Juanjuan, whose adoptive parents had died, was sold by her uncle for ten silver dollars into the Warlord's Mansion to bring good luck to the severely ill only son, Si Jinchen.
She thought...
Chapter 304: Drinking to Drown Sorrow
Juanjuan put the soap in her hand into her small bag, and then followed Bailing to wash her hands and have breakfast.
On the way to the store, Bailing also went to the liquor store and bought a lot of liquor, from low to high alcohol content.
I didn't buy other rice wine or foreign liquor because I thought the transparent color of these other wines were colored and might not be suitable.
The accountant saw that she had brought a lot of wine and thought she was upset. "Bai Ling, is there something wrong with you?"
"Although I'm a rough man, you can talk to me and I can help you find a solution."
"Don't try to drown your sorrows in alcohol. It always makes you more sorrowful."
Bai Ling looked at his worried expression and was stunned for a moment: "Uncle Yu, you misunderstood, I am using this to make soap."
"Making soap?" Uncle Yu's face was full of question marks.
"Yes! Do you still remember the soap I showed you yesterday?" Bailing looked at him with a smile.
Uncle Yu nodded: "I remember, this is the first time I've seen soap of this color."
"There are a lot of bubbles in this soap, so I want to try using alcohol to eliminate the bubbles, so that the transparent soap will be brighter."
Bailing explained to him the purpose of her buying the wine.
"So that's how it is. I misunderstood." Uncle Yu smiled awkwardly.
"No, we just need to experiment more." Bailing smiled and shook her head.
"But the cost of your soap is not low, it contains both sugar and alcohol." Uncle Yu felt a pang of pain just thinking about it.
"If we can make something better than what foreigners make, we can make a profit by selling it to them." Bailing had calculated that the cost of making it would be cheaper than foreign soap.
She also wants to try to sell them to foreigners, such as the facial masks and lipsticks they make.
Aren’t these sold to foreigners? If soap could be sold as well, they could make more money.
Uncle Yu stroked his beard and nodded. "You young people are smart. Go to the backyard and work. I'll watch over the shop. If anyone comes, I'll call you."
"Thank you, Uncle Yu." Bailing went to the backyard with the things.
She added sugar water and alcohol of different concentrations to the soap liquid, intending to wait until it was removed from the mold to see the effect.
The peregrine falcon has completely settled down in the Governor's Mansion. When it is not used to deliver messages, it often runs out to play.
When it comes back, someone will prepare delicious food for it. This kind of life seems to be pretty good.
Juanjuan and the others will leave Beiyang City with Siming for a few days tomorrow, so they started packing their luggage after class today.
Mrs. Si looked at the things she threw into the small suitcase and felt a little amused.
Rabbit dolls, pretty bottles and jars, candies, and little ducks for bathing...
"Juanjuan, we also need to bring a change of clothes, otherwise if your clothes get dirty you won't have anything to wear and your little butt will be naked."
Seeing that she was about to throw something in, Mrs. Si could only remind her.
When Juanjuan heard that her little butt was naked, she covered her little butt with her little hands and said, "Juanjuan, don't be naked."
After she finished speaking, she went to look for her own clothes, but all her clothes were chosen by Si Jinchen.
I have asked Baiqiao to help fold it neatly and place it on a chair nearby.
Juanjuan reached out to pick up the pile of clothes and put them into the box.
Bai Qiao wanted to help, but was stopped by Madam Si, who told her to do it herself.
Juanjuan threw the clothes into the box, but found that there was no room left. She squatted on the ground and looked at the box, lost in thought.
Madam Si wanted to see whether she was going to discard the clothes or the things she had put in there.
"Grandma, can I have one more box?" Juanjuan looked up at her.
"Hmm?" Madam Si didn't expect her to ask such a question.
"We're just going out for a few days, so we don't need to bring some unnecessary things." She squatted down and looked at her.
"Are we coming back?" Juanjuan looked at her seriously.
"Of course, this is our home, so of course we have to come back." Old Madam Si had no idea what was going on in her little head.
Juanjuan breathed a sigh of relief and took out the clothes she had put in, but the clothes were already in a mess.
Bai Qiao was helping her fold her clothes neatly, and then she saw her taking something out of the box.
First, he took out the bottles and jars and put them back in his drawer.
Then she took out some things that she thought she didn't need to take and put them back in their original places.
She was in a dilemma when she was left with the little duck, candy and the little rabbit.
Madam Si raised her hand and rubbed her little head: "You can take these with you. We just need to separate the things."
She asked Baiqiao to hand her the clothes, and then she divided the clothes into two parts and put them into the box.
"You see, this can be put down."
"Wow! Grandma is so awesome!" Juanjuan's eyes were full of admiration.
Madam Si reached out and pinched her little face: "You are so sweet."
She closed the box and asked someone to take it to the gate downstairs so that they could take it away tomorrow.
"Let's go see if my brother has packed up."
Juanjuan took her hand and happily skipped towards Si Jinchen's room.
Si Jinchen had just packed his luggage and asked Hu Zi to help him carry it down: "Grandma, Juanjuan."
"Is everything packed?" Old Madam Si walked over to him and looked at him with a smile.
"I've packed it up. Let Brother Huzi help me carry it down." Si Jinchen turned to look at Juanjuan: "Is Juanjuan packed up too?"
"Yeah, Juanjuan has packed it up too." Juanjuan was very happy knowing that she was going out to play tomorrow.
"Let's go and see your aunt." Old Madam Si took the two children upstairs.
Before I even reached the stairs, I heard Miao Jiu's voice: "You have to take this, and you have to take this one that you like."
The two children let go of Mrs. Si's hand and ran forward, leaning on the door frame to look inside.
All I saw were a lot of boxes on the ground, all filled with things.
Their uncle was still packing the empty boxes, and their aunt was sitting on the small sofa beside them and didn't want to look at him.
Si Ning turned around and saw two children, waving at them: "Come here."
Juanjuan and Si Jinchen ran in and sat beside her, looking at the many boxes on the ground.
"Aunt, are you going to move?" Juanjuan asked with curiosity.
Miao Jiu turned to look at her: "When did we say we were moving?"
"Uncle, you have already emptied the room. Aren't you going to move?" Juanjuan looked at him with confusion.
"Is there?" Miao Jiu looked at the three of them.
I only saw the three of them nodding in unison.
He turned to look at the room, which seemed mostly empty: "Then I'll reduce it a bit."
When Madam Si came in, she saw so many boxes and asked, "Xiaojiu, are you planning to move back to the Miao family?"
Miao Jiu stood up straight and coughed a few times: "I'm just tidying up the things in the room."