Chapter 165 The system has an additional screen

Chapter 165 The system has an additional screen

Gu Laian's face darkened and he glared at Gu Ping'an with a very unfriendly look. Gu Ping'an was not afraid of him. He bent down, picked up the firewood behind him and threw it next to him.

"Hurry up and chop! Don't think about procrastinating like this. I know how much firewood we can chop in two hours, and so does Dad. When Dad comes back and sees that you have only chopped this much, be careful that Dad may chop you for firewood!"

Gu Laian was so angry after hearing this that he dared not say anything.

He knew very well in his heart that Gu Ping'an was not trying to scare him, his father would really do this.

Holding back his anger, Gu Laian tried to pull out the axe again, but it still didn't move.

Seeing his clumsy look, Gu Tang really admired him: "Look at how stupid you are! If you shake the axe left and right a few times, and use your strength, you can slowly take it out. If you grit your teeth and force it, you will die of exhaustion and still not be able to pull it out!"

This is not random talk. The original owner has chopped wood before, so he knows some techniques.

But Gu Laian didn't listen to her at all. He just felt that Gu Tang was scolding him. He was very angry and felt very aggrieved.

He had just been scolded by Gu Ping'an, and now he was scolded by Gu Tang. It would be hard to find someone as miserable as him.

Taking a deep breath, Gu Laian wished he could raise the axe and chop it down on their heads!

If he wasn't afraid that his father would come back and really kick him out to beg, he would have left immediately. This was not a job for a human being!

Seeing that Gu Laian didn't listen to a word he said and was still struggling with the firewood and axe with gritted teeth, Gu Tang rolled his eyes, turned around and left.

Gu Ping'an didn't urge him anymore. He picked up some firewood, piled it together, and sat on it, waiting slowly.

When his father comes back, he will definitely come to check. If he is not afraid of being punished, just take his time.

Gu Tang returned to the front yard, went back to his room, lit the stove, opened a window, and the room instantly became bright.

He went to the kitchen and moved the small stone mortar into the house, then carried the kettle into the house, as well as various small bamboo bowls, etc., and placed them in the house for use.

Oh, by the way, she also cut out five palm-sized pieces of gauze and kept them for future use.

These things are used to make incense and extract dyes.

Now that she is far away from the Gu family, she can make incense as she pleases, and no longer has to worry about the Gu family getting jealous and ruining her business.

He took out the fragrance recipes from the system backpack, picked and chose, and selected four fragrances: Amorous Fragrance, Spring Message in the Snow, Lingxi Fragrance, and Cypress Fragrance.

The amorous incense is made from flowers, with flowers from all over the world, and the nature is determined by the flowers that bloom in spring, and then the fragrance is determined by summer flowers. The fragrance is sweet, pure and joyful, and the fragrance is whispering. ①

The incense in the snow is a recipe personally prepared by the great scholar Su Dongpo. When this incense is lit, it is like thousands of plum trees blooming in the snow, with a hint of warmth in the coolness.

Lingxi incense is a health-preserving incense, mainly herbal incense, which can relieve depression, remove dampness and heat, and stimulate appetite. ③

Cypress is also a health-promoting fragrance, with a mellow and sweet aroma, which can remove dryness and nourish the heart and moisten the kidneys.

After memorizing the selected fragrance recipe silently and putting it back into his backpack, Gu Tang washed his hands and began to mix the spices.

The fragrant peony, rose, jasmine, jasmine, lotus, magnolia...

The sandalwood, incense, cloves, and musk of spring in the snow...

Lingxixiang's chicken tongue fragrance, nard, patchouli...

The cypress seeds of the cypress fragrance, etc.

For the last three scents, she had all kinds of spices and could complete them all, except for the amorous scent, which was still lacking two kinds of flowers: peony and rose.

Gu Tang gathered all the flowers used in the love fragrance into his arms, and kept repeating to himself: I want peony, I want rose, I want peony, I want rose...

Then call out the system panel and use today's sign-in.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing today's sign-in! Get a copy of the "Hundred Flowers Random Gift Box"! ]

Gu Tang pursed his lips. It was time to try his luck again!

Once you open the gift box, you'll be lucky enough to get all the peonies and roses.

No luck... Either use other flowers instead of peonies and roses, or put it aside for now and choose another fragrance recipe.

Carefully putting away the flowers in his arms, Gu Tang rubbed his hands, took out the incense sticks his father bought for worshiping Buddha, and lit three of them.

Then he prayed to the Jade Emperor, Buddha, Jesus, Mary, etc.

After praying, he still felt that his sincerity was not enough, so Gu Tang knelt down and kowtowed three times, hoping to bless her to get the lucky number when she opened the blind box!

After bowing, Gu Tang clicked on the “Hundred Flowers Gift Box” and chose “Open”.

Soon, countless petals of various colors exploded and fell on the system panel.

When all the petals fell, five buds were left, and then they bloomed one by one, and the system's crisp electronic sound also sounded:

[Congratulations to the host for winning: a bag of rosemary, a bag of lavender, a bag of tuberose, a bag of iris, and a bag of marigold. ]

pretty!

Five kinds of flowers, no peonies, no roses, my hair is turning white!

Gu Tang touched his forehead. Those three kowtows just now were real. It was a big loss!

There are five kinds of flowers. I picked one at random and took it out to check. It was still a hundred kilograms package. The system has always been generous with the weight.

Without peonies and roses, the scent of love has only two options: one is to put it aside, the other is to replace it.

Gu Tang hesitated for a while and chose two, replacement!

She replaced the peonies and roses with lavender and marigolds, not knowing how the final flavor would turn out.

Gu Tang took out the lavender and marigolds and put them together with other flowers. He would have to sort them out later.

Some flowers need to have their cores and stems removed, while others need their stamen tips used. This requires patience and picking out each flower one by one.

The spices of the other three types are mostly processed semi-finished products in powder form. They only need to be mixed with sticky powder and then shaped.

Gu Tang didn’t win the sticky flour draw and didn’t buy it, so she chose to use glutinous rice flour instead.

Glutinous rice flour has no odor when burning, which is no different from sticky powder, so there is no need to worry about destroying the overall smell of the incense.

After mixing each kind of fragrant spice evenly and setting them aside, Gu Tang then began to extract the dye.

She used the "Five-Color Series Gift Pack" she had obtained by signing in previously to extract five colors: red, blue, yellow, purple, and green.

To get the desired effect, Gu Tang added water to the mixed spices and stirred them into a ball. Then he randomly pinched off a small piece and kept rubbing and kneading it in his hands.

The "incense-making skill" on his body activated automatically, his hands became slightly warm, and his hands seemed to have independent consciousness, which was magical and superb.

At this moment, the system panel suddenly popped out on its own, scaring Gu Tang without any warning, and the movement of his hands stopped immediately.

Why did the system panel pop up?

Just as she was about to close the system panel, her eyes suddenly focused and she discovered that a smaller blue screen had appeared next to the system panel!

Gu Tang was a little confused. When she got up earlier, she called up the system panel to check the time, but there was no blue screen at that time.

So, this just came out of nowhere?

The blue screen was empty, with nothing on it. Gu Tang was very curious and reached out to click on it.

The next moment, the screen flashed and a bunch of options appeared on it.

After a careful look, I found that these options are related to incense, including the types of incense, the shapes of the incense bodies, etc., which are the same as the options on the screen on the top of the incense machine.

Seeing this, Gu Tang also understood a little bit. This screen was probably related to her skills.

However, this wasn’t the first time she made incense after acquiring the skill. If it was really related to her skill, why didn’t it come out before?

Could it be that the skills were just acquired at that time and many functions have not yet been integrated?

Gu Tang shook his head, unable to understand what was going on.

But at present, this change is not a bad thing, but makes it more convenient for her to make incense.

In this case, it doesn’t matter whether you understand it or not.

I tried to silently recite "Backflow Incense", and I saw the options on the blue screen automatically jump, and all the options disappeared, leaving only the "Backflow Incense" option.

Gu Tang's eyes lit up, and he silently said again: Peony,

Soon, a peony flower appeared on the screen.

Immediately afterwards, a disassembled video appeared in Gu Tang's mind, which showed how to pinch a peony flower with hands, with the help of tools.

There is no limit to the tools that can be used, any sharpened wooden stick will do.

Gu Tang looked around the house, but couldn't find the sharpened stick. However, he did have the "Endless" sewing set he had drawn earlier.

There were a needle and a pair of scissors inside, and Gu Tang took them out as auxiliary tools.

With the help of auxiliary tools, a peony flower was soon born in Gu Tang's hands.

At the moment of completion, a line of words appeared on the blue screen: Backflow Fragrance, Flower Shape, Peony Flower.

The peony held in the palm of the hand is about the size of an egg, with a full flower shape, layered petals, and even the stamens in the middle are lifelike.

Gu Tang felt that this time he was pinching the peony more skillfully and fluently than the last time he pinched the four-leaf clover. He guessed that his skill proficiency was improving as he made incense more often.

In addition to the increased proficiency, the realism has also increased a lot. For example, the "peony" in the palm of your hand, as long as it is dyed, it will be a peony flower that is so lifelike that it can be mistaken for a real one.

Gu Tang took the extracted dye and chose the purple one.

Use a brush to apply the paint mixed into a thin paste onto the peony, carefully applying it inside and out. After a short while, a purple peony is completed.

It looks a bit like Wei Zi, but the color is thicker and richer than Wei Zi.

As the paint gradually dries, the rich purple color hangs on the "peony" very obediently, with an oily texture, and no traces of painting can be seen, just like a real peony that is about to be picked.

This paint is wrong...

Gu Tang frowned slightly, dipped his index finger in some paint, and rubbed it together with his thumb. Both fingers were dyed purple, the same rich and thick color, and the color was extremely beautiful.

No matter how beautiful it is, without the help of modern technology, the colors of handmade dyes should not be so rich and bright.

What's more, her method of extracting dyes was very simple and crude. Under normal circumstances, the resulting dyes should not be very good.

She thought it would take an hour or two to extract the dye, but unexpectedly, the dyeing plants were very fragile in her hands.

She only used a small mortar to pound it hundreds of times, and the plants were crushed into very fine powder.

After she filters out the dye with gauze, it should be dried in the shade before mixing it with seed oil.

But she didn't wait for it to dry in the shade, she scooped up a lump of wet dye and mixed it with seed oil to make purple pigment.

I had thought that the paint produced using such a crude method would be of off color and difficult to apply, but unexpectedly, the paint was so rich and oily in color, and very easy to apply, without any sense of craftsmanship.

From this point of view, the dyed plants given by the system must be unique.

In order to confirm this conjecture, Gu Tang took out the purple grass he had bought in Bei'an City earlier.

Just now she had extracted the purple dye using the comfrey given by the system. Now she was using the same dyeing plant and the same method to extract the dye, and then making a comparison.

The first step is to crush the dried comfrey.

But soon, Gu Tang was defeated at this step.

The comfrey bought from Bei'an City was difficult to crush, and she spent a long time trying but still couldn't grind it into powder.

Since it cannot be crushed by pounding, use another method - chop it into pieces with a knife and boil it in water.

Go to the kitchen to get a knife, chop the comfrey into pieces, then put it in a kettle to boil, and finally filter it.

After struggling for a long time, Gu Tang finally made a small lump of dye.

I dug out a piece at random and added seed oil to mix it. The result was a paint that was not correct or shiny at all. When I randomly applied it on paper, the color was dark and matte, and there were many impurities.

It seems that the dyeing plants given by the system are really unique.

She said that without modern technology and various additives when extracting dyes, how could she extract such a beautiful purple color with her crude extraction techniques that were unbearable to look at.

It turns out that the things given by the system are good.

Gu Tang's mind moved. The dyeing plants given by the system are unique, but what about other items?

Like the various spices she drew?

Is it also different in the same way?

Looking at the many spices on the table, it is unlikely to try them all.

Gu Tang pondered for a while and decided to treat them as all the same, all unique, and sell them at twice the price!

After all, she has a monopoly business and no one can bargain with her for the price. It doesn’t matter if she sets a high price, she can still sell it.

With the purple peony as the beginning, Gu Tang then pinched out nine more peonies to make it a complete piece.

In addition to peonies, she also pinched plum blossoms, bamboo, chrysanthemums, and orchids.

She had discussed with her father beforehand and planned to sell the first batch of backflow incense to scholars, using them as a springboard to gradually develop.

Since it is sold to scholars, the shape of the incense should be based on the scholars' preferences.

I believe that there is no scholar who does not love plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum. They must love peonies as well. After all, peonies are a kind of flower that can rarely be grown in Bei'an City.

Scarcity makes things valuable; the less available they are, the more sought after they are.

Everyone loves peonies, and everyone buys items related to peonies. This incense made in the shape of peony will also be sought after by everyone.

The more Gu Tang thought about it, the more beautiful it became. He hummed a little tune while adding color to the backflow incense.

Ten peonies, which she planned to dye red, yellow, purple and green.

The plum blossoms are dyed red, yellow and green, while the bamboos are green and purple.

Orchid is a whole plant with green leaves and flowers in three colors: red, yellow and purple.

Chrysanthemums come in many colors, including red, yellow, blue, green, and purple, all five colors are available.

As the number of times he made incense increased, Gu Tang's speed became faster and faster. He could make several in a quarter of an hour. Fifty backflow incense sticks, which he finally refined, only took him a little more than two hours.

The faster you pinch, the slower you will be at coloring, especially for double-petaled peonies, where each petal must be carefully colored without any flaws.

After coloring, the backflow incense should be carefully placed aside and allowed to dry slowly in the shade.

①②③④ are all from online information.

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