Chapter 807: Yellow-Light Carrots

It was still Yang Jin's saying: business is business, friendship is friendship.

No matter how much personal grudge Seeing Xin Yu had with her maternal uncle Yu Dongming's family, Hui-3 Pharmaceutical Factory was open for business, so it could not afford to fall out with Hui-2, or even the largest enterprise in the entire Hui City — the Chonglian Group.

Simply put: do business when it's due, take revenge when it's due.

Of course, although Hui-3 did not refuse to do business with Chonglian, it was impossible for Yu Dongming to obtain the production license for Hui-3 Pharmaceutical Factory's new drug — Nutrient Source, which it held exclusive patents and intellectual property rights for.

Because the Hui-3 board of directors had already made a resolution and released the news: it would not license this new drug developed by Boss Fu to other pharmaceutical factories for production. Anyone needing Nutrient Source and the matching X-2 should contact Hui-3's management and the pharmaceutical factory's marketing department to purchase or trade.

Managers, enterprises, and squads from various bases who were quick-witted had already swarmed in to negotiate agency or sales licensing deals with Hui-3 Pharmaceutical Factory. Tang Zhengpo's coming to Northern District One at this time to cozy up to Zhou Zhaoping was also to discuss cooperation on Nutrient Source.

After clearly knowing Hui-3 Pharmaceutical Factory's policy, Yu Dongming still asked Seeing Xin Yu for the production license for Nutrient Source — in Xia Qing's view, his purpose was already very obvious.

"He's playing psychological warfare with you. Opening his mouth to ask for something you can't give is meant to make you feel guilty or think he's very greedy. With that psychological groundwork laid, he plays a few family-affection cards, then talks to you about his real intention — the chance of success goes up quite a bit."

Xia Qing continued her analysis, "Looks like what he wants isn't just the exclusive distribution license for Nutrient Source in Hui-2 Base; otherwise he wouldn't have put in this much effort. He's probably after the exclusive distribution rights for the remaining eight bases in Hui City, apart from Hui-1 and Hui-3."

Seeing Xin Yu couldn't help but applaud, "You're amazing. Uncle Ping said the same thing."

"I'm not amazing — these are lessons I've summed up from one failed negotiation after another." Compared to the miser Yang Jin, Yu Dongming's methods were far inferior!

Although Xia Qing was a shareholder of Hui-3 Pharmaceutical Factory, she only took dividends and did not participate in operations.

Her focus was still on the farmland within her territory.

After lunch with her good friend, Xia Qing carried five jin of yellow-light carrots back to her territory.

These five jin of carrots were the supplies Seeing Xin Yu had traded for the kestrel.

One small kestrel wasn't worth five jin of carrots, so the two agreed that after the yellow-light sunflowers in Xia Qing's territory were harvested, she'd pick out good-quality ones and give Seeing Xin Yu five jin.

In spring this year, Xia Qing had planted yellow-light sunflowers on a terraced field and half a mu of cultivated land. Joyfully, thank heavens, four green-light sunflowers had grown in the cultivated land, and one had appeared in the terraced field.

To raise these rare cultivable and optimizable strains well, Xia Qing transplanted all four green-light sunflowers from the cultivated land up to the sunflower terraced field on the hillside.

High-Yi-element soil, pollution-free spring water, and quality fertilizer could improve the quality of green-light sunflowers, and Yi Stones could protect them through the Harmful Rain period safely.

As long as no major disaster struck in the coming year, she could harvest five flower heads bearing nearly a thousand sunflower seeds.

Once these seeds were sun-dried and passed their dormancy period in the storage room, she could grow two mu of green-light sunflowers next year.

By July next year, Xia Qing would have achieved freedom of cooking oil and sunflower seeds.

"Boss, look what this is!" Xia Qing got home, very excitedly holding the carrots up in front of Boss Sheep.

When her idol had said this morning that she was the only human who had gained the trust of pure wild evolved wolves and could communicate with the wolf pack, Xia Qing had wanted to say — she really wasn't anything special.

Then why was it her who gained the wolf pack's trust? It was because she had taken on Territory Three, and on the high slope outside the northern isolation belt, discovered a green-light big Chinese toon tree and a lonely evolved sheep that wasn't very bright.

If this sheep hadn't been a strength evolver, and if she hadn't been very lonely at the time too, wanting a companion she could trust to farm and live with, she would have roasted this sheep long ago.

If she had roasted the sheep back then, she would never have known that this sheep actually had a great relationship with the wolf pack.

It was precisely because she had become companions with this sheep that the defeated lead wolf, bringing its injured companions, entered her territory to trade Yi Stones for treatment — and step by step led to the situation today.

So the truly different one was the foodie sheep right in front of her.

Boss Sheep leaned close to the bag and sniffed with its nose. Its narrowed eyes instantly widened into big kazilan eyes, and in a pinched voice winding through nine turns and eighteen bends, it urged its little brother, "Baa~_~_~"

The boss liked it, and Xia Qing was also very happy. "Smells good, right? Never seen it before? This is called carrot — it's an edible vegetable that can't possibly grow in the Evolution Forest. Let me wash one for you to try?"

"Baa~_~_~"

Xia Qing went inside and washed a carrot, broke off a small piece to save for the red squirrel family, and gave the rest entirely to Boss Sheep.

Boss Sheep crunched it down in a few bites, then looked at Xia Qing again with those big kazilan sheep eyes, "Baa~_~_~"

"We only have these few, so we have to eat sparingly, and we still need to save some for seed. Once we succeed in growing them, the boss can eat even more carrots next year." Carrots were also useless — they hadn't made it onto the idol's recipe list, so they hadn't squeezed into Territory Seven's standardized planting greenhouse.

Otherwise, Xia Qing and Boss Sheep would have long since been eating and growing carrots.

Boss Sheep's big kazilan eyes narrowed, staring at the small piece of carrot hidden in Xia Qing's hand. It pawed the ground with its hooves, in a stance that said if you don't hand it over, we'll fight.

The person and the sheep locked in a standoff for a few seconds. Xia Qing laughed and handed the piece of carrot in her palm to Boss Sheep, "Eat, it's all yours."

After Boss Sheep finished the last piece, it still looked at Xia Qing with its big kazilan eyes. Only after confirming that Xia Qing had put all the carrots into the underground food storage beneath the rack building did it return to its normal state.

"Boss, I'm going to take a nap. You can definitely protect our territory, right?" Xia Qing patrolled the territory once, then went back home to take an afternoon nap. From last night until now she had barely rested, and urgently needed to catch up on sleep — only well-rested could she handle tonight's negotiation with Yang Jin.

Boss Sheep, having eaten the delicious carrots, very reliably raised its big head with the spiral horns, turned around, kicked open the chicken coop door, went in, and warned the black-feathered rooster not to crow out of turn.

The boss was really reliable. Xia Qing happily went inside to sleep for two hours, then got up right on time to give Little Feimao its medicine.

Xia Qing first opened the surveillance and saw that the freeloading red squirrel mother wasn't there — she should have gone out foraging; the two healthy little squirrels were scurrying around chasing and play-fighting inside the sheep shed; the injured Little Feimao was curled up in a ball sleeping right next to the Use Yishi chain.

To give the medicine, she first had to catch Little Feimao. Xia Qing decided to try luring it with food first, and if that didn't work, then use drugs.

She took two high-Yi-element spinach leaves from the fridge, juiced them, dripped in a little Nutrient Source to make X Nutrient Solution, then cut a cucumber into small cucumber cubes, put them in a packaging bag, and went to the sheep shed to lure Little Feimao.