Even though it is already December, all kinds of flowers are still delivered to the flower shop in baskets one after another.
It's piled high and the aroma is overwhelming.
There is no woman who doesn't love flowers. Huo Xi squatted in front of baskets of flowers, smelling the fragrance of the flowers, with an intoxicated look on her face, "It has to be Yunnan. This is in the capital. There are not so many flowers now."
Although Mu Yan didn't like the fragrance of various flowers that hit his nose, seeing that she liked it, he still stayed with her with a smile on his 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 not all. There are many uses for flowers. Flower cakes and flower sauces are just to confuse outsiders, and they can't be sold at a high price. After deducting various expenses, there is not much left. They also have to refine the essential oils of flowers.
Business is the only way to make big profits."
The conditions for extracting essential oil from flowers were simple and the effect was not very satisfactory. Huo Xi also tried again and again before using the ancient cauldron distillation method and liposuction method to extract it at the same time.
"Is this the essential oil extracted from flowers?"
"Well, smell it and see. 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. He estimated that it could only hold half a catty. Is this worth a hundred gold?
Huo Xi dipped a piece of scent paper into the bottle and waved it gently under his nose, "How is it?"
Mu Yan squinted his eyes and felt, "Well, it seems to be there, the aroma is very mellow. This smell...is it orchid?"
"Are you a dog nose?"
"wrong?"
"Yes, that's why I say you have a dog nose. This is the fragrance of orchids, mellow and distant."
It really is an orchid. Mu Yan curled up his lips and said, "It smells similar to yours."
Huo Xi nodded, "Yes, it is made with orchid essential oil. Orchids are in production this season. But the output is not much, so I only made seven or eight bottles."
"Such a small bottle, can it be worth a hundred gold?"
"I said it can be done. How many baskets of flowers can it take to refine this small bottle? If it is used to make balm, only a few drops are enough. It can be used to mix sesame oil and make facial balm, lip balm, and head oil. It is of great use.
.What price do you think it can be sold for? This is a treasure."
"You still want to do facial balm, lip balm and hair oil?"
"No, it's too troublesome. I'll just refine the essential oil of these flowers. Anyway, the flowers in Yunnan bloom all year round, so I'll just specialize in this."
"Well, don't tire yourself."
After visiting various workshops, the manager took the account and said, "Madam, our goods collection in the city has dropped sharply. The news leaked out, and Jun's shop also followed our example of going out of the city to buy nearby. A lot of various goods were intercepted.
"
The Junjia shop in the city received goods at a higher price than Guangfengshui, so Huo Xi asked a man to go out of the city and buy them halfway.
The common people thought that in order to get a penny, they had to go all the way into the city, and a tax was collected at the city gate. It would be more worry-free to sell them halfway. A lot of goods were intercepted on the way to Guangfeng River. But the news
It was revealed that Jun's shop also sent people to go further than them to collect the goods, so that the volume of goods dropped sharply.
Huo Xi had already thought of a way to deal with it.
"It doesn't matter. We don't receive many flowers from Jun's side, and our supply is stable. I have sent people to buy mushrooms, nuts, cotton, linen and other items in various states and counties. There will be many receiving points, and the fresh goods will be made into semi-finished products locally.
Ship it to Kunming City. We are not short of supply."
The village of the Wa people where Huo Xi stayed was surrounded by mountains. The mountains were densely forested and teeming with fungi of all kinds. Before Huo Xi left, she asked the clan leader to organize everyone to collect fungi and other materials and transport them to the local Guangfeng Water Harvest.
The goods are shipped to Kunming City.
The villages surrounding the Wa Village were also handed over to the chief of the Wa tribe to notify him, and he was given a hard-earned fee every month. The chief was extremely grateful. At that time, he wished he could immediately go to the surrounding villages to notify all the villages.
Mu Yan also sent messages to various health stations to collect various goods. After all, he was the prince, so he gave an order to do good things for me. What's wrong with having an extra income for each family in the health station besides hoarding farmland?
There are only a lot more supplies.
"That's good. As long as Madam can deal with it."
Something happened here, and the couple was about to return home. Huo Xi asked the steward to take a bottle of orchid essential oil to take home and try to make some balm to give away.
"Aren't we going to visit the Yu family? Then we will send some balms and ointments that I made to your aunts, cousins, daughter-in-law, and cousins. Isn't it a sign of politeness and friendship? The prince's wife made them with her own hands!"
"Why don't you make it with your own hands? Just choose some from the warehouse and send them over. There are all kinds of expensive ones."
"Can what I choose in the warehouse be the same as what I make with my own hands?" What is made by my own hands is even more precious.
Looking at the thin white bottle in his hand, he felt a little regretful: "If this were a jade bottle, it would probably fetch a higher price. On the one hand, it sells jade, and on the other hand, it sells essential oils. It's the best of both worlds."
When Mu Yan heard this, his heart moved, and he reached out to take the porcelain vase from Huo Xi's hand. The workmanship was very fine, and it looked very elegant. But if it were replaced by a jade vase... it would really be a business that has the best of both worlds.
"The land of Dian is adjacent to the country of Deleng. There are jade mines there. If you like it, I will have someone buy you some and carve them into jade vases for you to use."
Huo Xi's eyes lit up: "That's great. I heard that there is a street in Kunming city dedicated to selling jade, and there are people betting on stones, which is really lively! Before you came back, I wanted to go shopping, but I was busy with this and that.
Didn’t make it.”
Mu Yan smiled and said, "As long as you want to go, my husband will go with you."
"Okay, let's go now!"
He happily pulled Mu Yan out of the small courtyard. As soon as the couple left the courtyard, a dozen women rushed towards them.
"Your Majesty, Madam Your Majesty, please give us a way to survive!"
Li Yikan and others stepped forward to block him, "Stay back! Who is it and what's the reason?"
A dozen or so women looked fierce when they saw Li Yikan and the second class wearing weapons on their waists, and took a few steps back in fright.
"Your Majesty, Madam Your Majesty, spare your life!"
Mu Yan frowned. He was offering a way to survive and spare his life. He looked impatient.
Huo Xi gently pulled his sleeves, looking at the women with soothing eyes: "Who are you, and what do you want from me?"
The women looked at each other, and one of them stepped forward boldly to reply, "Madam, we are the family members of the army stationed in the city. We can't live any longer. I would like to beg you, madam, for some advice on how to survive."
After receiving Huo Xi's instructions, Xiangxiang replied: "You don't have any family members working in this small courtyard?"
All the women lowered their heads, "No."
"Then our wife rented spinning wheels and looms from you before, but you didn't know how to do it? Didn't you rent them? Our wife at least took care of everyone in the family and assigned you work. Which family is yours? Why did you do it in the first place?
Don’t have a job?”
At the beginning, Huo Xi made a roster of the military dependents stationed in the city. Whether each family had extra labor and what the situation was, he asked someone to carefully investigate and record it in the register.
A dozen women lowered their heads again and became silent.
Huo Xi understood, "You used to have family members working in my courtyard, and then you got other jobs. And you may have rented my spinning wheel and loom, but then... you stopped renting them.
.Is it this way?"
Vanilla and others also understood. It turned out to be those wallflowers!
"Oh, it turns out that you didn't like the wages my wife gave you, so you chose another high-end one! You also returned the spinning wheel and loom to our wife. When you saw that the rent charged by others was low, you rented it from someone else. Isn't that right?
