Chapter 16: Brothers Settle Accounts Clearly

Shen Mingzhi went to find some green herbs and came back, then busied herself at the honeycomb briquette stove, using a clay pot to boil them.

Aunt Wang, holding Jiang Zhou who was still crying, sat aside and picked up the herbs she had found, “Is this to treat the rash on Xiaozhou’s body?”

“Yes, it’s too hot in the room, he’s not only going to get prickly heat, but also because of internal heat, he’ll get a rash in a while.” Shen Mingzhi explained to Aunt Wang.

Aunt Wang’s eyes lit up, “Miss Shen, you seem to know a lot about medicine.”

Shen Mingzhi was stunned for a moment. She started out as a pharmaceutical sales representative, and she had run business to promote drugs, which was very difficult. And the drugs that hadn’t been researched in this era, she had memorized all the proportions in her era, and even knew all the effects.

She was still struggling last night about what to do to make money, and now she had a direction.

After boiling it well, Shen Mingzhi used a palm fan to cool the ointment, then quickly dug it out.

Aunt Wang looked at the clear green ointment, very curious, “Can this treat internal and external heat?”

“Yes.” Shen Mingzhi applied it to Jiang Zhou.

After a while, Jiang Zhou’s crying subsided, he whimpered a few times, and finally fell asleep from exhaustion.

Shen Mingzhi dug out all the remaining ointment and put it in an empty bowl, instructing Aunt Wang to help her apply some to Jiang Nian as well.

She continued to boil another pot.

Before moving, the two children needed these.

“Miss Shen, can I take some with me? When my body itches later, I’ll also rub some.” Aunt Wang smelled the cool scent of the ointment and felt very clear-headed.

“Take as much as you want, I dug up a lot of this herb, and I can boil another pot.” Shen Mingzhi replied with a smile.

Aunt Wang asked the young man for an empty face cream jar, put a box on her body, “You don’t know, the children born to those girls I knew before had this problem every summer, and we all used this purple medicine to wipe them, wiping them until a layer of white skin appeared, and that was considered slowly getting through it.”

Shen Mingzhi was very clear that this eczema could actually be cured by enduring it.

So the purple medicine was just a stimulant, but it didn’t really eliminate the itch, and it didn’t address the root cause.

“My neighbor has a son who seems to have this kind of problem, but this summer came earlier, and it’s getting hot very quickly. Her son itches every day, and his whole body is wiped purple, but it hasn’t gotten better. I’ll take it back and let her son rub it.” Aunt Wang chatted with her while watching her boil the medicine.

Shen Mingzhi said, “Eczema will be accompanied by a low fever. I’ll give you some other things to mix with my ointment and put on the two children.”

“Okay… okay.” Aunt Wang didn’t expect Shen Mingzhi to be so amazing.

“This room is too humid, it’s easy to trigger it again. I have to go out and buy some barley to cook porridge later, and we’ll drink some every day to remove dampness.” Shen Mingzhi explained to Aunt Wang.

Aunt Wang couldn’t help but sigh, “Miss Shen, you know so much.”

Shen Mingzhi just smiled, but didn’t say much.

She boiled the ointment, went out to buy some low-priced medicinal materials, made fever patches, and handed them to Aunt Wang.

When she was about to go out, she saw Aunt Wang carefully wiping the sweat on the children’s bodies, putting fever patches on them, and also leaning close to the children’s butts, smelling if the children had pooped.

A smile appeared, and she also left with peace of mind.

When she came back, Aunt Wang was about to leave, “Zhizhi, I’ve already made the meal for you. By the way, I lit some mugwort in the room to smoke mosquitoes, which can also make the room less humid. I’ve already coaxed the children to poop and pee, and they’re also full. After you eat, take a bath and rest. Tomorrow I’ll ask you if there are any unused electric fans nearby and get you one.”

She explained carefully.

Shen Mingzhi was very moved, “Okay, thank you.”

That night, Shen Mingzhi slept a little better than the previous nights, but getting up in the middle of the night to feed the children and change diapers still made her a little sleep-deprived.

The next morning, getting up with panda eyes, she couldn’t help but wail in her heart.

At a young age, she first became the mother of two children, and now she was feeding two children every night, which made her almost depressed.

When she was a medical representative, she studied postpartum depression, and now she felt that there was no need to study it… She personally felt that not getting enough sleep would cause the brain to slowly change, and then start to become depressed, which was the culprit.

Thinking of that rainy night, she cursed that stinky man a hundred times!

She was full of resentment, but Aunt Wang was happy early in the morning, and entered her room like a gust of wind, pulling her to sit on the bed, her face full of surprise, “Yesterday, I took the ointment you gave me, and two fever patches, and gave them to my neighbor’s child. The child’s mother asked me early in the morning if you were selling this ointment and fever patches, she wanted some! Can you make it and sell it?”

“Of course, you help me promote it. In addition to the children’s wages, I’ll give you 20% of the profits you promote, what do you think?” Shen Mingzhi intentionally told her yesterday, hoping that she would take it to let people she knew try it.

If the effect was good, the sales channel would be opened up.

“What’s the point of sharing profits”

“Aunt Wang, I don’t want to take advantage of your hard work, and everyone has a hard time. You work at the Jiang family, isn’t it also to support your family? You take good care of my children and are good to me, if I can make money, of course I’m thinking of you.” Shen Mingzhi had always been clear about accounts with close brothers.

Only by truly caring about the other party, putting the other party’s hard work in your eyes, and respecting the other party, will you be fair and just in the distribution of money.

As Shen Mingzhi spoke, she went to get paper and pen, “We have to write a contract, and after signing it, we will be formal partners in making money.”

Aunt Wang sat at the table and declined, “Miss, I really don’t want your money, you’ve already given me money”

“Aunt Wang, I’m counting on you to take care of my children for a long time in the future. When they can talk in the future, they will have to call you grandma.” Shen Mingzhi said with a smile.

Aunt Wang was moved by her words, and looked at her for a long time without speaking.

After a long while, she said with red eyes, wiping her tears, “That day I saw you carrying two children with a carrying pole and bamboo baskets, and I felt so sorry for you. I’m also a person with children, and seeing you so difficult alone, my heart is really sad… I just wanted to share the burden for you, I didn’t want to share your money.”

She was just a nanny, and she was also sent by Jiang Guofu, but Shen Mingzhi treated her as a partner, as the children’s grandmother.

What virtue and ability did she have?

Such a kind girl… how could she be so unlucky?

“I know, because I value you, that’s why I want to respect your contribution to me even more. You accept my kindness, okay?” Shen Mingzhi persuaded softly.

Aunt Wang choked, “Miss, from now on, Aunt Wang is your godmother, whoever bullies you and the children, I’ll break their legs!”