I'm going to become rich after being dressed as a five-year-old woman

Early the next morning, Zhao Qiqi gathered out some leftover wood and prepared to start making the molds that would be needed next.

Others were either helping at the school or rebuilding the old house, while Hu Lan was embroidering in her room.

Saw off a piece of wood and cut it into a rectangular shape, then hollow out the inside to the right size. Zhao Qiqi plans to make a square soap, so the inside is also a rectangular shape. The bottom is not completely hollowed out, leaving two small pieces connected to the whole, and then make an extra piece of wood to fill in the container just made.

This way, you only need to push gently on the bottom to remove the soap from the mold.

The whole thing is not finished yet. Zhao Qiqi's design is that shaped wood chips can be made and put in, so that the soap can have different patterns.

Zhao Qiqi only did one, and this one took a long time to complete. It seems that he has to give this job to Gu Yansui.

As for the wood pieces to be carved, Zhao Qiqi can draw the patterns himself, but he will probably have to find some masters to teach him how to carve them.

Ready to start making soap, Zhao Qiqi put together the dead leaves he had collected at the beginning and lit a fire until all the dead leaves were burned to ashes. This was the wood ash, and he collected all the ashes.

Put it in a wooden basin, rinse it with hot water and stir it, then filter out the residue with gauze, leaving the wood ash water, and let it sit there for a while.

Put the clam shells in the fire to bake them until they are dry, then take them out, remove the burnt parts on the surface, put them in a stone bowl and grind them into fine powder. This can increase the hardness of the soap and improve its cleaning ability.

After the wood ash water has settled for a while, the clearer water on the top is the alkaline water that we will use.

Pour all the powder into an appropriate amount of alkaline water to allow it to settle, and then you can make lard.

All oils have relatively strong cleaning abilities. In this era, lard is more readily available and less expensive, so it is most appropriate to use lard.

Put the lard into the pot and boil it. Adding some water can make the lard boil out faster and be whiter. After a while, some oil droplets will float on the water. The water will slowly dry up and the oil will become more and more. When the lard turns into golden, crispy and delicious lard residue, the lard is boiled successfully.

Take out an appropriate amount of lard, add filtered alkaline water, and stir continuously. Saponification reaction will occur in this process. Then continue stirring. Even when your hands are about to break, you have to grit your teeth and continue stirring.

The mixture is stirred until it becomes the consistency of yogurt. If it is to be sold later, Zhao Qiqi will also add various essences, floral water, mint and other flavors.

Put the stuff into the mold that has not yet been decorated, cover it with a lid, and saponify it for half a month.

Zhao Qiqi planned to divide the soap-making process into several steps so that the formula could be kept secret.

There are nine processes in total: burning wood ash, filtering wood ash water, burning river mussel shells, grinding, mixing wood ash water, stirring, loading into molds, drying soap, and cutting soap. The work of stirring and grinding is more difficult, and the salary is higher than others.

But more consideration is needed as to how to arrange people to work in which positions.

"Mom, we are back."

When Zhao Qiqi saw her sons coming back sweating profusely, she remembered that she was busy making soap and had not cooked.

She took out the leftover pastries from last time and gave them to everyone to fill their stomachs: "If you are hungry, go wash your hands first and eat these first. I will go cook for you."

Zhao Qiqi cracked several eggs laid by hens, beat them, added some warm water, and steamed them together with the washed rice. She didn't cook any other dishes. She also sprinkled some chili powder and pepper salt on the leftover lard from making lard, and it became very delicious and fragrant.

Zhao Qiqi asked Gu Yansui and Gu Yantang to take out the steamed rice and steamed eggs, and Zhao Qiqi took out the lard residue.

The aroma after frying emanates all at once without even needing to be tasted, as if they haven't eaten this for a long time. This lard residue is more delicious than anything else!

Zhao Qiqi smiled and asked everyone to wash their hands and sit down. He first gave some to Old Madam Gu and Old Man Gu, and then... Zhao Qiqi looked at Xiang who was staring at the lard residue, and scooped a spoonful and put it in her bowl.

Xiang couldn't wait to eat it, it was so delicious. Life was so good now. If possible, she really wanted to stay at her sister-in-law's house for the rest of her life.

The children below were also looking at this eagerly. Zhao Qiqi scooped a spoonful for each of them. When it was Gu Yanyi's turn, he put his hand above the bowl. Zhao Qiqi knew that Gu Yanyi would not refuse to eat it.

Sure enough, the next second he took out a piece of cloth and asked Zhao Qiqi to put his portion of lard on it. Zhao Qiqi had no objection and directly scooped a spoonful of it on the cloth. Maybe he wanted to eat less.

Zhao Qiqi also sat down and prepared to tell everyone his plan while everyone was eating.

"I plan to open a workshop to make soap."

Everyone looked at each other, and no one knew what the soap Zhao Qiqi was talking about was.

"Daughter-in-law, what is soap?" Old Mrs. Gu stopped eating and asked curiously.

Mainly, she was worried about whether opening this workshop would result in a loss. She was of a certain age and had seen and known a lot of things, so she could help to refer to whether this business would result in a loss.

"Mom, it's just something you use to wash clothes."

Mrs. Gu was puzzled. How come she had never heard of this thing? In the past, they had heard that rich people would use soap nuts to wash their hair.

Zhao Qiqi saw through Mrs. Gu's doubts. She had already known about the cleaning tools here: soap beans, which not only had average cleaning abilities but were also relatively expensive. Generally, only wealthy businessmen and nobles could afford them.

"Don't worry, mom. This soap is definitely better than soapnuts."

"I plan to recruit some workers. If there are people in my family who are willing to come and work, I will also pay them."

Although there are some troublesome things in the family, after all, we know each other better and know each other well.

When Xiang heard that there was money to be made, her eyes lit up. She sat next to Zhao Qiqi, pulled Zhao Qiqi's sleeve with her hand, and said flatteringly: "Sister-in-law, look at me, what do you think of me? I am capable and smart, and I am definitely more trustworthy than those people outside."

The whole family stared at her in amazement, bragging about her products.

But it's true. Everyone understands that she is like that.