Chapter 574 A Dream of Youth 106
Xie Ning copied down some of the external or internal medicine prescriptions he remembered, and then went to the cloth shop to find Deng Yin the next day.
Next to the cloth shop was an even smaller shop, where a lame woman sat. She was Qiu, whom Deng Yin had invited to sell medicine. She knew some characters and could do arithmetic, but she didn't know any embroidery, so she used to make a living by washing clothes for others.
At that time, Deng Yin was cheated out of her money by an old woman in the same courtyard, and it was she who helped her get it back.
Despite her limp and seemingly amiable demeanor, Qiu Shi was notoriously shrewish.
If she weren't so assertive, she, a widow, wouldn't have been able to raise such a large family.
Deng Yin was grateful to her. After learning that Qiu was good at math, she asked her if she wanted to sell medicine with her. Qiu readily agreed, knowing that she could earn as much as she sold.
The two of them traveled around the city and its outskirts, gradually promoting the chicken meatballs. They started by selling their products everywhere, then set up a small stall in the city, and now they have a small shop.
This business of selling veterinary medicine was set up by Chen Wanniang to train Xie Ning and Deng Yin, so she didn't spend a single penny of her own money. The money Xie Ning initially invested came from his own savings.
So Xie Ning provided both the technology and the money, while Deng Yin figured out how to sell the medicine.
Therefore, Xie Ning only occasionally gave Deng Yin some pointers on how to promote the products; Deng Yin figured out most of the methods herself, and now she is a junior manager.
She was in charge of almost all the medicine sales, so she earned a lot of commissions, and Deng Yin saved all that money.
When Xie Ning asked her, Deng Yin didn't hide anything. She wanted to save up for her future. She had always been an ambitious person, and even though she was now a servant of the Xie family, she wouldn't be trapped here forever.
Deng Yin wasn't that honest with Chen Wanniang either, because in her eyes, Xie Ning was like her younger sister, but also like a little teacher.
Xie Ning taught her to read, count, and do accounting. When she secretly hid and cried because of various setbacks, Xie Ning found her, listened to her, and the two of them discussed how to deal with it together.
When Deng Yin's eyes were red and swollen from crying, she felt embarrassed because she was a few years older than Xie Ning, yet she cried so much. But Xie Ning would tell her.
Tears do not signify weakness.
Crying can actually make you healthier.
"Ning-jie'er is here?" Qiu-shi, who was fanning herself with a palm leaf fan, greeted Xie Ning with a smile as she entered.
Where is Sister Deng Yin?
"She was watching the female workers make medicine in the backyard."
The craft of making medicine is not difficult. You can hire some female workers and teach them a little. Their medicine-making process is divided into two parts: one part is made here, and the other part is made in the village. Finally, the medicine made in the village is taken to the shop to be made into pills.
Who would have thought that this medicine for treating chicken plague would sell so well?
Nowadays, they mostly sell individually; most orders come from farmers or merchants who specialize in raising chickens and ducks for sale.
"Ah Ning, you've arrived?"
Deng Yin pulled Xie Ning towards the inner room. The backyard only had two rooms and a small kitchen. Compared to the cloth shop next door, the backyard was very small.
So she usually rested in the backyard of the fabric shop. The yard was big, with several dye vats and a few female workers there to dye patterns.
This work is usually done by men, but their fabric shop only hires women, and they've already made a name for themselves in that field, so naturally they won't hire male workers anymore.
After all, men have plenty of places to go if they want to find work; they just want to give women at least one more place to earn a living.
It's okay if you don't know how to weave or dye cloth; no one is born knowing how. You just need to learn.
Therefore, from the shopkeeper to the managers and weavers at Yunxia Cloth Shop and Yunxia Pharmacy, all the staff were women. Some were ordinary peasant women, some were widowed women, and some were daughters from poor families. All sorts of women gathered here.
Just as the baby stumbled and struggled to learn to walk, the woman in the clouds also stumbled and struggled, carving out a path for herself.
Rainbows and rosy clouds adorn the sky, and the morning sun shines through the layers of clouds.
Deng Yin poured Xie Ning a cup of tea and said somewhat shyly, "This is a new tea I learned to make, Ning, please try it."
She is studying very hard, even learning how to make tea and burn incense, otherwise she sometimes can't join in conversations with others and easily misses opportunities.
Xie Ning took a sip, savored it quietly for a moment, and then praised, "Sister Deng Yin has improved, but you added too much water when you mixed the ointment just now, so the flavor is a bit weak..."
Xie Ning carefully pointed out Deng Yin's mistakes.
She studied medicine, but she didn't neglect any of the other skills she was supposed to learn, such as burning incense, making tea, hanging paintings, and arranging flowers.
The two chatted for a while before getting down to business. Xie Ning took out the article he had written the day before, "Yesterday I met a female patient, and then I discovered..."
Although Deng Yin was also shocked and shy, she accepted it more quickly. After carefully reading the article written by Xie Ning, Deng Yin breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Ning, can we really just casually share this prescription?"
“Of course.” Xie Ning looked at the black ink words.
"These are not very important prescriptions. For example, wild chrysanthemum root with brown sugar, pearl vegetable root with wine and brown sugar are common prescriptions for treating menstrual disorders. The ingredients are all very ordinary."
Not every woman dares to see a doctor, nor does every woman have the money to do so. The more they know, the less suffering they will endure.
The formulas used to make medicine, of course, cannot be disclosed casually.
Because of that trouble, it's more effective to sell pharmaceuticals.
Deng Yin stared blankly at Xie Ning, unsure of what she was feeling. She had never thought about these things before; her lifelong dream was to make money, lots and lots of money.
But her mood changed a little today.
As she grew, a wooden pole pulled her upwards, bringing her closer to the sunlight.
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