The Daily Life of a Down-on-Hard-Life Medicine Girl Supporting Her Family

Chapter 83 How to Teach Your Daughter

A new establishment called "Alluring Pavilion" has emerged in the capital. Its goods are of high quality and high price, and its business is booming, but the owner remains a mystery.

Merchants are shrewd; they come when they smell something, but after much investigation, they find they know absolutely nothing about it.

The recipe can't be stolen, and the owner can't find out about it.

But everyone understands that someone who dares to sell a box of rouge and face powder for tens of taels of silver must have some kind of background to be so ambitious.

The less you can find out about someone's background, the less you dare to investigate, because you might end up offending someone you can't afford to mess with.

At the same time, they also felt that Qingcheng Pavilion was shady. How much could this thing possibly cost to produce? They really dared to ask for it.

But even the women in his own household were upset that they hadn't been able to make a reservation.

They're all spendthrift women!
Chunyu was very pleased to see the account books sent back by Qingcheng Pavilion.

"I never thought Nuannuan's method would actually work."

Nothing good comes without costing money. The ingredients in the recipe Chunnuan gave were ridiculously expensive, and I simply couldn't afford it with my limited funds.

Nuan Nuan seemed to have anticipated this situation, telling herself to collect the deposit first and then pick up the goods. At first, she was worried that no one would believe her, so Nuan Nuan asked for samples to be provided so that they could try them.

Sure enough, women can never resist temptation, especially when it comes to becoming more beautiful; they will never hesitate.

Paying money is faster than anything else.

Qingcheng Pavilion succeeded by relying on this sales method.

A monthly profit of 118 taels of silver is a considerable sum.

It should be noted that her dowry shop previously only made a profit of about a hundred taels of silver a year.

“Miss, business at Qingcheng Pavilion is so good. Why don’t we increase the daily limit of ten boxes? Granny Ma said they are all busy enough.”

"No need, just do it this way for now." Chunyu already understood Nuannuan's meaning: things are valued for their rarity.

These days, the most prestigious and boast-worthy item among the elite circles of Beijing is the use of rouge and face powder from Qingcheng Pavilion.

If sales volume increases dramatically, and the quantity increases dramatically, then the product becomes cheap and ubiquitous, with everyone owning a box. What advantage does it have then?

Nuannuan said she wanted to make the rouge and face powder from Qingcheng Pavilion the favorite of the noble ladies in the capital.

Just like now, limited orders are made, and young ladies from wealthy families will order them as gifts for their close friends or sisters, which is more practical than any other gift.

After all, who can resist something that makes them more beautiful?

"But……"

Seeing that she couldn't earn any money, Mo Lan was extremely anxious.

The young lady had a grand plan: she said she would work hard to earn money so that when the old lady and the master returned to Beijing for a family reunion, she could buy a large mansion in the capital, and only then would the family be truly reunited.

The capital is a place where every inch of land is precious. A large mansion would cost at least several thousand to tens of thousands of taels of silver. A little over a hundred taels a month, a little over a thousand taels a year. How long would it take for Miss to work like that? "It's okay. We have to trust Nuannuan. Nuannuan said she will give us recipes from time to time. We will innovate and develop new ones, retain old customers and develop new ones."

Nuannuan added a playful line in the letter: Once you're here, don't even think about escaping!
"Second Miss is really amazing."

“Nuan Nuan has always been very capable.” Speaking of Chun Nuan, Chun Yu’s face was full of pride: “She has been patient since she was a child, and she would go to her grandfather’s pharmacy. Her grandfather once said that none of my father’s three brothers were willing to learn, and he thought that the family’s medical skills would be lost in his hands. He never expected that Nuan Nuan would have such a hobby and talent. She could recognize hundreds of kinds of herbs when she was three years old, and when she was five years old, she could identify the medicinal herbs by blindfold and accurately say their effects and contraindications.”

"She started tinkering with all sorts of pills when she was seven. She was quite mischievous back then, chasing after little Chun Ning to feed her pills. Chun Ning was also greedy, and would eat them as soon as she heard they were sweet. As a result, all sorts of things would happen after she ate them, and then she would take out the antidote and give it to Chun Ning."

“Chuning has been tricked many times, each time in a different way. Once, she even took a pill and her face turned red and she almost fainted. Her grandmother was so angry that she wanted to punish her with family law.”

"She was lucky. Just as my mother and the others were trying to persuade my grandmother, my grandfather came back. As soon as he saw Chun Ning's symptoms, he asked Nuan Nuan if she had any antidote. Nuan Nuan said she did, and quickly took it out and fed it to Chun Ning. In less than the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Chun Ning was as fresh as ever again."

"Grandmother was still angry, but Grandfather was very happy. He said that Nuannuan was capable and surpassed her master. She was not only skilled in processing medicinal materials, but also had a talent for making pills. Even he couldn't develop an antidote, but Nuannuan did it."

"Later, Grandpa told Grandma that he should not restrict Nuannuan anymore, and let her do whatever she wanted."

The old lady was naturally not happy. In her eyes, girls should act like girls, and should learn music, chess, calligraphy, painting, needlework, and cooking. Girls should get married when they grow up, be good wives and mothers, and be respectful to their parents-in-law and virtuous to their aunts and nieces. No family wants to marry a female doctor.

However, the grandfather still made the decisions at home, and the grandmother had no choice but to obey. But among all the grandchildren, the grandmother was the least affectionate towards Nuannuan.

Fortunately, Nuannuan is very easygoing; her mind is completely focused on her medicinal herbs and pills, and she doesn't care at all whether she's being valued or not. Otherwise, she would have been hurt so much.

Looking back now, Nuannuan was the smartest one.

Chunyu thought she was a virtuous wife and loving mother molded according to worldly expectations, a good granddaughter in her grandmother's eyes, but the result was simply too tragic.

Now that she has a daughter, and watching Panpan grow up day by day, Chunyu has decided that she will raise her daughter in the same way as Nuannuan.

Forget about things like being a virtuous wife and loving mother. Women should be kind, but kindness must have an edge, otherwise even the bones will be devoured.

Moreover, Chunyu was well aware that because she had sent the entire Wu family to jail, people in the capital were avoiding her, which would greatly affect Panpan's future marriage.

After all, no one would dare to mess with such a formidable mother-in-law.

Chunyu felt somewhat guilty about this.

But the thought that if he didn't risk everything, his mother and daughter wouldn't survive, made him feel at ease.

Does the Wu family, Lord Wu, think they can get away with it?
But she produced the evidence and slapped him to death. I don't know what the emperor was thinking. Lord Wu was beheaded, and the men and women of the Wu family were all exiled to Lingnan.

Chunyu had thought that it was fortunate that she was exiled to Lingnan. If she had been exiled to the northern desert and encountered her father and the others, then she would not have been able to hide her affairs in the capital at all.

Yes, Chunyu was that kind of person. She seemed weak but was capable of handling anything. In her letters to her family in Shu, she never mentioned how deep her wounds were or how much suffering she had endured. She only said one sentence: I am fine, the children are fine, the children are starting to grow teeth, the children are starting to call me "Mama"...

Chunyu believed that with Nuannuan's help, she would definitely achieve her goal.

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