Chapter 145: Chapter 145: White Rose_1
The farce ended.
Qin Feng followed Xue Xiaochan and Ran Jie to the general manager’s office.
Xue Xiaochan sat in the boss’s chair.
There was another chair opposite her, which Ran Jie did not sit in.
Qin Feng was just about to sit down, sticking out his butt.
"Did I ask you to sit? Ran Jie, sit! You stand there and reflect properly!" Xue Xiaochan changed her previous gentleness and barked fiercely.
"Reflect on what? I didn’t do anything wrong!" Qin Feng said, full of defiance.
"What was that all about just now? Explain it to me from beginning to end, without missing a single word! If you dare to hide even the slightest bit, I’ll make sure you won’t get off easily!"
Xue Xiaochan was fiercer than a tigress, and with no way to deceive her, Qin Feng naturally confessed everything in detail.
After listening, Xue Xiaochan gave a three-word assessment.
"Really boring."
All of a sudden, Ran Jie remembered something, and she spoke very seriously to Qin Feng.
"Yin Daosong has been an old employee at the hotel, climbing from a sales associate step by step to the position of sales director. Objectively speaking, his work ability is quite good. However, after becoming the sales director, he did form cliques and engaged in some underhanded activities. As for taking kickbacks, that’s a certainty. But if the water is too clear, there will be no fish. I have no objection to firing Yin Daosong. However, if we really hand him over to the Patrol Team, it will have a very bad impact on our hotel. Once he starts indiscriminately lashing out at others, the whole hotel would be thrown into chaos."
Qin Feng knew Ran Jie’s concerns were not unfounded.
Therefore, he took her advice and said, "Then let’s fire him, but he must return the embezzled funds in double. Otherwise, hand him over to the Patrol Team."
Ran Jie looked at Xue Xiaochan and asked, "Mr. Xue, do you have any instructions?"
"There’s no need to ask me about such trivial matters. Just follow Qin Feng’s decision. When I’m not here, he represents me fully."
"Yes."
At that moment, Ran Jie took out a new formula that Qin Feng had provided from her bag. The name of this formula was White Skin Care Cream, and its primary function was to lighten the skin.
The White Skin Care Cream was not aimed at the high-end market like the Imperial Concubine’s Beauty Cream but was a mass-market product meant to sell in volume.
The retail price for a bottle was only around one or two hundred yuan.
Shencao Ji’s mission was to make all women more beautiful.
Whether wealthy or not, all women had the right to become more beautiful.
The formula for the White Skin Care Cream was based on the White Cream formula, which Qin Feng had upgraded.
The medicinal herbs used in it were cheaper and easier to find than those in the White Cream.
After production, its effect was even better than that of the White Cream.
White Cream was the most widely disseminated beauty secret in ancient times, used by ladies of status and common beauties alike.
Therefore, White Cream was highly refined.
This formula had virtually not undergone any changes in the past thousand years.
Although many ancient Chinese medicine prescriptions are considered miraculous and are the efforts of predecessors,
Chinese medicine, besides valuing tradition, should also strive for improvement.
If it is complacent and stuck in old ways, Chinese medicine will lose its vitality.
To advance the ancient prescriptions according to current real-world conditions and make improvements,
to develop new formulas with better effects,
and to allow the ancient prescriptions to continuously be updated and evolve,
is the duty of the successors of Chinese medicine.
Ran Jie pointed at the prescription and said, "It’s easy enough to find angelica, atractylodes, poria, bistort, baizhu, and peony in the prescription, but the white rose, your note specifies fresh. This item is a flower and seasonal. Dried petals are easy, but fresh white roses might run into supply issues during mass production of the White Skin Care Cream. So I was wondering if we could substitute the white rose with another ingredient, or even dried white rose petals."
"Using dried white rose petals is indeed forcibly doable. However, the White Skin Care Cream made that way would be very mediocre. If pushed into the market, it would affect Shencao Ji’s brand image. The biggest highlight of this new product lies in the white rose. Not only do the white roses have to be fresh, every single one must also be of top quality. Outsourcing the purchase won’t work. We’ll have to grow it ourselves!"
"Grow it ourselves?" Xue Xiaochan took over the conversation and asked, "Are you thinking of growing them at Moon Lake?"
"Moon Lake is suitable for growing many herbs, but not white roses. There’s a place especially suited for growing white roses. Anyway, wife, you just need to provide the money, and leave the growing of white roses to me."
Qin Feng had already planned it all out when he was working on the recipe for the White Skin Care Cream.
The white roses had to be grown ourselves!
The place to grow the white roses was grandma’s home.
The picturesque Shanding Village.
Ever since grandma’s death, Mom hadn’t been back to her hometown for a long time.
She often talked about visiting grandma’s grave and seeing those relatives.
Last Spring Festival, Wang Guixiang wanted to go back to her hometown for the holiday.
But Qin Feng had to work, and there were no holidays during Spring Festival, so she didn’t go.
Shanding Village, deep in the mountains, now has a rural road, but no regular bus service.
Without a car at home, the trip back is very inconvenient.
Previously, Qin Feng couldn’t afford a car.
Plus, you can’t return to your hometown empty-handed, right?
Buying gifts for the relatives also costs a fair bit.
Wang Guixiang was always frugal, and because she was afraid of spending money, she didn’t dare to go back to her hometown.
"Alright! Leave this matter to you!"
Xue Xiaochan slammed the hammer down and made the decision.
Qin Feng glanced out the window inadvertently and noticed Shen Chao standing alone at the hotel’s main entrance.
It seemed like Shen Chao was waiting for him.
So, Qin Feng said, "You two chat first, I need to go down for a bit."
Two minutes later, Qin Feng rushed down the stairs.
"Old classmate, why are you still here?"
"Feng, is your wife really Xue Xiaochan?"
Although Xue Xiaochan had just called Qin Feng her husband, Shen Chao still found it hard to believe.
Nonetheless, he really hoped it was true.
Because he was eager to land the renovation contract for the Haiyun Grand Hotel.
"She’s my boss, and I’m her assistant. But, we’re pretty close. So, she played along with me in a little act just now. The promise I made to you about getting you the Haiyun Grand Hotel renovation contract will be honored. You make the money you should, but you have to ensure quality and quantity. If you cut corners, don’t blame me for not acknowledging you as an old classmate, okay?"
"Don’t worry, Feng. I’ll definitely use the best materials, the best techniques, and the strictest quality control for the Haiyun Grand Hotel renovation. If there’s even the slightest imperfection during the final inspection, I won’t take a single penny!"
Shen Chao was dead serious.
He meant what he said; even if he earned less, he would do a good job with the Haiyun Grand Hotel renovation.
Because he knew that if he could successfully cling to Haiyun Group,
the future of Chaoxuan Decoration Company would be worry-free.
