Inheriting a Farm Made Me an Internet Sensation - Chapter 32.2

One day, Lin Muhan received a call from a friend asking her to partner in opening a food company. The reason was simple: she had Anxin Farm behind her.

She didn’t agree immediately but spent five days carefully reviewing materials and understanding the situation. Once she was sure she could handle it, she accepted.

Investment required money. Tan Xiao gritted her teeth and withdrew the 20,000 yuan she had worked hard to save. “It might not be much help, but some is better than none,” she said awkwardly.

As she spoke, she felt quite ashamed. She hadn’t been able to help with the Huatai matter, and now that Muhan needed money, she couldn’t offer much. She felt rather useless.

Lin Muhan looked at the money on the table and leaned in closer to Tan Xiao. “You really plan to give this to me?”

Tan Xiao nodded. “Don’t… don’t look down on it.”

Lin Muhan was amused by her cautious expression. “Investment does require a lot of money, but who told you I was short on cash?” She lifted her chin slightly. “If I were really broken, do you think she would have asked me to invest?”

Tan Xiao’s eyes darted around, waiting for the rest of the story.

“Half of the credit for today’s Huangtian International goes to Su Han. She has a better head for business than I do. Back in college, I thought money sitting in a card was dead, so I let Su Han take me along. First, we played the stock market, then when there was more money, we invested in projects.” Lin Muhan reached out to hook Tan Xiao’s chin. “Even if I don’t work now, I have hundreds of thousands coming in every month, plus year-end dividends.”

So she had worried for nothing.

Realizing this, Tan Xiao reached out to take the money back, only for Lin Muhan to beat her to it. Lin Muhan smugly tapped the money against her palm. “Since you gave it to me, it’s mine.”

Tan Xiao: “…” Was it too late to regret?

Seeing through Tan Xiao’s thoughts, Lin Muhan said decisively, “It’s too late for regrets.”

Tan Xiao forced herself to look away. That was money she had saved for a long time by writing many papers; it hurt to see it go just like that.

“So reluctant?” Lin Muhan stood up and walked over to her, leaning down to look at Tan Xiao. “Beg me, and I’ll support you. How about I give you twenty thousand a month?”

Tan Xiao: “…” She hadn’t fallen to the point of selling her looks for money yet.

She glanced at Lin Muhan, who was smiling like the warm spring sun, and her heart skipped a beat. But in the blink of an eye, she dismissed the thought. While “soft rice” was tasty, the rice you cooked yourself tasted better.

Just as she opened her mouth to refuse, a shadow covered her vision, followed by a soft sensation on her lips. Her eyes widened—Muhan was kissing her.

As Muhan lingered on her lips, her thoughts came to a halt. Just as she was about to take the initiative, the softness vanished, and the person disappeared from her sight.

Was Muhan abandoning her after starting something?

Thinking of this, she felt quite unsettled. You can’t do that—flirt and then run away without taking responsibility.

Unbeknownst to her, Lin Muhan, who had rushed downstairs, was leaning against the wall by the door, breathing heavily. Her heart was racing like a panicked deer. She didn’t regret it because she had wanted to do it for a long time.

Raising her other hand to touch her lips, her fox-like eyes were full of tenderness and mirth. If you still don’t speak up, I’ll flirt with you like this every day, she thought fiercely.

Upstairs, Tan Xiao was unaware of Lin Muhan’s thoughts. After recovering from her daze, she received a WeChat message from Professor Wu asking if she was interested in a research project. Previously, she would have replied “no” without thinking, but now that she had decided to improve her social status, she couldn’t do without such academic research.

After replying to Professor Wu, she went down to the greenhouses. The vegetables that had already matured met her expected yield. The remaining varieties were also doing well; she just didn’t know how they would fare when moved to open-air planting.

Through days of hard work, the land where tomatoes were previously grown had been planted with ten varieties, including garlic, green onions, cabbage, and radishes. The honey sweet potatoes in the fields had also been harvested with the help of the regular and temporary workers.

The final tally showed a total sales amount that was 10,000 yuan over the target. After the security hut incident, Tan Xiao had no expectations of Su Han; she knew Su Han wouldn’t give her that extra 10,000 even if she thought with her toes.

With the sweet potatoes harvested, the land was empty again. According to plan, Tan Xiao added five more varieties and worked with the farmhands to sow seeds and raise seedlings.

As for Lin Muhan, since deciding to partner in the food company, she spent most of her time holed up in her room watching live classes and studying, aside from essential social engagements. With social development and rising living standards, people were paying more attention to healthy eating.

Her food company mainly targeted this health segment. The initial concept was to combine health and low fat, targeting the white-collar and blue-collar workers. Regarding the health of raw materials, after discussing with her friend He Wen, they agreed to leave it all to Tan Xiao.

Under the combined influence of shares and Muhan’s physical threats, Tan Xiao was already growing snow fungus (tremella). To make their brand “Muwen” an instant hit, Lin Muhan would follow Tan Xiao to the greenhouse every time, recording the entire growth process of the snow fungus.

Tan Xiao didn’t let her down. Considering it was her first time dealing with snow fungus, and to reach the goal faster, she started nearly ten experimental piles at once. After two failures, snow fungus grown without any chemicals was born.

With the raw materials ready, processing and production followed. Two months later, the first batch of Muwen’s Healthy Snow Fungus Wellness Porridge was successfully launched.

Leveraging the reputation of Tan Xiao and Anxin Farm, combined with several authoritative test reports and videos of the snow fungus cultivation, it received numerous positive reviews within less than a week of its launch. In a market where most snow fungus is grown with chemical stimulants; people were naturally more willing to choose chemical-free snow fungus when the price difference was small. Moreover, it was a ready-to-eat product—just heat it up and enjoy—so why wouldn’t they?

Tan Xiao was busy running between the fields and the snow fungus greenhouses, while Lin Muhan and He Wen were either negotiating partnerships or on their way to negotiate them. As a result, the opportunities for Tan Xiao and Lin Muhan to meet daily were few and far between.

Because of this, Tan Xiao was teased more than once by Sun Le and Chen Cuihua, who said she was “guarding an empty room” every day. Tan Xiao felt very helpless—she and Muhan had never even shared a room.

She saw off a customer who came to collect garlic sprouts and green onions, rubbed her aching shoulders, and returned to the small courtyard. She went up to the second floor and, without even going to her room, lay directly on the living room sofa and fell asleep.

In her drowsy state, she felt something extra in her arms, moving and rubbing against her. Opening her eyes and looking down, she saw it was Lin Muhan.

“Awake? I was just planning to sleep for a bit,” Lin Muhan pouted.

Tan Xiao was helpless. “How could I not wake up with you doing this?”

Lin Muhan propped herself up with one hand and looked down at her. “Are you blaming me for waking you up?” Before Tan Xiao could answer, she rested her head on Tan Xiao’s heart, listening to the heartbeat, and murmured, “After finishing the negotiations today, I saw Jiang Yue.”

Tan Xiao’s sleepiness vanished instantly as she waited for Lin Muhan to continue. Jiang Yue was somewhat unstable, and even if she hadn’t made a move recently, given her danger level, they had to be on guard.

“We chatted for a bit. She told me that Huangtian International isn’t doing very well.” Lin Muhan didn’t hide anything and shared what she knew.

Tan Xiao raised an eyebrow. “Did you ask Su Han?”

“You don’t know Su Han. Even if something really happened, she wouldn’t speak up. So I asked a friend to look into it; I should get a reply later.”

Tan Xiao: Are you even my cousin? Calling me a dog… aren’t you afraid I’ll actually bite you to death?

Su Han: Muhan, keep the leash tight.

Tan Xiao: …