Talking about the spring liquid in her hand, Selena thought of the miserable life she had spent with an balsams seller in her previous life. The hand holding the cup couldn't help but clenched. Although the incident has long since passed, she still trembles.
She could tolerate a little bit, but the balsams seller was a beast with no humanity at all. When he was happy, he would give her something to eat. When he was unhappy, he would be tortured in every possible way. She was originally such a beauty-loving person, but she was tortured when she was only in her twenties. He tortured her until she looked like an old woman in her forties or fifties.
Thinking of this, Selena couldn't help but take a deep breath before relaxing. Fortunately, a few years later, the drunkard beast fell to death. Otherwise, she really doesn't know how long she would have had to endure. Although the incense seller was cruel, he had some skills in making essential oils and perfumes. Apart from the pile of unsold spices left behind after his death, he also hid a precious treasure.
She dug in the corner of the room for a long time before digging out a wooden box from the mud bricks. If she hadn't woken up in the middle of the night and found the incense seller squatting in the corner of the room hiding something, she probably wouldn't have known that there was such a thing in the house. When she opened the wooden box, there were some silver coins hidden by the incense seller. There were several secret recipes, and a palm-sized green transparent bottle.
Selena has been sold to balsams for several years, she knows some of his past. The man was a rogue, robbing and stealing. He even robbed other people's houses, so the items in this wooden box were probably stolen o rubbed from wealthy people. The secret recipe in the wooden box records the proportions of many products like perfumes and essential oils, etc. Each recipe describes the production method very clearly. The popular essential oils production methods in the metropolis are all listed on it. This can also explain why the guy can suddenly make money.
The small light green bottle is empty. Selena didn't pay much attention, her attention was focused on the recipes and the silver coins. She just picked up the small bottle and looked at it. She probably scratched her hands while digging for masonry, and her blood was on the bottle. Suddenly, the small bottle disappeared from her hand, and Selena was really shocked. Since then, there has been a strange phenomenon of a few drops of spring water condensing in the palm of her hand every day.
It took Selena more than a year to accept and understand the use of this liquid. She was really ecstatic at that time. With a dozen silver coins in the wooden box and the mystery spring liquid in her hand, coupled with the dozens of recipes for making perfume and essential oils, and her not bad talent, made her life much more comfortable by relying on her own hands in the years after the beast died. But her body was hollowed out. She had suffered too many miscarriages and was beaten and abused for many years. She died of illness before she was thirty.
She was very satisfied and grateful to be reborn unexpectedly, especially when she discovered that the magical spring liquid in her hand still existed, she almost ran to the church to thank God.
Selena put the cup in her hand back on the table. The only pity is that the amount of spring liquid is small and the storage time is very short. It is of little use to people. It only improves the fragrance and effectiveness of flowers, plants and trees. The previous liquid she used it to make flower tea and drank it. She used a few drops to make jasmine oil, but the effect was still the same as in the previous life. Adding a drop to soak the flowers and plants will keep the original fragrance longer. The more you add, the more floral fragrance will be. The richer it is, the better the taste will be if you use flower tea soaked in liquid as a dessert.
Although Selena has become accustomed to the existence of magic liquid, it is still very weird to others and may not be able to accept this magical liquid. Therefore, the existence of magic liquid will only be a secret to her, even not going to tell her parents.
Selena's family now has no fields and no poultry, so she only needs to do some handwork and cooking. Selena barely ate some wheat bran bread for lunch, soaked some magic water in water and drank it, then washed her hands and face and leaned on the bed. She used a coarse cloth to carefully apply some jasmine essential oil that she had poured out before to her hair. She combed it evenly with her hands and twisted it into a bundle. She wrapped her head in a coarse cloth and went to sleep. Covering it like this would allow her hair to absorb enough of the essential oil, and she would grow it into a beautiful hair as bright as satin in the future.
Her afternoon nap was very sweetly with the fresh scent of jasmine. After Jose came back at noon and had a quick meal, he took the small half can of jasmine essential oil and carried the bamboo basket and continued to sell goods through the streets. Unexpectedly, Jose came back in the afternoon and gave Maria, Selena and her daughter a big surprise.
After Selena had a full sleep, she lazily moved a small wooden stool and sat in the shade of the house. She lit a fire to dry some osmanthus flowers. She covered the osmanthus flowers with a bamboo basket, and then put some lace handkerchiefs with seams made by Maria. Place it on a bamboo basket and smoke it, and the aroma of the burned osmanthus clings to the handkerchief.
She also wanted to make perfume directly and put it in the handkerchief, but now she didn't have the materials to make perfume and she didn't have money to buy them, she could only use this simple one to make the handkerchief temporary scented.
The weather was very hot, but fortunately the fire was only burning slowly and the flames were not big, but Selena still felt sweat dripping from her cheeks. While looking at the fire, she thought that she would not do such things if she had money in the future.
It was smoked over low fire all afternoon, and the fragrance of flowers was quite strong. Selena picked up the flower-scented handkerchief and put it under her nose to smell it. The natural scent of osmanthus lingered on the tip of her nose. Afraid that the aroma would dissipate quickly, Selena smoked it for more than an hour, and the aroma was indeed very strong. As soon as she put down the handkerchief, she saw Jose coming back carrying a load.
Selena immediately put down her handkerchief when she saw it, and went up to him with a smile on her face. She said sweetly: "Dad, why did you come back so early today? The sun has not yet set."
At noon, Jose learned from Maria that his daughter knew how to make essential oils. Maria asked him to take half a small jar of jasmine hair oil to a wealthy family and ask about it. He didn't have much hope at first, but he just didn't want his wife to be disappointed. Who knew that the essential oils were really taken by a young lady from a wealthy family. She bought all the half of bottle together and gave him a full 50 copper coins. A bottle of essential oils he used to buy in the grocery store only cost 20 copper coins. His half bottle sold it for 50 copper coins, which made Jose very happy.
Since a half bottle of essential oil earned fifty copper coins, Jose spent about twenty copper coins cruelly to buy a small bag of white noodles and a few pastries that his daughter loved. The family had not seen white noodles for more than half a year, so it didn't matter to him, but his wife is in poor health and his daughter is young. Wheat bran bread is not nutritious enough. Although Jose is a man, he is also very attentive. His daughter's face is so thin that it is only as big as a palm. She can't eat after only a few bites of food. He is also anxious, so he bought some things after selling essential oils and came back early today.
"Dad, are you buying this for me?" Selena looked at Jose with her big eyes, holding a red date bread wrapped in oil paper in her hand. She had not eaten enough in the past few days since she was reborn, and her stomach was empty. Yes, smelling the aroma of red date bread, her mouth had already secreted a lot of saliva. While secretly cursing herself for being embarrassed, she made a deer-like look in anticipation, because she knew that if she looked like this, Jose would definitely will come back with more delicious food next time.
The place at the foot of the mountain is relatively remote, most of the residents are relatively poor. There are only a dozen households nearby. The fields are also scattered, and there are no neighbors whose houses are next to each other.
Jose still touched his daughter's hair and said with a smile on his rough face: "It's all yours, come into the house to eat it."
Putting a small bag of white noodles beside the pot, Maria counted the twenty or so copper coins given by Jose. She was very happy for a moment, "Finally, We were able to pay the two hundred copper coins for the stepmother. And I got the medicine at Dr. Andres last time. You can pay back the twenty copper coins we owe for medicine. After a break, you can send the money to the stepmother and Dr.Andres." Jose wipe sweat with the soaked cloth handkerchief, and replied to Maria, "I'll do it later."
Jose and Maria are both honest people. Although the stepmother kicked their family out, because the law stipulates that legal children must provide for their parents in old age, this law is like a mountain that cannot be shaken off. They just have to grit their teeth and pay the monthly pension of 200 copper coins required by his stepmother.
Selena carefully opened the greased paper bag. She first let Jose and Maria eat a piece of red date cake. Finally, she washed her hands, picked up a piece and put it to her mouth, then took a bite, and immediately half-squinted her eyes. And I felt that the red date cake was sweet and fragrant. The fragrance of the dates was completely immersed in it, and it melted in my mouth. It was really delicious, even better than the expensive pastries she had eaten at the Earl's Palace.
Selena has used osmanthus and smoked a lot of unsold handkerchiefs and purses in the past few days. She also put the handkerchiefs and purses in wooden boxes, and put a few bunches of dried osmanthus in the box to preserve the fragrance, and then let Jose took it to sell, and it turned out to be very popular. After all, how can women in ordinary families afford perfume, even the ordinary price is not cheap. Women are born with a love for fragrance, but cannot afford good perfume. Now those handkerchiefes and purses are scented with fragrance. If you put it in your sleeve, you will carry a floral fragrance with you wherever you go, which is stronger than ordinary essential oils. It smells good, and more importantly, the price is very cheap, half cheaper than the smoked ones in the store. At that time, many young girls and women gathered around, and they were all choosing from the wooden box with bright eyes. As soon as they got the aroma, they can't bear to let it go. Jose has a good
On the second day, Selena woke up when the swallows were chirping under the eaves. She immediately got up to wash up, applied essential oil and combed her hair. She put on the new light pink skirt made of cotton that Maria had sewn for her and left the room. Although The fabric was not expensive silk, but fortunately the color was pretty good, and it was very flattering to wear at this age. Jose also gave her a pair of cotton embroidered shoes. After leaving the room, even Maria's eyes lit up. She vaguely felt that her daughter had been different since she didn't know when. In the past, she wanted her to pay more attention to her appearance and learn some things that girls should learn, like her step-grandmother's daughter, Iris, usually learns more about knitting skills and cultural knowledge. But Selena was spoiled by her father. She ran up the mountain with a group of children every day. Her hair was always messed up and her clothes were dirty. Selena couldn't listen to what she s
Seeing the anger in Lucio's eyes and the smell of his sweat in the air, Selena felt like she had entered some animal's territory, did not dare to move. She had no choice but to stiffly turn her head and pass the thing in her hand to him. She tried her best to smile as brightly as possible and said: "Your dry breads are not enough for you. This is for food. Here you go... just take it. you're hungry. It can fill your stomach..." Anyone under that unkind look would feel nervous, their scalp would be numb, their heartbeat would speed up, their speech would stutter, and their eyes would dodge. Others would probably faint from fright. The scars on his face were even more terrifying up close. When Lucio saw her look and heard her words again, his eyes that were already full of anger were about to burst into flames. He knocked over the unsightly pastry package in front of him with one palm. Thinking of the insulting words she had said before, he was so angry that his eyes almost burst int
The owner of the grocery store, Pedro, just bought a batch of bottles for essential oils and prefume a few days ago. The styles are quite pleasing. Selena looked at these large and small exquisite bottles in front of her and couldn't help but pick them up one by one and look at them intently. Due to past life experiences, she knew almost everything about production and sales.Don't underestimate the packaging of perfume essential oil bottles. The more exquisite they are, the more eye-catching they are, and the more people will ask, and sells faster than other things. Although we all know that the most important thing is whether the perfume or essential oil inside is made of good materials, in fact, it is human nature to love beauty. Just like women, good-looking things are always more popular than ugly ones. Selena picked up a bottle and looked at it carefully. She had recently used essential oils to care for her hands and face, and now she has begun to see results. The skin on her
Selena cheered up, pulled Jose's sleeve and told him her thoughts. Jose also felt a little guilty for his wife. His wife had suffered a lot of grievances due to him. She couldn't even see a doctor when she was sick, and she hadn't made a decent set of clothes for many years. He couldn't help but nod, he just picked up some groceries today, and he still had some money in his pocket. After getting the goods, there were more than a hundred copper coins left in the principal, plus the money sold to Pedro for the two jars of essential oils and the deposit for the other two jars of essential oils. Now there are eleven silver coins. Excluding the purchase of tea seed oil and olive oil, the rest should be enough to buy cloth. Seeing that Jose agreed, Selena smiled and pulled Jose for two quick steps, and finally entered a nearby cloth shop. The shop was not big, but it had dozens of kinds of fabrics. There was a whole cabinet arranged, which made people dazzled. Especially in summer, the m
On the country road, from a distance, Maria was standing at the gate of the fence that was simply fenced by her house, constantly looking around. When she saw Selena and Jose, she put down the sewing basket in her hand and stood up to greet them. Maria saw that they have bought so many things and spent so much money. She couldn't help but feel distressed. When she got the cloth fabric, she carefully put it away. She still complained about them for spending too much money. After saying a few words, she saw that the father and daughter were still happy and didn't care at all, so she had no choice but to carry the few kilograms of fresh pork belly and big meat bones the kitchen. Happened to have some sweet potatoes and some dried mushrooms at home, so she could make bone soup with the meat bones and make some rice, and the family would have a good meal in the evening. It's hot today, and they have been riding in a carriage for a long time. It's so crowded that Selena feels sticky sweat
The next day, Jose came home in the evening and said with a smile: "Today I went to several squire's houses to ask, first four houses no one wanted it. I didn't have much hope. When I don't have expected that the last house asked for a box. The person who bought the rouge this time was the rich lady who bought jasmine essential oil last time. I sold it a silver coin, and oday she even bought a bottle of osmanthus essential oil." At this time, the lady from a wealthy family was looking in the mirror and drawing her eyebrows. The maid next to her took a box of inconspicuous rouge on the table and said,"Miss, will you use the box we just bought from the seller today?" The lady paused for a moment, and then said calmly: "The essential oil I bought from him last time has a good scent. After using it for a while, I saw that my hair is a little more shiny, using the box of rouge..." The maid opened the lid of the rouge, and the lady picked out some pink rouge, then gently kneaded it with h
Selena begged Jose to buy a book in the city that explained the effects of various plants. During this time, she almost remembered some common plants on the mountain based on the explanations in the book, which was considered a small achievement. That day, when Selena dug up a mint tree and put it in the basket behind her, she was about to stand up when her eyes fell on one spot. Some dry grass there. Before, the grass covered untrodden soft mud, but now there was a footprint left on it. The size was not Dad's footprint, and it looked like it had just been stepped on. Soon. When she followed the footprints and looked in, she saw blood stains on a few thorns that she hadn't paid much attention to just now, which made Selena's heart beat nervously. After all, there were only three members of her family when she went up the mountain, and her mother, Maria, went down early to cook, and her father, Jose, was not injured. There was probably an injured criminal hiding nearby. Selena's scalp