Her Cultivation Diary
Chapter 916 - 898. Lovely Old Lady

Chapter 916: 898. Lovely Old Lady

Grandma Tang’s eyes were about to glue onto them!

Because she is old, her palms are dry and yellow, and after so many years of working and teaching, her fingers have calluses too! Most importantly, Wu Lan’s hands really look different!

And this, was just the effect of one night!

She looked up, "Do you sell the hand cream? I’ll start with ten tubes."

One tube for hands, one for feet, one for the body, and one to try if it could be used for facial scraping or something... As for the rest, of course, they are for backup!

Did she really have to worry about what her children use at her age?

Song Tan helplessly said: "No, Grandma Tang. Previously I just made a small amount of tea oil for trial. If we really want to produce on a large scale, we have to wait until the tea seeds on the mountain are fully harvested and dried."

Grandma Tang was so eager: "Then is that tea oil fried chicken tonight something we can’t skip? Can’t we just stir fry with pork lard? It seems such a waste to just eat such good stuff!"

That’s not okay either!

We only picked such a small amount of tea seeds, crushed and ground them finely, and only got a little oil out. Honestly, because there’s too little, we didn’t even use the oil press, there are still a bit of residues in this oil.

It’s fine to use a little for cooking, but it’s not suitable for making skincare products.

Grandma Tang’s disappointment was palpable.

She sighed, "You kids, relying on good products and not caring about how to sell them— it’s getting colder and the air is dry, it’s exactly the time to use hand cream..."

Song Tan was also frustrated: "Initially I had the idea to make these products, and when it really came time to approve, I even had to allocate a separate filling machine for it... a big loss!"

We originally had one at home, but we certainly can’t fill miso first and then hand cream later, right?

Having to allocate a machine solely for this, Song Tan instantly regretted quoting the price too early— 188 simply doesn’t cut it!

But the price was already quoted out loud, and although it’s not making much money, we can only let it be.

Now she also had to comfort the old lady: "Don’t worry, the tea seeds on the mountain are just about ripe now; we’ll pick them, dry them, and in no more than ten days the hand cream will be ready... Just take a rest for a while."

Wu Lan also exclaimed as she took out her phone: "Right, while the weather is good, let’s quickly pick those tea seeds, or they might fall off the trees and be hard to collect."

Now, the village group chat has become her recruitment space; just a shout, and whoever is free comes to respond—this time, however, there were more men.

After all, the village’s aunties are now working night shifts.

Wu Lan sighed: "It’s a good thing we only did one greenhouse this year. If we had really done more, we’d be desperately short of people when in a hurry.’

She used to think not earning money when able was foolish.

"No worries." Song Tan was quite confident: "After the New Year, I’ll keep some more, and things will be better next year."

As soon as they heard this, everyone at Professor Song’s family felt quite resentful: Talking about New Year all the time, but we haven’t had our New Year yet, we still need to figure out staffing, right?

...

And looking forward to the New Year more than Lao Song’s family, were Professor Song’s students.

Tai Xiaodong was assigned to the Fruit Tree Cell and Molecular Breeding Laboratory, spending every day in the lab with microscopes, test tubes, petri dishes, microscopes...

[Ahhhh I can’t take it anymore!!!]

He vented loudly in the group chat, describing the dire situation: "Not only is it boring, but it also lacks soul. Not only do I have to work overtime, but I also have to write papers..."

He, a fine young man, has been in the fields for half a year, and now his heart has already taken flight, thoughts of cells and experiments... all thrown out completely!

[And the lowest degree here is a Ph.D., I, with only a Master’s Degree...not even qualified for odd jobs!]

Of course, Professor Song advised this way: "...first get a feel for it, see if you can adapt to the job, don’t underestimate it, this is also a very important part of agricultural development..."

He doesn’t want to be a part of it, he just wants to farm wuu wuu wuu!

The senior brothers and sisters work diligently, losing hair as they make six to eight thousand a month, all just for stability. When it comes to him, it’s not that money isn’t important, but with his degree, proper people wouldn’t even want him! He’s purely here for the experience, and all he can do each day is wash test tubes...

Washing test tubes is an embarrassment to his degree!

[And the food! The auntie’s cooking skills shock the heavens and move spirits, she can cook everything fully, only fully...I can’t stand it anymore, I went to Agricultural University just to have good food!]

Everyone knows the cafeteria at the Agri University is great, he has no great ambitions, and his scores are borderline, isn’t it normal for him to choose this?

Who would have thought, just as he was about to graduate, he puts on a lab coat and enters research!

In a small group of three, Tai Xiaodong is the loudest, but that doesn’t mean Qi Lin and Yan Ran have it any easier.

Yan Ran was assigned to a research station, and after a shaky ride, she discovered it’s in the middle of nowhere, plains all around, the station only has two small two-story buildings, speaking of scale, it’s even more pathetic than Song Tan’s home!

Looking around, there are greenhouses and vegetable patches everywhere, even a few old hens strolling in the vegetable patches. Hmm, the old hens are quite plump, they’d definitely make a delicious soup...

Alright, she’s not picky—she’s not in a position to be picky, it’s unpaid labor anyway, only arranged through Professor Song’s word. Farming at Old Song’s family is farming, and here it’s the same farming!

But at this time, there wasn’t anything to plant, and after idling around from the vegetable patch to the greenhouse, familiarizing herself with the little yellow dog at the door, she almost kicked the dirt in boredom before realizing it was time for lunch.

The lunch is—stir-fried baby bok choy, stir-fried chili with pickled vegetables, cucumber with sausage.

That’s it.

That’s it!!!

Who understands this feeling ah? Two months ago, each meal they could eat three big bowls, more appetizing than pig food, now at the base, this is all they could eat!

[It’s not that I can’t endure hardship, it’s just that I can’t forget the comfort I used to have!]she lamented in the group chat.

Among the three of them, only Qi Lin is the most stable.

Tai Xiaodong’s family is well-off, with both parents having stable jobs, whatever he studies, finding a job isn’t a worry.

Yan Ran’s family is wealthy, casually spending tens of thousands each month as pocket money, whether she works or not doesn’t really matter, as long as she’s happy.

So they can leave anytime they don’t like work, only he can’t.

What’s important, a stable job and posting or a pleasant working environment, he has his own scale in his heart.

The only pity is, even if Song Tan allotted him a dorm, his grandfather would never agree to leave his hometown...

Thinking of this, he also couldn’t help but sigh.

At this moment, looking at the two in the group chat using emojis to cry, he quickly consoles:

"It’s okay, we’re just thick-skinned trying to scrounge some experience, didn’t we agree to try it out for a month?"

He cheers up: "Hang in there, until the New Year when we go to Song Tan’s home, there’ll be pork to eat!"

Yan Ran looks at the bowl full of vegetables, at this moment lets out a "wa" and starts crying.