After peeling the bamboo shoots, Mother Li took Li Wei to the kitchen to cook. Li Yuan returned to his room to find a pen and paper and briefly drew a schematic diagram of the rotation of the lipstick tube.
He looked at Zhanhua Pavilion's lipstick today and felt that he could work hard on it.
The principle of rotation of the lipstick tube is not difficult for him. It is difficult to find the right materials.
Before he could think of a solution, Li Wei stood at the door and called him to eat.
The porridge on the Li family's dining table finally became a little sticky after the money had just been washed.
A plate of fried meat with bamboo shoots and a plate of wild vegetables, but Li Wei was extremely happy to eat it. While eating, he shouted:
"I'm going to move bamboo shoots with Sister Xiaojuan tomorrow. These bamboo shoots are so delicious when fried."
"I'll go too," Li Yuan said.
Willow Lane walked eastward for a short distance before leaving the city. It was very mountainous and there was a bamboo forest at the foot of the mountain. The bamboo shoots they ate today were picked there.
He wanted to try to see if he could make a lipstick tube out of bamboo.
Mother Li originally wanted to say that these bamboo shoots were heavy in oil and would not taste good without too much oil. With their family's conditions, they could not eat them regularly.
But seeing that the son and daughter were so interested, they just smiled and said nothing.
In the afternoon, Li Yuan sorted out the things needed to make lipstick and noted down what was missing. I sat under a tree and read a book all afternoon.
While reading, sort out your knowledge base and check for gaps in weak areas.
After he married Xu Yingying in his previous life, he had worked hard to climb up the ladder better and had a solid knowledge base.
Now he not only wants to take the scientific examination, but also wants to make money quickly to propose marriage to the Lu family.
Early the next morning, just as Li Yuang finished a set of military boxing in the yard, a voice greeted Li Wei at the door.
"Xiaowei, hurry up, we're leaving."
"Coming!"
Li Wei held the cake baked by Mother Li in her hand, stuffed it into her mouth in a few mouthfuls, found a backpack, put it on her back, and left with her friends.
Li Yuan stuffed a piece of cake, found a hatchet in the half-collapsed woodshed of Li's house, and followed them up the mountain.
"Xiaowei, why is your brother here?"
Zhao Xiaojuan held Li Wei's hand and turned her head slightly to look at Li Yuan with her peripheral vision.
"have no idea."
Li Wei shook his head, wondering why his brother suddenly thought of picking bamboo shoots.
Didn’t he say that studying was very hard and he never participated in these activities?
Li Yuan was tall and it didn't take long for him to catch up with the people in front of him.
He could tell what they were thinking by looking back at them from time to time.
He had never interacted with these neighbors before. When anyone asked him, he would say that studying was hard and he had no time.
In fact, he felt that these people had no use value and were not worth his time.
However, he knew how to cherish his feathers at a very young age. He was obviously selfish and mercenary, but no one around him saw through his true colors and praised him as a humble gentleman.
"Your brother defeated four members of the Hu family today by himself. I really wish I had such a powerful brother."
Zhao Xiaohu, who was walking in front, suddenly turned back and looked at Li Wei enviously.
"Sister Xiaowei, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have scolded you for not having a father that day."
Another little boy, about ten years old, looked at Li Yuan who was getting closer and closer to them, and apologized tremblingly, fearing that Li Wei would let her brother come over and beat him up.
Another older boy also hurriedly said:
"I'm sorry, Li Wei, I shouldn't have dumped your clean clothes on the floor. I'll help you wash your clothes in the future."
"I'll help you too."
The remaining seven or eight children all rushed to speak.
It was the first time that Li Wei was treated so warmly by this group of people. Looking at Li Yuan who was getting closer and closer, he shouted sweetly:
"elder brother."
"Well, just walk around in the bamboo forest. Brother will go to the mountains to take a look and come back later to carry the basket for you."
Li Yuan walked up to Li Wei, touched her head, and said a few words to cross the group of children and go up the mountain.
The Li family's conditions are not good. Twelve-year-old Li Wei is so thin and small that he is worried that the big backpack will not hang securely when it is hung on his back.
Li Wei felt sweet in her heart. For the first time, she felt that her brother was really good. His brother was so awesome.
"Sister Xiaowei, your brother has gone to the mountains. My mother said there are big insects on the mountains and they are very dangerous."
Sun Xiaoyong, who had a runny nose, was slapped on the back by Xiaohu as soon as he finished speaking:
"You know what the hell, Xiaowei's brother can beat four people by himself, so he is afraid of big insects?"
Sun Xiaoyong was unconvinced: "The big bug is very powerful, even more powerful than the four brothers of the Hu family."
…
Li Yuan walked all the way up the mountain and searched for a long time before he found a wild rose. There were no roses or crabapples he wanted.
After shoveling with an ax for a long time, I uprooted the wild roses and planned to plant them in the yard.
At the foot of the mountain, Li Wei's backpacks were already full, and a group of people were playing a game of pebbles on the road.
After choosing a few bamboos of suitable thickness and cutting them down, I picked up Li Wei's backpack and greeted the group of people to go back.
Back at Li's house, Li Yuan immediately began to study how to make lipstick tubes from bamboo tubes.
He started by slicing the thicker piece of bamboo to create the rotating inner core. Then use different types of bamboo tubes to make shells, threaded tubes, lipstick limit body protection tubes, lipstick support tubes, sliding cover tubes, sliding covers and rotating guide tubes, etc.
The threaded pipe is provided with internal threads and external threads and the directions of the internal threads and the external threads are opposite. The threaded pipe is fixed in the lower shell, the lipstick limit body protection tube is installed inside the threaded pipe, and the lipstick support tube is installed in the lipstick limit body protection tube. , the threaded pipe is used with the sliding cover tube through the external thread and the rotating guide tube is installed in the sliding cover tube...
But this is not difficult for him. What is difficult is making these things by hand.
His body was so lacking in exercise that his hands had no strength to bind a chicken. The skin was tender and the flesh was tender. He had only done it for five minutes before his hand started to hurt.
Li Yuan sighed, endured the pain in his hands and started carving slowly. It took him an afternoon to finish it.
It was almost dark, so Li Yuan looked through the geography of Liang Kingdom while waiting for dinner. After reading it, he thought about it based on the places he had visited in his memory.
I had stir-fried pork with bamboo shoots for lunch, and at night I had just a plate of pickles and porridge.
Li Yuan woke up from hunger in the middle of the night and lay helplessly in bed counting the stars.
In the next few days, I got up early in the morning and practiced Juntiquan, then started making lipstick tubes, and read in the afternoon. I finally made the lipstick tube before the busy farm vacation ended.
The rest of the lipstick paste is much simpler. Crush the fresh rose petals and filter the residue to leave the pigment, simmer over high heat, add lemon juice to adjust the color, grind the rice into powder, pour in the mixed powder, stir evenly, pour it into a bowl and let it stand.
I didn't have the patience to wait for it to dry naturally, so I put it next to the stove and baked it directly. After it was crispy, I continued to grind it into powder.
Heat and melt the beeswax and vegetable oil, then pour the powder into it. Stir evenly and pour it into the mold. Wait for an hour to solidify naturally. After demoulding, put on the lipstick tube.
I couldn’t find any good pigments, and the lipstick color was unsatisfactory.
