"What? Is that true!"
Old Liu stood up abruptly upon hearing his wife's words.
"Isn't it! They told me openly and secretly that you two were involved! If you hadn't told me about this, I would have believed it!"
Old Liu was truly speechless. "No, I'm old enough to be their father! This is ruining my reputation!"
"What is your reputation worth? It's the young lady who is at a disadvantage! Stop dawdling and quickly tell the young lady, so she doesn't get taken advantage of!"
Old Liu quickly found Meng Huai's contact information and nervously waited as he called her. "She's not picking up, is she busy?"
Meng Huai was indeed busy. The machinery at the distillery had been fully repaired. Today, she was organizing the distillery, preparing to put these machines to work.
Seeing Old Liu's call, Meng Huai wondered why he was looking for her. "Hello, Boss Liu."
"Oh my, Boss Meng, you've finally answered the call!"
Seeing Meng Huai connect, Old Liu was so excited he wanted to slap the table.
Meng Huai was puzzled. "What's wrong? Boss Liu, do you need something?"
Madam Liu leaned into the camera and greeted Meng Huai. "Oh, Meng Huai, you are so beautiful!"
Meng Huai was rendered speechless by the compliment. Fortunately, Madam Liu continued, "It's like this, my dear. I met someone today..."
Madam Liu recounted the day's events to Meng Huai again. Upon hearing it, Meng Huai's expression changed. She thought, "What is this family thinking? Are they never going to stop?"
"I understand, thank you, Madam Liu, for telling me this specifically."
Madam Liu was extremely fond of Meng Huai. Although this was their first meeting, it couldn't be helped; she was a face-con…
"It's nothing, nothing."
After hanging up the call, Meng Huai kept the matter in mind. She was also grateful to Madam Liu and Old Liu, as it was perfectly reasonable for them not to tell her.
So, Meng Huai packed some items, such as beauty-enhancing tea and health-preserving wine, and sent them to Old Liu. Since she had been to Old Liu's residence, she didn't need to ask for the address and sent it directly. This was also a way to express her gratitude.
Meng Huai continued to focus on her current tasks. She would start making the wine first.
Seeing the machines start running, Meng Huai then began preparing for the wine's listing. Since it wasn't a medicinal meal, she didn't need Sister Ting's help with packaging. Because the machines handled the entire process, including packaging, it wasn't suitable to sell them on the official website of the medicinal meal restaurant. Therefore, Meng Huai listed the wine on her online store.
The online store also had loyal customers who saw that the wine was available for pre-order and were eagerly anticipating its official launch.
However, many people were asking: "What exactly is this wine!"
Upon seeing this, Meng Huai wrote in the details page: "Do not drink excessively, lest you get drunk."
People of this era had never tasted alcohol before and did not know what their alcohol tolerance was. As for the customers' queries, they would find out what wine was by buying it and trying it.
Once this wine was mass-produced, it was impossible to sell it in large jars. The largest custom bottles Meng Huai had made could only hold one thousand milliliters of wine, to prevent people from drinking too much uncontrollably.
However, it still needed time for the wine to be ready to drink, as it had just been made. After all, the wine still needed to be brewed, and there was a process involved.
However, Meng Huai had installed a time formation throughout the distillery, greatly shortening the time required for the wine to mature.
As soon as the link for the wine went live, even though it couldn't be purchased yet and was just a link with a virtual price, it still attracted a lot of attention.
Qi Nan had also been paying attention to the medicinal meal restaurant and Meng Huai's online store recently. Naturally, she noticed the new wine.
Speaking of wine, Qi Nan thought of the factory listed in Meng Huai's industry profile. She had commented when she noticed the recently acquired property, "Two billion. This girl is richer than I imagined!"
Although two billion was not a lot to them, the fact that Meng Huai was the one directly putting up the money was thought-provoking.
"Is the medicinal meal restaurant that profitable? And where did she learn to make those strange medicinal meals?"
Qi Nan was very interested in these matters, but she had already contacted Madam Liu. In her opinion, Meng Huai was not someone who would be able to cause trouble for long, so she would let Meng Huai have her way for now!
Qi Nan felt cheerful thinking this way, but then she thought of something, and the smile on her lips faded. "She's truly good at keeping secrets! She found her daughter but can still hold back and not tell me!"
Qi Nan was, of course, referring to Marshal Meng. She had overheard Marshal Meng talking with his subordinates about bringing Meng Huai home. She was also a member of this family, and yet she still hadn't been told. Qi Nan was also angry about this.
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Two days before Meng Huai was due to compete, the wine was finally almost ready. The links for the wine had been set up long ago, and several varieties of wine were listed one by one.
She also set a fixed listing time each day, with ten thousand bottles of each type of wine being newly listed at ten o'clock daily.
Customers saw that the wine was finally listed and prepared to place their orders. However, upon seeing more than ten types of wine listed in the link, they were overwhelmed!
"There are so many, what are they all?"
"Forget it, I'll just buy randomly!"
"I'll buy one bottle of each."
The customers preparing to buy wine were in a state of confusion. Some hesitated about which one to buy, as they knew nothing about them. So, they carefully examined the product details to see the differences between these wines. "Bai Hua Niang (Hundred Flower Brew), brewed from a hundred types of flowers. One hundred types of flowers? Is that true? Are there so many flowers now?"
As the customer was in doubt, she continued to read. "One sip and you're down. Note: This wine is strong. If you're trying it for the first time, just take one sip. If you drink more, you'll get drunk. Strong alcohol? Get drunk? I don't understand what this is, but it looks fun. I'll add it to the shopping cart first."
Continuing to the third type of wine, the customer continued to read aloud to herself, "Health-preserving wine, suitable for all types of people. It strengthens the body, but you can only drink one cup a day. What is this? Is it medicine? And the dosage is restricted! But this sounds similar to medicinal meals."
After the customer had looked through all ten-plus types of wine, when she decided to buy the few bottles she had just added to her shopping cart: "What! Why are they gone!"
Well, she had taken too long to think, so the quantity of ten thousand bottles for each type of wine listed that day had already been sold out!
"Ahhh! I knew it! How could I not have thought of it? Things in this shop cannot be hesitated upon! I was too naive to even study and read about them!"
She had simply forgotten about the large number of fans this shop had when new products were launched! Coupled with the people from the medicinal meal restaurant, there simply wasn't enough to go around!