After finishing her meal, Shen Mingzhi planned to go to the restroom before heading home.
When she came out of the restroom, she saw Jiang Shaozhen blocking the doorway. She ignored him and walked around him.
She had only taken one step when Jiang Shaozhen grabbed her wrist.
"What?" Shen Mingzhi reflexively pulled her hand back immediately, her tone full of dislike for him.
Jiang Shao Chen's eyes dimmed at her attitude. "I did have ulterior motives for marrying you, but I don't know if my motives are good or bad to you. I don't understand the minds of you girls, and I don't know what 'liking' means. But, we live in the same city, and I feel really bad when I can't see you."
The feeling of wanting to keep his eyes glued to her all the time has been agonizing for Jiang Shao Chen these past two days.
Just now, Shen Xiuzhu looked at her with eyes full of light, openly admiring her and chatting with her. He was insanely jealous.
He felt he had to say something to let Shen Mingzhi know that he wasn't that kind of person... he didn't mean it.
Shen Mingzhi was stunned.
Did he confess his feelings to her?
"Shen Mingzhi, I won't be back for a while. If—"
"Hey, what are you doing?!" Shen Xiuzhu's arrival interrupted Jiang Shaochen's words.
He quickly stepped forward, blocking Jiang Shaozhen and Shen Mingzhi, his face full of disgust. "I was blind to your greatness the other day. I never imagined you were the second young master of the Jiang family. You, as her older brother, exploit all her labor, and your sister steals her produce to sell. Are you satisfied when she loses everything and has no way out with her two children?!"
If Shen Xiuzhu hadn't seen him appear with Jiang Guofu today, he wouldn't have known that he was actually the second young master of the Jiang family.
So the second son of the Jiang family married Shen Mingzhi, kicked her out of the house, and made her and her child live in the smallest attic of the courtyard.
Her sister even stole her only means of survival—selling medicine! What a heartless family!
Jiang Shaozhen stood in front of Shen Xiuzhu, frowning, his face cold. "What do you mean?"
"Let's go." Shen Mingzhi didn't want them to have a conflict, and besides, she needed to check on the medicine at Li An's shop, so she didn't have time to waste with Jiang Shaochen.
Jiang Shao Chen stopped them. "What did Jiang Yin Yin do?"
"Nothing much, just normal business competition," Shen Mingzhi said. She added that even if it wasn't Jiang Yinyin, it would have been someone else, and she had never been worried.
Shen Xiuzhu looked at her unexpectedly.
Looking at Shen Mingzhi's calm face, Jiang Shaozhen realized for the first time how unpredictable she was.
She left with Shen Xiuzhu.
As they left the restaurant, Shen Xiuzhu couldn't help but mutter, "You have such a good temper. You should tell him to go back and give his sister a good beating."
Ang Lee stood by without saying a word.
Shen Mingzhi smiled and said calmly, "In business, you can never solve your competitors, because on this road you will encounter trillions of competitors. Some of them have strong backgrounds, some are cunning, and some are even dirty. Do you think you can solve them? The only thing we can solve is the predicament we are facing."
Shen Xiuzhu was stunned by what he was being said.
“Learn from her, she idles away her days.” Li An chuckled and tapped him on the head.
Shen Xiuzhu might disagree with others, but he accepted what Shen Mingzhi said.
Ang Lee's pharmacy is quite large and is called Ren'an Pharmacy, which is a nice name.
Shen Mingzhi first took the purchase cost price list he gave her, and then began to look at the corresponding medicines one by one.
“Miss Shen, because Xiuzhu trusts you, I gave you this price list without any concealment. I hope you won’t disappoint me,” Li An said in a low voice as she examined the medicines.
Shen Xiuzhu was strolling around the pharmacy and didn't hear their conversation at all.
In fact, Shen Mingzhi only believed three-tenths of what Ang Lee said.
He gave her three parts of his sincerity in exchange for her advanced business acumen, which was actually enough.
“That’s for sure. It’s hard to do big business alone. And right now, I’m relying on you, so I won’t use this list to secretly buy and resell goods behind your back,” Shen Mingzhi said with a smile.
A little embarrassed that she had hit the nail on the head, Ang Lee coughed lightly and shifted his gaze, "So what are your plans next?"
"I need to write down the effects of all the medicines in your store this afternoon, including the dates. I need to compile all of that. So if you're busy, don't worry about me. Once I've packaged all the medicines, I'll show you my plan." Shen Mingzhi said, glancing at the calendar hanging by the pharmacy door. "No rush to sell. It would be nice to have a promotion during Labor Day."
Promoting products during holidays is also a good approach.
Ang Lee nodded. "Then I look forward to your... proposal."
He didn't understand the plan, but he found it quite novel.
Shen Mingzhi was busy in the pharmacy's storeroom all afternoon, and it was almost dark when Shen Xiuzhu finally took her to the courtyard house.
"I'm wondering... is it really possible?" He thought about it all afternoon and felt that her method was indeed very good, but Jiang Yinyin's price was indeed very favorable.
Shen Mingzhi beckoned to him.
Shen Xiuzhu immediately moved closer to her.
"Don't think about it anymore, go back and rest. If it succeeds, I'll share the profits with you," Shen Mingzhi said with a smile.
After being dangled in the bait for a long time, Shen Xiuzhu finally smiled helplessly and said, "Then I'll get rich by following you."
"I also want to thank you, my little money-maker. I'm off." After saying that, Shen Mingzhi smiled and turned to enter the courtyard.
Shen Xiuzhu blushed, "I'm not young! I'm older than you... Humph, you're looking down on me, you should call me Brother Xiuzhu!"
The lanterns at the entrance of the courtyard house shone on Shen Mingzhi. Although she was wearing an ordinary shirt and straight-legged coarse cloth pants, Shen Xiuzhu unconsciously imagined her as wearing a cheongsam.
She must have a graceful and beautiful figure.
When Shen Mingzhi returned home, Wang Sao was busy cooking. She was drenched in sweat and fanning herself with a palm-leaf fan. "I went to buy groceries today and saw Chunshan selling the exact same medicine as us for only eight cents... My neighbors must know about this now. What if they come after me?"
“Tell them that our medicine has different ingredients and effects than theirs. If they don’t believe it, they can spend eight cents to buy it and try it out. They’ll understand after a while,” Shen Mingzhi said.
There's a reason why something is cheap.
They copied the ingredients exactly for the fever-reducing patches, but for the ointment, they changed the most important ingredient.
That medicine has a time-limited effect.
Their medications will definitely cause a relapse after a period of time, but hers is enough for infants and young children whose immune systems are up to standard, with just one bottle.
"Two cents is quite a big deal," Aunt Wang said in a low voice.
Shen Mingzhi went inside. "If they don't listen, don't respond. At most, by May Day, they'll change their minds."
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