"Ma Lang, I got honey! I got honey!"

A little fat man ran in panting, but why did the voice sound weird? Ma Qiang took a look and thought, "Oh my God, this thing wrapped around my head is really Yueyang?"

"Pfft! Yue Yang, how did you become like this!" Lu Qingcheng looked at Yue Yang and burst into laughter. Yue Yang tilted his mouth and grinned, sucking in the cool air while saying, "I'm doing this for honey, Ma Lang.

Look, this is all honey."

Yue Yang said and took out a jar. There was more than just honey in the jar. Most of the hive had been pulled down. Ma Qiang could also see several bees moving in the honey flowing out of the hive. One of them didn't know what to do.

The baby bees stuck out their heads and looked around.

"Didn't I ask you to use animal skins to make honey? How did you become like this?" Ma Qiang gently touched the bandage on Yue Yang's head, and Yue Yang grinned in pain.

"I used a harness at the beginning and used smoke, but I didn't expect that these bees actually killed me. Qingcheng, please help me take a look. It hurts me to death." Yue Yang said, tilting his mouth.

Stop pumping.

"...Next time I tell you how to keep bees, Uncle Guo happens to be brewing medicine inside. Come in and let him take a look."

Ma Qiang shook his head and asked Yue Yang to go to Guo Ping for treatment. At this time, Guo Jin was still stirring, and the glycerin could not be made for a while. Ma Qiang simply went to Qingcheng to see how the toothbrush was doing.

When I looked at it, I noticed that there was already a row of toothbrushes placed beside it.

"How is it? Is this toothbrush good?" Lu Qingcheng held a toothbrush and handed it to Ma Qiang. Ma Qiang tried to pull out the bristles of the toothbrush and found that it was very strong. He pressed it again and it was full of elasticity and elasticity.

Does not sting.

"Lu Yun bluntly blunted all the hairs to make sure there would be no stinging sensation."

Ma Qiang then took a serious look at Lu Yun. This little girl who didn't like to talk really had the same heart as Lu Qingcheng said, extremely delicate.

"Okay! This toothbrush has been made successfully. The mint and honeysuckle should be almost cooked. Go and get the green orange, and then we will make the auxiliary ingredients."

Before Ma Qiang finished speaking, he heard Yue Yang screaming in pain in the room, presumably because he was being pulled out by Guo Ping.

After a while, Lu Qingcheng took out two cans of brewed concoction. As she walked away, she smiled and said, "It's so funny how Yue Yang got his thorns pulled out. By the way, Brother Ma, you said you could raise bees before? These bees

How to raise it?"

Ma Qiang took some of the concoction from the two jars and poured it into a small bowl, and then said, "Bees are also animals, pigs and dogs are also animals, pigs and dogs can be raised, why can't bees be raised?"

To raise bees, you must first prepare a beehive, and then let the bees make a nest in the beehive. But more importantly, there must be a source of flowers. Otherwise, just like raising cows without grass for them to eat, if there are too many bees and there is no nectar to eat, they will starve to death.

of."

In later generations, raising bees requires driving flowers and traveling all over the country. Wherever the flowers bloom, the bees will go there. Of course, you can also not drive the flowers and let the bees eat sugar water when there is no nectar to eat, that is,

Sucrose water.

In fact, most artificially bred bees in later generations eat sucrose water during the winter.

But in this era, there is no sucrose. If we raise a large number of bees artificially, we will starve to death in the winter if we don't drive the flowers.

This is why ancient honey is always a treasure.

It was too difficult to collect honey manually in ancient times.

The auxiliary ingredients are mint, honeysuckle and salt.

"Ma Lang, come and see, I seem to have the reaction you mentioned."

Guo Jin reached out to Ma Qiang and shouted.

Ma Qiang walked over and took a look and found that through stirring, the liquid turned milky white, which was a saponification reaction.

"Okay, keep stirring. If you are tired, you can rest for a while and stir again. You don't need to keep stirring."

Since the alkalinity of the plant ash water cannot be determined, Ma Qiang himself has no idea what the product will be like after saponification this time.

Of course, Hou's alkali production method is the first choice for industrial alkali production, but the prerequisite for such an industrial production method is ammonia and carbon dioxide.

Carbon dioxide can be obtained by calcining limestone, but obtaining a large amount of ammonia requires a high chemical industry foundation.

Historically, humans did not have the ability to produce ammonia industrially until before World War I.

Ma Qiang looked at the best experimental tools in his hand, which were wooden barrels and forged iron stoves. There was still about two thousand years of scientific and technological development history between them and World War I, so he didn't think about it for now.

The saponification time takes about an hour. Taking advantage of this time, Ma Qiang asked Lu Qingcheng to prepare a few molds. It didn't need to be too complicated, just a box made of five wooden boards.

When the saponification reaction was almost complete, Ma Qiang asked Guo Jin to carefully scrape out the gray-yellow semi-solid turbidity floating on the upper layer and place it in the mold until the waste liquid was scraped.

"Wow, there's more grease!" Lin Zhi shouted excitedly. Others were also amazed at the magical result. There was only a small jar of grease before, so why did it become so much now?

"This is not grease. It becomes soap after solidification. Although it is not edible, it can clean our clothes." Ma Qiang explained.

"Eh~~ Those clothes must smell like grease." Lin Zhi shouted with some disgust.

...Do you think you smell good now?

Ma Qiang twitched the corner of his mouth, but he did feel that it could be optimized a little more.

"It's almost noon, let's eat first." Ma Qiang suggested.

"Eat? Do you need to eat at noon?" Liu Hui was still baking light calcium carbonate, so she turned around and asked.

By the way, most people in this era eat two meals a day. Three meals a day did not gradually appear until the Song Dynasty, but even in the Qing Dynasty's "A Dream of Red Mansions", you can still see the description of two meals a day.

"Only when you are full can you have the strength to work." Ma Qiang, who is used to eating three meals a day, had no choice but to forget about it in the mountains. Now that he has some conditions, he naturally has to have lunch.

"Are you ready to eat?" Yue Yang's head popped up out of nowhere. "It turns out you can have lunch here. If you had known I would be here in the morning."

It turns out that since building a house is strenuous work, three meals a day are provided on the construction site.

"Eat, the account is in my name. When the toothpaste is sold, I will pay." Ma Qiang waved his hand. A boss who doesn't owe debt is not a good boss.

Although Sister-in-law Guo and Sister-in-law Lin both said they could not accept Ma Qiang's money, Ma Qiang still asked Lu Qingning to keep the accounts. Brothers, only those who know how to settle accounts are sensible.

After all, this is not just a day, but may take more than half a month.

The rice we eat is wheat rice, which is steamed wheat. Now there are foods like flour cakes, but the flour cakes are made of refined grains, so most people still eat wheat rice.

This is the first time Ma Qiang has eaten wheat rice. The first night he came to Dasong Village, he ate barbecue and drank millet porridge in the morning. The wheat rice felt quite fresh when he ate it for the first time. The vegetables were water spinach and leeks.
Chapter completed!