No matter what happened to Rachel now for good or bad, Liu Ci couldn't take care of her for a while. I can only hope that this clever girl can be careful in the Holy Land, the center of power of the Holy See, and learn to protect herself.

Looking at the wheat harvested in the manor, Liu Ci suddenly remembered that she still had free time to make wine when she was in the Moloch Mountains, how carefree her life was at that time, out of the Warcraft Forest, she had to divide her energy to solve the trivial things that happened every day and manage the interpersonal relationships around her...... For a while, Liu Ci couldn't say for sure, the gains and losses of practicing in the deep mountains and entering the WTO.

However, there are also some koji piled up in the lotus pond space, and the acres of aura wheat she harvested, in addition to feeding livestock, it is not bad to take some of them to make wine.

Because that state of cultivation was interrupted by an uninvited guest, Liu Ci couldn't calm down for a while, so he simply asked the hired workers to burn the wine jar, build a still, and brew grain soju himself.

Due to proper management, the various fruit trees transplanted this year have harvested the same 100 catties of fruit in autumn. Unfortunately, the taste of the first year was sour and unpalatable, and even the children in the manor were impatient to eat them. The cook occasionally takes a few sour fruits to make seasonings, and she can't use them up for a while.

Liu Ci turned out the practice of preserved fruit from "Qi Min's Technique", and the practice of sugar-pickled fruit is not difficult, without rock sugar, use honey, wash the fruit, dry it until the water is semi-dry, first spread a layer of fruit, then brush a layer of dense, a little salt, and according to different tastes, you can also add sun-dried petals.

There are also many flowers planted in the valley, especially roses. Sangman and a few people watched Liu Ci pickle the preserved fruit with his own hands, and poured amber honey into the clay pot covered with rose petals.

All the sour fruits are pickled into preserved fruits, and there are more than a dozen clay pots, which are sealed and stacked in a cool cellar, and the current weather can be eaten in a month.

There are still a lot of crops that can be harvested in the manor in August, not to mention soybeans and corn, and the flowers of Xie should also be picked and dried for preservation.

But the most striking thing is not Liu Ci's use of flowers to make preserved fruits, but the small paper mill that Stull tinkered with.

The wheat straw left over after the wheat harvest in July was used as raw materials by Stull, and after several experiments according to the recipe given by Liu Ci, Stuart led the peasant women to make the finished product: flower paper.

The formula given to him by Liu Ci is the famous "Xue Tao Notes" in ancient Chinese history. Xue Tao, a female poet in the Tang Dynasty, lost her father at an early age and lived without a dependency and fell into prostitution. In his early years, he lived in Shudu, China, and took the name of Shudu Huamu Hibiscus as a poem, which was named "Xue Taojian" after it spread.

Xue Taojian uses the bark of the wood hibiscus as the raw material for papermaking, twists the hibiscus flower juice and dyes it, with a total of more than ten colors such as crimson, pink, and bright yellow, which is called the ten-color change note. And its popularity is inseparable from its rich literary and youthful style. The Tang Dynasty was the most brilliant era of poets, Xue Tao's note was small in size and style, and the woman in the boudoir wrote the quatrain on it in small letters...... It's all a treat visually.

According to the characteristics of Xue Taojian, Stull used ready-made raw materials around him, such as sunflowers, roses, lavender, etc., which he applied to papermaking.

Like a sunflower, take its shape, a rose takes its color, and lavender uses its fragrance...... He played a new trick with Xue Taojian, and when the finished product was placed in front of Liu Ci, even the well-informed Liu Ci was moved.

"You're making a lot of color, you're going to make money from the ladies, aren't you?"

Stull smiled embarrassedly, "Some of the nobles may like it too, young men and women come and go, and they must be willing to ...... with flower letters."

Stuart's words are actually not finished, there are many male aristocrats who are greased and powdered, the daughters like it, and the ladies like the things they like, in fact, many items in the aristocratic class have no gender distinction.

Liu Ci groaned, this thing may be not a small profit, she only came up with a few recipes, the paper mill is being tossed by Stuart from scratch, and the dividend ratio that the two used to practice is obviously not suitable for this note.

"It's still you who operate, production and management use your people, and sales also belong to you, as for dividends, let's talk about it after looking at the sales volume."

Liu Ci's idea is that if she sells well, she will ask for less dividends, while Stuart's idea is the opposite, the two think differently, because they are not stingy people, and they have reached a tacit understanding strangely.

However, in terms of production management, Stuart insisted that Liu Ci send someone close to him to supervise. For the sake of the long-term cooperation between the two, Liu Ci finally agreed.

The two most powerful female helpers around Liu Ci are Nana and Amy. Because Nana is the person she wants to train to be the successor of the old housekeeper, she asks Amy to participate in the management of the paper mill.

Before the official launch of the flower note, Stuart also specially sent a lot of them to the new city owner, Mrs. Soort, for free.

Madame Soort is not only the new ruler, she is also a woman who has a lot of official documents and private messages to write every day, and she is really the best advertising person, if it is not for the intersection of the poisoning case, Stuart would have no way to deliver the gifts.

Immediately, Stull sent the flower note to Weiyi through George.

Naturally, I don't care much about these delicate papers, but there is a large group of female students in the Academy of Magic...... Before the flower paper was sold, Stull was really getting more and more thieves in business.

By the time Stuart opened a new shop in the city in early September and began selling the flowers, the fame of the beautiful flowers spread to the parish next door.

He only sells all kinds of small flowers, and the products seem to be single, but he does not touch the interests of those who sell paper.

In addition to retail, merchants continued to place orders, and the small paper mill expanded twice, and finished products were constantly shipped to Amster City, and then transported to foreign dioceses through merchants - what did the people of Ruiyun, who are good at papermaking, feel when they saw it, and where did Liu Ci and Stuart need to take care of it?

Hurry up, wait for the hottest two months to pass, and basically meet the large orders, Stull took stock of the profits, and Liu Ci and the two of them were stunned for a while.

Selling vegetables and food is to make money, but it is a trickle of water and a long stream of money to watch the physical goods sold.

And what about the flower paper? Light and fluttering, the size is not large, how much can the bark and wheat stalks be worth, and the flowers are picked by Liu Cizhuang, which is not a high cost at all. But I can't stand Stull's solid black face, a small note, and I was stunned that it was sold at the price of luxury goods - the price of the parchment roll is compared to it, and the parchment roll is wronged to death.

The paper pulled out by the carriage was silver coins, gold coins, and the old butler James had been arranging for his henchmen to count the gold coins for a few nights. After discussing and discussing, Stull still shared the benefits with Liu Ci.

"This money is earned as quickly as it is picked up from the ground—"

Stuart sighed, he used to be complacent about his achievements, but after meeting Liu Ci, he felt that he had earned 100,000 gold coins from scratch, which was really a drizzle.

Stull wanted to break himself into eight, grow eight pairs of hands, eight pairs of feet, and be able to run all the ideas at once. In this way, within a few decades, he feels that he should also become the richest man in the mainland.

Liu Ci maintained a sneering attitude towards this, "Fatten yourself, are you going to wait for the king to come and kill you, or the Holy See will come to you and ask you to donate your family property, you can choose the one that is acceptable." ”

Stuart shrunk his neck, the boss was right, do things in a high-profile way, and be a low-key person. Merchants who flaunt their wealth will not live long no matter what country they are in, and the Garland family has been in business for generations, how did they lose in the first place? You can't have the right to have money, and you can't have the right to have your own strength...... The smiling young man grimaced, wondering if he should also train a team of strong private soldiers to ensure his personal safety?

Liu Ci kicked him away, "Don't have too narrow your vision, boy!" ”

Once he was bitten by a snake, he was afraid of the well rope for ten years, and he was talking about Stuart. The current wealth of the two is a small nouveau riche, and they can't enter the eyes of the big nobles at all - the last time someone in the city wanted to attack the four seasons, it was indispensable for the Marquis of Stlev to provoke it.

That old guy, who claims to be a lover of the public, Liu Ci has not liked him since the first meeting, anyway, the resentment is deep, and sooner or later she will free up her hands to personally clean up the pretending Marquis of Stlev.

Liu, the murderous second goods who has already engaged in a city lord, deeply feels that pulling a city lord to get off the horse is also pulling, and it is not much difficult to pull two. As long as she finds the right opportunity, Rhine City is not convinced by the people of the Straif family, and she can't find it if she doesn't believe it.

Sharks are the overlords of the ocean, but the smell of blood from injured sharks can lead to frenzied culling by their companions. The nobles are all sharks in the sea, as long as Liu Ci can deal a heavy blow to the Stlev family, for the sake of interests, there will be other nobles who are happy to complete the follow-up actions of the hunt, right?

Liu Ci knocked on the sunflower seeds that were fried with firegrass under the heat, and while spitting out the melon seed shells, he was thinking about how to be a yin person in his heart.

Let's let the Marquis de Strave live a few good days!

She is about to break through here, and she can't be distracted from the wind and rain, Liu Ci slapped her hands after swallowing a handful of melon seeds, and went back to the house to draw talismans with a rather regretful mood.

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While Liu Ci and Stuart are happily counting the gold coins, let's take a look at what happened from the perspective of a flower note.

If you want to write a story, it can be named "Wanderings on Flower Paper".

This flower note, its predecessor is cheap wheat stalks in the field. Originally, it was used by livestock to feed their stomachs when there was a shortage of green pasture grass in winter, or to make a fire when cooking. Fortunately, Stuart picked out the straw from the crowd, and the Prophet broke it into paper and dyed it with the color of rouge.

The flower paper exudes the fragrance of roses, and the difference between it and its companions is that it is a pattern drawn by Liu Ci with a pen when customizing the manuscript.

First I have a basic pattern, and then I use various colored petals to mash it into juice and draw it over and over again. Liu Ci finished painting the pattern just as a demonstration, and casually threw it in the paper mill.

It was used as an example, and according to its inspiration, many new flower samples were developed. When the paper mill workers were busy, they accidentally swept it off the pile and mixed it into the merchant's order.

The flowers were packed and shipped, and the carriage carried the recently popular luxury goods from the city of Amster, passed through Princy, walked through the Casabuca, and was presented to the supreme pope.

Because of its unique style, it was specially selected from a large pile of floral notes and sent to the Pope's desk.

The Pope also had to deal with many religious matters on a daily basis, and it would be impossible to say that he paid special attention to the paper.

It's strange that Liu Ci believes in "the peony demon in front of the court", and he paints the true national color that no one in this continent knows at all: peony.

This flower is graceful and luxurious at first glance, so it was dedicated to the pope. The consequences are unpredictable, and the tragedy is that Liu Ci still knows nothing......