Travel to the mountains and make a fortune in silence

Looking at his wife's rosy cheeks, like a ripe apple, Mu Nan couldn't resist and gently kissed her lips, like a breeze rippling across a lake.

He felt as if the little girl's red lips had a magical power, and he covered them with his own and kissed them several more times before forcing himself to stop.

Wang Qing'er slept like a sleepy kitten last night, completely forgetting that she had fallen asleep in the bathtub.

The next morning, when she woke up, she found a porcelain vase on the table in her room. Inside the vase were several delicate peach blossoms, as if they had just been picked from a fairyland. The petals were still covered with glistening dew, like sparkling pearls.

She leaned closer and took a sniff; a delicate fragrance wafted into her nostrils. "Where did Brother Mu Nan pick these peach blossoms so early in the morning?"

After washing up, Wang Qing'er went to the front yard and happened to see Mu Nan arranging sugarcane. She walked over gracefully and called out softly, "Brother Mu Nan."

Mu Nan turned her head and asked her with concern, "Why didn't you sleep a little longer?"

"I've had enough sleep, why are you cutting sugarcane so early?" Wang Qing'er asked, looking at the sugarcane covered in dew.

Mu Nan smiled and replied, "The sugarcane we cut yesterday wasn't brought back yet, so I just went to pick it up."

"Oh, Brother Mu Nan, where did you pick the peach blossoms in the room?" Wang Qing'er asked impatiently, remembering the peach blossoms in the room.

"There's a wild peach grove near the sugarcane grove. I discovered it by chance yesterday while chasing goats."

"I just picked a few branches this morning, do you like them?" Wang Qing'er smiled as brightly as spring flowers. "Yes, I like them! But could you take me to pick some more today?"

"Okay." Mu Nan nodded, her eyes full of tenderness.

"By the way, do you know if there are any distillation barrels for sale in town?" Wang Qing'er asked again.

Mu Nan asked with some confusion, "What do you need to distill wine barrels for? We have several at home."

Wang Qing'er exclaimed with delight, "You have one at home? That's wonderful!"

Mu Nan continued, "Oh, so your family brews their own wine. If you need some, I'll go get it for you."

Wang Qing'er happily said, "Okay, let's go together."

Mu Nan led Wang Qing'er to a storage room, where there were four or five distillation barrels, several iron pots, and several clay stoves of various sizes.

The storage room was piled up full, but she didn't know exactly what was inside; it was mostly tools and the like.

Wang Qing'er sighed inwardly, "Aside from being burdened with debt and eating a little worse, the Mu family is practically perfect in every other way! This courtyard, and all the tools they have, they have everything you could want."

Wang Qing'er pointed to a relatively large distillation vat on the shelf and said, "Brother Mu Nan, let's move this one."

Mu Nan asked, "Does it need to be this big?"

"Yes, we need a bigger one, and we also need that big pot."

"it is good."

Mu Nan carried a large iron pot in one hand and a large wooden bucket in the other as he left the storeroom. Wang Qing'er went forward to help, but he refused to let her.

She had no choice but to follow them all the way to the well and help them wash the two big things clean.

Although Mu Nan was very curious about what Wang Qing'er was going to do, she didn't ask anything. After cleaning the distillation barrels and large pots, Wang Qing'er laid all the toon sprouts in a bamboo sieve and then put them in the yard to dry.

There were more than a dozen bamboo sieves of various sizes. Luckily, we have a lot of these tools at home, otherwise it would have been quite troublesome to dry so many things.

After breakfast, Wang Qing'er also carried two baskets and went up the mountain with Mu Nan. Today she was going to pick peach blossoms, and she also brought Mu Qin up the mountain. Mu Qin carried her own basket.

Wang Cuiying thought about it and then picked up a basket and went up the mountain. She mainly wanted to pick some mushrooms, as there was a huge demand for mushrooms right now.

If the toon sprouts are available for sale, I'll go pick them this afternoon.

Manager Li would also send people to deliver mushrooms and bamboo shoots to Manxianglou Restaurant in the neighboring Dong'ao Town every day, saying that if the braised offal sold well, it would also be sold in restaurants in both towns.

The Manxianglou restaurant in Dong'ao Town is managed by Manager Li's son. If business is good, both father and son will be rewarded, so Manager Li is very attentive to these new foods.

When they arrived at the sugarcane grove, Wang Qing'er wasn't in a hurry to pick peach blossoms. Instead, she picked some goat milk fruit for Mu Qin to eat, even though she herself really wanted to eat some.

Seeing that she loved to eat, Mu Nan told her that there was plenty of food in the mountains, and she could eat as much as she wanted.

Therefore, she came up with the idea of ​​drying goat milk fruit, but she was quite troubled because she only had two hands and couldn't manage it all.

After a painful internal struggle, she finally decided to pick the peach blossoms first.

Mu Nan led the two to the peach grove. Although there were only a dozen or so peach trees, the pink and tender peach blossoms were like stars hanging all over the branches. They swayed gently in the breeze, like a group of graceful girls dancing.

As Wang Qing'er entered the peach grove, she stood under a peach tree. A gentle breeze carried a faint, sweet fragrance that was intoxicating.

"Wow! What beautiful peach blossoms!" Mu Qin, standing behind her, couldn't help but exclaim in admiration as she gazed at the picturesque peach blossoms before her.

After admiring the beautiful scenery for a while, Wang Qing'er put her mind at ease and began picking peach blossoms.

Fortunately, the peach tree wasn't too tall, and she and Muqin could just reach it, although the top part was hard to touch.

Originally, Wang Qing'er didn't want to pick all the peach blossoms on the tree. She would leave the ones she couldn't reach for the time being, so that she could pick some to eat when the peaches ripened, since fruit was quite scarce here.

Lately, every time Wang Qing'er washes her face, she feels that her skin is tight and so dry that it feels like it's about to crack.

With the wind and sun blowing every day and no skincare products to moisturize her skin, it's no wonder her skin is dry! She also thought that skincare products here are expensive, and families like the Mu family simply cannot afford them. She herself only had a dozen or so taels of silver.

She was secretly glad that she went to the mountains every day, where the trees blocked the sunlight, so she wouldn't get sunburned; otherwise, she would definitely have gotten very tanned.

This morning, when she saw the peach blossoms on the table, she remembered that she had previously seen a short video about extracting essential oils from various flowers, and the steps were quite simple.

However, there is no professional equipment here, so the only thing that can be extracted is a mixture of hydrosol and essential oil.

Since peach blossom hydrosol can also protect the skin, I'll try making some peach blossom hydrosol first. It would be even better if I could find camellia hydrosol in the future.

After Mu Nan finished cutting a load of sugarcane, she also ran over with great enthusiasm to help pick peach blossoms.

Wang Qing'er watched him clumsily picking half and discarding the other half, which was a real waste.