No matter how beautiful a woman is, she will smell like sweat when she sweats.
Yi Xiaotian knows this very well.
Time goes back to the last time everyone reunited at Yujian Villa - that is, the summer half a year ago.
At that time, the north experienced a rare hot summer in recent years. It was obviously the first time for everyone to reunite, but the temperature was so high that no one wanted to go out.
That is to say, Guo Jia had already predicted that the villa had been transformed into a quite complete summer resort, and everyone experienced a relatively pleasant summer.
But it was also at that time that Yi Xiaotian racked his brains and came up with many weird things to please the girls.
Of course, some of them are of no use and are just small toys for Tu Yile, but some - in the six months since I left Arijan Villa, many prototypes have now become quite formal inventions.
Among them, one invention that seemed relatively unreliable at the time was the invention temporarily named perfume by Yi Xiaotian.
How should I put it, Yi Xiaotian had just created the perfume at first, just in response to Zhen Luo and Diao Chan's request that they didn't want to wear heavy clothes and wanted to keep their bodies fresh and fresh.
Because of the hot summer, if you apply those powders on your body, the powder will soon be dissipated due to sweat. Not only that, the mixed smell of sweat and powder is still a bit hard to describe.
Although Yi Xiaotian has stated many times that even if everyone is sweating, the smell is much better than that of a smelly man like him, but how could Zhen Luo and Diao Chan, who have always been clean and well-groomed, be fooled by Yi Xiaotian's words?
past?
When Yi Xiaotian was asked to create a novel invention for them that could not only keep their body odor fresh, but also eliminate the need to apply too much and avoid excessive body temperature and constant sweating.
This put Yi Xiaotian in a difficult position.
After all, Yi Xiaotian felt that--you are already at home, so if you don't want to put on makeup, you won't put on makeup. At worst, I will get you some more ice bricks to cool down, so that everyone can spend this time leisurely in the villa.
It’s summer, why do you want to run outside all day long?
He knew that many beautiful girls in later generations were often unkempt at home... But no matter how he told Zhen Luo and others, their strange sense of ritual made Yi Xiaotian physically and mentally exhausted.
In short - after much thinking, Yi Xiaotian finally found inspiration when he went to the market in Yecheng one day.
Spices...to be precise, they are used to make perfume.
In this era, people can't even imagine the existence of perfume. After all, perfume is a noble luxury product that was only developed thousands of years later in this era.
And even if someone thought of perfume, they would not be able to make it themselves with current technology.
But this is not difficult for Yi Xiaotian.
As a shameless borrower of inventions... Yi Xiaotian has never been proud of his strong inventive ability - he said that what he was proud of was actually using existing technology after knowing that there would be some kind of invention in later generations.
How to restore it to the mind.
For example, perfume——
To make perfume according to the ancient method, you first need to use solidified fat, collect some solidified fat, smear it on the glass, then surround the fat with a wooden frame, and make sure to sprinkle fragrant perfume around the frame every day
Always make sure that the petals do not wither, so that as time goes by, the color of the fat will become darker and darker... This is because the fat has the ability to absorb fragrance.
When the time is long enough, extract the dark fat, add it to the alcohol, stir and mix, and let it sit for a while to filter out the excess fat. The remaining alcohol, which has absorbed enough aroma, is
The prototype of perfume.
There are only two problems. First, in terms of glass replacement, Yi Xiaotian can of course use porcelain instead. This is not a serious problem - glass is of course one of Yi Xiaotian's next important directions for improving technology.
1. But right now, the difficulty of making glass is still too high, so let’s not mention it for now.
The most difficult part of making this ancient perfume, or in other words, the most difficult part for Yi Xiaotian at that time was actually the lack of time.
Because in order to make this kind of perfume strong enough and of good enough quality, these perfumes need to be stored in a cool place for more than a year. It would be fine if Zhen Luo and Diao Chan's people were not in a hurry, but they just want to store them here.
In summer, this method is not so convenient.
Glass is not the difficulty, there is another thing that is more difficult, because one thing that is essential for making perfume is alcohol.
It’s not that there was no alcohol in this era. Youjian Villa was the first to become famous, Youjian Tavern, relying on the good wine made by Jiuyun Chun. It attracted the patronage of countless literati and elegant guests. It can be said that it was the first to help Youjian Villa make its name.
Except for Cao Cao, those are the customers who have been to Youjian Villa in person.
But even if it is a good wine like Jiu Ling Chun Niang, its alcohol concentration cannot be compared to Erguotou.
What is mentioned here is only the alcohol concentration - because the concentration of alcohol required to make perfume must be as high as possible.
In this era, many people drink alcohol as a beverage. It can be imagined that the concentration of alcohol in this era is not much higher.
Purifying the concentration of alcohol is another difficulty.
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In short, because the first ancient way of making perfume could not be implemented for the time being, Yi Xiaotian could only choose distillation, which seemed to be a more technical way to try to make perfume.
In the process of making perfume, Yi Xiaotian also increasingly realized the importance of glass in invention and creation, so he put the production of glass on the agenda earlier.
If there is no glass, it can only be replaced by pottery and porcelain. The reason why iron and copper are not used is very simple. After all, Yi Xiaotian is not a professional chemist. He is worried that he is dealing with a more complex reaction formula. Iron and copper
The device will produce unnecessary reactions during the process, ultimately affecting the results.
Although porcelain is not much better, it is at least much more stable than iron and copper.
Under such difficult circumstances, Yi Xiaotian worked hard for more than a month before finally making the first prototype of the perfume at the end of summer.
However, for a business-savvy person like Yi Xiaotian, it is certainly impossible for him to forget the economic benefits that perfume will bring.
So while he was making distilled perfume by himself, he had already ordered Guo Jia to help with the preparations and began to trial-produce perfume using ancient methods - is this the cycle? It will take at least a year, and the finished product will definitely not be produced in a short time.