Chapter 1569 Bargaining

Manager Zheng instructed from behind: "Don't neglect your studies during this period..."

Zheng Gu went downstairs angrily. As soon as he arrived in the lobby, he saw a girl standing in front of the medicine cabinet, staring at their medicine cabinet curiously.

Zheng Gu felt that she looked familiar, so he stepped forward and asked, "Miss, do you want to see a doctor or buy medicine?"

Zhou Lijun turned to look at Zheng Gu. As soon as they met, Zheng Gu recognized her and asked with a smile, "Miss Zhou, are you here to see Master or Fourth Junior Sister?"

Li Jun smiled and said, "Looking for it, I didn't see my aunt in the lobby."

Zheng Gu smiled and said, "Master and Fourth Junior Sister are in the backyard, please come in." After that, he led Zhou Lijun to the backyard.

The two had met before. Last year, when Zhouji Restaurant opened, the manager Zheng brought a large group of people to congratulate it. The two met at that time, and then met a few times sporadically, but they were not very familiar with each other.

Zheng Gu led Zhou Lijun to the backyard. Manbao was testing Zhou Liru on how to identify herbs. Seeing Lijun coming over, he distracted himself by watching Zhou Liru identify herbs while asking, "Why are you here?"

Zhou Lijun watched his sister skillfully identify the herbs, then stood beside his aunt and said, "Fourth uncle sent someone to deliver a letter, and fifth uncle asked me to bring it to my aunt."

Zhou Lijun carefully looked around the backyard of Jishiditang, especially at the herbs drying in the winnowing baskets on the shelves. His eyes sparkled as he asked, "And, aunt, didn't you say last time that you'd teach us how to make moisturizing rouge and sore-eliminating ointment when you're free during the next holiday?"

Last time during the holiday, Bai Dalang sent someone to deliver a letter home, and Manbao asked the servants of the Bai family to send back the rouge and ulcer cream he brought from the palace.

Even Fang and Lu got a bottle.

Zhou Lijun and Zhou Liru were very curious and took some to rub on their faces and hands. Within two days, Zhou Liulang's bottle of ulcer-eliminating ointment was in Zhou Lijun's hands.

Although Manbao said that the materials used in the two bottles of ointment were somewhat expensive, Zhou Lijun felt that the noble ladies in the capital might dislike anything except the expensiveness.

She was the one who sold them a flower for two taels of silver but only wore it for one day. This ointment, just a little bit, can be used for almost a month with five taels of silver. Would those noble ladies not use it?

That’s right, Zhou Lijun even calculated the pricing.

Of course, this was also the cost that Manbao calculated for her for making a large jar of ointment.

Zhou Lijun, who had been following his fourth and fifth uncles to broaden his horizons over the past two years, knew that when calculating costs, labor costs and other miscellaneous items had to be taken into account.

She felt that it was very hard for Fourth and Fifth Aunts to make ointments while taking care of the children, so she raised the labor costs significantly.

So she not only came to deliver the letter, but also to urge her sister-in-law to buy the medicinal herbs as soon as possible.

Get it done sooner and make money sooner.

Manbao finally remembered this matter, wrote a prescription to Zheng Gu, and asked him to help get the medicine. Then he opened the letter from his fourth brother and read it.

Zhou Lijun had already read it in advance and sat on a chair nearby and said, "Fourth Uncle's letter said he followed someone to the grassland."

This is why Zhou Wulang was so anxious to ask her to deliver the letter.

Manbao glanced over the letter. It was rewritten by Big Head Zhou Lizhong and was very detailed. He told Manbao and the others that after he and his fourth uncle took the porcelain to Xiazhou to sell it, they met people from the Tufa tribe and also met Xiang Mingxue and others. The people from the Tufa tribe invited them to go to the grassland, saying that the medicinal herbs they wanted to buy were more abundant on the grassland and were cheaper there.

It happened that Xiang Mingxue was also going to the grassland, so he went with them.

Fourth Uncle and he thought about it and both felt that with Xiang Mingxue, an acquaintance, leading the way, they could definitely go to the grassland. Moreover, the weather was hot now and it would be cooler on the grassland. Anyway, there was no rush to get these medicinal herbs, so they went with the people from the Tufa tribe.

However, they were afraid that they would have to wait for a long time at home, so they wrote a letter and asked someone to bring it back to reassure them.

Datou also secretly told them in the letter that Xiang Mingxue was going to the grassland to do business, and he knew several people on the grassland.

Manbao was no longer worried about them. He folded the letter and said, "I want to go to the grassland too."

Zhou Lijun knew she would say that, "Fourth Aunt will definitely be worried."

She glanced outside, stood up and said, "Auntie, can I go see your apprentice get the medicine?"

"What's so interesting about picking medicine?"

Prescribing medicine is not pretty, but it is pretty good if the medicine can be made into profitable ointment.

Zhou Lijun ran out. She wanted to discuss with Jishidiang whether they could give her a cheaper price if she bought medicinal herbs from them often.

It just so happened that the shopkeeper Zheng was there too, so the two of them leaned against the counter and chatted while waiting for Zheng Gu to get the medicine. The shopkeeper Zheng was very interested in Zhou Lijun's arrival, or rather, in the prescription in his son's hand.

"What kind of prescription is this?"

Zhou Lijun was not on guard and smiled, "These are the moisturizing rouge and sore-eliminating ointment that my aunt just invented. They make people look better after using them."

Shopkeeper Zheng thought of the popular ointment recipe Zhou Man had given him. His eyes lit up slightly, and after glancing at the amount his son had prepared, he asked with a smile, "Why, are you planning to make it and sell it yourself?"

Zhou Lijun said, "We're just doing this for fun."

"Since we have Doctor Zhou here, we can definitely make it." Shopkeeper Zheng said with a smile, "Once we make it, we have to sell it. Look at my pharmacy, people are coming and going. Why don't you put it on consignment with me?"

Zhou Lijun's eyes flashed, and he asked with a smile, "Why didn't Manager Zheng ask my aunt?"

Manager Zheng said, "Your sister-in-law doesn't really care about this kind of thing. When it comes to business, it's better to talk it out clearly."

Zhou Man didn't care much about this kind of thing. If he mentioned it, she would just give him the recipe with a wave of her hand, letting him provide the herbs and the people, and then sell it and give her a share of the profits...

Of course, this is not a bad thing, but because it is too good, this favor is owed again, which is not good for maintaining the relationship between the two parties in the future.

It was not easy to bring it up with Manager Zheng, but it was different for Zhou Lijun.

He knew that the Zhou family's accounts were in the hands of this little girl. She was the one who remembered the gift when they went to the housewarming party last time.

He likes to talk about medicine with doctors and business with businessmen.

As for Zhou Man, forget it. He would rather wait for Zhou Silang to return to Beijing to talk about it, rather than approach Zhou Man at this time to do this business in a confused manner.

As for Zhou Man, no matter how much advantage you take of her now, you will have to let her take it back twice as much in the future, otherwise she will definitely have more good things in her hands that will make you regret it.

So it’s better to be clear when talking about business. Zhou Lijun seems to be a clear-headed person.

Zhou Lijun was of course aware of this, and her mind was already calculating.

So, while Zheng Gu was preparing the medicine, Zhou Lijun had already discussed the consignment method with the shopkeeper Zheng, and even agreed on the discount for future purchases of medicinal materials.

Zheng Gu watched them coming and going, and couldn't help but look at his father, then at Zhou Lijun. He shook his head and turned around to continue getting the medicine.

When Manbao came out, they both had reached an agreement satisfiedly. Zheng Gu bundled the herbs and placed them on the counter for Zhou Lijun.

Zhou Lijun took money out of his purse to pay the bill, then happily left with Manbao, carrying the herbs.

"So happy?"

Zhou Lijun nodded, then said, "Auntie, Shopkeeper Zheng gave me another 10% discount on the herbs for your sake."

Manbao was surprised, "He won't lose money, right?"

Zhou Lijun said, "No, I saw the purchase price of some medicinal herbs from my fourth uncle. Although he looked distressed, he definitely didn't lose money."

Manbao was relieved, "If you don't lose money, bargain hard. This is your ability."

I changed the location today, so it's a bit late. The next update will be around 9pm

But I'm going home soon, so I can add more.

(End of this chapter)