Chapter 358: Perfume

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Chunlan and Xia He were not used to this kind of leisure, they were close to Xia Nan, sitting on the recliners, looking around boredly. Xia Nan glanced at the delicate skin exposed by Chunlan's neckline, and the well-proportioned and slender legs tightly wrapped under Xia He's skirt, and secretly regretted that if they could wear a bikini, what a wonderful picture it would be!

Xia He's voice interrupted his reverie: "Master, look, there are two people over there, it seems to be Master Lin?" ”

Xia Nan sat up suspiciously, shielded the dazzling sunlight with his hand, and looked in the direction pointed by Xia He, the two of them were looking for something on the beach, and one of them was Lin Weiye.

What is Lin Weiye looking for under the big sun? Xia Nan beckoned and shouted: "Lao Lin? ”

Hearing the call, Lin Weiye walked over with the man to say hello, but it was Song Xiaobao.

"Are you going to take Lao Song to make perfume? How did you run to the beach to soak up the sun? Xia Nan was quite puzzled.

Lin Weiye wiped a handful of dense beads of sweat on his forehead and replied: "Didn't I tell you in Guangzhou, Lao Song extracts essential oils, and if you want to turn it into a perfume, you have to have a dissolving agent and a fixative." The dissolving agent is easy to do, it is pure alcohol, the fixative is a little troublesome, it must be an animal fragrance, and there are very few animal fragrances that can be used as a fixative, the common one is musk, but the origin is in the southwest, it is not easy to obtain, and it is relatively easy to find only ambergris in Qiongzhou. ”

"Ambergris?"

"Yes, as the name suggests, it's the dragon's saliva. I heard Lao Song say that this kind of thing can be caught at sea, and sometimes it will be washed up on the beach, so we just come to the beach to try our luck, and if we can't find it, we buy it from fishermen at a high price. ”

Xia Nan smiled: "Is there really a dragon in this world?" I don't read much, don't lie to me. ”

Lin Weiye said with a smile: "Naturally, it won't be a real dragon, it's just a rumor." In fact, modern science has solved the mystery, which is the secretion of sperm whales. To put it simply, after the octopus is eaten by sperm whales, its tough jaws and tongue teeth are difficult to digest, accumulate in the stomach and intestines, stimulate the intestines, secrete a special liquid to wrap these food remains, and slowly form a wax-like substance, which is either discharged from the intestines or falls out with the decomposition of the whale carcass, and after floating for decades or hundreds of years, under the irradiation of the sun and the washing of sea water, ambergris is formed. ”

Song Xiaobao added: "Master, this kind of ambergris has a fishy smell when it is just caught, and it is quite smelly, but after drying, it is more fragrant than musk, and it is generally paid directly to the emperor to enjoy." ”

Xia Nan understood: "So you have to use local materials and find ambergris as a fixative to make perfumes?" ”

Lin Weiye nodded and said: "It can also be called a fixative, with it, we just need to find plants and flowers as raw materials to start trial perfume." ”

"What kind of flowers are you going to use as an ingredient?"

Lin Weiye pointed at Song Xiaobao: "There is a specialization in the art industry, and I have to ask Lao Song about this." ”

Speaking of his own expertise, Song Xiaobao opened the conversation: "Two masters, the choice of this flower is very particular, it is best to have fresh petals, and it is not fragrant when it is dry, so it can only be used locally, and no matter how good the flower species outside Guangdong are, it cannot be used." The climate of Guangzhou and Qiongzhou is similar, and the flowers produced are similar, and the ones that can be used for incense are generally Yueji, Triangle Plum, Frangipani and so on......"

"Triangle plum? Frangipani? Xia Nan was confused, "I know Yueji, I haven't heard of either of these things." ”

"The moon season is also called the moon and the moon red, known as the queen of flowers, and blooms in all seasons; Triangle plum is also called bougainvillea, three-leaf plum, leaf flower, common here in Guangdong, the flower color or purple or red, the flowers are clustered, the rich and noble people like to plant in the courtyard to watch; Frangipani is from the South Seas, because its petals are white on the outside and yellow on the inside, and they are named after the shape of eggs, which is extremely fragrant. Song Xiaobao introduced, "If it is incense, it blooms in all seasons and has a strong floral fragrance, which should be the main product; Triangle plum and frangipani, one blooms in winter and spring, and the other blooms in summer, just complementing each other. ”

Xia Nan sighed: "Three hundred and sixty lines, the line is the champion!" Lao Lin, you are really discerning. In this case, what are you waiting for, hurry up and find ambergris to start work! ”

"Hehe, you think ambergris is so easy to find, even it takes time to collect flower raw materials."

Xia Nan asked: "The secretions of whales are difficult to find and I admit, but what's so difficult about the raw materials of flowers, isn't it just a few petals?" ”

"It's terrible to be uneducated." Lin Weiye sneered, "Have you seen the movie "Perfume"? A basket of flowers can refine at most one or two drops of essential oil, and if you want to refine perfume on a large scale, the flowers collected must be calculated in kilograms. ”

"I'm going!" Summer Minami almost rolled off the recliner, "So much? Aren't all the flowers piled up into a mountain? ”

"Or what do you think?" Lin Weiye said, "Now it is only the trial production stage, if it is really successful, if you want to form large-scale production, you must have a stable raw material supply base." ”

Xia Nan was worried: "This is the 17th century, there is not enough food to eat, who has nothing to plant flowers to play, where can I find so many flowers?" ”

Lin Weiye was also quite worried: "Yes, although the flowers are beautiful, they can't be eaten as food, and the people must fill their stomachs first, and only food will be grown in the field." If we open our own plantation, we don't have the technology or experience to grow this kind of large-scale, I'm afraid it will be difficult to succeed, after all, I am an engineer, not an agricultural technician. ”

Seeing that the two of them were worried about the raw materials, Song Xiaobao cautiously spoke: "Two masters, I have an idea, I don't know whether to talk about it or not?" ”

"You say, you say." Xia Nan encouraged, saying that the masters are in the people, maybe Song Xiaobao can come up with a way.

"Master, as the saying goes, 'Huguang is ripe and the world is full', which means that Hunan and Hubei are rich in grain, and there is a bumper harvest of grain in these two places, and there is no shortage of grain in the whole world. But the older generation of people know that this sentence used to be called 'Su Changshu Tianxiazu', and the granary of the world was originally Jiangnan. Now Jiangnan is still the land of fish and rice, but not all the grain is grown in the field, it is said that many people have planted cotton and the like, making money more than grain, and they have not seen them hungry, and they can naturally buy grain from other provinces when they earn silver. (To be continued.) )

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