Allure of a Country Maiden
Chapter 809 - 807_1

Chapter 809: Chapter 807_1

After Jiang Yuheng bid his farewell, Xiao’er immediately set off to teach Mrs. Ma how to make rose tea.

Not only rose tea, but also rose essential oil!

As soon as Shangguan Xuanyi brought back the distillation equipment, she was ready to teach Mrs. Ma how to extract rose essential oil.

Rose essential oil has been referred to as the "queen of essential oils". However, about two taels can be extracted from 2,000 pounds of roses, and a mere droplet can be extracted from ten pounds of rose petals. Therefore, rose essential oil is the most expensive essential oil in the world in fact, it is more pricey than gold.

But the high cost is worth it, rose essential oil has numerous benefits for women: it can fade spots, whiten the skin, improve dry skin, restore skin elasticity, and not only contribute to beauty, but also improve health, having therapeutic effects on female hormonal imbalances, menstrual pain, menopause discomfort, etc. It could nourish the uterus, making it the most suitable essential oil for women’s health.

The roses picked within twenty-four hours are the best for essential oil extraction. The roses Xiao’er bought from Boss Feng are past this optimal period, so she used them to allow Mrs. Ma to practice.

As Xiao’er runs a beauty salon, she definitely needs this rose essential oil. She had already prepared the extraction in her space, and it is now time to introduce it to the world and sell it openly!

The extraction of rose essential oil is not difficult nor easy. One needs to add fresh roses and clear water, then use the principle of steam distillation to distill the white oily water mixture. The second step is to add salt to this oily water mixture for oil-water separation, then separate the essential oil and water with a separating funnel, further remove the water from the rose essential oil, and finally get pure rose essential oil.

The hard part of extracting pure rose essential oil in this backward ancient time is preparing all the materials and equipment and controlling the temperature.

Luckily, Xiao’er’s space workshop has ample materials, and it wouldn’t be too difficult for her real life not being able to find these materials. Now all she did was wait for Shangguan Xuanyi to bring back the materials so she could start teaching Mrs. Ma how to extract.

Xiao’er priced the rose essential oil at one tael of gold for half a tael of essential oil. After hearing this, Mrs. Ma thought that she was insane! Who would buy it at such an exorbitant price!

Later, when she started extracting the essential oil, she used up 5,000 pounds of roses, but she didn’t extract a lot (of course, that was also because the roses were no longer fresh), Mrs. Ma felt that even two taels of gold for one tael of essential oil was cheap! After this tiresome year and a half, she only got a few drops of essential oil, how could the oil not be expensive! If she had spent this time digging in a gold mine, how much gold could she have dug up!

Since the start of essential oil extraction, Mrs. Ma began her life full of toil. If it was up to her to set the price, she would definitely set it at one tael of gold for one drop of essential oil!

Of course, that’s a story for later.

...

After leaving the small residence, Jiang Yuheng was waiting outside the town gate for Shangguan Xuanyi to return.

He wanted to return to the Imperial Capital, whether for his deceased father and brother, or for the Fifth Princess, he felt the urgency to return to the Imperial Capital as soon as possible.

Shangguan Xuanyi returned at sunset, and when he saw that Jiang Yuheng was waiting at the gate, he knew he was waiting for him.

The two men retired to the mansion and had a long discussion in the study.

Jiang Yuheng expressed his desire to return to the Imperial Capital as soon as possible, but he also knew that he was no longer the heir to the Duke of Zhen. Who would recognize him after he returned? He might even be killed before he entered the city!

Jiang Weiqiang was a cunning man, his corpse had never been found. It wouldn’t be surprising if he had people watching the city gate all these years.

When Jiang Yuheng fell off the cliff, he fell into the water and was then swept away by the rapid river. Later, he was eventually washed ashore, where a watchman who had gone into the mountains to gather firewood happened upon him and saved him.

One could only say that it was not his time to die yet!

Shangguan Xuanyi naturally supported Jiang Yuheng’s wish to return to the Imperial Capital as soon as possible, but after testing Jiang Yuheng’s martial skills, he changed his mind. His martial arts were too weak, was he looking for death by going back?

After ten years, those in the Duke of Zhen’s Mansion both inside and out had already become Jiang Weiqiang’s people.

Moreover, Jiang Weiqiang is now the Duke of Zhen, and Jiang Wei’en is the heir to the title, directly bestowed by the Emperor!

Jiang Yuheng couldn’t produce any evidence that Jiang Weiqiang was responsible for his father’s and his brother’s deaths ten years ago. Without proof, he couldn’t reclaim the Duke’s title.

After all, this isn’t a game, where he could take back what’s granted whenever he pleased.

The two men discussed, and decided that they would be unable to seek justice in court. Jiang Yuheng also worried that the Duke would not be able to bear such a blow--a second son murdering the eldest son’s family and then the grandson seeking to avenge the second son’s deed--it wouldn’t be something an old man would want to witness. So, Jiang Yuheng chose assassination, he’d already lost majority of his family in this world.

For his personal desires, Jiang Weiqiang actually disregarded the interests of the state and the safety of the soldiers, setting up a trap to kill his own brother and nephew. Such a person deserves to die, even the Emperor would not harbor him completely, though meticulous evidence would be required. Without evidence, everything would be a one-sided statement.

But ten years had passed, the Xiyue Country had already perished, and the ones who deserved to die were already dead. Seeking evidence now would undoubtedly be like finding a needle in a haystack.

Shangguan Xuanyi and Jiang Yuheng grew up together, naturally believing and willing to help him.

As for revenge, Jiang Yuheng has to fight for it himself. Therefore, he must practice his martial arts, then find an opportunity to assassinate [his enemies].

In the river of time, everyone is rowing against the current: if one does not advance, then one would retreat.

During the ten years that Jiang Yuheng suffered from amnesia, he was stuck in a state of stagnation. Although he practiced a set of boxing exercises every morning to keep fit, his martial arts skills had declined from those of ten years ago. Meanwhile, Jiang Weiqiang and Jiang Wei’en had kept improving and their power kept expanding.

Currently, Jiang Yuheng looking to kill them is an impossibility.

Shangguan Xuanyi decided to arrange Jiang Yuheng to go into his personal guard. Although the harsh training there couldn’t compare with that of the hidden guards, it was still quite intense.

Therefore, Jiang Yuheng joined Prince Rui’s Mansion as a member of the personal guard under the name Liang Dali.

Shangguan Xuanyi gave him a token, asking Zhao Yong to escort him for reporting duty the next day.

Shangguan Xuanyi’s personal guards training camp isn’t located in the Imperial Capital, but rather a place with a strategic location, apart from his personal guards and himself, no one else knew.

After the two men discussed numerous matters, it wasn’t until midnight that Jiang Yuheng bid his farewell and left.

Back in his room, Shangguan Xuanyi finds that Xiao’er was engaged in research on the several successful test results of today’s rose dehydration process.

She has recorded the amount of firewood used, flame temperature, time taken, how much dried rose can be obtained from one pound of fresh roses, etc., and calculated an average value.

In the future, she would just follow this average value and there would hardly be any errors.

Shangguan Xuanyi bent down to hug Xiao’er from behind, resting his head on her fragrant shoulder, "Done with your work? Are you tired?"

"I’m finished, not tired." Xiao’er had good stamina and didn’t feel tired even after standing and making tea for an entire day.

Search the lightnovelworld.cc website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.