Chapter 152: Playing

So now Su You is having fun with Su Shi who is back from vacation.

As for Su Che, he was caught by Mrs. Cheng looking at the account book.

Previously, Su Shi took Su You along to make a special fragrance for his beloved Qingshen little sister Zai.

Meizhou is quite rich in fragrant medicines these days. Even the Su family, the poorest in Jiangqing, is no longer short of fragrant medicines.

However, Qingshen's little sister is also an elegant person, and she likes the atmosphere of mountains and forests, so Chen, Tan, Nao, Musk, these top-quality spices recently collected by the Su family, are all on the sidelines.

The incense made from four spices is called Sihe incense.

But in addition to the valuable big four sums, there are also small four sums and poor four sums.

The ingredients of Xiaosihe are very common, including orange peel, lychee shell, pear juice, and sugarcane juice.

The cheaper alternative is lychee shells, sugar cane pulp, dried cypress leaves, coptis, or directly add pine cones and date cores instead.

The first time he learned about this recipe, Su You almost burst out laughing. It turns out that I, Su Mingrun, have always been an elegant person. Everyone in Shanxia Kelongli was clean to the bone. On the twenty-third year ago, they all smoked and cured meat!

As soon as this poem came out, Su Xun, who was savoring the fried green tea in front of the Ming Dynasty, immediately sprayed tea all over the floor.

Su Shi rubbed his hands excitedly: "Hurry up and try lighting it to see what effect you said the backflow incense has!"

Today's incense is all stick incense and cake incense.

The incense sticks are either straight or coiled. They are lit directly and the smoke rises and changes.

The cake aroma is to break off some small pieces and put them on delicate silver leaves. First put a piece of charcoal in the small stove, then put the silver leaves on top, cover with incense ash and smoke them to bake, mainly to produce floral aroma. Pay attention to a fragrant and fragrant one.

Smoke-free, generally very expensive and high-quality products.

Backflow incense is something that no one has played with in the Song Dynasty.

Su You doesn't know the formula of the fragrant powder, but he knows how to make it. He can also provide borneol camphor wood powder and camellia oil.

The remaining ingredients were things that Su Shi had already prepared in the jar and buried underneath for several months. After they were all powdered, they were mixed with honey and then pressed into the shape of small pine cones using molds.

Insert a hole in the center and carefully remove the mold. After three days, the incense balls are dry and ready.

Su You took a small incense ball, lit the incense from the top, and then placed it on the peak of a natural stone.

The strange stone has many strange holes and ravines, about five inches high, like a natural mountain peak-shaped incense burner cover. It is usually placed on top of the incense burner, which is a natural Boshan furnace. The smoke from the furnace will pass through the holes and ravines.

It rises and changes magically. This is one of Su Shi's favorite collections.

Su You loves intangible cultural heritage, and even the dead stalks and lotuses can be made into ornaments.

Su Shi is somewhat similar. His playthings also do not seek luxury. When he was a child, he dug out an inkstone-shaped stone from the yard and regarded it as a treasure. He still enjoys it today.

He can also see the beauty in dead trees and strange rocks. His broad aesthetic taste and pursuit of the beauty and elegance of natural creations are engraved in his bones.

The gameplay this time is indeed different.

The incense balls contain a lot of oil, and the smoke produced is white and rich. It is sucked down into the strange rocks through the small holes, and then escapes from the holes in the mountain peaks, gradually flowing into the valleys to form a sea of ​​clouds.

The incense flows backwards, not up, but down.

Within a few seconds, a beautiful scene of clouds carelessly emerging from the sky was created.

The whole family gathered around to watch it and felt it was so magical.

Su Zhe praised: "It's beautiful, just like looking down at the top of the mountain from high in the sky, with green peaks and white clouds, which makes people suddenly feel transported."

Mrs. Cheng stretched out her hand and fanned it gently. The sea of ​​clouds rolled and flowed, and the small scenery suddenly became more vivid.

Now even Su Xun applauded.

Only Su Shi was still a little dissatisfied: "It turns out that this preparation method is only for viewing, not for tasting. It has the aroma, but it is not elegant and rough."

Su You was furious: "It's in vain that I worked hard for you for several days. I didn't even say a word of thanks! The things are not valuable in the first place, they are just a novelty. Don't you remember Wang Changling's poem? It's based on that artistic conception. It depends on you.

Can you express it?"

Su Shi was immediately overjoyed: "'I know you from afar, but I don't know how deep the clouds are.' Hahaha, it's so wonderful. With this poem, things will be explained!"

After saying that, he bowed to Su You and said, "Thank you so much, Uncle Yao!"

Su You rolled his eyes: "It's too late! I'm getting a new music box for Wei'er. You can continue playing by yourself."

Su Xun looked at Su You's back as he entered the study, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Madam, which adult is not very happy to see his children studying hard? It's better for you, because Mingrun is studying the scriptures and meanings, so he called us all back, I

He looks pretty good like this now..."

Mrs. Cheng breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I was afraid that his temperament would change drastically, so something must have happened to him in the academy. Now it seems that I was too worried."

In the blink of an eye, he pointed the finger at Su Shi: "Zizhan, are you studying or playing in Qingshen? If you neglect your studies, be careful that your teacher takes away your life..."

Su Shi carried the strange stone and walked to the backyard, muttering: "Mingrun, you encourage him to cultivate his temperament, and I, you, force him to study. Everyone is named Su, how can there be such a big difference..."

But the children in Longli are now basically free from heavy labor.

The reason is that Atunmi got some big magnets.

Magnet is magnetite. With it, the iron sand concentrate can be adsorbed from the iron sand layer after rough selection, which greatly reduces the workload during sand washing and greatly increases the output. It can produce twenty or thirty kilograms a day.

The number of people needed by the Iron Sand Group has been greatly reduced, but they are not without places to go. The food in a few places is enough for them.

However, it is not as hard as panning for iron sand.

The number of people in the pottery coal group has also decreased a lot. The metal processing level of Shijia Ironworks has been greatly improved in the past year. Iron castings are becoming more and more precise, and small machinery is also used to make honeycomb briquettes.

It's a bit like a syringe without a bottom. When you press it against the pile of coal ash that has been mixed with clay, the foot pushes on the piston pusher to lift up the outer shell, and a perfect briquette stands firmly on the ground.

However, it is impossible for the children to meet the needs of the entire Meishan. This thing is mainly used for boiling salt in Lingjing, and the factory there is called a big one.

The weather became unbearably hot, and the discovery of magnetite heads made the Shi family and Su You unable to sit still.

Su You asked for leave from the old man and Teacher Tang. Su You's reason was that he had prickly heat and was going to go out to escape the heat.

I heard that the climate in the Erlin Department was suitable and General Huaiyuan was enthusiastic, so I must invite Su You to live in his shogunate for a while.

He has made a lot of progress during this period. Old Man Long was very satisfied with the progress of Su You's knowledge. He found out that during Su You's absence, there would be children from the Earth Temple to take care of his daily life. Old Man Long waved his hand, sure!

Shi Tong's good disciple must accompany him. This time, instead of exploring various minerals, he will also help the Erlin Department improve their smelting level.

Now that four salt wells have been opened, the issuance of credit currency can greatly increase, and the ability to absorb commodities has also increased.

The bronze wares of the Erlin tribe, and the iron wares in the future, are important goods in the southwest. As each workshop begins to expand its scale, as an enemy of exchange, the output must keep up to ensure the balance between supply and demand.

Atunmi has not been to Meishan for a long time. After the trade route from Erlin Department to Meizhou was opened, she moved to Jiazhou for development in the past six months. At one point, she even reached Kuizhou, where she took over three large ships, and then...

There is no more.

The people of the Song Dynasty were too treacherous, and Adunmi scolded Su You when she saw her. Several businessmen in Shuzhou tricked her into misfortune. The ship could not get on when it arrived in Luzhou because the river had swollen.

Three large ships and a thousand Xianjing salt banknotes were stuck in Luzhou and became, uh, fixed assets. They had to wait until the water receded in September before they could be moved again.

Of course Su You knew that the water was rising. The vegetables planted in spring on the river beach under the Tutu Temple also encountered the same situation. Shi Da led the farmers to harvest cowpeas, eggplants, cucumbers, dogwood, winter melons all night long... But he was tired.

That's quite annoying.
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