Chapter 113 Chapter 113 Before Marriage
After parting with Li Shaoyao, Shu Niannian went to the department store again. The department store nowadays is just a department store. It sells everything with a complete range of items. It is unlike the department store decades later which only sells high-end goods.
Shu Niannian walked around the first floor and bought a small red clay stove, a clay pot, charcoal, a spoon, a pestle, a red bottle and some grain powder.
Shu Niannian asked Hongwu to help her carry her things to the Red Star Hotel, while she went to the stationery store on the second floor and bought a notebook, a pen and a bottle of ink.
The very retro Hero brand fountain pen and Hero brand ink always remind Shu Niannian that this is the early 1990s.
At this time, she was in good health, her family was still alive, she was admitted to university, and she had plenty of time to achieve the things she had longed for but failed to do in her previous life.
After returning to the Red Star Hotel, Shu Niannian asked Hongwu to go to Miaoshou Huichun for help. "Just send me some lunch at noon. Hmm, just send me some preserved egg and lean meat porridge."
After Hongwu left, Shu Niannian began a new round of secluded practice. She wrote and revised on the notebook, and revised a spleen-strengthening pill several times, but she could not determine the final plan. Finally, Shu Niannian decided to concoct all the spleen-strengthening pills she knew.
It's not that she is not well-trained, but Chinese medicine is profound and everyone's physical symptoms are also strange. Take the spleen-strengthening pills for example. There are several kinds of spleen-strengthening pills that she knows: Ginseng spleen-strengthening pills, Da spleen-strengthening pills, Experience spleen-strengthening pills and Appetite spleen-strengthening pills, etc. If one more or one less herb is added to these prescriptions, the final effect will be different.
Shu Niannian weighed the medicinal materials and proportioned them. When it came to preparing the pills, she found that the small red clay stove and pottery jars were not enough. Hongwu happened to come to bring Shu Niannian preserved egg and lean meat porridge. Shu Niannian asked Hongwu to buy four sets of tools. After an afternoon of preparation, Shu Niannian successfully prepared four different spleen-strengthening pills. According to the different ingredients, Shu Niannian put them into different bottles after cooling them down, and labeled the ingredients, efficacy, targeted diseases, and usage and dosage on the bottles.
If they really want to go into mass production in the later stage, they will definitely have to introduce current technology and purchase machines. However, during the ingredient ratio experiment stage, Shu Niannian must do it herself. After all, confidential things like the formula must be in her own hands.
The next morning, Shu Niannian set up a shed at the intersection with the heaviest population flow in Haicheng, and erected a billboard next to the shed. On the billboard were written the indications and effects of the four types of spleen-strengthening and stomach-nourishing pills.
In an era without extravagant fish and meat, there were few people with spleen and stomach disorders, but few does not mean none. In just a short while, Shu Niannian sold out all four types of spleen and stomach strengthening pills. The difference between her and the quack doctors who peddled the powerful pills was that the quack doctors would move to another place after each sale and never provided after-sales service. But Shu Niannian was different. She never closed her medicine stall. While selling medicine, she collected feedback from customers, adjusted the prescription, and guided customers on how to use the medicine. A week later, Shu Niannian improved the prescription to the point where there was nothing left to change. Only then did she contentedly summarize the prescription of the first batch of spleen-strengthening pills as her own secret recipe.
Of course, Shu Niannian is a person who knows how to make good use of time and patient resources. While adjusting the secret recipe of Jianpi Pills, Shu Niannian gave it to a 40-year-old woman with spleen and stomach problems to treat her infertility, and promised not to charge a penny during the treatment period and to collect money after the success. The woman originally refused to believe Shu Niannian because she was young, but she observed Shu Niannian for several days and saw that Shu Niannian did not leave after selling the medicine like other quack doctors, so she gave Shu Niannian a chance with a try-it attitude.
Shu Niannian was extremely happy. After all, for her, patient resources were equivalent to secret recipes. If she could cure a representative disease, she would have one more secret recipe.
For seven consecutive days, Shu Niannian set up her stall at the intersection without fail. More and more people came to buy medicine from her, but Shu Niannian had limited stock, so she only sold ten bottles of pills a day. The rest of the time was spent reading medical books, studying the medicinal properties of herbs, and waiting for old customers to come and give her feedback on their physical reactions after taking the medicine.
In just seven days, a small number of people in Haicheng already knew that there was a very reliable girl selling medicine at the intersection of Jianshe Road.
On the evening of the seventh day, Shu Niannian stretched lazily towards the setting sun. She would not continue to work at the stall tomorrow because she wanted to go home to be a bride and wait for Ye Jinhong to marry her.
Shu Niannian is a very reliable person. In order to prevent the accumulated customer resources from making random guesses, Shu Niannian hung another small sign next to the billboard, which read: The owner went home to get married and will return in a week.
During this period, the production capacity of the Qingyan factory has been greatly improved, and it can keep up with the current market demand for Qingyan cream. The number of customers at the Miaoshou Huichun Health Spa has also increased. After several days of non-stop running around and investigating, Lin Cheng has also selected the location for the store and is only waiting for Shu Niannian to make the decision and pay.
Even Shu Wenhui told Shu Niannian, "I have thought about what I want to do in the future."
On the green train on the way back, Shu Wenhui told Shu Niannian his idea, "I don't actually have such big ambitions in life. I want to open a restaurant, and when I make enough money, I'll bring my parents over, so that we can be together as a family like before and take care of each other."
Shu Niannian said excitedly, "Yes, brother, I support you! Just do it if you have an idea, don't worry about the rest, I will invest the start-up capital for you."
Shu Wenhui was a little embarrassed. "Thank you for your help. I will definitely return the money to you when I make money!"
Shu Niannian knew that Shu Wenhui was a male chauvinist. If he was not allowed to pay back the money, he would be so upset that he could not eat. So she smiled happily and said, "You must pay it back. When big brother's restaurant makes money in the future, not only must you pay me back, I will also give you a free meal. If you don't give me a meal, I will tell my parents that you deliberately starved me!"
When Shu Wenhui mentioned the idea of opening a restaurant to Shu Niannian, he was a little shy and couldn't save his face. Given the current situation at home, no matter what business it was, Shu Niannian would have to put up all the capital first. But he was the eldest brother after all. In his philosophy, he was the one who took care of all his younger brothers and sisters, and he was the pillar of the family. But one day, his role in the family changed quietly. His younger sister suddenly seemed to have come to her senses and began to work hard. Not only did she get into university, she also learned how to do business, and within just a few months, she had actually made great success. She accompanied Shu Niannian to and from Haicheng several times. He saw with his own eyes that Shu Niannian started from scratch and expanded her business bit by bit, and now it has grown to a considerable scale.
He watched Shu Niannian grow up bit by bit, and his heart was touched. Since Shu Niannian could do it, then he should be able to do it too. He has now started talking about marriage. After Shu Niannian gets married, he will still be the pillar of the family. He also needs to grow up quickly so that he can take better care of his parents in the future and support Shu Niannian when she needs him.
"Of course, no one can starve but you! You are my mother's favorite, my apple of her eye. If you complain later, I will break my legs!"
Shu Niannian and Shu Wenhui chatted and laughed, and soon returned to Shujia Village. It was already very late, and Shujia Village was decorated with lights and red lanterns were hung on both sides of the road. Shu Niannian was still wondering whose family was having a wedding and hung lanterns at the entrance of the village. But she looked in the direction of the lanterns and found that the lanterns actually extended to her doorstep?
Shu Niannian felt happy and blessed instantly. The joy that filled her chest made her want to fly.
I am the happiest person in the world, Shu Niannian thought.
Li Guifen has already made the wedding cakes and quilts, and bought a washbasin and dressing table. She has prepared all the little things necessary for daily life at home.
The stove used for entertaining guests at home has not been dismantled, and Shu Niannian will use it when she returns home to entertain guests. Li Guifen used soft red cotton to make two sets of pajamas for Shu Niannian and Ye Jinhong respectively, one set of long trousers and a long coat, and one set of shorts and a short gown. Maybe Ye Jinhong would not wear them, but Ye Jinhong is Shu Niannian's fiancé now, and Li Guifen treats him as half a son. Naturally, she would prepare some for Ye Jinhong as well as she prepared for Shu Niannian.
Shu Niannian came back from Haicheng exhausted. After a simple wash, she fell asleep. She was really tired these days. Although she didn't do much physical work, she consumed a lot of mental energy.
Shu Niannian slept until dawn the next day, and then she woke up slowly. Li Guifen took care of all the affairs at home in an orderly manner. The neighbors in the village all knew that Shu Niannian had presented the betrothal gift today, so they were waiting at the intersections, the village entrances, and the alley entrances early in the morning, waiting to see what the legendary TV, refrigerator, and washing machine were!
After Shu Niannian finished her breakfast, Li Guifen first arranged for Shu Niannian to get her hair done, and then asked Shu Niannian to try on the dress she would wear on the wedding day. It was a red blouse that Li Guifen bought for Shu Niannian in the county town. It fit Shu Niannian very well. The blouse showed off her figure, and the cotton silk fabric fit the girl's back, outlining Shu Niannian's round breasts and slender waist. The blouse had a slightly fluffy hem on her lower body, and a pair of white and straight calves were revealed from under the hem. Li Guifen looked at Shu Niannian, who was like a flower bud, and she couldn't tell what was good about it specifically, but it looked beautiful no matter how she looked at it.
Shu Niannian had just put on her clothes and turned around when a car horn sounded outside the door, followed by a burst of crackling firecrackers. When the sound of the firecrackers died down, exclamations one after another struggled to run out in the silence of the firecrackers, "Oh my God, this big rectangular iron box, is it a refrigerator or a washing machine?"
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