The next day, Ruan Yimian spent a whole day and made more than 70 pieces of cotton rouge.

Lu Caimei still used this precious thing when she married Ruan Dexian a few years ago, and now she sees Ruan Yimian making it, which is quite novel, and after the rouge is dried, she can't wait to pull her son to try it.

Ruan Yimian had never used it, and he was a little embarrassed to see that his mother wanted to try on makeup on his face, but he had to try it when he made cotton rouge, and in order to make money, he suppressed the shyness in his heart.

Lu Caimei twisted a small piece of cotton rouge with scissors, added a little water to blend it, then dipped it with her fingers, rubbed it in the palm of her hand and gently patted it on Ruan Yimian's face.

Ruan Yimian has been sick all the year round, and there has been no blood on her face, although she is very fair, she looks a little bland.

According to the color of the petals, he made two different shades of cotton rouge, Lu Caimei chose the lighter one, and after the water halo was rubbed on Ruan Yimian's cheeks, Ruan Yimian's plain white little face was much brighter.

The effect of this rouge is really good, Lu Caimei was a little stunned when she saw it, and after coming back to her senses, she sighed happily: "My son was born so well, this rouge is rubbed on your face, it will be different!" ”

"You have to rub it on your lips too." After Lu Caimei finished speaking, she dipped some rouge water and gently applied it to Ruan Yimian's lips.

Rouge is a general term for lip fat and facial fat, and many rouges are used together for lips and face, and so is this rouge made by Ruan Yimian.

Lu Caimei stood farther away after finishing painting, looked at her son again, and couldn't help but praise her: "This is too Peugeot, if my mother knew that you used this rouge so well, I should have bought you a copy earlier!" ”

Good looks or secondary, the main thing is that the complexion has changed too much.

Xu is color just right for him, after Ruan Yimian used it, he looked much better, his cheeks were plump, he didn't look sick at all, and the whole person was alive, and he was a healthy little brother.

Ruan Yimian was so praised that his face was about to get hot, and he took a look at the bronze mirror that Lu Caimei borrowed from Brother Orange.

The little brother in the mirror has starry eyes and red lips, black eyebrows and black hair, and the corners of his mouth are curved, which is really good-looking.

Ruan Yimian was a little happy in his heart, Lin Qiu said that he had a talent for rouge, and it didn't seem to coax him.

"Mother, I'll give it to you too!" Since it's done well, it's time for his mother to use it first.

Lu Caimei waved her hand again and again, "My mother is so old, how can I still use this thing, I am not ashamed to laugh at others!" ”

Lu Caimei tried her best to refuse, but Ruan Yimian finally failed to try rouge for his mother.

Looking at his mother's rough and cracked palms, he secretly made a decision in his heart that when this rouge made money, he would make a box of hand ointment for his mother.

*

There are still some petals left from the pomegranate flower, but these will not be wasted, Ruan Yimian has another use.

At dinner yesterday, he talked to his father and asked him to help make a wooden seal in the shape of a pomegranate flower, which was dipped in the flower juice and printed on oiled paper.

Ruan Dexian saw that he had made two colors of cotton rouge, so he simply carved two chapters for him, saying what color of cotton rouge he used.

Ruan Yimian originally had the idea of seeing the carvings on his couch, and just wanted to make the packaging look more exquisite, but when he heard his father say this, he felt reasonable. The pomegranate flower prints of different colors are not only more exquisite, but also convenient for guests to choose, which is indeed better.

The pattern of the pomegranate flower is not complicated, Ruan Dexian began to carve it after eating yesterday afternoon, and it took more than half a day today to carve the two seals.

Ruan Yimian and Lu Caimei dipped the seal in the flower juice and printed it on the oiled paper that they folded yesterday, and when the flower juice on the oiled paper dried, they put the cotton rouge in it.

The delicate oil-paper envelope contained a thin piece of cotton rouge, and a beautiful pomegranate flower was printed on the oil-paper envelope, which looked really decent.

Lu Caimei and Ruan Dexian were very surprised when they looked at the final product.

"This looks like it's better than the cotton rouge in the rouge shop for ten cents a piece!" Ruan Dexian praised while holding up the oil paper.

Yesterday, he cheekily went to the rouge shop and asked, and the cotton rouge sold in it cost at least ten cents a piece, which was bigger than Ruan Yimian's one, but Ruan Yimian's work was still much more affordable.

The kind in the rouge shop is packed with red sealed paper, and the packaging is still a little rough, but there are better ones, but the price is more than ten cents.

Lu Caimei and Ruan Dexian were more confident in the rouge they had made, and took Ruan Yimian to his second uncle's house before it was dark.

*

Ruan Dexian is the eldest in the family, his father and mother gave birth to three children, in addition to the second brother Ruan Deming, he also has a younger sister named Ruan Dening.

The three siblings had a good relationship when they were young, and later they became families and were not estranged. However, Ruan Dening married in Nanye County next door, which is far away, and he can't come back a few times a year, so Ruan Dexian and his second brother have closer contacts.

Ruan Yimian and his second aunt Yu Peilan have a strong temperament and love to compare, and they originally got along with Lu Caimei when they were under one roof, but after they separated, the relationship between the two concubines became much more harmonious.

Ruan Yimian is sick, and when Lu Caimei is too busy to work, she will come to help take care of her.

When they were not separated, seeing that Lu Caimei and Ruan Dexian sent their son to study in the school, Yu Peilan also insisted on sending her son Ruan Yiquan to study.

It's a pity that Ruan Yiquan is not the material for reading, and after studying for a few months, she was often scolded by her master, and then refused to go again.

Although the book did not make a name, Ruan Yiquan had a flexible brain, and later became a merchant, selling things in the streets and alleys of nearby villages and towns, and the small business was prosperous, earning more than many young people in the village, and earning some face for his mother.

Ruan Yimian thought about asking his cousin to help sell cotton rouge, and as soon as he told his father, his father and mother also thought it was appropriate, and as soon as the rouge was ready, he took him over to find someone.

Ruan Yiquan only came back from a business trip the day before yesterday, and his mother went to Cao Chunfeng's house yesterday to buy meat, just to give her son who had been running around for a few days to eat something good.

When Ruan Yimian's family of three came over, he was turning the ground in the vegetable garden in front of his house, and he was a little surprised to see Ruan Yimian, who didn't go out much, also came.

He put down his hoe, stepped out of the vegetable garden in a few steps, and greeted enthusiastically: "Uncle, uncle, Brother Mian'er, you are here!" Come in and sit. ”

It was getting dark, and most of the villagers had finished their dinner, and were doing some odd jobs at home, or going out for a walk and eating away.

Ruan Deming's family happened to be at home, and when they heard the movement, Ruan Deming and Yu Peilan in the hall also came out. After greeting a few people for a while, Ruan Yimian and his father and mother were beckoned to sit down in the house.

Yu Peilan took out a plate of fried beans and a plate of cloud cake and put it next to Ruan Yimian: "This cake was brought back by your cousin the day before yesterday, and the beans were fried by your aunt herself, Brother Mian'er try it!" ”

After she finished speaking, she was about to sit down, but she stared at Ruan Yimian carefully for a while, her eyes were surprised and happy: "Brother Mian'er, are you so good?" This little face is white and red, and he looks much more energetic than before! ”

Ruan Yiquan, who came over with tea, also said: "It's true! I didn't see it clearly with the light on my back, but when I take a closer look at it now, Brother Mian'er's complexion is really much better! ”

Ruan Deming was sitting on the side weaving bamboo baskets, and he also looked over when he heard this.

"Brother Mianmian, you look better than me!!" Brother Orange, who had just come out of the house, looked at Ruan Yimian in disbelief.

Yu Peilan slapped him on the back with a palm when she heard this: "I'll sew it up for you if you have a horn in this mouth, your Mianmian brother was born better than you!" ”

Brother Orange pouted: "Then I don't recognize it!" There is no better looking brother than me in Shanliu Village! ”

Yu Peilan was so angry that she wanted to screw him, but was stopped by Lu Caimei: "It's okay, the baby is laughing, what are you doing beating him!" ”

Lu Caimei looked at Brother Orange, with some envy in her eyes: "How good, lively, if only our Brother Mian'er also had this spirit......"

Hearing her sigh, Yu Peilan remembered Fang Cai's matter again: "Sister-in-law, you haven't said it yet, are we Brother Mian'er okay?" Why does it look so different from before? ”

Lu Caimei retracted her gaze and smiled at Yu Peilan: "I'm here for this today." ”

She took out a few packets of cotton rouge from her pocket and handed them to Yu Peilan and the others: "Brother Mian'er's body is still like that, but with a little rouge today, his face looks better." This rouge is our own Miange'er's own pondering, these days we have made some, I want to ask Quanzi to sell it outside, if it can be sold, the family can also have more inputs. ”

Brother Mian'er even makes rouge! Ruan Deming's family was a little surprised. He doesn't go out all day, where did he get the rouge prescription? Brother Orange and Yu Peilan couldn't hold back their curiosity, and asked a few words,

Ruan Yimian and his father had already discussed how to respond to this matter, only saying that after Ruan Yimian made a marriage, his father and mother bought him cotton rouge to prepare for him to marry, and then he was bored in the house and had nothing to do, so he took it out and studied it, and slowly figured out the method of this rouge.

It sounds incredible, but it seems to be the only way to explain it. Rouge is precious, and rouge prescriptions are even more so, and there is no reason for this kind of thing to be arrogant and listen to others. Yu Peilan and Ruan Deming didn't ask any more, Brother Orange wanted to ask more carefully, but was glared at by his mother.

Ruan Yiquan glanced at the printed oil paper bag in her hand, and then at her cousin, her face seemed to be a little embarrassed: "The rouge on Brother Mian'er's face looks natural and transparent, unlike the worthless bargains, but I go to the alleys where ordinary people live, or in mountain villages like ours, the brothers and sisters in these places are afraid that they can't afford to use this rouge." ”

In fact, although there are few rich families in the village, they are not nothing, but those who are rich will not look down on the rouge in the hands of the merchants, and they will go to the rouge shop in the town or county town to buy it. In the end, it is something that is used on the face, and I dare not be cheap.

Ruan Yimian knew his concerns: "Cousin, don't worry, my cotton rouge only sells for three cents a piece, and you can exchange it for rice and cloth of the same price, I think it should not be difficult to sell, if you really can't sell it, you can bring it back to me." ”

"Just three pennies!" Ruan Yiquan exclaimed, "Why is it sold so cheaply!" The cheapest cotton rouge in the town's rouge shop also costs □□ a piece! ”

"There are shops in the town to rely on, there are fixed customers, and they can be called at a high price, we don't have this condition, so we have to sell cheaper, although we make less, but it is also an entry." Ruan Yimian replied.

Unexpectedly, his cousin had never even been out of the village, but he still understood this, Ruan Yiquan was a little impressed by him: "In this case, then you can really try it, this rouge looks not bad, such a cheap price, it should be able to be sold." ”

Hearing his tone, Ruan Yimian and his parents were a little happy, and discussed with him the money for selling cotton rouge.

Ruan Yiquan said that the cotton rouge is light and does not occupy an area, he has to sell goods anyway, and helping his cousin sell the cotton rouge is also a incidental thing, and he doesn't need to pay for it.

Ruan Yimian naturally didn't agree, and Ruan Dexian also said with a straight face, "Cousins also have to settle accounts, and if Brother Mian wants to rely on you to make money, he should give you money according to the rules." ”

The two families pushed and conceded, and finally set the commission money - for every ten pieces of cotton rouge sold, Ruan Yimian would give his cousin three dollars for the commission.

Ruan Yiquan usually goes to those grocery stores to buy goods, and then sells them. They were all commonly used gadgets, such as lamp oil, needlework, spices, etc., and considering that the villagers had no spare money, they were allowed to exchange rice and cloth.

Some things are very heavy, but if they are shipped all the way over, they can only make a profit of one percent.

This rouge is light and does not occupy an area, and he does not need to pay the capital, giving him a commission of 10%, which is very fair, Ruan Yiquan is very satisfied.