Chapter 61: VIP Experience
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Cheng Yanjin is ready to try Zhang Chao's soap on the spot. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Soon a young maidservant brought a silver basin, which was already half filled with warm water. Zhang Chao walked to the basin without giving up, he smiled and nodded to the maid, then put his hands into the basin and soaked them, and then took the soap from the soap box and smeared it on each hand a few times.
Putting down the soap, Zhang Chao rubbed his hands, and soon, bubbles appeared on his hands.
A scent of fragrance also spread, and the soap bubbles on Zhang Chao's hand also turned yellow and black. After rubbing it casually a few times, Zhang Chao put his hands into the basin and scrubbed it.
At this time, another maid brought a silver basin of water, Zhang Chao cleaned his hands again, took the towel handed by the maidservant and wiped his hands.
Hou Qunji, the general of the chariot cavalry, grabbed Zhang Chao's hand and touched it like a blind man.
"It's so clean."
Zhang Liang, another cavalry general, also came over, his eyes stared carefully at Zhang Chao's white and immaculate hands, and even lowered his head and sniffed a few times.
"It smells so good."
Zhang Chao felt a little evil in his heart.
"Ouch, it's a good thing, it's better than the face-washing incense I use at home, my mother-in-law still uses it from the palace, it's not as good as this."
It was Ren Guogong of the Qin Palace, Liu Hongji, the general of the Right Xiaowei, who spoke. This person is also King Qin's sworn friend, and he and Li Shimin are out of the same bed. Although he is not in the palace of King Qin now, he is also a member of King Qin.
Liu Hongji is a veteran of Li Tang, and he took the initiative to defect to Li Yuan in Taiyuan back then, and he has always been Li Shimin's person. Li Yuan and Li Shimin often rewarded Liu Hongji, bath beans, facial fat, and incense.
But Liu Hongji found that the soap taken out by Qin Shubao's righteous son Zhang Chao was better than what had been given in the palace in the past.
Liu Hongji knew that the incense given by the palace used a lot of good things, and he knew that there was one, which was to use cloves, agarwood, green wood incense, peach blossoms, stalactite powder, pearls, jade shavings, Shu water flowers, papaya flowers, Nai Xiang, pear blossoms, red lotus, plum flowers, cherry blossoms, white hollyhock flowers, summer flowers, musk and other seventeen flavors, and the flowers and real treasures, jade chips were ground into powder, and then ground with soybean powder thousands of times.
This incense is used to wash the face and hands, and it can also be bathed, and the body is scented after washing.
But compared with Zhang Chao's soap, it is far from it.
At least, the incense in the palace is not as strong as Zhang Chao's soap decontamination ability, and there is no Zhang Chao's soap that can leave so much fragrance after washing.
"I'll try it too."
Liu Hongji unceremoniously took the soap and asked the maid to bring clean water again. He couldn't wait to soak the soap in the basin and wipe it directly off his face.
"Ren Guogong, the best way to use soap is to rub it on your hands to make bubbles, and then rub the bubbles on your face, and it is best not to rub them for too long." Zhang Chao hurriedly reminded.
Anyone who has ever used soap knows that soap has a strong ability to remove oil, so there will be a feeling of tightness on the face after using soap. But it doesn't take long for the face to come back naturally. But if you apply soap directly to your face, it will make you feel tighter for longer.
However, Liu Hongji didn't care, not only directly smeared his face with soap, but even wiped it with his mission. It felt like he wasn't soaping, he was grinding the floor.
After applying it for a while, my face was full of white soap.
"Lao Liu, rub it hard!" Cheng Yanjin shouted on the side.
Liu Hongji really worked hard, rubbing his eyes with a pair of iron hands, and his face was full of bubbles.
Zhang Chao was really worried that Liu Hongji would rub off a layer of skin on his face, he was also very curious about this Ren Guogong, a few days ago when Zhang Chao checked the computer, he deliberately checked some information about the generals in the early Tang Dynasty, especially the bull who was later the twenty-four heroes of Lingxiao Pavilion.
Liu Hongji is also a meritorious hero of Lingxiao Pavilion, ranking eleventh, and he is also a meritorious hero of Taiyuan 36 yuan. This is a hardcore confidant of Li Shimin, this guy is also an official eunuch, he is only in his early thirties this year, and his father is the assassin of the Sui Dynasty. In his early years, he was uninhibited, and he liked to make friends with light chivalrous people, and he did not produce, and then took his father Yin as the right servant, and followed Yang Guang to conquer Liaodong.
As a result, he missed the deadline halfway, knowing that he should be beheaded according to the law, so he deliberately slaughtered the ploughing cattle, and then let the government arrest and put him in prison, avoiding going to Liaodong. This is similar to another surnamed Liu, and Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, also missed the time, so he beheaded the White Snake and rebelled. Liu Hongji was smarter, deliberately killed the ploughing cattle, and then went to prison, but escaped death.
Later, it was Li Yuan who ransomed him out of prison, and since then he has been a hardcore Li family thug.
Such a guy already has a very high status in the imperial court, although he was captured in the two wars of Shallow Water Source and Liu Wuzhou, he still has a very strong status. Compared to Qin Qiong, they are only the generals of Li Shimin's palace, but Liu Hongji is already one of the twelve generals.
If you can have a good relationship with Liu Hongji, the benefits are endless.
After Liu Hongji rubbed for most of the day, he was finally willing to wash his face.
He didn't use a towel, just dipped his face in a silver basin and continued to rub his hands.
The clear water in the silver basin quickly turned turbid, muddy and black.
"Wow, it's so comfortable, it's so refreshing, I feel like my skin is thinner." Liu Hongji laughed and wiped his face with a towel.
There was a sound of huhs next to him.
"Of course, you don't look at the water in the basin, Ren Guogong, I'm afraid you haven't washed your face for a few months, right?" , several princes and county dukes laughed on the side.
Liu Hongji had already wiped his face at this time, and when he heard this, he looked down, only to see that his basin of face wash was as black as dyed ink.
"It's... Is this my face wash? I don't believe it, you must have poured ink into it. ”
"Cut!"
"Bring me the bronze mirror." Liu Hongji shouted, and the maid immediately presented the bronze mirror. The bronze mirror is polished very smooth, although it is far inferior to the glass mirror, but it is not bad.
Liu Hongji looked left and right at the bronze mirror, and his hands were still caressing his face from time to time.
"Wow, I feel that my old face is tight, my skin is smooth and delicate, this soap, it's really good. Could it be that this thing was brought by Hu Shang in the Western Regions? ”
Compared with the current incense and facial grease, the cost of the practical materials of Zhang Chao's soap is far inferior, but it is better to add a key thing to it, caustic soda.
Zhang Chao's soap only adds a few more things than his soap.
His soap was made with neither pearls nor jade shavings, nor with so many flowers. The main ingredients of his soap are lard, soybean oil residue, caustic soda and rosin, with a little salt and some flavor extracted from the flowers.
Vegetable oil residue Zhang Chao uses soybean oil residue, also known as oil feet. Animal oil is used in lard, or pig net oil, pig pancreas and other inferior oil, and the more expensive material is caustic soda.
Now soda stone is more expensive, so refining caustic soda is also a big cost, and salt is cheap.
But even so, the soap made by Zhang Chao is actually still incredibly cheap compared to the facial fat fragrance medicine of today's era.
After all, these facial fat incense medicines in the Tang Dynasty are more like health care products, all kinds of luxury materials, and it is strange that they are not expensive.
But the incense medicine facial grease of the Tang Dynasty, even if it was used by the royal court, was far less useful than Zhang Chao's soap, and even the fragrance was not as powerful.
"If you bring a basin of water again, I'll try it too."
Cheng Yanjin couldn't wait to pick up the soap, he had a virtue with Liu Hongji, and he took the soap and wiped it on the wet face, as hard as wiping the floor. Then I rubbed my hands for a long time, and the foam flew around.
Wait for Cheng to bite the gold and wash his face.
Liu Hongji laughed very happily on the side, laughing very happily, and his smiling face tensed again.
"Okay, you bite the gold, just said that I haven't washed my face for three months, I think you haven't washed your face for half a year, look at that basin of water, it's as black as ink."
Liu Hongji smiled in fifty steps and a hundred steps, but he smiled very happily.
Cheng Yanjin looked at his basin, and sure enough, a basin of clear water was already dark.
"Mirror."
Looking left and right in the mirror, Cheng Yanjin was satisfied, his face was so clean and smooth. There is no greasy at all, and in the winter, the skin is not dry and rough.
"Good stuff! When I used this soap, I felt very cool, and I felt more energetic, and I felt like I was eighteen years younger. Cheng Yanjin laughed.
"Try this soap for me, too!" After seeing Ren Guogong Liu Hongji and Su Guogong Cheng Bingjin using soap, they all praised it, and everyone else was also tempted.
"Fetch water!"
The maids of the Cheng family were busy all of a sudden, and the kitchen had to let people hurriedly go to the well to fetch water. The Cheng family's silver basin was not enough, so they had to use the copper basin to make up the number.
Hou Junji, Zhang Liang and a group of other people are vying to try it first.
I have used it and said that it is good, and I feel very refreshed on my face.
By the time Niu Xiu, Niu Jinda, Luo Shixin, Qin Qiong, Wu Guang, Wu Heimin, Li Junxian and other generals who had joined the Tang Dynasty from Wagang arrived, the face-washing conference on Cheng Yanjin's Mansion had reached a climax.
Almost everyone came to try Zhang Chao's soap for a while.
Zhang Chao also said in a timely manner that this experimental soap was his great invention, and the formula was passed on to him by his master, Master Sanzang, and his master Master Sanzang was developed after communicating with Sun Simiao, the king of medicine.
In short, a Sanzang mage that no one has heard of is not enough to force the grid, but with the addition of Sun Simiao, the first god medicine king of the Sui and Tang dynasties, this soap is immediately forced to be high.
Sun Simiao does not have the honorific title of the king of medicine now, and he should be in his early forties at this time, but Sun Simiao was known as a prodigy when he was young, and later studied medicine as a teenager and became famous very early. The fame reached the ears of Emperor Wen of Sui, and he was to recruit him to the court as a doctor, but he did not accept it. Although Sun has never been an official, he has a very high reputation among the folk apricot forests, but he often practices medicine in the world and his whereabouts are uncertain.
Therefore, even if Zhang Chao is pretending to be Sun Simiao's name now, it doesn't matter.
"Wenyuan, this soap is really easy to use, I'll order a hundred yuan." Liu Hongji was the first to order, "I'll let someone go to your workshop to pick it up, and I'll bathe with this soap at night, hahaha!" ”
"I want a hundred too!" Although Cheng Yanjin is his own person, he is not to be outdone.
For a while, the crowd was enthusiastic, and these guests in Chengfu were all very satisfied after trying the soap, and they all had to order them one by one.