Popular peasant wife: mountain man lacks training

Chapter 504
It is rumored that red and blue flowers are used as rouge, which Zhang Qian brought back from his envoy to the Western Regions. The red and blue flowers with dew in the morning are the best. After picking, mash them to make a pulp, and wash them with rice water to remove the yellow pigment. What is left is the red pigment, and after drying in the shade, a very red and bright rouge can be obtained.

In the early morning, Geng Sang went up the mountain with a basket on his back. Along the way, there were many red flowers, but red and blue flowers were rare. Before the dew on the stove disappeared, Geng Sang only picked two empty handfuls. .

Seeing the sun rising, Geng Sang had no choice but to go back first.

I thought that such common flowers should be everywhere in the mountains and plains, but who knew that the wild flowers of this variety were not as wild as I imagined.

Right now, Geng Sang can only do an experiment with the collected petals, to see if he can find the rouge, and to see how the color is.

If it can be done, red and blue flowers are not the only raw materials for making rouge. Generally speaking, red flowers can be used as long as they are non-toxic.

However, there are more flowers used to make rouge in history, such as heavy crimson, mountain flowers, suffragettes, and pomegranates. In addition, there are some precious flowers, which are things for the ladies of princes and noble families when they are looking for elegance.

There are many kinds of mountain flowers, and she had to ask someone to find out which kind of flowers they used as raw materials. As for pomegranate flowers, there are several pomegranate trees in the village. Many people have to pinch pomegranates every year to make pomegranates fruitful. Many flowers, you can also ask for some.

However, it is impossible to sell rouge to the world this year. We can only try the color first, and solve the problem of raw materials in advance next year.

Back home, Geng Sang washed a clean mortar, put red and blue flowers in it and pounded it into a flower paste, then washed it with rice washing water, and put it in a cool place to dry in the shade.

Considering that the weather in spring has gradually heated up, the slurry is left to dry in the shade. It is estimated that the slurry will deteriorate first before it dries in the shade.

If the syrup is smelly, the dried rouge cannot be used, so Geng Sang thought about it and decided to steam it dry by heating.

After a lot of work, the bottom of the pot left a thick layer of red after steaming over low heat. Geng Sang used a thin bamboo board to scrape up the upper layer of rouge and put it in a small porcelain box.

I scooped out a small piece with my hands and put it in the palm of my hand, Geng Sang rubbed it carefully, the particles are very fine, the fly in the ointment powder is too loose, if it is used to apply on the face, it will easily fade.

Remembering that there was still a little essential oil extracted by Lu Nanchuan earlier, Geng Sang took it and dropped a few drops into the rouge, stirred it and pressed it evenly in the porcelain box.

A simple rouge is ready. As for the effect, I haven't tried it yet. I will try it on myself when I get up tomorrow.

The day passed by in a flash, and it was dark again in a blink of an eye.

Counting that the time for the temple fair was getting closer and closer, Geng Sang sent the five taels of silver agreed earlier to the village chief.

The theater troupe invited must have a place to live. The village head wanted to ask Geng Sang to give up a few rooms for the girls in the theater troupe, but Geng Sang politely refused.

That was her and Lu Nanchuan's home, and they had already done their part in inviting the theater troupe. She would not allow irrelevant people to live in her home.

Moreover, there are mixed people in the theater troupe all the year round. She is alone at home, and it is not safe to live with strangers.

As for going to my own residence, it is impossible to let the yard out for a few days.

Seeing that the money raised by Geng Sang was the most given by the village, the village head Lu Liangping only suggested it, but seeing that Geng Sang was unwilling, he wisely stopped mentioning it.

(End of this chapter)