, then called Peng Laosan over and asked him to select half of the people to start sowing tomorrow, and they would come to teach them personally.

Then the two of them went home and closed the door to prepare seeds.

There are many vegetables that can be planted in spring, but the first thing to plant is peppers. In addition to millet peppers, there are also varieties such as Erjingtiao, line peppers, thin-skinned peppers, screw peppers and cow horn peppers that can be planted.

Then you can start planting the various green vegetables, eggplants, bitter melons, tomatoes, beans, etc. that you planted last year, as well as potatoes. As for sweet potatoes, you can wait two months before planting them.

However, there are only more than 50 acres that can be planted now, so it is better to plant peppers, erjingtiao, string peppers, thin-skinned peppers, screw peppers and green peppers on 10 acres first.

Because there were no chili peppers in this dynasty, there were fewer delicious foods. The spicy seasoning effect of Sichuan pepper and dogwood was far inferior to that of chili peppers. As long as there were chili peppers, she could come up with many new dishes, and also make chili sauce, chili oil, chili oil, etc.

They also want to raise crayfish. In the future, they will have to use chili peppers to make spicy crayfish, fragrant spicy crayfish, and braised prawns. That is the stepping stone for them to open a restaurant, so no matter how many chili peppers they plant, it is never too much.

The next day, the two of them went to the fields early in the morning with various pepper seeds and started working. Spring planting was in mid-March and the villagers were busy preparing the fields, but the Wei family opened dozens of acres of land to grow vegetables, attracting many people to watch.

Wei Changgui also strolled over with a piece of grass in his mouth, followed by his two sons. When the villagers saw him, they thought he was going to cause trouble again. Unexpectedly, the father and his two sons actually took the hoes from the workers and started to help with the work.