usatvline Chapter 91 Lipstick
Chapter 91 Lipstick
The next morning, Xiao Siyue went to the shop again.
To everyone's surprise, many customers came to the shop early in the morning. Xiao Siyue stayed in the shop for a while, and seeing that nothing special happened, she went back.
In the following days, Xiao Siyue went to the shop every day to check on things and found that Manager Zheng was doing a good job. So Xiao Siyue handed the shop over to Manager Zheng, and from then on she only needed to check the accounts once a month.
After handing the shop over to Manager Zheng, Xiao Siyue had nothing to do and felt incredibly bored.
Every day, he and his two maids would work together to come up with all sorts of dishes.
After seeing this, Lin Qin discussed it with Xiao Qinian. Since Xiao Siyue was now eight years old, they hired a female teacher to teach Xiao Siyue music, chess, calligraphy, and painting.
So now Xiao Siyue spends most of her day studying these things and doesn't have much time to cook or make food anymore.
After finishing her studies for the day, Xiao Siyue sat at her desk, idly propping her head up with her hand. Suddenly, she remembered that Mu Li's birthday was coming up, and she hadn't decided what gift to give her yet.
She tilted her head and asked Chuntao, who was massaging her back:
"Chuntao, Muli's birthday is coming up soon. What gift do you think would be appropriate for me to give her?"
"Miss, Miss Mu likes to eat these things, why don't we make some delicious food for her?" Chun Tao said while massaging her back. She had been won over by Xiao Siyue's various kinds of food lately, and felt that Mu Li, who also loved to eat, would definitely like them too.
"Food! No way!"
Xiao Siyue thought for a moment. She could wait until another day to invite Mu Li to her home and then cook for her. However, it was not appropriate as a birthday gift. She couldn't very well bring food to the Mu residence. Besides, she had heard Mu Li say that she would invite several young ladies from her close families to celebrate her birthday.
"How about we give rouge and face powder, or a round fan and handkerchief?" Chuntao suggested. Nowadays, many young ladies exchange these kinds of gifts.
Round fan and handkerchief? Forget it. She doesn't have the skills for either. When her mother dragged her to learn needlework before, not a single finger was spared from being pricked. After learning for several days, she hadn't learned anything and finally gave up in despair.
Rouge and face powder, that's fine. Mu Li is thirteen now, and she's at the age where she cares about her appearance, so this is a good gift. However, the ones I bought are a bit too ordinary.
Or, you could make some yourself.
"System? System?" Xiao Siyue quickly called out in her mind.
"Host, is there anything I can help you with?" The system's somewhat lazy electronic voice rang in Xiao Siyue's mind.
"Could you give me the recipe for traditional lipstick making? I want to make a few lipsticks for Mu Li," Xiao Siyue quickly stated her request.
"Host, the method has been given to you."
As soon as the system finished speaking, several lipstick making methods appeared in Xiao Siyue's mind, quite comprehensive.
"Chuntao, no need to massage your back anymore, let's go get some lip rouge."
In this month, Xiao Siyue can find fresh rose petals, wash them clean, and dry them outside.
"Miss, the petals have dried out. What should we do now?" Chun Tao asked Xiao Siyue as she brought in the dried petals from outside.
Xiao Siyue grabbed a handful of flower petals from the winnowing basket, making a 'crunch, crunch' sound.
"Okay, that's enough. Now you can grind it into powder."
Xiao Siyue then took out the honeycomb she had bought, heated it to melt it, filtered out the impurities, and poured it into a clean porcelain basin to solidify, thus obtaining beeswax.
"Miss, the petals have been prepared."
At this moment, Chuntao also arrived with the ground flower petal powder.
After sifting the petal powder as well.
"Chuntao, are those lipstick tubes we had the carpenter make finished?" Xiao Siyue suddenly asked.
"Miss, it's ready. Lanyi has already gone to pick it up," Chuntao said.
Just as Chuntao finished speaking, Lanyi walked in from outside.
"Miss, I've retrieved the lipstick tube."
"Let me see it quickly."
Xiao Siyue picked up a few lipstick tubes and looked at them. She was pleasantly surprised because they were the same as the patterns she had drawn before.
Xiao Siyue picked one up and tried it; the spinning was very smooth, without any stickiness.
This person's skills are really good; they're comparable to her second uncle's.
After all the preparations were completed, Xiao Siyue and her two maids began making lipsticks.
After melting the beeswax, add the prepared almond oil, then add the rose powder, stir thoroughly, and pour into a mold.
Once it solidifies, it can be poured into the lipstick tube.
After several days of work, Xiao Siyue finally obtained 10 lipsticks.
"Miss, this lipstick is so pretty!" Chun Tao saw Xiao Siyue take one and try it on, and was immediately attracted by the beautiful color.
Xiao Siyue was also very happy. Although she was still young and didn't need lipstick, she was an adult woman in her previous life, and lipstick was naturally one of her favorite things.
"It really is very beautiful, but I won't give it to you this time. I'll make it for you when you grow up." Xiao Siyue smiled as she put Hou Hong away, intending to give two to your mother first.
"Thank you, Miss." The two women quickly expressed their gratitude. They were still young and didn't need such things, but they were already very touched that Xiao Siyue had thought of them.
"Mother, look what this is!" Xiao Siyue picked up the lipstick and couldn't wait to go find Lin Qin.
"What?" Lin Qin asked, puzzled. She had been quite busy these past two days and only knew that her daughter and the two maids were tinkering with something, but she didn't know what they were specifically thanking.
Xiao Siyue handed a lipstick to Lin Qin: "Mom, you do it like this," Xiao Siyue demonstrated to Lin Qin how to open it.
“Mom, this is lipstick, similar to the lip balm you use,” Xiao Siyue said.
"Mother, why don't you try it?" Xiao Siyue pulled Lin Qin to sit in front of the dressing table.
After applying lipstick, Lin Qin looked at herself in the mirror.
"How about it? Isn't this color beautiful?" Xiao Siyue said happily to her mother.
"It looks great. This lipstick is very convenient." Lin Qin closed the lipstick cap, liking it more and more as she looked at it.
"I'm glad Mother likes it, so I'll give this to you too." Xiao Siyue was also happy to see that Lin Qin liked it.
"Thank you, Yue'er," Lin Qin said without any hesitation, placing the two lipsticks into her vanity drawer.
After Xiao Siyue picked out two lipsticks for Mu Li, she felt the gift was a bit meager, so she also took two bottles of the simple perfume she had made earlier.
These perfumes are simplified versions of rose perfumes that she and her two maids made.
Just like making baijiu (Chinese liquor), rose petals are repeatedly distilled to obtain rose petal liqueur.
Although it's a simplified version, it still tastes very good, and it would have been considered quite special in ancient times.
After Xiao Siyue gave Lin Qin a small bottle, Lin Qin was very happy with it, even more so than when she received the lipstick.