It's cold in the northwest, and you will get frostbite if you are not careful. Wenwen has made a special frostbite cream.
After sending a few people to the sleeper car, I repeatedly told them to be careful and safe, and that it wouldn't be too late to come back after spending a few more days with their families.
With several people leaving at once, the pharmacy, which was already short of staff, became even more stretched.
So Wenwen asked Yuxunting to arrange for some people to come, but she also said that they would not start work until after the New Year.
The end of the year is the busiest time. When Gu Xingyu is not around, Wenwen takes over the accounts of the two workshops.
Because the pharmacy will stock up a large amount of goods in the second half of the year, it has to purchase several months' worth of Bupleurum chinense and Isatis root and dry them before the frost.
This way, even if the mountain is blocked by heavy snow, the pharmacy will not be afraid of running out of herbs.
In winter, the order volume of granules has increased a lot. This is partly due to the effect of promotion, but more importantly, it is because of the cold wave, which has caused more people to catch colds and fevers.
Now the number of workers in the pharmacy has increased to more than 40 people. Everyone is working overtime and has finally completed all the orders for this year.
Wenwen looked at the account books of the two workshops...
Because the pharmacy has a large stock of herbs, they buy herbs from the villagers on cash basis.
After paying out the capital for building the pharmacy, as well as salaries and bonuses, there wasn't much money left in the accounts.
The cassava flour workshop is much better because the raw material cassava flour is free, so the processed cassava vermicelli is basically pure profit except for some wages.
The cassava flour workshop has consumed a total of cassava flour so far, and one pound of cassava flour can basically produce one and a half pounds of cassava vermicelli.
After deducting three months' wages for the workers and the money for building the workshop, each villager in Lijiawan was given four yuan. Don't underestimate these four yuan. If a family of five had a family, that would have been twenty yuan.
In the era when people could only earn work points, it was impossible to have enough food, let alone have extra money. What's more, now each person can only get four yuan.
The people of Lijiawan had never experienced such a festive time. Everyone held money and excitedly discussed what New Year's goods to buy.
Even though the village chief said the pharmaceutical factory was still in the investment phase and not due for dividends, they were content. They had already made a lot of money this year just digging herbs and selling them to the pharmacy, and now the cassava flour workshop had distributed such a large dividend, which was something they had never imagined.
The village chief also said that there were still more than 20,000 kilograms of cassava flour in the warehouse. The cassava flour dug in early winter was not distributed to the villagers and was stored in the village warehouse.
If the harvest is good next year, the cassava flour workshop will continue to process cassava vermicelli and sell it for money. If the harvest is not good, it will be their life-saving food.
Wenwen took the dividends from the cassava flour workshop that she had just received, as well as the capital for building the workshop, which she had paid in advance.
She gets 20% of the profit from the cassava flour workshop, and the dividend is 952 yuan. The capital for building the workshop is 1,000 yuan, so now she has almost 2,000 yuan in her hands.
She had no idea that it was the cassava flour workshop that had allowed her to receive dividends first, and quite a bit at that. Even though the pharmacy was constantly hiring and doing so well, at the end of the year, after checking the accounts and paying off all debts, there was only a little over a thousand yuan left on the books.
After the New Year, we still have to invest money in building the factory.
Wen Xiao called back and said he would stay in the northwest for the New Year, and told Wenwen about the situation there.
Gu Xingyu's parents were sent down to the northwest suddenly without any preparation.
There were no clothes, no food, and no money.
The sudden changes, the psychological gap, and the inability to adapt to the harsh environment of the Northwest.
Gu's mother fell ill. There were no good medical conditions here, and no one would treat her, so she had been bedridden ever since. She still had to work, otherwise she would not get any work points. She could still hold on when the weather was warm, but her condition worsened after winter, and she could not get out of bed.
When Wen Xiao and Gu Xingyu arrived that day, they saw their seriously ill mother lying in bed and their injured father. There were also a few people standing next to them, trying to pull their father out.
Gu's mother couldn't figure out what the couple had done wrong. She thought they worked diligently and never dared to make a mistake.
However, they were reported by the person they trusted the most, and their home was searched randomly, but no evidence was found.
Even though they were exiled to the west, they did not dare to harbor any resentment. They only thought that if they behaved well, they would be allowed to return home as soon as possible. They were worried about their only daughter and were afraid that something might happen to her while she was alone in the capital.
The couple has only one daughter, and they just want to return to Beijing as soon as possible. The world is unstable now, and they are afraid that their daughter will be bullied.
Wen Xiao and Gu Xingyu had just arrived at the house where Gu's parents lived, a low, narrow, dilapidated house made of yellow mud and leaking everywhere. As several people were struggling, Gu's mother spat out a mouthful of blood, which scared everyone at the time.
When those bullies saw someone coming, they said, "If you come again next time, I won't let you go if you pretend to be sick again." Then they left arrogantly.
Wenwen remembered her fourth brother choking on the phone, "Little sister, why can human nature be so evil? Auntie is only breathing her last breath, and uncle's head is broken and blood is gushing out."
Even in this state, those people refused to provide medical treatment and said that the beating was too light this time and that they deserved to die.
If it weren't for the medicine they brought, they probably wouldn't have been saved.
Little sister, do you know how thin uncle and aunt are? They are like living skeletons, without any trace of life.
You know what? That house wasn't really a house. It was so small it could only fit a bed, and it was drafty everywhere. There wasn't a single grain of food to be found, and they were just boiling tree roots in the pot..."
Wenwen's eyes welled up with tears just by listening to it, not to mention how heartbroken Xingyu and Fourth Brother were when they saw the situation at that time.
But fortunately, everyone is fine now.
"Fourth brother, tell me in detail about Uncle Gu and Aunt Gu's health conditions, and I will make some medicine for them. I will also send over what they need most right now." Wenwen instructed.
"Food, medicine, and warm clothes and quilts. The things we brought can last for a while, but Xingyu and I will be living here for a while, so there are not enough things. This place is too backward and supplies are too scarce. Even if we have money, we can't buy them." Wen Xiao said.
"Fourth brother, you must be careful with what you say and do outside. What you see now is just a small microcosm of today's society.
Take me for example. If it weren't for the high yield of cassava flour, the attention it received and the success it achieved, I would have been shut down and even killed if I hadn't been leading the workshop."
Even so, some people who couldn't stand it sent killers to Lijiawan. If he hadn't been killed by the wild boar, who knows what would have happened.
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