My Happy Daily Life After Being Reborn
Chapter 454 - 49: Unavoidable_2

Chapter 454: Chapter 49: Unavoidable_2

The customization was originally secured by another lady, but Mrs. Mu got it by negotiating with her and paying a certain price to have the service transferred to her.

"Yes," Mrs. Mu smiled and then said, "You are Azhen’s younger sister, there’s no need to be so formal as if you were a stranger, just call me Sister Na and I will call you Wanwan like Azhen does."

"Sister Na," Lin Xiaoguai smoothly replied, "Shall we then go to the back room to talk?"

Feng Na nodded with a smile.

Lin Xiaoguai turned to Wang Meilan and said, "I have things to attend to now, feel free to browse the store on your own. If you see anything you like, let me know and I’ll buy it for you."

She said this generously because she knew that Wang Meilan was not a woman who considered only immediate gains; rather, she had bigger ambitions and did not want to lose a watermelon to pick up a sesame seed.

At the moment, it was more crucial for her to please her aunt, who could help her ascend to higher social circles.

"Okay, Aunt Wanwan, go ahead with your work," Wang Meilan, as expected, did not show much excitement but replied with a gracious smile.

—Of course, this was also partly due to the presence of Feng Na, who was clearly a wealthy lady by her appearance.

"Sister Na, what kind of product are you looking to customize?" Once in the back room, Lin Xiaoguai personally poured some water for Feng Na and asked.

"Medicine," Feng Na replied with a furrowed brow, "My mother has been suffering from old injuries, and her health has been declining over the years. She has been relying on the medicinal liquor from your shop to keep going, but my father says this is her limit. If there is ginseng that’s over a hundred years old, it might prolong her life by a few more years. Otherwise, she might only last this year. I know you have ways to procure ginseng over a hundred years old, so I’d like to buy some wild ginseng from you. Price is not an issue."

—It happened that Feng Na’s family and the Han Family had been friends for years; Feng Na’s father was none other than Director Feng, who had once gone to rescue Shen Chi.

Lin Xiaoguai shook her head, "I can indeed procure hundred-year-old ginseng, but Sister Na, as you know, my shop only sells manufactured goods; ginseng falls under raw materials."

Feng Na responded anxiously, "Can’t an exception be made? After all, the customization service is confidential, and I can assure you that I won’t divulge this to anyone."

She also understood that it was a lot to ask of Lin Xiaoguai, who could procure hundred-year-old wild ginseng, but such families like theirs would often keep their century-old ginseng well-hidden, using it only for emergencies, and never selling it casually.

"Don’t worry, Sister Na," Lin Xiaoguai quickly said, "Medicines are indeed part of the customization services, and given your mother’s condition, if you trust me, bring her over. I can take her pulse and then tailor a life-extending medicine for her based on her condition."

"What if it still requires hundred-year-old ginseng?" Feng Na asked with a frown.

"Be assured," Lin Xiaoguai continued soothingly, "My reluctance isn’t about sparing the hundred-year-old ginseng, but about maintaining the shop’s rules. After all, there is no wall without cracks, and people might start suspecting. Given Director Feng’s medical skills, if he says it’s necessary to use hundred-year-old ginseng, then it’s unavoidable, and I wouldn’t jeopardize the shop’s reputation for the sake of hoarding good ingredients."

Hundred-year-old ginseng might be exceedingly valuable to others, but for Lin Xiaoguai, it was easily accessible.

Feng Na was momentarily taken aback, then gratefully responded, "Thank you, I will bring my mother over tomorrow." Had it been someone else, she might have been skeptical, but with Han Shouzhen involved, Lin Xiaoguai wouldn’t deceive her.

Thinking about Lin Xiaoguai’s reputation in their circles over the years, she seemed unlikely to tarnish her own standing.

The two talked for about half an hour, and when they exited, Lin Xiaoguai, not unexpectedly, found Wang Meilan still there along with several of her companions.

Without lingering, Feng Na departed, and Lin Xiaoguai, with insincere cheerfulness, asked Wang Meilan, "Did you find something you liked?"

Wang Meilan, affecting shyness, smiled and held up two bars of handmade soap and said, "I’ll pay for them myself. I received my salary the other day, and two bars of soap are still affordable."

In reality, she was far from as calm as she appeared.

Only after truly seeing it did she understand why the customers in this shop were all wealthy—it was because the cheapest items here were priced in the tens of yuan, and the expensive ones... a single pot of flowers went for at least a few thousand yuan.

God knows she had never seen so much money in her life.

Even if she did not have an uncle, the money her aunt made was an astronomical figure.

—Yet such an aunt, despite seeing her relatives in her old home struggling, could do nothing but watch; her sister had to marry an average man, and her brothers had to work nine-to-five jobs for others. As for her desire to marry a wealthy man, she faced constant setbacks and criticism from her grandmother and uncles...

Lin Xiaoguai just smiled, didn’t say anything, but paid for the two bars of soap, issued an invoice, and then wrapped them neatly for her.

"Aunt Wanwan, are those your cousins over there?" Wang Meilan’s gaze fell on the quadruplets, who had returned at some point and were chattering about something as they lay on a sofa.

Lin Xiaoguai nodded but did not introduce them as Wang Meilan had hoped.

Wang Meilan could barely maintain her smile, dryly commenting, "The cousins are really cute."

But inside, she was extremely envious; the things she painstakingly schemed to obtain were effortlessly possessed by those four little ones.

How unfair.

The more she thought about it, the more genuinely she smiled.

"Aunt Wanwan, is there always no one at home? Every time I call, it’s the servants who answer, and I’ve been stopped outside by the gate guard several times when I tried to visit." Wang Meilan said, sounding somewhat aggrieved. (To be continued. If you like this work, please visit Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your recommendation or monthly ticket. Your support is the greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)