noffsinger Chapter 181 Take Care of Your Skin
Chapter 181 Take Care of Your Skin
After parting with the broker, the two walked on the busy streets of the county town. While no one was paying attention to them, Bai Jingzhou whispered to Gu Wenxuan, "When do you want to go?"
Gu Wenxuan, "Before the autumn harvest, let's bring more helpers this time."
After all, the place they were going to next was a large-scale bandit den.
"Let's go to the cosmetics and cloth shop." Gu Wenxuan said as she turned around, "I want to buy some facial cream and some gauze."
Bai Jingzhou nodded slightly, "Okay."
The two of them then turned into a roadside cosmetics shop.
Gu Wenxuan picked out a moderately priced facial cream, and then went to the cloth shop with Bai Jingzhou.
"Madam, please give me a piece of gauze for a veil."
The proprietress responded and took out a roll of black gauze and put it on the counter.
Bai Jingzhou looked at Gu Wenxuan in surprise, "Why did you suddenly think of wearing a veil hat?"
This is not Gu Wenxuan's style.
Gu Wenxuan touched her face and winked at him mischievously, "Because I don't want to be a little black boy anymore."
Bai Jingzhou: ...
Gu Wenxuan took out her purse and prepared to pay. "I looked at our new shop, and it only had various cloths and some cheap silks, but not the gauze I wanted."
Bai Jingzhou came back to his senses from her mumbling, "Are you planning to take care of your skin?"
Gu Wenxuan nodded.
Before, she had no food or clothing, so she couldn't care about these things, but now the situation is different, she doesn't need to fight so recklessly anymore.
She didn't expect her skin to be as white and tender as a peeled egg. After all, she was a yellow person. But it was still necessary to restore her previous healthy light wheat-colored skin.
Bai Jingzhou was amused by her words, "Then it seems I have to pay attention to it too."
He is also quite dark. There is no way, because the original owner of this body is also a herbalist who has to endure the wind and sun for a long time.
Gu Wenxuan nodded vigorously, "Then I'll buy more. When I get back, I'll ask Second Aunt to make a thicker version of the veil hat for you and all the girls in the family."
One layer of gauze is not enough to protect against the sun, and cloth has poor breathability, so Gu Wenxuan plans to buy more and then sew two more layers on.
The proprietress who was listening attentively:...
She quickly glanced at Bai Jingzhou. Although it was good for her to make money, this young man was a boy!
Are boys now so obsessed with beauty? Wouldn't it be very stressful for women, especially those who live a rough life like her?
Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou had no idea what the proprietress was thinking. After discussing it, they felt that they would need quite a lot of gauze, so they simply bought two pieces of the cheapest gauze in the store.
I don’t know if it’s because this gauze is more difficult to make, but it’s more expensive than ordinary fine cloth, costing one tael and two cents of silver per piece.
Gu Wenxuan felt a little sorry for the money, but for the sake of beauty, she gritted her teeth and paid for it.
After leaving the shop with the proprietress shouting "Welcome to visit next time", Bai Jingzhou said to Gu Wenxuan, "When we get back, I will make some skin care products with whitening and tenderizing effects myself."
Gu Wenxuan nodded vigorously.
The lead content in cosmetics these days is very high, so she doesn't plan to use it, but basic skin care is essential.
Bai Jingzhou was willing to do it, which was better than her going to the shops in the county town to buy them. After all, those things cost money, and their effects were only the most basic moisturizing effect.
The two men stayed in the county town for one night and got up early the next day. They first hired a carriage to transport the cloth, ready-made clothes and other items in the shop back to the village. Then they went to the two new farms they had bought and met the farmers who were a little uneasy because their owners had changed.
The autumn harvest was approaching, and neither Gu Wenxuan nor Bai Jingzhou planned to make the three major changes that a new official would make at this critical juncture.
They met all the farmers in batches, comforted those who needed to be comforted, and reprimanded those who needed to be reprimanded, telling them to work as they should, not to panic, but also not to cheat or play tricks.
Most of the farmers are honest farmers, and only a few have evil intentions. With Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou's abilities, they can't make any waves under their hands.
After achieving a smooth handover between the old and new owners, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou returned to Baijia Village.
She found her father Gu Yongming, her mother Jia Guizhi, Jia Yuelan, Bai Jingshan, Ning Qirui, and the six brothers of the Fang family, and then through her father, she called Gu Xing's husband Fang Dashan, and his three younger brothers Fang Dahe, Fang Dazhong, and Fang Daping.
Although the four Fang Dashan brothers had never practiced martial arts, they were all very strong. Three or five young and middle-aged men who had also never practiced martial arts could not beat any one of them.
This was not Gu Wenxuan's own estimate. She heard it from Old Man Gu. According to him, in the fleeing team that included the Gu family and the Fang family, the Fang Dashan brothers and their fathers were the main fighting force.
Together with these fifteen people and her and Bai Jingzhou, there are a total of seventeen people in their group.
Seventeen people are not a lot, and the gap is huge compared to the total number of that gang of bandits. But Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou don’t plan to confront them head-on, right?
They are not the kind of people who insist on pursuing "openness" and "honesty". When dealing with bandits, the means are not important, as long as the effect is good.
Gu Yongming and Jia Guizhi didn't know at first that this time Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou were targeting a large bandit camp with a total population of about three hundred people. They thought that they were targeting a small-scale bandit nest with less than fifty people, just like before.
After saying goodbye to their families, the next day, a group of seventeen people got up early and, led by Bai Jingzhou, quietly left the village before the villagers came out for activities.
They were in a hurry, so Bai Jingzhou did not plan to take the official road. After determining the geographical location of Shuanmaling, he decided to take everyone along the mountain road.
It would take ordinary people four to five days to walk from Baijia Village to Shuanmaling along the mountain road, but they were different. In their team, even the four brothers Fang Dashan who had never practiced martial arts were good at walking and climbing because of their height, long legs and great strength.
Bai Jingzhou estimated that the journey would take three days, of course, provided that they did not encounter rainy days.
The group entered the mountains from the end of Baijia Village and headed westward.
They walked on a narrow and narrow path trampled by the mountain people, which was not very obvious. During their journey, every time it got dark, they would directly find the mountain people and ask for a place to stay.
The mountain people live a hard life. Not only is farming difficult, even building houses is a hundred times more difficult than outside the mountains.