Chapter 2032 Propose in Person (1)
At night, when Yanran returned to the small courtyard where she was staying as a guest in the Shen Mansion, she began to make the Anxiang Pills. Before the Wenyan Pavilion opened, Yanran had already bought all the raw materials and utensils for making rouge and spices, so she asked Aunt Zhang to collect some flowers and herbs and started making them.
Aunt Zhang followed her instructions and found Angelica dahurica, lavender, Duruo, Artemisia argyi, Myrrh, etc., and took honey from the kitchen and gave it to Yanran. Yanran ground the flowers and herbs into powder and mixed them with honey to make pills the size of pigeon eggs. She refrigerated them first. After a day, she took them to the store in person and gave them to the maid next to Ge who picked up the goods. She told her to take three pills with warm water every morning and four pills at night.
The maid wrote it down and hurried back.
Yanran saw the Anxiang Pills in her mother's book "Bu Ji Elbow Recipes". It is specially used to treat body odor. After taking it according to the course of treatment, it can be gradually cured. If taken for a long time, it can also make the whole body fragrant.
Ge applied peach blossom cold fragrance powder externally and took dark fragrance pills internally. Within seven days, she really felt refreshed and comfortable. After a few more days, even without the fragrance dew to cover it up, the unpleasant smell was much lighter. She was very happy, as if she had been reborn. She quickly found Yanran and ordered a few boxes of dark fragrance pills.
The New Year came in a flash. Yanran and her brother stayed at the Shen family and spent the New Year with Juhua's family.
Juhua's family was very harmonious. The old man was kind and the children were innocent. The atmosphere at home was very warm and harmonious. Yanran liked to be with them. However, she would feel a little lost occasionally. After all, this warm family was not hers. She was just a guest at someone else's.
Sometimes, she would secretly think that if she had a family in the future, she would definitely run her family as hard as sister Juhua, so that her home would also be filled with a warm and happy atmosphere...
During the New Year, although the powder shop was closed for rest, Yanran did not rest for a day. She collected flowers and plants everywhere, and made a lot of fine rouge during the few days of the New Year.
On the sixth day of the Chinese New Year, the shop opened. What Yanran didn't expect was that as soon as the shop opened, a large group of noble ladies rushed into the shop. They were dressed gorgeously, and all brought maids and old women with them. They asked Yanran to make her own rouge.
Those rouges that were once on the shelves and no one cared about them suddenly became popular. Everyone crowded together and kept asking Yanran about their skin problems and which rouge they should use.
"Miss Yuwen, I ate a lot of greasy food during the Chinese New Year. I got a lot of acne a few days ago. After the acne disappeared, there were a lot of marks left. Look, this... this... How ugly, do you have any recipe to help me get rid of the marks? I don't care how much money it costs."
The person asking the question was the wife of a wealthy businessman. She had a lot of pearls and jade on her head, and several thick and shiny gold chains around her neck and wrists. She was a rich person. As long as her acne marks could be removed, she didn't mind spending more money.
Yanran picked up a blue-and-white porcelain bottle from the shelf and handed it to the rich woman with a greasy face and acne marks.
"This is the recipe for fermented seeds. It is made by grinding eight Chinese herbs into coarse residues, boiling them with liquor, removing the residue and leaving the juice, adding sugar, honey, borneol powder, and cinnabar powder. Applying this on the cheeks can lighten the pigment and whiten the skin. It is beneficial and harmless. Moreover, the cosmetics and ointments I make are all natural flower and herbal formulas, and have been tested on your own skin. Madam, please apply a little on your wrist or behind the ear before use. If there is no reaction after half a day, you can use it..."
"Miss Yuwen, my hair is thin and dry. Is there anything that can improve my hair quality and quantity?"
The questioner was a lady in her thirties. Her hair was not dry or thin. She was probably asking for her daughter or the women in her family. It was because people with thin and yellow hair were embarrassed to show their faces, so she asked her to consult and buy on her behalf.