Ruling the Historical Romance Novel as the Female Supporting Character-Chapter 336: Why Isn’t Qin Kaize Dead Yet

As long as the final accounts balance, there’s no problem. They just need to cover the costs of producing the bottles and the juice together. For the juice that costs 0.3 yuan per bottle, they’ll pay the village 0.3 yuan per bottle, assuming all the juice has been sold. This means each bottle’s cost is only 0.3 yuan. But they sell Jiajia’s Whitening Lotion and Hair Growth Solution to the black market for 8 yuan per bottle, which they can afford. After all, it’s not ideal to use soy sauce bottles if they want to establish a good reputation now.

Ke Zeming privately inquired and found out that many people were embarrassed to openly use or recommend a product in a soy sauce bottle to their friends, thinking it looked too disgraceful.

Qin Kaize mentioned the increased cost to Su Yijia, who waved it off nonchalantly. "No worries, we can afford 0.3 yuan per bottle. I used to make a lot of money buying herbs from the pharmacy, and now that the biggest herb expense is saved, with the distiller, we can double the yield from the same amount of herbs. This is basically becoming a no-cost operation." 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

Although this is something they didn’t plan to do, she had already thought about it. She just felt it would be too much trouble and would involve contacting too many people, so she hadn’t brought it up.

While they were chatting, the people made three more trips. After closing the courtyard door and catching their breath, they finally noticed Su Yijia standing in the living room.

"Sister-in-law, you’re here too," they said, quickly toning down their rowdy demeanor and smiling politely at her.

Although these men had never met Su Yijia before, it was clear from how close she was with their boss who she must be.

"Hello, come in and cool off with the fan, and have some mung bean soup," Su Yijia waved them in.

They didn’t hesitate, each gulping down a bowl of soup. The mung bean soup had been out for a while, so while it was still cool, it wasn’t too cold on the stomach.

After they finished, Su Yijia offered them more fruit.

"When are you heading back?" Qin Kaize asked once they had cooled off.

"We’re leaving this afternoon. We need to pick up half a truckload of seafood and half a truckload of fruit. If we hurry, we can be back tonight. We’ll deliver it to the supply and marketing cooperative, so it can be sold first thing tomorrow morning," said the leader, detailing the plan.

Originally, Qin Kaize had thought they could leave tomorrow and bring the goods back with them. But now, they would have to rely on the people here to help out.

They treated them to lunch at the State-Owned Restaurant and lent them a room to nap in before they left in the afternoon. After everyone was gone, Qin Kaize and Su Yijia stored everything in the space and began bottling.

It wasn’t hard work, just repetitive. But even so, it took them from two in the afternoon until ten at night to finish bottling all ten thousand bottles. Seven thousand were Whitening Lotion, and three thousand were Hair Growth Solution.

After a quick shower, they collapsed onto the folding bed and fell into a deep sleep.

The next morning, they called their subordinates. Pointing to the bottles in two empty rooms, Qin Kaize said, "There are five thousand bottles of Whitening Lotion and two thousand bottles of Hair Growth Solution here. In a few days, take a truck to Hu City and bring them with you. We’ll be there then. The remaining two thousand bottles of Whitening Lotion and one thousand bottles of Hair Growth Solution, Dahai, you take to the black market. The black market price is 8 yuan per bottle, and they can’t sell it for more than 10 yuan. Keep an eye on them. If they don’t stick to the agreement, there’s no need to continue working with them."

"Got it! Boss, don’t worry," Hou Dahai immediately assured. He had been eagerly awaiting this business, and now that it was finally starting, he couldn’t wait to get moving. He planned to move the goods quickly to open up the market, especially in Hu City, where he didn’t want to sell less than his boss’s people there.

After everything was arranged, they took scaffolding, cement, sand, bricks, and large jars that Qin Kaize had ordered. Once everyone was gone, Su Yijia stored the items in the space.

Their train tickets were for the evening, so after a nap, they would arrive in Hu City the next morning.

That night, after the conductor checked the tickets, they didn’t squeeze into the small beds on the train. Instead, they went straight to sleep in the space. They only came out around seven the next morning, just in time to get off the train. They grabbed breakfast at the State-Owned Restaurant and, too lazy to go home, went straight to the Xia family’s old house.

As they walked into the alley, they were greeted by several old neighbors. Upon seeing Qin Kaize and Su Yijia, they weren’t just surprised--they were shocked. Some even stepped back as if they had seen a ghost. One person even rubbed his eyes to confirm that the perfectly healthy person in front of him was indeed Qin Kaize.

"Oh my! Kaize, you... you’ve recovered? Didn’t they say you were going to be paralyzed for life?" Auntie Tian exclaimed.

When Kaize’s wife threw a banquet and sent Qin Zongyao and his wife to prison, where they were executed, the old neighbors in the alley all thought Kaize’s wife was extremely vicious. First, she got rid of his father and stepmother, leaving him half-dead. They assumed he wouldn’t live long, and that most of the Qin family’s possessions would fall into her hands. They had imagined Su Yijia neglecting Kaize, cheating on him, or even killing him early to get rid of a burden. But none of them had imagined that she would go to great lengths to find a doctor for him and actually manage to turn a man who was declared beyond saving by army doctors back into a healthy person. Looking at his strong build and radiant expression, he seemed even healthier than before the injury.

"My wife found a very skilled doctor. A few doses of medicine cured me," Qin Kaize explained calmly, unconcerned about their reactions. He walked up to his door and knocked heavily a few times.

After waiting a while without hearing any response, before Qin Kaize could knock again, the neighbors started chiming in:

"You have to knock harder. They had another fight last night and were up until two or three in the morning. It’s really tragic. After causing so much trouble to be together, now they’re practically at each other’s throats."

Unlike Kaize and his wife, who looked at each other with such affection that it gave the neighbors goosebumps.

"Thanks," Su Yijia said with a sweet smile, her eyes curving.

But no one responded to her kindness; instead, they all seemed to automatically block it out. Despite her delicate appearance, everyone knew how ruthless she could be. No one wanted to get on her bad side, for fear they wouldn’t know what hit them.

Forcing awkward smiles that looked more like grimaces, the onlookers, who had hoped for some drama, quickly made their excuses and fled the alley like their pants were on fire.

Su Yijia pursed her lips, the disappointment on her face evident. She didn’t want them to see the spectacle later when she confronted Su Xinyue, but it was still disheartening to scare them away before she’d even done anything.