Xia Wenqing ran home crying. Liang Jiade saw her and asked with concern, "Wenqing, didn't you go home? Why are you back like this?"
Xia Wenqing cried and said, "Jiade, I used to say that my dad married a stepmother and was only good to her daughter. That was a lie."
"Actually, my mom adopted a daughter, and she always gets to take priority in everything at home. When we were little, anything she wanted would be taken away by her..."
After Xia Wenqing recounted what the original owner of the body had done before the Xia family's misfortune, Liang Jiade expressed his incomprehension and was greatly shocked. How could an entire family support an adopted daughter?
Liang Jiade: "Don't you have other brothers? Don't they have any objections to that adopted daughter Yu Rujia taking over everything in your house?"
Xia Wenqing was startled. Yes, her mother had always favored Rujia. It had always been like this. She should have known long ago that with her mother around, she would never be able to have her way.
Therefore, she should unite with her brothers.
As long as the real Xia family members work together, Grandpa and Uncle will not ignore the requests of their own grandchildren and let Mom wholeheartedly favor Rujia, an outsider.
Thinking of Xia Jingrong, Xia Jingxing, and Xia Jingguo, whom he used to hate the most, Xia Wenqing realized and decided to start with the three of them.
Xia Jingrong and Xia Jingguo are in Jiangcheng, so it's hard for her to run into them.
But Xia Jingxing is definitely in the capital. As long as she can keep watch on him, the two of them can slowly pull the other brothers into the same camp.
Yu Rujia was unaware that Xia Wenqing had set her sights on Xia Jingxing, but even if she had known, she wouldn't have been worried.
Even if Xia Jingxing hadn't gone to the south, and even if he were here, having been in business for two or three years, he wouldn't be fooled by Xia Wenqing into joining her side.
Duofu and his companions brought back more mugwort leaves than ever before. After the children finished processing the prey, they all started processing the mugwort leaves together.
Xia Jingsheng saw mugwort everywhere. He knew how expensive Yu Rujia's soap was. How many soaps could be made with so much mugwort?
Xia Jingsheng: "Rujia, you just made soap not long ago, right? Now you've brought back so much mugwort. When will you be able to sell it all?"
Yu Rujia: "I order a thousand bars of soap every month, but it's not enough to sell. If we let it be sold freely, I could sell at least several thousand bars a month. All these mugwort leaves can be sold out in a month."
Yu Rujia is rather lazy. As a wealthy woman supported by several companies, she doesn't care about the income from the pharmacy. She simply decided to sell 1,000 bars of soap per month, which would be put on the shelves in several batches. Once they were sold out, you would have to wait until the next month.
Limited edition items are always more appealing, and her soaps are so effective that they often sell out as soon as they're put on the shelves. Some people who can't buy them even pay a high price to buy from others.
This led to the emergence of middlemen who set prices one or two times higher than hers, yet people still scrambled to buy them.
Xia Jingsheng: "Beauty products are selling so well?"
Yu Rujia casually remarked, "Women's love of beauty is innate, just as natural as men's love of beautiful women."
Xia Jingsheng pondered for a moment: "What do you think about me setting up a factory area in the factory to produce beauty products? Of course, not the high-end kind like yours. Just like medicine, you sell high-end products, and I'll sell ordinary ones."
Yu Rujia: "Your factory can't even keep up with the production of medicines every month, where would you find the space to make beauty products?"
Beauty products are sure to become mainstream in the market. In order to make more money, some merchants will even break down what can be achieved with one product into several.
Take her soaps, for example. Putting aside their mosquito and mite-repelling effects, just in terms of beauty benefits, whitening, fading spots, reducing wrinkles, and moisturizing, there are several products that can be differentiated by those merchants.
Xia Jingsheng: "We can't produce enough right now, but sooner or later someone will develop the same pill formula as us. When there are more common drugs on the market, we can start making some beauty products."
Currently, the mainstream medicines available are still from Runhe Pharmaceutical. They are inexpensive and effective, and families who can afford it usually keep some on hand. Families who can't afford it are even more likely to buy their medicines when they get sick.
The factory is working overtime every day, but the pills still aren't enough to meet demand.
Xia Jingsheng could only regretfully put the beauty filter aside for the time being.
Yu Rujia: "Okay, if that day comes, come find me and I'll give you some beauty formulas."
Giving out prescriptions is just a casual matter for her. With Xia Jingsheng following up, she can just sit back and wait to collect the money. This kind of money isn't too much to handle.
A few days later, Xia Jingxing drove back.
Upon seeing Xia Jingshu's RV, he ordered one and had Yu Rujia set up a temperature control system. The temperature difference in most of the space was around six degrees, but the temperature of a large box was set to zero degrees, so it could be used as a refrigerator.
Knowing that Yu Rujia likes seafood, he specially brought back a large amount of it when he drove his RV back for the first time.
As soon as Xia Jingxing got out of the car, he excitedly opened his arms to his nephews who ran over after hearing the noise, and said mysteriously, "Gentlemen, look what I brought back?"
Dorje rushed over in a few strides, craning his neck to look inside the car. Seeing nothing unusual, he asked curiously, "Fifth Uncle, what did you bring us?"
Xia Jingxing smiled but remained silent, gesturing for them to continue watching.
Duolu stepped forward to take a look, and soon his nose twitched. He said with disgust, "It smells so bad, Fifth Uncle. Where did you drive off to? You drove back smelling so bad. How can you stand it?"
Duo Yi, who came up later, sniffed and asked in confusion, "There's no fishy smell, Second Brother, are you mistaken?"
Duoxi rubbed his little head, unsurprised, and said, "Second Brother's nose is different from ours, it's several times more sensitive than ours. If he says there's a fishy smell, then Fifth Uncle must have been exposed to fish."
Duole asked curiously, "Second Brother, can you smell what it is?"
Duolu sniffed it a few more times, then suddenly remembered something and exclaimed in surprise, "It's just like the seafood we've eaten before! Fifth Uncle, did you bring back some seafood?"
Back in the capital, which is closer to the sea, some business people come here to sell seafood. I've eaten at their restaurant a few times.
The children got excited when they heard about seafood, and even Duo Shou, who had been watching from a distance, couldn't resist coming over: "What seafood? Let's take a look."
He doesn't feel anything special about other meats, but seafood is his favorite. He loves the feeling of eating meat in big bites without feeling greasy at all.
Xia Jingxing patted Duolu on the head from behind: "You have such a good nose, go up and bring the seafood down."
Duolu pressed further, "Is there really seafood? Where is it?"
Xia Jingxing raised an eyebrow and said in a nonchalant tone, "You have a keen sense of smell, so go and smell it."
Without flinching, Duolu boarded the train carriage, looked around, and found the seafood hidden in a large box. Even after several days, it was still as fresh as if it had just been slaughtered.
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