Xiao Mian looked at Liu Sihai and said, "We can make the ointment, but it has to be put in a big jar."
Xiao Mian pointed to the jar of pickles at home and said, "Just use a jar like this. One jar can be divided into more than 130 boxes. I will give you a hundred boxes. You can go back and pack it yourself."
"The price is still the price you mentioned. If you agree, please give half of the deposit first, and we can start work now."
Liu Sihai pondered, mentally calculating costs and profits.
As a businessman, it's fine if he doesn't make money, but he won't do business that loses money.
Liu Yingdao said anxiously: "Why are you hesitating? This is good."
Xiao Mian glanced at Liu Yingdao with a half-smile but said, "If I'm not busy, I can stay and give you some advice."
What I'm waiting for is your words.
"Not busy, not busy." Liu Yingdao suddenly smiled happily.
This girl is indeed unusual. She can reveal everything at once and be on the right track.
"It's not about giving advice, but I can help. I'm good at refining medicinal materials anyway." Liu Yingdao hit the snake with a stick.
With Liu Yingdao's words, Liu Sihai happily gave him one thousand five hundred taels of silver notes.
After agreeing to pick up the goods in five days, he left Liu Yingdao and went back alone.
Liu Yingdao was not pretentious, he rolled up his sleeves and was ready to help.
"Little friend, what should we do in the first step?"
Xiao Mian smiled and said, "I'll watch it first, and then I'll help light the fire."
Liu Yingdao was very happy and just asked for help. Whether it was lighting a fire or refining medicine, as long as he participated, he would know what medicinal materials were used in the Li family's frostbite ointment.
However, in the following days, he saw what it meant to be ignorant.
After placing the order, the Li family immediately got busy.
There were loads of pepper stalks without peppers, cinnamon branches, reed roots, mountain red radish, white radish, ginger, mutton oil, and some weeds that Liu Yingdao didn't recognize at all...
Among them, only Shanlihong and Ginger can barely be regarded as medicinal materials.
Liu Yingdao was in charge of lighting the fire.
The chili roots are boiled in a pot, and the stems of the chili trees are used to light the fire.
Liu Yingdao couldn't bear it anymore and asked Xiaomian: "What's the use of this chili root?"
Xiaomian looked at Liu Yingdao and said seriously: "This pepper root is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. It has great effects. It can dispel cold, remove dampness, relieve wind and relieve pain."
Mrs. Song seemed to be afraid that Liu Yingdao would not believe it, so she quickly interjected: "People in our village have cold hands and feet. Soak them in hot pepper root water. It will work."
Mrs. Li also said: "Yes, yes, this is a folk remedy from our countryside."
Liu Yingdao was stunned for a moment, then asked: "Are these branches also used for traditional Chinese medicine?"
Xiao Mian said again seriously: "These branches are also pungent, sweet, and hot in nature. They all have the functions of sweating and relieving muscles, warming the meridians, and helping yang transform qi."
Mrs. Song quickly explained: "In our village, if anyone has a sprained foot or a sprained arm, they can soak it with ten kinds of water. It works."
Li said: "Yes, yes, this is also a little folk remedy for us country people."
Liu Yingdao watched this family treat a pile of weeds and firewood as if they were treasures, and he was so excited.
He remained calm and asked pretending to be curious: "What are ten kinds of branches?"
"Ten kinds of branches are branches from ten kinds of trees. If they are boiled together, we call it ten kinds of branches."
Li explained with a tone that said you don't even understand this.
Liu Yingdao was not annoyed and asked again with an open-minded look. Xiao Mian waved his hand and said:
"Old man, there are no weeds in the countryside, and knowledge is a treasure. Don't think that these weeds are not as good as Angelica and Astragalus. If they are refined and used correctly, they are much more useful than those precious traditional Chinese medicines."
Liu Yingdao was speechless.
After half a lifetime of studying medicine and refining medicine, it was the first time a little girl pointed at my nose and said, "There are no weeds in the countryside, and knowledge is all treasure."
Does this mean that you don’t know herbal medicine?
He frowned and looked at it without blinking.
He wanted to see if these weeds could really make frostbite ointment?
Or was this girl afraid that he would steal her lesson, so she deliberately made a pile of weeds and firewood here to fool him?
The tree roots and turf were boiled for three days. On the fourth day, we started to roast the white radish and mountain red, and boiled the mutton oil...
On the fifth day, everything is put into a clay pot in proportion and cooked.
This is the last step, Li Xiaomian personally stirs up the idea.
Liu Yingdao still insisted on burning the fire.
After three pots in a row, Liu Yingdao opened his eyes and watched as these ingredients slowly turned into a glossy ointment.
Dig a little, smell it, and try it on your hands. It is indeed no different from the previous Lijia frostbite ointment.
No wonder he couldn't tell what material it was made of.
Is the countryside really free of weeds?
When Liu Sihai arrived again, the room was filled with jars of frostbite ointment.
Li Benshan accompanied Liu Sihai to check the quantity of jars and the quality of the ointment.
After the jar was loaded into the truck, Liu Sihai took out a dozen silver notes and prepared to settle the remaining 1,500 taels of silver.
In the excited eyes of the Li family, Mrs. Song refused.
Liu Sihai looked at Mrs. Song in confusion, wondering what she meant?
Could it be that it is too little?
But this was all agreed upon in advance. It would be very unkind of the Li family to increase the price now!
Liu Sihai looked at Liu Yingdao, hoping that he would be the intermediary and say something.
Liu Yingdao also frowned. Could it be that the quality of this batch of frostbite ointment was not up to standard?
Also, a bunch of weeds and branches, even if they are all good at promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, how can their effect be compared with that of precious medicinal materials?
It seems that the Li family has a guilty conscience.
Everyone in the Li family didn't know why. They looked at Mrs. Song and urged her to take the banknote quickly with their eyes. That was one thousand five hundred taels!
Ms. Song glanced at her family reassuringly, and then said to Liu Sihai: "Brother, I want to discuss something with you."
Liu Sihai showed an unhappy expression and thought: He really wants to increase the price.
He said coldly: "Mrs. Li, we have an appointment."
Mrs. Song rubbed her hands in embarrassment, "Yes, I know that Big Brother is in business. I just want to ask, how much does Big Brother sell this ointment for?"
Liu Sihai's voice became even colder. He had been doing business all over the country for so many years, and he had seen many such people.
He said coldly: "This doesn't seem to have anything to do with Mrs. Li, does it?"
Mrs. Song's face turned red, she pursed her lips, paused, and then said, "Brother, most of the people who suffer from the cold and suffer from chilblains are poor, right?"
Liu Sihai did not speak, but nodded.
Mrs. Song continued: "We are all poor people. I'm afraid not many can afford frostbite ointment. I just thought, we don't want these fifteen hundred taels."
"In this way, your cost will be lowered, so can you sell it cheaper so that the poor can afford frostbite ointment?"
After Mrs. Song finished speaking, she smiled sheepishly and said, "I just want to make a suggestion. I understand that older brothers also have to make money."
"It really doesn't work. If we sell frostbite ointment again, can we still sell it at the old price?"
Liu Sihai looked at Mrs. Song for a while and suddenly smiled.
"Mrs. Li is a compassionate person. Don't worry, our batch of frostbite ointment is sold to the capital. The corresponding customers are not short of money."
"As for the poor, the medical clinics and medicine stores under our name hold free clinics every year. Our homemade frostbite ointment will also be distributed free of charge."
"Oh, it turns out that the eldest brother and his family are all good people!" Mrs. Song exclaimed happily.
Liu Yingdao looked at the sky speechlessly.
The cheapest homemade frostbite ointment is much more expensive than Li’s, okay?
The Li family's business is a huge profit.
Probably the most valuable item in the cost of frostbite ointment is suet.
And the frostbite ointment I made myself...
I won’t talk about it anymore, it will bring tears when I talk about it.