Chapter 217 Snow Cream
Wu Ma stuck her head out to look into the living room and saw a group of people gathered around a small stove, doing something unknown.
She looked at Juanjuan, whose face was covered in oil stains and who was sitting on a small stool, holding a small bowl and eating, and could only smile helplessly.
Fortunately, she had already refined the oil, otherwise I was really afraid that she would be burned.
She put the freshly refined lard where Juanjuan couldn't reach it, walked behind Juanjuan, and tied her loose and dry hair into a bun.
After tying my hair, I started preparing today's meal.
When Juanjuan saw her start to pick vegetables, he put down his small bowl and ran over, squatting opposite her, looking at her with his little face.
"Are you preparing to help your aunt?" Aunt Wu understood everything when she saw her expression.
"Yeah." Juanjuan smiled brightly and nodded.
Mother Wu took out a handkerchief from her apron and gently wiped the oil stains off her face.
Juanjuan looked at the strange thing on the ground. It was something she had never seen before. One end was pointed, and the other end was fat. "What is this?"
"This is spring bamboo shoots. They come out of the soil every spring." Aunt Wu said to her while peeling the bamboo shoots.
Juanjuan stretched out her hand and imitated her, picking at the shell of the bamboo shoots for a long time, but she couldn't get rid of a piece of skin.
Wu Ma reached out and took the bamboo shoots from her hand, pointing to the seam where the shells meet. "You have to peel them from here, otherwise you won't be able to peel them off."
"Juanjuan, come here, Juanjuan." Juanjuan was very anxious, fearing that Wu Ma would peel all the bamboo shoots in a while.
"Okay, okay, come here, come here." Aunt Wu handed her the bamboo shoots in her hand.
Juanjuan found the place she mentioned and pulled the bamboo shoot shell off with force.
However, it found that after peeling off one layer, there was still more inside, as if it would never be finished peeling.
She was very curious about how many layers there were in there.
Several people in the hall were gathered around the small stove, looking at the melted beeswax, not knowing what to do next.
Si Ning suggested, "Why don't we take the small bowl down first and wait for it to cool down a bit before putting other things in it?"
"I think it's okay. Otherwise, with such a hot temperature, pouring other things in may not work." Madam Si nodded in agreement.
Several people in the hall gathered around the small bowl, waiting for the temperature to drop.
Madam Si reached out and touched the outside of the small bowl. It was no longer hot, but only warm.
"Should we pour in tea oil first, or something else?" She looked at the people gathered around her.
Several people were also confused and didn't know how to proceed to the next step.
A pair of small black hands reached out, grabbed the tea oil and poured it into the bowl.
The people around all looked at the owner of the little hand and saw Juanjuan smiling happily.
"Miss, come and wash your hands, your hands are covered in mud." Aunt Wu shouted towards the living room.
"Here I come, here I come!" Juanjuan let go of the tea oil and ran away with her short legs.
"Okay, no need to choose, someone has chosen for us." Si Ning shook his head helplessly.
Si Jinchen looked at the contents of the bowl and asked, "Should we stir it?"
"Let me try." Liu Yueya took the chopsticks and stirred in the bowl.
"Pour the pearl powder and rose water in now?" Old Lady Si asked the few people.
"Should be putting it in now!" Si Ning was not too sure.
They put in pearl powder and finally a small amount of rose water.
Liu Yueya stirred the paste in the bowl. The beeswax had cooled down and now mixed with pearl powder and tea oil, it became a smooth white paste.
A group of people stretched their heads to look at the contents of the bowl: "Is it done?"
"I don't know!" Si Ning was not sure either.
As she spoke, she reached out and took a little from the bowl, rubbed it on the back of her hand, and spread the paste with her hands, feeling the effect of the upper and lower hands.
It seems pretty good.
I bent down and smelled the scent of the vanishing cream on the back of my hand. It had a light rose scent, not pungent but very pleasant.
“I think it’s quite useful.”
"Let me try." Old Madam Si also took some and rubbed it on her hands. She could feel the wetness on the back of her hands.
After wiping, she felt the skin on the back of her hand, which was smooth and moist.
"It's good, Yueya, Baiqiao, you try it." She asked others to try it as well.
Liu Yueya was also very curious about what the vanishing cream she made looked like.
"Why are you all here?" When Lin Jingqiu came to pick up Liu Yueya, he saw them all gathered around the coffee table in the living room, not knowing what they were doing.
"Jingqiu, come here quickly. We just made a vanishing cream and were wondering how it would turn out. Come and take a look." Si Ning waved at her.
"Falling cream?" Lin Jingqiu looked at Liu Yueya with a puzzled look on his face. "Didn't Yueya bring a box today? Isn't it good?"
She was confused and didn't know why they suddenly started making vanishing cream.
But she still sat next to Si Ning, reached out to take some vanishing cream from the bowl and rubbed it on her hands to feel it.
She lowered her head and smelled the scent of the vanishing cream on her hand, and then carefully felt the feeling on her skin: "It feels pretty good. How did you make it?"
Liu Yueya pointed to the things on the table: "Mom, these are the things."
Lin Jingqiu looked at the things on the table and was speechless: "Is this what they made?"
"Yeah." Liu Yueya nodded.
Si Ning turned to look at her: "What do you think?"
"I think it's better than Western ones. It's more moisturizing, and the fragrance is not as pungent as Western vanishing creams." Lin Jingqiu thought of something when he said this.
"Are you planning to make vanishing cream and sell it?" she asked, looking at them inquiringly.
"Actually, we didn't intend to sell vanishing cream. We were originally considering lipstick, and this vanishing cream was purely an accident." Si Ning did not hide his idea.
"I do know how to make lipstick. Rouge Button's new lipstick has gradient colors and is very popular."
"Some foreign businessmen even asked me if Rouge Button's lip balm could be sold in bulk. They wanted to buy a batch to sell back home."
Lin Jingqiu came here today for this matter, wanting to see if it can be mass-produced.
Making money from foreigners is more profitable than making money from Chinese people, and they all need a lot of money now.
"Just lipstick and vanishing cream aren't enough, unless the vanishing cream can have more functions." Si Ning looked at the bowl on the table.
"Aunt, what if we add some medicinal herbs in it?" Bai Qiao thought of some ancient beauty recipes in the book.
"Tell me about it?" Lin Jingqiu also became interested.
"Pearl powder can whiten the skin, but we can add other medicinal herbs to lighten spots and delay aging." Bai Qiao expressed her thoughts.
Si Ning smiled: "This is a good idea."
She said and looked at Lin Jingqiu: "What do you think?"
"I think that's great. We can also start with Chinese medicinal herbs and see if we can make other useful things."
Lin Jingqiu thought this was a great idea, but it still needed some careful planning.
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