Chapter 169 Knowledge Output
Dr. Chen looked around speechlessly. "Just treat her the same as before. Rather than trying to get close to her, she'd rather you help her with her work."
Dr. Chen's eldest son spoke in a loud voice, "Dad, you don't need to tell us, we'll do our job well, but now that Miss Xie is our boss, shouldn't we be a little warmer and more respectful to her?"
Although they had treated Xie Wanniang well before, that "well" meant that they had been polite and courteous to their father's nominal disciple.
Is it inappropriate to treat their benefactors with such politeness and courtesy?
Dr. Chen sighed, "You guys!"
He walked back to the main room with his hands behind his back. "That girl is different from the others. You can tell by how she treats Xiao Yang and the others."
Others may enjoy being flattered and fawned over, but Xie Wanniang always treated everyone equally.
Madam Chen was a shrewd and experienced woman. In her few interactions with Xie Wanniang, she immediately noticed that this girl was different from others.
She treats those of higher status and greater strength than herself with the same respect as those of lower status and weaker strength.
She only hoped that the servants, shop assistants, long-term workers, and short-term workers who depended on her for a living would do their jobs well, and that she would not consider herself superior just because they received money from her.
In the current social environment, this is a very rare and special quality, and it is also an important reason why Dr. Chen was willing to let his children and grandchildren work for Xie Wanniang.
He instructed his children and grandchildren, "You must pay more attention to the medicinal herb garden in the future. As long as you do a good job, the child will definitely give you more opportunities in the future."
Before Xie Wanniang, he had never seen anyone who could successfully cultivate medicinal herbs on a large scale.
Only this girl could not only start from scratch in just a few years, but also create a place capable of large-scale cultivation of medicinal herbs.
When Xie Wanniang wrote to him, telling him which medicinal herbs she had grown, Doctor Chen's first reaction was to suspect that there was something wrong with his eyes.
After the initial disbelief and excitement subsided, Dr. Chen had been hoping to meet Xie Wanniang and establish a similar medicinal herb cultivation base near Mingfu Village.
Now that Xie Wanniang has made his dream come true, he is as happy as if he has eaten a magic pill, and he looks radiant and full of energy.
Walking into his bedroom with his hands behind his back, Dr. Chen began rummaging through drawers and cabinets looking for the letters Xie Wanniang had written to him before.
Those letters record the entire process of him and Xie Wanniang discussing the growth habits, cultivation methods, and precautions for transplanting and planting medicinal herbs.
Although they initially discussed the common local medicinal herbs that Xie Wanniang transplanted to her medicinal garden in Yi County, as the saying goes, "stones from other mountains can be used to polish jade," Doctor Chen believed that those valuable experiences could also be applied in Tang County.
Firstly, the two places are not actually too far apart, and they have many similarities in terms of climate and soil. Secondly, the growth habits and cultivation methods of many medicinal herbs are also quite similar.
What he didn't know was that Xie Wanniang was doing something similar to him at that moment.
Back home, after eating a simple meal to fill her stomach, Xie Wanniang began to write furiously at her desk.
She wrote about the growth habits and cultivation methods of some common medicinal herbs in Tang County, as well as some precautions during transplantation and cultivation.
These were all valuable pieces of knowledge she had learned in her previous life. Through her persistent and regular review, she had not forgotten a single one of these invaluable crystallizations of human wisdom.
Having put all her existing knowledge on paper, Xie Wanniang stretched and waved to Haitang, who was quietly guarding the door.
Haitang sprang up quickly, "I'll go get you something to eat!"
Xie Wanniang had been busy since around 2 p.m. until it was completely dark. During that time, Haitang only brought her two lit oil lamps.
She had originally planned to bring Xie Wanniang food, but Xie Wanniang refused, saying, "Keep the food warm in the pot first, and I'll eat after I finish writing everything."
Then, Xie Wanniang was busy until about 7 p.m.
"This is onion, wood ear mushroom, and egg soup. Please have a few more sips." Considering that Xie Wanniang hadn't eaten or drunk anything all afternoon, Haitang didn't immediately serve her the food. Instead, she first ladled out a bowl of vegetable and egg drop soup for her.
Xie Wanniang was indeed thirsty. She didn't feel it when she was focused on her work, but as soon as she had some free time, she immediately felt a vague discomfort in various parts of her body.
She picked up the bowl and gulped down a large bowl of soup before quickly calming her stomach.
After eating and drinking her fill, she went to the toilet again, and only then did she feel like she had come back to life.
Haitang felt both sorry for her and amused. After taking the bowls and chopsticks away, the little maid brought Xie Wanniang hot water and watched her quickly wash up.
It wasn't that she didn't want to serve, but Xie Wanniang never entrusted such matters to others.
"It's getting late, you should go back and rest," Xie Wanniang said while washing up, urging her to leave. "You can come back to serve me tomorrow morning."
Haitang didn't leave. "I'll leave after I've poured out your water."
Helpless, Xie Wanniang had no choice but to speed up her washing up.
Haitang chatted with her casually, "You wrote down methods for planting medicinal herbs, right? Is it really okay to just hand these over to Doctor Chen's family like this?"
Xie Wanniang smiled nonchalantly, "This is only a small part of what I know. If I can use it to test the true nature of people's hearts, then in the end, I'm the one who benefits."
To reiterate, firstly, she trusts the character of Dr. Chen's family, and secondly, even if she misjudges them, the losses will be within her acceptable range; she can afford to gamble.
Haitang disagreed with Xie Wanniang, saying, "No matter how much you know, you can't take this skill, which is enough to support a family and even protect future generations, for granted."
Xie Wanniang's smile remained unchanged. "I'm not ignoring it. I just don't want to keep everything hidden, and then years later, let future generations regret that most of the wisdom of our ancestors has been lost in the long river of history because of 'keeping things to themselves'."
Haitang opened her mouth, but ultimately didn't say anything more.
At that moment, she suddenly realized with absolute clarity that her daughter was not naive or without a sense of self-protection, but rather harbored a grand goal that no one else had ever even considered.
When others have skills, their first thought is to use them to make a living, raise their own value, or use them as leverage... then they think about passing them down to their families or taking on apprentices. But when her daughter has skills, her first thought is to do everything possible to spread and pass on this skill.
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