Spring Breeze Twenty Years

Chapter 799 Health Products

After leaving the command center, Xiao Wei felt that safety was a matter that needed to be taken seriously. After thinking for a while, he felt that he should go to the design institute to talk to the old director. At this time, the design institute had a lot of influence in the construction process and played an important role in the entire process from design, bidding and construction.

As I came out from behind the wall, preparing to go back into the yard to get my car, I saw my mother, Aunt Wang, and Xiao Hong coming from the building.

"You've had a checkup?" Xiao Wei asked with a hint of trepidation.

Xiao Hong was a little embarrassed and looked at Xiao Wei with a straight face. Aunt Wang laughed and said, "It's a test, it's fake. This girl just really wants to get pregnant. It's called hypochondria, I don't really know."

Xiao Wei felt a mix of relief and disappointment; it was quite a complicated situation.

Xiao Hong pouted and said, "So what if I want to have a baby? I want a big daughter so I can show her off every day."

Xiaowei's mother smiled and said, "Why rush this? You'll have your own time to give birth. Right now, focus on your studies and take good care of your health; that's more important than anything else."

Xiao Wei looked at the things his mother was carrying and asked, "What did you buy?"

Xiao Hong said, "What health supplements? I said I wouldn't buy them, but my aunt insisted. They're so expensive."

Xiao Wei used to borrow his mother's hand to look at ginseng royal jelly, Yansheng Hubao liquid, 851 oral liquid, and Wahaha children's nutritional liquid.

Xiao Wei looked up at his mother: "Mom, did you buy everything you could find in the market? And this isn't even all of it! There are still about ten kinds left: turtle essence, Angli No. 1, Taitai oral liquid, Taiyangshen oral liquid, Brain Gold, Red Peach K, Robust, Harbin Pharmaceutical..." Xiao Wei's mother raised her hand and slapped him on the forehead: "What do you mean?"

Xiao Wei rubbed his forehead and said, "Our family is all healthy, why are you buying all this stuff? Is this Wahaha for Xiao Hui and Gen Sheng? Let me tell you, no way, kids can't just eat whatever they want. We have everything we need, we don't need this. You and my aunt can drink some of this royal jelly and other things if you want, but it definitely won't do any good."

Xiaohong said, "How do you know? Newspapers and TV report it every day now. Would they report it without newspapers?"

Aunt Wang, holding a newspaper, said, "We bought this because we saw it. I didn't even know there were so many things like this before, and I couldn't even name them all."

Xiao Wei said, "Newspapers are like business cards, they're just printed randomly, I don't believe it. Didn't people say that when reporters went to the turtle essence factory, they didn't see any turtles at all, just sugar water? Most of this stuff is just a hoax to reassure people."

Aunt Wang said, "Your mother and I didn't dare to buy anything randomly. We picked out a few things. This royal jelly is just honey, right? And this one, it's produced in Fengtian Feilong. It's a traditional Chinese medicine formula. This 851, Professor Yang Zhenhua's name and photo are printed on it. I feel it can't be fake."

Xiao Wei said, "These things have been around since the 80s. When I was working on a construction site in the county, Uncle Xia bought some, but later said they were useless. This isn't medicine, it's just for nutrition. Does our family lack nutrition? Eating well, drinking well, and exercising are better than anything else. Don't believe in these things anymore."

Xiao Hong said, "Why promote something that's useless? I saw in the newspapers that many government departments are evaluating it, and it's even being exported."

Xiao Wei said, "Don't you understand that our family is in business? This is an industry, making money and collecting taxes. It's not like medicine that needs to be controlled. The principle behind the product may be true, but I don't really trust the finished product. How can we not make money? Anyway, sugar water won't kill you."

I refuse to believe that drinking a bottle of this can compare to eating a piece of meat. My aunt said the main ingredient in this royal jelly is honey, so why don't we just get honey directly? It's cheaper than this, and there are plenty of beekeepers in the mountains where we live. Even the best turtle essence can't compare to eating a turtle directly!"

Aunt Wang thought for a moment and said to Xiaowei's mother, "I feel like Xiaowei is right. We're not short of things or money. No matter how well he makes it, can he put a whole turtle in a box? We can eat one a day and we won't go broke."

Xiao Hong started laughing and said, "I've noticed that my mom is becoming more and more indecisive. She listens to whoever she's talking to. She was all high and mighty with Auntie just now, but now she thinks Xiao Wei is right."

Xiao Wei said, "I'll ask my fourth uncle to help us collect honey tomorrow, and also royal jelly. Where can't we find that? We'll just bring some back and raise it in the pond. We can just grab one whenever we want. We won't need to buy these things anymore."

Xiao Hong said, "I also want to raise some fish in the pond."

Xiao Wei said, "If you want to raise them, then raise them. Who says you can't raise fish if you raise turtles? It's such a big pond."

Xiao Hong said, "I want to raise fish for decoration, not for eating."

Aunt Wang said, "What's the point of raising it if you can't eat it? It would be much better to raise some grass carp or carp."

Xiao Wei's mother slapped her thigh: "Oh dear, I forgot! I was thinking of buying a few rainbow trout to stew, but you all made me forget." She shoved the things in her hands into Xiao Wei's hands, grabbed Aunt Wang, and turned to leave: "Come on, come with me again, it seems like we don't have many ribs left."

Xiao Wei asked Xiao Hong, "Do you think that fish would be able to survive here in winter when the ice freezes a meter thick?"

Xiao Hong thought for a moment and said, "I just saw other people raising them and they looked nice, red, black, white, and spotted ones. They even said they could improve the feng shui. How deep is our pond?"

Xiao Wei said, "Our house lacks feng shui? Nonsense. That pond, I think Engineer Wang said it's three or four meters deep in the middle? I've never been in there. I'll go check it out tomorrow. Our water is running, not dirty, you can swim in it."

Xiao Hong shook her head: "No way. It's dirty. The water in the big lake outside is so clear, but ours is all murky. You're not allowed to go in. Nobody knows what it's like in there. What if it's dangerous?"

Xiao Wei said, "The water isn't murky, it's just that the surface is small and deep, and there's a lot of aquatic vegetation at the bottom, so it doesn't feel clear. Maybe we should get someone to clean it up sometime, and we can explore the bottom. It would be such a shame if we couldn't swim in such a big pond."

Xiao Hong said, "Would it be okay to drain the water and fix the bottom?"

Xiao Wei shook his head and said, "Impossible. The ground below is connected to the underground. Unless the big lake in the zoo is drained as well."

Xiao Hong raised her hand and slapped him: "So you're still going down?"

Xiao Wei said, "The water's just connected, it's not like there's a hole underneath. Besides, what's there to be afraid of when swimming on the surface?"

Xiao Hong glared at Xiao Wei: "Anyway, you can't. You really can't give this to Xiao Xiaohui and Geng Sheng, can you? I was the one who arranged to buy it."

Xiao Wei said, "Children shouldn't eat random things. No one can guarantee it for you. If it really worked, if it were as amazing as they say, why doesn't they include a guarantee with every box, explaining how they'd compensate if it didn't work or if there were any problems? Their sales would skyrocket. They wouldn't dare. Health supplements are all scams."

Xiao Hong said, "Then the government still allows it to be sold? And even promotes it."

Xiao Wei said, "Smoking is harmful to health, and the government has a monopoly on it. Doesn't the government need to make money too? Otherwise, what will it spend its money on?"

Xiao Hong was stunned. She blinked her eyes. What he said made so much sense that she was speechless. She thought for a long time but couldn't think of a way to refute it.

"Hiss!" Xiao Wei jumped to the side: "Why did you pinch me?"

Little Red looked at Xiao Wei with her big, bright eyes and said, "I can't argue with you."

(End of this chapter)