MTL - Lisko’s American Life-Chapter 13 Extract essential oils

Lisko received a call from his agent, Lubo.

"Li, the new book is ready for sale. Random House's promotion has come up with some propaganda methods, and I want you to cooperate." Lu Bo's tone on the phone was a little embarrassed.

"What kind of propaganda method?" Lisko was a little puzzled. Lubo knew that he was a little disgusted to come forward to promote it.

"Do you know the two most popular social tools on the Internet? One is called Twitter and the other is called Facebook."

"You know? My investment company has also invested in angels, and now the investment returns are good."

"Wow, Li, then you've made a lot of money. I didn't expect you to be an investor with excellent vision. It's like this. These two softwares are very popular in the circle of young people, and the current market share is also good, because you The audience for this book is younger readers, and the editors at Random House want you to sign up for these two apps and use them to connect with your fans.”

Li Ke thought for a while, "Okay, no problem, Lu Bo, I'm also a young man, and it's easy to accept this kind of new social networking, I just don't like running around the world to promote, it makes me a kind of showman. illusion."

Lu Bo breathed a sigh of relief, "Okay, then I'll contact Random House and ask him to contact the two companies to advertise and certify your check-in on the homepage?"

"Okay, I'll send you the ID after I've registered." After the two of them chatted, they exchanged a few simple words.

Lisko went back to the study, turned on the computer, and registered two social software. The ID is Lisko, a professional writer, and he sent a message to Lubo asking him to contact him to complete the certification. Lisko was familiar with the software while waiting.

The Facebook page is full of hot pictures of hot girls in bikinis, Twitter is the American version of Weibo, of course, he is the original.

Lisko refreshed the page and completed the certification soon. Twitter and Facebook are still just under construction, and there are not many celebrities. Lisko is also a big winner in the literary circle. When they settled in, of course, the two companies welcomed them from the sidewalk. They handled the certification with expedited speed, and they also thoughtfully put a banner in the golden position of the website, "Welcome to the well-known writer Lisko."

Of course, they don't know that Lisko is still a shareholder of the two companies. This is what Liscott avoided. It would be nice to make a fortune in silence. It would be nice to have the fame of a writer in front of him.

Lisko pondered for a long time. He was thinking about what he should say first, whether to reflect himself or not to be the same as others.

"These faces emerge from the crowd, petals blossoming on the wet black trunk."

This short poem is the famous poem of Ezra Pound, the leader of the Imagist poets, and Lisko feels it is appropriate to use it as his first message at this time.

"Li? Are you at home?" The rooster was calling Lisko outside the door.

Lisko walked out the door, "Yes, what's wrong? Rooster."

"The lavender has been harvested. We are going to extract the essential oil. Would you like to come and have a look? You must have never seen it before."

Lisko was suddenly interested, mainly because he thought about extracting the essential oil by himself and giving it to Meghan. She must be very surprised.

"Okay, let's go." Lisko took the lead and walked towards the pasture with great interest.

Next to the staff dormitory, a tin room was built with a long one-story, which was used by the rooster to brew beer after harvesting the rye.

The extraction of lavender is carried out here.

All the staff in the ranch are busy here, David, Humble, Weiss, Locke, and the cook Jasmine, they are putting lavender in a still like a Chinese water tank.

Lisko also helped out after saying hello. The two of them were using scissors to cut off the top half of the lavender, and the rest were gathered up and stuffed into the kettle.

The rooster told Lisko not to add too much, but to leave a distance of a palm, which is to let in the steam.

After it was plugged, the cowboys lifted the huge lid and tightened it. A metal tube was attached to the top of the still. The metal tube led to another filter gauze, and there was a plastic bucket for the essential oil. The essential oil would be in the glue. Precipitate in the barrel, and then secrete hydrosol and essential oil.

The rooster controls the temperature and time in the control room at the back. Generally, the distillation of essential oils takes two or three hours.

Lavender is specially extracted by steam distillation. This distillation time is shorter than that of water distillation, the esters in the plant are less destroyed, and the price is higher. Things like rose and orange blossom are only suitable for hydrodistillation because they are more fragile.

After the lavender is extracted, the liquid will be layered, the upper layer of oil is called plant essential oil, and the lower layer of water is called hydrosol.

Hydrosol is also a basic material for cosmetics, which can reduce inflammation and sterilize, balance and adjust the special effects of skin oil secretion, and can be used as toner and toilet water.

Lisko sat at the door with the cowboys, drinking beer and chatting. Slowly the outlet of the distiller began to emit steam, which filled the entire pasture with the unique fragrance of lavender.

This time, the lavender in the Lisko ranch has to be distilled in more than a dozen times. The rooster has calculated that, excluding labor and costs, one lavender planting can benefit 2 million US dollars, the essential oil can earn 1.2 million, the hydrosol can earn 650,000, and other residuals can be earned. You can earn about 150,000 yuan, an absolute profit.

Two or three hours later, all the essential oils have been distilled. One barrel of essential oils and a barrel of hydrosol are collected in one extraction. The rooster estimates that the lower grade can be rated as A. The cowboys are all happy, and the ranch has high returns. There will be a specific share, ranging from 0.5% per person. The only disappointment was Lisko, because the rooster told him that the essential oil he had just extracted would take two months to settle before it could be packaged for use.

The extracted straw has changed from purple to dark brown, and the essence inside has been extracted. The cowboys collect it and plan to spread it out and dry it. Later, it will be sold as powder to the daily chemical company as an additive for laundry detergent and shampoo.

Lisko changed from being in high spirits to being downcast, and he is no longer here to cause trouble for the busy cowboys, because the cook Jasmine is very busy, UU reading www.uukanshu. The com **** suggested that he make dinner.

Lisko returned to the villa, opened the refrigerator door, and took out a large piece of premium beef, which was bought from Bo's ranch.

Bo's Ranch's main business is to buy and sell beef cattle. One of the rare A-grade snowflake cattle in the batch of beef cattle sold this time. After Lisko found out, except for one-fifth of the family for their own use, the rest were all used. He bought it.

The taste of this kind of beef is very recognizable. The most distinctive feature is that the meat is rich and fragrant, which makes your mouth full, as well as its rich beef flavor and beautiful marble pattern. However, because the cattle are mainly fed with grains, so No grassy smell.

Lisko opened everything with a dining knife, then patted loose with the back of the knife, and marinated with onion, black pepper, garlic, red wine, and light soy sauce for fifteen minutes.

He took out a piece of butter and heated it to fry it. Lisko put the marinated steak into the pan and fry it on all sides, so that the nutrition of the steak would not be lost, then fry for two minutes on each side, and then take it out of the pan.

Lisko worked for half an hour, frying ten pieces of steak, each one was three more, this was to prevent some big eaters from getting enough.

Choose broccoli, purple cabbage, cherry tomatoes, carrots, wash and slice, boil water for cooking, add a little salt and oil, blanch and drain. Pour over the vinaigrette and a green salad is ready.

There is also a soup. Li Ke chose the traditional Chinese seaweed egg drop soup. He prefers this soup because it is convenient and quick to make. Take out a piece of seaweed, soak it in water for a while, boil the water in the pot, add the seaweed, stir the eggs in when the water boils, sprinkle some salt and sesame oil, and a greasy seaweed egg drop soup is good.

Lisko looked at the set table, full of achievements, called the rooster, went to the basement to get a good bottle of red wine, and sat down to prepare for dinner.