Chapter 1113 Advantages
"Thank you, thank you!"
In the main hall of the Fu family's courtyard, Liu Xiaozhu sat down beside the coffee table.
Wang Xiu poured him some tea, but he was hesitant and kept saying "thank you" when he stood up to take it.
Wang Xiu thought it was funny, but seeing how Liu Xiaozhu was looking around, she could understand why.
Weren't they the same as him when they first entered this mansion?
Not to mention sitting, I don’t even know where to stand.
Thinking of this, Wang Xiu smiled kindly and said:
"Please sit down for a while. Sister Lu and Brother Chen have something to discuss. It will probably take a while."
"Hey, okay! Let them get busy first, I'll wait here, it won't be a problem!"
Liu Xiaozhu nodded hurriedly.
After Wang Xiu went to the side to do something else, he opened his eyes wide and looked around the hall again.
Good boy...
Look at the decoration?
Look at this family photo with everyone standing together?
The family portrait on a banner is probably bigger than their door!
How can this be an ordinary family?
Judging from the situation, Brother and Sister Fu are even more powerful than he imagined!
In the main hall, Liu Xiaozhu was truly enlightened.
In the handicraft room on the other side, Lu Miao had just finished cleaning the small empty box that Chen Xiangdong brought over.
What they are handling now may be a trade secret for a long time in the future, so Lu Miao only let Chen Xiangdong come in.
As for Liu Xiaozhu?
Just let him stay in front and drink tea.
The prepared ointment liquid had already solidified slightly after the alcohol lamp was extinguished due to the low temperature in the room.
Lu Miao lit the alcohol lamp to heat and melt it, then used a heat-insulating cloth to hold the beaker and pour the liquid into each small box.
Chen Xiangdong watched part of the process from the side and couldn't help asking:
"What are you doing this time?"
"This is a perfume. It's hard to say whether it will work."
Lu Miao's hands kept moving, and he raised his chin to the small bag beside him while speaking:
“That’s lipstick.”
Lipstick?
Chen Xiangdong's eyes widened uncontrollably.
When Lu Miao asked him to make a lipstick mold, he knew that Lu Miao must have some ideas in this regard.
He had been looking forward to it before.
He asked several times but there was no news. It had been a long time since then and he almost forgot about it.
I didn't expect that this unexpected moment would produce a result?
Chen Xiangdong was impatient. Lu Miao didn't let him touch the beakers and other things on the table, but he got permission to touch the lipsticks and other things, so he just opened the bag and looked inside.
He is not a rough man, but he is a man after all.
I don't often come into contact with small things like lipstick, so I took a lipstick tube and twisted it for a long time but couldn't open it.
Lu Miao saw it from the corner of his eye and couldn't stand him anymore. He put down his work and took a lipstick to demonstrate:
"It closes like this. You just pull it and it opens. It's not a bottle cap, why would you twist it?"
“…”
Chen Xiangdong rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment, pinched her lipstick and squeezed it out of the paste, looked at it for a while, handed it to her and said:
"I think it's great, and the color looks nice too. How much do we sell it for?"
Lu Miao was briefly at a loss for words. He took the lipstick, screwed it back on, and closed the cap again.
"...Now is not the time to talk about money. Forget it, you don't understand this."
Chen Xiangdong asked in confusion:
"Aren't they already made? Why keep them if you don't want to sell them?"
Lu Miao continued to pick up the work he had just done and explained:
"This is just an early test product. The color looks nice, but the actual color development isn't that obvious. I asked you to take these back and give some to a few women to try out and see how they respond. If the feedback is positive, then we'll consider keeping this shade."
And if you are considering selling it to others, you will have to get product quality inspection reports and other things.
Another thing is that the raw materials used in production also need to be carefully considered.
Lu Miao felt that the beeswax, which had been preserved for several years, was not very good.
Chen Xiangdong nodded in understanding and repeatedly confirmed the cost issue with Lu Miao.
Lu Miao said, "Base oils are coconut oil and olive oil, which you've come across before when making soap. Then there's beeswax. These don't cost much. You can probably produce hundreds or even thousands of lipsticks for just a few dozen yuan. This is what takes some effort."
Lu Miao took out a small portion bag from the drawer.
"What is this?" Chen Xiangdong asked, taking it. "Red yeast rice powder?"
"It's cochineal pigment powder."
Lu Miao rolled his eyes at him unhappily, not even bothering to say that he didn't know the value of the goods.
There was only a little left in his hand, and fearing that he would be careless and ruin it, Lu Miao quickly took the bag back.
In two seconds, he divided the remaining ointment liquid in the beaker into a small porcelain box.
While the plants were waiting to form into a paste, Lu Miao stood up, waved her hand, and took Chen Xiangdong upstairs to see the pots of cacti she had moved indoors.
The previously placed insects have all climbed onto the cactus, and their number has increased significantly.
The potted plants are just placed on the windowsill of the floor-to-ceiling windows. It's okay when the sun is strong, but the temperature is still a little low at night.
Looking closely now, the cochineal insects on several pots of cacti all looked shriveled and unhealthy.
Lu Miao frowned and turned around to call Chen Xiangdong:
"Help me move these pots to the greenhouse in the backyard."
Chen Xiangdong was still in a daze!
What did his sister-in-law say just now?
Was the lipstick I was looking at downstairs made from this bug?
Chen Xiangdong hesitantly carried the flower pots and followed Lu Miao downstairs, unable to stop wondering:
"No, sister-in-law, is this lipstick made from insects okay? It sounds so hard, can it be sold?"
"What's wrong with being made from insects? Although it's extracted from insects, it's hard to get and expensive. Besides me, you probably won't find many places in China that have it even if you look hard enough..."
Lu Miao turned around and glanced at Chen Xiangdong, then continued:
"Don't be prejudiced just because it's extracted from insects. You've heard of ambergris, right? It's both a spice and a traditional Chinese medicine. But it's actually excreted by whales. But so what? Does that affect its value?"
Chen Xiangdong nodded as if he understood.
To be honest, this statement really touched upon his blind spots in knowledge.
He had actually never heard of ambergris, but he couldn't resist Lu Miao's confident statement.
In addition, Lu Miao is the behind-the-scenes owner of the factory, so there is absolutely no reason for her to harm herself.
Chen Xiangdong gradually became convinced.
After thinking about it, Chen Xiangdong made a suggestion:
"Then when it's finally released to the market, it should be OK if we don't mention it's made from insects!"
After all, it is something you eat and is used by girls. If people really tell others that it is made of insects, which girl would dare to buy it?
Chen Xiangdong felt that his consideration was reasonable, but Lu Miao looked at him meaningfully and said with a smile:
“You don’t have to emphasize that it’s made from insects, but you must point out that the raw material used is cochineal pigment powder.”
"Hmm? Why?"
"Because we want to be high-end, it is our advantage."
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