"Normal? You just go out to see patients with students in the morning, don't go to the hospital in the afternoon, and then visit a few high-ranking officials. You haven't been to their offices in ages, and you call that normal?"

“My job doesn’t require me to go into the office. Your sister-in-law goes in for me every day,” Li Chu said matter-of-factly.

"Well……"

"Haha," Wang Bing laughed from the side.

"Brother, how can you possibly out-talk Brother Chu? He's been a smooth talker since he was a kid. Brother Chu, my dad's advice is that you should stop now and focus on your work."

"Uncle Wang is really overthinking things. I didn't mean anything by it. The reason I haven't been going to the hospital in the afternoons lately is because of the baby, because Huihui is getting married, and most importantly, because I've been working on a certain medicine recently."

“I can vouch for him,” Ding Qiunan said.

“These past few days, when he’s at home, he keeps going to the pharmacy in front of the store, fiddling with a bunch of medicines. I don’t know what he’s doing there.”

The Wang brothers, Wang Jun and Wang Bing, exchanged a glance, and then Wang Jun cautiously asked, "You really aren't here because of the private investigation you had last time?"

"Huh? No, it's not. Oh, there's an investigation by higher authorities every year. This time it's because someone reported me. It's normal for them to investigate me. Why would I get upset over such a trivial matter? I'm not a child anymore."

"Phew~ That's good. The old man really thought you were throwing a tantrum."

"How could that be? I've been a member of the organization for over twenty years. How could I not even have this much awareness?"

"Alright, since you're all set, we brothers will head back now."

"Go back, go back. You've had a busy day. Go back and get some rest."

"Alright, sister-in-law, we're off now."

"Okay, come visit whenever you have free time."

"Okay."

After seeing the two brothers off, Li Chu and Ding Qiunan stood at the gate without rushing in. There were still many people coming and going in the alley, and they would all come over to congratulate the couple.

He simply started chatting with these neighbors.

When we went back inside, it was almost nine o'clock.

"Hey, I haven't even asked you yet. What kind of medicine are you working on? Using forty or fifty kinds at once, how can anyone use that stuff? It would overturn even a cow. Aren't you afraid of killing people?"

"I was looking for an alternative medicine."

"What's the meaning?"

“I have a pretty good prescription, but some of the ingredients are too expensive to be widely available, so I’m wondering if I can find alternatives.”

"Popularize it? You're making it to sell?"

"Yeah, what else?"

"What kind of medicine is it? What could make you go to such lengths?" Ding Qiunan looked at her husband with some suspicion.

"Cough cough... It's a medicine for men."

"Male...cough cough...why did you do that thing when you were doing nothing?"

"It will benefit the vast number of women."

"You're not a man..." Ding Qiunan had only said a few words when she realized why her man had said it was to benefit women, and she immediately rolled her eyes at him.

"Don't you have anything serious to do?"

"This is the important thing I'm doing. Don't underestimate this medicine. If I can find a substitute and reduce its production cost, I can really make a lot of money."

"Who would buy this, you say?"

Hey, you're really oblivious to the hunger of the starving. There are plenty of people who want to buy it.

Li Chu thought to himself, "This is what I'm thinking."

"You don't understand. I can't explain it to you until the product is finished. You'll know once I've really got it working."

"Tch, I don't care to know. Go ahead and do it if you want. I'm going to take a shower and rest. I'm exhausted today." Ding Qiunan pouted.

"Okay, I have some inspiration today. You go to sleep first, I'll go back to rest in a bit."

He couldn't figure out the chemical formula for that little blue pill, but he didn't want to hand over this blue ocean to that American pharmaceutical company, so he could only turn his attention to the prescription he already had.

He has found a substitute for one of the three expensive and very rare main ingredients. Although it will definitely have some of the same efficacy as before, he can tolerate it because it is cheaper.

The Gene Era

Now all he has to do is prepare two medicines, and he hopes for good luck tonight.

Once inside the pharmacy, he completely forgot about time.

As a result, he was dragged back home by the ear by his wife at around 3 a.m.

It's just like a mother in later generations grabbing her child from an internet cafe by the ear and kicking them out from behind.

"Are you out of your mind? How old are you? Do you think you're a young man in your twenties?"

As soon as she entered the living room, Ding Qiunan launched into a tirade of scolding.

Her husband hadn't had a proper rest for several nights in a row because of their daughter's wedding. He had been busy all day and was planning to stay up all night again, which immediately ignited her anger.

"Hehe, I was wrong. I didn't pay attention to the time. I'll go take a shower now. You go to bed first, I'll be right there." Li Chu didn't dare to say a word of nonsense and quickly admitted his mistake.

"Hurry up."

"Received the order"

Watching her husband dash into the bathroom like a monkey, Ding Qiunan sighed helplessly. He was such a worry.

She woke up and reached out to find no one beside her, realizing he must have forgotten the time.

The commotion was so loud that Liu Dazhuang, Wenxuan, and Yueyue in the front yard all woke up and witnessed Ding Qiunan pulling Li Chu's ear.

Dazhuang pretended he hadn't seen anything and went back to sleep.

Meanwhile, Wang Yueyue, who was sitting on the bed feeding her child, was smiling like a fox that had stolen a chicken.

"Hehe, Mr. Chu is going to be in trouble this time."

Li Wenxuan folded the quilt and placed it behind his wife so that she could lean on it more comfortably when feeding the baby.

“I don’t know what Dad has been busy with these past few days. I see he’s made a complete mess of the pharmacy.”

Wang Yueyue yawned, her little mouth agape: "She's probably fiddling with medicine prescriptions, what else could she be doing? By the way, Brother Xuan, I'm going back to stay there for a few days after I finish my postpartum confinement, do you want to come?"

"Of course I'll go."

"Hehe...mUA~" Yueyue turned her head and kissed Wenxuan's cheek.

...

Although it was almost four o'clock when he went to bed, Li Chu still opened his eyes very promptly at six o'clock in the morning.

She gently removed the legs and hands that were wrapped around him before getting out of bed.

The two-day National Day holiday is over, and it's time to go back to work today.

At this moment, Li Chu actually missed the seven-day mini-holiday of his later life, even though that compensatory leave was disgusting.

After exercising for a while, by the time he returned with breakfast from outside, Uncle Wang's car was already parked at the entrance of the alley.