When Yan Xiao arrived at Yuanyitang, the patients had already been welcomed into the consultation room.
As soon as Yan Xiao entered the consultation room, she saw a young couple. The woman was not particularly beautiful, but she was endearing and even though she had a worried and anxious expression, she still looked somewhat cheerful.
The man, on the other hand, was handsome and dashing, but his face was excessively pale, completely devoid of any color, which greatly diminished his appearance.
Not only that, he also looked very weak and his breathing was heavy, as if he might collapse at any moment.
Without even asking, one could tell who the patient was just by looking at their smiles and laughter.
She didn't waste any words and said it directly:
"Since you two are here, you should know the rules of my Yuanyi Hall, right?"
As soon as Yan Xiao finished speaking, the woman took out a small box from her bosom and handed it to Yan Xiao.
Just as Yan Xiao was about to reach out and take the item to see what was inside, the woman took it back and hurriedly explained before Yan Xiao could get angry:
"This is the best we can offer. I can guarantee that its value far exceeds that Manager Ma's so-called century-old ginseng. But can you be sure you can save my senior brother?"
The fact that they said "save" rather than "treat" means that the man is already near death, and they are well aware of this.
To survive, the things she could bring out must be of high quality. And the woman's tone when she mentioned the century-old ginseng clearly showed that she looked down on it and felt that it couldn't compare to what she had. Yan Xiao became very interested.
The other party's request for her to first determine if the condition was treatable wasn't an unreasonable demand; after all, money talks.
With Yan Xiao thinking this way, she became more patient and treated the two of them quite well.
She gestured to the handsome man who looked like he was about to die, to put his arm on the examination table, and then reached out to take his pulse.
Yan Xiao's pulse-taking gestures were casual, but she was actually using her supernatural abilities to examine the man's physical condition.
The man, who had remained silent due to weakness, frowned as he watched Yan Xiao take his pulse, looking at her as if she were some kind of charlatan.
If it weren't for his upbringing, he would have pulled his hand back and left.
Yan Xiao didn't notice the way the man was looking at her; all her attention was focused on what was happening inside the man's body.
If Yan Xiao wasn't mistaken, this person was poisoned with hundreds of toxins, and according to common sense, he should have died long ago. However, the toxins in his body were strange; each toxin seemed to suppress the others, forming a kind of unusual balance.
Even so, the man's body has its limits. In this situation, it has reached the limit of what the body can withstand. If the man does not receive effective treatment, he will definitely not live more than three days.
With her current level of superpower, she can only temporarily suppress the poison in his body and maintain a relative balance in this situation, but she cannot completely eliminate it.
The reason is simple: this stuff needs to be removed all at once. If it's done in several sessions, the toxins remaining in his body will lose their current balance and could cause him to die instantly.
However, her current level of superpower is insufficient for her to completely remove all the toxins in one go.
After reaching a conclusion, Yan Xiao withdrew her hand, hesitant about whether or not to take on the business.
Accepting the case means keeping the person alive to build up their life force, and only being able to heal them after their ability level reaches level three. That's too troublesome.
But if she didn't take the case, this was the first patient to come to her, and if she said she couldn't cure him, wouldn't she be ruining her own reputation? All the boasts she made before were proof of her own blunders! She couldn't afford to lose face like that.
I don't know if the compensation they offer is worth wasting so much of my time, so I'll wait and see.
Thinking this through, Yan Xiao directly told the other party her diagnosis results:
"Young master, you should be aware of your physical condition. After all, it is a skill to survive being poisoned by a hundred kinds of poisons."
I never hide my illness. To be honest, if you don't receive treatment now, you definitely won't live more than three days. You can go home and prepare for your funeral.
The man had already mentally identified Yan Xiao as a conman with some status.
He also guessed that the rumors about her in Jiangbei City were all an act by Yan Xiao, who was pretending to be the general's wife. He had no hope left and even regretted listening to his junior sister and trying his luck.
Just as he was about to ask his junior sister to take him away, he heard Yan Xiao say this.
This caused a strange light to flash in his eyes, and his gaze toward Yan Xiao became more serious.
His junior sister, completely oblivious to the change in their emotions, was solely focused on saving her senior brother. She hurriedly took out the small box she had just received and handed it to Yan Xiao, her eyes filled with hope, as if she had found her last lifeline.
"Madam's medical skills are indeed well-deserved; everything you said is correct. Based on what you just said, you must be able to save her, right?"
We are very sincere. This is the Thousand Autumn Fruit from Medicine King Valley. I don't know if you have heard of it. Only one Thousand Autumn Fruit can be produced on a single tree, and it takes twenty years for a single fruit to grow before it can be harvested.
The fruit tree is now extinct; this is the last fruit remaining, and for those who need it, it is priceless.
"Qianqiu Guo?"
Yan Xiao was stunned when she heard the name of this thing. It was not only because it came from Medicine King Valley, nor because it could make a woman look ten years younger and slow down aging, but because of the identity of its owner.
She didn't remember much of the original plot; otherwise, she would have immediately connected the man with Jiang Xinrui's senior brother who was obsessed with poison making after just diagnosing him.
In the original storyline, this senior brother and Jiang Xinrui had different paths since childhood and could not work together. One specialized in medicine and the other specialized in poisons. Neither of them was willing to submit to the other, and they were also the only two candidates to succeed to Medicine King Valley.
In the end, the beautiful and kind-hearted female lead naturally won the favor of the old doctor and became the successor of the Medicine King Valley appointed by the old doctor.
The old apothecary also had some feelings for this senior brother and hoped that this senior brother could assist Jiang Xinrui. Before he died, he divided the only two treasures of Medicine King Valley between the two of them.
The Thousand Autumn Fruit was given to the senior brother, and the divine medicine was given to Jiang Xinrui.
The purpose was to find out that this senior brother was obsessed with poison techniques and even tested poison on himself. Sooner or later, he would need that miraculous medicine to save his life. At that time, he would definitely ask Jiang Xinrui to exchange the medicine. To put it bluntly, he was just playing with people's hearts.
Unfortunately, man proposes, God disposes. No matter how well the old doctor planned, he couldn't have predicted that his prized student was a hopeless romantic. After his death, the student went down the mountain, met the male protagonist, and was ruined for life. He never even thought about returning to Medicine King Valley.
The senior brother appeared because he was dying and had gone down the mountain to find Jiang Xinrui, hoping to exchange the Thousand Autumn Fruit for the divine medicine that could cure all poisons.
Unfortunately, by the time he arrived, Lou Guyu had already consumed the divine medicine.
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