After studying medical skills for more than ten days, Yue Wangshu made himself dizzy and couldn't help but sigh, it is really not easy to be a medical student.
It is easy to fall into a dead end if you work behind closed doors, not to mention that traditional Chinese medicine itself has many fallacies. Yue Wangshu felt that he needed to relax his mind and stretch his muscles.
However, it seems that the emperor now doesn't allow her to go up the mountain to collect herbs - although this is considered a good intention, it is too nosy.
After scratching his head, Yue Wangshu suddenly smelled the fragrance of roses. When he walked out of the house, he saw servants carrying basket after basket of rose petals into the palace. Only then did Yue Wangshu suddenly remember that this is where roses are.
Linghuangzhuang! The greatest output is not the fertile farmland at the foot of the mountain, but the thousand acres of rose forest between the mountains!
Every spring and summer is the busiest time for the servants of Rose Ridge Palace. Starting from March, they first pick rose buds to make rose tea or use them as medicine. Then when the roses bloom, they pick the petals and use them to make rouge and perfume.
, flower dew, can also be used to make wine, make jam, and scent tea. It can be said that one flower has many uses. From spring to the end of summer, even if the flowers have finished blooming, the roots can still be cut and made into dye. Until winter, the servants of the imperial village can
Rest.
Needless to say, this is the busiest time of the year. No wonder I haven't seen Li Yue in the past few days.
Yue Wangshu asked Xiaoju next to him: "How many kilograms of rose petals will Huangzhuang offer?"
Xiaoju thought for a while and said: "In previous years, the share was only two or three thousand catties. This year, the Construction Department made a statement early and required Rose Ridge to turn in two thousand catties of petals every month. The total amount may be tens of thousands of catties."
Yue Wangshu couldn't help but gasped: "Why do you need so many rose petals... Ugh!"
Yue Wangshu immediately became ashamed. What to do? Isn’t that obvious?
Make lipstick!
It’s not because the four of them, Qi Cainv, have worked hard and developed so many designs and colors. Nowadays, the peony series of rouges produced by the Construction Department is extremely popular in Beijing and abroad, and rose petals are the main material for making rouge! The demand for raw materials has naturally skyrocketed.
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Fortunately, there are thousands of acres of rose forests in Rose Ridge, so there is naturally a huge surplus in production, but the problem is manpower...
"Are there still enough manpower?" Yue Wangshu couldn't help but ask.
Xiaoju said with a smile: "How can the servants of Huangzhuang be enough? The construction department added a lot of people early in the morning, but it was still not enough. Eunuch Li had to urgently hire tenants from the villages and towns at the foot of the mountain to go up the mountain to pick every day."
Yue Wangshu asked doubtfully: "It is also the busy farming season, can we hire people?"
Xiaoju said: "You can't hire such strong men, but there is always a shortage of women, children, old and young."
Yue Wangshu suddenly realized that yes, there is no need to hire young people to pick rose petals.
"Let's go to Rose Ridge and have a look!" Yue Wangshu suddenly became interested. After living in the Rose Ridge Imperial Villa for so long, she had never visited the Rose Forest.
"Master, there are so many people there now, you..." Xiao Ju looked at her master's brocade coat and skirt, feeling very embarrassed.
Yue Wangshu said "Oh" and said, "Go get some palace maid clothes for me to wear!"
"This is not what I mean!" Xiao Ju became even more anxious.
"Okay, just go. Anyway, it's not convenient to go to the rose forest dressed like me." Although the attire of the palace maid is also a coat and skirt, the coat has narrow sleeves and the skirt is not floor-length. It is indeed much more convenient.
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After all, palace maids serve people, so they naturally dress much more concisely.
Wearing a green dress, a bright red belt, a pair of dark-colored cloth shoes that are very resistant to dirt, a snail bun on her head, and a bamboo basket on her back, she looks like a maid from an imperial palace who went out to pick rose petals.
"Master, if Eunuch Li sees you like this, he will definitely reprimand your servant!" Xiaoju, who was dressed exactly the same, followed her with a sad face.
Yue Wangshu walked quickly, "Don't worry, Li Yue has already seen what kind of temper I have. He doesn't dare to bully my people!"
This dead eunuch only knows how to make snitches! Yue Wangshu silently complained.
But I just went out to pick flowers! If I’m not even allowed to do this, what’s the difference between it and going to jail?
With her master's words, Xiao Ju felt a little more at ease. At least the roses grew on the gentle sunny slopes of Rose Ridge, which was much safer than running around in the mountains collecting herbs.
Yue Wangshu's footsteps were brisk and he arrived at his destination in less than two quarters of an hour.
This rose refers to the edible variety, not the ornamental roses of later generations. A single flower looks more like a rose. It is not very beautiful on its own, but a thousand acres of rose forest spread all over the mountains and fields.
It's so majestic.
The maids of the villa and the farm women and children at the foot of the mountain shuttled through the rose forest, like hard-working little bees, picking newly bloomed roses. Without supervision, they would weigh and deliver the baskets after they were full. At the end of the month, press
Wages are calculated based on the amount picked.
Yue Wangshu touched his chin. Is this the beginning of capitalism?
In fact, this kind of "germination" appeared in the reign of Emperor Taizu, precisely because Ji Zifang, the emperor of Shang Dynasty, invented the loom and spinning machine. Female weavers have become very common in the southeastern coastal area.
Looking at the women and children who were busy and laughing in the rose forest, although her backpack was heavy and her head was covered with sweat, her smile still did not diminish.
This kind of atmosphere is very contagious, and Xiaoju picks flowers very neatly. She couldn't help but asked in a low voice: "Master, can the roses picked by this slave be exchanged for wages?"
Yue Wangshu smiled and said, "That's natural."
Xiao Ju immediately worked harder. Although the palace maid's salary was quite high, who would object to the lack of money?
Xiaoju did not forget to remind her in a low voice: "Master, be careful, roses have thorns, don't prick you."
Indeed, many of the female employees who picked flowers here had their hands pricked, and most of them just laughed it off. If they were little girls, their mothers and sisters might help bandage them.
Xiaoju picked the petals, while Yue Wangshu picked the buds and pinched them. She wanted to dry some rose tea and make water for drinking. In the afternoon, she picked some rose buds and asked someone to buy some tortoise flowers.
Yes, she was a little tired of the barley and red bean tea, and she wanted to change the taste.
After much thought, I came up with an excellent three-flower beauty tea.
The three flowers are roses, roses and tortoise flowers.
Needless to say about the first two, this Toi Toi flower is the lime flower. Because it is produced in the south, it can only be purchased. This thing cannot be bought in pharmacies, so I finally got it from a tea merchant. There is no other, Toi Toi flower.
Can be used to make scented tea.
After all this busy work, Sanhua Beauty Tea is now freshly released.
The light red tea soup and the fragrant smell make people feel relaxed and happy after drinking such a cup of afternoon tea.
This tea nourishes the skin, regulates menstruation and relieves pain. The toi toi flowers in it can also soothe the liver and stomach, and have weight loss effects!
"Add more honey, it's a bit bitter." Yue Wangshu murmured, completely forgetting that he was thinking about losing weight just a second ago.
