Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress-Chapter 2024 - 2032: Personally Proposing Marriage (1)

At night, when Yanran returned to the small courtyard where she was staying at the Shen Mansion as a guest, she began crafting An Xiang Pills. Before the opening of Wenyàn Pavilion, Yanran had already purchased all the materials and tools for crafting rouge perfumes, so she directly instructed Nanny Zhang to gather some flowers and herbs and began crafting.

Nanny Zhang followed her instructions, found Bai Zhi, Lavender, Iris, Artemisia argyi, Mi Tuo Seng, and also took honey from the kitchen, which she handed to Yanran. Yanran ground the flowers and herbs into powder and mixed them uniformly with honey to make pigeon egg-sized pills, then refrigerated them. After a day, she personally took them to the shop and gave them to the girl beside Lady Ge, instructing her to take three pills every early morning with warm water, and four pills at night.

The girl jotted it down and hurriedly went back.

An Xiang Pills were found by Yanran from a book titled "To Supplement a Book on the Subject" by her Mother, specifically for treating fox’s odor. Using them according to the course can gradually cure it, and long-term intake can also make the whole body fragrant.

Lady Ge applied Peach Blossom Cold Incense Powder externally and took An Xiang Pills internally. Within seven days, she indeed felt fresh and comfortable. After a few more days, even without fragrant dew to cover it, the unpleasant smell notably diminished. She was greatly delighted, seemingly reborn, and hurriedly sought Yanran to order several boxes of An Xiang Pills again.

In a blink, New Year arrived. Yanran and her younger brother stayed as guests at the Shen Family and spent the year with Sister Juhua and her family.

Sister Juhua’s family was very harmonious, filled with kind elders, innocent children, and the atmosphere inside the home was warm and harmonious. Yanran enjoyed being with them. However, she occasionally felt a bit lost because after all, this warm family was not hers; she was just a guest among people.

Sometimes, she would secretly think, if in the future she has a home too, she would certainly manage her family as lovingly as Sister Juhua, letting her home be filled with a pleasant and joyful atmosphere...

During the New Year period, although the rouge powder shop was closed for rest, Yanran did not have a day off. She collected flowers and herbs everywhere, and during the few days of New Year, she made many high-quality rouges.

On the sixth, the shop opened, and what Yanran did not expect was that just after opening the door, a large group of Madames rushed into the shop. Dressed in gorgeous attire, all accompanied by maid servants, they demanded the rouges that Yanran personally crafted.

Those rouges, which previously languished on the shelf without anyone asking, suddenly became hot commodities. Everyone crowded together, continuously consulting Yanran about their skin issues, asking which rouge would be good for them.

"Miss Yuwen, I ate a bit too much greasy food over the New Year, and a few days ago broke out with a lot of pimples. After the pimples subsided, they left quite a few marks. Look at this... this... so unsightly. Do you have any recipe that can help me get rid of these marks? I don’t care how much silver it costs."

The one asking was the wife of a wealthy merchant. Her head adorned with jewels, her neck and wrist wrapped with several thick and shiny gold chains, clearly a person not short of money, as long as she could get rid of her acne marks, spending more silver was no concern.

Yanran took a blue and white porcelain bottle from the shelf and handed it to this wealthy woman whose face was oily and full of acne marks.

"This is Boiling Ointment, made by coarsely grinding eight kinds of Chinese medicine, boiling it thoroughly with distilled wine, then removing the residue and keeping the juice before mixing with sugar, honey, borneol powder, cinnabar surface, using this to apply on the cheeks can fade pigmentation and whiten the skin, beneficial and harmless. Moreover, all of my rouge ointments are natural flower and herb formulas, and have been tried on my own skin. Before using, Madam, you can rub a bit on your wrist or behind your ear, and if there is no reaction after half a day, then it can be used..."

"Miss Yuwen, my hair volume is sparse and yellowish, is there anything that can improve my hair quality and volume?"

The one asking was a lady in her thirties; though her hair was neither yellowish nor sparse, she presumably asked on behalf of her daughter or female relatives, since someone really with sparse and yellowish hair would be too embarrassed to appear, hence let her inquire and buy instead.