The Evil King's Favorite Concubine: Genius Perfumer

Chapter 40 The Evil Boss
Two consecutive heavy snowfalls officially announced the arrival of winter.As the twelfth lunar month enters, people all over the city begin to prepare for the upcoming New Year's Eve.

People in the Yujinfang are getting more and more busy, this is the time of year when the common people in Daxiao spend the most incense.Sometimes a New Year's Day can surpass the sales volume of a whole year!
Because not only during the festival, every household must burn a lot of incense, but also many banquets must be seasoned with spices.There are also pharmacies that take advantage of the cold weather in winter and the easy storage of medicines without deterioration, and prepare various fragrant medicines.

From the chief steward to the apprentices in Yifang, everyone is overloaded with work, working non-stop from morning to night every day.But despite being so busy, the monthly quiz still came as scheduled.

"Tada, guess what we're going to test this time?"

"What's there to guess, didn't the sisters say it all?"

Gan Tiantian responded to Tao Tao while working: "Didn't the first quiz just make us grind our brains with a piece of aloe? Physical work, there is nothing to think about."

"That's right...but I heard Sister Weilan and the others say that the owner of the workshop has recently taken on a big job, and the masters can't finish it. Do you think the owner of the workshop will simply use this as a test? They It used to happen a lot.”

This is also possible, based on Gan Tiantian's indirect understanding of Fangzhu Chen, the boss is actually quite good at it, especially when it comes to spices.

"Then you heard what they said, what kind of work is it?"

"It should be Suhe oil...it seems to be ordered by a big drug store in another county."

Not every county has several large-scale spice workshops like Deling County, and many counties don't even have county-level incense workshops.Although Yujinfang is not the number one folk incense shop in Deling, it also has business in several nearby counties.

"Suhe oil..."

Gan Tiantian turned his head and thought for a while and said, "That shouldn't be our business. We newcomers follow the master to make Suhe oil. The owner of the shop will not drive ducks to the shelves..."

Suhe oil is one of the most important base oils in perfumery.In its homeland, workers cut the styrax tree deep into the wood, and the resin slowly seeps into the bark.After several months, the resin-infiltrated bark is peeled off, and after various processing, a translucent thick ointment can be obtained.

The neutralization of storax oil is inseparable from the blending of incense.And it is also a very important medicinal material. It is fragrant and resuscitating, can relieve stagnation and phlegm, promote qi and blood circulation, and prepare many pills.

This season is indeed a good time to make sorrel oil. It is dry and cold, and the ointment can solidify quickly.

However, although it is not difficult to refine and produce Suhe oil, it is not something that elementary school students can do independently.Complicated work with more than [-] procedures, without the leadership of a master, who can handle it?
Even though Tao Tao said that, she didn't think they would really make sorrel oil in her heart.

Unexpectedly, when going to work the next day, Aunt Xu brought "good news": this quiz, no matter if it is an old apprentice or a new apprentice, is to make soviet oil!

"what?"

Not so much!

Even the old apprentices like Yue Ming who didn't need to take the exam after three years were dumbfounded. The owner of the shop... how many jobs did he take, even the apprentice quiz?
"Isn't Fangzhu afraid that the Suhe oil we make will not waste materials..."

Tao Tao kept complaining in Gan Tiantian's ear, and Gan Tiantian pinched his arm severely.Aunt Xu is lecturing from above!
"My God, three hundred barrels of Soviet oil?"

"Wow, our shop really took a big deal!"

"But we all have to make sorrel... I can't!"

"Quiet."

Aunt Xu glanced around twice with her red phoenix eyes, and the workshop suddenly fell silent.

"Our Class C workshop needs to complete 150 barrels of Soviet oil."

"So, our three masters, each with ten apprentices, must produce fifty barrels of soy oil in these three days."

Aunt Xu arranged the work in an orderly manner. Although the volume of her voice was not loud, she made every sentence sound, which shocked a group of masters and apprentices to death.

"Our Class C, there are 21 apprentices who will take the quiz this time. The 21 of you will follow the arrangements of your respective masters! If you fail to process the raw materials within the specified time, you will not pass!"

Oh……

Gan Tiantian finally understood that Chen Fangzhu had a good plan.

This is simply Chi Guoguo's exploitation. It's fine to force the apprentices to work overtime, and it also puts pressure on the quiz, so that the apprentices will not dare to slack off when working overtime, so as to avoid another record of failing the quiz.

Well calculated!
Fortunately, people outside said that he is a good old man, a slave to his wife, fart!It's an iron cock, an iron abacus!

"So it's still a coolie."

Ji Bingyun was not very interested in Gan Tiantian's quiz.

He is naturally proficient in the way of incense, but what he is best at is fragrance.He has never been an apprentice before, and he only knows the principles of processing raw materials, but he has rarely practiced it—it is unnecessary!
Mr. Ji has always wanted any spices, and there are any spices. No matter how precious the raw materials are, they are nothing to the Ji family.

Such a troublesome matter of processing Suhe oil...he can't be bothered to deal with it.

"Well, our arms are going to be sore for days!"

Tao Tao's small face wrinkled into a ball.

What made them even more worried was that they were assigned to Master Zhu again!

"I'd rather follow Master Liu...Ruan Jingjing and the others are much luckier than us. Master Liu doesn't know how to curse at least."

"Hey, let's work, let's work." Gan Tiantian was very helpless, and even more helpless when he heard the workload that Master Zhu had arranged for them.

They were assigned the most unskilled and hardest job, cooking bark!
As mentioned earlier, storax oil is extracted from the bark of the styrax tree.And the extraction process is extremely complicated. After peeling, slicing, and pressing, it needs to be boiled for a long time, and then impurities are filtered and purified...

"It takes eighty barrels of crude oil to cook in three days, wow, isn't that...more than 20 barrels a day?"

Tao Tao was really stunned, she counted with her fingers, so they will have to cook crude oil for at least ten hours in the next three days!
"Don't talk about eating and sleeping, we probably won't even have time to go to the bathroom!"

Evil boss!
Gan Tiantian even began to hate Fangzhu Chen whom he had never met before.It's too cruel, if they can't complete the task, they will be recorded as failing the quiz!

She didn't want to leave a bad record for herself, but she exhausted her own life, and died of overwork at the age of ten, that's not okay!
"It seems that I have to find a way to improve work efficiency."

Gan Tiantian, a science student, rubbed his chin, secretly looked at a large number of tools in the workshop for processing Suhe oil, and began to use his brain.

"Huh? You're so stupid that you still think you can improve the process of boiling crude oil?"

Ji Bingyun taunted as usual, but he deliberately ignored the slight expectation that quietly rose in his heart.

Could it be... this girl has some tricks up her sleeves?
　I didn't make it in time to finish writing before 12 o'clock... I'm really sorry..._(:з」∠)_
　　
　
(End of this chapter)