Chapter 279 - Growing Rice (II) (1/2)

Chapter 279 Growing Rice (II)

After a long period of publicity, when the audience is bombarded by the advertising on TV and the Internet, the first patch of products of Lins’ Pharmaceutical Factory are finally released.

The name of the product is very Huaxia-styled. It is originally extracted from pure traditional medicine to be patent medicine. Therefore, it is called “Lins’ Typhoid Pill”. To put it straight, it deals with colds. Do not perceive colds as trivial matters. Ordinary people catch colds at least two times a year, which leads to more than two weeks of nose-running, headache, and sneezing. Therefore, the little cold holds a huge market.

Because of the huge market, medicine targeted at cold keeps thriving, which means strong compet.i.tion among producers. It is not easy to go into the market with this kind of medicine.

The factory spent a lot of money on publicity. When it came to the price of the pill, the joint three families held their own opinions. The operation groups said that they needed to seize the market with price advantage, yet objected by Zeng Tian.

These pills are extracted from pure traditional medicine with high quality. Therefore, the cost is higher than other patent medicine. Zeng Tian was hoping that the factory could help the Lins earn a lot of money so he could not accept selling them at a very low price.

“Whatever medicine on the market nowadays costs dozens of RMB. And it takes hundreds to go to the hospital to get an IV or injection. We set the price at 66, which is not expensive. This should work.”

Everyone gave it a thought. If a box of medicine costs 66 yuan and could cure a cold without bearing any IVs or injections, they would be willing to buy it. Therefore, they all agreed on this.

Selling the medicine and going into the market is not Zeng Tian’s business, or else he would waste his money on the operating group. After they had the meeting, Zeng Tian left hurriedly.

The reason is none other than the Lins’ are transplanting rice seedlings today.

When Zeng Tian comes to the villa, the labor already started. Even two kids are in the lake. The water is freezing. Lin Luoran made efforts stopping Mrs. Lin from getting into the water, yet she couldn’t stop Lin Luodong.

Li Xi’er wears household clothing and comes to the field with her trousers rolled up above the ankle. She is holding the seedling without knowing where to start.

Yuan Ye seems to know everything about it. “You’ve never done it before. No one would laugh at you because you don’t know what to do.”

Is this sharp tongue not sneering at her? Li Xi’er now has some courage to go on. When she sees Zeng Tian and Liu Zheng, she is even happier. She will write her name backwards if they know how to transplant the seedlings. She’s glad that she is not the only one who knows nothing about it.

Seeing that Li Xi’er starts again, Yuan Ye holds back his thought to sneer at her and moves aside. For heaven’s sake, he is not trying to bully her. She is being so dumb herself!

“What are you guys doing here? You don’t know how to transplant seedlings.” Seeing that Zeng Tian and Liu Zheng are losing their shoes and coming down to the water, Lin Luoran stands straight and smiles.

Zeng Tian comes up with the response quickly. “It takes practice before we can do it. Master Lin, you need to grant me this opportunity.”

Lin Luoran purses her lips. Zeng Tian is such a slippery fellow. She knows exactly what he is thinking. It’s just she doesn’t know how to teach Yuan Ye yet after taking him in as an apprentice. As Zeng Tian hasn’t spoken out himself, she will just pretend that she doesn’t know and follow the course of nature.

Liu Zheng is under the order of his master. “My master said, he wanted to ask for some rice when the harvest season comes and asked me to work to pay you back.”

The original words of the crazy Taoist are, “Son, I’m trying to create an opportunity for you and I’m willing to be called a glutton because of this. Remember to pay me back in the future.”

Although Liu Zheng is used to the mad talks of the crazy Taoist when he is momentarily crazy, he cannot speak these words out.

Lin Luoran leaves the questions in mind, leading a group of people to transplant the seedlings. She just taught Li Xi’er how to line up the tiny seedlings and leave proper s.p.a.ce in between. Then, she sees two people coming far away from the winding mountain road.

When she gets a closer look, she finds one of them an old acquaintance—tall Mu Tiannan. The other one looks familiar. Isn’t he the young man who purchased all of the clay pots at the foot of Mount Qingcheng the other day?

“We’ve got some guests. I’m sorry you need to do all the labor.”

Liu Zheng has seen Mu Tiannan coming for certain. He knew what he’s been up to since a few years before. At first, he held hostility against him since they were rivals in love. But now, since he is now a cultivator, there is distance between them so he is not so hostile. Moreover, Lin Luoran refers them as guests. What an indifferent t.i.tle! So he nods to greet them, and goes back to his work.

Mu Tiannan, on the other hand, is not so calm. After all these years, at the sight of beautiful Lin Luoran, he recognized her right away.

He thought he has forgotten all about Lin Luoran’s face, yet he found that he remembered it vividly. When she squints her eyes to look at his direction, his memory drifts back to the sketch he drew years ago. These are the starry eyes he could not get enough of. Several years went by. He is struck again by the even purer eyes of hers before he can notice any internal changes.

What makes him so fascinated by those eyes? He doesn’t know the answer.

They didn’t experience near-death difficulties together, nor did they stay together for a long time for a relations.h.i.+p to spring out. They had but a few encounters yet they kept him thinking about her for several years. Maybe this is what they call love at first sight?

The young man beside him gives him a light push. “Hey, Brother Mu, what’s the matter with you?”

It hits Mu Tiannan that Lin Luoran just finished was.h.i.+ng her feet by the lake and is smiling at them, inviting them to get in the house.

Mrs. Lin comes out from the house and recognizes Mu Tiannan instantly. She exclaims, “It’s you! We haven’t seen each other for several years. Why didn’t you drop by?”

Mu Tiannan’s words mesmerized Mrs. Lin years ago, making her feel that he and her daughter were a perfect match. Time flies, and she feels it lamentable.

“Mu, why didn’t you bring your child?”

Mu Tiannan coughs embarra.s.singly and says, “Mrs. Lin, I haven’t found a girlfriend yet.”

Mrs. Lin’s eyes brighten up immediately and murmurs to herself yet she is pushed away by Lin Luoran. The three of them sit down at the flowery hall. Lin Luoran finally asks, “Mr. Mu, who is this guest?”

The young man stands up and gives a junior salute. “I’m Xuan Yuanchen. Greetings to Master Lin. I didn’t know it was Master Lin at the foot of Mount Qingcheng. Please forgive me.” In fact, he is thinking to himself that he mustn’t show any sign that it was Brother Mu who told him to buy the clay pots.

Lin Luoran smiles, “Your family developed this villa, didn’t you? Since you are not a cultivator, we can just call each other as equals.”