24 The Mountain Path Is Rugged. It Is Hard to Beg for Medicine (1/2)
At this moment, Wang Yao was busy in the herbal field watering the herbs. With the help of the ancient spring water, the herbs grew up rapidly. Especially those common herbs such as radix gentianae, adenophora stricta, radix sileris and matrimony vine. It was just one month, but their growth could be compared with the growth of one year in other places.
Woof, woof, woof! San Xian barked suddenly.
”Yes, there is someone.” Wang Yao raised his head and looked. He found that there were two people on their way to his house. There was one woman and one man.
He did not care, but he came to realize that they came for him when they got closer. He could see the appearances of them when they were close. The young woman was less than 23 or 24 years old. She had delicate facial features and pale skin. She also had a nice figure. The man after her was in his 40's but he had nothing special about him except that his eyes shone brightly.
The middle-aged man, whose name was He Qisheng sighed slightly when they went to the edge of the herbal field.
”What's wrong, Uncle He?” the woman asked.
”The herbs grow up well.” He pointed at the herbs growing in the field.
”They are medicinal herbs?”
”Yes. There are radix gentianaes, adenophora strictas, radix sileris and matrimony vines. Hey, what is that?” The man looked at several strains of moonlight herbs with new leaves and found that he had never seen that herb before. He decided to go closer to have a look, but he was blocked by a young man.
”Hello, what's the matter with you?” Wang Yao asked.
”You are Wang Yao?” The woman looked at the young man carefully. He was dressed commonly but there was a unique air around his body. He seemed like the hermit hidden in the remote mountains in an old legend.
”Yes, I am,” Wang Yao replied.
”Hello, I am Guo Sirou.”
”Hello.” Wang Yao did not know why this beautiful stranger came to see him.
”I just came to ask you for a favor.”
”Favor? What favor?” He had never met this girl before but yet, she came to ask him for a favor.
”My brother is in the hospital since he suffers from an unknown poison. Several days before, there was a patient that had a similar illness and I heard that he recovered after eating the herbal medicine made by you. So, can you give me that prescription, please?”
”Poison? Prescription?” Wang Yao understood what she wanted before she even finished her sentence.
It was so simple to detoxify. All it required was one leaf of the antidote herb and a bowl of ancient spring water. But he also had to think about the trouble that would be caused by it since the herb was magical, it did not exist anywhere in the world. It was not in the known system of Chinese medicinal herbs.
In the hospital, there would definitely be someone who knew about herbs. How would he explain it to them if they found out about the antidote herb? A nonexistent old Chinese medicine doctor could cheat the common people, but it would be found that it was just a lie by those smart doctors.
In the eyes of Wang Yao, this beautiful girl also seemed to be smart.
”Sorry.” Wang Yao shook his head after he had been silent for a while.
”What?” Guo Sirou frowned slightly after that. ”The price of the prescription is up to you.”
”Not for the matter of price.”
”Then what is it?”
”My master is afraid of being bothered.” He had used this excuse before, so he decided to just use it again.
”Being bothered?”
”Yes. The diseases that doctors in the hospital could not fix but an herbal medicine could fix it. What would you do if you were a doctor? Wouldn't you try hard to get the formula yourself?” Wang Yao said directly.