Qin Ji greeted her with a smile: "Niannian, how are you? Are you settling into Canxing after a few days?"
“Not bad,” Jiang Nian said, looking at Si Boye. “Why are President Huo and President Qin here too?”
Si Boye only said that he would take her out to eat.
It wasn't mentioned that Huo Xiao and Qin Ji would also be there.
Qin Ji said, "What are you saying? The capital is Huo Xiao and my home turf. Since you've come to the capital to study, how could we not treat you to a meal?"
Huo Xiao glanced at Qin Ji: "Are you sure it's the two of us?"
Qin Ji casually put his arm around Huo Xiao's shoulder and puffed out his chest: "Why should we distinguish between you and me? If you're treating, then I'm treating."
Huo Xiao gave a forced smile and pulled Qin Ji's hand down: "Then we still have to split it."
Qin Ji scoffed.
He turned and leaned close to Jiang Nian, loudly plotting something.
"Today we're going to one of Mr. Huo's restaurants. The beef there is the best in the world, and it's ridiculously expensive."
"Eat more later, since we're not spending any money."
“I can hear you.”
Huo Xiao coldly remarked.
The next second, Qin Ji was lifted up by Si Boye.
Danger squinted.
"If you speak so close again, I'll throw you out."
Qin Ji couldn't help but roll his eyes.
Is being half a meter apart considered close?
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On the bus.
There was no driver today, and Qin Ji drove too recklessly, so Huo Xiao drove while Qin Ji sat in the passenger seat.
Si Boye and Jiang Nian sat in the back seats.
Si Boye's fingers twirled the hair of the girl in his arms, his posture languid: "How is Xia Lan doing?"
Last night, Jiang Nian used Si Boye's men to tie Xia Lan up on the rooftop, and then took the terrified Xia Lan back to the dormitory.
Si Boye naturally learned about the matter as well.
"Xia Lan?"
Qin Ji turned around, somewhat surprised. "Xia Changqing's daughter? What, does Nian Nian have a grudge against her?"
“It’s not exactly a grudge,” Jiang Nian said. “She just had someone tamper with my safety rope yesterday, trying to make me fall from the top of the ten-meter-high climbing wall.”
"What?" Qin Ji's eyes widened.
"So last night I had someone tie her up to the rooftop, put the safety rope around her waist, and told her that at midnight we would kick her off the thirteenth floor. Then she fainted from fright."
Qin Ji took a deep breath.
Goodness.
This is what you call not celebrating a holiday?
Jiang Nian is too ruthless. Can Xia's pampered daughter withstand such a shock?
“However, her parents came to the school to see me today,” Jiang Nian said.
Si Boye frowned, his eyes turning cold: "What did they say to you?"
"No, he just praised me a few times and then left, taking Xia Lan with him."
Did you say a few words of praise?
Qin Ji asked incredulously, "What did they praise you for?"
Jiang Nian squinted: "You're praising my eloquence."
"..."
Qin Ji probably imagined how much he would praise her.
Mentioning the Xia family, Qin Ji casually remarked, "But speaking of which, the Xia family's Mingxia Pharmaceuticals has been declining in recent years."
“During the large-scale pneumonia outbreak a few years ago, Mingxia Pharmaceutical made a lot of money by being the first to develop an effective drug. But now, everyone has been infected several times and has developed antibodies, so they don’t take it seriously anymore. Even if they get infected again, the symptoms are similar to those of a common cold.”
"However, almost everyone's health has been affected to some extent, leaving them with lingering health problems. Some people still cough from time to time and are quite weak."
"Therefore, many people are turning their attention to traditional Chinese medicine, hoping to use gentle Chinese herbs to gradually regulate their bodies. Western medicine is too aggressive and too specific; who would take that stuff if they weren't sick?"
"In the past, the public had a lot of prejudice against traditional Chinese medicine and called it pseudoscience, but now they are starting to value it. So there is a promising but untapped market for traditional Chinese medicine in China."
"I heard that Xia Changqing is now eager to transform his career and wants to switch to the traditional Chinese medicine industry, but he can't find a way in, so he has set his sights on Gu Qingcheng, the grandmaster of traditional Chinese medicine in China."
"But Master Gu has long since retired, and now he only sees leaders. It's not like he can just see him whenever he wants. So he's making inquiries everywhere, trying to find out who Master Gu's rumored only disciple is, and he wants to meet him."
"After all, if Mingxia Pharmaceuticals can invite Master Gu's apprentice as a consultant, it will basically be equivalent to leaving other pharmaceutical companies behind from the start and being invincible."
"However, Master Gu's apprentice is also very mysterious. Nobody knows who he is or where he is..."
Qin Ji was speaking eloquently right there.
Huo Xiao suddenly said something.
"Behind you."
Qin Ji was taken aback: "What?"
Huo Xiao glanced at him: "Didn't you ask where Master Gu's apprentice was? He's sitting right behind you."
It took Qin Ji two seconds to react.
It was absolutely shocking.
"...No way."
"Little sister Niannian, you're Master Gu's apprentice?!"
Si Boye leaned back in his chair and looked over as well.
"Do you think autism is something that just anyone who knows traditional Chinese medicine can treat with acupuncture?"
Qin Ji was genuinely shocked.
He knew Jiang Nian was a skilled doctor, but he never expected that Jiang Nian, at such a young age, would be apprenticed to a chief TCM master like Gu Qingcheng.
But then I realized that's the right way to do it.
If Jiang Nian hadn't been apprenticed to a master like Gu Qingcheng, how could she have developed such remarkable medical skills at such a young age?
Qin Ji realized: "So, the Xia family has already offended the person they've been trying so hard to meet and curry favor with?"
How ironic.
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