Rural Farming: My Buildings Can Be Upgraded

Chapter 55: Chapter 54: Failed Detection

During lunch, Lin Feng briefly outlined his plan and asked everyone to discuss it.

"Our village can be developed to the south, west, and north. The only exceptions are the mountains behind us and the mountain road to the east.

I plan to build out the mountain trails first. Then, depending on what we find in the mountains, we can launch various tourist attractions."

Hu Zhiming said, "I’ve surveyed the surrounding terrain with a drone. The mountains to the south have the greatest development potential.

I even discovered a waterfall in there. If we can develop that area, it would add a significant number of attractions."

He projected the footage he’d taken, and everyone saw that the mountains were full of beautiful scenery. They even spotted a grove of maple trees with fiery red leaves that looked gorgeous.

"The north is currently planned as a cultivation zone, so we’ll mainly develop farms there. The west will be a livestock zone, where we’ll see if we can raise some unique animals."

He circled the southeastern mountains on the screen and said, "This will be the main area for developing tourist attractions, and we can expand further inland from here."

If these areas aren’t enough, now that they had money, they could apply to the government to lease more land. The approval should come through easily.

Feng Ziling, who had just arrived, suddenly spoke up. "If you want to build the Land God Temple and the Mountain God Temple, you can start preparing the sites now.

I’ve already obtained the construction blueprints for both buildings from my master."

Lin Feng was stunned. ’I can’t believe he’s given me such a wonderful surprise right after arriving. It just goes to show, you need to find a professional to solve problems easily.’

"In that case, let’s build the Land God Temple first. Find a spot for it near the village entrance plaza."

"Then I’ll go find a suitable location this evening when I’m on break."

Seeing how earnest Feng Ziling was, Lin Feng entrusted the task to him.

He’d heard that even though it was Feng Ziling’s first day, tourists were already eager to buy the Medicinal Tea he brewed. Apparently, not even Zhao Shiyun’s beauty was as alluring as his Daoist robe.

"Hu Xia, how is recruiting going? Did anyone from your livestream express interest in working here?"

Hu Xia said dejectedly, "They’re all talk. They go on and on about how wonderful it would be to work here, but when it’s time to actually show up, not a single one has contacted me."

"Then let’s recruit from Wuyuan County or Jiangcheng City. We can offer a slightly higher salary. Oh, and we need to hire a skilled chef."

Right now, some of the local ladies are helping make the staff meals, which definitely isn’t a sustainable solution.

"I’m already looking through my connections. I should have a result soon."

Although Lin Feng was anxious to fill all the positions, he knew he couldn’t just hire someone at random and then have to fire them.

"Zhiming, what’s the current progress on the Houses?"

"Next week, the bottom row of Houses will be finished. And the Marketplace you wanted me to build will be completed within two weeks."

Inspired by today’s archery competition, Lin Feng realized the Marketplace could also become an attraction.

He could open the Marketplace to the villagers from Mountain Ridge Town, letting them set up stalls to sell things, just like a rural country fair.

Of course, they would need to find some specialty products to sell. He’d have to discuss it with Uncle Ma.

"Good. Just keep an eye on them and don’t let them get away with using shoddy materials."

He had spent a lot of money this time; all the materials were upgraded to logs, and they had even undergone some special modifications.

"Don’t worry. They’d have to be crazy to try and rip us off on this."

Hu Zhiming was quite confident about that, unless the contractors wanted to be blacklisted from future work.

Lin Feng turned to Zhao Shiyun and Feng Ziling. "In another two days, you two can move into the Medicine House."

"Okay, but what about the Medicinal Tea stall?"

"We’ll hire someone with a background in healthcare to sell the tea there."

The Medicine House was completed today. He had gone to take a look but still hadn’t decided what to add to it.

[Medicine House (Level 1): Gently stimulates medicinal properties, increasing the success rate and quality of Elixir Pill refinement while reducing side effects.]

’How should I put this... The effect is amazing, but it’s not very applicable to Lin Xian Village at the moment. It’s not like he sells medicine, after all.’

He wondered what item he could add to increase the production speed of medicines.

After carefully looking over the nearly completed buildings, he found that the Lord’s Mansion was making the slowest progress, mainly because its structure was a bit complex and required custom carvings.

If it weren’t for the Lord’s Mansion dragging down the schedule, he felt he could complete the basic construction mission in just a few days and receive the special reward that altered the surrounding environment.

After lunch, with nothing else to do, Lin Feng began his research. ’What vegetables should I plant?’

The new twenty-mu greenhouse would allow him to greatly expand the variety of vegetables.

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「South City, Shanchuan Pharmaceutical Company Headquarters」

A group of researchers stared at the newly completed analysis report on the Medicinal Tea, their haggard, dark-rimmed eyes filled with utter confusion.

"This can’t be right."

"Were we tricked? There are no new substances in this at all!"

"Call the supervisor, quick! The Medicinal Tea they sent has no research value whatsoever."

In a sixty-square-meter, Chinese-style office, Wang Hong sat in his chair behind a massive desk, processing documents.

His sparse hair showed he was balding, and his chubby physique didn’t look particularly healthy.

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK...

"Come in."

"Boss, the test results for the Medicinal Tea are in. The situation isn’t ideal."

"Tell me. In what way?"

The supervisor placed the report on the table and said, "After our detailed analysis, we didn’t detect any special substances. It’s just composed of ordinary ingredients for clearing heat and stopping coughs."

"Nothing was detected? Then how do you explain the effect on the patients?"

He wasn’t an idiot. After getting the Medicinal Tea, he’d had his people test it on patients, and the effects were outstanding.

Whether for clearing internal heat or for soothing the lungs and stopping coughs, the data was terrifyingly good.

Now they were telling him they couldn’t detect any special ingredients. As the president of a pharmaceutical company, he didn’t believe it for a second.

The supervisor could only say, steeling himself, "We’ve been running tests since last night. We’ve gone through three rounds of screening and used every piece of equipment we have. We really didn’t find any other substances."

Only then did Wang Hong pick up the report and read it carefully, confirming that the detected substances were indeed just ordinary medicinal components.

"Secretary Lü, have Dr. Fang from the clinical trial team come here."

Dr. Fang, wearing a white lab coat, arrived at the office out of breath, looking at the head of the Research Institute and the boss.

"Dr. Fang, have you found anything in your trials?"

Dr. Fang caught his breath before asking, "Boss, is it true that the Research Institute didn’t detect any special substances?"

"Yes. You already knew? Who told you?"

"Boss, you misunderstand. No one told me. We’re experiencing the same thing in the clinical team. I was just about to come and report it."

"The clinical team is seeing this too?" Wang Hong found the result difficult to accept.

"Yes. We analyzed the patients’ conditions and found that the Medicinal Tea was able to treat them simply because the effects of the drugs within it were too good."

Wang Hong himself had a background in medical research. Although he hadn’t personally participated in research for many years, he hadn’t forgotten the basics.

"How could that be? That’s obviously not normal."

"We’re also analyzing the cause, but we haven’t found it yet."

"So you’re saying it’s impossible to replicate this Medicinal Tea?"

"Until we find the cause, it’s completely impossible to replicate. We don’t even understand the principle behind it."

The office fell silent. None of them had ever imagined this would be the result; they had all thought the Medicinal Tea must contain some new substance.

"Manager Liu, do you think it’s possible that our current equipment is incapable of detecting the substances contained in the Medicinal Tea?"

Wang Hong still refused to believe that the Medicinal Tea contained only known substances. It just wasn’t scientific.

Supervisor Liu thought for a moment before replying, "That is a possibility."

He left the next part of his thought unsaid: ’a probability infinitely close to zero’.

"You’re all dismissed for now."

"Boss, should we continue the trials?"

"Continue. The Research Institute can stop their work for now. The main focus should be on the clinical team."

If their equipment couldn’t detect anything, there was no point in the Research Institute continuing its analysis. Perhaps the clinical team would have a breakthrough.

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