Xia Lian was a bit stunned.
"As for your salary, three thousand a month!" Li Yang said seriously. "I can’t say it’s a huge amount, but at the very least, you won’t have to worry about making ends meet anymore."
"I guess you have some conscience after all!" Xia Lian looked relieved, but also a little disappointed.
Li Yang smiled. "Alright then, it’s settled. You can start once I expand the mushroom house. By the way, Aunt Lian, are you a little disappointed?"
"Get lost! You little brat, you dare tease me now!" Her thoughts exposed, Xia Lian let loose a string of curses at him.
Li Yang didn’t dare to tease her any further and quickly left with a grin.
After leaving Xia Lian’s house, he returned home to find Zhou Liyun was already there.
"Xiaoyang, I asked those families who sold you vegetables before. They all said they’re willing to sell you the whole plots. How much will you offer?" Zhou Liyun asked.
"Depending on the size, two thousand!" Li Yang said after a moment’s thought.
Two thousand!
Zhou Liyun’s eyes lit up.
’That’s not a low price at all,’ she thought. ’If I were selling the vegetables myself, how long would it take to make two thousand yuan?’
"Once we buy them, you’ll be in charge of everything!" Li Yang said with a smile. "You’ll help me harvest the vegetables. I have to make daily deliveries to the Golden Pavilion Hotel, understand?"
"Understood!" Zhou Liyun nodded. "So, when are we buying them?"
"Right now!" Li Yang said without hesitation. "Call them all over. I’ll give them the money."
"You got it!"
Before long, the families had arrived. They were very satisfied with the price Li Yang offered and agreed without a second thought.
After the money was exchanged, Li Yang had officially bought their vegetable plots.
After they all left, Li Yang returned home and began fiddling with the ring.
He filled a bucket with water and twisted the ring.
A single drop of water fell into the bucket!
’It works!’
Li Yang chuckled and tried to twist it again.
But this time, nothing fell from the ring.
Li Yang pondered for a moment. ’Could it be that this ring can only store one drop of water a day? It’s possible. The ring isn’t very big, after all.’
Li Yang nodded and set the bucket of water aside.
’Only vegetables watered with the ring’s water taste this good. I’ll have to give this water to Zhou Liyun and have her take care of it for me from now on.’
Next up, it was time to prepare for the mushroom house expansion.
Once it was expanded, Li Yang would be able to prepare the grow bags himself. All he’d need to buy then were the mushroom spores.
He’d probably need to buy more spores then, and it would be better to diversify the types.
Just then, Li Yang’s phone rang.
It was Aunt Rong on the other end.
"What are you up to, you brat?" Now that Aunt Rong was familiar with Li Yang, she didn’t bother with pleasantries.
"Not much..." Li Yang asked with a laugh. "What’s up?"
"Come into the city when you have a moment. Yun Meng wants to talk to you." Aunt Rong’s voice already sounded a little unsteady.
"Is she healed?" Li Yang asked.
"Yes, completely healed!" Aunt Rong could no longer remain calm. "Your medicine is too miraculous! Yun Meng is perfectly fine now. You have to come over right away. We need to thank you properly!"
"Okay!"
...
When he arrived at Aunt Rong’s house, the first thing he saw was a woman of devastating beauty sitting inside.
Unlike Aunt Rong, who possessed a natural, seductive charm, Su Yunmeng had a different kind of magnificent beauty.
"Divine Doctor Li!" Su Yunmeng stood up, her flawless face completely free of scars. "Don’t you recognize me?"
Li Yang just stood there, stunned.
Although he had long imagined that Su Yunmeng would be an absolute world-class beauty once her face healed, seeing her in person still left him momentarily dazed.
"No, no, I recognize this..." Li Yang gave a dry laugh, his gaze fixed on Su Yunmeng’s chest.
’Quite an impression!’
Su Yunmeng’s face flushed slightly as she shot him a glare.
Zhang Rong frowned, thinking her niece would be angry.
But one look told her that her niece didn’t seem angry at all.
’Interesting!’
"Divine Doctor Li, if it weren’t for you, I might never have been able to return to a normal life," Su Yunmeng said, getting back on topic.
Li Yang, however, shot Zhang Rong a meaningful look.
Zhang Rong’s face flushed slightly. ’This darned brat...’
"You’re too kind. It was all for Aunt Rong!" Li Yang said with a straight face.
"Huh?" As sharp as Su Yunmeng was, even she didn’t understand the meaning behind that sentence.
Zhang Rong was about to lose it. ’Is this guy ever going to stop?’
"Seeing you like that, Aunt Rong was crying her eyes out every day. If I hadn’t cured you, she might have fallen into a depression!" Li Yang said with a pained expression. "So, I did it for Aunt Rong."
Su Yunmeng found it amusing. ’This guy is so full of nonsense.’
Zhang Rong bit her lip. ’In the end, you’re just afraid I’ll forget my promise, aren’t you?’
"Divine Doctor Li, you really are a good person!" Su Yunmeng nodded, then straightened her posture and said seriously, "The medicine you gave me, what was it?"
Li Yang gave a mysterious smile.
’This is my little secret,’ he thought. ’No need to share the details with others.’
"I’m not trying to pry into your secrets..." Su Yunmeng quickly corrected herself. "I’m asking because I want to discuss a business proposal with you. With a medicine this good... I’ve been thinking, we could sell it as medicine, but we could also use it to make beauty products. If we dilute the medicinal properties, we’d have a cosmetic. It could be mass-produced, and it would absolutely dominate every other cosmetic product on the market. What do you think? Are you interested in partnering with me to start a cosmetics business?"
A cosmetics business?
Li Yang was taken aback.
"Yun Meng used to be one of Ruizhou’s top business elites, you know. At a young age, she was managing a company worth over a hundred million. If it weren’t for... that incident, who knows how big our company would be by now," Aunt Rong explained from the side. "Now we only have a few shops left, so she wants to make a comeback. This is a great opportunity for you."