Now to make pure natural shampoo and conditioner, you only need to find the raw materials.
Ye Qingqing was a man of action. He made up his mind and immediately said to Cao Guixiu: "Cao Guixiu, after you comb your hair, go up the mountain and get me some Polygonum multiflorum, hibiscus leaves, mulberry bark, rosemary, saponin, and Wuxiu."
Come back with seeds, tea seeds, and ginseng. Find as many as you can. The more you can find, the better. Come back after dark.
You are letting the people in the village know that I want to buy a large amount of these things and I will let you get these things. I will write down the price and post it on the gate of the Lu family later."
"What do you want these things for? Ye Qingqing." Cao Guixiu asked confused.
“Make money by selling shampoo and conditioner that make your hair thicker, darker, and smooth to the touch without tangles.”
Cao Guixiu has lived for more than forty years and has never left Bone Village. He has no understanding of the world outside Bone Village.
Hearing about shampoo and conditioner for the first time, Cao Guixiu asked curiously: "Ye Qingqing, do you think this shampoo and conditioner are edible? Are they delicious?"
"Can eating this shampoo and conditioner really make my hair thicker, darker, less tangled, and still smooth to the touch?"
"Look at my hair, a lot of it is white. It gets tangled every time I comb it. It's not easy to comb it out at all, and it's falling out in handfuls. If I don't grow my hair long, my hair is going to fall out."
She’s a bald nun.”
"Can you give me some to eat after you finish it? Ye Qingqing." Cao Guixiu looked at Ye Qingqing with a flattering look and asked.
Ye Qingqing raised his hand and waved, saying: "It depends on your performance, we will talk about it then!"
"Remember to spread the word that I want to collect these things!"
Ye Qingqing didn't agree immediately, and Cao Guixiu didn't dare to force Ye Qingqing to agree to him, so he could only say: "Okay!"
"Also, um..." Cao Guixiu glanced at the holes in Ye Qingqing's pockets and then asked cautiously: "Do you have the money to collect those things?"
"Those things must cost at least four or five cents per catty. Ten catties is four or five cents, and a hundred catties is four or five cents. Just a few people who go to the mountains will get goods worth several dollars.
, that’s not a small amount.”
Ye Qingqing felt that the money Wang Guo forced to give to Li Fangcao, Ye Qingqing did not intend to touch it, so he said: "I have no money, I will pay for it first, and I will pay after I get the shampoo and conditioner."
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"The starting price is four to five cents per catty, which is too cheap. The cheapest prices for those items start at five cents per catty, and there is no upper limit."
In this era, people in the village were generally very simple and trustworthy, and everyone was generally poor and had little money. It often happened that IOUs were issued and then paid.
Cao Guixiu didn't think there was anything wrong with Ye Qingqing's plan to withhold money first, write an IOU, and then pay after making money. However, Cao Guixiu felt that Ye Qingqing's purchase price was too high.
Nowadays, good rice costs only 50 cents per catty. If Polygonum multiflorum and those things that are everywhere in the nearby mountains start at five cents per catty, doesn’t it mean that three catties of those things can buy one catty of rice?
Cao Guixiu thinks that now that he has no escape route as Lu Liangduo, he and Ye Qingqing are just grasshoppers on the same rope. Since they are both grasshoppers on the same rope, naturally, one will be prosperous and one will suffer. Ye Qingqing is good.
, you will be fine by yourself.
Cao Guixiu rolled his eyes, then approached Ye Qingqing and asked in a low voice: "Ye Qingqing, is your acquisition price too high?"
"Look at this food, rice and corn. We have worked hard to plant it. We have to manage and fertilize it under the bright sun for several months, harvest and dry it. In the end, the rice is only a dime. The best thing is to shell the rice into rice.
It only sells for 15 cents per catty, corn is even cheaper, only 80 cents per catty, and ground into flour only costs 121 cents.
Potatoes, sweet potatoes, cabbage, cucumbers, green beans, pumpkins, and eggplants in the field also require planting management and fertilization, and the prices range from one cent to five cents per catty.
Polygonum multiflorum, hibiscus leaves, mulberry bark, rosemary, soap locust, soapberry, and tea seeds do not need to be planted or managed. Wild things that can be obtained by going to the mountains with a hoe and sickle in a backpack are not worth five.
A big price for more than a pound?”
"Except for the ginseng thing, just set the price lower, Ye Qingqing, since money is so hard to make now, even if you charge a penny a pound, someone will still sell it.
If you charge cheaper, you should be able to make more money in the end, right? When it comes to making money, make as much as you can!"
"You are a fool if you don't make more money when you can! You..."
Seeing that Cao Gui was talking endlessly, Ye Qingqing interrupted Cao Guixiu: "Okay, okay, Cao Guixiu, stop talking, I have already decided."
"Just do what you arranged later!"
After Ye Qingqing finished speaking, without waiting for Cao Guixiu's reply, she turned around and went back to the house.
Cao Guixiu watched Ye Qingqing leave. He had thousands of thoughts in his heart but did not dare to catch up and continue. He could only mutter in a low voice: "Humph, I really don't understand good people. You don't listen to my good ideas."
"Since ancient times, making money has been something only men can do. If you still don't listen to my opinion, let me see how you make money!"
"No, I have to hide my few dollars of private money. It won't be good if Ye Qingqing owes too much and comes to me for money..."
Cao Guixiu muttered, without even combing her hair, and immediately returned to her room in a hurry to hide a few yuan of her private money.
In the corner of the Lu family's yard, Li Fangcao saw Cao Guixiu returning to his room and followed him back.
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In the Lu family's side room, Ye Qingqing was immersed in writing a price list for purchasing raw materials for making shampoo and conditioner, when Li Fangcao sneaked up to Ye Qingqing.
He also handed a handful of old cents to Ye Qingqing: "Ye Qingqing, this fifty-three cents was paid back to me yesterday afternoon. I used to pick up the shells and sell them for a few years when I was not married.
of.
Don’t you want to buy something and don’t have money? You should use the money first.”
"Don't be too little, I only have so much money in total."
Ye Qingqing glanced at the money in Li Fangcao's hand, but did not take it. He refused in a low voice: "No, no, no, Li Fangcao, you can keep the money yourself. You can use it in case you need it urgently."
"It's not that I don't accept it because you don't have enough money, I just..."
Before Ye Qingqing finished speaking, Lu Yun's cry came from outside the house: "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..Sister-in-law, where are you?"
"Woooooo...sister-in-law...wuwuwu..."
Lu Yun, a little kid, rarely cried since his grandfather passed away. Now that he was crying so hard, Ye Qingqing had a gut feeling that something bad had happened.
Ye Qingqing immediately stopped talking and rushed out of the door.
A few seconds later, when Ye Qingqing and Li Fangcao arrived at the Lu family's yard, they saw Lu Yun, soaked to the skin, entering the yard crying with two red slap marks on his face and a nosebleed.