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"We'll write a few deeds later. You go with Mrs. Luo and ask the people who are willing to make the corks to put their fingerprints on them."

"By the way, can you read?" Zheng Yuan suddenly thought of this.

They are both illiterate. If Ah Cheng doesn't know how to do it, they will have to go find Mr. Yuan.

The two were unwilling to give him the opportunity to show off his superiority.

Ah Cheng nodded: "I went to school for a few years when I was young, but I stopped later. But my father was a peddler and he was always on the road, so he had the habit of keeping accounts. I helped him keep accounts, and I haven't forgotten it after all these years."

"Can you write?"

"I can write, but not very well." Ah Cheng scratched his head embarrassedly.

"It doesn't matter, as long as I can see it clearly."

"Mrs. Luo, come here too!" Duan Minmin called over Mrs. Luo who was washing roses.

"Sister Luo, we'll let Ah Cheng go with you later. You can have the deeds signed by those who can do it, and bring them back to us, and then we can start. Now tell Ah Cheng about the households you can confirm, so we can prepare the deeds."

"Yes, ma'am!"

Zheng Yuan took out the paper and took Mrs. Luo and Acheng to prepare the deed.

Duan Minmin asked Shunzi's father to stop making the seal and first make a few bottle corks according to her requirements, so that Mrs. Luo could take them to make samples for them.

Shunzi's father was a carpenter. He held the glass bottle in his hand and looked at it for a while before he began to carve it. After he had roughly shaped it, he took it to the mouth of the bottle and tried to adjust it. Then he made a bottle stopper that was small at the bottom and big at the top, and had a threading hole.

Duan Minmin tried it and found it was just the right size, neither too big nor too small, so she asked him to make twenty-seven more in the same way. This was the number of households that Mrs. Luo had counted.

The corks were made here, and the contract was almost finished.

The contract was not a very complicated one. It was just to prevent someone from making trouble about it, so Zheng Yuan asked Ah Cheng to write it simply as long as the meaning could be expressed clearly.

The deeds and bottle stoppers were ready. The two of them took a basket and put in the same glass bottles that Mrs. Luo had reported to the households, and asked them to distribute one to each household together with the bottle stoppers and learn from each other.

Mrs. Luo and Ah Cheng left, and Zheng Yuan began to prepare dinner. The number of people eating in the afternoon was about the same as in the morning, and since the writing of the contract took some time, it would be faster now.

Duan Minmin took care of four distillation steamers alone and also had to find time to help Zheng Yuan.

Fortunately, Zheng Yuan managed to cook the meal before the sun completely set.

Mrs. Luo and Acheng also came back, and things went smoothly.

As usual, the two asked Shunzi to call Manager Fang.

Looking at the greasy pork belly and the equally greasy side dishes on the table, everyone couldn't help swallowing.

God knows how hard it was for them to endure when Zheng Yuan was cooking just now.

The bricklayer who had just built the stove looked at the things on the table and was even more grateful that he didn't have to finish building three stoves at once that day, otherwise he would not be able to have this meal.

Had another delicious meal.

After the meal, the two paid Shunzi's father and the bricklayer.

A mason's stove costs 100 wen excluding materials, but their package including labor and materials costs 150 wen.

As for Shunzi's father, the total cost of the frame and the seal was 1,900 wen. The seal was more expensive, 180 wen each. Shunzi's father did not count the money for the bottle corks.

Although the seal was not yet finished, the two gave him the money. He would not run away anyway, and the money would be paid sooner or later.

After helping to clean up the dishes, Mrs. Luo and a few others wanted to stay and help them keep watch at night, but the two refused.

Today, they had to settle the bill with Mr. Yuan for more than 24,000 kilograms of roses. Even if they just had to wash them, the four people would be very tired. How could they have the nerve to ask them to come back in the evening?

The two wanted to add two more people, but Luo's wife and the others refused to let them go and refused to help them find the person. They said that the four of them were not enough to do this job and they couldn't let the two of them take care of them like this.

There was no choice but for the two of them to give up for the time being. If they really couldn't handle it, they would just add more people.

After everyone left, the two of them took Ah Cheng and started to get busy again.

Although their courtyard had few places to live, there were still a few rooms. Manager Fang had prepared two sets of bedding for them. Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin slept together, and the other set was just right for Ah Cheng.

They can no longer hold the hydrosol, and if they don’t bottle it, their basins will run out.

The bottles are all clean, but in order to extend their shelf life, they have to be steamed again.

Although hydrosol does not contain any preservatives, it contains 100% plant water-soluble substances. If it is sealed, the shelf life can reach one to two years, and if it is opened, it can be kept for three to six months.

However, in order to extend the shelf life, it is naturally better to reduce the possibility of pollution as much as possible.

Fortunately, the owner of the yard left behind a lot of steamers, so they didn't have to buy new ones. They could just wash them and steam them.

The three of them were so busy that they almost felt dizzy while steaming the glass bottles to disinfect them and filling them with pure water.

I don't know how long they were busy, but when the temperature had dropped to the point where people were shivering, the three of them finally finished packaging all the pure dew.

Last night was Zheng Yuan's night, and tonight Duan Minmin insisted that she go to bed first. Ah Cheng offered to help, but was also sent to bed.

The two men couldn't persuade her and had to obey her and go back to their room.

Zheng Yuan had a dreamless night and only woke up when he heard Mrs. Luo and others coming in and talking.

I was so tired yesterday that I could hardly stand when I got up. My back and waist were sore. I couldn’t imagine how tired Duan Minmin was last night.

Zheng Yuan quickly put on his shoes and ran out. Smiling, he quickly made breakfast for everyone and asked Duan Minmin to go back to sleep.

These days are even more miserable than those of cattle and horses.

"Yuanbao, are you awake?"

Duan Minmin was talking to Mrs. Luo and the others in the yard, and she looked quite energetic.

"Well, I almost couldn't wake up. You must be tired. I'll make breakfast right away and you can go to sleep." Zheng Yuan rubbed his eyes and walked towards the kitchen.

"Okay. Look, my sister-in-law and the others brought us so many things. I told them not to accept them, but they disagreed, saying that they were all given by the villagers." Duan Minmin pointed at the things that Sister Luo and the others brought.

Only then did Zheng Yuan notice that they were carrying several baskets full of vegetables.

"Sister-in-law, what are you doing? Take it back quickly. We will buy it when we need it. What do you want to eat now that you have brought it to us?" Zheng Yuan woke up from his sleep.

Although they are just vegetables and radishes, they are the survival of the people living in their alley. I am afraid that my family would not be willing to eat them like this.

"Mrs. Zheng, Mrs. Duan, just accept it. We don't have anything good to offer, so we can only bring these worthless things. Although it's not as good as what you two ladies would give us, it may be good to save you some travel time."

"Yes, ma'am, we know you are kind-hearted and are worried that we have nothing to eat at home. Don't worry, this is all collected from the east and west, so we still have some at home."

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin looked at each other and took the basket. They both said that if they didn't accept it, they would be wasting the kindness of others.

"That's fine, we'll accept it. Sister-in-law, please go back and thank us for us."