Chapter 886: Chapter 885: Student Lin’s Laboratory
Wang Shui and Wen Lan stayed up late at night, naturally waiting for Lin Nianhe.
Seeing her return, the two asked about the Ten Miles Team.
“It’s approved,” Lin Nianhe said, “Uncle Huang is currently busy with the Autumn Trade Fair things, can’t focus on it for the mont, but we can start mass production.”
“That’s good.”
The two of them breathed a sigh of relief and involuntarily started to smile.
“Are you going back to Lan County?” Wang Shui’s eyes lit up, almost writing “I want to go too” on her face.
Lin Nianhe kindly said, “No.”
Wang Shui: “…”
“Production stuff doesn’t need to worry about,” Lin Nianhe said, “I have so many classes, studying well is more important.”
Wang Shui bared her teeth at her and said, “Aren’t a lot of those classes ones you chose yourself? Oh right, I’ve always wanted to ask, why are you auditing chemistry classes?”
Lin Nianhe shook her head, swaggering towards the room with her hands behind her back: “It can’t be said, it can’t be said…”
“Silly girl, you look like you’re asking for a beating.”
Lin Nianhe: “Oh, I want to make lipstick.”
Her attitude changed too fast, making Wang Shui so angry she almost dashed up to fight her.
“Lipstick? What do you want to make lipstick for?” Wen Lan looked at her, puzzled.
Lin Nianhe looked even more puzzled than her, and her tone was full of uncertainty: “Make lipstick… to eat?”
Sister Lan’s face scrunched up: “Can that stuff be eaten?”
Lin Nianhe’s answer was quite reasonable: “It shouldn’t be poisonous, otherwise putting on lipstick would be like committing suicide.”
Sister Lan thought for a mont and nodded: “True that.”
Wang Shui looked at the two, quite helpless.
“You both should wash up and head to bed, you can dream about whether lipsticks are toxic or not.”
She said this and was the first to head back to her room.
As for lipstick, Sister Shui assud Lin Nianhe was joking—she went to learn professional knowledge just for a lipstick?
She wouldn’t believe it no matter what.
Lin Nianhe didn’t know her earnest words were once again taken as lies.
She drew the curtains, took out a bathing tub and hot water from her space, soaked comfortably in a hot bath, and then climbed onto the bunk, flipping through books about making lipstick.
She had been researching this for a long ti, tracing back to their first trip to the Trade Fair, when on the train she casually ntioned “lipstick effect” to Wong Xiao.
From then on, she had the idea of making costics in the future.
In her past life, her skincare products were customized based on her skin type, and over ti, the researchers over there told her about many special ingredients for various skin types.
What she now needed to do was identify these ingredients from a multitude of organisms.
Luckily, she already had answers and could even find so sources to cite for advertising.
Otherwise, this task would be impossible—it might not even make a splash after years of effort.
“Those who plant trees so others can enjoy the shade… maybe I should start by making so miracle water…”
Student Xiao Lin muttered, grabbing every opportunity to make progress.
…
The fact that Lin Nianhe attended chemistry classes didn’t bother the physics faculty teachers, nor the chemistry faculty teachers.
But the chemistry students were not happy, not happy at all!
Previously, teachers at most said they were slow-witted; now, teachers say they’re not even as good as Lin Nianhe from the physics departnt.
How can that be tolerated?
But even if they couldn’t tolerate it, there was nothing they could do—they couldn’t compare with her college entrance exam scores, nor her last sester’s finals? She was still the top of the physics departnt…
There was a kind soul who brought a chemistry final exam paper from last sester to let Lin Nianhe try.
Student Lin tried and found out she indeed couldn’t—averaging only 90, really can’t do well without attending classes.
The chemistry students looked at her, teary-eyed.
They actually wanted to say, “Student Lin, why don’t you try attending philosophy classes? I heard those people are more open-minded.”
Student Lin didn’t want to be open-minded, she felt there was a strong need to work harder.
So when the chemistry students got scolded, a new term was added:
“It’s okay if your talent isn’t as good as others, but you can’t fall behind in hard work!”
Watching the teachers’ heartbroken expressions, the students could only swallow their bitter tears and grind on along with Lin Nianhe.
What they didn’t know was Lin Nianhe grinded not only during classes but even more so outside of them.
She asked Shen Yu to buy a full set of laboratory equipnt, setting up a simple lab in Su Yuncheng’s little courtyard.
After classes, she soaked herself there, periodically coming up with tubes of suspicious-looking substances.
Ti always passed especially fast for the hardworking one, and in the blink of an eye, it was December.
This was destined to be an uncommon month, with the horn of reform echoing across the north and south.
In the countryside, land was allocated to households, managing profit and loss independently; in the cities, state-owned factories’ autonomy in managent was greatly enhanced.
…
Ten Miles Team.
Li Dahe divided the village’s fields into three grades, each evenly allocated to households, starting the lottery drawing.
“No one will urge you to work anymore, what to plant, how to plant, it’s up to you, from now on… whether life is good or not, you’ll have to bear it yourself.”
After Li Dahe finished, he felt a little lost.
For so many years, he was used to worrying for the whole village.
Once the land was divided, did it an there was nothing left for him, the team leader, to do?
Li Dahe rubbed his tobacco pipe, feeling a bit emotional.
“Team leader, can my family swap land with the Wang family? Swapping would put us next to each other.”
“Team leader, how about we plant so wheat? Where do we buy seeds?”
“Team leader, this big piece of land, my family can’t finish planting it….”
Li Dahe was “retired” for three minutes and was surrounded by a bunch of matters again.
He wiped his face and suddenly smiled.
“Alright, alright, one by one, why can’t you manage on your own yet? Everyone co, let’s have a eting…”
…
Provincial city.
Zhou Laosi ca back from outside and said to Zheng Lirong: “Big sister-in-law, I see that nowadays there are many street vendors outside, and no one is arresting them. I went to have a al with so people, it seems this… won’t work well anymore.”
Zheng Lirong seed to have anticipated it. She was not panicked and let Zhou Laosi sit down before saying: “Laosi, I’ll speak my mind, right or wrong, don’t pick on .”
Zhou Laosi sat straight and nodded earnestly: “Big sister-in-law, speak.”
“To be honest, I’ve never really liked our business, but I can’t not do it…” Zheng Lirong sighed, then said, “You know, I made quite a bit of money over the years. I’ve been thinking, since our work is getting tough now, why not temporarily pause?”
Zhou Laosi listened carefully and didn’t imdiately express differing opinions just because Zheng Lirong ntioned quitting.
Zheng Lirong pointed at the boxes on the ground: “These are part of my savings. I’m thinking, building a three or four-story building on our land here, like a cooperative society… what do you think?”
She looked at Zhou Laosi with a bit of expectation in her eyes.
“I think… let’s build the house slowly, see how things go. If nothing happens, we could run part of it ourselves and rent out the remaining stalls. Our brothers wouldn’t have to brave the elents; if anything changes, we’re just building on our own land, no one can say anything.”
Zhou Laosi thought that big sister-in-law was hinting at quitting with all that buildup, but instead, she proposed sothing bigger.
He understood what she said, like those shopping malls in Xiangjiang, he had been there with Lin Nianhe before.
Still, Zhou Laosi was a bit puzzled: “Big sister-in-law, you still want to do this? Even if you stop now, there would be enough to support Shanshan and Xiao Jun.” Saying this, he glanced at the money boxes on the ground.
Zheng Lirong looked at him, her mouth carrying a helpless smile: “I have enough to retire, but what about all of you?”
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