Chapter 492 The Cannon Fodder Cousin of the Hero of the Imperial Examination (14)

  After lavender, rosemary also ushered in the flowering period as promised.

  Its flowering period is longer than that of lavender. If it is well maintained, it can bloom until the next spring.

  However, compared to the noble and elegant fantasy purple, rosemary with white flowers is not so popular.

  Until Xu Yin told the servant girl: "Although the florescence it blooms is not very eye-catching, it has the effect of repelling insects and mosquitoes, calming the nerves, and it is very useful."

When the servants heard this, they immediately brought a few flowerpots over, transplanted a few plants, and moved them back to the other courtyard of the tea garden. They placed rosemary in bloom in the corners of the second courtyard where insects could hide easily. fragrant.

   I don’t know if the flower really had a good effect, or if it was the big guy’s psychological effect. In short, the women are chatting in private, and the quality of sleep has been much better recently than before.

  The cook who was given a pot of rosemary also said that he has slept more soundly these days than before, and has fewer messy dreams.

  The maids at this age sleep well, and there is nothing to talk about about calming the mind, but they found that there were fewer flying insects in the other courtyard, and they immediately listed rosemary as their favorite flower, none of them.

   "Girl, don't tell me. When this flower was planted on the mountain, it was so plain that it was easy to ignore it. I didn't expect it to be so beautiful in a single pot."

  Xu Yin: That’s because you put filters on it.

  If roses and jasmine were in the height of summer, they should also be blooming now. Unfortunately, these two kinds of flowers are not cold-tolerant, and it is not easy to bloom when the autumn wind blows.

   But it’s okay, loosen the soil, cultivate some nutritious soil, and make the branches stronger. Next spring and summer will definitely usher in their flowering period.

   Today, the planting of Spice Mountain has entered a stable period.

  The servants sent out to find sandalwood saplings, magnolia saplings, and laurel saplings have already returned, and the saplings they brought back were planted along the foot of the mountain before autumn.

  Like roses and jasmine, these saplings will grow taller and stronger after the whole winter.

   There are hired villagers for the daily maintenance of flowers and saplings, and Xu Yin does not need to be there all the time.

   When she is free, she follows the superficial knowledge of Chinese medicine from the government medical department, starting from the pulse, and absorbs this knowledge bit by bit.

  Of course, she would go to Spice Flower Hill every morning to exercise in the morning.

Although this small body is much healthier than the sick beauties in the world of movie queens, the ancient daughter of Qianjin did not go out of the door and did not exercise too much. In the first few days when she came here, if she hadn't used health pills as candy Dou Ke, I really can't stand the high-intensity exercise of mountain climbing.

   Now, I exercise every day, even if my skin color is not as white as before, it is also compared with before. In her opinion, it is still rosy, like a healthy apple. How can Ziyuan say that she is so exaggerated in tanning?

   "Girl, Liulifang has delivered the goods. This time, it is said that the firing was successful according to the girl's request."

  On this day, she was reviewing the four diagnostic methods of seeing, hearing, asking, and cutting in another hospital, and Xu Kui came up to report.

  Xu Yin heard that the distillation tool was burnt out? That has to be seen.

"Walk!"

  She put down her notes, went back to the back room, changed into her travel clothes, and led the way down the mountain.

  As he walked, he asked Xu Kui: "After the fragrance workshop is built, have you cleaned it inside and out?"

   "Everything has been packed according to the girl's order."

   "That's good. If the distillation tool is accepted later, if there is no problem, let's assemble it and try it."

   "Don't worry, girl, the little one has asked the village chief to find a good man, and he can start work at any time."

   "Okay! From now on, you will take care of the fragrance workshop. The technology is mine, and you will come out to negotiate and manage personnel."

  Xu Kui was very moved when he heard the words, and clasped his fists together: "Thanks to the girl's respect, I will live up to the girl's entrustment, and do my best to serve the girl!"

  After being moved, I looked up and saw that the girl had already descended to the mountainside, and hurried to catch up:

   "Girl, the mountain road is rough, please walk slowly!"

  He said in his heart that he was a big man, but he couldn't keep up with the girl's footsteps.

  Xu Yin: The distance between you and your sister is only a pair of [Xiaoyao insoles].

  …

  Xu Yin inspected and accepted the distillation tools, confirmed that they were qualified and usable, and asked Xu Kui to lead Liulifang's staff down to make the final payment.

  When Xu Kui came back, Xu Yin had already instructed the younger generation brought by the village chief to assemble it.

   "Miss, you rest, this kind of rough work is fine."

  Xu Yin doesn't feel relieved if she doesn't watch her personally.

   "It's okay, you can ask Baba to pick a few more bundles of lavender for later use."

   It was still early before lunch, and she planned to try the water distillation method of No. 2 and the water vapor distillation method of No. 3 respectively.

  Look at the extraction of lavender essential oil, which method is more efficient.

   Wait for the extraction method of lavender to be finalized before testing rosemary.

  Xu Kui immediately sent a boy to the mountain to spread the word, asking the hired workers who maintain the flowers and trees on the mountain to pick a few baskets of lavender.

  He followed Xu Yin to fight.

  Finally, the glass version of the distillation equipment is fully assembled.

  Lavender is also picked from Spice Mountain.

  Water distillation method, as the name suggests, is to spread lavender on the upper half of the distillation barrel, pour water into the lower half, and steam it like steaming rice and vegetables.

  As the water boils, the oil and aroma of lavender will continue to evaporate along with the water vapor. These vapors will be condensed and separated from oil and water to obtain lavender essential oil.

  Water vapor distillation is to inject water into a surrounding glass tube.

  With heating, the air in the distillation barrel gradually becomes hotter, thus evaporating the oil and aroma in the lavender.

  Both methods can extract lavender essential oil.

  According to the length of time used, the content and quality of the extracted essential oil, Xu Yin came to a conclusion:

  Water distillation method to extract lavender essential oil takes a short time and has a large amount, but the purity of essential oil is not as good as water distillation method.

  She came into this industry to complete the extra task of "Legendary Fragrance That Surprises the World" released by the system. She didn't just do business to make money, so she finally decided on the steam distillation method to extract lavender essential oil.

  Similarly, the subsequent rosemary essential oil test finally proved that the essential oil extracted by steam distillation method has higher purity and better quality.

  Xu Yin made a decision without hesitation: "Xu Kui, write it down! These two kinds of flowers will use No. 3 equipment to extract essential oils from now on."

   "Yes, girl."

  After Xu Kui wrote it down, he asked, "Girl, is this essential oil the fragrance you mentioned?"

   "Not all of them. But this one works too."

  She collected the lavender essential oil and rosemary essential oil that had been extracted many times.

   Hundreds of catties of lavender were used to extract half a catty of essential oil.

  Rosemary has a higher oil yield, and one catty of essential oil is extracted from one hundred catties.

  Xu Yin and Liulifang customized a batch of 10ml brown vials of essential oils, one for each of the two flower shapes, and distributed them to the people below as benefits.

  The village chief and the younger students who helped assemble the equipment were also fortunate to be assigned to a group.

   Let Xu Kui send the rest to Xu's Spice Shop for promotion as a new product.

  (end of this chapter)