All Hail Cousin Brother

I heard that the shopkeeper was Mrs. Xie's former maid, and she had a special relationship with the young lady. This shows that the young lady really took them into her heart.

Later, the Xie Mansion wanted to evacuate Quanzhou, and Bai Shao and Qing Xiu, like them, were among the first batch to come.

They are three-room people and are responsible for repairing the house in the mansion.

Bai Shao and Qing Xiu were outside the house, busy preparing for the fragrant medicine.

The two became veritable stewards.

In terms of status, they can't compare with them, but in terms of pity, only Dongmei and Chunxiao in front of the eldest lady can compare with them.

Thinking of this, Butler Jiang greeted with a smile: "Miss Bai Shao, you are not busy today? Why do you have time to go back home?"

The lady wants to expand Zhiyulou's business nationwide and even overseas. She opened an incense shop in Xiangping and plans to supply the country's demand for incense.

Bai Shao is responsible for the preparation and operation of Xiangfang.

Qingxiu is responsible for recruiting workers and training on aromatic medicine knowledge.

The two of them had their hands full.

Bai Shao said politely: "Miss has been in Xiangping for several days. Today I came here specifically to pay homage to Miss and report to her about the fragrant medicine business."

Shopkeeper Wan quickly said: "In that case, I won't delay Miss Bai Shao's business."

When Yu Youyao was a child, Bai Shao and Qing Xiu served her grandmother. Apart from Aunt Liu, Bai Shao and Qing Xiu took the most care of her.

It had been a long time since she had seen Bai Shao. Yu Youyao was very happy. Before Bai Shao could salute, she stepped forward and took her hand: "Sister Bai Shao is here. Sit down and talk."

"I think the girl has settled down, so I have to come over and disturb the girl's peace." Bai Shao smiled slightly, supported Yu Youyao, and sat down on the short side.

It wasn't until Yu Youyao sat firmly that she sat next to Yu Youyao.

Bai Shao picked up the tea tray, took a few pieces of lychee charcoal from the small yellow clay stove and put it on the tea tray. She took the tea leaves from the tea box, sprinkled them on the charcoal fire, and covered the tea and charcoal with a tea cup.

Then he picked up the teapot and slowly poured hot water into it.

The hot water is absorbed by the charcoal tea in the bowl, and the tea bowl boils. The golden tea overflows along the rim of the cup, and the rich tea aroma is filled with the unique burnt aroma of roasted tea.

Baked tea may seem simple, but it requires skill.

How to retain the original mellowness of tea leaves under charcoal grilling, and then incorporate the unique aroma of charcoal grilling itself, is generally difficult to achieve without a few years of effort.

Bai Shao picked up the tea tray with one hand, held the bottom of the bowl with the other, slowly poured the roasted tea into the cup, and respectfully presented it to the lady: "Miss, please drink tea."

Yu Youyao took the tea cup. The charcoal tea absorbed the greenness of the tea leaves and became more mellow: "Why didn't Sister Qingxiu come with you?"

Bai Shao held a small clip and was peeling pine nuts: "The incense workshop is about to be put into operation. Qingxiu is responsible for recruiting workers, teaching rules, and some common sense about incense and medicine. She is too busy to touch the ground. She wanted to come, but she couldn't. I don’t want to get out of my way, but I plan to wait for the incense shop to open and then come over to say hello to you.”

Yu Youyao smiled while eating pine nuts: "It's hard for you to open such a big stall." In the past at Anshou Hall, Bai Shao was in charge of affairs, and Qingxiu was in charge of people. Both of them were Liu. Mammy trained me: "By the way, you have been in Xiangping City for more than three months, but are you still getting used to it?"

After their grandmother passed away, neither Bai Shao nor Qingxiu wanted to get married. They wanted to comb their hair and stay in the house as housekeepers and continue to serve her.

Privately, Yu Youyao didn't want them to keep serving others.

It happened that she wanted to start a fragrant medicine business and had no useful people, so she asked them what they wanted, and the two of them naturally did their part.

Mentioning this, Bai Shao also showed a smile: "We have never done anything outside before, and we have a lot of ideas, but when we do it, we are crossing the river by feeling for stones, and our eyes are in the dark. Fortunately, Mrs. Xie and Mrs. Xie Thanks to my help, Butler Wen also helped a lot, and the fragrance shop was perfected day by day. Although it was a bit harder, I also learned a lot. It is not as comfortable as before, but it is much more comfortable."

Being able to continue to work for the lady and to maximize their value, she and Qingxiu are very satisfied with their current lives.

Next, she mentioned the matter of Xiangfang.

The incense workshop was built in a village near Anshan in the south of Xiangping City.

There are currently about 300 people, and the number will increase or decrease in the future. According to the requirements of the eldest lady, priority will be given to the families of martyrs, followed by family members of current military personnel, followed by orphans, and then widowed mothers.

The staff are all introduced by Butler Wen, and then trained and observed by Qingxiu. After a second screening, the suitable ones will stay and make a contract with Xiangfang.

Those who have signed the contract of sale must be carefully inspected, and if they have the ability, they will be reused. Those who have signed the contract of work will only do the work of making fragrant medicine.

All the fragrant ingredients were in her and Qingxiu's hands.

The incense masters were also the maids who served the incense medicine in front of the young lady in the past. They learned a lot of skills from the former young lady, and it goes without saying that they are loyal.

In terms of spices and medicinal materials, we not only negotiated a contract with the largest spice and medicinal materials in Xiangping, but also had supplies from Lin Yan and the escort agency, so there was no shortage.

Now everything is ready, all we need is the east wind.

"We built a shop in the best area of ​​Xiangping, and took the Zhiyulou Xiangping main store. The layout of the store is modeled after Zhiyulou in Quanzhou, and the operation is similar to that there. Because the customs in the north and the south are different, the two places are the same. It’s different, Xiangfang is expected to start operations in early April, and the shops will also be opened one after another..."

Yu Youyao kept listening to what she said, and then knocked down the teacup, and said with a solemn expression: "Let's put the opening of the incense shop at a later time. Since ancient times, there have been ten disasters and nine plagues, and many refugees have poured into the northern border. We must take precautions as soon as possible." , Next, the incense shop will work hard to prepare various fragrant medicines that can dispel filth, purify, and avoid plague."

Hearing Bai Shao say that the Xiangfang was ready for operation, Yu Youyao breathed a sigh of relief.

Only with a well-equipped incense shop can we rush to get anti-epidemic fragrances with the greatest efficiency.

Bai Shao's face became more solemn: "I will contact the merchants who supply spices and medicinal materials in a moment and ask them to supply a large amount of spices and medicinal materials for making anti-epidemic incense. We will start making the anti-epidemic incense tonight."

Hearing what Bai Shao said, Yu Youyao felt relieved again: "Three hundred people are still too few. In my name, I will hire more temporary workers to speed up the production. Making fragrant medicine to avoid the epidemic is not difficult and the requirements are not High, considering that the process of making incense is relatively complicated, the steps of making incense can be separated, such as processing medicinal materials, grinding, sifting powder, mixing, etc., and assigning them to different people, so that they can only focus on one of them without being distracted by the others. This can form a large-scale streamlined production and speed up production.”

Bai Shao thought about it for a while and felt that this method was feasible: "I will contact Butler Wen and ask him to help hire a group of people. I will discuss the details of how to make it with Qingxiu and the incense masters in the incense workshop."