Chapter 1351: Checking the Flower Field
Everyone else is here, except Lily.
So Qiao Xuan told Uncle Qing that she wanted to go and see the lily bulbs that were selected for seeds.
Uncle Qing quickly took her to look.
All the lily bulbs selected for seeds are buried in a pile of sand. A gardener in charge of taking care of them will decide whether to water them and how much to water them each time based on the dryness and wetness of the sand.
Uncle Qing also specifically explained to Qiao Xuan why it had to be preserved in this way.
Qiao Xuan smiled and nodded. This was indeed the best way to preserve the flowers. The gardener hired by Uncle Qing was definitely not bad.
After infusing the supernatural power into the scale ball, Qiao Xuan went to see Zhao Shu's tea plantation and helped him.
The tea plantation was built on the mountain, winding up the mountain, and it looked very beautiful from a distance. In order to cover up the perfume workshop, Zhao Shu and his team also worked very hard. The tea seedlings planted in this tea plantation were three-year-old seedlings, and they can be picked next spring.
The perfume workshop is located in a courtyard of a specially built farm. Essential oils are extracted from petals, then blended and mixed to produce bottles of perfume. The whole process is not difficult, but it is very tedious and meticulous, and it is a delicate and rigorous job.
There is no one in Daqin who knows how to do this, but the principles of preparing spices and fragrant cakes are similar. They just need to learn and they will be able to do it quickly.
Now I am quite skilled at it.
The essential oils extracted previously have almost been used up, and by the end of this month, the perfume workshop will temporarily close, and will reopen in mid-spring next year.
The next day, Uncle Qing didn't wait for Qiao Xuan and Shao Yunduan to look for him. He personally took the account book and came to their house. He presented all the income and expenditure records to them and asked them to check them carefully.
Qiao Xuan and Shao Yunduan have always trusted Zhao Shu and his servant, so checking the account book was just a formality. They simply looked at the income and expenditure, kept the general ledger for a closer look, and returned it to Uncle Qing the next day.
A total of 2,268 bottles of perfume were sold this year, earning 228,300 taels of silver.
According to the 4:6 split between the two parties, Qiao Xuan took 4, which was more than 93,000 silver coins.
Uncle Qing respectfully presented the silver bills and two exquisite gift boxes, and said with a smile that they were prepared by the young master in advance and were New Year gifts for Lord and Madam Shao.
The two then stayed in Hangzhou for another five or six days, traveling around the city and the suburbs.
The early winter in the south of the Yangtze River does have a different kind of elegant scenery. The colorful fallen leaves reflect the mountains and rivers, which has a different style compared to the Xiangshan Mountain outside the capital.
Qiao Xuan also bought a lot of Jiangnan specialties, including silk, embroidery, Hangzhou fans, Longjing tea, smoked duck, winter bamboo shoots, lotus root powder, osmanthus honey, osmanthus cake and other food.
It seems that Zhao Shu's lifelong event is a bit difficult as he hasn't come back for so many days.
Qiao Xuan and Shao Yunduan naturally couldn't stay here forever, so they had to return to Beijing.
Although Zhao Shu insisted on giving Qiao Xuan 30% of the profit from the mulberry garden in Yangzhou, the mulberry garden had nothing to do with Qiao Xuan. She just went with the flow and did Zhao Shu a favor by helping him solve this difficult problem.
I have already received benefits worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from him, how can I keep taking it for free?
That's a lot.
If he insisted on giving it again next year, Qiao Xuan would at most take 100,000 taels, and would never ask for anything more after that.
Then it would naturally not be appropriate for her and Shao Yunduan to go to Yangzhou to inspect the mulberry garden at this time. Seeing that the weather was getting colder day by day, they should return to Beijing!
(End of this chapter)
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