: Female candidates for imperial examinations should not be used as cannon fodder (11)

"OK!"

Ning Xi's eyes lit up. If she could make a distiller, then the essential oil matter would be settled.

The sound of "dong dong dong" was heard from a shop.

When Ning Xi arrived at the blacksmith's shop with He Shiyan, she immediately saw a big, shirtless man in the yard, holding a sledgehammer and forging iron.

When he saw them, the blacksmith stopped and laughed, "He Sanlang is here, why do you have time to come to me today?"

Ning Xi looked back at He Shiyan in confusion.

He Shiyan lowered his head slightly and said softly: "I'll tell you when I get home."

As he said that, he walked towards the blacksmith and said, "Brother Xu, I have a drawing that I want to show you and see if you can type it out."

Blacksmith Xu handed the sledgehammer to his apprentice, took the drawings and sat down at the stone table next to the well in the yard.

"Yes." He Shiyan nodded simply.

After the water in the stove is heated, the water vapor will mix with the fragrance of flowers and flow upward.

Ning Xi's eyes lit up and she nodded quickly.

Ning Xi thought for a while and gestured: "I want to make such a big jar. I want you to make a sieve plate at the bottom of the jar that can separate water and other things, and then the entire jar is closed."

Ning Xi was busy looking for something to do and used the half bottle of essential oil she had obtained earlier to make soap with a rich floral fragrance.

Ning Xi asked him, "Are you going to tell me about breaking off the engagement now?"

Blacksmith Xu had never seen such an object before, so he stayed in the yard to watch Ning Xi operate it. Standing beside him was He Shiyan.

"Quenching?" Ning Xi didn't know why.

However, with essential oils, she can make more soaps, which is more profitable than soap, which is good.

Within a few days, Ning Xi got the newly improved distiller from Tiejiang Xu, and the essential oil she obtained this time was twice as much as last time.

He Shiyan was deeply touched when he heard her last words. He had no relatives in this world.

Ning Xi couldn't help but look forward to it, staring at what was flowing out of the tube. After waiting for a long time, until the water in the distiller was almost boiled dry, she got less than half a cup of essential oil.

Ning Xi moved a small wooden stool and sat there, constantly adding water to the compartment next to the pipe.

He Shiyan was sitting at the stone table in the courtyard reading a book. He had something on his mind and couldn't concentrate.

He Shiyan was silent for a moment before saying, "Yes, you will be seventeen in a few months. I'm afraid I'll delay you."

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"So, he is thanking you now." Ning Xi followed him with her hands behind her back, and casually praised, "Brother He is so awesome."

Ning Xi looked at the simple alembic, grabbed a handful of flower petals, put it in, and then placed the alembic on the stove to heat it.

He Shiyan nodded and returned his gaze to the book.

"And these two tubes can lead the air out, and put cold water in the compartments of the tubes."

The whole yard was filled with a particularly pleasant aroma.

He mused: "The engagement should have been terminated after the junior sister found someone she fell in love with. However, the teacher and the junior wife passed away, and it was difficult for her to live alone. In order to support the family smoothly, I never mentioned this matter."

Tiejiang Xu opened his eyes wide in shock, "What is this? It's actually more fragrant than the powder from the rouge shop."

The gas mixed with floral fragrance comes to the outlet from the winding condenser tube.

"Can we not mention the dissolution of the engagement for now?"

Blacksmith Xu waved his hand, "Hey, you don't know how to blacksmith. I can't explain this at the moment, but I can help you improve this so-called still."

Only then did Tiejiang Xu notice that the little girl in front of him was the owner of the drawings, so he listened to her continue.

"Thank you very much!" Ning Xi suddenly stood up.

"You are the only person I know here."

With a good still, she started a soap business in full swing.

Unexpectedly, Tiejiang Xu said thoughtfully: "You can give it a try, but it may take a while."

When it comes to the word wife, after Xu Tiejiang left, the atmosphere between Ning Xi and He Shiyan was a little subtle.

Ning Xi put away the essential oil and said, "This is called essential oil, but it's just not extracted perfectly. It takes so many flowers to get just a little."

He pointed to the two lines on the picture, "What are these?"

"Thank you, Brother He. We will live together for a long time in the future. It would be awkward for you to call me by my first name. How about you call me Xiao Xi." Ning Xi resolved the crisis and regained her energy.

With a full look on his face, he went back to making soap.

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Ning Xi looked back at him, "Brother He, what's wrong?"

After reading it, he frowned slightly. The Xu family has been blacksmithing for generations. Not to mention ordinary farm tools and ornaments, they have also seen a lot of drawings of weapons. However, after studying the utensils in this picture for a while, he still felt a little confused.

Can't figure it out.

The next moment, he responded like a ghost, "Okay."

He Shiyan signaled to Ning Xi.

Ning Xi wiped her hands, walked up to him, looked into his eyes, "I don't have the right person now, are you willing to continue to take me in?"

It is too difficult to promote it in large quantities and put it into production.

Blacksmith Xu said, the price of this special thing is much more expensive. Since you are the one brought by Brother He, your processing fee will not be counted. You can just pay for the materials after it is done.

After all, it was too complicated, and Ning Xi didn't have much confidence that the blacksmiths of this era could make a still.

Tiejiang Xu thought for a while and suddenly said, "Miss Ning, what you are doing is very much like quenching."

On the way back, Ning Xi was still confused, "Brother He, are you familiar with that Blacksmith Xu?"

He watched a cloud of mist flow down the two iron pipes and soaked in water, not knowing what use it had.

Ning Xi suddenly chuckled, "Afraid of delaying me? That's why you broke off the engagement?"

It happened to be the time when the mountain flowers were in full bloom in spring. Ning Xi picked a lot of jasmine flowers, peach blossoms, and apricot flowers when she came back and put the petals into a wooden basin. The whole yard was filled with a fresh fragrance.

Within a week, Ning Xi received the still from Blacksmith Xu. It looked like a heavy black iron lump.

He Shiyan had never seen a woman with such a straightforward temperament. He didn't know what to say for a moment, and the two of them returned home in silence.

He Shiyan walked as he walked, "We used to be classmates, but now he has given up taking the imperial examination. His father died unexpectedly two years ago, and the iron shop has a lot of bad debts. I just happened to do him a favor."

Ning Xi stepped forward and said, "This is called a condenser tube."

Blacksmith Xu picked up the iron knot and said, "You're welcome. I didn't know before that you were Brother He's unmarried wife. If I had known, I would never have accepted the money."

He put down the book and looked at the little girl who was immersed in her work, "Ning Xi."

At the same time, things did not go so smoothly for the male protagonist Wang Linzhang who was far away in the capital.

Ning Xi was making soap at home, and the little white cat was showing her a light screen to see how Wang Linzhang was doing.

Wang Linzhang was not taken back to the Prime Minister's Mansion by Wang Zuo as in the original work, but was placed in a villa.

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Chapter completed!