Exiled to Lingnan, the Crown Prince's wife raises children, cultivates the land, and leads the

The next day, the first thing Cheng Qiqi did when she woke up was to raise her wrist.

The faint scent of jasmine lingers even in the bed!

"Mom, it smells so good!"

Jin Sui'an moved closer to Cheng Qiqi, sniffing here and there, her eyes still sleepy, and with her messy hair, she looked like an adorable little puppy.

"Where did this puppy come from?"

Cheng Qiqi gently rubbed her daughter's messy, bird's-nest-like hair, glanced at the sky outside, and said, "An'an, sleep a little longer. Come find Mommy later after you've had Grandma's cooking, okay?"

"sleep."

Jin Sui'an, covered by the blanket, obediently kept her eyes closed and said, "An'an wants to grow tall!"

"Good girl."

Cheng Qiqi gently patted her daughter's back, and her daughter, who was already half asleep, quickly fell asleep again.

As soon as Cheng Qiqi got up, the kitchen was already bustling with activity.

Jin Yanzhi and his team have already cooked the pickled cabbage porridge and are ready to set off to sell it!

"Qiqi, have a bowl of porridge. Madam Tian has brought dozens of women here, saying they're going to pick flowers."

As Liu Suying handed over the pickled cabbage porridge, she said to Cheng Qiqi, "Take a look, how should we arrange their work?"

"Thank you, Mother."

Cheng Qiqi carried the porridge out of the courtyard and saw that outside the courtyard, Tian Shi was with... several women?

"Qiqi, look! Isn't this the flower you're picking?"

Ms. Tian stepped forward carrying a full basket of flowers and said, "When we came here earlier, we asked about these flowers, the ones with dew on them, right?"

"right."

Cheng Qiqi finished her porridge in no time and said, "This is exactly the kind of flower I want. Aunt Tian, ​​you...you didn't already go up the mountain to pick flowers, did you?"

"Yes, these flowers are not only found near the village, but also in many places further away."

Ms. Tian said excitedly, “In previous years, these flowers would just fall to the ground with a gust of wind and be worthless!”

Now that they heard they could make money, Tian and the village women and young wives discussed it yesterday and went to the mountain early to pick flowers!

The village believed in the principle of sharing wealth, so as long as you worked, you would receive ten coins a day for your work. The money from selling the goods would be split with the Jin family, and the rest would be divided equally among the villagers!

Cheng Qiqi, on the other hand, earned 10% based on her technical skills.

"That would be great."

Looking at the flowers the villagers had picked, Cheng Qiqi said, "Aunt Tian, ​​these flowers need to be divided into two types: single flowers and flowers with small seedlings."

"The flowers can be used to make flower dew, and the tender shoots like these can be used to make flower tea."

Cheng Qiqi glanced at the flowers that the village women had picked, and overall, the quality was quite good.

Because they were just picked, they still have dew on them!

"Aunt Tian, ​​you all go pick flowers, I'll just steam the flower dew here."

As Cheng Qiqi spoke, she took the flowers and prepared to start making the first batch of steamed flower dew.

Tian didn't think anything was wrong and said, "Steaming flower dew requires firewood, right? Perfect, we'll send a few more people to bring you firewood."

As she spoke, Ms. Tian hurriedly led her people to pick flowers.

Cheng Qiqi carefully selected and started steaming the first batch of flower dew.

Fortunately, she had thought of making it as useful as possible, so the copper pot was made large, and with so many flowers, there was no need to worry at all.

The men of the Jin family were either working or selling pickled cabbage porridge.

In the courtyard, Liu Suyi and the other three were sitting together embroidering a screen. Spring planting was just around the corner, and they wanted to finish the screen as soon as possible so they could help with some chores around the house.

Old Madam Jin sat to one side, sewing shoe soles. She used to work at the sugar factory whenever there was work available.

With no work to do, she would spend her mornings sewing shoe soles at home, and her afternoons wandering around her vegetable garden, her mushroom and wood ear mushroom trees, or chatting with the old ladies in the village, or digging for wild vegetables nearby.

"Mother, I'm going to pick flowers with my sister."

Jin Sui'an wore her bamboo hat, still adorned with the jasmine wreath, which she wore on both her hat and wrist. Carrying her special little basket, she happily followed Jin Yun to the mountain to pick flowers!

With Jin Qing'er and Jin Xue'er taking care of her, Cheng Qiqi felt at ease.

While Cheng Qiqi was tending the fire, she wasn't idle either. She was studying the bottle. It was true that the floral dew was valuable, but it also needed a beautiful bottle to set it off. Otherwise, if it was just an ordinary earthenware jar, who would believe that such a small amount of floral dew could sell for tens of coins?

She had checked in the county; the small porcelain bottle contained the flower dew, but she couldn't see it inside.

If only we had glass bottles.

"Sister-in-law, what are you drawing?"

Gao Shenglan helped pick the flowers. Those with leaves were all placed in a separate bamboo drying tray. Qiqi said that those with tender branches should be kept for making flower tea.

"A bottle for holding floral water."

Cheng Qiqi replied, "I'm looking for a transparent bottle so I can see our floral dew."

"A transparent bottle?"

Liu Suyi's voice rang out: "You must only have them overseas, right? Glass bottles are transparent, and they come in all sizes; they're especially beautiful."

As the former mistress of a marquis's mansion, she naturally possessed such a beautiful glass vase.

In the past, Liu Suyi could easily extort money from her daughter-in-law with just a word, but now...

"Let's ask the village head tonight. They live near the beach; maybe they can sell them here?"

Cheng Qiqi thought that without bottles, it would be difficult for her flower dew to fetch a good price!

Sure enough, there was no need to pick the flowers. Cheng Qiqi focused on steaming the flower dew and steamed a whole jar full of it all day long without stopping!

"A clear glass bottle?"

That evening, when Zhuang Li heard Cheng Qiqi's request, he said with a troubled expression, "I've heard that these are all precious items that only arrive on overseas cargo ships, and they're all destined for the nobles in Kyoto."

"Father, if we can get in touch with the Shanghai merchants, we can afford to buy some small glass bottles."

Zhuang Haichao suddenly spoke, and in an instant, everyone's eyes fell on him.

Zhuang Haichao glanced in Jin Xue'er's direction, straightening his back even more, and said, "I know a merchant who sells glass bottles; he especially loves the pickled cabbage from our county!"

"When will he arrive?"

Zhuang Lizheng asked.

Every spring.

Zhuang Haichao silently calculated the days: "Who knows, it might come in a couple of days!"

"But what if he doesn't come? Where will we buy it then?"

Zhuang Lizheng glanced at him, then looked at the villagers and asked, "Does anyone here know Hai Shang?"

"I don't know him."

"We rarely go to the county."

Everyone said they didn't recognize them, but Zhuang Haichao said, "Tomorrow, I'll go check it out tomorrow. Maybe they'll arrive in the next couple of days?"

"Chabang said he would bring me a gift!"

The next day, Zhuang Haichao couldn't wait to go to the county to arrest the person.