The whole family travels through time: escape from famine! No cheat codes yet!

Chapter 341: Reluctant to let go of the child but unable to trap the wolf

The old lady was gone, but Shen Zhiqiu looked at his daughter with resentment. If you didn't know, you would have thought that his wife wanted to divorce him, and his daughter chose his wife without saying a word.

Shen Youyou pretended not to notice her father's look and continued to write on the paper with a charcoal pencil, writing down the plants she could think of that could be used as dyes in this season:

"Madder: The root contains alizarin and madderin, which are the ingredients that allow the red dye to be extracted from madder."

In rural areas, madder is a very common plant. It grows on hillsides and grasslands. This madder does not look like a vine.

But it can climb better than vines because its plant is relatively slender, with more branches and leaves, and its stems and leaves are relatively rough.

So it won’t fall off easily when it’s attached to other plants, but it’s also more troublesome when it grows into a large patch!

Rural people hate it the most when it grows in large patches in the fields, because it is difficult to hoe it out and its stems are prickly to the touch.

So it is difficult to pull it out. If you wait until the madder grows seeds before hoeing it out, it will be even more troublesome.

Because its seeds easily fall to the ground, people generally don't notice it, so it will grow again next year!

Although he was a weed in the eyes of the farmers, they even saw a lot of him when they were clearing the land.

But this madder plant has medicinal value. It has the effects of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, as well as promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Almost all of them were picked up by Grandpa Guo.

However, in this season, it can be seen everywhere in the fields and is not difficult to find.

“Purple grass: Its roots are rich in shikonin, which has a strong dyeing ability. It can be ground into powder and soaked or boiled with cellulose materials to dissolve shikonin in water and extract purple.”

Its dried roots are also used as medicine, which has the effects of cooling blood, activating blood, clearing heat, detoxifying and clearing rashes. It can treat warm-heat macules, damp-heat jaundice, vomiting blood, maggot blood, hematuria, stranguria, bloody dysentery, heat-stagnation constipation, burns, eczema, erysipelas and other diseases.

You can even soak comfrey directly in oil. After a period of time, the oil will turn purple-red. You can add some beeswax to make lip balm or comfrey ointment, which can treat mosquito bites.

"Indigo: It is Isatis root, also a traditional Chinese medicine, and it also has a blue color."

She was so focused on recording that Shen Zhiqiu couldn't help but say, "Girl, are you going to go it alone with your grandma? Are we going to fall apart at the beginning of our business?"

Shen Youyou chuckled: "How can we fall apart? I have to have my own career when I grow up. Besides, for your group,

My grandma and the others are not related to our girl group. I will try it with my grandma first. If it sells well, I will then go it alone with my grandma and sisters.

I calculated the bill for my grandma, to be honest, because I figured out that you guys wouldn't get much money at the beginning.

Just think about it, how many shoe soles can you sell in a month? If the net profit for a month is 100 taels, how much money will each of you get?

Unless your net profit is 1,000 taels, most people can only earn about 1.5 taels of silver.

But how many shoe soles can you get if you sell one thousand taels? Dad, I am helping you share the pressure!"

Shen Zhiqiu was helpless: "Okay, okay, I can't argue with you, but you have to take care of the model thing at the beginning, and make some patterns and so on."

Shen Youyou continued to write at her desk, and said without turning her head: "Got it."

Shen Zhiqiu left, but Li Jingshu didn't. She said, "If you really want to do it, you have to work hard. Don't let your grandma get angry. If you feel that this thing is not challenging enough, then change it. Your grandma will definitely get angry with you then."

Shen Youyou didn't care at all: "Don't worry, this is easy to handle."

We’ll talk about it later, but at least this business definitely made money quickly in ancient times. How could she give it up easily? She also wanted to buy a mountain.

That’s right, Shen Youyou came here to buy a mountain top. To be precise, she had her eyes on several small hills around them. Fangshan does not belong to the village, so people can only go up there to pick mountain products but cannot buy them.

But those small mounds of earth can be purchased, and she has to wait for her father to make money to buy the hills. She doesn't know how long that will take, so she might as well start her own business.

After recording several dyeable materials that can be found in the north during this season, Shen Youyou washed, brushed, and applied perfume, and soon fell asleep, sleeping soundly.

Even in my dreams, I dreamed of selling a lot of plastic jewelry and being surrounded by a pile of gold, making a fortune.

But Old Mrs. Hua couldn't sleep. To be more precise, Shen Youyou's words kept replaying in her mind.

After washing his feet and getting on the kang, Old Man Shen was so tired after a long day that he was about to fall asleep as soon as he touched the pillow. However, his wife tossed and turned, and all his sleepiness disappeared.

"Haruko's mom, what are you doing? Are you tired today and can't sleep because of the pain in your waist?"

Old Lady Hua opened her eyes, turned over, and said to the old man: "Today Yoyo said to me..."

The old lady spoke like a machine gun, repeating everything Shen Youyou said. There were so many words, and she actually learned most of them from her old man in one breath.

I really wonder how she remembered it.

Father Shen digested what his wife had just said and said, "Okay, our good grandson is a good calculator, just do whatever she says.

You can use our family's money yourself. Since this is a business between the two of you, you have to buy the sweet potatoes for making plastic sheets from the public. There are so many people watching, so don't make it difficult for the third child. "

Old Mrs. Hua sighed, wondering how could she have forgotten about this. She still had to buy sweet potatoes to make starch and plastic sheeting. She wondered if her granddaughters would be able to help her by then.

In fact, Shen Youyou had never thought about buying sweet potatoes to make plastic sheeting. She had already made plans. She would use glycerin to exchange starch with his father and his gang. You know, the production method of glycerin is rather difficult, and for now, he is the only one who can make it.

Although the amount of glycerin used is small, it is still more than the plastic used in the shoe soles made by his father. And in terms of efficiency, making jewelry is definitely not as fast as making shoe soles, so changing it won't make much of a difference.

But the key is that Mrs. Hua didn't know her plan. After a while, the old lady couldn't lie down anymore, because she remembered again: "It's not that there is no cost, sweet potatoes need cost,

To make that kind of oil, you have to use lard, and now there is no free palm oil for us to use, and there is also vinegar and alkali, oh my!

It’s bad. I wasn’t paying attention to the raw materials just now. Now I’m thinking about the extremely expensive dyes. The old lady is really not sure whether she can make money. "

Father Shen asked: "What's going on? Stop thinking about it and go to bed early."

Old Lady Hua: "The cost also includes dyes, vinegar, soda ash, and that oil. I heard that dyes are extremely expensive."

Father Hua said: "Don't bother yourself. Our little granddaughter is not as good at calculating as you are. She probably has already calculated these accounts a long time ago. If she feels that it is not profitable, she will not ask you to do it."

But it is not so easy to be at ease. I thought for a while, why not try it with public funds first, and then pay it back when I make money, but if I don’t make money, then...

Then she looked at her old man, who had closed his eyes. This was definitely not going to work, and the old man couldn't give in. Thinking about the money that was about to be spent, her heart ached!

Finally, it was really late, and if I didn't sleep, it would be dawn. I knew how to comfort myself: "Forget it, don't think about it, if it doesn't work, I'll just have to pay the money.

She just thought of it as playing with her little granddaughter for a while. In her granddaughter's words, that was buying dreams with money or something. She really didn't want to think about it anymore. If you don't sacrifice your child, you can't catch the wolf. If you don't sacrifice your money, you can't become the boss! "