[Red Chamber] Xiuyan is a little Shennong

The Qin family, Mrs. Qin learned that the chrysanthemums planted in Xingxiu had a good harvest, and wanted to go and have a look, but heard from the housekeeper that they directly hired people to pick the flowers.

"This girl." The old master Qin smiled, thinking about the pot of eighteen bachelors that Xing Xiuyan sold before, it was a really rare thing.He only spent 800 taels of silver. If Xing Xiuyan sold this rare thing to the capital, it would cost thousands of taels, or even tens of thousands of taels of silver.

It's a pity that the distance is far away, and it's not easy to deliver, so Xing Xiuyan has to sell it at a low price.

If Xing Xiuyan is so rare if it is bred again, as I said earlier, it will be sold to the capital.

Old Master Qin got up, "Go, let's visit their flower field."

As I get older, sometimes I want to move around more, see the outside world more, and see new things.

The reason why Mrs. Qin pays more attention to Xing Xiuyan is mainly because the eighteen bachelors and the culture medium produced by Xing Xiuyan are really easy to use.As Xing Xiuyan said, those culture fluids are good for camellias, but not so good for other flowers and plants.

When Mrs. Qin went, it was still in the morning, and there were still many people picking chrysanthemums in the flower field.

"They are indeed ordinary chrysanthemums, but they grow really well." Old Master Qin said.

Mrs. Qin didn't ask the young man to find Xing Xiuyan, nor asked the Xing family to accompany her, she just looked around.No one stopped Mr. Qin, and those people looked at the cloth clothes on Mrs. Qin's body, and they were unlikely to stop him.

Xing Xiuyan had seen Mrs. Qin before, and she heard from her elder cousin that someone was coming, so she went to have a look, and it was Mrs. Qin.

"Lord Qin." Xing Xiuyan saluted the old man Qin.

"I'm no longer an adult, just call me Mr. Qin." Mr. Qin waved his hand, "I heard that there are other flowers planted?"

"It's plum blossoms, peach blossoms, peonies and so on." Xing Xiuyan said, "Some flowers are annuals, so you have to wait for the next year to plant them. The chrysanthemums in this area will be harvested in two or three days. The strawberries next door There are mature ones, can you go and see them?"

The main reason is that these chrysanthemums in the chrysanthemum field have been picked a lot, and they don't look so good.

Xing Xiuyan didn't think that Mrs. Qin wanted to stay here longer, so he might as well take him to the strawberry field.Because it costs a lot of money to erect the soil, and the wooden frame also costs money, so I didn't make a wooden frame, and didn't plant strawberries at a height of one meter.

In this way, to pick strawberries, you have to bend over and bow your head.

No matter what kind of people Xing Xiuyan bends over and lowers his head, the first thing to do is to reduce costs. It is not advisable to always think about how to be better, that will only increase costs.In the end, you may not be able to earn a lot of money.

"Go." Old Master Qin nodded.

There are already many red strawberries in the strawberry field, and each strawberry is still very big.

The old man Qin was startled when he saw it. It was bigger than the strawberries he had eaten before, so he simply picked one, wiped it a little, and took a bite.

"Sweet." Old Master Qin's eyes lit up. The taste is really good.

"This side is sweeter, and the strawberries on the other side are less sweet, a little sour, sweet and sour." Xing Xiuyan grows several different varieties of strawberries, some of which are very large, almost as big as half an egg, and some The ones are smaller.

Xing Xiuyan prefers strawberries with a sweet and sour taste, and the strawberries made from this kind of strawberries are also delicious.Personal tastes are different, some people like sweet and don't like sour taste.

"How do you sell it?" Old Master Qin didn't think about asking Xing Xiuyan to give it to him. Strawberries are a relatively rare fruit.

"Five coins for a catty." Xing Xiuyan said, "When it's mature enough, people can come in and pick it. Give ten coins, and eat whatever you want in it. If you want to pick it back, then count the money."

"You know how to do business." Old Master Qin has never heard of such a method, "You are not afraid of being poor."

"Young master and miss, how can they really open their stomachs to eat." Xing Xiuyan said, "If they can really eat, then they should eat. They can't think of making money from everyone."

The reason why Xing Xiuyan said this to the old man Qin was because he thought that the old man Qin had a lot of contacts, so maybe the old man would let people from his family come over.

When Mr. Qin left, Xing Xiuyan didn't ask Mr. Qin for money, but gave him a basket of strawberries.

Old Master Qin was sitting in the carriage, looking at the strawberries again, "Go back and give it to Madam."

The wife Mrs. Qin said was naturally her wife, Mrs. Mrs. Qin, not his daughter-in-law.Where does he care about whether his daughter-in-law and the others have food? Of course, he cares about his wife first. As for his daughter, she has already been married and is not around.

When Mrs. Qin received it, she would naturally share some with her daughter-in-law and granddaughter.

When Mrs. Qin received the basket of strawberries, she was surprised, why are there strawberries at this time?Don't we have to wait half a month and a month?

"The old man picked these from the strawberry field." The housekeeper said, "It tastes good, so I brought it to you."

"I just picked this basket when I went to the field? Is it enough?" Mrs. Qin said amusedly, "There are so many people, if one person divides a few, it will be gone."

Mrs. Qin originally thought it was a gift from her husband's friend, but when she learned that it was picked in the field, she should pick more.There are several granddaughters and grandchildren in the family, and it really doesn't matter if they are divided.

"The old man said that if they like it, let them pick it, and it can be solved with only a few dozen pennies." The housekeeper said.

"Oh?" Mrs. Qin was curious, "Where is it?"

"It was planted by the girl who sold it to the old master's Eighteenth Bachelor last time." The steward replied, "Her family grows a lot of strawberries. You don't need a post, just go there and you can pick strawberries."

"Okay, I want to see how the strawberries over there are. Is there any such big strawberries in this basket." Mrs. Qin picked up a big strawberry, and she also wanted it when she went out for a walk occasionally.

Therefore, after two days, Xing Xiuyan's strawberry field ushered in the first batch of customers, Mrs. Qin came with two girls from her family.

Xing Xiuyan had asked Xu Qingyi to prepare bamboo baskets long ago, and these bamboo baskets were bought from Xingjia Village.If there is no basket, where is the customer supposed to put the strawberries?

The two girls of the Qin family were very curious, carrying bamboo baskets, they entered the strawberry field, looked left and right, and there were green strawberries.None of them had ever seen an immature strawberry before, nor had they seen such a large strawberry.

Xing Xiuyan didn't let Xu Qingyi come over. Xu Qingyi is a man, so it's not convenient after all, so he just let Xu Qingyi come over.

The pastry at the pastry shop was ready early, and I rushed to the strawberry field again.

Xing Xiuyan is also busy these days, she doesn't want to be too busy to take a break, so she thinks that the pastry shop can be put aside for a few days.

"Last time, it was the essence that you sold at Ruyi Pavilion." When Miss Qin saw Xing Xiuyan, she remembered that when she went to Ruyi Pavilion that day, she happened to see Xing Xiuyan.Later, she saw Ruyi Pavilion selling essence, so she bought a bottle. The bottle of rose essence was really easy to use. Although it cost five taels of silver, she thought it was worth it.

Later, Ruyi Pavilion withdrew other essences, and those essences were basically one-two-two bottles.Even so, the number is still very small.

Those essences are all extracted from fresh flowers, and it takes a lot of fresh flowers to produce them for only one year, so the price is also high.But those essences were not as good as those that Miss Qin San bought in the first place, so she wondered if they were sold by Xing Xiuyan.

Miss Qin San knows that some girls from poor families go to the shop to sell embroidered handkerchiefs and rouge, so is Xing Xiuyan one of them?

"Yes." Xing Xiuyan nodded, "I have made an agreement with the shopkeeper of Ruyi Pavilion. After preparing the essence, I will sell it in the past. But I can only make three or five bottles a month. In the coming year, I will grow some flowers, maybe Just a few more bottles."

Xing Xiuyan knew that the shopkeeper of Ruyi Pavilion sold the essence to the capital, and the essence she prepared was sold for ten taels of silver a bottle according to different flowers.

Ten taels of silver, how much meat can you buy?

But this is also normal. When Xing Xiuyan sold those essences in her previous life, she still sold them for several thousand yuan a bottle.Some of those big brands have tens of thousands of bottles, and they are all high-end products, aimed at high-end customers.

"Do you have any more on your side?" Miss Qin San didn't care about strawberries or not, she wanted those essences more.Even if she hasn't run out of essence, it doesn't mean she can't buy others.

"There are some more." Xing Xiuyan said, she naturally couldn't refuse the customers who came to her door.Her cooperation with Ruyi Pavilion is not a buyout type, and she can sell it to other people.

Second Miss Qin was picking strawberries with Mrs. Qin, seeing Third Miss Qin leaving with Xing Xiuyan, she couldn't help thinking about what Third Sister was going to do.

"Maybe I went to buy flowers." Mrs. Qin said, "There is a chrysanthemum field next to it. I think I picked a lot of chrysanthemums."

"Third Sister has always liked those things." Miss Qin Er stretched out her hand to pick strawberries, but she didn't care much about it.

The workers who came to pick the chrysanthemums had already gone back, so the field was much empty.If there are too many people, it is not suitable for these young ladies to come, and they will be unhappy, and they don't like so many workers.

Xing Xiuyan took Miss Qin San to her preparation room, where she prepared some essence and made a few bottles of rouge.She originally planned to send these things to Ruyi Pavilion in two days, but it happened that Miss Qin San wanted it, so she let Miss Qin choose first.

In order to avoid price competition from hurting the interests of Ruyi Pavilion, as well as his own interests, it is impossible for Xing Xiuyan to sell the essence at a price that is too low.

"I've got them all." Second Miss Qin looked at them, and there were less than ten bottles in total, and only seven bottles of essence and rouge combined.She gave it to her mother, gave it to her sister-in-law, and then shared it with her girlfriends, and it was all over. "This is 50 taels of silver. For the rest, you can make a special bottle of essence for me."

Three bottles of essence, ten taels, eight taels, six taels, rouge is only two taels of silver a box, four boxes is eight taels.The second girl Qin's mother's family is a merchant, and she has a lot of silver in her hands. She thinks of something unique, not something that can be bought casually outside.

"Does the girl have any preferences?" Xing Xiuyan is naturally willing to do this business. It does not break the law, and a profitable business is a good business.