While the people of the village are idle, Joseph's family is very busy. Maria and Selena make blush soap every day, although they are not busy from morning to night, there is no free time completely.
Since the New Year is approaching, there are many people buying New Year's products, and the items in Pedro's store are also very popular. Essential oils and blushes have been reserved, so seven boxes of rouge and five jars of essential oils will be made this month, which will be enough to keep Maria and Selana busy.
In the end, Selena did not sell the base made with jasmine seeds to Pedro, after all, there were few jasmine seeds and she wanted to keep two boxes for herself and her mother.
So in her spare time she used rice to make a common fragrant foundation and mixed some jasmine powder soaked with magic water into it, although it was not as good as jasmine seeds. It still smelled fragrant. It is better than the common ones and the price is more or less the same as other foundation on the market. Taking advantage of the good business, José sells them quickly on the streets during this period.
A dozen boxes can be sold in almost two days. A normal box of rice base can sell for 30 copper coins. Just selling the normal rice base can sell for almost thirty silver coins in half a month.
José and María are now very motivated every day, after all, the more they sell, the more money they make. Joseph was preparing to pay the forty silver coins that he owed Pedro for building a house in one month. The end of the year is approaching, the busiest time and Jose has to walk a long way every day carrying a heavy load, although he is tired, he has a high income.
Especially the scented soap, it is not expensive to sell for about ten copper coins each, plus the soap is easier to make and you can make more than twenty in a day. He adds soap beans and dried flower petals soaked in a drop of magical water. It is fragrant, affordable and cheap. Many people will buy it together and buy more again after using it.
They also buy other things by the way. Therefore, José's products are selling very fast. Maria has been counting money these days and nights. When she moved to a new house, she bought a wooden cabinet with a lock and a piggy bank inside it. The empty box was now heavy.
The family worked hard for two months, and at night they took the money out of the box together. After excluding part of the principal, the silver and copper coins in it amounted to a total of 396 silver coins. Both Joseph and Mary were a little excited, it was a lot of money for them, because one hectare of fertile land cost 120 silver coins and with this money you could buy three hectares of fertile land.
They had the ability to buy three hectares of land in just over two months, something they had never dared to imagine before, María was very happy.
She looked at the face of her daughter, who was a little thin after two months of intense work, and she turned pale. He feels sorry for her, thinking that if her daughter hadn't been able to make so many fantastic products, her family would still be living in a dilapidated house with drafts everywhere, and they would be paler and skinnier every day without enough to support themselves.
While Mary and Joseph are happy, Selena is already thinking that if she has money in the future she should buy two servants to help share the burden, otherwise if she lives like this for a few years, her hands will become really rough.
It's not that José had never seen money before, but it was all from his father Hugo at that time. It's different than it is now. This money belongs completely to her family and can be used and spent. Selena helped Maria put the money in, closed the box, and then said carefully: "Mom, try not to touch this money. We will depend on it to buy shops in the city in the future..."
"Buy a store?" Mary and Joseph were excited. After hearing this, they were stunned and couldn't help but look at Selena. Selena told José: "Dad, when things get better at home, you won't always continue selling merchandise on the streets..."
When Selena returned to her room, María and José were still sitting at the table in a daze. They couldn't stop thinking about what her daughter had just said. Yes, he can't spend her entire life selling products on the streets. As is known, there must be a positive job or business in a family.
Maria thought to herself that every day Joseph traveled to sell products, and when he returned late, she would be at home constantly worried, there was a shortage of labor in the landed peasant family. If they can have a store, José would not have to walk anymore and they would lives more comfortable.
José thought of Pedro's store. Although it was not deserted before, there were not many people there. Now, since the essential oil rouge sells better, there is an extra clerk in the store, and he is always busy.
José was not stupid. As the demand for Peter's goods grew more and more and he became more and more enthusiastic about it, he knew that this must be his product that was selling well.
He wholesaled a box of rouge to Peter for one silver coin, and the price in Peter's shop was three silver coins.
Although he is jealous, he doesn't have a shop, so he can only wholesale it to others. Pedro is well known, and although the wholesale price he offers is lower, he pays directly. Suddenly, José feels that now that his family has the money to open a store, it seems that he can open a store himself.
It costs 30 to 40 gold coins to buy a shop in a good location in Beerspa City. A commoner family like his with little wealth would never dare to spend so much money. The slightly elevated hearts of Mary and Joseph suddenly dropped and the joy of having a deposit of 396 silver coins faded a little.
But the daughter's seemingly involuntary words were planted in the hearts of Joseph and Mary like a seed. After thinking about it carefully, he felt hopeful: they save almost 4 gold coins in two months and that year they could save enough to buy a store.
If one year is not enough, they will save for two years. If two years is not enough, they will save for three years. If they have hope and keep working hard, their dreams will eventually come true.
Selena had already finished taking a shower, the fireplace was next to her and the room was very warm, she was sitting on the edge of the bed wearing off-white pajamas, carefully using her own skin care products to protect her skin, Selena I was satisfied. After looking at her face for a long time, she went to bed.