The fragrance of medicine is alluring, the farm elder sister is cool and cool

"Has my brother Qi ever been to your house? Our family went to visit relatives this afternoon, but Brother Qi didn't go. I don't know where this kid went."

"To be honest, we were just looking for the kids. Your Qi Ge'er, our Zi Cheng, and a few other little boys were eating at a wild restaurant outside the village. They were all drinking sugar water and eating like adults."

"Ah, I feel relieved that you are with Zicheng." As a father, Lin Tian felt that boys did not need to be too pampered. When the boy had enough fun, he would come back by himself. He did not ask anything else, said goodbye, and turned to go home.

The next morning, Zicheng was in a better mood. He washed up, had breakfast, and went to school with his schoolbag.

Wen Qingcheng has no job now, so she sleeps until she wakes up naturally at home, and then goes to the study to start planning the backyard medicine shop. She finds a piece of paper, grinds it, and draws a few design drawings.

The original oil press on the right side of the backyard had a total of three large rooms, plus two large warehouses on the east and west sides. The large structural frame does not need to be changed, but some old equipment in the oil press needs to be removed, the roof and walls need to be repaired, the ground needs to be re-tidyed and covered with tiles, and the doors and windows need to be replaced.

After a rough estimate, the demolition costs, repair costs, labor and material costs required would be enough for about thirty taels of silver.

Then there are the equipment inside. Since we are going to open a donkey-hide gelatin medicine workshop, we first need a big pot. It is not easy to make donkey-hide gelatin once, so the bigger the pot, the better, so that we can make more at one time. It doesn't need to be too big, 400L is enough.

If you have a pot, you need a stove. How big a stove would be needed to put such a big pot? Wen Qingcheng remembered that she had visited the donkey-hide gelatin industrial park in her previous life and had seen the equipment in their factory. According to her memory, she designed a stove directly under the pot and drew a stirring shovel on the drawing, setting it up as a double scraper, so that it would not easily stick to the pot.

The whole set of equipment is connected. The pot and the stirring device are on a large machine. There is a manual joystick on the side, so people can easily control the stirring shovel, which is very labor-saving.

For this boiler alone, Wen Qingcheng revised the manuscript dozens of times. Finally, it was finalized and he was waiting to find a blacksmith shop to make the equipment.

The next step is to wash the donkey skin. Wen Qingcheng is considering whether to build a special washing device. There is no electricity in the Great Qi Dynasty, so even if a washing device is designed, it cannot be fully automatic. He can only design a simple large basin and design drainage.

Shaving can only be done manually, and blanching can only be done by building a few more stoves and iron buckets. Slicing is still done by hand, and finally drying can be done by building a few more racks.

After all the calculations, it will be more expensive to customize the equipment, and the total investment will not exceed 70 taels.

When there are more workers in the future, we will find the village head to buy land and build another yard behind the workshop to serve as dormitory for the workers.

Wen Qingcheng wrote and drew on a pile of papers, design drawings and project lists. After stretching, she went downstairs and saw the door of the study on the first floor was open. She saw Ye Xiuying sitting at the desk, concentrating on writing big characters.

"Mom, what are you doing?"

It was not until Wen Qingcheng spoke that Ye Xiuying raised her head. "Qingcheng, you're down here. Please help me check if what I wrote is correct."

Wen Qingcheng saw Ye Xiuying folding rice paper into neat grids and writing numbers from one to ten on them. "Mom, you've started learning so soon, that's great."

"Yes, my daughter and son are both so outstanding. I think thirty-seven is the right age to make breakthroughs. I also need to learn more so that I can help you."

"Mom, you are so kind." Wen Qingcheng hugged Ye Xiuying's neck and leaned forward. "Mom, I think it's impossible for Doctor Wang to sell all the donkey-hide gelatin in a short time. We don't need to rush it now. Why don't we find someone to demolish the workshop in the backyard and repair it? We will need to renovate it later, which will also take a lot of time."

"Qingcheng, we have money now, you can arrange it, and I'll find the people to do the work." After Ye Xiuying finished speaking, she suddenly remembered, "Oh, by the way, you should keep the one thousand taels your elder brother Mo left for you, don't put it here or there and forget about it."

Wen Qingcheng had already put the one thousand into the space, so even if a thief wanted to find it, he would not be able to find it after searching the whole house.

"Mom, why don't you deposit the 70 taels at the bank first? I just did a budget and it won't take more than 100 taels. Even if you add the materials you need to buy later, it will only be around taels."

"Qingcheng, open a separate account and deposit it in a bank. You are an adult now. This money is for Chuyi's investment in Wenji. You should keep it."

Wen Qingcheng nodded. The one thousand taels would just sit there anyway, so it would be better to deposit it in a bank, where it could earn some interest every year.

At dusk, Wen Qingcheng came to the riverbank of Yueya Village and saw the three brothers of the Ruan family fishing on the river. It had been a long time since she saw Ruan Sanlang, so Wen Qingcheng greeted him from afar. "Third brother——"

"Qingcheng?" Ruan Sanlang faced the light, put on the blindfold with his hand, squinted his eyes and saw that it was indeed Wen Qingcheng.

Ruan Sanlang quickly dropped his fishing net, washed his hands in the river, and went to meet Wen Qingcheng. "Qingcheng, why are you back so early?"

"Oh, I resigned from Wangji."

"Quitted?" Ruan Sanlang was a little surprised, then sighed: "Well, it's better not to do it. The last time I went to dinner with you, I ran into the eldest son of Wang Ji. He looked like a bad guy, and I was worried that you would suffer. Now that you've quit, just stay at home and rest. You don't have to make a career as a girl. Like you did before, you could check on the villagers and give them acupuncture, which is good enough."

Wen Qingcheng smiled and briefly told about her recent situation. Ruan Sanlang was also very surprised to hear that Wen Qingcheng passed the junior pharmacist exam, and even praised Wen Qingcheng for being smart. "Fortunately, your hard work during the time you worked at Wangji from early morning to late night was not in vain, and you finally passed the exam."

"I plan to open a small medicine shop in the village, and I will use the existing workshops in my backyard. I plan to demolish part of it first. You know, our backyard used to be an oil press, and there are still some equipment in it. The roof is leaking, so I plan to find someone to demolish and repair it first. When my family was building the house, the brothers you found worked very efficiently."

Ruan Sanlang understood what Wen Qingcheng meant. "Okay, if you need me, I'll get them all here. It just so happens that they don't have anything to do recently."

Wen Qingcheng was overjoyed. "That's great. I will refer to the market price and give you more. But I don't know much about you. I mean, how do you calculate the cost of demolition and repair? It shouldn't be based on daily labor, right? Is it based on square meters?"