Chapter 135: Uninvited Guest
"Yes, cousin, I made pills and didn't sell them, what are you doing!" Shen Zeqi also didn't understand what his cousin meant, and asked confusedly.
"Second brother, cousin, don't worry! Of course, it has to be sold as a pill, but it can't be sold like the previous medicinal wine and medicinal oil, so we have to find a match for it!"
Shen Luzhu said and pointed to the silver hairpin specially worn on his head today, this is when Chu Yi went to the town to buy paints a while ago, he was cleaning up the new hairpin that the shop bought for her, the owner of the jewelry shop said that it was a batch of new styles that had arrived recently, and there were all kinds of materials, but without exception they were all at one end of the hairpin, and a pendant connected by a thin chain had fallen, and it would sway gently as soon as she walked.
Shen Songjie squinted his eyes, stared at the hairpin on Shen Luzhu's head for a long time, and asked with some uncertainty, "Luzhu, you mean the hairpin on your head?"
"Hmm!" Shen Luzhu nodded, and then took off the hairpin on her head and handed it to Shen Songjie's hand, when she was wearing this hairpin a few days ago, the pendant swayed on her head, and it suddenly inspired her!
"Second brother, look, isn't there a pendant on this hairpin, we can cooperate with the cleaning shop to make several new jewelry, make one end of these pendants hollow, or directly make the hairpin fancy end into a hollow look, just like the bell, the point is to make it open with a hidden buckle, and then put our mosquito repellent pills inside, so that it is jewelry and mosquito repellent, and it also saves the trouble of applying medicated oil and medicinal wine, in addition to hairpins, bracelets, bracelets, and waist pendants can be!"
Shen Songjie took the hairpin in his hand and fiddled: "Sister, I don't know much about your female dolls, but isn't the price much higher than our current one when you make it look like this?"
Shen Zeqi also said, "I'm afraid ordinary people won't buy this thing!"
Shen Luzhu nodded, affirming his brothers' thoughts: "This is indeed true, so we have to cooperate with the jewelry store, the customers of the jewelry store are not all of them, so it is different from the audience of the pharmacy and medical hall in the town, first, it can change the current situation that the competition is too fierce, and second, we can just make the pills, and we don't need to go out of the stall or go to the town to sell it."
Chu Yi handed his wife a glass of warm water on the side, watched her drink it, and then helped add: "I calculated with Ah Zhu, in this case, although the amount of goods sold will not be as good as before, but after the price goes up, it will save my own manpower, and it will definitely be more than a star and a half better than now."
"And that's just the profit of mosquito repellent pills!"
Shen Zeqi was staring at the hairpin in his cousin's hand, when he suddenly heard Shen Luzhu's words, he hurriedly raised his head and asked, "It's just a mosquito repellent pill, could it be that there is something else?"
"Of course, since we have all thought of such a good idea, we naturally can't just put a mosquito repellent pill, otherwise when the summer passes, then this jewelry will not become a chicken rib, in addition to mosquito repellent pills, we can also put some spices or flowers made of incense pills, so that this jewelry can be used all year round, and you can also buy different incense pills according to the guests' own preferences!"
"I'm a big man who thinks it's rare when I hear it, let alone the ladies in the town, Luzhu, your idea is successful! It's too much!" The more Shen Songjie listened, the more excited he became, and praised his sister's intelligence again and again.
"Then we will sell all this mosquito repellent directly to jewelry stores in the future?"
Shen Luzhu felt that this was more appropriate to call win-win cooperation: "Cousin, it can't be said to be for sale, we have to sign a contract with those jewelry shops, we can be regarded as providing a new recipe or new style, if they agree, then the pills or incense pills in this jewelry can only be imported from our hands, and for every jewelry sold, we can also receive a certain commission!"
Shen Zeqi couldn't believe it: "Can that jewelry shop agree, sell one to us for a fee?"
"As long as our new jewelry has a prospect and can make them profitable, and the conditions are negotiated, there will naturally be shops who agree, but we can only make a deed with one, and before the deed, we can't give our bottom to others!"
Shen Song nodded: "I know this, scarcity is expensive, and it's worthless to be all over the street!"
"That's right, that's the truth, it shouldn't be a problem to make incense pills and pills for Grandpa and eldest brother, but I'm afraid that after a long time, these things will also be made, after all, the second brother and cousin also said that this pill medicine shop and medical hall are easy to do."
The Shen family brothers really felt too deeply about this matter: "That means that our business will not be able to do it for a year or two before it becomes like this again."
"So Chu Yi and I thought of another deal!"
"What else?"
Chu Yi opened his mouth and said: "It was Ah Zhu who thought of it, all the medicinal materials in our pharmacy and medical hall are collected by themselves in the mountains or from farmers, I remember that in Langzhong in the village, there is often a shortage of medicinal materials, I wonder if the pharmacy and medical hall in the town is also like this?"
"This is true, although we haven't visited the pharmacy in the town every day, but it is the same as our own pharmacy, because they are all collected or collected by ourselves, and this herb is not like the bud rice in the field, it can be broken there, it has to be found in the mountains, so the lack of medicinal materials is a common thing!"
Shen Songjie affirmed Chu Yi's statement, his own family is a medicine shop, although he usually does not help catch medicine in the shop, but he went up the mountain to collect medicine from childhood to adulthood, he couldn't understand this situation anymore!
"So I discussed with Ah Zhu if we could charter a piece of land in the mountains, grow our own herbs, and then sell them to those pharmacies and medical centers in the town!"
Shen Zeqi's eyes widened, and for the first time he heard that Baoshan planted herbs: "Grow it yourself!"
Chu Yi's reaction to the cousin of the Shen family was not strange, the first time he heard his wife say it, he had a similar reaction, after all, the farmer's family, the field is naturally used to grow grain paste *** tax, how can he plant those things that can't fill his stomach!
Shen Luzhu patiently explained: "Yes, the cultivated land at home naturally cannot be used to grow herbs, and I am afraid that the environment will grow differently from the mountain itself, which will affect the efficacy of the medicine, but it is different in the mountains, the environment is the same, it does not occupy cultivated land, and medicinal materials can also be supplied in large quantities!"
Shen Songjie looked at his sister with an incredulous face: "I have heard that Baoshan grows wood and sells it for money, it is indeed the first time that Baoshan grows herbs, I am afraid that no one has ever done it, it is all born and raised by Daddy and Auntie, I feel that Luzhu, your brain is more enlightened than your second brother and me!"
"The second brother is just a matter of habit, and he didn't think of it for a while!"
Shen Songjie shook his head, obviously disapproving of Shen Luzhu's words: "Then we all have the same habits, why did you think of Luzhu?"
How does this make her explain? He couldn't say that he knew this in his previous life, Shen Luzhu could only smile and shake his head, no longer arguing with his second brother about why he was a mother, but he always felt that he seemed to be very smart.
Chu Yi reminded in a timely manner: "But this matter, Ah Zhu and I just thought about it well, whether it can work or not, we still have to ask Grandpa."
"That's right, and the investment time in the early stage may be longer, after all, you can't sell until the herbs grow, and some herbs seem to have to grow for several years to grow, if the second brother and cousin want to do it, they have to have a plan in their hearts!"
Shen Songjie didn't think it was a big deal: "Don't worry about this Luzhu, the family doesn't refer to our brother, a small business that he tosses by himself, even if he has a long time, it's nothing, as long as Grandpa and the family think it's okay, then it's no problem!"
"Then we can just wait for the good news from the second brother and cousin!"
The Shen brothers stayed in the Chu family's old house for nearly an hour, and they couldn't even accept the good intentions of the little couple to keep them for dinner, so they hurriedly returned to the Shen family with a full stomach of fighting spirit and longing, and the Shen family had a heated discussion not to mention for the time being, just talking about the Chu family's old house, the little couple sent the Shen brothers away with their front feet, Chu Yi just locked the shop, and before he took Shen Luzhu back to the room to rest, the door of the front yard was knocked again.
Chu Yi wanted to settle his wife first and then go to open the door, but the person who came didn't know if there was something urgent, or if he was too anxious, so he knocked on it and didn't finish, so Shen Luzhu had to signal Chu Yi to open the door first.
Chu Xiuxiu, who was originally reading in her room, also heard this at this time
Knocking on the door eagerly, thinking that there was no one in the courtyard, he hurriedly ran out, and saw that his cousin had already gone over to open the door, so he half-supported Shen Luzhu's arm and stood in place and watched.
Chu Yi just opened the latch of the front yard gate, and the courtyard door was pushed open from the outside, and the person behind the door didn't wait for him to come in, but his voice shouted first: "The shop is not open in broad daylight, and no one responds to the door, what are you doing here?" I'm deaf!"
Shen Luzhu listened to this voice, and caught a glimpse of the figure coming in from the courtyard gate, and couldn't help but be stunned, why did Chu Fang come over!
Chu Yi didn't expect Chu Fang, who hadn't shown up for a long time, to come to the door, but he only asked lightly, "Is there something wrong with my cousin?"
Chu Fang glanced at everything strange in the courtyard of the old mansion, her heart was so jealous, and her tone was even more unkind: "Naturally, there is something, otherwise how can I be a cousin to see you!"
In the past, Shen Luzhu might have given Chu Fang three points of face when she was in a good mood, for the sake of Grandpa Chu and Grandma Chu, but now she doesn't even care about the eldest aunt Wang's family, she is an old man!
"When grandpa and grandma were still living in this old mansion before, I didn't see my cousin come back to see the elders, and now I don't look at the elders, even if I don't look at the elders, I even gave myself a seniority without permission, you have turned yourself into a generation with grandpa and grandma, but do uncles and aunts know?"
Chu Fang frowned tightly, and looked at Shen Luzhu who was standing in the distance with a look of resentment: "What are you talking nonsense again, when did I say that I was the same generation as Grandpa and Grandma!" Besides, I don't look at the elders, what does it have to do with you!"
"I didn't increase my seniority, how did I come to the third uncle's house, and said that there was no reason for you to come here to see people, dare to ask if the family tree could be changed? Will the uncle and aunt call you aunt or aunt in the future?"