MTL - Fight the Giants-Chapter 787 Wall grass

  Chapter 787 Grass on the wall

   Even though it is December now, all kinds of flowers in the flower shop are still shipped in baskets.

  The piles are full, and the fragrance is overwhelming.

   There is no woman who does not love flowers. Huo Xi squatted in front of baskets of flowers, smelling the fragrance of flowers, with a look of intoxication, "It has to be Yunnan. This is in the capital. There are not so many flowers now."

  Although Mu Yan didn't like the scent of flowers of various colors from the tip of her nose, seeing that she liked it, she still accompanied her with a smile on her face.

  Huo Xi took him to visit various flower workshops.

   "I thought there was only one place." Mu Yan was a little surprised.

"That's more than that. There are many uses for flowers. The flower cake and flower sauce are just to confuse outsiders, and they can't be sold at a high price. After deducting various expenses, there is not much left. It has to be refined flower essential oil Business is profitable.”

   The conditions for extracting essential oils from flowers are poor, and the effect is not very satisfactory. Huo Xi also tried and tried, and finally used the ancient big pot distillation method and fat suction method to extract at the same time.

   "Is this the essential oil extracted from flowers?"

   "Well, you smell it. The price of this small bottle is worth a hundred gold."

  Mu Yan looked at the small white porcelain bottle in Huo Xi's hand. It was used to hold wine, and it estimated that it could only hold half a catty. That's it, worth a hundred dollars?

  Huo Xi dipped a piece of test paper into the bottle, waved it under his nose, "How?"

  Mu Yan half-closed her eyes and felt, "Well, it seems to be there, and the fragrance is very mellow. This smell...is it orchid?"

   "Are you a dog nose?"

   "No?"

   "Yes, that's why I say you have a dog's nose. This is the fragrance of orchids, mellow and long-lasting."

   It really is an orchid. The corner of Mu Yan's mouth curled up, "It's similar to the smell on your body."

  Huo Xi nodded, "Well, it is made with orchid essential oil. Orchids are being produced this season. But the output is not much, so I only refined seven or eight bottles."

   "Such a small bottle, can it be worth a hundred gold?"

"I said yes. How many baskets of flowers can be extracted to make this small bottle. If it is used to make balm, only a few drops are enough. It can be used to make perfume oil, facial fat, mouth fat and head oil. It is very useful. .What price do you think you can sell it for? This is a treasure."

   "Do you still want to make face fat, mouth fat and hair oil?"

   "No. It's too troublesome. I just need to practice this flower essential oil. Anyway, the flowers in Yunnan are always in bloom all year round, so I just specialize in this way."

   "Well, don't tire yourself out."

After visiting the various workshops, the steward took the ledger to deal with the matter, "Ma'am, our receipts in the city have dropped sharply. The news has leaked, and the Jun family's shop has also followed us to go out of the city to buy nearby. A lot of goods of all kinds have been intercepted. "

  The Jun's shop in the city received a higher price than Guangfeng Shui, so Huo Xi asked his staff to go out of the city to buy on the way.

  The common people think that for a penny, they have to go all the way into the city, and there is a tax at the gate of the city, so it will be more worry-free to sell it halfway. Guangfengshui stopped a lot of goods on the way. But the news leaked out that Jun's shop also sent people to go farther than them to receive the goods, so that the volume of goods dropped sharply.

  Huo Xi had already thought of a solution.

"It's okay. Jun's Flowers doesn't receive much, and our supply is stable. I have sent people to buy mushrooms, nuts, cotton, linen and other items in various states and counties. There are many receiving points, and fresh goods will be made into semi-finished products locally and then sold." Ship it to Kunming City. We have no shortage of goods."

  The village of the Wa people where Huo Xi stayed was surrounded by mountains, dense forests and thickets filled with fungi of various colors. Before Huo Xi left, he asked the patriarch to organize everyone to pick mushrooms and other things, and transport them to the local Guangfengshui receiving point, and then transport them to Kunming City.

  The villages around the Wa village were also handed over to the patriarch of the Wa tribe to inform him that he would be given a monthly fee for his hard work, and the patriarch was very grateful. At that time, I wished I could go to the surrounding villages and notify them immediately.

  Mu Yan also sent a message to the guards in various places to collect all kinds of goods. Anyway, he is the son of the prince, and he gave an order, hello and my good thing.

  There are only a lot of supply.

   "That's good. It's good that Madam can deal with it."

  There is something wrong here, and the husband and wife are going back home. Huo Xi asked the steward to take a bottle of orchid essential oil to take back home, and tried to make some balm for others.

   "Aren't we going to visit Yu's house? When the time comes, give your aunts, cousins, cousins, cousins, and cousins ​​some of the balms and face creams I made by myself. Doesn't it seem polite and affectionate? Mrs. Shizi made it herself!"

   "Do you still need to do it yourself? Just pick some from the warehouse and send them over. There are all kinds of expensive things."

   "Can the ones selected in the warehouse be the same as the ones I made by myself?" The ones made by myself are more precious.

  Looking at the thin white bottle in his hand, he felt a little regretful: "If it were a jade bottle, it might be more expensive. Selling jade on the one hand, and essential oil on the other. The best of both worlds."

  Mu Yan's heart moved when he heard the words, and he reached out to take the porcelain vase in Huo Xi's hand. The workmanship is very fine, and it looks very elegant, but if it is replaced by a jade vase...it really is a business that has the best of both worlds.

   "The land of Dian is adjacent to the country of De Leng, and there are jade mines there. If you like it, I will ask someone to buy some carved jade bottles for you to use."

Huo Xi's eyes lit up: "That's great. I heard that there is a street in Kunming City that sells jade and people gamble on it. It's very lively! Before you came back, I wanted to go shopping, but I was so busy. Didn't go."

  Mu Yan smiled, "As long as you want to go, my husband will accompany you."

   "Okay, let's go now!"

  Excitedly pulled Mu Yan out of the courtyard. As soon as the husband and wife left the courtyard, a dozen or so women rushed towards them.

   "My son, Mrs. Shizi, please give us a way to survive!"

  The second-class people from Yikan stepped forward to block it, "Stay back! Who is it, and what's the reason?"

  A dozen or so women saw that Li Yikan, a second-class man with a weapon on his waist, had a fierce look on his face, and took a few steps back in fright.

   "Master Shizi, Madam Shizi, please spare me!"

  Mu Yan frowned, as soon as he came up, he was giving life and saving his life. His complexion is impatient.

  Huo Xi gently tugged at his sleeve, looked at the women with soothing eyes, "Who are you waiting for, what do you want?"

  The women looked at each other, and boldly stepped forward to reply, "Mrs. Hui, I am a family member of the garrison in the city. I can't live on. I want to ask, please show me a way to survive."

  Xiangcao got Huo Xi's instructions, and replied: "You don't have family members working in this small courtyard?"

  A group of women lowered their heads, "No."

"Then our wife rented spinning wheels and looms from you before. You don't know how? Didn't you rent them? At least one of our wife's family took care of them, and they all gave you work. Which ones are your families? Didn't get a job?"

  At the beginning, Huo Xi made a roster of the military family members stationed in the city. Whether each family had extra labor and what the situation was, they had someone carefully investigate and record it in the roster.

  A dozen or so women lowered their heads again and fell silent.

Huo Xi understood, "You used to have family members who worked in my small courtyard, and then you have other jobs. And you may have rented my spinning wheel and loom, but later... you stopped renting it. Is it this way?"

   Vanilla and the others also understood. It turned out to be those weeds!

"Oh, it turns out that you didn't like the wages given by your wife, so you chose another high-end branch! You also returned the spinning wheel and loom to our wife, and when you saw that the rent was lower, you rented someone else's. Isn't it? "

  (end of this chapter)