It's unusual for a farmer to have a girl

Chapter 59

Xiao Mian looked at Liu Sihai, "We can make the ointment, but it has to be packed in a big jar."

Xiao Mian pointed to the jar of pickled vegetables at home and said: "Just use this jar, and one jar can pack more than 130 boxes. I'll count it as a hundred boxes for you. You can pack it yourself when you go back."

"The price is still the price you said. If you agree, you can pay half of the price first, and we can start working now."

Liu Sihai pondered, converting cost and profit in his heart.

As a businessman, it's okay not to make money, but he doesn't want to do business that loses money.

Liu Yingdao said anxiously: "Why are you hesitating? It's a good way to do this."

Xiao Mian glanced at Liu Yingdao with a half-smile, and said, "If the old man is not busy, you can stay and give advice."

What you've been waiting for.

"Not busy, not busy." Liu Yingdao immediately smiled.

This girl is really unusual, she can see through a little bit, and she is good enough.

"I can't talk about giving advice, but it's okay to help. Anyway, I'm good at refining medicinal materials." Liu Yingdao hit the snake with a stick.

With Liu Yingdao's words, Liu Sihai happily gave 500 taels of silver.

After agreeing to pick up the goods in five days, he left Liu Yingdao and went back alone.

Liu Yingdao was not hypocritical, he rolled up his sleeves and was ready to help.

"Little friend, what are we going to do first?"

Xiao Mian said with a smile: "Old man, watch first, just help light the fire later."

Liu Yingdao was very happy, just ask for help, no matter it is burning fire or refining medicine, as long as you participate, you can know what medicinal materials are used in the Li family's frostbite ointment.

However, in the next few days, he saw what it means to be ignorant.

With the order, the Li family immediately got busy.

A cart full of chili stalks without chili, osmanthus branches, reed roots, mountain red, white radish, ginger, sheep oil, and some weeds that Liu Yingdao didn't even know...

Here, Shanlihong and ginger are barely regarded as medicinal materials.

Liu Yingdao was in charge of lighting the fire.

The chili root is boiled in a pot, and the stem of the chili tree is used to light the fire.

Liu Yingdao couldn't bear it any longer, and asked Xiao Mian, "What's the use of this chili root?"

Xiao Mian looked at Liu Yingdao seriously and said, "This chili root is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. It has great effects. It can dispel cold and dampness, relieve wind and relieve pain."

As if afraid that Liu Yingdao would not believe it, Mrs. Song interrupted quickly: "People in our village have cold hands and feet, so soak them in hot pepper root water. It works."

Li Shi also said: "Yes, yes, this is a folk remedy in our countryside."

Liu Yingdao was stunned for a moment, then asked again: "Are these branches also Chinese medicine?"

Xiao Mian said solemnly again: "These branches are also pungent, sweet, and hot in nature. They all have the functions of sweating and relieving muscles, warming meridians, and helping yang to transform qi."

Song quickly explained again: "People in our village, whoever has a sprained ankle or a sprained arm, can use ten sticks of water to fumigate it, and it will work."

Li Shi said: "Yes, yes, this is also a small recipe for our country people."

Liu Yingdao looked at this family treating a pile of weeds and firewood as if they were treasures, and talked wildly.

He kept his composure, pretended to be curious and asked, "What are ten kinds of branches?"

"Ten kinds of branches are the branches of ten kinds of trees. When they are boiled together, we call it ten kinds of water."

Mrs. Li explained, with a tone of why you don't even understand this.

Liu Yingdao was not annoyed, and asked again with an open-minded look, Xiao Mian waved his hand and said:

"Old man, there are no weeds in the countryside, and knowledge is a treasure. Don't think that these weeds are not as good as angelica and astragalus. If they are refined and used correctly, they are much more useful than those expensive traditional Chinese medicines."

Liu Yingdao was speechless.

After studying medicine for half a lifetime, it was the first time a little girl pointed her nose and said, "there are no weeds in the countryside, and knowledge is a treasure."

Does this mean that I don't know herbs?
He frowned, watching without blinking.

He wants to see, can these weeds really make frostbite ointment?
Or was this girl afraid that he would steal her teacher, so she purposely made a pile of weeds and firewood to fool him?
The root turf was boiled for three days, and on the fourth day, the white radish and Shanlihong were cooked, and the sheep oil was boiled...

On the fifth day, everything is put into clay pots according to the proportion and boiled.

This is the last step, Li Xiaomian personally stirred the heat.

Liu Yingdao still insisted on the post of burning fire.

Three pots in a row, Liu Yingdao opened his eyes and watched these materials slowly turn into a lustrous ointment after boiling.

Dig a little, smell it, and try it on your hands. It is indeed no different from the previous Li family frostbite ointment.

No wonder he couldn't see what material it was made of.

Is it really the countryside without weeds?
When Liu Sihai came again, the room was already full of jars of frostbite ointment.

Li Benshan accompanied Liu Sihai to check the quantity of the jars and the quality of the ointment.

After the jar was loaded into the car, Liu Sihai took out a dozen banknotes and prepared to settle the remaining 500 taels of silver.

Under the excited eyes of the Li family, Song refused.

Liu Sihai looked at Song Shi in puzzlement, wondering what she meant?
Could it be too little?
But this is all agreed in advance, if the price is increased at this time, the Li family will be too unkind!

Liu Sihai looked at Liu Yingdao, hoping that he would act as an intermediary to say something.

Liu Yingdao also frowned.Could it be that the quality of this batch of frostbite ointment is not up to standard?
That's right, a bunch of weeds and branches, even if they are all for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, how can the effect be compared with the precious medicinal materials?

It seems that the Li family has a guilty conscience.

Everyone in the Li family didn't know why, so they looked at Mrs. Song, urging her to accept the bank note with their eyes, it was 500 taels!
Song looked at his family reassuringly, and then said to Liu Sihai: "Brother, I want to discuss something with you."

Liu Sihai showed a displeased expression, and said in his heart: Sure enough, he wanted to increase the price.

He said coldly: "Mrs. Li, we have an appointment."

Song rubbed her hands in embarrassment, "Yes, I know that big brother is in business, I just want to ask, how much does big brother sell this ointment?"

Liu Sihai's voice became even colder. He has seen many people like this after traveling all over the world for so many years.

He said coldly: "It doesn't seem to be related to Mrs. Li, does it?"

Song's face turned red, she pursed her lips and paused for a moment, then said again: "Brother, those who suffer from cold and get frostbite are mostly poor people, right?"

Liu Sihai did not speak, but nodded.

Song continued: "They are all poor people. I'm afraid there are not many who can afford frostbite ointment. I just thought, we don't want the thousand 500 taels."

"In this way, your cost will be lower, so can you sell it cheaper so that the poor can afford frostbite ointment?"

After Song finished speaking, she smiled embarrassingly, "I just want to make a suggestion. I understand that big brothers also have to make money."

"It's really not possible, you see, if we sell frostbite ointment again, can we still sell it at the old price?"

Liu Sihai looked at Song for a while, then suddenly smiled.

"Ms. Li is a compassionate person. Don't worry, our batch of frostbite ointment is sold to the capital. The corresponding customers are not short of money."

"As for the poor, the medical centers and pharmacies under our name hold free clinics every year. Our self-made frostbite ointment will also be distributed for free."

"Oh, it turns out that the eldest brother and his family are all good people!" Song said happily.

Liu Yingdao looked at the sky speechlessly.

The cheapest homemade frostbite ointment is much more expensive than Li's, okay?
The business of the Li family is a huge profit.

The most valuable thing in the cost of frostbite ointment is suet.

And the frostbite ointment I made myself...

Don't say it, it's all tears.

(End of this chapter)