Chapter 729 [Dragon and Phoenix Painting Gold Box and Dragon Column]
“Journey.”
Li Yi explained casually.
“Journey?”
Zhao Jinmai asked in confusion: "Aren't you making medicinal incense? Why are you making lamps?"
“I’m not making incense, I’m making candles.”
Li Yi fixed the end of the rush on the bamboo pole, shook it at her, and signaled: "This is the wick of the candle. The rush is here to ignite the fire."
Liu Yifei glanced at the medicinal powder aside, thought for a moment, and then asked: "Are you going to add these medicinal powders to the candle?"
"clever."
Li Yi smiled slightly, nodded and explained: "In ancient times, there were no electric lights, so candles were used for lighting at night, but candles would produce smoke. If you smell them for a long time, you will easily become dizzy.
So the office of the ancient palace would add some soothing medicinal powder to the candles to make medicinal incense candles.
Medicated powder will release medicinal fragrance when the candle burns. The principle is similar to sachets and incense.
However, the cost of making this kind of medicinal incense candle is relatively high. Even the royal family only uses it during New Years and holidays.
What I want to make this time is the first item of the box in the [Dragon and Phoenix Banquet], which is [Dragon and Phoenix Painted Gold Box and Dragon Pan Pillar].
Here will be added some herbs that soothe the mind, replenish qi and blood, and strengthen the spleen and appetite to open up the appetite before eating and help digestion. "
“Are you so awesome?”
Zhao Jinmai clicked his tongue and exclaimed: "I didn't expect that ancient royal families even paid so much attention to candles."
In the live broadcast room, the audience also complained in the barrage area.
“It’s so corrupt! This is all done by the people!”
“Should I say it or not, this is the real luxury product!”
"How much does it cost? It can be exported abroad. Foreigners will definitely like it. They like candlelight dinners."
“If you ask me, you should add some aphrodisiacs, such as Epimedium, Cynomorium Cynomorium, golden flies, etc., and it will definitely sell well.”
…”
“There are so many smart people on the Internet! Why didn’t I think of it?”
“I’m often incompatible with you because I’m not perverted enough, private Marseille, excuse me.”
While the audience was complaining, Li Yi took out another stack of books-like things.
When he opened it, the audience discovered that it was actually pages of gold foil.
“Is this gold foil?”
Zhao Jinmai was surprised: "It also needs to be put in?"
"right."
Li Yi picked up the pieces of gold foil, put them into the pot, and then stirred them with chopsticks.
As he stirred, the gold foil quickly broke into pieces and turned into dots of gold shavings, which were mixed into the wax liquid.
After mixing them evenly, Li Yi picked up the chopsticks.
A wisp of liquid wax dripped from the tip of the chopsticks, and the golden shavings among them were like stars, which was instantly beautiful.
After making sure that the gold foil was mixed evenly, Li Yi put the chopsticks aside.
Soon, the wax liquid on the chopsticks solidified, forming a layer of wax mixed with gold dots on the chopsticks.
Zhao Jinmai reached out and picked up the chopsticks and raised them in front of Liu Yifei, with a look of surprise on his face: "Sister Yifei, look, it really looks like a small candle!"
Li Yi on the side ignored it, picked up the medicinal powder, poured part of it into the pot, and then started stirring.
Soon, the medicinal powder and the wax liquid merged together.
At this time, Li Yi took a soup bucket and poured the wax liquid into the soup bucket.
Following that, he put a few more wax slabs into the pot, continued to melt them over fire, and prepared the wax liquid.
After filling the soup bucket, he took off the pot, placed the soup bucket on the stove, and heated it over a slow fire to keep it warm so that it would not melt.
Smelling the smell, Wu Lei couldn't help but come over, stretched out his nose and sniffed, and praised: "It smells so good!" Zhao Jinmai couldn't help but licked his lips: "Why am I a little hungry?"
Li Yi set up another soup bucket of the same size and explained casually: "There are hawthorn and tangerine peel in it, which are good for digestion, promoting qi, strengthening the spleen and appetizing."
"right!"
When he said this, Zhao Jinmai really distinguished the two smells: "No wonder I smelled the smell of orange, hawthorn and candied haws."
Wu Lei nodded sharply at the side: "Appropriate!"
Took another dozen red wax slabs, Li Yi chopped them into pieces, put them together into the soup bucket, and soon burned out a bucket of red wax liquid.
Then you can make candles.
He took the prepared candle wick, put it into the wax liquid mixed with medicinal powder, soaked it for a while, and then took it out.
The candle wick rolled with circles of rushes was hung with a layer of liquid wax. After being cooled by the outside air, it quickly condensed into a layer of colorful black wax.
It is a wax liquid dyed black by medicinal powder and mixed with gold powder to give it a unique color.
After the medicinal wax liquid solidified, Li Yi put the candle wick into the red wax liquid.
When he pulled it out again, a layer of red wax had condensed on the candle wick, wrapping the previous black wax layer in it.
Then, Li Yi followed the same method and dipped the wax liquid into two soup buckets one after another.
The candle wick also began to grow thicker at a speed visible to the naked eye, layer after layer.
Wu Lei saw it in amusement and couldn't help but ask: "Brother Yi, can you let me try it?"
"Can."
Li Yichong raised his chin at the desk beside him: "There are bamboo poles and rushes there. Roll the rushes on the bamboo poles and you can take them and make them."
"okay!"
Wu Lei ran to the desk excitedly, and soon made a candle wick. He ran back, imitated Li Yi's operation, and made a medicinal incense candle.
He did not master the method well in the first few layers, and the thickness of the wax liquid was uneven.
After some pointers from Li Yi, he found the trick and started to get good at it.
However, after dozens of layers of dipping, it became increasingly difficult for him.
The liquid wax condensed into a thick layer of wax on the candle wick, and the entire candle already weighed seven or eight kilograms.
Hold this candle weighing seven or eight kilograms, keep moving it up and down in the two soup buckets, and make sure it is vertical. This is a big test for your strength.
Moreover, the weight of this candle is getting heavier and heavier, which is even more torturous.
After dipping a few more layers, Wu Lei couldn't hold it any longer.
But he glanced at the candle in Li Yi's hand. The candle already weighed more than ten kilograms, but when Li Yi held it in his hand, it felt as if he was holding a piece of straw, light and fluffy, as if it were nothing.
A little embarrassed to speak, Wu Lei reluctantly dipped it a few more times.
When he was dipping for the last time, he took the candle out, but his hand slipped and the candle almost fell back into the soup bucket.
"Eh…"
He was halfway through his exclamation when a hand grabbed the half-slipped candle wick from the side and lifted the candle out of the soup bucket.
“That’s it, that’s enough.”
Li Yi took his candle and placed it on the table nearby.
The one Li Yi made himself has been placed in the center of the desk, exuding a burst of medicinal fragrance.
Taking a slender leather knife, Li Yi put it on the stove to heat it.
Then, he took the medicinal incense candle he had made and cut into the uneven top.
The hot blade easily sank into the candle body and circled around, leaving a mark before he pulled it out.
Following that, he brought another wire saw, stuck it into the knife mark, and cut the inner candle wick into sections, and a beautiful cross-section appeared in front of everyone.
"Wow!"
Zhao Jinmai couldn't help but exclaimed: "It's so beautiful!"
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(End of this chapter)