Apocalypse: I have a supermarket stocked with supplies-Chapter 127 - : Ointment Business

Chapter 127: Ointment Business

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Don’t even mention it, Auntie and her sister’s approach was right.

They recruited an Old Green Tea, and saw results within just a few days.

Old Green Tea was called Ah Xiang, with no surname.

After she got the opportunity, she assured Auntie and her sister it would take only a month to win over Lin Nianbei.

At first, Auntie and the rest didn’t believe it, considering Lin Nianbei was as insensitive as a block of wood, blind to love and affection.

But who would have thought, after Ah Xiang had been the secretary for just three days and then took a sick leave, Lin Nianbei was already inquiring about Ah Xiang’s whereabouts from Jiang Wenhong.

Worried about her health.

When Jiang Wenhong heard Lin Nianbei’s words of concern, it was almost too much for him to keep a straight face.

Lin Nianbei was actually showing concern for someone other than his niece.

That evening, Jiang Wenhong rushed home to ask his wife and sister-in-law about Ah Xiang’s background.

In his view, Ah Xiang was plain-looking, just an ordinary woman—how had she managed to capture Lin Nianbei’s heart?

Turns out, his wife and sister-in-law had no clue either.

“Then you guys find out, when is Ah Xiang going back to work? Lin Nianbei keeps coming to me to ask about her health,” Jiang Wenhong said, feeling somewhat embarrassed.

What’s going on?

If this had been before, he would never have believed that Lin Nianbei would come to him over a woman, over a personal matter.

The concern on Lin Nianbei’s face wasn’t fake.

Jiang Wenhong’s wife and Fatty exchanged a glance, “Okay.”

They would ask Ah Xiang over tomorrow.

Ah Xiang claimed she had taken sick leave because she wasn’t feeling well, but in fact, she wasn’t sick at all. She was perfectly fine.

As soon as Auntie and her sister approached her, she came over.

“Ladies, what do you need me for?” Ah Xiang’s complexion was rosy, much better than a few days ago when she was pale from hunger.

“Weren’t you sick?” Auntie couldn’t hold back and asked first.

“Not at all. I’m in great health, thanks to you sisters for the food and the job. I’m so grateful. Without you, I might have starved to death,” Ah Xiang was truly grateful.

She wasn’t exaggerating. If they had been a bit later in finding her, Ah Xiang might have indeed starved to death.

She hadn’t eaten for seven or eight days.

Fortunately, they were willing to give her food and an opportunity.

“No problem, no problem. It’s because you’re capable. Um… we called you here because we’re curious. Lin Nianbei personally asked Old Jiang about you…”

“You’re curious how I managed to hook Lin Nianbei, right?” Ah Xiang raised an eyebrow.

Auntie and her sister looked at each other and then nodded together.

“That’s simple. With men, especially someone like Lin Nianbei, it’s easy to stir their emotions.” Ah Xiang’s mother was a singing girl, and she was born in that kind of environment; seducing men for her was as simple as drinking water.

For a prudishly pretentious man like Lin Nianbei, it was especially easy.

Ah Xiang had thought it would be much harder before coming.

“Me? I just noticed he had a chronic old injury on his hand, so I gave him some medicated ointment I made myself.” As soon as Lin Nianbei applied the ointment, he would think of her. Thinking over and over, it eventually leads to a quantitative change causing a qualitative change.

Then, when he most wanted to see her, she disappeared for a bit—then he would completely fixate on her.

“Ointment? You know how to treat people and make ointment?” Auntie’s sister was a bit surprised.

“I studied with an old traditional Chinese medicine doctor for a while. With the plants growing wild outside, I tried making some and it turned out quite effective.” Actually, before these sisters had found her, she had been making a living selling medicinal ointments.

She had saved up quite a lot of food.

She wasn’t worried about food or drink originally, but the ungrateful adoptee she took in took a fancy to a man covered in pockmarks, a regular person, and wanted to give the household food to that man.

Ah Xiang wouldn’t have it. That was food she had worked hard to save by making medicine ointments; it was out of her kindness that she was willing to share it with the ungrateful adoptee. But as for that man, she disliked him from the first glance.

Her adopted daughter was quite pretty, but not very bright. Ah Xiang had been planning to find a Superpower User for her to marry. Having a Superpower User as a husband, no matter what, they wouldn’t starve to death.

As it turned out, her adopted daughter was truly ungrateful. She pretended to agree on the surface but continued her affair with that pockmarked man behind Ah Xiang’s back. When Ah Xiang caught them, she knocked her unconscious.

And then she took all the food and medicine ointments from the house.

Creating medicine ointments took time, so during those days, she spent her time making ointments while starving.

Later, when these two sisters found her, she enjoyed a full meal for once, and the next day, when she went to work as a secretary, her medicine ointments were just finished.

Then her attention to detail noticed the old injury on Lin Nianbei’s hand, and she thoughtfully gave him the ointment.

She spoke with authority, and Lin Nianbei had indeed been tormented by the injury on his hand.

The injury on his hand was from when he was younger, and now, whenever the weather turned cold or damp, it throbbed with pain.

It wasn’t unbearably painful but constant aching in such weather was torture enough.

After listening to Ah Xiang, he thought she made sense and assumed she was the descendent of some skilled traditional doctor. That evening, after examining the ointment, he applied it.

Not wanting to give up on even the slightest hope.

Turns out the green ointment really worked; after applying it, he felt his hand become a bit more flexible.

He could soak his hand in water for half an hour without discomfort.

He was very grateful to Ah Xiang, and while applying it, he couldn’t help but think of Ah Xiang’s gentle smile.

Ah Xiang may have had an ordinary appearance, but she was efficient in her work and very gentle. No matter what happened, she always remained meek and tender.

The more Lin Nianbei thought about it, the more he liked Ah Xiang.

When he wanted to go and thank Ah Xiang, he found out that Jiang Wenhong had brought one less secretary.

Lin Nianbei, who had only approached Jiang Wenhong for work matters before, sought him out for the first time for a personal matter.

In her gentle manner, Ah Xiang recounted the entire matter to the two sisters.

As soon as Jiang Wenhong’s wife heard about it, her eyes flashed, and she immediately stopped caring about whatever Lin it was.

“Ah Xiang, are you interested in partnering with us to do a business in making medicine ointments?”

The old lady blinked in confusion. Weren’t they talking about Lin Nianbei? Why had they started discussing business again?

“Sister, do you mean…” Ah Xiang was shocked. Her sister actually wanted to do business with her?

“I was thinking, since your medicine ointment is so effective and only requires the plants outside, and now there’s an extreme shortage of medicine at the base, I think your ointment could have a big market… I’ll handle the personnel, management, and sales, and you’ll provide the formula. How about we split the profits fifty-fifty?”

“Yes. Of course, yes,” Ah Xiang answered without hesitation.

“Alright, we’ll discuss the specifics further…”

For a moment, both forgot all about Lin Nianbei. To Ah Xiang, a man with food was good, but not as important as having the food herself.

The two of them discussed their business excitedly while the old lady doodled circles on the ground by herself.

Now, Ah Xiang was busy with the business and simultaneously busy trying to captivate Lin Nianbei.

Both ventures were going quite smoothly.

The situation with Ah Xiang and Lin Nianbei reached Lin Muxue’s ears.

“What? An old woman and my uncle getting along like a house on fire?”