After studying medical skills for more than ten days, Yue Wangshu made himself dizzy, and couldn't help but sigh, it is really not easy to be a medical student.

Behind closed doors, it is easy to fall into a dead end, not to mention that there are many fallacies in traditional Chinese medicine, Yue Wangshu feels that he needs to relax his brain and move his muscles and bones.

However, it seems that the emperor will not let her go up the mountain to collect medicine now—although this is a good intention, but it is a bit nosy.

Scratching his head, Yue Wangshu suddenly smelled the fragrance of roses, and when he walked out of the house, he saw that the servants were carrying baskets of rose petals into the imperial village. Yue Wangshu suddenly remembered that this is the Rose Ridge Imperial Village! The maximum output is not the fertile fields at the foot of the mountains, but the thousands of acres of rose forests between the mountains!

Every spring and summer, it is the busiest season for the servants of Rose Ridge Huangzhuang, starting from March, first pick rose buds, with the intention of making rose tea, or medicine, and then the roses bloom, then pick the petals, used to make rouge, perfume, flower dew, can also make wine, sauce, tea, can be described as a flower for multiple purposes. From spring to the end of summer, even if the flowers are finished, you can also cut the roots to make dyes. It is not until winter that the servants of the Imperial Village can rest.

Needless to say, it is the busiest time of the year, so it's no wonder that I haven't seen Li Yue in the past few days.

Yue Wangshu asked Xiao Ju beside him: "How many catties of rose petals does Huangzhuang want to offer?" ”

Xiao Ju thought for a while and said: "In previous years, the share was only two or three thousand catties, but this year, the construction department issued a message early, asking Rose Ridge to hand over two thousand catties of petals every month, and the total amount is probably tens of thousands of catties." ”

Yue Wangshu couldn't help but be speechless: "What do you want so many rose petals for...... Forehead! ”

Yue Wangshu was embarrassed in an instant, what to do? Isn't that obvious!!

Make lipstick!

It's not because the four of them have worked hard and developed so many colors, and now the peony series rouge produced by the construction division is extremely popular in Beijing, and rose petals are the main materials for making rouge! Naturally, the demand for raw materials skyrocketed!

Fortunately, there are thousands of acres of rose forests in Rose Ridge, and the yield is naturally surplus, but the problem is manpower......

"Do you still have enough manpower?" Yue Wangshu couldn't help asking.

Xiao Ju smiled and said, "Where is the little servant of Huangzhuang enough?" The construction department added a lot of people early in the morning, but it was still not enough, so Gonggong Li had to urgently hire tenants from the villages and towns at the foot of the mountain to go up the mountain to pick every day. ”

Yue Wangshu asked suspiciously: "It's also the busy season for farming, can you hire people?" ”

Xiao Ju said: "This strong man can't be hired, and there is always no shortage of women, children, old and young." ”

Yue Wangshu suddenly realized, yes, picking rose petals, there is indeed no need to hire young people.

"Let's go to Rose Ridge and have a look!" Yue Wangshu suddenly became interested, she had come to Rose Ridge Huangzhuang for so long, and she had never visited the rose forest.

"Master, there are many people in that place now, you ......" Xiao Ju looked at the cloud brocade skirt on her master, very embarrassed.

Yue Wangshu let out an "oh", "Go and get the palace maid's clothes for me to wear!" ”

"That's not what the slave meant!" Xiao Ju was even more anxious.

"Okay, you just have to go, anyway, it's not convenient to go to the rose forest, it's not convenient to dress like me." Although the dress of the palace maid is also a skirt, the jacket is narrow-sleeved and the skirt is not mopping, which is indeed much more convenient.

After all, the palace maid is a servant, so she is naturally much more concise in dressing.

Tsing Yi and blue skirt, big red belt, a pair of black cloth shoes are very dirt-resistant, combing a snail bun on the head, and then carrying a bamboo basket, living out of a maid of the Huangzhuang who went out to pick rose petals.

"Master, if you let Gonggong Li see your appearance, you will definitely reprimand the slave!" Xiao Ju, who was dressed exactly the same, followed her, crying and mourning.

Yue Wangshu's footsteps were fast, "Don't worry, what kind of character I have, Li Yue has already seen it." He didn't dare to bully my people! ”

This dead eunuch will only make a small report! Yue Wangshu silently slandered.

But I'm just going out to pick flowers! If you don't even allow this, what's the difference between that and going to jail?

With his master's words, Xiao Ju was a little relieved, at least the roses grew on the sunny gentle slope of Rose Ridge, which was much safer than scurrying around the mountains to collect medicines.

Yue Wangshu walked briskly, and arrived at his destination in less than two quarters of an hour.

This rose refers to the edible variety, but not the ornamental rose of the later generations, a single flower looks more like a rose, not much beautiful alone, but a thousand acres of rose forest, all over the mountains and fields that can be magnificent.

The servants and supervisors of the mountain village and the peasant women and children at the foot of the mountain shuttle through the rose forest, like hard-working little bees, picking the newly blooming roses. Without supervision, you can weigh and deliver a basket of goods, and at the end of the month, you will be paid according to the amount of picking.

Yue Wangshu touched his chin, this can be regarded as the budding of capitalism, right?

In fact, this kind of "sprout" existed in the Taizu period, precisely because the imperial merchant Ji Zifang invented the loom and spinning machine, and in the southeast coastal area, female weavers have been very common.

Looking at the women and children in the rose forest who were busy and laughing and talking, although her back was heavy and sweaty, she still smiled.

This kind of atmosphere is very contagious, Xiao Ju picked flowers very neatly, she couldn't help but whispered: "Master, can the roses picked by the slave and maid also go to change wages?" ”

Yue Wangshu smiled and said, "That's nature. ”

Xiao Ju suddenly worked harder, although the palace maid had a lot of money, but who would dislike the lack of money?

Xiao Ju didn't forget to remind in a whisper: "Master, be careful, roses have thorns, don't prick you." ”

Indeed, many of the female employees who pick flowers here have been pricked in the hand, and most of them just laugh at it, and if it is a little girl, maybe there is a mother and sister to help bandage it.

Xiao Ju picked flower petals, Yue Wangshu picked up the flower buds and pinched them, she wanted to dry some rose tea to make water to drink. In the afternoon, I went to pick some moon buds and asked someone to buy some tortoiseshell flowers.

That's right, she was a little tired of barley and red bean tea, and she wanted to change the taste.

After thinking about it, I thought of an excellent three-flower beauty tea.

The three flowers are roses, moonflowers, and tortoiseshells.

Needless to say, the first two tortoiseshell flowers are lime flowers, which can only be purchased because they are produced in the south. I couldn't buy it in pharmacies, and I got it from a tea merchant. Without him, tortoiseshell flowers can be used to make flower tea.

After such a busy work, Sanhua beauty tea is freshly baked.

The light red tea soup and fragrant aroma make people feel refreshed and happy when they drink such an afternoon tea.

This tea nourishes beauty, regulates menstruation and relieves pain, and the tortoiseshell flowers in it can also soothe the liver and stomach, and have the effect of losing weight!

"Add some honey, it's a little bitter." Yue Wangshu muttered, completely forgetting that he was still thinking about losing weight last second.

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