Chapter 4094 4096 [Making Money Plan]
Turn around, it’s Christmas.
Early in the morning, Xiang Nan received a gift from Eileen Prince, which was a pair of old shoes.
Even though it wasn’t very good, he still accepted it.
Subsequently, Xiang Nan did not stay in bed, but came to the eighth floor of the castle, ready to start brewing the potion.
He stood in front of the Room of Requirement, thinking attentively, "I want a room suitable for brewing medicine," and then walked back and forth in front of the wall three times.
When he opened the door and took a look, he saw that the Room of Requirement had changed. There were crucibles, scales, mortars, knives, cups, etc., as well as some potion books and some basic potion ingredients.
For example, aconite, leech, sapweed, grass bug, two-eared grass, fig, daisy root, porcupine quill, pufferfish eye, etc.
As far as Xiang Nan knows, these materials are enough for students from first to seventh grade to take potions classes.
He then brewed a refreshing potion, which was specially designed to treat colds. Now it is winter and colds are a very common disease, so the demand is very high. In order to prevent colds, many families even buy some medicines and save them.
In addition, medicines such as sleeping potions, joy potions, intelligence enhancers, healing potions, living **** decoctions, vitality tonics, etc. are also popular.
Of course, the more popular potions include Love Potion, Veritaserum, Fuling Potion, Polyjuice Potion, etc. This type of potion not only requires superb potion skills, but also requires a long time to brew.
For example, Polyjuice Potion needs to be brewed for one month, while Fuling Elixir needs to be brewed for six months. If a slight mistake is made, the consequences will be disastrous. Therefore, things are rare and expensive, and one bottle will cost you dozens or hundreds of galleons.
But Xiang Nan won’t endure those things for the time being. On the one hand, those potions are very troublesome to brew. It takes a month or even half a year to boil them, which is really too long. On the other hand, with his potion strength, even if he can boil them, it is still very difficult and requires a lot of time and energy. .
Xiang Nan brews potions mainly to make money, or to make people think that he has made money from potions, so the output is large, and potions that are quick to brew, high quality, and save raw materials are the priority.
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Xiang Nan then began to cook it.
While he was brewing the potion, he could also read a book.
This is also a blessing that he and Zhou Botong learned to "learn from each other with both hands" and "do two things at once". Each hand can do its own thing, boiling medicine and reading at the same time, without delaying the two.
And he did a good job indeed. Almost every day after that, he would use the school’s owl to send the potion he had prepared to Adam Giggs.
Adam Giggs then paid him according to the quality and quantity of the potion he brewed.
A bottle of refreshing potion for ten sickles, a bottle of sleeping potion for one sickle, a bottle of healing potion for two sickles, a bottle of joyful potion for three sickles, and a bottle of vitality tonic for five sickles...
Of course, it was lower than the price he sold it for, but it was still within a reasonable range.
Xiang Nan boiled medicine day and night, earning about ten galleons a day, which is about fifty pounds. As a result, the monthly income is fifteen hundred pounds, which is much more than Tobias Snape earns.
If he had purchased the raw materials himself and then sold them into potions, the profit would have been only 30 to 40% of the current level, which would be about three or four galleons a day, totaling about a hundred galleons a month.
Although it is not a lot, it is actually quite a lot. For example, employees of the Ministry of Magic only receive a monthly salary of one or two hundred galleons. As the number of times he brewed potions increased, he gradually learned some tips and made certain modifications to the original recipes, making the process of brewing potions simpler, smoother, and more effective. .
For example, the refreshing potion is made from the eggs of Ningshen flower, heather, and caterpillars. Usually, after taking it, steam will come out of the head of the person, and the whole head will feel like it is on fire. But as long as you add a drop of leech juice, this side effect can be eliminated.
Another example is the joy potion, which can cheer people up and cheer them up after drinking it. But it also has side effects, that is, drinking it makes people easily get headaches, make them want to sing and twist their noses. But if you add a little peppermint, you can perfectly resolve the side effects.
Potions that reduce side effects are naturally more popular and will help increase profits. The key is that they can also hone Xiang Nan's experience in making potions, allowing his experience points to rise steadily.
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January 5th, the new semester of Hogwarts begins.
Lily Evans, Gregory Foley, Joey Farrell, Benjamin Winslet and more are all back.
Xiang Nan also returned to his studies, but after class, his main place was changed from the library to the Room of Requirement.
After all, he needs to study and make medicine at the same time. You cannot stop studying to improve your strength, nor can you stop making medicine to make money.
"Severus, what are you busy with every day? I haven't seen you for several days in a row?" As for Xiang Nan's elusiveness, the people in the dormitory didn't notice it, but Lily noticed it first.
Actually, this is not the fault of Joey, Benjamin, and Gregory. Mainly, Xiang Nan seldom returns to the dormitory and spends most of his time in the library.
So even if he didn't show up all day long, they thought he was in the library. Only Lily often goes to the library to read, so she knows that Xiang Nan is not in the library.
There may have been other things in the past two days, but Xiang Nan was not in the library for several days in a row, and when someone asked him about the dormitory, he was not in the dormitory either, so Lily was naturally curious.
"I can tell you, but you promise me not to tell anyone else." Xiang Nan lowered his voice.
“Okay, I promise you.” Lily nodded.
"I've been secretly brewing potions recently and selling them to the potion shop in Diagon Alley." Xiang Nan said quietly.
When Lily heard this, her eyes widened immediately, "Are you actually doing this?"
She really didn’t expect that while other students were still playing, Xiang Nan was already making medicine to make money. It was not easy.
"Yes, on Christmas Eve, Professor Slughorn held a party. I heard Mr. Adam Giggs said that his pharmacy was short of supply, so he boiled some potions and sold them to him." Xiang Nan explained, "I can earn four galleons a day, so I can help my parents a lot."
Lily was very moved when she heard what he said.
She knew that Xiang Nan's family was very poor, so he had been wearing tattered clothes, a coat several sizes too big, ill-fitting trousers, and tattered shoes... so that people around him ignored him.
When you come to Hogwarts, except for the new wand, everything else is old. School uniforms, crucibles, scales, telescopes, textbooks...
So it’s really amazing that he can think of being self-reliant.
(End of this chapter)