1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 270 Lu Shiwei

In early December, Qilu has officially entered the "sub-zero hour".

As if to respond to this year's economic environment, this year's winter is exceptionally cold. In previous years, the temperature in Texas was usually around minus 6 or 7 degrees Celsius at this time, but this year it has dropped to minus 10 degrees Celsius.

So, a certain young lady, under the pretext that the heating in the staff family quarters was insufficient, openly sneaked into a small courtyard in the agency's family quarters to get some heating.

Ok……

Although the radiators in the agency family area are not as warm as those in the staff family area due to rust and aging of the pipe walls, there is a natural gas stove here!

The radiator plus the natural gas stove are indeed much warmer than the rooms in the staff family area, so Miss Mu's reason is quite reasonable.

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Since she found out after she arrived that Yang Mo was called over for dinner by Zhang Wenshun today, Miss Mu, after being a little sulky, had a casual meal with her sister Yingying, and then without hesitation, she took out a book of letter paper from the cabinet in the living room, sighed, and took out a bunch of things from her bag, unscrewed the pen, and began to write on the paper.

Normally, she should have been pulled over by Tugou to chat and watch TV, but the situation was a little special these days. As expected, our half-baked classmate Lu Yingying was pulled over by Yang Mo. She was sitting next to the gas stove intently, fiddling with the sand pots on it and the medicinal herbs on the ground.

So there was no other way. In order not to delay her sister Yingying's business, she did not dare to turn on the TV and could only take advantage of this time to deal with her own personal affairs.

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Time passed by unknowingly, and a strong smell of strange medicine gradually filled the living room.

Just when Miss Mu couldn't stand it anymore and was about to put down her pen, stand up and open the window to let in some fresh air, the voice of classmate Tugou suddenly came from the side.

"Wow~ Sister Mu, it turns out you have so many pen pals!"

Lu Yingying looked at the twenty or so envelopes on the coffee table, some opened and some unopened, with some surprise, her face full of admiration.

"Making friends through letters" has a long history in China, and it reached a peak in the 1970s and 1980s. Since this kind of correspondence generally discusses literary issues or professional viewpoints, it has always been regarded as an elegant thing by intellectuals and they never get tired of it... After all, this is one of the few behaviors that can clearly distinguish intellectuals from the general public in certain eras.

Ordinary people generally don’t have the ability to discuss literary and professional issues in depth with others. Even if you have this ability... you still need to have this circle and friends to discuss with you!
Seeing Tugou's admiring face, Mu Liya rolled her eyes: "Don't talk nonsense... We are not pen pals!"

Not a pen pal?

Lu Yingying looked at Mu Liya with a puzzled look, then picked up an opened envelope and read the beginning without any sense of being an outsider.

"I am afraid of missing you, but I already miss you. When it's my turn to miss you, I have no way to say goodbye?"

"This is... isn't this just discussing poetry with Sister Mu?"

Tugou looked at the two lines on the paper that were quoted from Yu Yan's "Longing for You. Breaking Flower Branches" with some inferiority. Compared with this beautiful calligraphy, her handwriting was no different from a dog's crawling.

Mu Liya chuckled twice: "Who told me that this was a discussion of poetry with me... It's just the mumbling of an annoying fly!"

fly?

Tugou responded: "Is this your admirer?"

As he said this, he lowered his head and read the letter.

As expected, although there is not a single word of love in the ornate text that follows, every word reveals the author's admiration for Miss Mu.

Ok……

With Miss Mu's beauty, it is natural that she has no lack of admirers. In fact, wherever she passes by, there will always be a commotion, open or covert. However, she has a strong background and a high position. In addition, she has a cold personality and always looks frosty when facing outsiders. Therefore, most people do not have the courage to pursue her face to face.

Therefore, compared with those pursuit methods learned from TV, expressing love through anonymous letters may be more reliable... As the saying goes, a beautiful woman loves a talented man. Who knows if Miss Mu will gradually fall in love with her admirer because of her pity for his literary talent?
At least that's what classmate Tugou thinks.

After all, she didn't really understand this nearly a thousand-word, semi-literate article, but that didn't stop her from having the illusion that "this person is very knowledgeable."

Miss Mu looked at the expression of awe on the silly girl's face and could not help but stroke her forehead speechlessly. Then she snatched the letter and quickly wrote two lines at the end of it, actually treating it as a reply.

"When flowers are in bloom, pick them. Don't wait until there are no more flowers to pluck. The willow brocade on the branches is blown away. Where in the world is there no fragrant grass?"

After taking a quick look at the two sentences written by Miss Mu, Tugou was completely confused.

Where is this?

Even if she is a poor student, she should know that these two sentences belong to two different poems and their meanings are also very different!

Looking at her sister Yingying's silly expression, Miss Mu stretched lazily with amusement: "Did you not understand why you replied these two sentences?"

Tugou nodded honestly: "I don't understand."

Mu Liya sighed tiredly: "This is a sour game played by those idle losers. It's normal that you don't understand it."

As she spoke, she gently placed and turned her two slender and pink fingers, and the paper came to Lu Yingying's front, pointing to the beginning: "Look, did you see it? The first sentence of the first paragraph at the beginning ["Fearing lovesickness, already lovesickness, now it's my turn to miss you and I have no way to say it]... It means that he found out that he already has someone he likes;"

"In the second paragraph, there is a sentence [Daily life is like a year of worrying about the difficulty]."

"This is a line from Huihong's "Green Jade Case. Green Sophora Trees, Smoky Willows and Long Pavilion Road". Combining the above content, the extended meaning is: But she doesn't seem to understand my feelings, which is really worrying!"

"In the third paragraph, there is another line [I am afraid to see the willow trees on the street]... This is a line adapted from Wang Changling's "Grief in the Boudoir" which says, "I suddenly saw the willow trees on the street, and I regretted asking my husband to seek a title." It probably means that she is afraid that her beloved will fly away and never come back."

"In the last paragraph, I wrote [At this moment, we can see each other but cannot hear each other, I wish the moonlight could shine on you]... This is an excerpt from Zhang Ruoxu's "Spring River Moonlit Night". It means that I can't stand the days of knowing each other but not knowing each other, and I want to travel thousands of miles to be with my beloved and let her know my feelings."

After trying hard to suppress her nausea and explaining what was in this weird letter, Miss Mu rubbed her brows tiredly: "So you know what those two sentences I replied meant... It's nothing more than telling that person that there are many good girls around you who are interested in you, so you should take action while you are still young. As for me, don't count on me!"

Classmate Tugou felt a chill when he heard this. Even a letter was written in such a cryptic way. I don’t know what these intellectuals were thinking.

If it were her, since she had the courage to take this step, she would probably just write something simple and straightforward in the letter like "I find that I kind of like you. Do you like me? If you like me too, why don't we be a couple!"

After putting the "approved" letter back to its original place, Tugou asked in confusion: "Sister Mu, since you are not interested in them, just throw these letters away. Why do you have to go through the trouble of writing back to them one by one?" Although the previous letter was just a brief reply of two sentences, she could see clearly that there were several letters that Miss Mu replied seriously in long articles and then stuffed into new envelopes. The thickest letter looked like it had at least three or four pages of letter paper.

Hearing this, Mu Liya just sighed helplessly: "There is no way. I have already thrown away the letters that can be thrown away. As for the remaining ones, the people who wrote to me are all acquaintances. They are elders in my family who I have seen every day. Some of them are my childhood friends. It is reasonable for me to reply to their letters seriously!"

Hearing the words "since childhood", Tugou's expression suddenly looked a little strange. After thinking for a while, he asked tentatively: "Since we have been friends since childhood, we should be very familiar with each other and get along very well. Sister Mu...you really don't have any feelings?"

Mu Liya looked at her strangely and said, "It's impossible because we have been friends since we were young... We are so familiar with each other, it's no problem to be friends or brothers, but being a couple... We are too familiar with each other, I really can't feel excited."

Upon hearing this, Tugou thought about it carefully, and finally said "oh" in frustration. Then he dragged himself back to the stove with his head down and continued to fiddle with the herbs.

Noticing that her sister Yingying was in a low mood, a trace of sympathy flashed in Mu Liya's eyes. After thinking for a while, she twisted the pen, walked to her side, and took a bag of medicinal materials with some curiosity. "Didn't Yang Mo ask Dean Huang to help verify whether the medicinal materials in those villages can meet the standards of authentic medicinal materials? Why are you still tinkering with it here?"

"and……"

"Huh? Is this toad venom?"

"This is... Wang Buliuxing?"

"Is this...dogwood?"

Relying on the little knowledge of Chinese medicinal herbs that she had learned during this period, Miss Mu struggled to identify several herbs. She looked at Lu Yingying with some confusion: "I remember that Yang Mo's planting projects in various villages did not include these herbs, right? What's going on?"

Hearing this, Lu Yingying grinned, "Among the 100 villages, only 40 or so have invested in the Chinese medicinal herb planting project? Yang Shidan feels that since Sangong Co., Ltd. and Tsumura Co., Ltd., the island countries' big suckers, have come to him, he would be sorry if he didn't seize the opportunity;"

"So, we asked those villages that don't have Chinese medicine planting projects to send some samples of wild medicinal herbs that they have planted in previous years or that are more abundant in the local area to see if their medicinal properties can reach the level of authentic medicinal herbs and whether they have the potential to be expanded into GAP planting bases."

At this point, Tugou slightly adjusted the position of the two pottery jars on the stove, blew away the foam on them, and continued to explain: "There are a lot of medicinal samples sent over this time. Even though they have been tasted, there are still more than 80 kinds of medicinal materials that need further efficacy verification;"

"And unlike the initial selection of taste and appearance, to really judge whether the effective ingredients of these samples have reached the standard of authentic medicinal materials, we still have to rely on the prepared decoctions to test the samples. And we can't just test one decoction. For one medicinal material, at least three different decoctions must be tested to make a basic judgment."

She shrugged helplessly, "Sister Mu, you know that Yang Shidan is a bad guy who is also very defensive. He doesn't want too many people to know about this. Therefore, he only allowed Dean Huang, Director Ma, and three other Chinese medicine doctors from the staff hospital to participate in this evaluation. "

"But Yang Shidan was in a hurry about this matter, so we had no choice but to leave 62 of the more than 80 Chinese medicine samples that were difficult to identify in the staff hospital due to the severe shortage of manpower. Dean Huang and his team tested them overnight. The remaining nearly 20 were handed over to my father for testing... But my house is small and there is no room for him to move around, and my father can't handle it alone, so the preparation of some of the herbs had to be handed over to me."

At this point, Tugou wrinkled his nose with some pride: "Although I can only be considered half-baked, at least my father forced me to learn a lot of Chinese medicine knowledge for more than ten years. Although I am not qualified to identify medicines, I have no problem processing medicinal materials, preparing medicines, boiling medicines, etc."

Upon hearing this, Mu Liya immediately understood.

As a participant in this project, she certainly knew that the list that Yang Mo provided to Sankyo Co., Ltd. was not complete. At least two thousand acres of planting bases were concealed in it... In Yang Mo's words, these two thousand acres of land were most likely located in the core production area of ​​these authentic medicinal materials. Their value was immeasurable. Unless it was absolutely necessary, we must not let the island country take advantage of them.

Although she didn't understand at first why Yang Mo attached so much importance to the 2,000-acre medicinal herb planting base, and even listed it as a department secret and did not allow any relevant staff to disclose it; but after the negotiation with Suzuki Jiken, she also realized the importance of it, and vaguely understood why Yang Mo did this.

Obviously, now that the big fish of Sankyo Co., Ltd. has been caught, Yang Mo will definitely not be content to limit his achievements to this... The main reason why he only invested in more than 40 medicinal material planting projects in the past was that he did not have enough digestion capacity. Now that there are so many island pharmaceutical companies coming to his door to be slaughtered, Yang Mo probably wants to turn all those 100 villages into GAP planting bases!

Ok……

A type of medicinal material from the core production area is used for self-use, and then turned into an independent brand with strong medicinal properties to enter the overseas market;

Build GAP planting bases in non-core production areas, obtain a large amount of investment and technology to build and incubate related industries to boost the economy;

Tsk tsk, that bastard's idea that sounds a bit far-fetched at first might actually be possible!

After pondering for a while, Mu Liya felt something was wrong: "Yingying, although we have many types of Qilu Chinese medicinal materials, overall, they are mainly general medicinal materials;"

"The reason why Sankyo Co., Ltd. is willing to give us such good conditions in this cooperation is that they are in urgent need of results to promote the merger with Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., not entirely because our local resources are really irreplaceable;"

"But Sankyo Co., Ltd. needs many kinds of authentic medicinal materials, many of which are only available in other provinces. Therefore, it is impossible to invest all the funds in Qilu... There are not only commercial factors, but also other considerations."

"So, even if we can select other authentic medicinal materials producing areas, but they are beyond their investment budget, we still can't attract investment... So is there any point in Yang Mo rushing you to identify the medicines?"

When Lu Yingying heard this, she was stunned for a moment. After scratching her head and thinking for a while, she said hesitantly, "Yang Shidan didn't tell me about this;"

"But he did say that it is precisely because our Qilu is a plain area that mainly produces general medicinal materials that it is easier to form scale advantages in terms of GAP planting bases for authentic medicinal materials."

"In his words, the more common the medicinal material, the more prescriptions it matches, the greater the amount used, and the easier it is to use market means to achieve a positive cycle of value and price... Once the GAP planting model is introduced to those rare and precious medicinal materials, it is more likely that their value will be unbalanced after a short-term boom;"

"So, his goal... seems to be to try to balance the market size and the quality of the medicine, and gradually create that [Lu Shiwei], or [Lu Twenty Wei]?"

"That is, we will turn authentic Chinese medicinal materials that are highly versatile, have great market potential, have guaranteed efficacy, and are suitable for modern industrial management into bulk commodities with controllable quality. Then we will directly transform those medicinal materials from core production areas that are not very versatile, have low market potential, but have very good efficacy, into direct supply production areas for fist finished drugs."

After recalling for a while, Lu Yingying nodded: "That seems to be what he said... Although I can't figure out his specific plan for the time being, since he already has this idea, it should be feasible."

Lu Shiwei?
Miss Mu was stunned when she heard this word she had never heard of before.

She naturally had no idea that this was a word from later times.

After comprehensively considering factors such as fame, effect, output, market demand, and technological maturity, the later Qi and Lu finally selected 10 medicinal materials with high national reputation, large production scale, and good industrial prospects, including honeysuckle, donkey-hide gelatin, salvia miltiorrhiza, American ginseng, scorpion, toad venom, scutellaria baicalensis, northern adenophora, trichosanthes, and hawthorn, to form the "Ten Ingredients of Lu", which were then given key cultivation and support.

To put it bluntly, just like Zhangqiu scallions and Yantai apples, it is to create its own golden business card in the Chinese medicinal materials market... and it is different from simple "landmark products". Landmark products are just business cards based on the quality and taste of the agricultural products themselves. However, in addition to shaping its own quality advantages, the creation of Lu Shiwei also needs to add more market elements.

Of course, if we look at it dialectically, Qilu can create far more than ten kinds of business cards in the field of traditional Chinese medicine using complex elements. After all, Qilu has selected as many as fifteen kinds of specialty medicinal materials and included eighty kinds of authentic medicinal materials.

And you have to know that this was the year 2021 in the future, when the land in Qi and Lu was severely polluted and heavy metal levels in the soil of many core medicinal materials production areas seriously exceeded the standard. In addition, there were many passive factors such as being "one step ahead" by others, which is why only ten star medicinal materials were launched.

But now it is 1989. Most of the core production areas of medicinal materials do not have serious heavy metal exceeding the standard. A number of market opportunities, including overseas, have not been lost. Therefore, objectively speaking, Yang Mo’s “Twenty Flavors of Lu” is not just wishful thinking. As long as there is enough money and strength, “Thirty Flavors of Lu” is not impossible.

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Taking into account both market size and medicinal quality, are we gradually creating the so-called [Lu Shiwei]?

If the demand is large, the production cost is appropriate, and the quality control work is good, there should be many pharmaceutical companies interested in it, right?
After grasping the key point, Miss Mu felt relieved, but she turned her head to look out the dark window and suddenly became angry again.

This bastard, why hasn't he come back yet! ?
(End of this chapter)