The Prime Minister Seduced Me to have Babies!-Chapter 510: I Truly Can’t Bear to Leave You
After the hundred soldiers returned to camp, all of them received sixty lashes.
A few who were seriously injured weren’t moved; it was still unclear whether they would survive.
The captain was beaten with a hundred lashes.
This wasn’t the end of it; everyone was ordered to leave the camp in three days, without even a severance package. Some, being far from home, didn’t even know where to get travel expenses.
It must be understood that these soldiers didn’t have to fight at the frontier, and stationed in the city, life was actually quite comfortable.
Day after day, there wasn’t much to do, and they still received pay.
Being discharged like this, they could only go back home to farm.
It was hard work, not to mention that it didn’t earn much money.
The barracks were filled with complaints; all the relatives of Liu Shoubi were thoroughly cursed by the soldiers.
Ah Qiu and Ah Yun took a walk around the barracks, only satisfied after returning.
They also knew that the Duke of England simply didn’t bother with such trivial matters, so there was no need to report it and disturb him from reuniting with his wife.
The Duke of England stayed for two more days before reluctantly leaving.
The Emperor only granted him fifteen days’ leave, so on the way back, he had to travel day and night.
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After seeing off the Duke of England, Yun Jiao did not rush to reveal anything but began to busily arrange various affairs.
She first sent someone to deliver a letter to Yu Jiajie, saying that her pharmacy would be closed and asked if he knew anyone interested in taking over.
For the next few days, Yun Jiao was immersed in the workshop.
Now, her uncle took care of technical matters in this workshop. When Yun Jiao wasn’t around, the workers would turn to him for any issues.
After taking medicine for half a year, his asthma was cured. Yun Jiao taught him hand in hand for several days on how to use distillation equipment and extract essences with various tools. He was now very skilled.
Princess Kang, upon knowing this, directly promoted her uncle to the steward of the workshop, specializing in technical matters, and offered a generous pay of ten taels of silver a month.
The first batch of perfume from the workshop had long been produced.
One kind was osmanthus perfume, with the osmanthus flowers that Yun Jiao had purchased earlier, kept in the pharmacy storeroom and as fresh as though just picked from the branch when taken out.
Another kind was perfume formulated by a perfumer, very similar to the kind from later times.
Yun Jiao custom-ordered some glazed and glass bottles, which when filled with perfume, had the colors shining through just as beautifully as when using jade bottles.
The first batch of perfume has now been shipped to the Capital City, and a message from there reported that as soon as the perfume arrived, it was snapped up by noble ladies, urging for the second batch to be sent immediately. The workshop is currently working overtime to produce more.
Princess Kang, with great ambition, was planning to expand the scale of the workshop, but upon hearing Yun Jiao’s intent to go to the Capital City, was almost stupefied.
She grabbed Yun Jiao, "If sister leaves, what will happen to the perfume production?"
"There’s also the flower dew, which hasn’t even started. Won’t it all come to nothing?"
Yun Jiao patted her hand reassuringly, "Sister, don’t worry. Before I leave, I will go through the flower dew production process a few times and have a batch ready in the warehouse."
She thought for a moment and added, "I’ll give the secret formula for flower dew to my cousin-in-law; afterward, he’ll add the last two ingredients."
Only then did Princess Kang breathe a sigh of relief, "That would be good."
She held Yun Jiao’s hand, full of reluctance, "Sister is going to the Capital City, and who knows when we’ll meet again."
"I really can’t bear to part with sister," she said, while a few sincere tears fell from her eyes.
