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Shunzi said slowly, "I thought it was a bit expensive at three thousand a bottle, and it only weighs fifty grams, which isn't even as big as my fist."

Old Han: "His honey was originally around 30,000 yuan per jin (500g), right? Now that they've added Cistanche deserticola, it's still that price, which is already very favorable. Do you believe the price will go up again after a while?"

Shunzi: "How much higher can it go? Seriously, is their Cistanche honey really that good?"

"It really works, I'm not kidding," Old Han said in a low voice. "Let me put it this way, take Old Li. That guy used to pee a lot at night, getting up several times a day. Now he's been drinking Cistanche deserticola honey for three days, and he says he can finally get a full night's sleep."

Shunzi: "Wow, that actually sounds pretty amazing."

Old Han: "The truth is undeniable. We're not young anymore; we just want this stuff to cure our lower back and knee pain, replenish our energy, and nourish our spirits. We're not looking for anything more; we just hope it lets us get a full night's sleep."

Shunzi has been suffering from insomnia for the past two years. She can fall asleep very late at night and wake up very early the next day.

He couldn't sleep well at night and had little energy during the day. He was tired and sleepy all day long, and over time, he developed large eye bags and looked older than his peers.

People outside say he has too many worries, but that's nonsense. He's just getting old, his energy is waning, and he lacks vitality.

Shunzi said into the phone, "If that's what you're saying, then I'll have to try and grab one."

Old Han: "Don't grab it by yourself, tell your grandson to grab it too, young people are faster."

Shunzi: "I want this. I can't even see the words on the phone screen by myself."

After exchanging their views, the two old friends quickly prepared to grab some honey-infused Cistanche deserticola.

Thanks to their prior preparations, both of them managed to grab three bottles each.

After everyone snapped up their orders, they Shi Wen the goods.

Shi Wen generally doesn't reply to messages in the background, but these people are all members of their company, so the relationship between them is relatively close, and the members are usually quite accommodating.

Shi Wen should naturally not be impolite either.

Manually packaging was too troublesome, so he bought a packaging machine to seal the Cistanche honey.

To ensure fairness, he also added three slices of Cistanche deserticola to each bottle.

When Yan Kexing returned and saw this, he said, "Our production process is becoming more and more standardized."

Shi Wen, "We've always aimed for standardization—standards, safety, science. I'm a very ethical businessperson."

Upon hearing this, Yan Kexing asked, "Do you want to build a factory?"

"No need," Shi Wen refused without hesitation. "I just want to maintain a limited scale and deal with a limited number of people. Turning the ranch into a large livestock company is not my intention."

Yan Kexing: "I understand."

Shi Wen, "Do you want to open a factory?"

"I didn't want to either," Yan Kexing said with a smile. "I just wanted to thoroughly study this area and provide some data for its development; I didn't want to make more money."

Shi Wen was busy working and couldn't shake his hand, so she bumped him with her butt. "We're both people without much ambition."

Yan Kexing: "If I had ambition, I wouldn't have come here."

Shi Wen, "What do you mean by not coming here? Isn't it great here?"

Yan Kexing rolled up his sleeves, put on gloves, and helped. "Yes, the mountains are beautiful, the water is beautiful, the scenery is beautiful, and the people are beautiful too. It's a perfect place for a peaceful life."

The Cistanche deserticola in Shi Wen's home is still sprouting.

Their Cistanche deserticola products are becoming increasingly well-known, and many old friends have been buying from them privately after learning about it through various channels.

There's a good supply of Cistanche deserticola and honey right now, so sharing some with friends privately isn't a big problem. Shi Wen readily obliged.

Zhu Ji came over to help. "I must say, your ranch is really doing quite well now. You have the strength, the money, and the reputation."

Shi Wen, "That's for sure. The idea that products from ranches are always top-notch should be deeply ingrained in people's minds by now, right?"

Zhu Ji: "If that's what you mean, I really can't refute you."

"What's there to refute? It's true." Shi Wen snorted. "This is all the empire I conquered."

Zhu Ji smiled and said, "Your ranch is doing so well, do you want to expand it further?"

Shi Wen, "No, that's not true. You see, I mentioned raising goats before, but we haven't started yet. We don't have enough manpower, so we can't expand the business any further."

Zhu Ji: "If you need help, the Abnormal Affairs Bureau can help you find someone."

Shi Wen, "That won't be necessary. Expanding the scale would ruin the current atmosphere. I feel my life is fine as it is now, and I don't want to change it."

Zhu Ji: "So you're saying you're no longer pursuing breadth, but rather refinement?"

"Almost, but we can strive for perfection." Shi Wen smiled at Zhu Ji. "I feel that many of the animals on our ranch could be raised even better."

That's the trouble with raising animals. No matter how many ideas or how much ability you have, you have to follow the rules of time and raise the animals little by little.

Shi Wen felt that his business had only just begun to take off and was only just getting into the swing of things, far from reaching its peak.

Unfortunately, time moves too slowly; otherwise, he would have already amazed everyone else in his main business of aquaculture.

Zhu Ji understood what he meant, smiled, and asked, "Speaking of which, why don't you raise goats?"

Shi Wen, "It's just that we can't find good breeds of sheep. I've had the idea several times, but after going out to look, I had to give up the idea. Good goats are really hard to find, much harder than fat-tailed sheep."

This area is not a goat-producing region at all. People who raise goats here only keep a few dozen or a hundred at a time; it's not large-scale farming.

In areas with small-scale farming, obtaining high-quality goat breeds is undoubtedly even more difficult.

Zhu Ji: "Can't fat-tailed sheep be raised on the mountain? What's the difference between a goat and a fat-tailed sheep?"

"The difference is huge." Shi Wen couldn't help but say, Shi Wen his clueless expression, "The relationship between sheep and goats is similar to that between tigers and lions. How could there be any difference? They are clearly two different animals."