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

"Mom, you're amazing!"

When the Marquis of Zhongyong returned, they were overjoyed to learn that his mother had also managed to create an even better fragrant dew.

Late at night.

"I bought a glass bottle."

When Heitu carried a bag full of glass bottles, the transparent glass bottles seemed to shimmer like silver under the moonlight. The palm-sized bottles looked exceptionally delicate and petite.

"So many? And they all look the same?"

Cheng Qiqi stared at the glass bottle, overjoyed.

While a porcelain vase is nice, a glass vase is her best choice!

Ordinary floral dew is fine; she can sell it for a few dozen coins, and people are willing to buy it just for the fragrance!

However, the fragrant dew she repeatedly steamed was no ordinary flower dew.

Her goal was to sell the bottles for several hundred coins each, and using porcelain bottles would seem too low-class.

"These are some I borrowed from others. There are over a hundred of them. See if that's enough for you."

Heitu spent a whole day traveling to the provincial capital for this pile of glass bottles.

They were moving at breakneck speed.

That's enough for now!

Cheng Qiqi looked up and saw that Heitu's forehead was covered in sweat: "Zhuang Haichao said that there are no more glass bottles in the county. Did you buy this one from the county?"

"It was bought from the prefectural city."

Hei Tu's calm tone made it sound as if he had just gone to a very nearby place.

"The prefectural city?"

Jin Yanzhi's eyes lit up: "Master, doesn't it take a whole day to go to the prefectural city? How can you possibly make the round trip in one day?"

"I went to the prefectural city before dawn."

Heitu replied, "If you want more later, you'll have to place an order with the maritime merchants. I've inquired, and they probably won't arrive for another half month."

"A glass bottle, twenty coins."

Heitu also mentioned the price, saying, "This is in small quantities. If we get the goods from sea merchants, perhaps we can get a discount."

"This, the same bottle, this one costs seven coins, this one costs twenty coins."

Jin Xueer took out the porcelain bottle that Zhuang Haichao had brought back. The bottle looked a bit bigger, but it was much cheaper.

"That's why they say glass is expensive!"

Cheng Qiqi smiled and said, "The expensive glass bottle only highlights the quality of our fragrant dew!"

Cheng Qiqi took out the five-spice blended dew that had just been steamed. She didn't know what her grandmother had added, but the dew had a faint red tinge. She took a clean little spoon and scooped it into the glass bottle little by little.

The light red perfume, paired with this red glass bottle, is a feast for the eyes, whether it smells good or not!

"Heitu, you've done a great job." Cheng Qiqi looked at Heitu with admiration.

"I'm glad I could help."

Seeing her admiring gaze, Heitu subconsciously straightened his back.

"This is so beautiful."

Jin Xue'er squatted down to the side, staring at the glass bottle filled with fragrant dew: "Sister-in-law, now I know why you wanted the glass bottle."

Previously, Jin Xue'er had thought that some perfumes in Kyoto were also packaged in porcelain bottles.

But now, seeing the fragrant dew in a glass bottle, she couldn't take her eyes off it: "If I were still in Kyoto, I would definitely buy it!"

"How much do you think it should cost?"

Cheng Qiqi's eyes flickered as she looked into Jin Xue'er's bright eyes and asked.

Since Hu Dali's incident, Jin Xueer has become much more taciturn, and the things she does are no longer as offensive.

"Hua Xiangrong's floral dew, just this one bottle, in a porcelain jar, sells for five hundred coins!"

Jin Xue'er remembered the prices clearly and said, "There are also fragrant dews in glass bottles, some selling for one tael of silver."

As the only daughter of the Marquis's family, Jin Xue'er, although a concubine's daughter, still received a monthly allowance. She spent her money either on clothes or on cosmetics and face powder.

Jin Xue'er was even more willing to spend money on perfume for her clothes, but although she had a lot of perfume, it didn't last very long!

Therefore, Jin Xueer only bought a bottle around the time of the Chinese New Year.

At other times, I buy incense to scent clothes, which is much cheaper than floral dew.

"Then ours should sell for several hundred coins, no problem."

Cheng Qiqi was very confident in her flower dew. If she didn't have glass, she would have been a little hesitant to quote this price, but now? Not at all!

"Come on, everyone, take a little and see how long this fragrance lasts."

Cheng Qiqi still left room for negotiation on prices; she needed to be clear about the quality of the items she sold.

"Qiqi, isn't this...isn't this a waste?"

Wen thought that since she made fish balls every day, wouldn't the aroma be overwhelmed by the fishy smell of the meat if she wore them?

"I work in the sugar mill, and I'm afraid I won't be able to tell whether the sugar is good or bad."

Jin Qing'er also spoke up, saying that she had never used it before, and even if she had, she wouldn't understand how to use it.

"If you all use them, I'll know which one is better."

Without saying a word, Cheng Qiqi gave everyone a little bit and told them to apply it every morning starting tomorrow.

The next day.

When Wen was making fish balls, several familiar aunties gathered around her: "Wen, what's that smell on you? You smell so good!"

"Qing'er, did you scent your clothes? They smell so good!"

Leng Bei leaned closer to warm Jin Qing'er.

"..."

The same scene unfolded for all the women of the Jin family.

Jin Xueer and Liu Suyi were Cheng Qiqi's main focus.

"Sister-in-law, I think your perfume is even better than Hua Xiangrong's."

When Jin Xue'er returned from work in the evening, she couldn't wait to find Cheng Qiqi and said, "I used to use Hua Xiangrong products, and the scent would wear off in half a day, but yours still has that fragrance now."

Jin Xueer addressed her as "sister-in-law" with great enthusiasm.

Lin Huilan, who didn't get a sample of the perfume, looked at this scene and her eyes darkened. Girls are definitely more outgoing.

"When I touched the handkerchief today, it smelled fragrant."

Liu Suyi also praised the incense.

Cheng Qiqi was delighted and took Old Madam Jin's hand, saying, "Grandma, your perfume is really wonderful."

"Oh, you made this perfume, I just lent a hand."

As Madam Jin spoke with a smile, she finally felt that she was not a useless old woman.

In just three days, Tian and his entourage had almost completely harvested all the flowers on the mountain, even taking the tender branches and leaves with them.

In just a few days, Cheng Qiqi even fried three jin of jasmine tea.

Five hundred porcelain bottles were filled with flower dew, one hundred and twenty glass bottles were filled with fragrant dew, and there was nothing left to put the flower dew and fragrant dew in, so Cheng Qiqi simply distributed them to everyone.

"A bottle of floral dew costs sixty coins, and a bottle of fragrant dew costs six hundred coins. After Heitu and the others deliver the goods and leave, they will sell them and bring back the payment."

As Cheng Qiqi worked on the abacus, she calculated: "The total cost of the floral dew is thirty taels of silver, and the fragrant dew is seventy-two taels of silver. The total cost is one hundred and two taels of silver."

"Aside from the wages everyone received for working these past few days, there was also the cost of the two copper pots, porcelain vases, and glass vases that were ordered..."

Cheng Qiqi was using an abacus, clicking away rapidly. Before she could even finish calculating the final price, Tian Shi and dozens of other women were already stunned!

They can earn seventy-two taels of silver in just a few days by picking flowers every day?