Bai Yaoyao raised her head through the hole-filled roof at the already dim sky. She estimated that by the time she dawdled until she fell asleep, it would be daybreak.
"Luckily it rarely rains here, otherwise this rooftop would be no different from sleeping on the street."
Bai Yaoyao complained, took out her clothes and continued to work. She was free anyway, so she might as well earn some extra money and have a chance to repair the roof.
"Alas, there are more and more things I want to buy, but I have no money. It would be great if Miss Aisi could help me make magic potions."
You should know that even the most common magic recovery potion has a market price of more than four hundred coins, but the cost is almost nothing. You only need to spend fifty coins to buy a magic water. Most of the time, magicians still rely on magicians to infuse their own magic.
Most low-level magicians rely on this to support their families, and they can produce at least three or four bottles a month.
"No, I have to find a chance to ask. For Aisi, a bottle of magic potion should be easy to make, right?"
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Ahem, there was something unexpected today, so the update was a little late. I apologize for that. There will be another chapter later.
Chapter 22: Extremely Cheap Medicinal Materials
"It's dawn, let's go!"
After mending the last piece of clothing, Bai Yaoyao made two more handkerchiefs. When she saw that it was completely light outside, she put down the half-finished handkerchief in her hand, put on the goods to be delivered, put on her headscarf, and went out.
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"Here, your clothes."
"this is yours."
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"Little girl, can you embroider a circle of lace on this dress?"
"Of course, it only costs seven cents."
"Girl, help me mend my clothes..."
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"Alas, business is even worse today."
Bai Yaoyao weighed the thirty or so yellow coins in her hand and sighed silently. A lot of them were the final payments. There were only three new orders received today, and the ten coins she received were all included. If she continued like this, let alone so many things to buy, it would be difficult for her to even fill her stomach.
But don't forget that she still has to be sucked blood by Ai Si every night. If her stomach is not filled, no matter how strong her self-healing ability is, she will not be able to produce blood.
In order to get more business, Bai Yaoyao sat on the street, mending clothes and waiting for business, but it was obvious that her luck was very bad today. Until she finished embroidering the three pieces of clothes she had just received, no new business came.
"It seems that the low-end market has really been eaten up. It's true that if the family is not relatively well-off, they will mend their own clothes. Who would be willing to spend money to have others mend their clothes?"
Bai Yaoyao packed up her things and returned the three items to the owners one by one. She then collected the more than forty or nearly fifty coins on her body and wandered around the market with a large bamboo basket on her back. Since she had nothing to do, she decided to look for the herbs on the prescription.
"So this bitter fruit is actually the apricot fruit, but it's normal that the Chinese translation is quite different."
Bai Yaoyao found one of the medicinal herbs at a small stall. It was very cheap, and you could buy a large handful for one penny. According to the old farmer who was running the stall, there were a lot of them in the forest, and if you just scattered a handful of seeds, they would grow everywhere in two or three months, so they were worthless.
The bitter fruit looks like a black oval and does not look very tasty, but in order to avoid making a mistake, Bai Yaoyao still put it in her mouth and took a small bite.
"Mm~ So bitter! Ugh."
Sure enough, it was similar to the description that Queen Ais had conveyed to her mind, with a bitter taste and a dark green to black color. The darker the color, the better the quality.
"Is it because many ancient prescriptions have disappeared that no one wants these medicinal materials?"
However, after hearing the old farmer say that there were a lot of trees in the forest, Bai Yaoyao only paid one penny to buy some and threw them into the bamboo basket.
However, although it only cost one cent, according to the proportion on the prescription, it was enough to make twenty portions.
Then, Bai Yaoyao found three more kinds of fruits at the old farmer’s stall, which were also very cheap.
“Are they all so cheap?”
Bai Yaoyao, who didn't believe it, walked around the entire market and finally collected eleven kinds. Each one was very cheap and basically no one wanted it, or it was a medicinal herb with extremely strong reproduction ability. She spent one cent on each one, and the quantities varied. Bai Yaoyao estimated that if she could collect the remaining two kinds, there should be about eight portions.
"The last two, Qingxuan Grass... White Jade Soil?"
Bai Yaoyao was wondering, this name sounds so high-end, could it be some kind of expensive herb? If it is really very expensive, then it is normal that she can't find it in her small town. In this way, it is reasonable that the herb she can buy is sold very cheaply.
"Qingxuan grass grows light green grass, and looks a bit like the grass on the blue planet?"
Bai Yaoyao thought about it and walked around the market for a long time without giving up. She didn't give up until the weather got hotter and there were fewer people around.
I was walking down the road and glanced inadvertently, and was shocked to see the dark green weeds on the side of the road.
"Wait, isn't this it?"
Bai Yaoyao grabbed a handful of green grass in disbelief. After taking a closer look, she found that it was quite different from the one Ai Si had sent in. First of all, the color was much darker, and it was also exceptionally large. Ai Si's green grass was only a little over ten centimeters long, while this green grass was thirty centimeters long...
"I'll try it."
When you are undecided, just take a bite and you will know.
"Ugh~ It tastes so bad."
Bai Yaoyao put it in her mouth, chewed it twice, and then spat it out with a bitter look on her face.
The taste is hard to describe at first glance, like avocado, onions, and offal that has been simply blanched without removing the fishy smell.
It's greasy, spicy, pungent and fishy.
"This smell... seems to be quite similar to what Ais described."
After being disgusted by the taste, Bai Yaoyao made a simple comparison and after thinking for a while, she decided to throw it into the bamboo basket. What if it was the one?
"There's only a little white jade soil left, so why not go for a walk in the woods."
In fact, Bai Yaoyao really didn’t want to go into the forest because there were some strange animals...that would eat people.
Wait, she's not a human now, right? Blood races shouldn't eat her, right?
Thinking of this, Bai Yaoyao felt a little more confident. Since she had nothing to do anyway, she bought two whole-grain pancakes for lunch and set out into the woods.
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"Good baby, this bitter fruit really grows in large pieces."
As soon as she entered a small patch of bushes on the outskirts of the forest, Bai Yaoyao saw a large pile of newly grown bitter fruits, all black and densely packed on the ground. She was almost suffering from trypophobia.
"Thank goodness you look so unpalatable, I'm not hungry, otherwise you would be the staple food."
Bai Yaoyao picked up the herbs for a while until the gap under the bamboo basket was filled, then she stood up to look for white jade soil. Such a cheap herb was not worth wasting too much time on.
"White jade soil should be white, right? White soil...could it be Guanyin soil?"
After all, the white soil can be used as medicine, and it is quite similar to Guanyin soil. However, this is a high-magic world. As long as the world is peaceful and there is no war, there will be very few people who starve. With food being so cheap, there are still few people who eat soil.
"Well, there's no shovel either."
Bai Yaoyao picked up a wooden stick and poked the ground back and forth, hoping to find the white jade soil.
“No…Aaaaah!”
Bai Yaoyao was just about to complain that she couldn't find the white jade soil, wondering if there was no white jade soil in this place, but the next second she stepped on empty air and fell into a shallow pit.
"Ouch, my butt, ss~"
The bamboo basket full of medicinal herbs on his back fell heavily on his body, and a lot of things were mixed out with it. The most important thing was that his two legs were scratched by some sharp branches, leaving long bloody marks.
Bai Yaoyao pretended not to see the bleeding and it healed after a while. However, her butt was very painful from the fall. This kind of internal injury would not heal so quickly.
"Really? It's all over the place."
Bai Yaoyao rubbed her butt, bent over, picked up the fallen herbs bit by bit and put them back into the bamboo basket. Fortunately, the bamboo basket was not broken, otherwise it would have been terrible.
"Wait, this is..."
While picking medicinal herbs and fiddling with the weeds and dead branches in the pit, Bai Yaoyao suddenly discovered that there was something white underneath the thin layer of yellow soil.
"Great!"
Chapter 23: Making Fat
"Great! It's easy to get. Good fortune and bad fortune go hand in hand."
Bai Yaoyao excitedly used her hands to dig away the top layer of yellow soil, not caring about any debris, gravel, or fresh and dry animal feces. She dug out the white soil underneath and put it in her mouth to taste it, then nodded with satisfaction.
"It tastes a bit like sweet potato, basically no flavor, just a little bit of uh... forest flavor."
Spitting out the dirt in her mouth, Bai Yaoyao scooped up handfuls of it and poured them into the bamboo basket. The sealing of this bamboo basket was very good. Although it was not as tight as the most powerful bamboo basket that could hold water, it was still no problem to hold some dirt.
"Hey, it's done!"
Bai Yaoyao was trying to save time, so she filled the bamboo basket completely before giving up. She then picked enough green grass beside the woods and filled her arms with it before going home.
"The only thing left is the blood of the vampires. How about going to ask Aisi for some?"
"But wouldn't that be a waste of talent?"
Such a small amount of blood can give her a First Embrace, it would be a waste to use it to make a healing potion, and whether Ai Si can give it to her is another matter.
"Ouch."
Bai Yaoyao sat on the stone pier to rest, took a big bite of the pancake, and suddenly thought of herself, wasn't she embraced for the first time? Then her blood should be usable, right? After all, the healing potion mainly relies on the powerful self-healing effect of the vampires, right?
Then her strong self-healing ability can definitely be used.
Thinking of this, Bai Yaoyao felt much happier and quickened her pace. If she could really make the potion, even the most ordinary one could be sold for a hundred coins. Compared to the cost, it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was a huge profit. The main ingredient, the blood of the vampires, was hard to come by, but her blood was not valuable now. The blood she produced from a full meal was enough to make many healing potions.
After returning home, Bai Yaoyao put away the last half of the pancake that she had not finished eating, then walked into the kitchen with a bamboo basket on her back and started making it directly.
Because it is a civilian medicine, you only need to burn or cook it using civilian methods, which is very convenient.
First, boil a thick soup to extract and concentrate all the essence of the herbs into the soup, and then add blood and white jade soil to mix them. Of course, although white jade soil can be eaten, the main purpose is to extract the special substances in the white jade soil and then mix them together. Of course, the prescription is not written in such detail, and such a small part is very vague, and Bai Yaoyao couldn't translate it, so she can only rely on her slow experimentation.
"Don't worry about the blood yet, let's extract all these herbs first."
Bai Yaoyao was thinking this and was about to start boiling it when she suddenly realized that she had no tool to measure weight. She had no choice but to take all her belongings and go out to buy a small weight, which cost her sixty coins. Now she really didn't have much money left.
All hopes rest on this healing potion.
Get the pot, boil water, and start simmering. Since you are extracting soup, the time you leave each herb out for doesn't matter, just boil out all the juice.
Simply put, it means boiling to death.
According to the description on the prescription, pour all the matched medicinal materials of about eight portions into the big iron pot, then start to cook over high heat with firewood.
"I have nothing to do..."
Looking through the window at the raging fire inside, Bai Yaoyao didn't know what to do now that she had some free time. She had made dozens of embroidered cloth sachets, but the family had run out of money and materials, and she didn't know whether she could make any money.
The caravan will take several days to arrive.
"By the way, there are still some scraps left. Why don't you piece them together and make me a dress?"
Thinking of this, Bai Yaoyao suddenly became excited. Seeing that her dark linen clothes still had many small holes on them, she decided to mend her clothes as well.
"I don't know when I can wear a pretty little dress."
Bai Yaoyao brought a small stool and a small bamboo plate filled with scraps of cloth. She rubbed her eyes and began to sew.
"How about a short-sleeve? The weather is getting hotter now."
Bai Yaoyao rolled up her arms, then looked at her fair skin and immediately gave up the idea. Such white skin would be too conspicuous and too dangerous, so she should just wear long sleeves.
"Hmm... It's troublesome to sew so many scraps of fabric. The needles and threads are not cheap."
After sewing a few pieces of cloth, Bai Yaoyao discovered that the needle and thread were being used up too quickly, and these scraps of cloth might not even be enough to mend a single piece of clothing.
"Hey, why not just make that thing."
Bai Yaoyao suddenly remembered that this body's period had not come yet. According to the time she traveled through time, it should be soon.
"By the way, will the vampires come again?"
Yaoyao was confused but didn't dare to ask Ai Si. After thinking it over again and again, she decided to start doing it first. At worst, she could wear it as a panty~
The original body's panties... although they are called panties, they are actually no different from boys', very loose, and feel empty and insecure when worn.
"Hmm...I need some rubber and linen to tie it so it won't fall off."
Rubber hemp is a unique plant in this world, a bit like the rubber bands on the blue planet, with good elasticity and stretchability, but some differences in other aspects. Anyway, after sewing rubber hemp on the pants, they will be similar to the loose pants on the blue planet. Farmers or civilians who often do heavy work will wear this kind of pants.
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