Merchant and doctor

Chapter 1939: Strike first to gain the upper hand

After entering high school, Bian Mu was assigned by her homeroom teacher to temporarily help organize the bookshelves in the school library. There were three or four other classmates in the same group. They dusted, wiped the windows, and sorted and arranged the books. The classmates chatted and laughed as they cleaned the library until it was spotless. With the cafeteria about to open, the other students rushed off to grab their food. As the temporary group leader, Bian Mu was naturally the last to finish.

The library was divided by rows of bookshelves. Bian Mu was washing a rag at the very back. The two teachers who came in after him naturally didn't see him and spoke freely without any restraint.

As they chatted, Bian Mu was surprised to hear an unexpected piece of news: it turned out that the test papers used for quizzes were rarely compiled and printed by the school's own teachers. Most of them were ready-made test papers. Some more responsible teachers, in order to achieve accurate testing, would intentionally keep a few dozen sets of ready-made test papers on their desks. When needed, they would cut them out with scissors, paste them onto a special drawing board, and then hand them over to the school's printing room, which would then make them into official exam papers.

Upon hearing this news by chance, Bian Mu was immediately shocked!

He's been teaching for half his life; doesn't he already know everything he's taught by heart?! He could recite it backwards with his eyes closed, right?! Is creating an exam paper that hard?!

Holding his breath, Bian Mu was afraid of making any noise that might disturb the two teachers, so he listened intently for a while...

It was clear that the two female teachers themselves couldn't create exam papers like the midterm exams. Final exams are usually set by the county education bureau, so the teachers don't need to create their own questions.

Keep listening...

Gradually, Bian Mu came to understand that creating a decent exam paper in high school, especially for subjects like Chinese, math, English, physics, chemistry, and biology, actually requires a high level of skill. The exam setter needs to be familiar with the textbooks they teach, the teaching syllabus, the exam syllabus, the assessment rules, the basic learning situation of the students in their class, how many knowledge points to test, the level of emphasis on each knowledge point, how to design the scoring points, and what the passing rate should be...

There are too many logical nodes! The intricate details of the operation are far beyond Bian Mu's imagination.

Being a teacher is really tough!

Bian Mu, being kind-hearted, suddenly shifted her focus elsewhere, and her respect for all the teachers immediately increased several degrees.

Now, Bian Mu suddenly has to set the questions and test others, and these are top-tier experts in the industry no less! Haha! This is getting...

Bian Muzhen didn't think she had that kind of ability.

Clearly, Nie Yixiong intends to retire completely. Cen Songxue's experience has been a significant blow to him. It's obvious to everyone that the Cen family is currently in its slump and will soon disintegrate. The Nie family cannot follow the same path as the Cen family; Nie Yixiong's own future and the Nie family's assets must be properly arranged.

First and foremost, Nie Yixiong plans to use Bian Mu's influence to reorganize his family's traditional Chinese medicine clinic. Perhaps, the Nie family will truly have a new look from now on.

Instinctively, Bian Mu was quite resistant to this matter.

However... setting a question is a good opportunity to train myself. True gold must face the real fire. It's only a matter of time, so I might as well take it!
Amidst laughter and chatter, Bian Mu finally managed to take on the task of designing the assessment questions.

……

The next day at noon, during her lunch break, Bian Mu bought some food and went to visit Old Liang, the forest ranger.

When Bian Mu entered, Old Liang had already prepared the dough. Bian Mu went straight to the kitchen to prepare the filling, and the two of them discussed making some beef dumplings. Chatting and laughing, Bian Mu briefly mentioned that Nie Yixiong had asked him to create the assessment questions.

"Can you even set those kinds of questions?!" Old Liang asked with a smile.

"If you're really struggling, you can at least fool three people," Bian Mu said honestly.

"Then I'd like to ask! What kind of successor is Old Nie planning to choose?"

"We'd like something new and different, preferably someone younger, or at least someone whose medical style is somewhat similar to ours," Mu replied with a smile while preparing the filling.

"Hehe... You're quite clever! Don't make it too difficult! Just make it reasonable! Old Nie is a decent person, easy to get along with! If you ask me, of the three candidates, just choose the youngest one, why make it so complicated!" Old Liang said with a smile while drinking tea.

"Such a large industry must be handed over to the most reliable people. Nowadays, many young people have some outdated ideas! Let's not talk about anything else, just take the idea of ​​relying on their parents! What an old-fashioned way of life! Hey! Many young people think they are so avant-garde! They are not ashamed, but proud of it!"

"That's true!"

"There's another matter, and this is how I handled it..." As he spoke, Bian Mu briefly recounted how he had asked Teacher Xiao An to pass on his message.

"Cut off the fuel supply! You did the right thing! The worst thing about this kind of thing is this back-and-forth, pointless negotiation, always thinking you're smarter than everyone else! Pshaw! No matter what the other party is thinking, once they start playing dirty tricks, they no longer consider you a real partner, the dynamic has changed! Your attitude must be firm from the start, while not giving up the opportunity to force them to improve, and try your best to win them over. Good, good! You're teachable! Judging from what they said... they must have found a lot of other companies behind the scenes, thinking they're so clever, thinking that if the negotiations fall apart, they can just switch to another company and continue doing pharmaceutical contract manufacturing, at most they'll just earn a little less money in the end! They have no idea how complicated the technical details of the ointment you developed are, it'll scare them if you tell them, hahaha..." At the end, probably feeling that he had finally vented his anger, Old Liang laughed at himself.

"It's not as mystical as you make it out to be! Lei Xueming and Lei Xiaoan are no pushovers; they're technically very skilled!"

"No matter how powerful you are, it's all external. If you don't replace your core with something completely new, no amount of tricks will work!"

“Since they’re all starting to decline, then… let’s prepare to take over the storefront where Old Cen’s health club is located!” Bian Mu asked with a smile.

"That's possible, but... we still need to find another good traditional Chinese medicine doctor to take charge. From what I'm saying, you already have a suitable candidate in mind?" Old Liang asked with a smile.

"Not yet! In the past two years, it's been really hard to find a colleague who shares our interests! I plan to arrange for Dr. Ning and Uncle Liang to go and help out for a while. This side is still the main clinic for now, and that side will be designed as Branch 1, taking the route of a clinic for ordinary people. When the opportunity arises, we can upgrade it to the main clinic area. Let's secure the space first! What do you think?"

"Alright! It's better to strike first. There's no need to be polite in this kind of thing. I went to check it out for you these past two days. The feng shui and everything is fine. You can accept it without worry!"

"I feel much more at ease knowing that you said that." As she spoke, Bian Mu prepared the dumpling filling and took it out to wrap dumplings with Old Liang.

……

Bian Mu's measures quickly took effect. Although An Delin did not explicitly state anything, and Teacher Xiao An did not contact Bian Mu again, based on the information returned by San Qiangzi and "Dao Tiao Lian", it can be inferred that An Delin had already given in.