All the needles were placed, and Yun Jiao slowly manipulated the needle on Grand Tutor Xie’s head, with some acupoints even bouncing a bit.

After repeating this several times, she finally pulled the needles out, then took out the An Gong Niu Huang Pill she had specially prepared before, instructing Yang Ying, "Dissolve it with warm water."

Yang Ying quickly went to find someone to fetch a bowl and water.

Xie Heng saw Yun Jiao stop her hands, only then squatted down with a sobbing voice and called, "Grandfather—"

Grand Tutor Xie had two sons; Xie Heng’s father had taken an external post, and another son held an idle position and was currently in Xiang City.

Only Xie Heng, as a close relative, was by Grand Tutor Xie’s side, and everyone seeing Xie Heng still young and unable to shoulder responsibilities, felt somewhat desolate.

Xie Heng, with red-rimmed eyes, asked Yun Jiao, "Aunt Gu, is my grandfather in serious condition?"

Before Yun Jiao could speak, someone beside her said, "Silly child, your grandfather’s mouth is crooked; this is a stroke. It’s fortunate if he can keep his life." After saying that, they shook their head.

Many people have seen stroke patients; some lucky ones are left paralyzed on one side, while others die within a few days.

Hearing this person’s words, Xie Heng’s eyes turned redder, and he forcefully held back, not letting the tears fall.

He knew about strokes; in his family, there was a grandaunt who had a stroke and was now bedridden, needing care for all daily needs.

Xie Heng had frequently visited the Jiang Family in recent years, and Yun Jiao liked this child very much. Seeing the situation, she quickly comforted him, "Don’t worry, Aunt Gu will do her best to treat your grandfather."

"Once the medicine arrives, you carefully feed it to your grandfather."

Yun Jiao gently said, "If your grandfather wakes after taking the medicine, then it’s not serious."

In modern times, An Gong Niu Huang Pill is not a cheap medicine. There are even some collectors who, on the brand, write a line, "High prices for An Gong Niu Huang Pills before ’93."

When Yun Jiao saw this sign on the street, it was in 2017, and she curiously asked her grandfather, "Why do they want those from before ’93, isn’t it expired?"

Her grandfather shook his head, "Traditional Chinese medicine doesn’t have such a concept of expiration; it’s a notion from modern medicine."

"However, if medicine is stored for too long, its efficacy surely diminishes. Even wood and iron rot after years."

Yun Jiao asked again, "Then why would they pay such high prices to collect them?"

She curiously asked, and the person told her they repurchase at two thousand per pill.

She was startled at the time, remembering last time someone used this medicine and bought it for only five or six hundred per pill from the pharmacy.

Grandfather sighed, "What can I say, because rhinos have been extensively hunted and killed, they’re almost extinct. Since ’93, the global trade and use of rhinoceros horns have been banned."

"An Gong Niu Huang Pill requires rhinoceros horn, and after that, manufacturers use buffalo horn as a substitute."

"Many people believe that buffalo horn doesn’t have the efficacy of rhinoceros horn."

"Also, they used to use natural musk and natural bezoar, but now it’s synthetic musk and bezoar." 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

"So people want those from before ’93, after all, it’s life-saving."

"You know, the longer a stroke coma patient stays unconscious, the greater the damage to brain nerves; the earlier they wake, the lesser the brain damage."

Not long after her grandfather told Yun Jiao about this, she saw news in a pharmaceutical report that someone had bought four An Gong Niu Huang Pills from ’93 for over sixty thousand, averaging about fifteen to sixteen thousand per pill.

The An Gong Niu Huang Pill that Yun Jiao handed to Yang Ying to dissolve was made by herself after arriving here.

Everything was purely natural, and the medicine was made last year, wrapped in gold foil, then sealed with wax to ensure the efficacy would definitely be fine.