Travel to ancient times and become rich women with your bestie

Chapter 111 Duan Disheng

The raw materials have been fully prepared, and the next step is to test the toothpaste.

The two of them placed all the raw materials on the table. Duan Minmin took a deep breath, held down her slightly trembling hands and prepared to start the trial mixing.

After all, it is not easy to collect such a small amount of glycerin, and she was a little worried about whether she could mix it well.

Seeing that she was nervous, Zheng Yuan walked up and pinched her face.

"It's okay, Amin. We already know how to make these ingredients. If it doesn't work this time, we can just do it again. What's the saying, failure is the mother of success!"

"Right! Failure is the mother of success! Then I'm going to start. If I fail, you can't give me a cold shoulder. Assistant, go get the scale and paper. The inventor is going to start his road to invention."

"Okay, Master!"

Zheng Yuan made a funny gesture of standing at attention, then trotted out of the kitchen to bring in the scale and paper.

With Zheng Yuan's jokes, Duan Minmin felt much calmer.

She took a small scale and began to weigh according to the proportion in her mind, dividing the raw materials into small piles and then putting them into the bowl.

"Yuanbao, go pick up a burnt twig from the stove hole. Remember what I said."

"Okay!" Zheng Yuan picked up the charcoal pencil, held it in his hand and lay on the stove to record the data.

"Five ounces of chalk powder, one ounce of propolis..." Duan Minmin reported in a series, and Zheng Yuan began to record with a charcoal pencil.

Fortunately, no one was at home at the moment. If someone saw that she could write, the excuse that her soul had left her body and met her dead husband would not work.

Soon, the first toothpaste was formulated, and it looked quite realistic.

Zheng Yuan couldn't wait to take the toothbrush, dipped it in a little toothpaste and started brushing. Duan Minmin held her hand and looked at her expectantly.

Zheng Yuan swiped it twice and looked embarrassed.

Seeing her like this, Duan Minmin knew that it wouldn't work.

"It's okay, Amin. Edison failed hundreds of times when he was trying to invent the light bulb. It's no big deal if Duan Minmin failed a few times when he was trying to invent toothpaste." Zheng Yuan was afraid that Duan Minmin would be discouraged, so he quickly rinsed the toothbrush out of his mouth and comforted her.

Duan Minmin laughed: "You are so unruly every day. Come on, tell me how it feels when you rinse your mouth."

"Other than that it's fine, but it feels very powdery and sticky, and it doesn't blend very well."

After listening to Zheng Yuan's description, Duan Minmin nodded and began to increase or decrease the proportion of raw materials according to Zheng Yuan's opinions.

"What now?" Soon the second toothpaste was produced.

"There's too much glycerin, it's a bit greasy."

Duan Minmin started trying again.

"now what?"

"It's a bit bitter."

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After repeated trial mixing many times, when Zheng Yuan felt that his tooth enamel was almost washed away, finally, as soon as the toothpaste entered his mouth, Zheng Yuan knew it worked.

Seeing Zheng Yuan nodded at her, Duan Minmin excitedly picked up the toothbrush, dipped it in a little toothpaste and started rinse her mouth.

Sure enough, the proportions this time were very successful. Except for the lack of sweetness, fragrance and foam, the taste was almost the same as toothpaste in later generations.

The two of them, with their mouths full of toothpaste and their teeth sticking out, walked around in circles in the kitchen holding hands.

"Aunt, what are you doing?" Young Master Jiang, who had just returned home, heard laughter coming from the kitchen and came over to check out the laughter. Seeing the two people with white mud in their mouths and laughing crazily, he thought they were poisoned.

After staring at each other for a while, Mr. Jiang and the two let go of each other's hands awkwardly.

Thinking of the paper for recording later, Zheng Yuan walked forward to block Mr. Jiang's sight and pulled him out. Duan Minmin tacitly put away the paper that had just been recorded.

"Mr. Jiang, come with me. I have good news to tell you."

"What good news?" Mr. Jiang asked puzzledly.

"Our toothpaste is ready!"

"Really? Let me take a look." Mr. Jiang said and was about to walk in.

Duan Min had already brought out the bowl of toothpaste: "Here it is, Mr. Jiang, you must try it."

"Of course!" Mr. Jiang looked at the bowl of white paste and excitedly called Aji, "Aji! Aji! Quick, bring me my toothbrush."

Aji happily took Mr. Jiang's toothbrush, holding his own toothbrush in his hand and looking at Duan Minmin with anticipation.

After Mr. Jiang dipped his toothpaste, Duan Minmin handed the toothpaste to Aji and said, "Come on, Aji, try it too. How is my toothpaste?"

When Aji heard Duan Minmin asked him to try it, his eyes lit up. He was also a person who had used toothpaste. According to this order, he was at least the fourth person in Daye Dynasty.

The master and servant couldn't wait to brush their teeth, nodding repeatedly as they brushed.

After rinsing his mouth, Mr. Jiang licked his teeth with his tongue and felt that his teeth had never been so clean.

"Aunt, you guys are amazing. This toothpaste has a dense texture and a slight sweetness, unlike the green salt that pricks your mouth. Aji, why don't you ride your horse to town right now to see if my father has replied to the letter? This old man is always so slow."

Mr. Jiang looked at Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin as if he saw two gods of wealth. He was eager to launch the toothpaste right away. When the business became popular all over the country, he would see if the old man would still say that he had accomplished nothing.

Aji looked at his young master speechlessly: "Young Master, this letter was just sent out three days ago. The master is in Kunzhou Prefecture, how can it be so fast?"

Master Jiang saw the look of disgust on Aji's face and chased after him to hit him. The master and servant chased each other in the yard.

Seeing that the two people’s feedback was good, Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin’s confidence increased greatly. It seems that this business can be successful.

"Since you all think it's good, then let's mix the toothpaste according to the current ratio. Mr. Jiang, please tell us the result as soon as possible after your father's letter comes back."

Hearing Duan Minmin's words, Master Jiang stopped chasing Aji and nodded seriously: "Okay, auntie, I will inform you immediately when my father's letter comes back. I think there will be no mistakes."

After the toothpaste recipe was finalized, the two felt that the air had become much sweeter and decided to reward themselves with a big meal.

So for today's dinner, Zheng Yuan used all his skills and prepared a table full of dishes.

When the children came back, they saw a pot of firewood chicken, and on the table next to it there were boiled pork slices, pork ribs stewed with beans, poached eggs, fried corn, fried eggplant boxes... the whole table was filled to the brim.

"Mom, did Mr. Jiang ask us to pay back the money? Are we going to run away overnight after this meal?" Sizhu looked at Zheng Yuan with a puzzled look, slurping his saliva.

The children were of course also very shocked.

Although the meals have been pretty good recently, today’s meal was too hard. It seemed like I wouldn’t eat anymore after this one.

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin were so amused by him that they laughed out loud. How could this guy come up with such a thing?

"Boy, am I such a stingy person?" Master Jiang came over and hugged Sizhu's neck.

"No, no, Mr. Jiang, you are the most generous." Sizhu smiled at Mr. Jiang flatteringly.

"Okay, everyone sit down and eat. Everyone has been working hard recently, so we will borrow Mr. Jiang's things so that everyone can have a good meal. Children, let's pick up a piece of meat to thank Mr. Jiang."

The two of them did not forget to thank Xiao Jindouzi. Since there was no wine or tea, they just toasted him with meat.

Mr. Jiang's face turned red at the sudden thanks from the two of them, and he raised his bowl awkwardly towards the chopsticks raised by the children.

"Eat! Eat all!"

Mr. Jiang had been here for so long that he had become familiar with everyone. There was less restraint at the dinner table, and everyone enjoyed the noisy meal.

Even after eating, we didn’t want to waste this wonderful atmosphere, so we sat at the table and chatted about everything under the sun.

Although they had to go to the market the next day, the family stayed up late that night before going to bed.