The poor little girl who traveled through the book, her father was lazy, her mother was stingy, and

Not all efforts lead to good results.

For example, Lin Xiaoman uses ancient methods to make soap.

She mixed lard and lye water in ratios of one to one, one to two, one to three, and one to four, and then kept stirring. When her left hand got tired, she switched to her right hand, alternating over the cycle. By the time she finished and put everything into the bamboo tube, both her arms were useless.

Cover the bamboo tube with gauze, seal it with a rope, and leave it in the house overnight.

The next day, Lin Xiaoman got up early and excitedly took out the four bamboo tubes and split them open one by one.

The contents of the first bamboo tube did not take shape.

The one in a bamboo tube was formed, but unfortunately there was a lot of powdery substance on the surface.

One surface has cracks,

The last one has oil on the surface, which seems to be the separation of oil and water.

Of the four, not one was successful.

Lin Xiaoman felt like crying but had no tears, and she observed a moment of silence for her arms which were still so weak that she couldn't lift them.

However, Lin Xiaoman did not plan to throw away the used soap. He cut it into soap bars half the width of his palm, put them in a bamboo basket and hung it under the porch to dry in the shade. He would check on it again after three months.

The one that was still soft and had not taken shape was directly discarded. The one with cracks was too brittle and showed signs of breaking and cracking if a little force was applied. In the end, it could only be left to dry as a whole piece together with the other cut soaps.

The first attempt at making soap ended in failure.

But Lin Xiaoman is a person who doesn't believe in evil. He thinks failure is not scary, but what is scary is having your fighting spirit crushed by failure.

Lin Xiaoman calls himself an indestructible cockroach, and he stands up wherever he is crushed.

Wrong ratio of oil to lye water?

Want to add something else?

Or is the mixing temperature wrong?

Or maybe she didn't stir it long enough and put it into the bamboo tube before it was completely saponified.

Lin Xiaoman wrote down all the questions and compared the ratios of lard and alkaline water from yesterday one by one.

Li Taohua found it strange that Xiaoman had made some weird things these past two days.

"Xiao Man, why are you boiling lard again? Where's the pot of lard from yesterday? It ran out so quickly?"

"Yeah, this time the stuff I made used more oil."

"It's the pieces you hang up. I think they look a bit like pancreas..."

Li Taohua watched as a large basin of lard turned into pieces of pancreas, and her whole body emitted signs of heartache.

"Mom, that's soap, for washing clothes, but I failed miserably yesterday."

Lin Xiaoman felt a little disappointed.

Li Taohua tried to persuade him, "Xiaoman is amazing. He can make soap. But that's what the rich and powerful use. It's very expensive. One piece costs one or two taels of silver. We can't afford it. We can just use soap beans!"

"Mom, I must make soap." Lin Xiaoman vowed: "Soap is made to be sold to rich people. Ordinary people really can't afford it."

Just like she had just traveled through the book to become "Lin Xiaoman", the quilts and duvet covers at home were so dirty. Besides being lazy, it was also troublesome to use soap nuts and they were not easy to wash clean, which accounted for 30 to 40 percent of the reasons.

"Okay, go ahead and try, but don't destroy the small treasury."

Li Taohua did not stop Lin Xiaoman from making soap. Xiaoman went to the county town and spent so much money to buy her a gold hairpin without blinking an eye. Look, is there any girl within a ten-mile radius who is so capable?

Only Xiaoman!

Such a capable and smart little girl will probably be able to make soap successfully in no time.

Li Taohua has a mysterious confidence in Lin Xiaoman, and she herself can't explain the reason.

"Mom, don't worry. I'm a money-grubber and I won't empty my small treasury."