The daughter was ruthlessly driven out of the wealthy family and went to the countryside

Chapter 1214 Mom, You've Improved

After receiving the face cream, Liu Juan didn't forget her two or three sisters-in-law—two from the Shen family and one from her own family—and took one bottle from each of them. She also took the face wash, toner, and lotion from before. Oh, and she also took her eldest sister, Liu Yun.

In the end, Liu Juan gave it to her sister-in-law from her maternal family, who was Shen Xuening's aunt.

Aunt Liu smiled and took the face cream from Liu Juan's hand, saying, "It's getting late. You're off work now, and so am I. Let's have dinner together, sister-in-law and I?"

Without hesitation, Liu Juan agreed: "Sure, it's been a long time since we ate together."

My aunt asked with a smile, "What would you like to eat?"

Liu Juan thought for a moment and suggested, "Let's go eat barbecue, I heard it's delicious."

Auntie agreed and pulled Liu Juan toward the barbecue restaurant, laughing as they walked, saying, "Isn't this a place for young people?"

Liu Juan touched her face: "We're still young now. Look at my skin, my wrinkles are almost gone. Shen Dong said I look like I'm in my thirties."

My aunt seemed to have found a kindred spirit and said with empathy, "Your older brother also said I look younger, at least ten years younger. Luckily, we listened to the younger generation's advice and used skincare products, otherwise I would still be the same old hag."

Liu Juan said proudly, "Haha, yes, now when I go out, everyone says I'm beautiful, and it makes me happy."

"Ningning's products are still the best. Do you see any other skincare products that have this effect? ​​Even after ten years, they don't have this effect." Auntie is now a die-hard fan of Shen Xuening.

Liu Juan nodded repeatedly: "Yes, our Ningning really cares about consumers. She uses only the best ingredients, and look how amazing the results are."

Auntie chimed in, "That's right, that's right..."

The two became more and more excited as they talked, and before they knew it, they had arrived at the barbecue restaurant.

As soon as they entered the shop, they ran into Xia Mei, a villager from Auntie's village. She worked at a barbecue restaurant, and they hadn't seen her for a while.

Xia Mei stared at the two of them for a while, her eyes filled with disbelief: "You two went to a beauty salon for plastic surgery? I heard that beauty salons are very expensive. You two are really rich."

"What are you talking about?" Auntie asked, confused. "Who told you we went to a beauty salon?"

Xia Mei said with envy, "You two are rich now, it's only right that you go to beauty salons, why are you afraid to admit it?"

My aunt was confused: "What are you saying? We didn't go to the beauty salon, how can you admit it?"

Xia Mei stared at their faces and couldn't help but marvel: "You two didn't go to a beauty salon, how did your skin become so good? I didn't even dare to greet you just now. You two look at least ten years younger, it's unbelievable."

Upon hearing this, my aunt understood and smiled, saying, "We didn't go to a beauty salon, we just used skincare products. The skincare products are effective, that's why we look younger."

Xia Mei blinked, incredulous: "Really?"

Auntie was secretly delighted: "Really? Why would I lie to you?"

It seems that no woman doesn't love beauty. Xia Mei asked curiously, "What skincare product is so magical? How come I don't know about it?"

My aunt said, "You don't use it, how would you know? Besides, this skincare product hasn't even been released yet, it's just a trial pack."

“Then you two have struck gold.” Xia Mei changed the subject. “Could you lend me your skincare products? I look like I’m from a different generation than you.”

My aunt said, "These are trial packs, there aren't any extras, but if you want to use them, you can come to my house."

Xia Mei hesitated: "Wouldn't it be inappropriate to go to your house?"

"It's alright." Aunt looked at Liu Juan. "If you don't want to, I'll go find Ningning and ask her to give me a bottle of face cream, and I'll give it to you."

Xia Mei was overjoyed: "Really?"

My aunt nodded firmly: "Really."

Xia Mei was overjoyed: "Thank you."

Auntie thought that if Ningning wasn't willing to give it to her, she would give Xia Mei her own face cream. Her skin was already very good, and she didn't need face cream: "It's okay, I'll go to your house and get it for you later."

Xia Mei thanked her repeatedly, saying, "Thank you, thank you."

Aunt said, "Xia Mei, please arrange a seat for us. We're having barbecue."

"Okay, come with me." Xia Mei resumed her role as a waitress and led the two to an empty table. "Take out your phones to order. After you order, a waiter will bring the food to you. You can ask the waiter to grill the meat for you, or you can grill it yourself, either way is fine."

“We’ll bake it ourselves,” my aunt said. “You go ahead and do your work.”

Xia Mei smiled and nodded: "Call me if you need anything."

Auntie said, "Okay."

As soon as Xia Mei left, Liu Juan and her aunt couldn't help but smile at each other. They looked so different now, almost like two different people. It was normal for old acquaintances to react that way.

……

Back home, Liu Juan said to Shen Xuening, "Ningning, let me tell you something funny."

Shen Xuening asked encouragingly, "What's up?"

Just as Liu Juan was about to speak, Shen Wenxu and Shen Yingying's voices came over: "We're in the living room too, why did you only tell your sister and not us?"

"Come on, listen together." Liu Juan said helplessly, "Now I have to ask you all to do everything."

Shen Wenxu said coquettishly, "Mom, you said you would treat everyone equally."

Liu Juan patted Shen Wenxu on the shoulder: "When did I not keep things level? Don't talk nonsense, it will affect the relationship between us."

Shen Wenxu laughed and said, "I was just kidding, don't take it so seriously."

"Alright, listen to what I have to say first, your sister has something to do later." Liu Juan told Shen Xuening about her encounter with Xia Mei that day, and then asked, "Ningning, your aunt wants to ask you for a bottle of face cream, is that alright?"

Shen Xuening readily agreed: "Sure, but I don't have any at home, only in the office. I'll come pick them up tomorrow during the day."

Liu Juan said, "I'll go get it from you. I'm afraid your aunt will feel embarrassed."

Shen Xuening nodded: "Either is fine."

Liu Juan asked one more question: "How much does that bottle of face cream cost?"

Shen Xuening said, "A set of skincare products is priced at five thousand, and a bottle of face cream is worth about two thousand."

Liu Juan's eyes widened: "Two thousand a bottle?"

Shen Xuening answered truthfully, otherwise she was afraid her family would cause her trouble: "Yes, they are all good medicinal herbs, and you have seen the effects. Selling them for five thousand is already cheap. But this is the basic version. Five thousand is not enough. We will release a high-end version in the future, which will be more expensive."

Liu Juan felt a little regretful, after all, they weren't particularly close friends: "If I had known it was so expensive, I wouldn't have given it to her."

Shen Xuening didn't mind: "Since you've already agreed, just send it. It's just a sample, it's no problem."

Liu Juan felt a surge of resentment: "I know, I won't give things away so easily anymore. It's such a waste to give away something so expensive."

Shen Xuening advised, "Mom, it's okay. You two must be old acquaintances, otherwise you wouldn't have agreed. It's nothing for an old acquaintance to give you a bottle of face cream."

Liu Juan waved her hand, still feeling distressed: "Ningning, don't comfort me. That was two thousand yuan, not two hundred yuan. I struggled to even come up with twenty yuan. No one helped me back then."

Shen Xuening comforted her, "Mom, if you think like that, then everyone is our enemy. But now you're different. You've climbed to a higher position, so there's no need to dwell on the past. Now, you should handle interpersonal relationships based on friendship. If you have a good relationship with someone, give them more; if you don't, treat them like strangers. Don't think about the past, or it will be hard for you to be happy."

"Mom knows." Liu Juan rubbed her chest, trying to cheer herself up.

Seeing that her mother was still upset about the face cream, Shen Yingying changed the subject: "Mom, I didn't expect you and Auntie to go out to eat alone without inviting us."

Liu Juan's thinking has changed a lot. In the past, she definitely wouldn't have said this: "How old are you all? If you want to eat, go by yourselves. Adults are on a date, kids shouldn't get involved."

Shen Yingying: “…”

Shen Wenxu gave Liu Juan a thumbs up: "Mom, you've improved."

Liu Juan chuckled and said, "Alright, I'm not talking to you anymore. I'm going to prepare the food. From now on, you can eat whatever you want. I won't call you."

The three children answered in unison, "We know."

……

Second team's medicinal herb garden.

Shen Yingying led her harvesting team to Team Two to meet up with Guo Zhi. Today was the day to harvest Poria cocos.

Guo Zhi was waiting at the entrance of the herb garden early in the morning. When she saw Shen Yingying and the others arrive, she immediately went up to greet them: "Yingying, hello everyone."

Shen Yingying smiled and said, "Sister Zhizi, I'm afraid you'll have to work hard for the next few days."

"Isn't this what we should do?" Guo Zhi said casually. "Enough with the nonsense, everyone please come in and let's get started harvesting. The sooner we start, the sooner we finish, and the sooner we can hand in our work."

Shen Yingying turned to everyone and said, "Come with me."

The group entered the medicinal herb garden, which was very large and contained six kinds of medicinal herbs. Guo Zhi led them to the location where white poria cocos was planted: "This is it, everyone, start digging."

Shen Yingying instructed, "Be careful, and try to dig as completely as possible."

"Okay," the workers replied, then took their tools and began to work.

Shen Yingying didn't have to do the work herself; she was more like a supervisor. She stood to the side and said to Guo Zhi, "Sister Zhi, my sister said that the white poria cocos harvest is finished, and she wants you to arrange for people to cultivate the land immediately. After a month or so, you can plant the ginseng."

Crop rotation is best practiced on farmland to increase yields; otherwise, pests and diseases will infest the land and affect the harvest.

Where Poria cocos was originally planted, white peony should be planted. In the future, where white peony was originally planted, white Poria cocos should be planted. This will not only increase the yield, but also not delay the planting, and can greatly improve the planting efficiency.

Although Guo Zhi didn't understand, she would follow instructions: "I'll remember." Then she took out her notebook and wrote down what Shen Yingying had just said.

After finishing writing, she saw Shen Yingying looking at her and explained, "A bad pen is worse than a good memory; it would be bad if I forgot."

Shen Yingying naturally wouldn't speak ill of Guo Zhi; on the contrary, she admired the other's serious work attitude: "After the white poria is harvested, you will receive a substantial bonus."

Guo Zhi asked in surprise, "Really?"

Shen Yingying answered affirmatively, "Believe me, really."

Guo Zhi wanted to jump up on the spot: "Great, great, all my hard work has finally paid off."

Shen Yingying chuckled: "Keep working hard, you'll get even more in the future."

Guo Zhi replied with great enthusiasm, "Yes."

Soon the first white Poria cocos was dug out. It was also a very large Poria cocos, and its appearance was not much different from that of wild Poria cocos. It was also brownish-brown, but it was not as big as the one that Shen Xuening dug up from the mountain before. After all, the one on the mountain had been there for many years, while the one she planted had only been there for a year.

Shen Yingying recorded a video for Shen Xuening: "Sister, the Poria cocos has been dug out, take a look."

Shen Xuening quickly replied to the WeChat message: "Looks alright, how big is it?"

Shen Yingying estimated: "It weighs about eighty-odd pounds."

Shen Xuening: "That's not bad. We'll dig it up and bring it back in a bit. The workers at the factory have already cleaned up the workshop."

Shen Yingying: "I understand."

After digging up the poria cocos, the workers cleaned off the surface soil and then loaded them onto a tricycle. Each tricycle could carry three poria cocos. Once they had three poria cocos, the driver transported them to the factory.

At the factory, Ye Hongwei was already waiting. As Shen Xuening's medicinal herb consultant, he was quite responsible. Of course, it was also because he liked the medicinal herbs from Shen Xuening's side. He had been dealing with medicinal herbs for so many years, and only the medicinal herbs from Shen Xuening's side were the best, making them irresistible.

Upon seeing the Poria cocos being transported back, Ye Hongwei was the first to approach: "Is this Poria cocos cultivated? Are you sure it's not wild?"

Shen Xuening walked out of the factory: "I arranged for people to plant them; they were indeed planted by hand."

Ye Hongwei praised him highly: "You are truly a planting genius, growing Poria cocos so well."

Shen Xuening smiled modestly: "It's alright."

Ye Hongwei directed the workers to transport the Poria cocos to the workshop, where it was first washed, then the surface was dried, then it was cut into pieces and dried again...

It sounds easy, but it's actually quite complicated and requires a lot of skill. A slight mistake can ruin the medicinal herbs.

Leave the professional work to the professionals. Shen Xuening watched from the sidelines without disturbing Ye Hongwei in arranging things.

Shen Baohong said, "Ye Hongwei is almost a full-time medicinal herb consultant."

Shen Xuening said, "Anyway, I'll pay him whatever he does, so he won't lose out."

Shen Baohong smiled and said, "That's true. I've rarely suffered a loss working with you. You're a truly conscientious boss."

Shen Xuening was pleased with the praise: "So, do you think I have a conscience? How do I treat my employees? What areas need improvement?"

"Stop changing it, stop changing it! If you change it again, people here won't be able to find jobs," Shen Baohong said. "Heaven knows how many people are looking for work every day? It's almost overflowing."

Shen Xuening was unaware of this: "How do you know that so many people come looking for work every day?"

Shen Baohong said, "I saw it. You're too busy. Usually, job seekers come after you've finished your work, so you didn't know."

Shen Xuening said, "The HR department didn't tell me either."

Shen Baohong said, "Handling these things is their responsibility. If they can't handle them well, wouldn't you doubt their competence?"

Shen Xuening nodded: "That's true."