Chapter 175 Kou Dan
"Second Miss!" Lu'er walked into Yuan Ziyu's room, her face filled with excitement and a bit of worry as she said, "The shop just shipped out another batch of flowers, but now it seems the greenhouse is a little small. If it keeps like this, I'm afraid the flowers in the greenhouse won't be enough to keep them."
Yuan Ziyu was listening to Qingying reporting her accounts. The flower shop had been open for seven or eight days now, and the daily profits were considerable. In particular, the dozen orchids, peonies and crabapples that Yuan Ziyu had taken out from the Qiongjiang Pavilion were sold out almost as soon as they were delivered to the shop. The old lady of the Meng Mansion even bought two pots of orchids, one pot of peonies and one pot of crabapples in one go.
Just from these dozen or so flowers, Yuan Ziyu earned nearly 100,000 taels of silver, which made him very happy.
After hearing Lu'er's words, Yuan Ziyou thought for a moment. It had been almost ten days now, and he figured Huo Xifei's farm should be ready. So he said to Lu'er, "Don't worry. Take care of the flowers in the greenhouse first. Don't send too many flowers to the shop every day. Once we buy the farm, we can open a special flower garden there."
After saying that, he smiled and said, "You'll have a lot to do then!"
Lu Er was delighted when she heard this: "Second Miss, I am not afraid of being busy. I will definitely help you take good care of the flower garden!"
"Okay!" Yuan Ziyou said with a smile, "When the time comes, you can go to the farm and help me take care of the flower garden. Send your parents over as well, so that your whole family can be together!"
"Hey, thank you very much, Second Miss!" When Lu'er heard Yuan Ziyu say that he wanted to transfer her father and mother over as well, she was overjoyed and bowed to Yuan Ziyu happily.
"Okay, as long as you work hard, I will not treat you unfairly!" Yuan Ziyu said with a smile.
"yes!"
After Lu'er left, Qingzhi said with a smile, "Second Miss, your two shops are like two cash cows. I wonder how many people envy you!"
"I can only envy you!" Qingying said with a smile, "How can our second young lady compare to those people?"
"That's right!" Qingzhi nodded quickly and said, "Our second daughter is the best!"
"You two are almost making flowers out of your pictures!" Yuan Ziyu couldn't help but say with a smile.
"No, we're telling the truth..." Qingying said with a smile. Halfway through her words, she seemed to think of something and suddenly opened her eyes wide: "Oh, I almost forgot!"
After saying that, Qingying hurriedly ran out of the house, leaving Yuan Ziyu and Qingzhi confused!
Soon, Qingying came in holding four exquisite wooden boxes. She smiled and said to Yuan Ziyu, "Second Miss, these are the flower petals you brought back last time. After making lip balm, there were still quite a few left. Haziya said she would use the flower petals to make nail polish, so I gave them to her. She also told me this morning that it would be ready today and asked me to pick it up. I actually forgot about it. Fortunately, I remembered it now!"
"Making nail polish with flower petals, that's something that anyone can do!" Qingzhi said with a blink of an eye.
"This is no ordinary nail polish!" Qingying raised the wooden box in her hand: "This nail polish is in paste form and can be stored. When you apply nail polish every day, you don't have to make it with flower petals!"
"Oh? Creamy nail polish?" Yuan Ziyu raised an eyebrow when he heard that: "Bring it here, let me see it!"
There was no proper nail polish in the Dali Dynasty. If women wanted to be beautiful, they would paint their nails by crushing flower petals and applying the juice on their nails. However, the color was not very bright and did not last long. It would fade away within a day.
"Hey!" Qingying responded and hurriedly placed the wooden box in front of Yuan Ziyu.
Yuan Ziyu took a look at the paste-like nail polish. The color was bright and translucent, which made people like it at first sight. It was divided into four colors: bright red, pink, silver vermilion and brown.
"The flower petals can actually be made into such a paste?" Yuan Ziyu said in surprise.
Qingying smiled and said, "That's right. I was also surprised when I saw it just now. It's really unheard of!"
"Yes!" Qingzhi looked at the nail polish with shining eyes and said, "I've never seen it before. It's really quite novel."
Women in the Dali Dynasty usually used lip balm for their blush and lip color when putting on makeup. They crushed flower petals, filtered the juice with fine yarn, cut the newly spun silk into appropriate sizes, soaked the silk in the juice, and after it was thoroughly soaked, placed it in the sun to dry, which became the lip balm.
Nowadays, everyone in the Dali Dynasty, whether royal family or common people, makes lip balm in this way, but no one has ever heard of anyone making ointment from flower petals.
"Second Miss, come and try it!" Qingzhi said excitedly.
"Okay!" Yuan Ziyu replied with a smile.
Qingying hurriedly took out a small brush and the pink nail polish and carefully applied it on Yuan Ziyu's nails.
After applying it once, Qingying said, "Haziya said that if we wait until the first coat is dry before applying it a second time, the color will be brighter!"
"Oh, this already looks good!" Qingzhi looked at Yuan Ziyu's nails in surprise: "If they were brighter, they would be even more beautiful!"
"You'll know if you try it!" Yuan Ziyu smiled and waved his hands to make the nail polish on his nails dry faster.
After the nail polish had dried, Qingying hurriedly helped Yuan Ziyu apply it a second coat.
"Sure enough, it's much brighter!" After applying the nail polish, Yuan Ziyu raised his hand, looked around, and nodded with a smile.
"It's so beautiful!" Qingzhi loved it very much!
Yuan Ziyou smiled and said, "You two should put it on too!"
Qingying and Qingzhi were very happy. After hearing Yuan Ziyu's words, they smiled and agreed, and helped each other apply nail polish.
Soon, all three of them had finished painting. They looked at each other and were extremely happy.
"Go and call Haziya over!" Yuan Ziyu ordered.
“Hey!”
Yuan Ziyu's impression of Haziya was that she could cook frontier dishes and was very quiet on weekdays. Apart from cooking, she made almost no other noises. However, he never expected that she could also make Kou Dan. Such a skill might not be found anywhere else in the history of the dynasties.
"Second Miss!" Soon, Haziya came over and bowed to Yuan Ziyu.
"No need to be so polite!" Yuan Ziyou said with a smile, "Qingying, tell me, did you make this nail polish?"
"It was done by me!" Haziya said hurriedly.
"Very good, I like it very much!" Yuan Ziyu said with a smile, and then asked Qingzhi to take out a hairpin and give it to Haziya.
Haziya was overjoyed to receive the reward and hurriedly thanked her, "Thank you, Second Miss, for the reward!"
"If I ask you to make the flower petals into a rouge paste like this, is that possible?" Yuan Ziyu asked.
"Sure!" Haziya said with a smile, "As long as the Second Miss can have petals of different colors, I can help her make different colored ointments."
"That's great!" Yuan Ziyou smiled and said, "The recipes for your two creams are very good. I want to buy them from you. I don't know if you're willing to do so. I won't hide it from you. I plan to put these rouge cream and nail polish cream in my shop. As for the money for the creams, don't worry, I won't treat you unfairly."
If the flower shop could add rouge and nail polish, it would definitely be more beautiful.
"Second Miss..." Haziya bit her lip, seeming to find it difficult to speak.
"If you have any difficulties, just tell me!" Yuan Ziyu said with a smile.
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