Chapter 98
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Lying in bed, Fang Qiu couldn’t fall asleep but dared not speak .
Likewise,
Jiang Mengjie remained silent, lying on her side . It was pitch black but she gazed at Fang Qiu’s direction .
The pair didn’t sleep .
The night went by slowly .
A quiet night .
An eventless night .
The next morning .
“Awake?”
At daybreak, Fang Qiu saw Jiang Mengjie lying in bed with eyes open .
“Emm… I think my body misses my own bed so I wake up early . ”
Said Jiang Mengjie, nodding her head .
“What about getting up to do some exercise?”
Asked Fang Qiu .
“Sure . ”
Jiang Mengjie nodded with a smile .
The pair got up and left the hotel .
They began jogging on the track by the Central Lake of the university .
“I’m leaving today . ”
Said Jiang Mengjie abruptly .
Fang Qiu was quiet for a while before asking, “What time is your train?”
“It would be time after breakfast . ”
Jiang Mengjie replied .
“I’ll see you off . ”
Said Fang Qiu .
“Of course . Otherwise you would let me, a girl, leaving alone?”
Jiang Mengjie laughed .
After two laps of jogging,
Fang Qiu and Jiang Mengjie stopped . They entered the cafeteria while talking .
After breakfast, it was 7:30 in the morning .
Jiang Mengjie’s ticket was for the 8:30 service .
Fang Qiu took a taxi to the high-speed railway station with Jiang Mengjie .
“Do you hate to part with me?”
After getting her ticket in the high-speed railway station, Jiang Mengjie asked Fang Qiu with a smile .
“You are leaving anyway no matter whether I hate to part with you or not . ”
Fang Qiu laughed .
“Give me a hug . ”
Jiang Mengjie opened her arms and said with a smile, “I’m boarding . ”
Fang Qiu didn’t say anything .
He walked up and hugged Jiang Mengjie .
Jiang Mengjie with a sweet smiled leaned to Fang Qiu’s shoulder and whispered to his left ear, “We’ll see each other soon . ”
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After,
She let go her arms and turned around to leave .
In the waiting hall through the glass window, Fang Qiu watched Jiang Mengjie board the train and then turned around to return to school .
“See each other soon?”
Fang Qiu murmured to himself while walking .
He didn’t understand what Jiang Mengjie meant by this .
Would she return after going home?
No way .
The national day holiday would end soon and Jiang Mengjie should go back to school for her classes . She couldn’t come back .
After pondering for a good while,
Fang Qiu still couldn’t figure out . He shook out the thoughts .
Out of the high-speed railway station,
“Dee-dee-dee…”
His mobile suddenly rang in his trouser pocket .
He took out the phone and saw an incoming call from Jiang Miaoyu .
"Hello?"
Fang Qiu answered .
“It’s me . ”
Jiang Miaoyu’s voice came through . “I want to ask when Mengjie will leave . I’d like to see her off . ”
“She’s already left . ”
Answered Fang Qiu .
"ah?"
Jiang Miaoyu was shocked . She asked, “When?”
“Just now . I just watched her board her train . ”
Said Fang Qiu .
"Oh!"
Jiang Miaoyu nodded her understanding . After some hesitation, she asked again, “Didn’t you go back to school last night?”
"No . "
Fang Qiu hesitated but told the truth in the end .
It was silence from the other end .
After a long while,
“I have to study now . ”
Said Jiang Miaoyu before hanging up .
Hanging up .
Lying in bed, Jiang Miaoyu frowned and felt blocked in the pit of the stomach .
Outside the high-speed railway station,
Fang Qiu put on a wry smile .
He knew Jiang Miaoyu had misunderstood .
He didn’t return to school all night .
It sounded too obvious to her .
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Jiang Miaoyu knew he escorted Jiang Mengjie back to her hotel .
What kind of place was that?
A hotel!
He didn’t return to school so he must have stayed in the hotel .
With an empty dorm room in school, Fang Qiu wouldn’t have checked in another room in the hotel . If he didn’t get another room, then he must have slept in Jiang Mengjie’s room .
He knew Jiang Miaoyu had misunderstood and he wanted to explain but he realized he couldn’t clear it .
Why was that?
How to explain?
He could explain but would Jiang Miaoyu understand?
Spending a night with a girl alone… How would any girl think about it?
Fang Qiu looked up into the sky and laughed bitterly .
He decided to leave everything behind .
He must deal with the earth treasure first!
He took a taxi back to school with a wry smile .
“The national day holiday will end soon . I must hurry . ”
Back in his dorm, Fang Qiu grabbed his backpack and left again .
Inside his backpack there were a few ganoderma and wild ginsengs .
He planned to sell them to a pharmacy .
People in other places might not know much about it . He had to find a Chinese pharmacy .
Walking out of the school gate, Fang Qiu was busy searching for Chinese pharmacy on his mobile .
Soon,
He found one named Shide Pharmacy with the label “over one hundred years old Chinese medicine store” .
The reviews were rather positive .
And this pharmacy was not far from the university, about several kilometers away .
Fang Qiu walked over instead of taking a cab .
Of course .
At a much faster speed than an average man .
After fifteen minutes,
Fang Qiu reached the pharmacy .
Raising his eyes,
This Chinese medicine store was decorated with aged black wood, giving off an air of great antiquity .
The store had three faces .
The two on the sides were blocked by glass and the one in the middle was wide open under a traditional inscribed board with four golden characters, “Shide Chinese Medicine Shop” .
“Looking good . ”
Fang Qiu thought to himself as he entered the pharmacy .
As soon as he walked in,
All kinds of scents of Chinese medicine flew into his nose . It was not unpleasant .
He saw
The layout and decoration of the shop were very traditional with two waist-high wooden chests in the middle which were divided into several slots that each accommodated one type of medicinal materials that didn’t have any intense smell .
Three tall and wide medicine chests stood separately against three walls, almost covering the walls completely .
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To his right,
There was a wooden counter with many bottles and jars .
A man in his 50s was sitting behind the counter, dealing with some medicinal materials .
Next to the counter was a consulting desk .
An old Chinese medicine doctor was sitting by the consulting desk reading a medical book with narrowed eyes .
"Hello . "
At the counter, Fang Qiu asked politely, “May I ask if you are the owner?”
The middle-aged man looked up at Fang Qiu and nodded with a smile . “I’m the owner . How can I help?”
“Your shop can diagnose patients?”
Fang QIu glanced at the old Chinese medicine doctor by the consulting desk with curious eyes .
“You mean him?”
The owner shook his head and continued, “He can’t really examine patients but he takes care of prescriptions because many people come to get medicine with a prescription . We don’t have to check much if the prescription was from a big hospital but we need to be very carefully if it was given by a random Chinese medicine doctor . After all, the medicine comes out of our shop . We need to be responsible for our patients . ”
Fang Qiu nodded with understanding .
He felt reassured .
At least, this shop seemed decent so far .
With a good work style in medical field .
“Do you have a prescription?”
Asked the owner .
“Ah . I’m not here to get medicine . ”
Fang Qiu shook his head and continued to explain, “I have medicine to sell . ”
“Medicine to sell?”
The owner was confused .
Over there, the old Chinese medicine doctor put down the medical book and looked up at Fang Qiu .
“What medicine do you want to sell?”
Asked the owner out of curiosity .
“These . ”
Fang Qiu took out three wild ganoderma lucidum and one wild ginseng from his backpack .
"Hmm?"
Seeing the plants, the owner quickly took them from Fang Qiu’s hand and called, “Li, come and have a look . ”
The old Chinese medicine doctor came over .
The two of them put Fang Qiu’s plants down on the counter and looked at them carefully . From time to time they reached their hands out to flip them around .
“These plants are great . ”
After a long observation, the owner said with a slight nod . Then he looked up at Fang Qiu and asked, “Where did you get such good plants?”
“Picked in the mountains . ”
Answered Fang Qiu .
Hearing that,
The owner shook his head slightly and said, “According to my experience, these wild ganoderma and ginseng are not from some random place . At this age, I don’t think you can make it so deep into the mountains, can you?”
Fang Qiu was puzzled .
How did this have anything to do with selling medicine?”
“Young man . ”
Said the old Chinese medicine doctor, “Your plants are good but our shop can’t take medicine of unidentified origin . ”
Fang Qiu felt helpless .
He had to pack the plants away .
It was a pity for him but the response of this owner and the old Chinese medicine doctor was expected . Fang Qiu would hesitate if they agreed to buy generously .
After all, such wild plants of so good quality were rare .
It made sense that Fang Qiu was suspected for his young age .
For example, these might be stolen .
Or maybe there would be trouble after buying these plants .
A big medicine shop like this hated nothing more than trouble .
Once in trouble, the shop’s reputation would be damaged and nothing could make up for that .
Even if it was of a clear origin, would it be poisonous?
It was hard to tell without an inspection report .
“Sorry for the disturbance . ”
Putting the plants away, Fang Qiu said with a nod, ready to leave .
In the meantime .
A voice came in .
“Ouch… Boss, do you have the same plaster I bought last time left?”
Looking up,
A man in his 40s walked in with his hands on his waist, appearing in great pain .
“What is it? The waist is hurting again?”
Asked the owner hastily .
"Yeah . "
The man burst out . “Get me a few plasters for some relief . I’m afraid I won’t be able to walk long if the pain continues . ”
The man slowly moved towards them as he spoke .
Seeing this man,
Fang Qiu ceased his steps from leaving and gazed at him .
Probably due to the severe pain in his waist, the man didn’t notice Fang Qiu’s eyes on him .
He reached his arm out to the counter as he passed Fang Qiu .
With his eyes locked on him, Fang Qiu suddenly made a shocking move .
It could be seen .
Fang Qiu lifted his right foot and kicked abruptly at the middle-aged man’s waist as he moaned painfully .
"Bang!"
"Ouch!"
A loud scream came right after the kick .
The middle-aged man was sent to the floor by Fang Qiu’s kick .
Seeing this,
The owner’s face changed .
The old Chinese medicine doctor standing next to the owner froze there in shock .
What happened?
Why didn’t he suddenly get physical?
On the floor,
The fallen middle-aged man glared at Fang Qiu with anger and confusion .
“What are you doing?”