"These are all relatively expensive medicinal herbs you've picked out. If you want them all, I'll round it down to a yellow croaker."
Su Ying looked at the pile of medicinal herbs she had chosen. So many good things for only one yellow croaker, it was really a bargain. She had found a treasure.
Without saying a word, he took a yellow croaker from his crossbody bag and placed it on the table.
The pleasant sound of the yellow croaker being placed on the table startled the pot-bellied man.
He then smiled broadly, grabbed a yellow croaker from the table, and put it in his mouth. After taking a big bite, a row of teeth marks immediately appeared on the yellow croaker.
real.
No water was added.
"Hehehehe... If you ever need expensive medicinal herbs again, come to me again. I'll give you a discount. I have a full range of varieties here, so you definitely won't have to make a wasted trip."
Su Ying bought a lot of medicinal herbs, which brought them closer together. Feeling that the time was right, Su Ying no longer needed to play games with the other party.
"I really need a medicine, but I've asked around and still can't find it anywhere. I don't know..."
Before Su Ying could finish speaking, the portly man interrupted her, patting his chest to assure her.
“I have all kinds of medicines here. There’s nothing I can’t get if you can think of it. Just tell me and I will do my best to get it for you.”
Su Ying slowly uttered a sentence, "Penicillin."
When Zhang Quan heard about the drug penicillin, he was stunned and stammered, unable to utter a complete sentence.
"Penicillin...penicillin?"
"Yes. Can you help me find this medicine? As long as you can find it for me, price is not a problem, you can prescribe whatever you want."
Zhang Quan stared in shock. He had just received three bottles of penicillin last night, and now someone was coming to his door looking for him. The coincidence was too much, and he felt a little sweaty.
When many things are put together, they become less pure and too suspicious, making it difficult to reveal one's true intentions.
If it's a mole sent by higher-ups to investigate thoroughly, he'll never be able to turn his life around.
He just wanted to make a living in the black market and support his family, so why can't they tolerate him?
Zhang Quan licked his dry lips, his lips trembling, and he was terrified.
His exceptional survival skills forced him to inquire about the other party's purpose in coming here; he needed to find a way out.
"Why are you looking for penicillin? It's a foreign drug, and even regular hospitals don't have it. How could our small workshops possibly have such a rare medicine?"
Hearing that there was no work, Su Ying was completely dejected. She hung her head and ignored Zhang Quan, walking out on her own. Halfway there, she suddenly remembered something.
He turned around and walked back, picked up the medicinal herbs that Zhang Quan had just packed, and went straight out of the inner room without even greeting Zhang Quan.
Zhang Quan was taken aback. How could this be so different from what he had expected? Shouldn't he have tried to trick him into revealing information?
Then they would find out more transportation routes and catch them all at once, but as soon as they heard there weren't any, they immediately gave up.
Perhaps he was overthinking things, that he was judging a gentleman by his own petty standards, and that he was thinking the worst of him. He hurriedly called out to Su Ying, who had already stepped out of his house.
"etc!"
Su Ying was completely out of sorts, walking around blankly, oblivious to the sounds around her, her steps unsteady.
All I could think about was Zhang Quan's statement that penicillin was a foreign product and not even available in regular hospitals, so how could our small workshops possibly have such a rare drug?
"Wait! I called you! Didn't you hear me?"
Zhang Quan was very anxious and stepped forward to grab Su Ying, who was about to leave. "I called you."
The heaviness in her hand brought Su Ying back to reality. Instinctively, she shook off Zhang Quan's tightly gripping hand and asked, "Is there anything else?"
Zhang Quan rubbed his forehead, looking helpless. It turned out that no one had heard what he said after all that. He sighed and reluctantly told the truth.
“I have penicillin.”
"I have penicillin." The six words exploded in Su Ying's mind.
Su Ying didn't care at all about the expensive medicinal herbs she had bought with the money she had spent on a yellow croaker. She threw them on the ground like trash, and tightly held Zhang Quan's hand, asking him again, afraid that she was hallucinating.
"Do you really have penicillin?"
Zhang Quan nodded.
"Yes, there are. But the supply is limited, and they're ridiculously expensive. Even if I sold everything I own, I still couldn't afford a few bottles."
"But didn't you just say that penicillin is a foreign drug, and resources are relatively scarce, so even regular hospitals can't get it, and you can't even find it on the black market?"
Zhang Quan scratched his head sheepishly, "I was just afraid you had bad intentions."
Seeing the distinguished guest looking at him with a bewildered expression, wanting to find the answer from him, Zhang Quan did not hold back and told him his guesses in detail.
“I just got three bottles of penicillin last night, and you come here today to ask about penicillin. This is too coincidental and suspicious.”
"I'm afraid you'll follow my lead and end up doing something wrong. That would be troublesome. I'd offend everyone in the industry, and you wouldn't be able to stay in this business anymore. That's the rule in our industry. Those who know, know."
Hearing Zhang Quan's explanation, Su Ying expressed her understanding. Knowing that Zhang Quan really had penicillin, Su Ying was still shocked and even a little incredulous.
Today's trip wasn't in vain. She had already thought it through. Just because she couldn't find it in Shanghai doesn't mean it can't be found elsewhere. Shanghai is a long way from Dongshi, and the journey is still quite far. She can try her luck in other places.
Having already planned her backup plan, Su Ying wasn't under too much pressure. But then came a major twist: Zhang Quan had the penicillin she had been searching for.
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