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Shi Wen his hand generously. "What's there to sell? We'll just give each of you a lump. But don't tell anyone else, we don't have that kind of relationship with them."

Xin Xianghong beamed, "That's wonderful!"

Shi Wen that they really liked it, Shi Wen gave each of them a large piece, weighing about six or seven pounds.

The items were delivered, Shi Wen didn't think much of it. He was busy with meat-related matters lately, so he was quite occupied.

Two days later, Chang Qingqing and Xin Xianghong came to his ranch together, bringing him a set of skin care products such as moisturizing cream and lip balm, as well as several bottles of mutton fat soap and mutton fat liquid soap.

Before Shi Wen refuse, Xin Xianghong said, "Take it and use it. It's all made from your family's mutton fat, much better than ordinary people's. It's very moisturizing; you'll know once you try it."

Shi Wen accepted it, saying, "Then I won't stand on ceremony."

Chang Qingqing: "Don't be so polite. In your educated people's terms, what's this called—'borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha'? Anyway, they're all yours."

Shi Wen laughed and said, "Thank you for thinking of us, sisters-in-law."

The supplies were all delivered to the ranch, Shi Wen, adhering to the principle of not wasting anything, first used the lanolin hand cream.

He does a lot of work every day and is quite clean, so he washes his hands after finishing his work, sometimes six or seven times a day. As a result, his hands are a bit dry and the skin is a bit hard.

However, apart from himself and Yan Kexing, most people wouldn't be able to tell.

After washing my hands today, Shi Wen specially squeezed out a dollop of lanolin hand cream and applied it.

To his surprise, this lanolin hand cream wasn't oily at all; instead, it was moisturizing and absorbed quickly into the skin.

After applying it, my skin felt great—soft, smooth, and without any roughness or dryness.

Shi Wen specially took it to Yan Kexing to try as well. "This hand cream is so good!"

After using Yan Kexing said, "The mutton fat is of good quality, and the products made from it are also very effective."

Shi Wen immediately said, "Then I'll go try other products."

He said he ran out and tried other products, from moisturizers and lip balms to soaps and liquid soaps, and each product surprised him.

These products are so good, they're just as good as the expensive international brands they buy.

Shi Wen after washing my hands with lanolin soap, I can feel that my hands are in much better condition than after using regular soap.

He applied another layer of hand cream to his hands, then held them up to Yan Kexing and said, "There's still a lot of mutton fat frozen outside. Why don't we make use of it? Especially the lip balm; we have plenty of beeswax at home, we can put that to good use."

Yan Kexing: "I'll go find a bigger store."

Shi Wen, "Okay, then you handle it."

Yan Kexing had a wide network of connections, and soon asked a familiar shop to produce a batch of products for them.

The products made by professional shops are much better than those made by small shops in the city. Shi Wen loved these new products so much that he replaced all the products in his home with them.

Shi Wen even specially used lanolin soap for the little ones.

The little ones took several baths with their own sheep fat soap, and their fur visibly became softer and shinier.

It seems their liquid soap is really good.

Shi Wen got so engrossed in playing that he slaughtered ten fat-tailed sheep, extracted the mutton fat, and made a whole set of household skincare products.

This time, he even specially asked someone to make hair-protecting oil and other products using mutton fat for the little ones.

The little ones' fur gets rougher from the winter heat, so they need a lot of this fur-protecting extract.

After we got the fur oil and other products, the little ones started using them on their own without us having to Shi Wen urge them.

That day, He Chengzhang came to visit their ranch, intending to buy the hides that the Shi Wen family had recently accumulated.

This is He Chengzhang's seventh visit this year. Whenever he's not busy, he's willing to personally visit the Shi Wen family's ranch.

When He Chengzhang entered the main courtyard this time, he smelled a faint fragrance of herbs and trees.

He noticed that Shi Wen's house was a little different again; it was cleaner and tidier, and paintings had been hung on the walls.

It's obvious that their home has a more lived-in feel now.

As a designer, He Chengzhang considers his work to be more artistic, so he can easily see from these changes Shi Wen and Yan Kexing's love for life and the underlying sense of happiness.

This feeling of happiness was so touching, almost like the warm winter sun, that it was impossible to resist. He Chengzhang couldn't help but stop and look at it a few more times.

He rarely felt such obvious happiness in other people's homes.

Shi Wen noticed his gaze and smiled as he introduced, "The first few paintings were done by Yan Kexing's students, but these few were painted by Yan Kexing himself. What do you think? Aren't they exceptionally well done?"

He Chengzhang felt that Shi Wen wasn't introducing Yan Kexing, but rather showing off. However, the expression on his face, full of pride for Yan Kexing, wasn't unpleasant.

He Chengzhang nodded. "Professor Yan is a master."

Shi Wen laughed and said, "Yes, he's good at everything he does. Come on, wash your hands and have some milk tea."

It was a bit chilly outside, He Chengzhang came in wrapped in the wind; he probably needed some hot tea to warm himself up.

Shi Wen led him to the sink. "This hand sanitizer is homemade, and it works quite well. You can try it. Do you want sweet or salty milk tea?"

He Chengzhang was surprised by the sudden shift Shi Wen topic and replied, "I want salty milk tea. I need to maintain my figure lately and can't consume too much sugar."

Shi Wen, who was taking a cake out of the refrigerator, pushed it back after hearing his words: "Then I won't put fried rice or dried meat in it. Let's have plain salty milk tea today."

He Chengzhang was already washing his hands with hand sanitizer, nodded quickly upon hearing this, then sniffed the air and said, "This hand sanitizer smells so good."

Shi Wen to prefer the original flavor of things, but the smell of mutton fat isn't particularly pleasant. Even without added spices, it still has a faint mutton fat smell after processing.