Chapter 43 Mosquito fragrance

The main raw material for mosquito coils is pyrethrum.

This kind of chrysanthemum was native to Yugoslavia during the Earth's era, and there is no such thing as China where Xue Mei lives.

Therefore, if you want to make mosquito coils, the substitute is the ancient realgar in China, which is also useful for insect killing.

Xue Mei used his brain's personal terminal to search for the recipe and production method of mosquito coils.

"Mormegrass powder, rosin powder, tobacco leaf powder, wood chip powder, a small amount of sulfur powder, and an extremely small amount of arsenic powder, make it into a vortex mosquito coil that can burn for three or four hours."

Sulfur is toxic, and arsenic is also toxic, but talking about toxicity aside is just a hooligan.

When burning, these substances are released in space very little, slightly equal to nothing, and will not make people sick.

Even in the space age, the mosquito coils used on natural planets also contain many substances that are harmful to the human body.

The next day, Xue Mei got up and wrote these things on paper and asked the maid Xiuzhu to purchase them.

Xiuzhu is the safest, and Xue Mei trusts her very much.

"Miss, this arsenic..." Xiuzhu was a little embarrassed.

What do you need to use arsenic? If the people in the house find out, they still don’t know what gossip they will say.

"Shh, that's why you asked you to do it, not Cai Yuan and Hong Luan." Xue Mei said, blinking at her, "Go and go back quickly."

Xiuzhu: "..."

Weiwei was cruel and cruel, and Xiuzhu walked out. Since the eldest lady trusted her, she had to do the matter. Not to mention just buying it, even if the eldest lady asked her to drink arsenic, she would still drink it.

After she went out, Xue Mei called her maid Cai Yuan again and asked her to find a clean pot to come back; then asked Hongluan to find bamboo strips for drying grain.

The maids all went.

In the afternoon, several maids were so hot that they were sweating all over, but they bought all the things Xue Mei wanted.

Xue Mei asked Cai Yuan to put the big pot in a separate wing room, and asked to carry a burning stove in, and then did not allow anyone to approach, so she just asked Cai Yuan to serve.

She also asked Cai Yuan to take her small box over.

Cai Yuan gave the empty, locked box to Xue Mei.

Xue Mei could take it directly from the space, and knew that Cai Yuan could accept it. It was terrible that she was scared to death, so she reached into the small box and took out two sets of protective clothing, masks and goggles from the space.

Looking at these things, Cai Yuan was stunned.

"Come on, help me dress." Xue Mei said.

She taught Caiyuan how to wear it.

Cai Yuan learned it and helped Xue Mei dress up, and Xue Mei also helped her dress neatly.

"We first need to sort and remove all the impurities in these spices." Xue Mei said.

She taught Cai Yuan how to do it, and Cai Yuan followed her and moved quickly.

When the two of them sorted the spices, they both wore masks, making Cai Yuan breathless. After a while, she adapted and asked Xue Mei in a muffled voice: "Miss, what are we going to do?"

"Make incense." Xue Meidao.

Cai Yuan: "You can also make incense?"

"Not that, they are all temporarily learned." Xue Mei smiled.

Cai Yuan: "Where to learn?"

"I have a master in my mind." Xue Mei said.

Cai Yuan's hands were trembling uncontrollably, her back spine was stiff, and she couldn't hold the spices in her hands.

When the eldest lady treated the fifth young master, she turned something out of thin air. Cai Yuan never dared to tell anyone. Later, there was a rumor in the mansion that the eldest lady was a disciple of the ghost doctor Lu Qi.

The last time I invested in the shopping trip, the eldest lady met the ghost doctor Lu Qi, so she is now very skilled in medicine.

The eldest lady now said, there is a master in her mind, so is the ghost doctor Lu Qi who has taken the eldest lady's body?

Xue Mei seemed to be able to guess the little maid's thoughts. She raised her eyes and smiled at her through the goggles: "Don't be afraid, I'm not being a ghost, I'm still your eldest lady. The master in my mind will only help us, not harm others. If you are kind to me, it will also help you."

Cai Yuan thought of the current reversal situation and the fact that the eldest lady had changed her personality, she believed it 70% or 80% in her heart.

"Miss, how did you create something out of thin air?"

"Shh, don't inquire. Master said that the secrets of heaven should not be revealed." Xue Mei smiled, "If you ask too much and Master takes back my supernatural powers, I will be angry with my family again."

Cai Yuan immediately fell silent and stopped asking.

She felt very hot and wanted to cry.

If the eldest lady has such an adventure, no one dares to harm her in the future, right?

Cai Yuan's hands are warm and strong, and she is very serious about the spices with Xue Mei.

After removing all the impurities, Xue Mei began to fry the spices.

After the frying, the master and servant took off their protective clothing, breathed the doors and windows, and then came out of the wing room.

Xue Mei still refused to allow the maids to come around and let them go to their own business, and only let Cai Yuan be close.

"Grind all these into powder." Xue Mei said.

The weather was hot, and the protective suit she and Cai Yuan had just worn was not breathable. At this moment, both of them were soaked all over, as if they were soaked in water.

When grinding the spices, I was sweating again.

Grind all the spices very finely, and then Xue Mei asked the little maid to go to the kitchen and grind them in.

Add water to the crushed spices, and Xue Mei grinds them all into a paste with a small stone mill.

It was almost evening after finishing this.

Xue Mei prepared paste-like spices and placed them in a wooden barrel to allow them to settle overnight.

When I woke up early the next day, the spices were settled and Xue Mei began to make incense.

It's still Cai Yuan's help.

Everyone else is busy with their own affairs, so they are not allowed to come to disturb Xue Mei and Cai Yuan.

"We divided these paste spices into two batches. The first batch adds wood chip powder to make fragrant bones, which is the one that looks stronger; the second batch adds water and dilutes it, then adds sulfur, and dilutes the arsenic water again." Xue Mei said.

Cai Yuan nodded.

It is particularly difficult to make fragrant bones, especially spiral-shaped fragrant bones like mosquito coils.

Xue Mei also failed twice before finally getting one.

After the plate was finished, she asked Cai Yuan to take it to the stove in the room to bake it, and dry it with fire.

Xue Mei made ten fragrant bones, and it was not until the third morning that the shade was dry and formed.

Because of the addition of wood chip powder, Xue Mei referred to the data on the brain's personal terminal and prepared it reasonably, so that the fragrance bones made can not only burn without being too soft.

"It's not easy." Xue Mei smiled.

Caiyuan also finds it difficult.

After making the fragrance bones, you must put the fragrance bones into the second batch of prepared paste spices.

Realgar and arsenic are added here, so you need to be extra careful when dipping.

After getting the paste, dry the shade and then dip again, and repeat it four times.

Five days later, Xue Mei finally successfully made ten mosquito coils.

"It's still not very successful. I can't stack the two spirals together." Xue Mei thought, "It's okay. I'll sell it to Prince Ancheng. His master with skilled skills in his workshop will definitely be able to do it."

That night, she took her maids to the small pavilion in the back garden for dinner.

This small pavilion is close to the waterside, the terrain is low, and there are many mosquitoes. Xue Mei wants to experiment with his mosquito coils.

She set up food and wine on the stone table, and then placed a small table next to it to serve as a dining table for the maids.

When everything was ready to start a meal, someone suddenly asked, "How to have a meal in the back garden?"
Chapter completed!