Chapter 213 Gift Giving
Lu Chengjing was confused when he heard this, "In that case, why didn't Anlehou welcome Zhongli's mother back to the mansion?"
Even being a concubine is better than being a concubine. At least Zhongli won't be poked in the back because of his status as a concubine.
How did Shang Wan know what Anlehou was thinking?
She shrugged, "Zhongli takes his mother's surname. Maybe the mother and son don't want to enter the Marquis' mansion."
Boss Zhong is a very thoughtful person at first glance.
Shang Wan thought of Zhongli's self-introduction, Li's betrayal and his life experience, and there was probably a rather twisty story in it.
Lu Chengjing remembered something and reminded: "They have seen through A Nian's identity. I wonder if those assassins have anything to do with them. Please pay more attention to A Nian."
Shang Wan nodded in agreement and muttered, "When will the people from the Chu family army come?"
The children are almost grown up in her family.
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As the days passed, the decoration of the shop was in full swing, and the villagers also knew that the scholar's family planned to pay someone to prepare herbal medicine.
You can learn a craft and make money at the same time. Where can you find such a good thing?
Even if some villagers come to ask about this matter, they all want to fight for themselves or their family members.
But after asking, I found out that the person had already been found.
Someone asked unwillingly: "Who are you looking for? I am diligent and diligent, so I am definitely no worse than them."
Xiaohuan politely poured herbal tea and announced a few people, such as Aunt Zhou, Aunt Yao, Li Xiaoshan, Li Xiaomei, the Yuan family brothers and sisters, the Wu family's daughter-in-law...
The man understood as soon as he heard that these families had frequent contacts with the scholar's family, and they would help with anything on weekdays.
People are divided into relatives and friends. This is a good thing, but why don't we think of them first?
The man left in a sullen tone, and Xiaohuan also sent him away politely.
In the initial stage, Lu Chengjing would naturally not include the whole village. He would try it with some people first. If it was feasible, he would then find people based on the needs of the pharmacy.
If the whole village is involved from the beginning, it will be difficult to manage too many people, and there may be a lot of trouble.
Yuan Musheng had started giving lessons to Aunt Zhou and others a few days ago. According to the agreement with Lu Chengjing, he would first teach the preparation methods of several commonly used herbal medicines.
Lu Chengjing's original intention was not to let these people know how to concoct any medicine. People's energy is limited, so everyone should learn separately and specialize in one or two major categories.
Aunt Zhou and others studied very seriously. They studied for two days in a row. After Yuan Musheng nodded, they went to the Lu family to collect the herbs and go back to practice.
Among them, Yuan Lang and Yuan Qiao were the quickest to get started. They usually helped their father prepare herbal medicines, but they were quite comfortable doing it alone.
Mrs. Rong was worried that the two children might be watching from the sidelines.
If there were not more than two people in the family, she would also want to earn this money.
When the painting of the shop was completed, everyone's learning results were also displayed in the Lu family's yard.
The quality of the medicinal materials varied, among which the medicinal materials from Aunt Yao, Li Xiaomei and the Yuan family brothers and sisters were of the best quality.
Li Xiaoshan pursed his lips and secretly tugged on Li Xiaomei's sleeve, "Little sister, you can teach me when you get back."
Li Xiaomei glanced at Li Xiaoshan's share of medicinal materials and suggested in a low voice: "Second brother, my father is better at cooking than you. You should learn carpentry from your elder brother."
Li Xiaoshan: "..."
Aunt Zhou and Mrs. Chen, the daughter-in-law of the Wu family, were also asking Aunt Yao for advice. The three of them got along well on weekdays, and Aunt Yao didn't hide anything. She told them in detail what they needed to pay attention to.
In fact, Yuan Musheng has talked about these things, but in practice, novices like them will inevitably miss one or two.
Lu Chengjing collected all the medicinal materials from everyone. Because the quality was different, the wages he paid were naturally different.
No one has any objection to this. It is much better and makes sense wherever it is placed.
Everyone else in the village was paying attention to what was going on with the Lu family. Seeing Aunt Zhou and the others actually coming out with money, they all wanted to take her place.
Isn't it just washing, cutting, and drying? They can do that too!
Many people came around and asked questions. Aunt Zhou and others answered in a good-tempered manner at first, but then they just drove them away and went home to prepare the herbs they just received.
Lu Chengjing left Aunt Yao and the four of them alone. Xiaohuan poured herbal tea for everyone and sat down next to Li Xiaomei.
Li Xiaomei asked in a low voice: "Sister Xiaohuan, what do you want us to do when Duke Xiucai leaves us?"
"That's a good thing." Xiaohuan smiled and touched her head. The little girl was timid, so she was probably feeling uneasy.
Xiaohuan's guess was correct. Li Xiaomei was really worried about whether she had done something wrong.
But soon, the anxiety in her heart disappeared.
Lu Chengjing left four people behind so that they could help process the ointment and their wages would be doubled.
The recipe for making the ointment was just a recipe for common wound medicine, which Lu Chengjing copied from a medical book.
You can make more money, and the method is not difficult. As long as you are careful, there will be no problem. Naturally, the four of them will not refuse.
Lu Chengjing watched the four people memorize the prescriptions for the wound medicine before letting them go.
Shitou has already prepared the medicinal ingredients for the ointment, one serving per person, which is about the amount of five boxes of ointment.
Because Lu Chengjing didn't say that he couldn't tell the recipe to others, Yuan Lang recited the recipe to his father after returning home.
No matter how Yuan Musheng listened to it, he felt that this was just a very common prescription for wound medicine, and the effect was average, not as good as the prescription he had figured out himself.
After thinking about it, Yuan Musheng simply wrote down a prescription for the medicine and asked Yuan Lang to deliver it to Lu Chengjing.
When Yuan Lang came back, he had fifty taels of silver in his arms.
Silver is money for buying prescriptions.
Yuan Musheng just wanted to help and let the fifty taels of silver make him laugh or cry.
Madam Rong waved her hand to Yuan Lang, "Hurry up and send the money back to your Uncle Lu."
My men's lives were saved by my brothers and sisters. It's just a prescription. How can I get so much money from him?
Yuan Lang was about to run out after hearing what he said, but Yuan Musheng called out to him, "Wait, dad is going with you."
As a result, the money was not returned.
When the father and son returned, they had a jar of pickles and two pounds of pork in their arms.
Yuan Lang turned to look at his father, "Dad, will mother scold us?"
The money was not paid back yet, and the money was taken away from people. They even ate and took it away.
Yuan Musheng raised his hand and touched his son's head, "There is a father. If your mother scolds you, you should hide behind your father."
Yuan Lang looked at his hands: "Dad, you just touched the pork without washing your hands."
His mother just washed his hair this morning!
Yuan Musheng: "..."
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Ever since people in the village knew that they could actually get money for preparing medicinal materials, Xiaohuan found that more people in the village were sending things to her family.
She went around the village, and everyone tried their best to stuff something into her hand, and then ran away after stuffing it. Most of them were vegetables just pulled from the ground, and there were melons and fruits, and sometimes there were Egg or duck egg.
She went to the river to wash clothes, and the wives and aunts were so enthusiastic that they wanted to help her wash clothes. Xiaohuan was so frightened that she chose a time when there were fewer people to wash clothes. She was really afraid of being squeezed into the river by the crowd.
Stones are deprived of the joy of farming.
The young men in the village took turns taking care of his six acres of land, even watering it. If he happened to meet someone in the field, they would smile at him with big teeth, and the smile would send chills down his back.
People in the village knew that the Lu family raised livestock. Shitou would find a pile of fodder at the door every day, and he didn't know who sent it.