"Squeak~~"

The courtyard gate was pushed open from the outside.

Jiang Xun rushed in, dragging two bamboo stalks with him. He said cheerfully, "Wanwan, I've cut the bamboo back."

"Fourth Brother, you've worked hard." Jiang Wanwan smiled, showing her small white teeth.

"Hehe, this little bit of hard work is nothing. Wanwan, what else do I need to do? Do I need to grind the charcoal and mugwort into powder like last time?" Jiang Xun was overjoyed to be praised by her younger sister.

The hardship of cutting bamboo on the mountain earlier vanished, and he felt that he was strong enough to swing two oxen away!

"Yes, that's right," Jiang Wanwan nodded.

“No problem, leave all the heavy lifting to me.” Jiang Xun rolled up his sleeves, poured some charcoal from the cloth bag into the stone mortar, assumed a horse stance, grabbed the wooden stick with both hands, and began to pound the charcoal.

Jiang Wanwan wasn't idle either. While Jiang Xun was pounding charcoal, she picked up a wood-chopping knife and began processing the bamboo.

Because mosquito coils made with rolling pins and knives are ugly and disliked by many shop owners, it is necessary to change the shape of mosquito coils.

Jiang Wanwan suddenly had a whimsical idea and remembered a certain cockroach-killing medicine used in modern times.

This brand of cockroach bait uses a syringe design, and the bait is dispensed in a uniform shape.

Therefore, she plans to make a mosquito coil shape using bamboo, which might improve the problem of the mosquito coil's shape.

Jiang Wanwan used a wood-chopping knife to cut bamboo into sections two fingers wide, ensuring each section had a node. She then used a tool to chisel a small hole in each node. Next, she cut bamboo into sections one finger wide, which would be used to press mosquito coils. This section also needed to have a node at the top, and its surface had to be smoothed.

Finally, insert a bamboo tube about the width of a finger joint into the large bamboo tube, and you've made a tool for squeezing mosquito coils.

Following the same pattern, Jiang Wanwan made four or five more syringe-style mosquito coil molds.

About half an hour later, Jiang Xun and Jiang Wanwan had crushed the charcoal and mugwort into powder.

Jiang Wanwan mixed mugwort, dried tangerine peel, elm wood starch, realgar, and charcoal in a certain proportion, stirred it evenly, and kneaded it into a dough.

"Fourth Brother, bring me a winnowing basket." Jiang Wanwan instructed as she stuffed a mosquito coil into the syringe-like mold.

"Here you go." Jiang Xun placed the winnowing basket on the wooden shelf.

Jiang Wanwan squeezed the mosquito coil into strips with both hands.

Because not much water is added when kneading the mosquito coil, the coil is not moist enough, so some force is needed when squeezing it.

Fortunately, the extruded mosquito coil strips are very uniform, which directly solves the problem of the mosquito coil's ugly appearance.

"It's a success," Jiang Wanwan said with a smile, her eyes beaming with joy.

Jiang Xun was also a little excited, "Great! This time the mosquito coils don't look so bad anymore. Our mosquito coils will definitely sell like hotcakes!"

Then, he picked up a syringe mold, looking eager to try it out.

"Wanwan, your brother will help too," Jiang Xun said.

“Okay. Fourth Brother, after you squeeze out the mosquito coil, you need to coil it four times, like this,” Jiang Wanwan said gently.

After learning how to do it, Jiang Xun also started to put it into practice.

Jiang Wanwan then made another type of mosquito coil, which was based on the first type of mosquito coil, but with the addition of some osmanthus-scented mosquito coil powder bought from the mall.

In this way, even if someone were to discover the materials they used to make mosquito coils and then imitate them to make mosquito coils for sale, they would not be able to imitate mosquito coils mixed with modern osmanthus-scented mosquito coil powder.

This can be considered a unique secret recipe, a kind of anti-counterfeiting mark.