Travel to the mountains and make a fortune in silence

After sitting for a while, Wang Qing'er felt very bored, so she started searching around to see if she could find something she needed. The scented soap currently only had a few scents, which felt too monotonous.

Finding new raw materials to make scented soap is her biggest worry right now.

She hasn't thought about how to sell the finished scented soap.

She seemed quite confident about the sales of her scented soap, though she herself didn't know where that confidence came from.

Oh dear! How could I forget? Mulberries can also be used to make scented soap! You can add powdered dried peach blossoms, or even arborvitae leaves, and use it to wash your hair.

Wang Qing'er had a sudden inspiration and remembered a video she had once seen of a product made with peach blossoms and mulberries to create scented soap.

You can also pick some unripe red mulberries to make this, or you can dry the mulberries directly in the sun. They are also great for dyeing later.

Speaking of dyeing, isn't the juice of red amaranth a ready-made natural dye?

It can also be added to soap.

This way, there will be one more color option for scented soap.

Thinking of this, Wang Qing'er asked Mu Nan to pick some red mulberries, but not to mix them together, but to put them separately. She also asked him to pick half a basket of mulberry leaves, which she also wanted to take back to make scented soap.

Wang Qing'er found some cypress leaves nearby, which can also be used to make scented soap, so she picked a small bag of them as well.

Since not many mulberries were ripe, Mu Nan finished picking them in no time.

Seeing that it was still early, the two searched the neighborhood again, looking for some herbs that could be used for beauty and skincare.

She did find some, but not many.

If you want to make a large quantity of scented soap for shampooing and hair care, you still need to buy the necessary medicinal materials from a pharmacy.

After returning home, she washed the mulberries clean and dried them directly in the sun, making them easier to preserve.

In the afternoon, Mu Nan went to plow the fields, while Wang Qing'er stayed home quietly making scented soap, in addition to the usual types she made.

Today she also made scented soaps with mulberry blossoms, mulberry leaves, cypress leaves, and tea leaves.

There's also red soap made with red amaranth juice.

I made a few pieces of the herbal medicine to test it out first, and the amount of herbs added needs to be adjusted gradually.

She decided to be the guinea pig first, using the prepared soap to wash her own hair, and only proceeding to mass-produce it if there were no problems.

Wang Qing'er, along with Mu Qin and Zi Tong, made over six hundred pieces in one afternoon. Their arms were incredibly sore. Looking at the fragrant soap pieces in the mold, the three of them were both in pain and happy, grinning foolishly at the mold.

Suddenly realizing she hadn't cooked in a long time, she felt a bit itchy to cook, so she asked Muqin and Zitong to go and review their lessons.

He then went to the stream behind the mountain to pick wild celery, intending to make a stir-fried celery with pork.

Seeing that the leaves of the privet tree by the roadside had grown very lush, I picked a basketful and made tofu for my family to try!

Dinner consisted of boiled sliced ​​pork, stir-fried celery with shredded pork, stir-fried pork intestines, stir-fried water spinach, mushroom soup, and then cold tofu salad.

A large bowl of bright green, translucent tofu left everyone speechless.

"Qing'er, is this what you made from those smelly leaves you picked this afternoon?" Zhou had witnessed Wang Qing'er making tofu all afternoon. It was clearly a bowl of green juice, so how did it turn into pieces of green tofu?

"Yes, Grandma, why don't you try it and see how it tastes?" Wang Qing'er said with a smile.

"Hmm! Not bad. It's refreshing and cool, perfect for summer. Plus, with your dipping sauce, it goes really well with rice." Zhou picked up a piece and put it in her mouth. The tofu melted in her mouth, cool and refreshing, with a sour and spicy flavor that was very appetizing.

"Sister-in-law, are you going to make this tofu to sell?" Mu Xiao's first thought after eating it was that this tofu would definitely sell well.

Wang Qing'er considered for a moment and said, "Currently, my family sells braised meat, vegetables, and picks mushrooms and bamboo shoots. If we were to sell tofu as well, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to handle it all."

"The process of making tofu is complicated. First, you have to go to the mountains to pick leaves, which takes a lot of time. When you get back, you have to wash them, blanch them, and then filter the juice..."

Wang Qing'er didn't intend to make tofu to sell, so she tried to make the tofu-making process as complicated as possible.

It's fine to let her make it for home to eat occasionally, but it's definitely not okay to let her make it to sell every day. Right now, all she wants to do is make fragrant soap properly.

As for the food, she doesn't plan to come up with too many new dishes. If she can cooperate with the restaurant and take a share of the profits, then she can come up with new dishes from time to time.

At that time, this tofu can also be considered a dish.

She was more than willing to sit at home and collect money without having to lift a finger, just by providing a prescription and offering occasional guidance.

If the owner of Fuxianglou is unwilling to share the profits, then she can just sell braised food!

Anyway, nowadays braised food is not only made with meat, but also includes vegetables such as lotus root, peanuts, kelp, and braised eggs.

The meat selection also included braised rabbit, but not the rabbits raised by the Mu family; it was bought by Mu's father and the others in town.

It just so happens that several hunters keep the baby rabbits or pregnant female rabbits they hunt at home instead of selling them.

Rabbits reproduce very quickly, so they often become an infestation in a household in no time.

They can still get seven or eight rabbits from hunters every day.

Before long, the Mu family's rabbit population would also be overrun. Mu Xiao and the others later dug up several more rabbit burrows and kept them at home.

There are currently over forty of them at home.

Wang Qing'er plans to slaughter a few every day when the number of chicks reaches over a hundred.

Hearing that the tofu-making process was so complicated, Mu Nan spoke first, "Not only is the tofu-making process troublesome, but now that the weather is getting hotter, it can't be left out for long and has to be made fresh. You deliver vegetables so early in the morning, if you were selling tofu, wouldn't you have to get up in the middle of the night to make it? Mu Xiao, who are you planning to get up in the middle of the night to make tofu? Are you going to get up and make it yourself?"

Mu Nan didn't want his wife to work too hard, so he was the first to disagree with making tofu and selling it.

"Uh! Big brother, I was just saying. If you don't want to sell, you don't want to sell! Our family isn't short of money, right?" Mu Xiao immediately backed down and quickly changed his tune, saying he wouldn't sell.

"Mu Nan is right. Selling tofu is too hard, so it's better not to sell it. Now that the family has a stable livelihood, one shouldn't be too greedy. What should be given up must be given up."

Mrs. Zhou agreed with her eldest grandson's point, and the rest of the family also felt that selling tofu was too much trouble, so they stopped talking about it.

I'm content as long as I can eat this at home occasionally.