Her Cultivation Diary
Chapter 445 - Chapter 445 445. The Magical Effects of Honey_1

Chapter 445: 445. The Magical Effects of Honey_1 Chapter 445: 445. The Magical Effects of Honey_1 Guo Dong readily agreed, but there’s an old saying: A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit.

For example, right now, she was preparing to go up the mountain with Qiaoqiao under the scorching sun when she suddenly became vigilant and asked, “How much are you selling your honey for?”

Qiaoqiao cheerfully held up a finger: “A thousand bucks a bottle.”

“One bottle is…” Guo Dong couldn’t help but glance towards the middle of the living room shelf at that one, oh no, half a bottle of honey.

Qiaoqiao’s gaze followed suit: “Did you notice it, Doctor Sister? It’s like that, 500 grams a bottle.”

Guo Dong’s vision went dark.

“Thank you.”

She sat down calmly: “I don’t think I’m worthy.”

For most people, the sales pitch at this moment would definitely be focused on ‘you get what you pay for’, but Qiaoqiao was different. He simply sat down curiously as well and then asked, “Why aren’t you worthy?”

“Because I don’t have the money.”

Guo Dong said with a sense of vicissitude.

“A thousand bucks for just this tiny bottle of honey–do you know what I need the honey for?”

“For what?”

Qiaoqiao, as a proper straight man, was never going to let a customer monologue in loneliness.

At this moment, his inquisitive look eased some of the anxiety in Guo Dong’s heart.

She then sighed deeply and explained to Qiaoqiao patiently:

“I need to buy the honey to make honey pills, which is to say, before making the pills, I need to refine the honey. I only need to use a little aged honey, so middle-quality honey is fine–but even that will lose 1/10 of its volume.”

“Which means, out of 500 grams of honey, I’ll end up with only 450 grams of middle-quality honey.”

“And the typical ratio of honey to medicinal powder is 1.5:1, so, for honey worth a thousand bucks, I can only mix it with 300 grams of powder.”

“How much would the cost of my medicinal materials have to increase?

“Patients buying medicine are not fools; I practice legitimate traditional medicine, and prescriptions need to be explicit. Couldn’t they just take it anywhere to be filled?”

Nowadays, there are services for decocting medicines, helping with granulation, and even rolling pills and simmering ointments…

“So…”

At this point, Guo Dong could only shake her head heavily: “I really can’t afford it.”

Qiaoqiao absorbed a lot of new information and now sat there lost in thought.

After a while, he abruptly asked, “Then, Doctor Sister, don’t you have wealthy patients?”

Guo Dong was taken aback.

But she saw Qiaoqiao counting on his fingers and calculating: “Like the aunties in our vegetable market, they only spend money on wild vegetables and refuse to buy tea leaves. Sister said it’s a different consumption concept.”

“But for some customers, buying tea leaves is like spending no money at all, so refreshing! Vegetables cost 20 bucks a kilo, tea leaves 10,000 bucks a kilo, can’t your medicine cost 20 bucks a pill, and 10,000 bucks a pill?”

Guo Dong chuckled with a “pfft.”

She thought, if I sold a pill for ten thousand bucks, what kind of pill would that have to be? A Big Rejuvenation Pill?

But on second thought, Qiaoqiao did have a point!

There are always high-end customers who neither covet nor trust cheap medicinal materials.

So said like that, pairing expensive Golden Sakura with expensive honey to roll into a pill, and then pricing it even higher… didn’t seem like a problem?

“Right.”

Qiaoqiao nodded his head, seriously making an analogy: “It’s like Ultraman fighting little monsters, he only needs to ‘biubiubiu’. But to fight particularly big monsters, he needs the power of light!”

Guo Dong: ……

Although, your analogy seems quite marvelous, and surprisingly, it is quite fitting.

She felt a bit eager: Then… shall we go take a look?

No sooner had the thought occurred to her than she heard Qiaoqiao suddenly “oh” again: “I forgot! Doctor Sister, we’ve run out of honey.”

“You just want to watch how they work?”

Guo Dong: …

Don’t you think that’s absurd?

If I watch them work, will they give me a bottle of honey?

And your family’s honey is so expensive, selling so fast, it surely isn’t hunger marketing, is it?

“But it really works so well! Those who’ve bought it always come back for more.”

Qiaoqiao gave her a sweet smile:

“Doctor Sister, are you going to stay in our village? I heard the Party Secretary Sister telling my mom that if you become the village doctor, I can sneak you a spoonful. If I ever fall ill, you must not give me an injection.”

Guo Dong: … This sentence is so loaded, I can’t figure out which part to focus on at the moment.

She could only answer each point: “I haven’t agreed to stay in the village. Why sneak a spoonful? If you do get sick, we don’t have to do injections, but how about trying the legendary acupuncture?”

Qiaoqiao was stunned: What’s acupuncture?

He seemed to have never seen it before.

As for not staying in the village…

He could only shake his head regretfully: “Our honey is for sale, if you’re not the village doctor, not treating my illness, I can’t sneak you a spoonful. It’s so expensive.”

His look of distress suddenly left Guo Dong speechless.

At that moment, she also couldn’t help feeling torn: this village might be ordinary, but the food is truly delicious.

And indeed, renting a house in the city area, there aren’t many short-term leases in this small town, at the very least you’d need to pay 1 month deposit and 6 months rent in advance, and even that’s hard to find… You’d need to prepare a budget of at least 10,000 yuan, right?

Not to mention the herbs she’s working with, and needing to reinvest in some personal items, clothing, shoes, socks, including a laptop…

By this calculation, life seems so stressful!

And at that moment, Qiaoqiao curiously asked again: “Why do you need honey to make pills? Can’t we just use melted sugar?”

“Seventh Uncle says the sugar I melt is very sticky, and especially sweet.”

“Of course, we can’t!”

Guo Dong seriously explained: “You see, even traditional medicine doesn’t add sugar, because sugar has medicinal properties, and it can react with other medicine or be detrimental to one’s constitution, affecting the effectiveness of the medicine.”

As for why we use honey–because honey has many benefits.

“Firstly, it’s very mild in nature and generally won’t conflict with anything else.”

“Secondly, it can act as a natural preservative, maintaining the medicinal effects.”

“Thirdly, honey has a soothing effect, some herbs have strong properties and can be quite harsh on the stomach, honey can mitigate that.”

“And the most important point, using honey to make pills means that once in the stomach, it doesn’t all break down at once, just like the modern sustained-release medicine, releasing slowly, which is more beneficial for the medicine’s effect and the body.”

Qiaoqiao didn’t quite understand, but that didn’t stop him from opening his mouth wide in amazement–

“Is our family’s honey really that miraculous?”

That’s where Guo Dong disagreed: “All honey in the world is that miraculous.”

“Impossible!”

Qiaoqiao asserted confidently: “Our family’s honey is definitely the best, don’t believe me? I’ll show you!”

He turned, took down that half jar of honey from the shelf, unscrewed the lid, scooped up a spoonful with a spoon, and showed Guo Dong.