The wooden barrel is about forty centimeters high and more than ten centimeters wide.
It is filled with amber honey and tawny honeycomb.
"Xiao Wu and I climbed three mountains to collect these!"
Yu Xilin said to Lin Xiao as if asking for credit.
"Thank you for your hard work!"
Lin Xiao smiled and nodded to Yu Xilin.
"Just say thank you?"
Yu Xilin pursed her lips, seemingly dissatisfied with Lin Xiao's perfunctory behavior.
"What else do you want?"
Lin Xiao asked, somewhat dumbfounded.
"How about this!"
Yu Xilin's eyes rolled, and then he said:
"I want to watch you make salt, how about it?"
"no!"
Before Lin Xiao could speak, Lan Lian had already rejected Yu Xilin's request and said righteously:
"The art of making salt is also a secret recipe and is not spread to outsiders."
"The making of lip balm is a secret recipe, and the making of salt is also a secret recipe. How can I not know anything about the co-author?"
Yu Xilin said a little depressed.
"Well, I can show you the last step of making salt. That's okay, right?"
Lin Xiao thought about it and felt that this method was good, so he opened his mouth and said to Yu Xilin:
"But after reading it, you can't pester me to read this thing again!"
"Ok, no problem!"
Yu Xilin quickly nodded in agreement, with an excited look on his face.
When he and Lin Xiaowu went to the mountains to collect honey, he heard Lin Xiaowu say that making salt was very laborious and took a lot of time, so he was also very curious about the final steps of making salt.
Lin Xiao poured the concentrated brine filtered through charcoal into the pot, brought it to a boil over high heat, and then kept it on a simmer to slowly evaporate the water.
During this process, Lanlian will continue to stir-fry the concentrated salt water until all the excess water evaporates, leaving only dry and crystal clear salt.
Yu Xilin was shocked when he saw the process of making salt for the first time, and at the same time he became more and more interested in Lin Xiao.
How did this guy's brain grow? How could he come up with such a wonderful way to make salt?
"Xiao Linzi, where did you get this salt water?"
Yu Xilin asked curiously.
"Even if I tell you, you can't make edible salt, you'd better put away your curiosity!"
Lin Xiao curled his lips and said disdainfully.
Although her words were derogatory to Yu Xilin, they were also an indisputable fact.
The step of light filtering is not something that ordinary people can handle.
Even if you add too little charcoal and filter it a few times, you won't be able to make non-toxic table salt.
Yu Xilin was just too curious, so he asked Lin Xiao, but when he heard Lin Xiao's answer, he dispelled his doubts.
"Xiao Linzi, how did you come up with this method of making salt? You're pretty smart, aren't you?"
"Read more, read more newspapers, eat less snacks, and sleep more. If you do these things, your brain will be smarter than mine!"
Lin Xiao stood on tiptoe and patted Yu Xilin's shoulder, giving instructions with a serious look on his face.
"I understand reading. What does reading a newspaper mean? And snacks, does it mean snacks?"
Lin Xiao ignored Yu Xilin's confused look throughout the whole process, waved his hand, and entered the kitchen carrying a wooden bucket filled with honey.
She wants to extract the beeswax as soon as possible, and then make a batch of milk and honey handmade soap, and then a batch of wildflower handmade soap.
Summer nights get dark later.
After working hard for a long time, Lin Xiao finally realized that it was already past dinner time until she was so hungry that she complained.
She didn't eat dinner, and Lan Lian and Yu Xilin definitely didn't eat either.
Who lets her occupy the only kitchen in the house?
"It's true that Lan Lian didn't know how to come and call me?"
Lin Xiao complained, but felt very guilty in her heart.
She hurried to the main room and found that Yu Xilin and Lin Xiaowu were eating at the dining table, while Lan Lian and Lin Xiaowu's mother-in-law were squatting at the door with their rice bowls, eating and chatting.
"Xiao Linzi, are you busy? Are you hungry? Come over and eat together, I've saved everything for you!"
Yu Xilin saw Lin Xiao coming out of the kitchen and greeted her with a smile:
"Xiao Wu saw that we hadn't eaten, so he brought his own food over to eat with us!"
"Oh, Mr. Yu, please don't say that. You are a noble person, we can't let you go hungry, right?"
Lin Xiaowu said with a smile.
"Master, I'll get you the dishes and chopsticks!"
Lan Lian put down her rice bowl and ran to the kitchen to get the dishes.
When Lan Lian got closer, she realized that the bowls and chopsticks they were eating with didn't seem to be her own, but were probably brought over by Lin Xiaowu and his wife.
There are three dishes, one soup and a large bowl of brown rice on the table.
"Master, give it!"
Lan Lian handed the chopsticks to Lin Xiao and filled Lin Xiao with a large bowl of rice.
"Xiao Linzi, try my mother-in-law's cooking. I'm not bragging to you. My mother-in-law's cooking is no worse than the chefs in the restaurants in Beijing!"
Lin Xiaowu proudly showed off to Lin Xiao.
Lin Xiao nodded and then took a piece of braised wild boar meat and put it in his mouth, which immediately filled his mouth with delicious flavor.
"How's it going? Not bad, right?"
"Yeah! It's really good, very delicious! Thank you, sister-in-law!"
Lin Xiao's expression of enjoyment made Yu Xilin and Lin Xiaowu look at each other and smile.
Lin Xiaowu's mother-in-law lowered her head shyly, not daring to look at Lin Xiao, and just immersed herself in the rice in the bowl.
"Xiao Linzi, you have been busy in the kitchen for a long time, what are you doing?"
Yu Xilin asked curiously.
"Making beeswax."
Lin Xiao answered truthfully.
"beeswax?"
Yu Xilin seemed to have heard this word somewhere.
"That's the raw material for making lip balm. Mr. Yu, it's better not to ask."
Lan Lian warned, fearing that he would break the pot and ask the question.
Yu Xilin suddenly realized and praised repeatedly:
"Not bad, not bad. It turns out to be the raw material for making lip balm. Not bad, not bad!"
Lin Xiao smiled slightly and asked Lin Xiaowu:
"Brother Xiao Wu, do you know where I can buy milk?"
"Milk?" Lin Xiaowu frowned and shook his head, "What is that?"
It seems that people in Guannai in this era still know nothing about milk!
When Lin Xiao was disappointed, Yu Xilin suddenly said:
"Milk? I've heard of this stuff, but it doesn't seem to be easy to get! What do you want that thing for?"
"Making milk and honey soap."
Lin Xiao answered truthfully.
"Milk and honey soap?"
Everyone was shocked, and Lan Lian's eyes widened in surprise. She felt from the bottom of her heart that her head was a god, omniscient and omnipotent!
"Milk and honey soap is a good thing. It can not only gently remove excess oil on the face, but also improve the elasticity and toughness of the skin and restore moisture to the skin."
Lin Xiao explained with a smile.
When she first traveled through time, she discovered that people in the Daxia Dynasty only used clean water whether they were washing their hair, bathing or washing clothes.
No one even uses free natural products like soap locust and soapberry.