Chapter 352: Chapter 352: Yellow Earth Soup

’Jingrui Pharmaceutical wants to buy Sour Jujube Seeds again?’

When Xu Bingguo heard this, his expression immediately darkened.

He snorted coldly.

He clearly remembered that when the price of Sour Jujube Seeds had plummeted, Jingrui Pharmaceutical was the first to tear up their contract and refuse to purchase them.

He had been holding a grudge over that ever since.

"What? Now you remember I still have Sour Jujube Seeds here?"

Xu Bingguo said sarcastically, "You guys were willing to breach your contract just to avoid taking them before."

A flash of embarrassment crossed Manager Wang’s face, but he quickly recovered his smile. "President Xu, please don’t be angry. We were indeed in the wrong before. But this time, we’ve come to make a purchase in good faith."

Xu Bingguo sneered inwardly.

He had already guessed Jingrui Pharmaceutical’s motive.

’They must have seen the success of Lianhua Suanzaoren Granules and gotten greedy, wanting a piece of the pie.’

He didn’t want to deal with anyone from Jingrui Pharmaceutical.

But Manager Wang was pestering him relentlessly and refused to leave.

"President Xu, rest assured, the price we’re offering this time will definitely satisfy you. It’s twenty percent higher than the market price."

Manager Wang gritted his teeth and made an extremely tempting offer.

Hearing the price, Xu Bingguo wavered.

Although he was furious about Jingrui Pharmaceutical’s previous breach of contract,

as a businessman, he couldn’t refuse such a high profit margin.

Besides, he was planning to destroy these unripe sour jujube seeds anyway. Selling them was better than letting them rot in the warehouse.

He pointed to the unripe sour jujube seeds in the warehouse. "Here. These are the unripe ones that Ding’s Pharmaceutical Factory didn’t want. Do you want them?"

When Manager Wang heard this, a flash of delight crossed his eyes.

It was already winter.

The Sour Jujube Seeds had long since been harvested.

’I’ve given up on getting mature ones.’

’Getting my hands on unripe seeds is good enough.’

’I just didn’t expect there to be so many.’

’Heh heh...’

’So what if they’re unripe?’

’Their effect is just weaker, not nonexistent.’

’We can still produce Lianhua Suanzaoren Granules with them and sell them.’

’This way, Jingrui Pharmaceutical can also get a piece of the action from this flu wave.’

"Excellent, President Xu! We’ll take them all. We’ll arrange for people to come and load them up immediately."

Manager Wang said excitedly.

Watching the ecstatic Jingrui Pharmaceutical staff count the unripe sour jujube seeds he had planned to destroy, Xu Bingguo couldn’t help but feel a sense of irony.

’Life is unpredictable. Who would have thought that simply because of one successful medicine, these once worthless unripe sour jujube seeds would find new life?’

However, after the last lesson, Xu Bingguo was not optimistic about Jingrui Pharmaceutical’s prospects.

’Medicine is a game of results.’

’The unripe sour jujube seeds are not very effective. The Lianhua Suanzaoren Granules made from them won’t work well for the intended symptoms. Once customers get burned, they won’t buy Jingrui Pharmaceutical’s products again.’

’Jingrui Pharmaceutical is only concerned with short-term gains, with no thought for the long run.’

Xu Bingguo didn’t plan to say any more.

’In any case, I won’t be harvesting unripe sour jujube seeds next year.’

「...」

Li’s Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic was as busy as ever, perhaps even more so.

The waiting area and the sidewalk outside were packed not only with anxiously waiting patients but also with reporters hoisting cameras and holding out voice recorders.

They had come from all over, each hoping to dig up an exclusive story from Li Xu.

However, they were mostly from small and medium-sized media outlets.

Li Xu frowned at the chaotic crowd. "Friends from the press, please don’t crowd the consultation room. It’s affecting my ability to see patients. If you have any questions, please wait in the rest area outside. I will try my best to make time for interviews."

Some of them listened and sullenly retreated to the rest area.

Before long, however, a few reporters, unable to contain their curiosity, would sneak back to the doorway of the consultation room, craning their necks to peek inside.

Li Xu was rather speechless, but there was nothing he could do.

He knew that his every move was now attracting a great deal of attention.

These reporters weren’t just there to interview Li Xu himself; they were also crowding around the waiting patients, hoping to dig up more stories about the "Divine Physician" from them.

This would add more legendary flair to their reports.

Li Xu also spotted a familiar figure in the crowd—Lin Xiaoyu.

She was holding a notebook and a camera, trying her best to squeeze through the crowd, snapping a few photos from time to time.

"Editor Lin, what are you doing joining this circus?"

Li Xu didn’t know whether to laugh or cry as he greeted her.

Lin Xiaoyu looked up, saw Li Xu, and stuck out her tongue with a helpless expression. "Doctor Li, I didn’t want to come either, but the article from your last interview brought in countless new fans for our ’Urban Life’ magazine. The readership skyrocketed, and my editor-in-chief insisted I do a follow-up report. She also told me to take more photos of you and dig up more material."

She said with a pained look, "Doctor Li, please do me a favor and give me some more material so I can report back. Otherwise, my editor-in-chief will have my hide."

Li Xu shook his head, speechless. "You’ve already interviewed me several times. What more material could I possibly have for you?"

Lately, all he did was see patients and deal with these reporters. There was no "material" to speak of.

Just as he was speaking, Li Xu suddenly remembered today’s intelligence report.

The report mentioned a special case: a young child with very peculiar symptoms. The treatment method it provided was even more bizarre.

Li Xu’s eyes lit up. He smiled and said, "Editor Lin, if you want material, then just keep waiting. Today, perhaps... there will be some interesting ’material’."

Seeing Li Xu’s mysterious smile, Lin Xiaoyu couldn’t help but become curious.

She knew Li Xu would never make empty claims. Could it be that a truly special case was going to appear today?

She had to stay at the clinic for the day anyway,

so she decided to wait patiently.

Just then, the clinic door was pushed open again.

A young woman with an anxious expression rushed in, carrying a small child of about three or four.

The child’s face was pale and ashen, his lips were purple, and his body was twitching uncontrollably. His eyes were unfocused; he was clearly very ill.

"Doctor, please, take a look at my son."

The woman’s voice was tinged with tears. In her arms, the child’s convulsions grew more violent.

"My son has been having seizures for days. We went to the big hospitals, but they couldn’t find anything wrong with him. The doctors all said it might be some rare disease, but they just can’t cure it. I heard people say you’re a Divine Physician, so I brought my child here."

The woman pleaded desperately with Li Xu.

Li Xu had the woman sit down and lay the child flat.

Li Xu quickly took the child’s pulse and carefully observed his tongue coating, complexion, and eyes.

The child’s pulse was deep and fine, his tongue had a thin, white coating, his complexion was dim and dull, his eyes were listless, and his limbs were cold. He was still experiencing intermittent convulsions.

’The symptoms were exactly as described in the intelligence report.’

Li Xu said to the woman, "I understand what’s wrong with your son."

The woman asked urgently, "Doctor, can you cure my son? He’s been like this for days!"

"I can."

Li Xu replied with certainty, then wrote out a prescription on his computer and printed it.

The woman took the prescription, looked down, and froze.

Prescription: Yellow Earth Soup.

Yellow earth, two liang. The best is yellow earth from beneath a stove.