Wang Dunchu was still in charge. When he went to the toilet, he saw a lacquer box containing dried dates. He originally used to block his nose. The king said that the fruits were also lowered on the toilet. After the food was over, he returned. The maid held a golden bath plate to hold water and a glass bath bean. He drank it in the water and said that it was dry rice. All the maids covered their mouths and laughed at it. --- "The Thirty-Fourth New Words of the World"

The meaning of this sentence is: When Wang Dungang got married to Princess Wuyang, he once went to the toilet and saw dried dates in the paint box. This was originally used to stuff his nose into the toilet, but Wang Dun thought it was the fruit placed in the toilet, so he ate them all. After coming out, the maid held a gold-made washbasin, which contained water and bath beans in the glass bowl. Wang Dun thought it was dry rice, so he poured it into the water for food. When the maids saw it, they covered their mouths and smiled.

Do you know how the emperors of the palace and concubines should prevent the splash of feces from being sprinkled with a "bang" sound when the concubines squatted in the pit and shitted? A layer of burnt dates was sprinkled on the top of the golden toilet. After the burnt dates were completely soaked, they not only had no odor, but also had a faint fragrance. Do you admire the wisdom of the ancients? The emperors of the Qing Dynasty already loved to do this. This was told by a eunuch in the late Qing Dynasty in the early Republic of China, and it was not made up by me. Of course, this behavior of wasting food was criticized by later generations. In this way, Wang Dun during the reign of Emperor Wu of Jin was much more cute, at least they cherished food.

What is bath beans? It is recorded in history: There was a detergent called "bath beans" in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Sun Simiao's "Qianjin Yaofang" and "Qianjin Yifang" in the Tang Dynasty recorded that the pig's pancreas was washed away, the fat was torn off and the grinded into a paste, and then the bean powder, spices, etc. were added evenly mixed, and after natural drying, it became a bath bean that could be used for washing. Who first thought of using pig pancreas to remove dirt? No one knows yet, but he must be a super smart

During the production of bath beans, the pig pancreas was ground to enhance the ooze of digestive enzymes contained in the pancreas. The mixed soybean powder contains saponins and lecithin. The latter has the effect of enhancing foaming and emulsification, which not only strengthens the washing ability, but also moisturizes the skin. Therefore, it was considered a relatively high-quality detergent at that time. However, it was difficult to obtain a large amount of raw materials such as pig pancreas, so bath beans were not widely popular and were only used in a few upper nobles.

Later, people improved the production process of bath beans. When grinding pig pancreas, they added sugar, and used sodium carbonate (sodium ash) or wood ash (main component is potassium carbonate) instead of bean powder, and added molten lard fat, mixed evenly, pressed into spherical or blocky shapes. This is the "pancreas". Lard melted at 40℃, and the pig pancreas exerted the decomposition of lipase at this time, decomposing lard into higher fatty acids. These fatty acids undergo saponification reaction with the subsequent wood ash alkali agent added to produce fatty acid soap. This is the main chemical component of modern soap.

Bath beans were a luxury that emperors and officials had obtained in ancient times, because books such as "Qianjin Yaofang", "Jinkui Yaolue", "Huangdi Neijing" were only placed in the shelves in the palace and were not seen by ordinary people, so this thing was not popular among the ancient people.

The invention of soap is said to be the Phoenicians on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. Legend has it that in an ancient Egyptian palace in the 7th century BC, a Phoenician chef accidentally knocked a can of cooking oil into the ground. He was very scared and quickly scattered the wood ash in the stove when others didn't find it, and then took out the wood ash mixed with grease and threw it away with his hands. Looking at the greasy hands, he thought, such dirty hands, I don't know when to wash them! He hesitated and put his hands in the water.

. A miracle happened. He just rubbed it lightly for a few times, and the greasy hand was easily washed away. Even the old dirt that had been difficult to wash away was washed away. The chef was very surprised and asked other chefs to try this ash, and everyone's hands were washed cleaner than before. So, the servants in the kitchen often used grease to mix wood ash to wash their hands. Later, Pharaoh also learned this secret, so he asked the chef to make some wood ash mixed with oil for his hands to wash. Some people said this was a legend.

Before the late 18th century, soap was made of animal fat (that is, the pig pancreas we mentioned earlier) and wood ash. At the end of the 18th century, someone discovered that an alkali made of table salt could replace wood ash. This alkali was called caustic soda. At that time, vegetable oils such as olive oil, palm oil, sesame oil and soybean oil also began to replace animal fat.

It is impossible for ordinary people to wipe the ground dust every time they remove oil. In the Song Dynasty, an artificially synthesized detergent appeared, which is to use natural soap acacia (also known as soap acacia, hanging knife, soap acacia, commonly known as soap acacia. I don’t know if you have learned the article “A Soap Acacia Tree” in middle school. Soap acacia is really a good thing. In the era of famine, the soap acacia leaves can be steamed with black noodles to satisfy hunger. The pods of the whole mature soap acacia are smashed and made into powder. Not only can they use it to tease people---get them into the other person’s nose and sneeze constantly, but they can also be used to wash clothes. The leaves and pricks of the soap acacia are traditional Chinese medicine, which can dispel wind and swell, detoxify and kill insects. I heard that women who are confinement periods drink soup made of soap pricks to treat hemorrhage; soak the soap seeds and bark in clean water, mash them, sprinkle some salt, stir well, and put them in the medicine jar to make it for adults.

The most amazing thing about children treating poisonous sores is that this thing can promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis and reduce swelling, and grind it carefully, add spices and other substances to make orange-sized balls, which are specially used for facial and bathing, commonly known as "soap balls". At this point, the soap has truly entered the homes of ordinary people. Volume 6 of "Wulin Old Things" by Zhou Mi, a Song Dynasty man, recorded that there were already businessmen who specialized in "soap balls" in Lin'an, Kyoto, Southern Song Dynasty. The appearance of soap in advance in our story does not seem so abrupt. Influenced by Acheng's "Common Sense and General Knowledge", I think it is necessary to make these common sense knowledge a little solid, so that everyone has a very intuitive understanding of the source of things that seem to be within reach of the touch of the people around them. Those who traveled to Yuan and Ming Dynasty even used soap to talk about things are actually a big joke and cannot stand scrutiny.

The "Compendium of Materia Medica" by Li Shizhen, a Ming Dynasty, also recorded the method of making "soap balls": soap balls grow in the mountains, the trees are tall, the leaves are like sandalwood and soap balls, and bloom in May and June, and they form three or four inches of pods, thick and succulent, with several black spots inside, as big as fingers, not round, and white kernels in it, which can be eaten. In October, pods are collected, cooked and mashed, and made pills with white flour and fragrance. Bathing the body and the surface, remove dirt and moist, which is better than soap balls. In addition to natural soap balls, plants such as Wuwanzi are also spread among the people and become a good detergent.

On the day Wu Yonglin's perfume shop officially opened, Chengdu Prefecture almost caused a tide situation of people running around and telling each other. The crowds of people gathered in front of the shop called "Red Pink Fragrance". Looking at the three levels of the perfume shop: hibiscus, Xiangju Yipin, Tianxiang Supreme. The products in the three levels were further divided into small bottles, medium bottles, large bottles, and even free incense trials. After experiencing the hibiscus, the people who were originally just here to join in the fun, would pay some money to buy a small bottle of hibiscus in the water to make up for fun. "Red Pink Fragrance" has become the most talked about news in Chengdu Prefecture today.

The various colors of the various lines lined up in line, the ridicule that comes from the mouth is even more ridiculous.

"Wife He, do you think there is not enough right and wrong in front of her door?"

Widow He glanced at the other party and replied in a deep tone of deep boudoir: "Oh, there are many people who dare to climb the wall of my mother's courtyard, and I have never met anyone who dares to marry me home. I heard that the old Madam Xu in Qinlou has wiped this thing, and now she has become the top player there. I hope that using this thing can increase the number of people climbing the wall and give her more chances to get married. How can you stand and talk sarcastic people know that after I stayed alone in the empty boudoir after the fifth day of the morning, "

"Mrs. Lady, why are you here to join in the fun?"

"As the saying goes, "Marry a wife and be virtuous, marry a concubine and be splendid." Since the vixen came to the family, there is always a lingering fox smell in the house. With this Xiangju Yipin Zengxiang, I also have the capital to compete with her. Let's see who can laugh to the end tonight."

The incense guessing session is the most popular program today. No matter whether it is male or female, everyone can participate. A high platform has been built on the front side of the shop of "Hong Pink Xiang", with an Eight Immortals table on it. Four big men with red-collared arms standing around the foot of the table. A black cover is used in the center of the Eight Immortals table to cover the mysterious special perfume used in "New Youth" for everyone to guess the price. Before the event started, everyone took the "Hong Pink Xiang" piece of paper with small characters written on it. There are no less than dozens of answers for their choice on the coupon. As long as you choose, use a pen to draw a circle or press a red finger.

If you are a little dissatisfied with the price you think is the most suitable in the lowermost blank space, then these people pulled off the coupon and threw it into a big red cardboard box held by the guy "Hong Pink Xiang" beside you. Then these paper pieces filled with answers were collected together, and no less than twenty people on the stage screening the correct answers. After all this was done, more than two hours had passed. The people in the audience were tireless and stared at the twenty people happily, and the closest answers were placed in a big red cardboard box that was larger than the ones just now.

After about a cup of tea, beautiful girls appeared in front of everyone. The graceful and beautiful girls were holding a pair of silver plates shining in the sun, with something stacked on it, completely covered with silk, which seemed quite mysterious. After the gong sounded, Shuixiu figure wrapped in her true face, which was wrapped in three lotus petals. It turned out that they were holding a white oil paper umbrella in their hands, and the three of them hid their upper body.

In the oil paper umbrella, they were wearing clothes that people around them had never seen before. The waist was obvious, and the delicate curves of women were displayed at a glance. They looked like a treasure bottle that had just been transported from Jingdezhen, which made people dazzled. Women wanted to wear such clothes and show their popularity in front of everyone. Men could no longer look away when they looked at their unevil, charming, delicate, and sick figure.

Especially when these three women showed their true faces from the oil-paper umbrella, the heat contained in the men's eyes had reached the extreme: a woman with a plump figure seemed to have a broken piece on her pink and white lotus arms, or she was wearing a pair of special big red gloves, which made people even more imaginative; a delicate woman who was neither fat nor thin, her sleeves were longer than the one just now, and only exposed her forearms below the elbow joint; the last woman was the thinnest of the three, and her body seemed to be wrapped in a slightly loose body, giving people a feeling of coldness and squareness.

"Can you all calm down?" After a sound as pleasant as a lark spread among the crowd, the originally noisy crowd suddenly became quiet. It seemed that the woman wearing red gloves had taken away their souls and made them slaves in her hands.

Su Kangsheng, who was originally watching the fun in the crowd, could no longer leave his eyes when he saw this familiar old friend.

This plump woman is Mei Fengchun, who is even more woman than a woman. Standing on both sides of him was Shaoyao and another woman. If the people in the audience learned his true identity, these people would not know what they would feel? Shaoyao kept searching for the man Wu Yonglin who was trying to wear this 'cheongsam' in the crowd. At first, she was still squeaky. Since wearing this special dress that made everyone's eyes unable to leave, she suddenly realized that she had fallen in love with it. If he could look at her from the side at this moment, how great would it be.

Wu Yonglin only told Mei Fengchun and Xiao Xuanji about his pretending to be the governor Wu Bo, and asked them to keep this secret for him. Today, he should not appear in public for such an opportunity to show off. He is bored anyway. Several women at home are now addicted to the atmosphere of "bloody battle to the end". He felt that he was neglected, so he took Xiaodao and Ruolan to the snack bar of Liang Hongying and Douhua's wife to have a meal. Shaoyao could only wait for disappointment and loneliness in the end.

"Mr. Wu, what is the mysterious gift you prepared for everyone in "New Youth"?" Mrs. Douhua now listens to Liang Hongying read the text on "New Youth" to him almost every day, and those supplements that were occasionally added would not be spared. At this time, the shop was deserted, and four children were having fun beside him. Ruolan was particularly good at the two little guys and gave some sweets from time to time. Xiaodao was not so enthusiastic about the sweets in his sister's hands. Instead, she became fascinated by a wooden foal next to her and swayed on it. Liang Hongying stared at the children in her eyes, but her ears kept listening to Wu Yonglin's next words.

"I want to know? I will know in half an hour. Everyone agreed to use that thing, but don't put that thing in your mouth. If you have to eat that thing, just eat it with arsenic. It can not only detoxify, but also lose weight. You can travel at home, and it is a must-have medicine."
Chapter completed!