"Mom, I'm back." Wen Qingcheng led the horse to the stable, and heard Ye Xiuying coming to the yard carrying the child.

When Wen Yuxue saw Wen Qingcheng, she cried out excitedly. Wen Qingcheng skipped over and pinched Wen Yuxue's little face.

"Is everything going well?"

"It went smoothly. There weren't many people there, so I deposited the money right away. This time I deposited a large amount, and the bank staff made me some tea and snacks, and even took me to a private room to deposit the money."

Ye Xiuying said happily: "This is one thousand taels, so it is naturally different from ordinary deposits."

"Mom, I have another good news to tell you..." Wen Qingcheng kept it a secret.

"What?" Ye Xiuying's eyes sparkled.

"guess?"

"Oh, how can I guess that? I guess you met a master in the county town. He was the emperor who was on a secret tour. He saw that you were smart and cute, so he adopted you as his daughter and wanted to take you to the palace to be a princess." Ye Xiuying teased.

"Mom, you have such a rich imagination! Let me tell you directly, all the donkey-hide gelatin we put in Lianjitang has been sold." Wen Qingcheng said as he took out two taels of silver from his lapel.

Ye Xiuying took the money and said happily, "It was sold so quickly!"

"Yes, and Doctor Wang said that he wants us to make another pot. Someone has already made a reservation and paid the deposit."

"That's great. I didn't expect this donkey-hide gelatin to sell so well. I thought it was so expensive that no one would buy it."

"It's not that people don't accept expensive things, but they don't accept expensive things that are not worth the money. If the effect is good, people will buy it no matter how expensive it is."

Wen Qingcheng and Ye Xiuying entered the house and continued, "Doctor Wang told me that this is a young lady from a family in the county town. She has had a weak cough since she was a child. Doctor Wang has used many medicines for her but none of them worked. This time he gave her a try and prescribed her two pieces of our donkey-hide gelatin. The young lady took it for a few days and it worked. He asked Doctor Wang to buy more, but Doctor Wang had already sold the remaining donkey-hide gelatin to other patients. The family just paid a deposit and asked Doctor Wang to buy a few more kilograms to keep at home."

Ye Xiuying said hurriedly: "Then we have to prepare it quickly. We can't delay the young lady's use. We have to use it continuously for the best effect."

"Of course. The sooner we do it, the better. If anyone else thinks it's good, we can make a decision later. We'll have to hurry up and do our work."

"Then I'll go to town and buy some donkey skins. If it doesn't work, I'll buy two more. If there are more orders later, we can rush to make them. I'll definitely bargain with him this time."

"Well, let's talk about it first. It's just a donkey meat restaurant. When we open our workshop and start mass production, we have to find a bigger place, or find a professional purchasing worker to buy from all over the country."

"Qingcheng, why don't we find someone to help us now? We were able to make glue last time thanks to Chuyi and Axuan. It may be difficult for two women like us to do it alone."

"Of course we need manpower. Let's just outsource the work. We can ask someone to help when we boil the glue."

"Do you mean to buy the donkey skin and let others process it for us?" Ye Xiuying asked.

"Yes, we can find an idle man in the village and ask him to clean and shave the donkey skin for us. We can save a lot of effort. It can basically be done in two days. For this job, we can pay 300 yuan per skin. There will definitely be someone to do it."

Ye Xiuying thought about it and agreed. Now they should buy more donkey skins and bargain for 400-500 coins per piece. No matter how they calculated, they would not lose money.

The mother and daughter did what they said. They drove the carriage to the town that afternoon and brought back three donkey skins. Wen Qingcheng drove the carriage back and said, "Mom, you are really amazing. As soon as you said you didn't want them, the boss agreed to give us 400 each."

"They don't need this stuff, even if they want to feed their dogs. Who has the patience to clean and shave? If we take this, it's like they're getting the money for free. How could they not agree?"

"Who should we find to do this? They need to be careful and clean." Wen Qingcheng thought about the familiar people in the village. "Let Aunt Song Jiao do it."

Ye Xiuying thought for a moment and said, "This job is dirty and tiring. Your Aunt Song Jiao may not be able to do it. When our workshop is up and running, we can let her do some easier work. I think we should let Xiao Liu ask around. She is the gossiper in the village. It would be best if it were a woman because women work more carefully. Those idle men in our village may not be able to do this job. They are lazy and don't want to farm or go out to find work, so they become idle men. These men are all unreliable. I would rather let women do it."

The carriage slowly drove into Yueya Village, and as expected, they ran into Xiao Liu and her friends at the entrance of the village. Several old ladies and women gathered together, eating melons and chatting. When they saw Wen Qingcheng driving the carriage, they all focused their eyes on her and stretched their necks to talk to her.

Wen Qingcheng was looking for her. Without waiting for her to speak, he stopped his horse and said with a smile, "Sister-in-law is chatting here."

When Xiao Liu saw Wen Qingcheng taking the initiative to talk to her, she immediately stepped forward cheerfully, "Yes, Qingcheng, where have you been?"

As she spoke, she looked into the carriage, curious about who was in it. Ye Xiuying simply lifted the curtain, which put an end to Xiao Liu's curiosity.

"Oh, Sister Ye is here too. Where have you and your daughter gone, dressed so beautifully? Don't let anyone snatch you away." After Xiao Liu finished speaking, several women giggled.

These were just some harmless jokes, and Ye Xiuying would not take them seriously. They were just wearing ordinary clothes and were not dressed up, but they were always more decently dressed than other ladies in the village.

"My mother and I went to the town and bought some donkey skins," Ye Xiuying replied.

"What do you want to buy the donkey skin for?" Little Liu glanced into the carriage from time to time.

"My daughter recently invented donkey-hide gelatin, and donkey skin is the raw material for making donkey-hide gelatin. We recently received an order from someone in the city who wanted to order donkey-hide gelatin from us, but there are only two of us at home doing the work, and we are afraid that we will not be able to do it in time, so we want to outsource the work of cleaning the donkey skin and scraping the hair." Ye Xiuying explained patiently.

Several onlookers stared at Wen Qingcheng and her daughter in amazement. One of the older ladies asked, "I heard you were renovating the original oil press in the backyard? Are you planning to make donkey skins?"

Ye Xiuying smiled and nodded, which was considered as tacit agreement. Wen Qingcheng smiled at Xiao Liu and said, "Sister-in-law, we thought that you have a wide network of contacts, so we would like to ask you to help introduce someone. It takes about two days to clean and shave the donkey skin. We will pay 300 coins for each skin."

After Wen Qingcheng finished speaking, the eyes of the onlookers all lit up. Xiao Liu rolled her eyes and said, "Then why are you looking for someone? I'll do it for you. My mother-in-law, my daughter and I can shave the hair together in one day."

"Not only do you need to shave, you also need to blanch it and remove the roots of the small hairs. It must be done very cleanly."

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