Husband and Father Youwei

Chapter 68 Sold Out

The next day, Tu Lin, whose mind and body were satisfied, woke up for the first time at home. Ruan Tang was still sleeping beside him, and Tu Lin secretly kissed him before getting out of bed lightly.

Because Ruan Tang and Tu An still had some time to get up, after making porridge in the kitchen, Tu Lin went to the backyard to start building bricks with mud, planning to build the oven for Ruan Tang when it was cooler in the morning.

Although Tu Lin has never seen this kind of primitive oven, but after reading the description of the oven in the novel on the computer copied by Ruan Tang, he found that compared with the common earthen ovens in the countryside, there is only one more layer on the top, which is not a problem. It's not that hard to look like.

Based on the number of adobes, Tu Lin had an estimate of the size of the oven in his mind, and then he picked up the shovel and started weeding and shoveling soil behind the wall of the main house in the backyard. After a while, a flat open space was cleared out for baking. The furnace is ready to be built here.

Because the adobes are already prepared, Tu Lin only needs to build them up one by one, leaving an opening in the front and a chimney in the back, and paste a thick layer of mud inside to enhance stability and heat preservation. It took nearly In an hour, it was almost done.

Back in the front yard, I heard movement in the east and west rooms. Knowing that Ruan Tang and Tu An should have gotten up too, Tu Lin washed up briefly, served porridge, and took some before Ruan Tang The pickled side dishes and a few buns went to the main room.

After breakfast, Tu Lin told Ruan Tang to stay at home obediently, and sent Tu An to school. After returning from the county seat, he and Ruan Tang started to try out the oven. He lit the oven first, and after it heated up for a while, Ruan Tang had already woken up the dough, and divided it into steamed bun-sized pieces, which could be put into the oven.

It takes a certain amount of time to bake bread. Taking advantage of this time, the two of them went into the woodshed next to them, and continued to use the previous medicine jars and small charcoal stove to try out new soap with scented powder. During this period, Tu Lin had to go out from time to time to add firewood to the oven and check how the bread was baking.

Although the novel discovered by Ruan Tang described the method of making bread, the specific time and heat of baking were not clearly written. In addition, it was the most primitive clay oven built by Xincai, and the heat time Everything needs to be tested and explored a little bit, so in the next few days, Tu Lin and Ruan Tang almost hid in the backyard during the day.

Three days passed like this. Fortunately, although a lot of firewood and flour were spent, the bread was finally baked. In addition to bread, the development of new soaps has also achieved some success.

Earlier, Tu Lin bought the three cheapest face powders at the powder shop in the county, namely gardenia face powder, jasmine face powder and chrysanthemum face powder. These three kinds of face powders are cheap, fragrant, and good for the skin. They are all very suitable for adding to soap. It's just that the dosage needs to be considered, but it can be determined after a few times of use.

Although the dye was not available, Ruan Tang thought of a gourmet novel on the computer, there was an article about using chili, green vegetables, and carrots to knead noodles to make colorful noodles, which inspired him immediately. Vegetables can be eaten, and the squeezed juice can also be eaten, so there is no problem adding it to soap. However, peppers are excluded because they are irritating. The soap comes.

However, because he didn't know much about it, Tu Lin was worried that there might be some bad reactions if the vegetable juice and those fragrance powders came into contact, so they didn't combine them together, but divided them into three kinds of colored soaps, namely white, cyan and Orange, and three kinds of soaps, which are gardenia soap, jasmine soap and chrysanthemum soap, and finally there are six kinds of soaps in total. Three of the soaps are also priced higher than colored soaps because of the added face powder.

When the bread and new soap were finished, it was almost time for the appointment to fetch the custom-made cauldron and other things. When he went out to get it in the county, Tu Lin was reminded by Ruan Tang, so he took a few pieces of soap that he had made at home, and stopped by Zhao's house to give to Tu Xinmei and the others.

He and Ruan Tang don't use this kind of scented soap, but Tu Xinmei and Zhao Xiuxiu are girls, so they probably like it very much.

After picking up all kinds of utensils ordered from the county town, Tu Lin went to the powder shop to buy a lot of face powder, and at the same time, he also bought some fatty pork, suet, and caustic soda. There is space on the left and right, so I am not afraid that it will be damaged if left for a long time. After buying everything, he found a secluded place, put everything into the space, and then returned home with nothing in hand.

But when he got home, Tu Lin couldn't relax anymore. He put the set of soap-making tools in the woodshed in the backyard first, and then started to get busy.

Boiling lard, melting lye, squeezing vegetable juice, mixing spice powder, and constantly stirring and adding firewood, naturally Ruan Tang has been helping. In this way, it took nearly three days of hard work, and the two of them almost used up all the fat pork and suet stored in the space, and finally made a total of more than 300 pieces of soap.

On average, there are fifty pieces of each type of soap. After cooling and solidifying, Tu Lin put them into different categories and put them together, wrapped them in oiled paper, and sent them to shops for sale at any time.

With the soap liquid that had been stirred for three days, Tu Lin had a strong physique and he didn't think there was anything wrong with it, but Ruan Tang felt a little distressed. The left and right soaps had already been made, and he wasn't afraid to put them on hold. He could sell them anytime, so he let Tu Lin After a good day's rest, the next day, he and Ruan Tang went to the shop in the county town with a mule cart of soap.

In the shop, the little boy Shui Sheng had already received Tu Lin's order to clean up the shop ahead of time. The wooden shelf where the charcoal was placed in the original shop did not move, only the counter was moved forward, and a new wooden shelf was placed behind the counter. On the shelf, there were six baskets side by side, which were used to store the six kinds of soap.

Because this soap is barely considered a new thing, after storing most of the soap in the warehouse in the backyard and a small part in the shop, Tu Lin borrowed a table from Shilixiang and Tu Xinmei next door. The wooden basin and a dirty rag that couldn't see its original color, and finally fetched a bucket of clean water.

It's not time for dinner, and Tu Xinmei and Zhao Changping in Shilixiangli are very leisurely. Knowing that Tu Lin will start selling soap today, they both come to help.

Put the table in front of the shop door, put the wooden basin, rag, and a piece of soap in order. When everything was ready, although many pedestrians stopped to watch curiously because of Tu Lin's formation, some asked curiously. But Tu Lin didn't answer right away, he just let people wait and see, and he also felt that the audience at this time was far from enough, so he took out another gong and started to beat it.

The sound of the gong was extremely loud, and Tu Lin beat it so hard that some of the nearest people couldn't help covering their ears. After knocking like this for a hundred or so times, Tu Lin finally put down the gong when he saw that the people attracted by the sound of the gong had already surrounded three floors inside and three floors outside, and some people were a little impatient to wait.

Tu Lin is not a person who is eloquent. Although he made today's announcement in order to make his soap sell well, he couldn't say anything clever and flattering, so after putting down the gong, he Went behind the desk to do the demo work. As for the introduction and explanation, it was left to Zhao Changping, who had been running the restaurant for a long time, and his eloquence and knowledge had greatly improved.

However, Zhao Changping also knew that people were waiting impatiently, so he didn't waste too much time, and quickly got to the point, picked up a piece of soap on the table, and introduced it to everyone.

At the same time, following Zhao Changping's introduction, Tu Lin first put the rag that was full of dirt and hardened into a wooden basin filled with clean water. Immediately, a layer of gray oily flowers floated on the surface. out of the water.

Tu Lin rubbed the rag in clean water a few times vigorously. Although the rag soon became soft, it was still black and dirty, and it was hard to wash it off. At this time, he picked up the soap next to him, gently wiped the corner of the rag, and then rubbed the corner again.

Soon, a lot of gray foam overflowed from Tu Lin's fingers, causing the onlookers to look surprised and curious, and they became more focused, without blinking. After all, the owner of Shilixiang just said that that kind of soap is better than plant ash and acacia water. They should take a good look, and they won't be easily fooled.

Tu Lin kneaded like this for a while, until he felt that the touch in his hands was no longer as smooth as it was at the beginning, but a little astringent. He wiped off the foam and looked at it, and saw that there were sticks of water on the dirty black rag. There was a grayish white streak, so I stopped rubbing, put the rag in clean water, and rinsed it.

As soon as the rag was placed in the wooden basin, there was only a layer of oily flowers floating on it, but the clear water was immediately dyed black as if a inkstone had been poured into it. What became of the rag.

Fortunately, soon Tu Lin took the rag out of the tub again, wrung it dry, and then completely unfolded the rag and lifted it up so that everyone could see clearly.

Immediately, there were exclamations one after another, and I saw that the rag in Tu Lin's hand was full of dirt and hard black, but now it was half dirty black and half plain white, with a clear distinction and a strong contrast.

Someone couldn't help but stepped forward and reached out to touch the rag on the clean side. After touching the distinct linen texture, he couldn't help being amazed, and then he seemed to touch it again in disbelief. On the other side, which was still dirty, I finally touched the oil stain with one hand, and I couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

Seeing this, Tu Lin picked up the piece of soap that had just been washed, and said with a smile to the man, "Would you like to try it? My soap is not only good for washing clothes, but also cleans hands and face." This is

a He looks like a middle-aged man in his forties, dressed like a literati in a Confucian shirt and square scarf, the clothes and accessories are not bad, and his family background should be good. When Tu Lin said this, he smiled embarrassingly, and said, "That's troublesome."

Naturally, Tu Lin didn't find it troublesome. He personally applied the soap to the man's hands, and instructed the man to rub it well to make sure that all the soap was left on his hands. After wiping all the oily places, he took a scoop of clean water from a bucket on the ground and rinsed the man's hands. After two ladles of water, the foam in the man's hands was washed away, and the oil stains were gone.

The man looked at his hands over and over again, with a surprised expression on his face, and then said directly to Tu Lin, "How much soap do you have? I want at least twenty yuan." He didn't even ask, and he just wanted to buy it, or he bought it as soon as he bought it. It costs twenty yuan.

But Tu Lin likes this kind of customer the most, and it is not in vain that he wiped soap and poured water once, and Dang even said with a smile: "The soap stock in the small shop is sufficient, enough to meet the needs of Mr. In addition to this white soap, there are many other soaps to choose from, and the effects are not bad, sir, you might as well go into the store and have a look." "

Really? You should take a good look at it." The man responded, and even went around first The table went into the store.

Apart from the shop assistant Shui Sheng, Ruan Tang and Tu Xinmei were also in the shop at this time, enough to entertain middle-aged men, so Tu Lin didn't follow in, but stayed outside with Zhao Changping and continued to stay outside.

After all, like a middle-aged man who is not short of money, he doesn't even ask the price, and there are not many generous customers who buy it as soon as they say it. Although Tu Lin had clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of the soap and the price, there were still more people who were curious and gathered around the table and said they wanted to try it.

Although Tu Lin can also see that many people are joining in the fun, he is not impatient in the slightest. Even if he does not buy it, he has seen the power of his soap, and it is good to spread the word, regardless of the people around him. Rich or poor, good people or beggars, they all took soap for them to use one by one.

At this time, in the shop, there was the bold middle-aged customer before, and soon, people entered the shop one after another, looking for soap to buy. Although Ruan Tang, Tu Xinmei, and Shui Sheng were there to deal with it, they were busy with introductions, money collection, and packaging.

By the time Tu Lin tried out the whole bar of soap outside, removed the tables and returned to the store, the store was already crowded with customers who came to buy soap, and Ruan Tang and others at the counter could hardly be seen. up.

It happened that all the soap on the shelf was sold out, so Tu Lin didn't squeeze in any more, and walked out of the shop to the back door. After jumping over the wall and entering the backyard of the shop, another batch of soap was taken out of the warehouse and sent to the front hall.

Tu Lin had made more than 300 pieces of soap before, and he thought it was a lot, but he still underestimated the charm of this soap. After the first customer stepped into the store, it took only two hours for the more than 300 pieces of soap he made to be sold out. That's not counting, and there are many people who came late, and those who didn't buy had to make reservations with Tu Lin in advance.