Chapter 573: Chapter 573: No Worries with Money
Luo Huiniang stared dumbfounded at the Gou He Blade on the ground, her finger pointing at it, then she looked up at Qin Er Lang: "Brother Qin Er, what did you just say?"
Brother Qin Er is a good person, he would risk his life to save her, they had escaped the famine together, he couldn’t possibly be asking her to commit suicide.
Qin Er Lang’s face was indifferent, and he sneered, "I told you to take the knife and kill yourself!"
Do you understand, you fool?
Luo Huiniang finally snapped out of her daze, realizing Brother Qin Er was actually telling her to commit suicide, but she asked, "Why?"
She really didn’t understand, she hadn’t done anything that Brother Qin Er could hate enough to want to kill her.
Qin Er Lang looked at Luo Huiniang’s naive and innocent face, wishing he could slap her a few times: "Anyone who blocks my way must die!"
Hearing this, Luo Huiniang looked at Qin Er Lang’s expressionless face and his eyes filled with disgust, and cried, weeping sorrowfully yet fearing that the people of Gu Jinli’s house might hear her, she could only cover her mouth and sob quietly.
Qin Er Lang, unable to contain his anger, roared, "Stop crying, if you want to cry, go cry at your own home!"
Thinking her tears could move him? She, Luo Huiniang, is not some high-class noble lady, her tears aren’t pearls but mud water from the fields.
Hearing this, Luo Huiniang glanced at Qin Er Lang, turned, and ran away, with a cry in her voice, she said "Sorry."
When Gu Jinli saw this, she quickly said to Qin San Lang, "I have to go."
She hurried after Luo Huiniang.
Seeing Gu Jinli, Luo Huiniang burst out crying, "Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu, I am a shameless girl, Brother Er Lang despises me."
Gu Jinli comforted her, "Don’t cry. Our Hui Niang is a good girl. Qin Er Lang is a madman, his words are not to be taken seriously."
"Xiao Yu, Hui Niang, are you outside?" Gu Jinxiu was making a school bag for Brother Cheng, and when she heard Luo Huiniang crying, she came out to check, followed by Sister Li.
Feeling embarrassed about what had just happened, Luo Huiniang didn’t want anyone other than Gu Jinli to know, so she said to Gu Jinli: "I won’t go to your house... let’s go to the pharmaceutical workshop, I want to cry, I’m sad."
Gu Jinli felt heartbroken and looked in Gu Jinxiu’s direction saying, "Big sister, we’re fine. Hui Niang got her hand pricked by a thorn while picking mountain delicacies, that’s why she cried. I am taking her to the pharmaceutical workshop to apply some medicine, don’t worry."
Confused, Gu Jinxin knew that Xiao Yu always carried antiseptic medicine and that their home also had wound medicine, there was no need to go to the workshop. But being a perceptive person, she understood the two young ladies had something they didn’t want her to know about, so she said, "Go on, just remember to come back home early."
"Alright," Gu Jinli responded, and pulled Luo Huiniang to the pharmaceutical workshop.
Luo Huiniang cried for a long time in the workshop, asking Gu Jinli: "Xiao Yu, am I really a shameless woman? Do I really like Brother Qin Er? Why does Brother Qin Er dislike me?"
Gu Jinli: "..."
Girl, how am I supposed to answer these questions? You should ask yourself.
Luo Huiniang didn’t need Gu Jinli to answer; she only wanted to cry. After weeping for nearly half an hour, she finally stopped.
After she finished crying, she felt better and said to Gu Jinli, "Xiao Yu, Brother Qin Er is about to leave; I want to prepare some farewell gifts for him. What do you think?"
She said this timidly, still looking at Gu Jinli, afraid that she might say it is inappropriate.
Gu Jinli said, "That’s fine, you can prepare something and give it to him."
Again he said: "There’s no need to prepare sachets or handkerchiefs, as these require embroidery, and you can’t complete the embroidery in a short amount of time."
Mainly because these two items are not suitable for a lady to give to a man, as it might provoke gossip.
Luo Huiniang was very pleased, at least Xiao Yu supported her: "Then I’ll go back to prepare. You should head home early too." And she left, joyful.
Gu Jinli watched her departing figure and shook his head, thinking if she could always be this happy, that would be nice.
After Luo Huiniang left, Gu Jinli began to mix the ground medicinal materials that Feng Jin and his team had prepared, turning them into tooth powder, then had Feng Jin and his team fetch ceramic and porcelain jars to store the mixed tooth powder. A total of two thousand bottles were filled and placed in a room specifically for storing tooth powder.
From now on, this room would serve as the storehouse for tooth powder.
"Qiu Lang, Feng Jin, the two of you, take turns watching over the tooth powder in the storehouse, and do not let anyone enter," Gu Jinli told them as she handed over the sealed strips: "Seal the door and the two windows with glutinous rice paste."
This way, if anyone tampered inside, she would know.
"Yes," Feng Jin took the sealed strips and sealed the door and windows with them.
Meng Jinglan took a tour around the pharmaceutical workshop, listened to Ah Shi and Ye Jingzi report on how many mosquito coils, tooth powders, and scar removal ointments were made today, then put away the accounts book and went home.
The next day, at the hour of the Snake, Elder Wu, along with Manager Cheng and Manager Zhang, came to the pharmaceutical workshop again, accompanied by doctors from Xuanhu Fang and Yuanzi Pharmacy.
They were here to verify the goods.
Since the tooth powder was made from medicinal materials, the verification process needed to be meticulous. Therefore, they inspected each bottle of tooth powder, and after confirming there were no issues, they would seal the bottle and pack it.
It took three hours to inspect two thousand bottles of tooth powder with six doctors working simultaneously, which indeed took a long time.
However, as these doctors were not employed by Gu Jinli, having just two individuals overseeing their work sufficed, so it didn’t waste her time.
Once the verification was completed, the three parties signed and stamped two confirmation documents; thus, the two thousand bottles of tooth powder were officially delivered. Any issues arising later would be Yuanzi Pharmacy’s responsibility, and no longer related to Gu Family’s pharmaceutical workshop.
"The remaining tooth powder needs to be delivered within a month," Manager Cheng stated.
Gu Jinli nodded: "No problem."
A month was sufficient.
If there were no issues with these twenty thousand bottles of tooth powder once sold, Yuanzi Pharmacy’s people would no longer come to their pharmaceutical workshop for verification, and her tooth powder could be directly taken to Xuanhu Fang, which, after verification and without issues, would be handed over to Yuanzi Pharmacy.
Gu Jinli also took the opportunity to sell a batch of scar removal ointment to Xuanhu Fang, earning five hundred and fifty taels of silver.
She clutched the silver note, a smile spreading across her face, as she saw off Elder Wu and the others from Yuanzi Pharmacy out of the workshop’s main gate, feeling relieved with the silver in hand.
Before leaving, Elder Wu told her: "You can make more scar removal ointment, Min Kid said it sells very well, so prepare more."
Gu Jinli agreed: "Don’t worry, sir, I’ll manage my workforce again to dedicate a group specifically for producing scar removal ointment. This product is profitable, I’m happy to make more."
Although the production of scar removal ointment wasn’t massive, it sold at a high price. Wealthy families disliked scars on their bodies, so many were willing to buy it. Even though it couldn’t remove all scars, it could lighten them, making it considered one of the Divine Medicines of this era.
After seeing off Elder Wu and others, Gu Jinli turned around and went home, joining Third Grandma and others busy preparing a farewell meal.
This farewell meal was for Brother Qin Er. Although Brother Qin Er had a bad temper, the families were friends who would lay down their lives for each other, and the elders saw him as a junior. To bid him farewell, the families prepared a banquet for him.