Chapter 77 Sewing and Incense Making



After that, Yi Qingqing began to check the two new skills she had obtained by signing in today.

【Sewing skills teaching course】

[Flower Entanglement (Level 2 92%) (Enter)]

【Incense Making Skills Teaching Course】

[Bai Luohuai (Level 5 99%) (Enter)]

The names of the teachers of these two skill teaching courses are both nice, and Yi Qingqing chose the advanced sewing skills teaching course.

Inside was a small blue brick and tile house. The room was not big, but the windows were bright and clean, and there was a small courtyard outside the house.

Judging from the pattern of the blue bricks, it should be the small courtyard where she signed up for her sewing skills.

There is also a sewing machine in the room that is a bit old but well preserved, carefully covered with coarse cloth.

A gray-haired old woman was sitting on the kang, making insoles with a cloth basket at hand.

"Here you are. I am your teacher for the sewing skills course. You can call me Granny Hua. I learned sewing skills from my mother. I am not as good as hers in many ways, but my tailoring and sewing skills are still among the best. I only know how to make comfortable and practical clothes, and that is all I can teach you..."

I listened to Grandma Hua introducing the sewing course she taught like she was chatting with her family. To put it simply, she only knew the most basic and practical sewing skills. When making clothes, shoes and socks, she only pursued comfort and practicality, and didn't know much about aesthetics. She learned the clothing making skills that ordinary people needed, and didn't know how to embroider or decorate.

But she is also an experienced tailor, and occasionally regular customers would come to her house with cloth and ask her to make clothes. Among them, the shoes she makes are durable and comfortable, which is a unique feature.

Granny Hua's skill level is less than level 3, which makes her a bit biased, but it's just right in this era.

Although she likes beautiful clothes, this is the reality now. Hardship and simplicity are the most respected qualities of this era. It is okay in big cities, but in the countryside, if you wear fancy clothes every day, you will only attract more gossip and it will be inconvenient for you to work.

So everything that Grandma Hua could teach her was very practical.

Apart from anything else, once she has learned this, she can go to the textile factory and sign a few pieces of cloth, and then make something for herself, such as the lining of the rabbit fur coat she was preparing to make for herself.

There are more options for sending things home. Making a set of clothes or a pair of shoes for her parents would probably be the best gift.

And once you have learned these basic things, when the situation becomes more relaxed in the future and you want to make beautiful clothes, you can design them yourself, or it’s not too late to find similar skills to learn.

Yi Qingqing is very satisfied with this skill.

Continue to watch another skill course: Incense Making.

As soon as she entered the skill teaching mode, she was attracted by the beauty in a white ink-wash cheongsam sitting under a big tree full of locust flowers.

This yard, this tree, and this person are as beautiful as a painting, although of course we have to ignore the unpainted coffins piled up in the corridor, and the paper figurines and gold ingots in the shop in front.

The beauty sat in front of a long wooden table, grinding perfume powder carefully. Her posture was upright, and the rustling sound made people calm down.

"Why are you standing there like an idiot? If you want to learn how to make incense, you must first learn how to identify it. Come here and smell this one," the beauty said, and her demeanor instantly changed from gentle to mature.

This was the first time she met such a skilled teacher. Those who taught cooking would first tell her which cuisines they were good at, and those who taught sewing would first tell her what they could make. But this white beauty didn't say anything and let her smell it first.

Is this the style that 99% of level 5 incense makers should have?

Yi Qingqing walked over obediently.

This incense looked quite normal, at least it wasn't joss sticks, but more like proper incense sticks. She felt at ease knowing it wasn't burned for the dead.

Yi Qingqing went over and sniffed for a while, "It seems to smell like cypress and bamboo, but I can't quite smell the others."

Yeah, it feels a bit similar to the smell of Yun Guyuan.

"Yes, this is bamboo incense. The incense bone is made of bamboo. The incense powder contains cypress bark and a little magnolia. The main spice used is agarwood." said Bai Meiren.

"What are the effects of bamboo incense?" Yi Qingqing asked. She didn't know much about the art of incense, but she knew that different incense had different effects.

Bai Meiren shook her head. "Efficacy? This bamboo incense is a sacred incense. If you want to talk about its efficacy, it is probably used to worship the gods? Maybe it also has some effect in repelling mosquitoes."

Yi Qingqing: "..."

It's actually not for human use, and what the hell is the effect of repelling mosquitoes? Is God afraid of mosquitoes?

"I want to learn how to make some incense to use for people. Is that okay? Just start with the simplest ones," Yi Qingqing said helplessly.

"Okay, you can change to an entry-level incense. In fact, it doesn't matter what kind of incense you make. The first thing you need to learn is the shape of the incense, and then the smell of the incense." Bai Meiren is very easy to talk to. She waved her hand and the incense in front of her changed. "This is a mosquito repellent incense. The materials are simple and easy to get. The main ingredient is mugwort. It is a must-have in summer."

Yi Qingqing looked at the incense root, which was almost the same size as the previous one, but with a slightly different color, and nodded with difficulty.

However, after seeing the mosquitoes simulated in the skill teaching mode all running away in a daze after approaching the fragrance, she said it smelled really good.

Not only does she need it in her house, but she also needs it in the vegetable garden in the backyard.

Bai Meiren also knows many incense recipes. She makes a living by making sacrificial incense for the dead, but she is also good at other kinds of incense, even medicinal incense.

There is a book of incense handed down from generation to generation, which records many lost ancient incense recipes. She herself is also very knowledgeable in the art of incense and has made some innovations, creating locust incense. She said that every perfume maker should have a fragrance of his or her own, and locust incense is the one she made for herself.

Not to mention anything else, just this unique fragrance is quite appealing. And those medicinal scents can actually cure diseases, and some even have miraculous effects.

The level 5 skill is really amazing. Bai Meiren can be called a master of incense. Although she is somewhat unprofessional, with this skill, she can open a funeral shop and deliver incense to the dead.

Even though it was a skill signed in from an unlucky sign-in location, a level 5 skill is still a level 5 skill, very powerful!

Moreover, this incense-making master is so handsome, pleasing to the eyes (???)!

She also had to take the remaining sign-in point at the funeral shop, which was the 5 o'clock sign-in point.


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