Traveling through the mountains and farming

Chapter 133 Flower Hydrosol

After lunch, Lin Wan went to Old Man Wang’s house and took back the finished distillation barrels.

She cleaned it carefully and placed it in the kitchen with great joy, thinking that she could start making the hydrosol once the clay pot was fired.

Just now, after finishing his meal, Li Ke ran to the earthen kiln to watch the fire, and promised Lin Wan that after the pottery in the kiln was fired, she would put the remaining pottery into the kiln to fire in the afternoon.

Li Ke told Lin Wan not to worry, she would ask the adults at home to help open and seal the kiln.

After hearing this, Lin Wan felt relieved, and then she took Li Chongle and followed everyone to the camellia forest.

When picking camellia fruits in the morning, Lin Wan heard everyone discussing that it would take four or five days to pick that patch of camellia fruits. She also planned to go into the mountains to pick camellia fruits in the next few days, and pick some camellia flowers by the way, and also see if there are any other flowers in the mountains.

In this way, she can pick flowers during the day and make hydrosols or perfumes from the flowers she picked that day when she returns in the evening.

In the evening of that day, Lin Wan and Li Chongle returned to the secluded cave with a lot of harvest.

When they came back and passed the gentle slope area, Li Ke saw them and immediately ran over to say that one of the two pottery pots in the first batch had been fired successfully. She had cleaned it and put it in the kitchen, and she was now firing the second kiln.

She also discussed with Lin Wan that when Lin Wan started making camellia hydrosol, she should remember to ask her to come over to help, as she wanted to see how to make the hydrosol for facial use.

Li Chongle next to him kindly suggested that Li Ke go and help his sister-in-law make camellia pure water. After he put the things away, he came over to guard the earthen kiln.

Li Ke immediately smiled and called out "You are so nice, little brother", and happily helped to carry the backpack on Li Chongle's back. The three of them returned home, put down the camellia fruits, and trotted into the kitchen.

Lin Wan washed the camellia flowers left over from yesterday, put them in a wooden basin and brought them into the kitchen. She saw that Li Ke had already put water in the pot as instructed and had started a fire to boil the water.

She placed a special distillation barrel on an iron pot half filled with water, then put the flower petals into the distillation barrel, and then placed the clay pot on the distillation barrel. She filled the space between the two with linen, and finally filled the clay pot with water.

Lin Wan turned around and took out a clay jar from the cupboard and placed it under the bamboo tube extending from the wooden barrel.

It's done, just wait for the hydrosol to slowly distill out.

Seeing that the elder sister-in-law had finished her work, Li Ke stood up and asked, "Sister-in-law, should we just wait for that pure dew to come out of this bamboo tube?"

"Yeah, that's easy, right?"

“It seems simple, but it’s not easy without you knowing these methods and making these tools.”

Li Ke answered while staring at the bamboo tube.

"Wow, sister-in-law, look, a drop of water is coming out."

Lin Wan looked over when she heard the voice and her face showed joy. She felt relieved now. As expected, the replication was successful. This method of distillation in a watertight wooden barrel was really good.

As time went by, the hydrosol fell drop by drop into the clay jar.

Li Ke counted excitedly: "One drop, two drops, three drops..."

Lin Wan smiled and said, "Don't worry, just wait and there will be more and more."

After a while, there was already a small layer of hydrosol in the pottery jar.

Li Ke couldn't help but get closer and smell it: "Sister-in-law, this smells so good, so good!"

"If you put this hydrosol into a wooden barrel and steam it repeatedly, you can make perfume, which is water with a very high fragrance concentration. If you sprinkle a little on your body, you will smell good all day long."

Hearing this, Li Ke was overjoyed and said excitedly: "There is such water. Let's make some. We can go to the mountain and pick a few more nice-smelling flowers to make it. It's a pity that it's the end of autumn now and there are not many flowers. But we will have a lot of flowers next spring."

She was already counting on her hands which flowers she would pick to make perfume in the future.

Lin Wanze began to wash the remaining camellias and chrysanthemums, preparing to free up the stove to cook dinner after finishing this batch. Before going to bed at night, she would distill all the flowers picked today into pure water.

That night, she bottled all the flower petal hydrosols in bottles that she had prepared earlier, which were about 150 milliliters in modern terms.

All the pottery bottles were used up at once, and more had to be fired.

During morning exercise the next day, Luo Fang hurriedly asked Lin Wan whether she had made the camellia pure water successfully.

Seeing her anxious look, Lin Wan smiled and told her that it was ready and planned to send it to her after breakfast. She didn't expect her to be so anxious.

Luo Fang said coquettishly: "It's because the things you make are good, I also want to have smooth and beautiful skin on my face."

"Haha, I understand."

It turns out that this woman loves beauty regardless of time and place.

Lin Wan thought that this would be a good way to make money when she came out of retirement.

While she has no worries about food and drink, and before the war ends, she will take care of her skin while recalling the production methods of ancient skin care products and cosmetics that she has made or seen before, and make some extra and save them.

When the time comes and I change it to an exquisite packaging, I will definitely make a fortune.

Before Lin Wan could think any more, Luo Fang said anxiously, "No need to wait until after breakfast, I'll go get it with you now."

Lin Wan smiled helplessly and took Luo Fang home.

As soon as she entered the house, Luo Fang saw a vase with flowers and some cute little ceramic ornaments on the table in Lin Wan's room.

Lin Wan had already brought the pure dew from the house and handed it to Luo Fang with a smile.

Luo Fang took the bottle of pure water handed over by Lin Wan, first carefully examined the white ceramic bottle, then opened the stopper and smelled it, and couldn't help but praise:

"Lin Wan, this hydrosol smells like a light floral scent, and your small ceramic bottle is also beautiful."

Turning his head to glance at the vase on the table, he continued, "You are really clever. Look at the wild flowers you picked from the mountains and put in the vase. They are really beautiful. And there are those little things too."

As she spoke, she touched the cute little white rabbit pottery.

"I just made them casually to add some fun to the children and I feel happy just watching them."

Luo Fang truly thought that Lin Wan was beautiful and capable, but it was a pity that her cousin could not come back, leaving her a widow at such a young age. She thought in her heart that she would find a good family for her in the future, as such a good girl should not be wasted.

In a flash, she really thought of a candidate. She felt that He Yunzheng, the son of He Lizheng, was a good candidate. He was a scholar and the only son in the family. He also looked responsible and was able to survive despite being seriously injured last time.

I heard recently that his injury is recovering very quickly and he will come over soon to do morning exercises together. Then we can see what kind of person he is.

Fortunately, Lin Wan didn’t know what she was thinking, otherwise she would be in a dilemma.

I will also feel that I cannot escape from my matchmaking relatives in both ancient and modern times.

Looking at Luo Fang who was in a daze, Lin Wan gently patted her shoulder and said, "Sister Fang, use this hydrosol after cleansing your face in the morning and evening. I will make some facial cream for you to use with it later."

Lin Wan also wanted to have more people experiment with the effects of her skin care products so that she could make improvements based on feedback.

"I see. You can also make facial cream. Remember to inform me as soon as possible when the time comes." Luo Fang came back to her senses and said excitedly.

"Don't worry, I will never forget you."

As soon as she got home, she washed her face again and applied the camellia hydrosol she had just received.

Li Chongwu also smelled the fragrance and asked curiously, "What are you applying? Why does it smell like flowers?"

"Lin Wan made the camellia pure water, which is said to beautify the skin. Look carefully at my face."

“Isn’t it the same face you see every day?”

"After a while, my face will definitely become white and tender, and then you will be amazed." Luo Fang said confidently.

Li Chongwu smiled and said, "Okay, I'll wait and see."