Boss Peng swallowed his words hesitantly, and said, "Don't you have efficient people in your unit?"

Before Chu Zhishui could answer, Xin Yunmao pointed at her.

"Sure enough, I should have guessed it when I talked to her in the bureau." Boss Peng sighed, "Efficient Xiao Chu is only responsible for making money. What kind of unit is this?"

The overall development direction of this serious unit is problematic!

Chu Zhishui quickly waved her hands and made up for it, "No, no, no, don't misunderstand the bureau. He pointed at me because I am a human being. We have many efficient colleagues!"

But Boss Peng asked about efficient people, not efficient monsters, so it can only refer to her.

After hearing this, Boss Peng was not comforted, but showed a more subtle expression. He couldn't help but look at Xin Yunmao carefully, but he couldn't find any clues from the other party's calm expression.

"Ah, I'm completely confused now." Boss Peng was confused by the supernatural events. He patted his head and tried to wake up, and said embarrassedly, "Then I can't dig ginseng for the next forty or fifty years, or I can't even do ginseng-related business. Now I feel weird when you mentioned that you are all minors."

"It's just that you can't dig ginseng near the forest hut. They have pointed out a specific area." Xin Yunmao said, "Actually, they didn't do anything when you dug ginseng a few years ago."

Boss Peng spread out a map on the table: "Let me see, which area is it?"

Xin Yunmao outlined the range with a marker. It was not the entire forest area, but the area with the most evil spirit, which would easily make ginseng demon become spirit.

"That's not bad." Boss Peng calculated the losses and muttered, "The output of forest ginseng will be reduced, but it won't have much impact on other things. They are quite calculating."

"After all, they watch you pick ginseng every day, so they must be very clear about the situation here."

The ginseng monsters may have come here earlier than Boss Peng. They witnessed the rise of plantations and processing plants with their own eyes, so they naturally understand the situation of the entire company.

Although they asked Boss Peng to get out at first, after being educated by the God of Civility and Etiquette, their overall quality has greatly improved, and the conditions they put forward are also much more normal.

Boss Peng threw the marker on the table and sighed, "Okay, I accept the mediation."

"Really?" Chu Zhishui was surprised, "In fact, you can just ignore it. At most, they will knock on your door at night. It won't affect your business."

The Silver Sea Observation Bureau ranked this matter very low because the untransformed ginseng monster has no offensive power. At most, it will come to disturb at night and throw tools everywhere. Even if Boss Peng and others forcibly dig ginseng, they have no choice but to let others slaughter them.

Chu Zhishui didn't expect Boss Peng to give in. Many businessmen she met dared to commit crimes against the wind, but none of them was as direct as Boss Peng.

"The Qing Dynasty had a complete ban on ginseng, but now it's only in one area, which is not unacceptable." Boss Peng nodded, "And this piece of mountain is indeed my deal. I used to be able to dig wild ginseng, but now I can only grow ginseng under the forest."

Ginseng cultivation is best harvested in 4-6 years, and wild ginseng has even higher requirements. Forty to fifty years is not a long time for ginseng.

Boss Peng started his business with ginseng, and he has a sense of awe in his bones. If it was other gods and ghosts, he would definitely try to get rid of it, but when he heard that it was the young ginseng demon, the feeling was still different.

Boss Peng smiled bitterly: "You should always leave a way out for everything. Don't be too extreme. You've really been dug up by someone. Since it's been 40 to 50 years no matter which side you choose, maybe it's God's will."

Xin Yunmao showed a hint of strangeness on his face. He rarely looked at Boss Peng for a moment and commented: "It's surprising that you accidentally found the law."

Any cause and effect cannot come out of thin air. Humans and monsters are related, and there must be a strange fate. Some are good fate, and some are bad fate. At certain moments, good fate and bad fate will transform into each other.

The number given by the Silver Sea Bureau is at the back, not entirely because of the lack of people, but because rash intervention may intensify the conflict. From the perspective of the ginseng monster, they feel that they have been dug for many years; from the perspective of Boss Peng, there is no problem with him digging ginseng according to the scientific cycle. Both sides have their own arguments.

Boss Peng and the ginseng demon have a shallow connection, but it cannot be severed immediately, so it takes 40 to 50 years to choose either side, so that the connection will naturally dissipate after friction and collision, which is the safest way.

However, I didn't expect Boss Peng to be stubborn and like to do things by himself. I had to go to the bureau to get to the bottom of it, and then I learned the real reason.

When human interests are damaged, the first thing they do is often furious and uncontrollable, and few people are willing to look at the problem objectively. The ginseng demon is not a reasonable demon, but Boss Peng is a reasonable person. He knows that everything has its own law.

Chu Zhishui smiled: "You really like ginseng."

"Of course, who would do it if I don't like it?" Boss Peng waved his hand, "Selling unscrupulous health products is not much more profitable than growing ginseng in the field!"

Xin Yunmao stared at Boss Peng thoughtfully, and said: "If you accept, I will help you sign an agreement. You can't dig in this area within 50 years. If you agree, they won't come to make trouble again."

Boss Peng nodded: "Okay."

"In exchange, if you engage in ginseng-related business, they will provide assistance to you and your descendants in these 50 years. After the 50 years are up, this agreement will be invalid, and you can dig ginseng again, and neither party will owe anything."

"Is there such a thing?" Boss Peng was stunned, "Provide business assistance?"

"Of course, this is a legal constraint. If you lose, you must gain." Xin Yunmao said, "Even if they don't want to, they have to do this. This is our rule of give and take."

Humans cannot refuse to pay after signing an agreement, and monsters cannot refuse to pay after signing an agreement, otherwise they will have to pay a price. If it is not an equal exchange, the ceremony will not be effective.

"If they violate the contract, you don't have to go to the bureau to line up, they will be punished." A ball of blue-black flame emerged from Xin Yunmao's fingertips, dyeing his pure black eyes with a little light, and he said calmly, "Do you want to terminate the agreement?"

Boss Peng was still skeptical at first, but when he saw the weird blue fire, he finally confirmed that Xin Yunmao was not an ordinary person. He subconsciously looked at Chu Zhishui, wanting to ask for her opinion, and saw her nodding at him.

"Okay, I agree to the agreement."

The dark cold fire dissipated in the hut.

In the woods, countless green light points gathered together, swaying among the branches and leaves, and floating in the air with the wind.

A moment later, Boss Peng came out with a man and a demon. He saw that their mentality was different again, and said cautiously: "Is this the end? Are there any other precautions?"

"Precautions?" Chu Zhishui looked at Xin Yunmao and asked, "Are there any?"

Xin Yunmao thought: "If you have nothing to do, read the Four Books and Five Classics to them in the hut. If you don't learn etiquette, you can't stand. Let them be knowledgeable and sensible."

The young ginseng demon on this mountain is really naughty, and should learn well from mature and reliable adults.

"If it doesn't work, you can buy some early childhood education audio to play." Chu Zhishui kindly suggested, "Don't let your ginseng lose at the starting line."

Boss Peng: "?"

The group was going down the mountain along the forest path, and unexpectedly Boss Peng received a call.

After he answered the call, he accidentally pressed the public speaker button, and an ecstatic male voice came from the phone: "Dad, I tell you, don't do those mysterious things, it's normal to have some strange things in the deep mountains and old forests. I just received a big order here, you should hurry back to the company, this is a good opportunity!"

Boss Peng quickly turned off the public speaker, then bowed to apologize to the man and the demon, and then he was in the mood to put the phone to his ear.

"Don't talk so loudly to your father!" Boss Peng said angrily, "You don't know what your father just went through!" After

Boss Peng finished scolding, he started to talk about business with his son. Not long after, he showed a happy expression on his face. It seems that things are going well.

"Xiao Chu Xiao Xin, I'm sorry for being rude." After Boss Peng hung up the phone, he remembered that he was heard scolding his son, and hurriedly tried to make up for his image.

Chu Zhishui smiled: "It's okay, congratulations to Mr. Peng, business is booming."

It seems that the monsters' agreement is very honest, and it has worked as soon as the contract was signed.

The company run by Boss Peng is not small. Planting ginseng is one of his projects, and there are many upstream and downstream industries. Because the business is relatively large, he also needs to buy ginseng from outside, otherwise it is not enough to grow it by himself.

"Business is coming, but ginseng is getting less. To complete this order, I have to collect some." Boss Peng suddenly remembered something and came up with an idea. "By the way, don't you also grow forest ginseng? How much do you produce in a year?"

Ordinary garden ginseng is easy to collect, but wild ginseng and forest ginseng are hard to come by, especially those with good quality. The price depends on the appearance.

"I'll go back and tell you." Chu Zhishui said tactfully, "How much do you need?"

"As long as the appearance is good, I'll take as much as I can."

"..."

No wonder the ginseng demon was full of complaints, the demand is indeed a bit too great!

Many rich people like to hoard good ginseng. They don't eat it, they just buy it. Whenever they see a good one, they are willing to spend a lot of money to buy it. If we really want to meet the demand of mankind, we probably have to hollow out the mountains in the country.

Boss Peng saw her expression was different. He had a psychological shadow now, so he quickly tried to test her: "The ginseng you grow should be fine, right? You won't make strange requests, right?"

Chu Zhishui said seriously: "Don't worry, we have sensible adult ginseng there, who have already understood some social customs. They are not unemployed young ginseng who have not experienced the beatings of society."

"That's good, that's good, don't be underage, ginseng still needs to grow up!"

Chu Zhishui exchanged contact information with Boss Peng and promised to send him some information after returning to Huaijiang and take some photos of the growth environment of forest ginseng. If the ginseng is successfully harvested, he will also send him some photos so that he can see how it looks.

After returning from the distant ginseng garden, Boss Peng withdrew the number from the Yinhai Bureau, and Chu Zhishui and Xin Yunmao also returned to the guesthouse. She looked at the time and found it was getting late, and suddenly remembered that she had an appointment with Wang Yiwen in the evening.

Chu Zhishui: "Let's go have dinner first, and then I have to go out in the evening." Xin

Yunmao: "Going out?"

"Meeting a friend, I'll be back a little later." Chu Zhishui suggested, "How about I teach you how to watch TV?"

The conditions in the Yinhai Bureau Guesthouse are good, but the Huaijiang Earth Monster may not use it. Chu Zhishui told Xin Yunmao how to watch TV, and helped him choose a channel. He changed several channels in a row, and finally stopped at the documentary channel, which was playing a documentary about plants.

"If you don't feel interested, you can change to the agricultural channel, which is also related to the work in the department." Chu Zhishui encouraged, "Supplement yourself with some business knowledge after work."

Xin Yunmao studied the remote control board, and inexplicably seemed a little confused.

Chu Zhishui settled him down, hurried back to the room to pack up, and then rushed to the agreed bar. The location was not far from Yinhai Bureau, so she didn't take a taxi and just walked there.

Longzhi Video tacitly acknowledges the overtime culture. It was already very late when Wang Yiwen got off work, and it was impossible for the two of them to have dinner together, so they just said they would sit in the bar for a while. Adults can squeeze out time to meet each other, and they may have to go through hardships and dangers. They should be content with such an opportunity.

Yinhai City has a rich nightlife. The walls of the bar are piled with countless uniquely shaped wine bottles, and the bartender is standing behind the counter mixing colorful cocktails. The light is dim, the music is everywhere, and there are men and women in every corner.

Wang Yiwen arrived first. She was a neat and tidy urban beauty wearing exquisite makeup and commuting clothes. As soon as she saw Chu Zhishui, she waved excitedly.

"You're here." Chu Zhishui was surprised, "I thought I was waiting for you."

"If they all leave, I'll leave right away. Why should I stay and compete with others?" Wang Yiwen waited for Chu Zhishui to sit down. She leaned over excitedly, and was stunned when she saw the other person's face clearly, "You really don't treat me as an outsider. You didn't even put on makeup, how can you take pictures?"

"To be honest, I just washed my hair to give you face today." Chu Zhishui said, "I just came back from the fields during the day."

"You let yourself go so much in this job?" Wang Yiwen smacked her lips, "It seems that there is no man among your new colleagues that you are thinking about." When

Chu Zhishui heard this, she showed a funny expression, and pulled the corner of her mouth and said, "It's funny, there is no man among my colleagues."

What's even funnier is that there is no man among his colleagues.

Wang Yiwen was shocked: "No way? All women?"

"There are no men, they are all green tea boys."

For example, the bamboo demon who shouted loudly that he could not respond to human emotions, and at the same time, he was nagging her every day and making a fuss.

Wang Yiwen's face changed slightly, and she looked at her carefully, and asked suspiciously: "Do you think your male colleague is a green tea?"

Chu Zhishui raised her eyes: "Well, what?"

"It's over, you are in trouble, you wouldn't say this before." Wang Yiwen put her hand on Chu Zhishui's shoulder, she quietly shortened the distance, and said seriously, "Baby, have you ever thought that cold water can't make green tea, smelling the tea means you have feelings, and you have warmth for him in your heart."

"..."

Chu Zhishui's heart skipped a beat, but she didn't show any on her face, and said calmly: "You are so unsophisticated."

Wang Yiwen: "?"

Chu Zhishui: "Have you never had cold brewed green tea?"

What cold water can't make green tea? Where does the face of cold brew tea stand!

"I didn't cheat again." Wang Yiwen was very sorry, "You really don't have a romantic partner. I haven't seen one in all these years."

Since Wang Yiwen and Chu Zhishui met, they have never seen each other have any affairs. This is a real straight woman. She has remained single by her own strength and has not been moved by any romantic opportunities, whether overt or covert.

Chu Zhishui said ruthlessly: "I don't have that kind of worldly desire."

"Boss Chu, no, Chief Chu." Wang Yiwen said, "You are so heartless, not to mention the red string tied by the matchmaker, you can even break the steel bars. Don't you really have any men you like?"

"Every time I see a man, I will imagine myself as a man, and then compare myself with the other person." Chu Zhishui confessed, "I soon found that if I were a man, I would be better than them."

Chu Zhishui has never been self-indulgent. If you can't feel it, it doesn't exist. If you don't make it clear, it doesn't exist. If you make it clear, it's a warning of a good guy card. As long as she runs fast enough, ambiguity can't catch up with her.

She doesn't have time to play tricks with people. Maybe only pure and passionate emotions can really move her. It's a pity that modern people don't have it.

She is happy enough on her own and doesn't need to look at conditions to live with someone. It's good the way it is now, and let everything else take its course.

"That's true given your conditions." Wang Yiwen smiled, "Why don't you just live with me? We can go to a nursing home together in the future."

Chu Zhishui complained, "Why are you talking nonsense to me when you have a boyfriend?"

"You can't talk nonsense if you have a boyfriend." Wang Yiwen said righteously, "I steal my man's money to support you, and I'm just playing around with him."

"???"

"That's right, it's good for you to be single, and it's boring to fall in love." Wang Yiwen sighed and muttered, "He doesn't understand hobbies when you talk to him, and he's unreliable when it comes to serious matters. You even care more about my job change than he does."

"Don't compare me with him, I'm not a fish in your pond." Chu Zhishui paused for a moment. Seeing her friend depressed, she said softly, "Cherish what you have, you've been dating for a long time."

"Forget it, let's not talk about him. I'll tell you some company gossip." Wang Yiwen secretly observed her surroundings and lowered her voice stealthily, "That person probably raised money. Maybe he wants to start new financing, even though the last round just ended."

Chu Zhishui: "I guessed it. I knew he had this idea from the beginning." It would be

difficult for Li Longke to raise money without financing, and now his businessman's face is exposed.

"I can't stand it anymore. The richer he gets, the more stupid he becomes. Many of us think there's something wrong with him." Wang Yiwen said with disgust, "Didn't he slander you at first, saying that you wanted to be in power? We didn't want to give up content operations, so we didn't agree with his plan, but now the new team is doing a terrible job."

"There were always a few people in our company who were jealous of you, saying that you were a hypocrite who would be exposed sooner or later. Now they are still wondering whether you were a hypocrite or not. But there's no need to doubt that President Li is a real villain. It's funny enough. Why didn't he do that long ago?" As

the factional struggle at Longzhi Video developed to the later stages, naturally some people privately discredited Chu Zhishui, thinking that she said nice things but was actually unwilling to give up power and wanted to suppress her and cling to Li Longke.

Little did they know that Li Longke could fall out with the founder Chu Zhishui, so how could he keep his promise and use others after he really took the position.

"Did he? I don't remember." Chu Zhishui said leisurely, "I can't remember what people who are not as good as me say, forget it, forget it."

"Have you really never thought about getting rid of him?" Wang Yiwen urged, "Xintou just started looking for you, if you go, the salary will not be low, and you don't have a competition agreement, so you don't have to talk to him about industry ethics."

Wang Yiwen was looking forward to Chu Zhishui returning to Yinhai City, and then taking him to do something big, punching Li Longke and destroying Longzhi Video.

Chu Zhishui smiled bitterly: "Yiwen, actually you have misunderstood one thing. I was not squeezed out of the team, but I really didn't want to do it anymore. If I wanted to do it, I would stay in Yinhai, but I chose to go back to Huaijiang."

Wang Yiwen was stunned.

"Do you remember that I had a serious illness some time ago and had gastric bleeding, so scared that my parents flew to Yinhai. They cried in the hospital every day. You also came to see me in the ward at that time."

Wang Yiwen was stunned: "Yeah."

"After that time, I suddenly realized that my parents never expected me to ring the bell at Nasdaq. They just wanted me to be safe, happy and healthy, have a job, and almost alive." Chu Zhishui lowered her eyelashes, her eyes filled with clear light, and she said softly, "I have always compared myself with others. I have never been convinced since I was a child. I worked hard to get first place in school, and I also wanted to make a lot of money after I started working, so that they would be proud of me." "

Because in Huaijiang, there are very few families like ours, and I don't want their daughter to be worse than other people's children."

Chu Zhishui is an only child, which is very rare in Huaijiang, and she cannot avoid being evaluated and compared by outsiders. She had never been treated unfairly since she was a child, but she could hear a lot of noises from outside. There was wind and rain outside the greenhouse built by her parents, and the sound of the wind hitting the eaves was so loud that she couldn't ignore it.

She had all the resources and love, so she had to go all out to prove that her parents had made the right choice.

For a long time, she played the role of "someone else's child" and she wanted her parents to hold their heads up in front of everyone.

It was not until she fell ill and saw her parents crying that she realized that she might have been willing to do so, and that this was not what they wanted at all.

"I thought too much. They are actually very simple and don't have such high requirements." Chu Zhishui shrugged, "So I went back. Instead of letting them come to Yinhai where they are unfamiliar with the place, it is more appropriate for me to go back to my hometown where I was born and raised."

"I was born in an ordinary family. My parents are ordinary, and I am also very ordinary, but we love each other and I can accept it all."

Chu Zhishui smiled and said with relief: "Even if we only make a few thousand yuan now, it doesn't matter. It's not a big deal. We accompany each other safely."

Safe, healthy, happy, this is enough, lucky enough.

She had a glamorous life in Yinhai, but she can also return to the plain and ordinary Huaijiang.

Wang Yiwen was stunned: "I really didn't expect you to go back for this."

"Of course, even if I go back to my hometown, I hope you can all make a fortune!" Chu Zhishui raised her glass, clinked glasses with her friend, and joked, "So work hard in Xintou, if you really want to live with me, you should earn more now and find a better nursing home for us later."

Wang Yiwen changed her title when she jumped from Longzhi to Xintou, and she would hold shares in her hands, and her future was limitless.

"Okay, then I will support you." Wang Yiwen held the glass and laughed heartily, "My man probably has no money to steal, so it's faster for me to make money to support you."

The two hadn't seen each other for a long time and chatted heartily. Unknowingly, it was late at night. Many shops had closed, and only the entrance of the bar was still busy.

At the door, the cold wind swept across the faces of passers-by, dispersing the steaming alcohol, and finally calming down their excitement of meeting again after a long separation. The two prepared to go home and stood by the roadside of the bar waiting for a car.

Wang Yiwen raised her mobile phone, she looked around and waved to a car on the street. The car window slowly rolled down, and a man leaned out and stretched out his hand to respond to her.

Chu Zhishui watched this scene with relish and joked: "Oh, you just abandoned me, and now you let me pick you up."

"Why are you going back?" Wang Yiwen smiled shyly, "We'll take you on the way."

"I..." Chu Zhishui was about to say that she would walk back, but she was stunned when she saw the familiar figure on the street, and automatically swallowed the second half of the sentence back into her stomach.

Why did he run out of the guesthouse?

Xin Yunmao stood under the dim light, with a long shadow hanging down, and no one knew how long he stayed in the cold wind. He saw Chu Zhishui coming out of the bar, and then he walked over slowly, his inky black eyes were frost-stained, complaining: "Why don't you go back?"

Wang Yiwen glanced at the unfamiliar Xin Yunmao, and then looked at Chu Zhishui beside her. Her eyes lit up and she whispered tentatively: "Who is this..."

Chu Zhishui's expression was numb: "Colleague."

"Oh - the green tea man is here." Wang Yiwen gestured with her hands to make a phone shape, suggesting that the two sides contacted each other on WeChat, and winked and said, "I understand, I will disappear immediately."

Before Chu Zhishui had time to explain, Wang Yiwen jumped into her boyfriend's car.

"What male green tea?" Xin Yunmao watched the human leave, he looked at Chu Zhishui again, doubtful, "Don't you know my true identity?"

Chu Zhishui couldn't say that he had secretly accused him of being a green tea, and explained with a guilty conscience, "No."

"No?" Xin Yunmao frowned, his eyes dim, and asked in disbelief, "Where did you know this green tea demon?"

"..."