After dressing as a widow

After eating and resting, the waiter sent by the florist knocked on the door of Lin Zhen's rented house early the next morning, "Boss Lin, Boss Lin, I'm here to deliver flowers to you."

Lin Zhen, who was already up, tied up his hair and walked towards the door: "Here we come!"

"Squeak—" the door opened, Lin Zhen looked at Xiao Er in the cold wind, "Come in and have a sip of hot tea, and I'll go to the room to get some money."

"Thank you, Boss Lin, for your kindness. I can do it here. I just bought a batch of flowers and plants in the store today that need to be taken care of, otherwise they won't be able to bloom on the day of Huaxin." Seeing that Lin Zhen has a good temperament, Xiao Er is also more lively. Chat a few words.

Lin Zhen put the door panel aside and asked curiously: "Flowers and plants in this season? Did they grow in the greenhouse?"

There are still two months of cold weather after the new year, and there will be fine snow recently. Except for the greenhouse, Lin Zhen can't think of where there can be flowers and plants.

Xiaoer said: "Bought from a hot spring village outside the city, it is kept in the house behind our shop. The charcoal fire cannot be cut off every day, and it needs to be watered at any time. It is difficult to take care of it."

"But these Huahuaxin can make a lot of money, not enough to sell."

This is the second time Lin Zhen has heard about Huaxin, a festival with Dayu's characteristics. He also has to catch up with this time for the powder and lipstick he makes. He will make a few sets within five days at the latest and get them in the city Rouge Goufen went to show those shopkeepers, suggesting that they push these goods to regular customers in the shop, and then hire a few people to set up a small workshop and slowly spread the business.

After placing the door panel, Lin Zhen took a look at the bundles of plum blossoms on the burden. The cuts of the branches were very fresh, and the plum blossoms on them were basically just showing their stamens. The clear and light plum fragrance was refreshing.

He was very satisfied, and after giving the silver to Xiaoer, he was about to carry the flower branches in when a pair of long legs suddenly appeared beside him, easily picked up all the flower branches, which probably weighed more than 200 kilograms, and carried them to the backyard with ease.

Lin Zhen rubbed his nose and followed Gu Lin, a young man with great strength.

Gu Lin put the flower branches on the ground and turned to ask him, "Uncle Lin, what should I do with these flowers."

"Pick off the flowers and wash them, put them in a cool place to dry for a while, and then distill." He bought two big dustpans a few days ago, washed them clean and dried them, and put them by the wall. Lin Zhen went to put the dustpan upright Roll over, and go to the house to get two pots, and after Gu Lin draws water from the well in the yard, he picks the fresh plum blossoms on the flower branches into the pots.

The water in the well was not cold, and it even blew a little steam in the cold weather, and it was a little warm to the touch, so that Lin Zhen and Gu Lin's hands didn't suffer.

Bundles after bundles of plum blossoms were picked clean, washed briefly in the basin and poured into the dustpan. Two large dustpans were filled to the brim, dripping water on the raised stool.

After the plum blossoms had almost dried out, Lin Zhen began to extract the flower water.

Plum blossoms are put into the biggest container which can no longer be called a porcelain vase, but a porcelain bucket, add water, and then set fire to it, because it is not a glass vessel, so Lin Zhen can only listen to the sound inside to estimate the time and temperature .

"Gududu." The water in the porcelain barrel boiled violently, and a little bit of heat and the aroma of plum blossoms leaked from places that were not well sealed. Lin Zhen put the firewood into the stove hole to keep the firepower strong.

Finally, when the first bundle of firewood in Lin Zhen's hand was more than half burned, there was the sound of water dripping from the porcelain bottle at the end, located under the condenser tube and receiver tube.

Become!

Lin Zhen couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth.

This device is too crude, and he is only 70.00% sure. He even thought about finding other substitutes with less effective effects if the distillation method fails.

It's all right now, everything is going smoothly in the direction he wants.

The aroma of plum blossoms spread in all directions, and as more and more distilled liquid dripped into the porcelain bottle, the aroma became more intense. Not only Lin Zhen's yard, but also the neighbors next to him could smell the smell.

A girl sniffed, then raised her head to look at her mother: "Mom, what does it smell like, it smells so good!"

The woman who lowered her head to work also smelled this smell. There are many plum trees in Kyoto, and the woman has also smelled the aroma of plum blossoms when they bloom, but it is not so strong, it is like putting a thousand or ten thousand plum blossoms to their noses. There, the smell can only be smelled deeply.

The naughty girl raised her nose, trying to smell where the smell came from, and quickly ran back to the woman and said: "Mom, it seems that the family next door is doing something, is it food or something else?" !"

The woman looked at the courtyard wall, and tapped the girl's forehead: "Mother doesn't know, it's her own business, you little monkey can't disturb others at will."

"I know..." The girl sat back on the stool, fiddled with the lipstick porcelain box and powder porcelain box at hand, and continued to think about what kind of makeup she would wear on the day of the letter.

Many of her friends were going there that day, and they all made an appointment to dress up beautifully together.

And Lin Zhen in the room heard the sizzling sound coming from the porcelain bucket, and knew that the water inside was about to boil dry, so he quickly asked Gu Lin to remove the firewood from the stove hole, waited for the temperature to dissipate, and used wet The handkerchief wrapped the boiling porcelain barrel, and the lid on it was opened.

I saw that there was only a little bit of water touching the bottom, and the plum blossoms on the top had been boiled until they lost their original color and turned white.

He fished out the flowers inside, added water to put the petals in, and started the second pot of distillation.

After a busy day, all the petals were used up, and it took a total of fifteen porcelain vases to hold the flower water. Lin Zhen took the flower water under the lamp to have a look, and saw that the liquid in the porcelain bottle was clear. There is a little oil that is not obvious, and most of it is water condensed from steam.

Originally, the strong aroma was also reduced during distillation, but Lin Zhen felt that it was just right.

Putting the lid on the porcelain bottle, Lin Zhen said to Gu Lin who had been busy all day with him: "It's ok, I'll put those things away when they get cold, and be careful not to burn your hands."

"Well," Gu Lin stood behind him, seeing the smile on his brows and said, "What Uncle Lin wanted is done?"

"It's done," Lin Zhen turned around holding the porcelain bottle, "After I make a few more tubes of lip balm, I can go to the major gouache and rouge shops in the capital to sell them."

"By the way, didn't I say that Yuwen, Chen Xing and Zhong Yan..."

"Forget about Zhong Yan, with his old-fashioned temperament, I can't bear to greet those things in his face."

"Only Yuwen and Chen Xing still have you."

Gu Lin's hand holding the things paused, thinking of the big white face she had seen on the street, she pursed her lips.

The next day, Huang Yuwen, Chen Xing, and Zhong Yan, who rented a house not far from them, came. Lin Zhen took out the powder and flower water that he had tossed about during this period, and asked Huang Yuwen and Chen Xing Gu Lin to sit in a row.

Huang Yuwen's face was so tense that it almost turned into iron skin. He looked at the thing Lin Zhen was tinkering with, and swallowed his saliva: "Uncle Lin, this, is this thing pale?"

Chen Xing, who was sitting next to him, had the same expression, only Gu Lin was as calm as usual.

Lin Zhen took out an appropriate amount of powder with a small wooden spoon, added powders of other colors according to Huang Yuwen's skin color, and then added the plum blossom water distilled yesterday, and mixed thoroughly: "This is a powder adjusted according to your skin color. The skin becomes more radiant and refreshed, and it will not be very white."

"Come on, put your face towards me." Lin Zhen looked at his expression amusedly, tried hard to remember the skills of applying makeup, and applied the prepared powder on Huang Yuwen's face.

They all wiped off the floral water beforehand, and their skin still felt a little moisturized, and the liquid powder was well pushed away as soon as it was applied.

There is no powder puff, and the existing makeup tools can't be used on the liquid powder he prepared, so Lin Zhen can only use his fingertips to pat it away.

Huang Yuwen, whose face was being played by him, closed his eyes tightly, but Chen Xing, who was uneasy next to him, gradually calmed down, and slowly showed a look of surprise.

"You can open your eyes, the powder is ready." Lin Zhen held Huang Yuwen's face and looked around, very satisfied, and asked Chen Xing and Gu Lin Zhongyan next to him, "How is it?"

Chen Xing looked at Huang Yuwen's face: "It's amazing, Uncle Lin, this is like changing Yuwen's face."

Lin Zhen smiled and said: "It's not that exaggerated, it's because Yuwen was originally born well, and after the powder was patted on, it showed that the seven-point goodness was very good."

Applying powder is the beginning. Lin Zhen supported Huang Yuwen's face: "Now I will trim his eyebrows, and then make the eyebrows clearer and more suitable for him."

Huang Yuwen, who was being manipulated, was ready to be similar to those people on the street, but seeing Chen Xing's reaction, it seemed that that was not the case. He reached out and touched his face, and found that his skin was smooth, and There is no feeling of tightness and dryness in winter at all.

Huang Yuwen looked at Lin Zhen, wanting to see what he was like, but was stopped by Lin Zhen: "Don't move, be careful to shave off your eyebrows."

Huang Yuwen shaved off his eyebrows as soon as he heard it, and didn't dare to move, so he sat obediently on the stool.

Soon, Lin Zhen, who just trimmed his protruding eyebrows, took the eyebrow pencil Dai bought in a shop outside, added some along his eyebrows, and rubbed some on his dry lips. Color, lip balm with only moisturizing effect.

"Okay, see for yourself." Lin Zhen let go of his face, moved the stool back to where he was sitting, and handed the bronze mirror to him.

Huang Yuwen held the bronze mirror in his hand, and saw that the figure in the bronze mirror was not the pale face and red lips he thought, but a very handsome appearance. He felt that his eyebrows were drooping a little before, and he didn't look very energetic. , the current one is in line with his expectations.

Moreover, his face looked better than before, and his whole person looked different.

"Also, it's pretty pretty." Huang Yuwen held the bronze mirror and looked up, down, left, and right.

"It looks good. The flower water and powder I used just now are the best proportions that I have tried many times. Not only is it very suitable for human skin, but what I am pursuing is your natural beauty." Chen Xinghe Huang Yuwen's skin is different, it is more yellowish and rougher. Lin Zhen added purple heart rice powder to the ordinary powder. At the same time, he asked him to make another flower water, and made it for him while talking to Huang Yuwen.

Not to mention, his triangular cat's kung fu is not bad.