Chapter 450: be attentive

Chapter 450: Courtesy

Seeing Mrs. Chen laughing at her, Gu Yumei wanted to retaliate as usual, but she still remembered Wanjia's lesson, so she didn't yell out in the end and just lowered her head to do her embroidery work.

Mrs. Chen saw that she had been obedient recently and didn't say anything to her. She just let her continue to embroider. With her little patience, she could only stop embroidering for a few days at most.

As expected, after Gu Yumei embroidered for three days, she threw the embroidery of a few leaves into the box and never touched it again.

Gu Jinxiu has been embroidering things. During this time, she embroidered two pictures, one was a picture of Mid-Autumn Reunion, and the other was not a scene, but a scripture - the Sutra of Ode to Blessings.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    but but also the festivities to be celebrated during the double ninth festival.

 Gu Jinxiu thought, after finishing embroidering the Sutra of Blessings, she would send the embroidery drawings to Huaiyu Embroidery House. Then she would formally reply to Grandma Li and become the embroidery master of Huaiyu Embroidery House.

After discussion, the family has decided to let Gu Jinxiu be the embroidery master and sign a three-year contract with Huaiyu Embroidery Village. In the past three years, her embroidery will only be sold to Huaiyu Embroidery House. Three years later, she was completely free and could give her embroidery pieces to any embroidery shop she wanted.

Third Grandma said: "Embroidery masters are rare and expensive. We only sign a three-year contract. Can Huaiyu Embroidery Village agree?"

Gu Jinli said: "Grandma Li is an open-minded person. Since she has taken a fancy to my eldest sister's embroidery skills and asked her to be an embroidery artist, she will give her the honor of an embroidery artist. Besides, our family is not that unloyal family. , Although the eldest sister will be completely free after three years, it is better to be skilled than to be a professional. If the eldest sister has any embroidery products in the future, she will send them to Huaiyu Embroidery House first."

Since the embroidery master can be as famous as the literati and eccentrics, they will care about their reputation as much as the literati and eccentrics, so Grandma Li is not worried about this at all.

At present, in Huaiyu Embroidery House, there are also two well-known embroidery masters at that time who did not sign a contract but put their embroidery works on consignment at Huaiyu Embroidery House.

"Then when the contract is signed, will Sister Xiu go to Huaiyu Embroidery Village?" The third grandma looked at Gu Jinxiu and said worriedly: "Sister Xiu is old and good-looking. If she can avoid traveling far away, she will still be there. It’s better not to travel far, Huaiyu Embroidery Village is far away from our Tianfu County.”

 As a girl, if something happens on the way to a place as far away as Huaiyu Embroidery Village, she won’t cry to death.

Cui was also worried about this and looked at Gu Jinli.

Gu Jinli smiled and said: "Don't worry, let's ask Mrs. Jiang first. It would be best if I don't have to go to Huaiyu Embroidery Village in person."

 This is why she always wants her family members to keep practicing boxing. Her family is not a famous family, and there are no groups of servants or guards to protect her, so she can only practice boxing and kicking to protect herself.

Gu Jinxiu was embroidering her own name. After embroidering the word "Fu'an", she finished the embroidery thread and said to Third Grandma and Cui: "Third Grandma, mother, don't worry, I will be very careful. If I can't take care of both, this It doesn’t matter if the embroiderer doesn’t do it.”

 She likes embroidery and wants to be an embroiderer, but there are not many things in the world that offer the best of both worlds. Weighing the pros and cons, she will choose a method that is good for herself and her family, and will not cause trouble to her family just because of a preference.

Third Grandma nodded and said: "Third Grandma naturally believes in you. You have not been troublesome since you were a child."

Sister Xiu has a tenacity and is very calm. Just sitting like this can give people a very solid feeling.

"Xiaoyu, I made a new batch of mosquito repellent incense grinding tools for you, and I will move them to the pharmaceutical workshop for you tomorrow." Gu Dashan patted the sawdust on his body, put the carpentry tools into the suitcase, and walked into the house.

Gu Jinli took a look into the yard and saw five piles of wooden abrasive tools one meter long and wide stacked in the yard. He smiled and said: "Thank you, dad, you have helped me a lot. If it weren't for the mosquito repellent abrasive tools you made, I would This mosquito coil can’t be made.”

 Gu Dashan’s carpentry skills are excellent. The mosquito-repellent incense grinding tools he made are the same as those measured with a ruler. The size is the same, and the difference is only the size of a needle.

Gu Dashan was not only good at carpentry work, he also did it quickly. In just half an hour after dinner, from July to late August, he helped her make two hundred mosquito-repellent incense grinding tools. Each mosquito-repellent incense grinder has ninety grooves. If the grooves of the two hundred grinding tools are filled with medicinal mud, her pharmaceutical workshop can make nearly 20,000 mosquito-repellent incense sticks in one day.

But now the pharmaceutical workshop is short of manpower. The four brothers Ophiopogon japonicus, Panax notoginseng, and Ye Dakou can mix up to 100 kilograms of medicinal paste a day, fill 100 mosquito-repellent incense grinding tools, and make 9,000 mosquito-repellent incense sticks.

Even so, she can now earn thirty taels of silver a day just by selling mosquito coils.

Mrs. Chen knew that Gu Jinli was making mosquito-repellent incense, and she also knew that the mosquito-repellent incense was sold very well. People from the county and prefectures came to Xuanhufang to ask for mosquito-repellent incense. She knew that Gu Jinli must have made a lot of money, and she was extremely jealous. She had been flattering Gu Jinli a lot recently. .

It’s a pity that Gu Jinli, the pharmaceutical manufacturer, wants to keep it in his own hands and won’t let other family members get their hands on it. No matter how much Mr. Chen flatters him, it’s useless.

 …

 After getting up the next day, Gu Jinli went to the pharmaceutical workshop early and followed Kan Liu and the others to make scar removal cream and mosquito coils.

During this period, Gu Jinli and Kan Liu made another 150 bottles of scar removal cream, all of which had a light floral fragrance.

"The scar removal cream sells very well. Shopkeeper Cheng said that the rich families in Linhe Prefecture like the scar removal cream very much. Nowadays, anyone who has no shortage of money at home will keep a bottle in case a girl in the family hurts her hands or face. Yes, it can be used in time."

Yuanzi Medicine Store has a branch in Linhe Prefecture. The scar removal ointment and mosquito coils made by Gu Jinli are sold to Xuanhufang first, and then Xuanhufang sells them to the Linhe Prefecture branch.

The shopkeeper of the branch medicine store in Linhe Prefecture is called Cheng An, who is of the same generation as Cheng Han who lives next to Min Dong's family.

Scar removal cream is very expensive in Linhe Prefecture, costing twenty-five taels of silver per bottle. However, the wealthy families in Fucheng are very particular about the fact that the girl’s body cannot have scars, so scar removal cream is in short supply in Linhe Prefecture.

"Mosquito-repellent incense is also selling very well. In the past few days, three Fucheng medicine shops have come to Xuanhufang, all here to buy mosquito-repellent incense. Old Doctor Wu did not sell it. He only said that he had signed contracts with other medicine shops for scar removal ointment and mosquito-repellent incense. They all have to be sold to contracted drug stores.”

"The people from the three medicine shops were very angry after hearing this. They said that Xuanhufang would not make any money even if they had money. Old doctor Wu choked and said, Xuanhufang is not short of money, and he was so angry that he left."

"Those people in the medicine store will not give up. Old Doctor Wu has sent someone to send a letter to Shopkeeper Cheng. Shopkeeper Cheng will deal with it and asked me to tell the little boss that they will not let those troubles come to the little boss. The little boss Just feel free to make the medicine." Mu Tong bundled the mosquito coils that had been dried yesterday and told Gu Jinli about the scar removal cream and mosquito coils.

"That's good, I hate trouble the most." Gu Jinli would cooperate with Yuanzi Medicine Company and give 40% of his profits to Dr. Wu, just to find himself a backer who could solve the trouble.

"Xiaoyu, Rui Ge'er and the others have brought bricks and are waiting at the back door. Go and open a door for them." Gu Dashan came in from the third corner door of the house and said to Gu Jinli who was stirring the mosquito repellent paste.

The keys to the fourth and fifth houses were held by Gu Jinli. Chang Errui and the others had to pull the bricks in through the back door, so Gu Jinli had to open the door.

"Here we come." Gu Jinli followed Gu Dashan and walked around to the back door of the Lu family mansion. When he was about to reach the back door, he heard Gu Yumei's attentive voice.

Gu Yumei held a bamboo basket in her hand and said to Chang Errui with a blushing face: "Yuan, second brother of the Yuan family, you delivered the green bricks early in the morning. You must have set out to deliver the bricks before dawn. You must not have Have breakfast...this is the bean dregs cake made at home, I made a lot of it, my second aunt and I will bring some for you, you can eat as you like."

Gu Yumei didn’t come alone, Mrs. Chen also came with her.

 (End of this chapter)