Chapter 138 Oh my God!
Yunxi thought for a moment and decided to pay for ten days first. During these ten days, she would wander around the city's markets and gather information. If there were any publicly known secret realms or special places, she would go and take a look.
After paying the spirit stones, Yunxi arrived at the chosen cave dwelling with the help of the waiter. She planned to rest first and then go to the market later.
Meanwhile, Ning Xuan was still busy with the construction of chicken coops at the Hongxing Brigade's chicken farm, mainly assisting with the work.
The original chicken coops haven't been demolished yet. The new chicken coops are an expansion of the original chicken farm, but they're being expanded to the side farther away from the brigade. This way, the area of the chicken farm will be larger in the future.
So when the new chicken coop was being built, Ning Xuan and Xu Jiajia still had to do the same work at the chicken farm every day.
Once the new chicken coops are built, the old ones will be mostly demolished to give the chicks more space to move around, while the adult chickens will still be herded up the mountain during the day.
Furthermore, for the sake of her planting business, Ning Xuan asked Katerina for more growth potions, and Katerina readily agreed to prepare more for her.
In addition to food, Katerina has resumed her pursuit of beautiful jewelry, as she has already figured out how to arrange it.
That is to embed gems in her staff, magic robe, and other frequently used items.
To set these gemstones, she also specially developed a highly adhesive solution that could easily stick the gemstones to other objects, and they couldn't be pulled off by hand.
In Ning Xuan's understanding, it was like super glue, but clearly, Katerina's glue was truly all-purpose, transparent in color, odorless, and incredibly effective.
Furthermore, you can use another cleaning solution to scrape off the adhesive, making it easy to remove the gemstone without leaving any trace of the adhesive.
Ning Xuan thought the glue was very useful and couldn't resist making a deal with Katerina.
Knowing that Tatarina planned to have her clothes adorned with gemstones, she asked Lin Yuhan to try buying some small beads and sequins, the kind used for modern clothing, for Tatarina.
Lin Yuhan even bought an extra dress adorned with lots of sequins, which looked sparkly and very pretty.
Sure enough, Katerina was deeply attracted.
Oh my God, this dress is so beautiful! So many jewels set into it, yet it doesn't look cumbersome at all. I want all my clothes and robes adorned with gemstones, and I want many more of these little gems.
Ning Xuan was naturally very happy to oblige. Lin Yuhan bought these small beads by the pound at wholesale prices, which was much cheaper than artificially drilled ones.
And it really is quite beautiful; anyway, Katerina genuinely likes it, and that's enough.
However, she didn't just give out small beads; she also gave out some larger artificial diamonds, as well as agate gemstones of various colors.
She traded several boxes of small beads and sequins, some diamonds, and a few agates for 100 bottles of growth potion, 10 bottles of adhesive potion, and 2 bottles of cleaning potion.
After the trade, Katerina was somewhat worried.
【My dear, I may not be able to trade with you again for a while. Today's transactions were too large; I've run out of containers for potions. I'll have to go to town and buy more from the merchants.】
After reading Katerina's message, Ning Xuan took out another bottle of medicine. She had never really looked closely at these medicine bottles before. They were a yellowish-brown color, and Ning Xuan guessed that they were small ceramic bottles that had been fired. Moreover, the surface was quite smooth, so it seemed that Katerina's side must have the craft of firing pottery.
I just don't know if this is the only color of ceramic available, or if there are other colors as well.
After thinking for a moment, Ning Xuan decided to conduct a small experiment to see if using other containers to hold the medicine would have any effect. She planned to try glass bottles, plastic bottles, and ceramic bottles, which are also from the modern world.
If she could, she seemed to have discovered the items she had traded with Katerina again.
But then she thought, wait a minute, she doesn't have to test it herself. Katerina is the one who developed the potion, she can definitely tell if the container can hold it after she puts it into the container herself.
So she decided not to waste time experimenting herself, but to trade the container directly to Katerina so she could try it out. If it worked, she would have more items to trade with Katerina in the future.
Ning Xuan happened to have glass and plastic bottles in her storage ring, in several different sizes. She had asked Lin Yuhan to prepare them because she had previously considered doing business in the black market, but she never went herself, so the items were left unused.
When Katerina received the plastic and glass bottles from Ning Xuan, she easily guessed that they were for storing things, but she was still surprised by the craftsmanship of the two items.
[Wow, that's amazing! It's so light and transparent!]
Katerina couldn't help but exclaim in surprise after receiving the plastic and glass bottles.
Ning Xuan reminded her that glass bottles are fragile and should be stored carefully, while plastic bottles are not afraid of breaking.
【Honey, do you think this kind of container can be used to hold the medicine? If so, you won't need to buy it from the merchant separately.】
Katerina was really tempted and couldn't wait to make the potion. You know, the bottles from the merchant were so small and cost a silver coin each.
Fortunately, she always factored in the cost of the bottles when she sold the potions. But to be honest, her annual sales volume wasn't that high before, since her potions were very expensive and ordinary people couldn't afford them.
There are also some potions she has developed, but she doesn't dare to sell them in the Rhine Kingdom, or even to people from other countries who come to buy them. Otherwise, if the king or nobles find out that she has such miraculous potions, they will definitely try to ruin her.
So, she actually traded many of her potions to Ning Xuan, but Ning Xuan didn't give her the silver coins that circulated in their area. So, when she wanted to buy bottles from merchants, she had to use her own silver coins.
She wasn't short of money, but it was troublesome to buy things from merchants because they didn't have much stock. She might have to wait ten days or half a month, and she might not even be able to buy 100 bottles.
One of Katerina's greatest hobbies is developing and brewing potions. She would feel very distressed if she had to stay in the city for so long without being able to use her favorite potions.
If these bottles could actually hold medicine, that would be so convenient!
Katerina replied to Ning Xuan that she would give it a try, and then hummed a cheerful, unnamed tune as she headed to her magic hut, which she used specifically for researching and preparing potions.
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