Su Yu took the extracted essential oil and went to the soap making workshop. Three or five women were boiling lard, while Mrs. Lian was making plant ash water in a separate room. When she saw her daughter coming over, she looked at Su Yu tenderly. A smile.
"Yu'er, why are you here?"
"Mom, this is the essential oil I told you about,
This is grassy. Do you like it if you smell it? "
Su Yu opened the cork and put it on Lian's nose. Lian was inexperienced and inhaled fiercely. She felt that the smell was very overpowering, so she quickly turned her head away.
"Ah, why does this smell so strong?"
"This is essential oil, so of course it has a strong smell. Just mix it into soap and dilute it."
Mrs. Lian half understood and half didn't understand what her daughter said, but she didn't ask any more questions.
Su Yu walked to the large tank next to him, poured a bottle of essential oil into the tank, and stirred vigorously with a stick on the side.
"Okay, mother, please bring over the mold that Uncle Qian Zhang sent over a few days ago."
Mrs. Lian brought over the mold that was placed aside. Mother and daughter each took a spoon, scooped up the liquid in the jar and poured it into the mold. There was no need to put it outside when it was cold, just spread it directly on the floor of the workshop. .
"Mom, you don't have to do these things yourself. Just come over and help when you can. You don't have to stay in the workshop all day."
"Mom knows, there's nothing going on at home, so I'll come over and help."
"Mom, please make some clothes for dad, and yourself. You two only have a few sets of clothes, and our family is not short of money now."
"Your father and I are so old, why do we need so many clothes?"
"My mother, the wives of those wealthy families in the city make several sets of clothes every season, and dozens of sets in a year. By the second year, they will no longer wear the clothes they made last year. You don't have to be like them. Same, but you have to make two sets of clothes a season, right?”
Mrs. Lian's mouth opened slightly when she heard this. This was the first time she heard that the wives of wealthy families lived like this.
“Where do they take the clothes they don’t wear?”
"I don't know much about this. Anyway, they won't wear it for the servants below."
"Hey, everyone has their own way of living. I won't compare with those people."
"Mom is only in her thirties and not yet forty years old. Our family didn't have this condition before, but now that our family has this condition, we have to dress up properly."
"I've been working at home all day, so who can I dress up for?"
"Don't you still have my dad and me? Mom dresses up for us both."
"You girl are getting poorer and poorer."
The mother and daughter chatted happily while working, and then returned home after finishing tidying up.
"Girl, the hot water is ready."
"Wu Ma, ask Yin Jian to help me carry it to the house."
"Okay girl."
After saying that, Su Yu picked up a set of clothes from the cabinet and planned to change them later. The most inconvenient thing here is taking a shower. Fortunately, it is winter and there is no need to wash it every day.
Su Yu took the clothes and turned around, and saw Wu still standing behind him, looking like he had something to say.
"Wu Ma, just say what you have to say. Is there anything else you don't want to say to me?"
"Girl, don't blame me for talking too much. The girl will marry into the Yu family in the future. She must have a few useful maids around her. When you marry into the Yu family in the future, Yin Jian and the others cannot go to the inner courtyard. There are no maids around. It’s not convenient for my maid to do anything.”
Su Yu had never thought about it. She always liked to do everything by herself.
"You're right, I'll buy some maids back in a few days."
"Girl, this servant has gone to work."
"Go ahead."
After Yin Jian brought the bath water to the house, Su Yu took a nice bath and dried her hair with a cotton handkerchief. After it was done, Wang Kuan and the others came back from the shop.
"Wu Lang, come here."
Hearing the young lady calling him, Wu Lang went to Su Yu's house.
"Li Mu has been staying in the courtyard these two days?"
"Yes, girl. Apart from going to the street to buy groceries, he stays in the courtyard the rest of the time and doesn't go anywhere else."
Could it be that she was overthinking it, because it happened that Li Mu was not there when she went shopping the first two times? But Su Yu believed in her intuition. She felt that Li Mu must be hiding something.
"Keep staring at him."
"Yes, girl."
Because the business in the shop has stabilized, only Wang Kuan and Wu Lang go to the shop. Cao Zhi is left at home to do some chores. Wu Lang goes to the shop mainly because he is afraid that someone will come to the shop to cause trouble. Wu Lang I can help a little, but with Yu Zheng's name hanging outside, no one comes to the shop to cause trouble during this period, which saves Su Yu a lot of worry.
Since it is getting dark quickly in winter, the family went back to their houses to rest after dinner. In the morning, Su Yu was still asleep. The waiter sent by shopkeeper Tong had already arrived at Su's house, put down a few sacks of flower petals, and then went back. .
The family didn't know what to do with these petals, so they had to wait until Su Yu got up.
Su Yu woke up early and opened the door, smelling the fragrance of flowers all over the courtyard, and then remembered that she had asked shopkeeper Dong to send flower petals. It should be here now.
"Mom, did shopkeeper Tong send you flower petals?"
"It was delivered early in the morning."
"Where is that?"
Mrs. Lian pointed to the corner.
"Leave it all here."
Su Yu went over and opened the bag. The bag was filled with plum blossom petals. As soon as the bag was opened, a strong fragrance of plum blossoms floated out. Su Yu opened the other two bags. In total, there were peonies, azaleas, and plum blossoms. Three kinds of petals.
"Yu'er, what are you going to do with these?"
"Find a few big vats to soak in. It will take a few days to cook."
Su Yu hurriedly ate breakfast. The mother and daughter and Wu each carried bags to the workshop. The most indispensable thing in the workshop was a large tank. They soaked the petals in water. The water only needed to cover the petals, and then went to see it. I took off a piece of soap I made yesterday and smelled it. The smell was just right, not too strong or too light.
After that, leaving the two of them behind to take off the mold, I went to a house next to the village that was building a yard.
This is the last courtyard built in Jinjiacun and it will be completed in two days. Zhang Chao was giving instructions. He saw Su Yu coming from a distance and greeted him with a smile.
"Miss Su, why are you here?"
"I'll come over and take a look. Is Uncle Zhang's work almost finished?"
"Thanks to Miss Tuosu, it will be finished in two days."
"Then Uncle Zhang is interested in taking another job?"
"Miss Su is alive again?"
"Uncle Zhang, let's take a look at the drawings first. If it can be built, my village will be built by you. However, we have to wait until after New Year's Eve when the frost thaws before we can start construction."
Zhang Chao took the drawing handed over by Su Yu and unfolded it. He was very excited. He had never seen such a beautiful house before and couldn't imagine what it would look like if it were built.
"Miss Su, are you sure you want to leave this job to me?"
"If you can do it, I'll leave it to you."
In the past few months, Su Yu had also seen that Zhang Chao's skills were not bad, but he just lacked a few opportunities. Instead of looking for Xu Neng, who he was not familiar with, Su Yu wanted to find Zhang Chao to help build his own village.
"Miss Su thinks highly of me, Zhang. I will definitely live up to Miss Su's trust. I will take this job."
Su Yu directly gave him a deposit of twenty taels.
"Uncle Zhang, if you think you have anything to prepare, prepare it in advance. When the freeze thaws after the new year, we will start construction. My family is waiting to move in."
(End of chapter)
