Chapter 46 - 46. More Variety Of Scents On The Way

After dinner and a short rest, we sent the children back to their orphanage and were welcomed by the matron which noticed that the girls had taken their shower, including Adam too. She saw that all 4 of her wards were feeling rather joyful and somewhat refreshed after their shower and she can't help to smell the sweet lingering smell of lavender on them.

"Ah... Thank you for bringing back the kids here. They smelled wonderful after their shower. It's from the 'Head To Toe' Shampoo that you had sold it to me just now, right? My... They smelled so sweet and fresh today." the matron remarked and marvelled at how obedient the children are under our care.

"Madam matron, you should try it too you know. Not only its fun but it's gives you boundless energy after showering. It's as if you worked the whole day and after showering, you could work again for the next 8 hours." exclaimed Adam as he excused himself and skipped back to his other half of the dorm meant for the boys.

"Hahahhaa. I entrust those children back in your care, ma'am. We're off now and be picking up the children or they can report directly to Beauty World tomorrow by 745 am." I said as both Patricia and I excused ourselves to head to our own matters.

"In God's will, Mister and Missus Audemars. We didn't actually have your family's name registered. What were yours, Mister Audemars?" the matron asked and I can't think of a better name as I muttered a muffled 'MacLeod', Audemars MacLeod.

"Alright then Mister and Missus MacLeod, off you go with your business. I would personally bring the children over to Beauty World for a few days and then they would independently head there themselves." the matron bade us farewell and decided that she would also take a shower once her shift ends and tell about its wondrous effect to all her friends and relatives about it.

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"You're buying this strawberry shrub, dwarf green apple tree, peppermint shrub and 3 of these dragon head jasmine plants? These are the next fragrances, am I right?" asked Patricia and saw the enthusiasm in her eyes as I came up with another 4 more fragrances for the 'Head To Toe' Scented shampoo.

She wanted to help out in making the Essences and I told her that with her and the children picking each of the fragrances tomorrow would be a great help already. She doesn't need to so further than that.

It is not that I don't want her to help out in the Realm of Mind, but she needs to attain a level of meditative state before she could successfully enter it. Furthermore, we do not have a concrete relationship so best to keep the secrets to my own for now.

"Why stop at two when we can have 6? These are the ones that are available right now and we used to have more than 35 scents at one go." I said casually and she was stumped when I mentioned we have made more than 35 scents altogether.

"And you sold every piece of it?" she asked as her mouth was agape as we walked back to the house with the delivery boy ahead of us and was instructed to place the plants at the side of the house.

"Yes, 35 scents. One scent has 50 in a crate and it costs 1 piece of gold coin that time and we sold more than a few thousand pieces per day. At the end of the month, we had more than 100k gold coins at that time."

"Is the gold coin higher than credits?"

"Well, during that time I can say that one gold coin would represent 20 to 50 credits, depending on the exchange rate. 5 gold coins could buy you a dairy cow. How much would a dairy cow costs here?"

I asked in comparison to the current rate and told me that a dairy cow costs between 1000 to 1500 credits at the minimum depending on how young the dairy cow is. "Hmm, in that's the case, a gold coin is equivalent to 200 to 250 credits then. That's about 4 to 5 times the amount that we currently are selling."

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When we reached Beauty World, I was digging a sizeable hole in the ground to plant the 4 fruiting tree and shrubs since I am the only one left that hadn't taken a shower yet. Patricia helped by slowly pumping water into one of the empty barrels.

Once I had planted all the 4 fruit tree and shrubs and had made a nice mound of earth around it, I dropped in 6 Psi Energy Healing Spheres into the barrel of water and slowly watered the plants as well as the earlier planted ones.

I noticed the plants did give a slight quiver when the water enters into the ground and reaches its roots as if it was a welcoming energy drink for them. Well, we would be able to see its results tomorrow.

The 8 crates filled with 'Head To Toe' Lavender Scented shampoo was stacked against the wall at the furthest end of the wall and soon there would be 6 stacks of those and I wonder if we need to clear off these stocks first before we make some more as the 'Beauty World' would soon be a production and storage as well as a sales centre.

I looked at it and thought inwardly, "Come what may, I hope this would be a great start. 6 scents of 400 bottles each would make up 2400 bottles and each one would cost 60 credits. Clear everything off in a month would bring in a profit of 141,000 credits after taking out the costs.

"As the saying goes, never count the eggs before the hen lays them. So just let it be and let it slowly build up. It's not easy for the children to produce all these 2400 bottles, right? There's only 4 and 1 adult and it would take some time for them to adjust to their speed in producing them.

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The next following day, the process for the first batch of 'Head To Toe' Citrus Shampoo was put to later as the first task they need to do was to pluck the peppermint leaves into a large basket, making the plant 'bald' of all its leaves.

Patricia was overwhelmed to see its the newly planted tree and shrubs that had borne fruits and leaves that had sprouted within a few hours. "Daddy, won't this tree be alive if we removed all the leaves from it?" asked Jane as she carefully plucked the leaves with her hands and then tossed it into the basket.

"Not really. The more you make it bald the more it will grow tomorrow. Just wait and see." I replied as Ingles made another note and asked me, "Daddy, these apple and strawberries are also going to be made into the sweet scents as well?"

"Yes, Ingles... At least now we have more variety for the customers to choose from." I replied as Ingles began to count the types of trees and shrubs and finally came out with the same figure as the one I had thought the night before.

"Daddy, 6 kinds of scents and 400 bottles would make 2400 bottles altogether, right? That's quite a lot...! Do we have the space to store them since you told us that your room is out of bounds?" Ingles inquired since she knew that Beauty World is a production and storage place for beauty products.

"Don't you worry about it. I'm amazed at you, Ingles. At least you have a quick mind to think of all these mental sums in your head." I praised Ingles as she smiled and waved a hidden calculator from inside her frock.

"Laaaaaaaaaaa.... She got a life hack after all...." I said to myself as I rolled my eyes once more.

Afterwards, as usual, the 5 of them were filling up the porcelain bottle with the desired amount from the citrus Scented shampoo and once they are done, a piece of citrus leaf was tied with a baker's string on the neck of the bottle to indicate its scent.

I took the basket of peppermint leaves and head to the room and locked myself there as I went to the Realm of Mind after I entered my meditative state. I visualise another 4 more half glass dome distillers and spread the peppermint leaves on a linen cloth and covered it up with the other half glass dome.

A bunsen burner was set to medium flame and then set to distil and extract the peppermint content for 9 hours as indicated from the LPG tank. It would then automatically shut off when the timer was triggered.

I went to the Refined Steel production area and took the rest of the empty crates along with me and places them in my storage. I then went to the Fusion Chamber and adjusted the counter to 1000 and cranked the lever.

Soon I would be levelling up another 10 more levels and earns another 100 points where I could allocate later on for my attributes. My Intermediate Crafting would level up to another 10 more levels this way.

I smiled and was satisfied as I soon logged off and went back to the real world after performing all the tasks there. I came out from the room and joined them for a little while before I excused myself to prepare our all-time favourite, the garlic butter fried rice and also prepare some steamed sweet potatoes for their snacks in the mid-afternoon tea.