Peerless Martial Expert in the City
Chapter 516 - 513: Make It Yourself?

Chapter 516: Chapter 513: Make It Yourself?

Right!

Girls all love beauty, and that applies regardless of age!

And, that happens to be his forte!

Xiao Yi slapped his thigh forcefully, his face suddenly radiating excitement. He felt as though the problem that had been troubling him had been suddenly and completely cleared up. It took him a while to calm down from the excitement. With a trace of gratitude, he turned to Liu Jingling beside him, "Miss Liu, I really can’t thank you enough!"

"Have you decided what to get her?"

Liu Jingling just made a tentative suggestion, not expecting such a big reaction from Xiao Yi. His response surprised her.

"Yes, I’ll give her cosmetics, thanks to your reminder, hehe."

Xiao Yi nodded, finished speaking, and without further conversation with Liu Jingling, got up and headed towards the door saying, "Miss Liu, go on watching your TV. I need to make some preparations, hehe."

Liu Jingling wanted to say something, but Xiao Yi’s figure had already sped out of the villa’s door, leaving her staring in utter bewilderment.

This Mr. Xiao is just too impatient, isn’t he? Rushing out to buy so quickly? What does he, a man, know about which cosmetics are good and which aren’t?

What she didn’t know was that Xiao Yi hadn’t thought about buying cosmetics at all.

He wasn’t being impulsive or rushing out in a fit of excitement. It was because he was running out of time!

The main function of cosmetics is skin care, removing some surface toxins from the skin, keeping the skin beautiful, vibrant, and elastic, playing a beautifying role. Of course, some simpler, purely superficial cosmetics only serve aesthetic purposes.

Xiao Yi would absolutely not go out to buy such things. It wasn’t that he couldn’t afford them, but that it simply wasn’t necessary. He held several prescriptions in his hands, and he was fully confident that the ’cosmetics’ he produced would be far superior to any of those widely available, dazzling varieties in the world!

You see, each of these pill recipes was a true treasure. The old man, when drunk, had boasted that they were ancient court spirit pills. If sold, they would fetch at least hundreds of millions each. Although Xiao Yi was extremely skeptical of the old man’s claims, their significant value was undeniable.

After all, his products were made entirely from traditional medicine and, with his unique methods, could achieve effects without harming the skin at all. Unlike commercial skincare products that invariably contain chemicals, even the most expensive ones could still have some negative effects on the skin.

Moreover, some of the medicinal herbs were quite pricey, like ginseng, polygonum multiflorum, and the like; better qualities could cost tens or even hundreds of thousands.

Like that time he visited Elder An’s home, he prepared a medicinal ointment for Elder An’s granddaughter, which was also a form of skincare product. Just the raw materials for that little jar, not counting the value of the recipe and his techniques—and many key expensive herbs were not even available, so he had used alternatives with similar properties—were already quite valuable.

So, he had never thought about buying those commercial cosmetics.

Once he had settled on making cosmetics, he decided to produce them himself, and make them high-quality ones at that! This way, he could properly reciprocate Jianguo’s care over this period.

This time, with a whole day available, he didn’t want to rush as he had when visiting Elder An’s home, making the ointment crudely. He planned to do a thorough job this time and use raw materials whenever possible.

However, making things in a proper, step-by-step manner is not easy. It would take at least a full day, and just sourcing the raw materials was challenging.

Indeed, it turned out just as he had anticipated.

The sourcing process did not go smoothly; in fact, it was quite difficult. Throughout the whole day, he roamed nearly every pharmacy in G City, including some centuries-old stores. He couldn’t find all the materials he wanted and ultimately had to use other decent-looking polygonum multiflorum, like hundred-year wild ones, as substitutes for some items he couldn’t find.

When Liu Jingling saw Xiao Yi, dusty and worn, entering the door with big and small bags of medicinal herbs, she was stunned.

But before she could ask anything, Xiao Yi spoke first, "Miss Liu, I need to trouble you again today, to lend me a hand."

"What is it?"

Liu Jingling hastily responded.

"Help me find some containers to store these herbs, then help me sort them out,"

Xiao Yi said as he set the herbs aside and chuckled.

"Oh."

Although Liu Jingling really wanted to ask Xiao Yi what he was up to, she held off after hearing his request, hurried to the kitchen, brought back a stack of bowls and dishes, set them up on the table as Xiao Yi had asked, then with a puzzled look on her face, inquired, "Mr. Xiao, weren’t you going out to buy cosmetics? Why did you bring back so many herbs? Didn’t you say my wound had mostly healed and that I wouldn’t need to continue medication after those two doses?"

"Buy cosmetics?"

Xiao Yi was startled for a moment, then, upon hearing Liu Jingling’s words, realized she had misunderstood him. He couldn’t help but smile and explained, "Miss Liu, you’ve misunderstood. These herbs aren’t for you to take; I didn’t plan to buy cosmetics. I bought these to make the ointment, hehe."

"Make ointment?"

"It’s what you call cosmetics, for skincare and beautification."

Xiao Yi laughed, feeling that ’ointment’ might be hard to understand and perhaps didn’t sound as appealing, and explained again.

"You’re going to make cosmetics yourself?"

Liu Jingling was stunned for a moment, it took her a while to regain her senses, looking at Xiao Yi in front of her, observing his serious and focused expression as he handled the medicinal herbs. Her mouth agape, she was almost able to fit an egg in her mouth.

She had never heard of someone gifting cosmetics that they had made themselves before.

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