Chapter 44, Part 4...
Chapter Forty-Four
Does Yao Anhui feel like she's having a run of bad luck?
How many things has she encountered since getting married? First, she encountered spies, then she met Guan Xier, and then she was pushed down by a child named Feng Dazhuang, falling and bleeding from her head. People might not even encounter spies in their entire lives, but she encountered them twice in five days.
Fortunately, it wasn't entirely without benefits; it confirmed the method for increasing merit, otherwise she would have been disgusted.
She never saw Guan Xier again after that, and she had no idea what happened to those spies or whether they ever gave her any credit.
Yao Anhui wondered if this matter would be of some benefit to Lu Yuanqing. At the time, it was Lu Yuanqing who led the arrest of the spies, and it was she and Hua Fangling who rescued Guan Xi'er. Even if they didn't do anything meritorious, they still put in a lot of effort.
However, Yao Anhui did not inquire about these matters, believing that Lu Yuanqing's superiors would not mistreat them.
Perhaps things don't last long; she had just remembered this incident when Lu Yuanqing took out an envelope and handed it to her after she was discharged from the hospital and returned home.
"What's this?" Yao Anhui squeezed the envelope in her hand, not knowing what was inside, but it was quite a thick stack of envelopes.
"Keep the bonus from the last spy incident. Buy whatever you want, don't be stingy." After saying that, Lu Yuanqing went to work. These past two days, Yao Anhui had been hospitalized, so Lu Yuanqing hadn't been able to take care of the family much. So, he took advantage of the time he had to wash all the clothes at home.
Yao Anhui's eyes lit up. Money, no one can ever have too much of it. Money is always the foundation of a person's life.
She pulled out a thick stack of ten-yuan notes from the envelope. Yao Anhui counted them and found there were actually 500 yuan. That was quite a large sum, after all, it was equivalent to five months' salary for Lu Yuanqing.
Without saying a word, Yao Anhui decided how to use the money. She planned to buy a small grinder from Hua Fangling, which she would use to make ointment.
This was Yao Anhui's previous plan, or rather, yesterday when she was talking to Hua Fangling and others about weight loss, specifically about Hua Fangling's friend. Yao Anhui felt that helping others lose weight, reshape their bodies, and change their lives could be considered a meritorious act.
Then Yao Anhui thought of something: in the summer, when the soldiers trained under the sun, many of them got sunburned or suffered from heatstroke.
I also heard Lu Yuanqing say that in many hot places, such as some islands, the soldiers who get sunburned during training have large patches of skin peeling off, and there are also frostbite cases in winter.
Yao Anhui thought that if she could make these ointments and confirm that they were effective, she could donate them to the military. A single person might not seem like much, but little by little, they could accumulate into a great force.
Does that mean she can use her Word of Power freely from now on?
The main reason is that Yao Anhui has a lot of these prescriptions, and she also has the power of words, so she is very confident.
Most importantly, Yao Anhui loves this country very much, and she wouldn't mind giving anything to make it stronger.
Yao Anhui had heard Hua Fangling talk about the Canton Fair and how it helped earn foreign exchange, and Yao Anhui felt that she could also contribute.
Whether in ancient times, modern times, or the future, Yao Anhui believes that women's money is still easy to earn. In ancient times, the finest rouge, cinnabar, and face powder for women were ridiculously expensive. In Hua Fangling's future, a set of cosmetics could easily cost tens of thousands of yuan, and even more expensive ones could cost five, six, or seven figures. But now, with the average worker's wage only a few dozen yuan, a good box of snow cream can sell for several yuan.
Yao Anhui simply doesn't believe that foreign women don't care about beauty.
Even if whitening formulas are slow to take effect and difficult to promote, there are still fragrant dews, which have an immediate effect just by smelling them and are definitely suitable.
Besides, even if it's not suitable, isn't she already cheating? What's there to be afraid of?
However, while she may have this idea, putting it into practice is not an option right now. Given her current condition, it's unlikely that she could even go up the mountain to dig up some herbs used in weight loss formulas.
And that was indeed the case. However, it wasn't Lu Yuanqing who stopped her, but Qi Mingzhe. This little guy kept a close eye on Yao Anhui and followed Lu Yuanqing's instructions to prevent her from doing anything that would hinder her rest, including but not limited to washing clothes, cooking, and cleaning.
He wouldn't even allow Yao Anhui to clear the table after she finished eating. The only thing Qi Mingzhe allowed her to do was sit or lie down to rest.
To prevent Yao Anhui from getting bored, they sent her to Hua Fangling's house next door, determined not to let her do a single chore.
For this reason, his name received a disdainful look from Yao Anhui, but was strongly affirmed by Lu Yuanqing.
"What are you upset about? Isn't it great as it is? You're not even a mother yet, but you're already enjoying the benefits of having a child," Hua Fangling comforted her.
"I think it relieved your anxiety after you got pregnant," Yao Anhui rolled her eyes at her in a very unladylike manner.
Yes, Hua Fangling had confirmed that she was more than two months pregnant. She was a careless person by nature, and her periods were irregular, sometimes even missing one or two months. Hua Fangling didn't think much of it this time, never expecting that she would get pregnant.
But since she was already pregnant, Hua Fangling wasn't a staunch advocate of being childless by choice. She just didn't want to have a child at such a young age. Her own idea was to wait a few years before having a child, but now that the baby was already here, she couldn't just abort it, so she had no choice but to accept it.
But even though she was going to give birth, she also needed to release the pent-up anger inside her. In this situation, Shen Wenkang, the culprit, suffered the consequences, as she had already left several teeth marks on him last night.
"That's true to some extent. If my future child is as obedient and sensible as your Xiao Zhe, then I wouldn't mind having a child." In Hua Fangling's eyes, Qi Mingze was the kind of child that belonged to someone else's family, someone she could only admire from afar and could never have.
"If that's the case, then you should control yourself. I've heard that if a woman is very irritable during pregnancy, her child will also be irritable." Hua Fangling herself said this to Yao Anhui.
"I know, I'm already trying to control myself. I don't know why, I'm so irritable. Before I found out I was pregnant, I just felt a little annoyed, but ever since I found out I'm pregnant, I've become so irritable, I feel like hitting someone." Hua Fangling was also very frustrated. Who doesn't want to be in a good mood? But right now, the circumstances don't allow it.
"Are you feeling irritable and agitated because you have internal heat? Why don't you drink some herbal tea to cool down?" Yao Anhui suggested to her.
But then another question arises: "Isn't herbal tea supposed to be cooling? Can pregnant women drink it?"
"Well, how about we ask a doctor? Or should you find something else to do to distract yourself?"
"I don't know what I can do now. Shen Wenkang treats me like a fragile piece of glass, forbidding me from doing this or that."
"Hey, who isn't like that? Right now, even if I'm just sweeping the floor with a broom, Lu Yuanqing and Qi Mingzhe will snatch it from me."
"Hey, why don't we go to the back mountain to gather herbs? Your good friend is in a hurry to use it, so let's make the slimming cream as soon as possible and send it to your friend."
“I would like to, but I doubt Shen Wenkang and your Lu Yuanqing would agree. Besides, even if your Lu Yuanqing agreed, I wouldn’t dare take you. You lost so much blood a few days ago, and you’re not fully recovered yet. I’m afraid my Chen Wenkang would scold me to death.”
"Let's forget about that then. But I heard that the members of the nearby commune go up the mountain to dig for medicinal herbs. Can we buy some from them?" Yao Anhui thought that if they bought the medicinal herbs, they would have something to do and wouldn't be so bored.
"We definitely can't buy it, but we can trade it with them. The villagers are short of industrial goods like fabric. We can probably get some fabric or soap."
"It's the same problem as before. Neither of us can get out now. Oh well, let's wait for Lu Yuanqing to come back and ask him to figure something out."
Because Lu Yuanqing had asked someone to bring back a lot of chickens and ducks a few days ago, he decided to give her a good boost. Since he brought back so many things, he must have some acquaintances with her, so he was entrusted with this task.
Lu Yuanqing did a really good job with this matter. He took the list and exchanged all the medicinal materials that Yao Anhui needed. In the following days, Yao Anhui didn't have time to chat with Hua Fangling. She stayed at home every day to make medicinal paste.
On September 9, 1970 (the ninth day of the eighth lunar month), after Yao Anhui's continuous experimentation, her slimming cream was finally completed. Before the slimming cream, she made sunburn cream, frostbite cream, and several kinds of fragrant lotion.
Fragrant Dew is actually the perfume that Hua Fangling mentioned. Yao Anhui had someone pick a lot of fresh flowers from the mountains to make it. The fragrance is made from osmanthus, jasmine, and rose. Yao Anhui originally wanted to call it floral dew, but Hua Fangling strongly objected.
In Hua Fangling's words, this is a foreign perfume, and a top-tier one at that. It has a fragrant and long-lasting scent. How is it inferior to others? And yet they still have to come up with a few nice, elegant, and meaningful names.
There are also several perfumes made by combining various flowers, trees and medicinal herbs, with scents that are fresh, light, strong, refreshing, sweet, floral, fruity and woody. Yao Anhui created more than ten kinds at once.
In fact, Yao Anhui, being an ancient person, did not know that perfumes were divided into top notes, base notes, and middle notes. But who could blame her for having a cheat code? Others need time, talent, and all sorts of instruments to create something, but she had a cheat code and easily created a dozen or so.
Not only that, at Hua Fangling's suggestion, Yao Anhui even produced mosquito repellent floral water. The various perfumes mentioned above were turned into mosquito repellent perfumes by adding mosquito repellent water, with the main selling point being that one product can be used for multiple purposes and achieve two goals at once.
The colorless and odorless mosquito repellent was specially prepared by Yao Anhui for the soldiers. Lu Yuanqing and his men often took their soldiers out for field training, and they would come back covered in mosquito bites every time. However, sometimes these soldiers had to go on missions, so it was not suitable to use mosquito repellent with a scent. Therefore, Yao Anhui created a colorless and odorless one.
Afterwards, Yao Anhui gave all the perfumes and formulas to Lu Yuanqing, asking him to find someone to hand them over, hoping to earn foreign exchange for the country.
Whether the perfumes they submitted will be effective is still unknown, but the slimming cream made by Yao Anhui quickly took effect. In Hua Fangling's words, it was a "miracle slimming drug, effective after just one application."
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Author's Note: I also really want to have cheat codes, and I really want a weight loss cream.
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