Chapter 240: Going into the City to Inquire

Jiang Wan looked at the stones in the jar and silently closed the lid.

Forget it, don't cause any trouble just because of your curiosity. Regardless of the value of these stones, they are a token of the children's love, so just keep them as a treasure.

She put the jar into her clothing box and started talking to her mother about mixing skin care products with coconut oil.

"I just mixed a bottle of freckle removal and moisturizing cream today. The remaining coconut oil is not enough. I need more coconut oil to make a complete set of skin care products."

Jiang Wan felt more confident and decided to spend money to buy some coconuts tomorrow.

"Mother, is that freckle removal really effective?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she was hit on the head.

"You don't trust me."

Yin Huaixi is full of confidence.

“I added angelica root to coconut oil in this anti-freckle cream. Coconut oil itself has the effect of soothing wrinkles and removing freckles, and the effect is even better with angelica root. You can see the effect after applying it for three days.”

“That’s great!”

Jiang Wan thought that she should go to the city. She had to buy some cosmetics and skin care products and bring them back to have a look.

Only with comparison can we have a more appropriate pricing.

The next day Jiang Wan took a boat to the city.

This time no one from the village accompanied her, so she entered the city alone.

She had come across the rouge and powder shop before when she and her cousin and aunt went to look for an embroidery workshop, and she still had a vague impression of it.

I went there without asking anyone.

The name of this shop is Meirenmian, and it looks like it sells rouge and powder.

As soon as Jiang Wan entered the room, she received many surprised looks.

"Little girl? Do you want to buy some rouge?"

A girl who was much older than Jiang Wan came to entertain her.

"Can I take a look first?"

The aroma in here was overwhelming, and all kinds of goods were in the cabinets. Jiang Wan really didn't know where to start.

"What's your name, young lady?"

"My last name is Jiang..."

"Miss Jiang, are you going to buy some for the elders in your family?"

Jiang Wan hesitated for a moment and then nodded.

"I want to buy some useful things for my mother."

"Miss Jiang is really filial. Let's go over here and take a look."

Dong Ling led Jiang Wan to a counter. She considerately found a small stool for Jiang Wan to stand on, so that even though the counter was a bit high, Jiang Wan could still see the goods clearly.

"Has Miss Jiang ever bought rouge and powder before?"

Jiang Wan neither nodded nor shook her head.

“I’ve seen some before.”

Dong Ling blinked, turned around and took out two boxes of rouge that were neither good nor bad from under the counter.

"Then Miss Jiang, take a look at these two boxes. These are new products that our store just produced in the first half of the year. One is darker in color, and the other is lighter in color. They go on very well on the face and look natural. The price is not expensive, and they are selling well."

Dong Ling took out two boxes as samples, and a small hole had already been made from the rouge inside.

She pulled Jiang Wan's hand over and smeared a line on each of Jiang Wan's hands.

The smell was a bit fragrant, but Jiang Wan couldn't tell what it was. The two boxes of rouge felt a bit grainy on the hands, which was a bit uncomfortable.

There are no other problems.

"How much is a box of these two?"

"Not expensive, only two silver coins for one box..."

Dong Ling said this while looking at Jiang Wan's expression tentatively. She was not sure what price Jiang Wan was buying, so she could only judge by looking at his expression.

There was no expression on Jiang Wan's face.

Two silver coins were within her expectations and there was nothing surprising about it.

“This shouldn’t be the most expensive one, right?”

Dong Ling nodded and pointed to the counter opposite where there were several female customers.

"Rouge and powder are more expensive there, starting at one or two taels of silver."

Jiang Wan glanced over and saw the pretty girl at the counter talking eloquently about something on her counter.

That clever boy is really amazing.

He also speaks in a very pleasant way, and the female customers are more willing to pay.

Of course, she would only be polite to the female guests she liked. She was unwilling to waste time entertaining a girl like Jiang Wan who obviously didn't have much money.

Jiang Wan thought that there was going to be some kind of dog-eye-looking-down-on-people drama, but the girl just ignored her and Dong Ling and didn't have any other reaction.

"Give me a box of this lighter color. I also want to see the lip rouge paper and the powder for the face."

Dong Ling was delighted when she heard Jiang Wan wanted to buy some. She immediately took out a new box and also took out some of the cheaper rouge paper and gouache from the counter.

Jiang Wan bought it after hearing the introduction, spending about five hundred coins in total.

These were not enough, so she bought some more expensive ones.

For example, there was Jade Face Cream which cost one tael of silver per jar, Peach Blossom Lip Balm which cost two taels of silver per box, and the signature Beauty Face which cost six taels of silver per jar.

This means that if you use it to clean your face every day, you will become more and more beautiful.

Jiang Wan heard that the feedback from the female customers seemed to be good, but not many of them actually spent six taels to buy it.

With the purpose of finding out more, she bought a rough idea of ​​the various products in the beauty store today.

I was lucky on the way back and met a man selling honey on the roadside.

This time he didn't make the honey to sell, but brought a whole beehive in a basin.

The bright orange honeycomb looks incredibly sweet.

Of course Jiang Wan wanted to buy it, but it was not convenient for her to take it away without hiring a car.

The man didn't want to lose the deal, so he immediately offered to take it to the dock for her.

The two went to the pier together.

Smelling the faint aroma of honey, Jiang Wan couldn't help but ask a few questions.

"Uncle, I bought honey from you last time, and I saw you selling this again this time. Are you a honey dealer?"

"Ah? No, that's not the case. I'm just good at finding beehives, and I occasionally come to the city to sell them."

Jiang Wan's eyes lit up. A'niang had said several times that the honey reserves were low. What a coincidence!

"Uncle, can you bring any beehives you find to our village next time? I can even reimburse you for the boat ride to the city."

The man was stunned for a moment, then agreed after thinking about it. This way he didn't have to sit in the city for a long time.

"I can send it there, but is your village far from here? If it's too far, forget it."

"Not far, not far. It's just in Lianjiagou. It will only take an hour or so to go back and forth. When you get to the village, you can just ask for Doctor Yin's house."

"Okay, I'll send it over next time I get a beehive."

The two of them only made a verbal agreement, and Jiang Wan didn't know whether this person would come to the village in the future.

Anyway, let's make it clear that she really likes those beehives.

A complete honeycomb is much more useful than honey. Honey can be used to make pills for A-niang, and the remaining contents of the honeycomb can be used to make beeswax.

That's great stuff for lipstick.