Chapter 11 - Kiki Draws Well

After Lu Mengqi woke up, Gu Yuanqing was already sitting at the table and watching the results of her night.

"Kiki is very good at drawing, is it for spices?"

"Humph! I didn't boast last night, but now I praise it, it's late! Lu Mengqi didn't remember when she woke up, but Gu Yuanqing's words reminded her of the other party's disgust for her paintings last night.

Gu Yuanqing was not annoyed, but laughed, "Let's eat something first, seeing that you are about to wake up, I will tell the cook to make what you like to eat." After speaking, he opened the door and motioned for Chen Jing to inform his subordinates to bring the food.

When Lu Mengqi saw the food, she was half angry, but she was still unforgiving, "Don't think that I won't be angry if there is something delicious." ”

"Yes, yes, Kiki is still angry, then try this, I just found someone to buy it from the west of the city, the latest pastry in the Western Regions." Gu Yuanqing picked up a piece of pastry and handed it to Lu Mengqi.

Lu Mengqi couldn't let go of his hand, just took Gu Yuanqing's hand, and after taking a bite, he was obviously a lot happier. "It's delicious! It's not the same as what I used to eat. ”

"It's a pastry from the Western Regions, although it looks hard, it tastes crispy, and there are a lot of walnuts in it, as well as sweet and sour dried fruits." Gu Yuanqing introduced this pastry to Lu Mengqi, who had already put all his unhappiness behind him.

"It's delicious, it's delicious, you can buy more." Lu Mengqi finished eating a piece and went back to nibble on the chicken wings.

After eating a meal, Lu Mengqi didn't stop long, took the drawings and plum meat, and ran to Wang Ji Xiangpu, not forgetting to buy some snacks when passing by the store in the Western Regions on the way.

As soon as he pushed the door in, the shopkeeper Wang was already waiting inside, according to yesterday's arrangement, Li Rourou took people to follow yesterday's promotion activities, and Lu Mengqi took the shopkeeper Wang to the backyard to study the latest spice production.

"Shopkeeper Wang, you see I have a drawing here, I don't know if you can understand it, probably something like this, we can put petals or other things on it, put water at the bottom, and the whole water flows out from here, collect, and when the water is steamed, put the collected water in and continue, and so on." Lu Mengqi took the drawings and explained to the shopkeeper Wang.

"It's... We don't have anything like that here, but we should have it in the wooden shop, just not for spices. I think I've seen it before. Shopkeeper Wang recalled the wooden shop he had been to before.

"It's easy to do if there is, and if it's not suitable, we can change it ourselves." Lu Mengqi took out some broken silver, and the shopkeeper Wang also took some broken silver and handed it to Lu Mengqi.

When the things were bought, Lu Mengqi found that the things were still quite suitable, and only some small places needed to be changed, which generally met the needs.

Lu Mengqi changed it by himself, although the technology is not very good, but it is not too delicate work, and with the help of the shopkeeper Wang, it was completed quickly.

"Now, what we have to do is to collect flowers in large quantities." Lu Mengqi looked at the shopkeeper Wang, "I want it fresh, do you know where it is?" ”

"This is not difficult, there are flower fields outside the city, but most of them have been bought by others, and we can only buy those that others don't want."

"It doesn't matter what it looks like, we don't use it for ornamentation, it's just fragrant and fresh enough."

The flowers were all collected, and it was already afternoon, and Lu Mengqi asked Li Rourou to go back to the house to report that he would not go home to eat. So I got busy again.

filtered and precipitated over and over again, and when the toss was over, the sky was bright, and Lu Mengqi, who hadn't gone home all night, was also a little embarrassed, after all, she was married, and it was really unreasonable to not go back all night.

Just when Lu Mengqi wanted to leave, he saw a black shadow flashing outside the window, and quickly went over and pushed the window open, but he didn't see anything.

"Am I dazzled? No, I saw the figure and heard the voice. Running so fast? Lu Mengqi was a little worried, afraid that his secret recipe would be stolen, so he called the shopkeeper Wang to seal the windows.

Lu Mengqi went home for breakfast and reported to the family what she was doing, but everyone didn't seem to be very surprised, and they didn't mind what she was doing, and told her to pay attention to her body.

After eating and resting, Lu Mengqi went to the incense shop again in the afternoon, the promotion activities of the incense shop are going on step by step, although the business is not prosperous enough, but it is barely enough to support the store from going out of business.

Lu Mengqi went to the backyard and took a look at the flower water she distilled, the taste and color were relatively high, and it was worthy of not sleeping all night, the shopkeeper Wang followed beside him, I don't know what Lu Mengqi is doing with this.

In the upper part of the flower water, there were only a few pitiful drops of flower oil, Lu Mengqi carefully collected them, found the best sealed bottle and stored them.

He handed over the remaining flower water to the king's shopkeeper and told him that these flower water could be bottled and sold, which could not only beautify the skin, but also mix it with spices to make incense cakes and make sachets.

But their original intention was to make something that could be fragrant without having to wear it with them, so this flower water could directly meet their requirements.

Shopkeeper Wang took out all the best bottles he had stored and prepared to fill these flowers, but was stopped by Lu Mengqi and told him that he only needed to use medium bottles, otherwise he would have to buy more expensive bottles in the future, which was not cost-effective.

As soon as the flower water was sold, it was known to all the ladies and ladies, but everyone was in a wait-and-see state, and no one dared to buy it immediately.

Lu Mengqi returned to the Lu Mansion, and it was time to use his family connections. I sent a few bottles of flower water to my sister-in-law, so that when my sister-in-law went out to walk around, she gave it to other ladies and ladies to use.

But Lu Mengqi told me that this flower water has a shelf life, and it can only be used for half a month, and after half a month, it needs to be thrown away if it is not used up.

But a bottle of flower water is not much, in fact, it doesn't take half a month, and those ladies and ladies will be used up in two or three days.

Three days later, the business of Wang Ji incense shop finally became hot, people came and went in an endless stream, some watched the excitement, some bought, and the flower water made a few days ago was basically sold out.

Lu Mengqi guessed such a result, so he has been making flowers and water for the past few days, and the little money left by the Wang shopkeeper is also used, and he saw that no one came the day before, and he wanted to take charge of Lu Mengqi, but it was all sold out the next day, and his admiration for Lu Mengqi was not a little bit.

But there are more people buying, and it has also become a problem, no matter how Lu Mengqi makes it, there is no way to meet the current market demand, and the next plan must be implemented in advance.