"It's nothing. I just want to know how Vice President Su managed to achieve 95% purity. I've done no less than a hundred experiments, but the highest purity I can achieve is 90%."
"You're still not satisfied with 90%?"
Old Fang roared angrily.
It wasn't that he was angry; it was that in the past, even the old men in their Traditional Chinese Medicine Association could only produce pills with a purity of up to 85%.
Even 85% is a matter of probability; you might succeed once in ten tries.
Since his apprentice Suya pointed out that there was a problem with their method of refining pills, they have been able to refine pills with 90% purity.
"Don't interrupt. I'm asking Vice President Su, not you."
Before Old Fang could say anything more, Su Ya stopped him.
"I wonder what Elder Xiang used to refine these pills, and what kind of pills they were made of?"
"What I'm refining now is the same product you submitted to the association last time; it's similar to a health supplement."
Old Xiang answered quickly, afraid that Su Ya might change her mind at any moment.
"What kind of tools were used to refine it?"
"Of course, I'll use my family's ancestral medicine furnace. To be honest, this medicine furnace has been passed down since the time of my great-grandfather, and it has a history of five hundred years."
"Could you let me take a look at this medicine cauldron, Elder Xiang?"
"But you can't see it here, you have to go to my office to see it."
"Please lead the way, Elder Xiang."
Su Ya also wanted to see what kind of alchemy furnace Elder Xiang was using.
Logically speaking, with a history of 500 years, it's no ordinary medicine furnace.
Making a regular pill with 90% purity wouldn't be a big problem even without using the method Suya gave.
After all, Su Ya used to use a rice cooker to refine medicine.
Su Ya followed Mr. Xiang to his office.
Then, after Su Ya came in, Xiang Lao closed the door.
This is his family heirloom, and it cannot be seen by outsiders.
Those people didn't have the key to Mr. Xiang's office, so they could only stare helplessly outside the door. Why didn't they think of that?
Old Xiang opened the safe in his office and took out a medicine furnace, which looked a size larger than Su Ya's.
Old Master Xiang carefully placed the medicine stove on the table.
"Old Xiang, may I pick it up?"
"Okay, then be careful."
After Su Ya picked up the medicine furnace and examined it, she discovered a problem: the copper content of the furnace was clearly insufficient.
If the copper content were sufficient, the color would not appear this way.
It's important to know that there are regulations governing medicine furnaces, specifying what materials are used for what purposes, and these requirements apply.
The medicine cauldron that Elder Xiang used appeared to be made of bronze, but it was noticeably lighter than bronze.
So Suya tossed the medicine furnace into the air.
He caught it with his hands again.
Seeing this, Old Xiang felt a pang of heartache. This was a family heirloom, and it would be terrible if it were bumped or damaged.
Fortunately, Vice President Su caught it.
Old Xiang let out a long sigh.
As I get older, I can't handle being startled.
After Su Ya finished throwing the medicine furnace, she put it on the table.
Then I just kept looking at Old Xiang.
She tried to find a way to tell Xiang Lao the truth that he could accept, so that he wouldn't faint from the shock.
Old Xiang felt a chill run down his spine as Su Ya stared at him, sensing that nothing good was going to happen.
"Vice President Su, just say what you need to say, don't keep staring at me."
Finally, Elder Xiang couldn't help but speak up.
"Mr. Xiang, I wonder if any of your children are in this Traditional Chinese Medicine Association?"
"No, neither of my children likes traditional Chinese medicine. They never touch it. They don't even know it exists."
Old Xiang said somewhat unhappily, "Actually, in their line of work, it has always been passed down from father to son. Unfortunately, none of his children like traditional Chinese medicine, so he can only pass on his life's medical knowledge to his apprentice. Fortunately, his apprentice is now considered half a son to him."
Although he was somewhat foolish, it was not enough to leave no descendants for his medical skills.
"And what about your apprentice? Does he know you have this ancestral medicine furnace?"
“I know, but he only came into contact with it a few times. I also didn’t tell him about the origin of this medicine furnace.”
"May I ask Elder Xiang to bring your apprentice in?"
"Vice President Su, is there a problem?"
"Let's call your apprentice in first."
Old Xiang had no choice but to open the door and call out to Bean Sprout.
Soon a slightly overweight man with an honest and simple appearance walked in.
He closed the door and asked, "Master, did you call me?"
"Bean Sprout, it's not me calling you, it's Vice President Su who needs to talk to you."
"Vice President Su, what brings you here?"
"Bean Sprout, do you have any other nicknames?"
Suya felt that calling someone by their nickname was somewhat inappropriate.
"It's okay, just call me Bean Sprout. I used to be very thin, as thin as a bean sprout, so everyone called me that. Later, after I followed my master, life got better, and I gained weight. But everyone is used to calling me that, and I'm used to it, so I won't change it."
"Bean Sprout explained."
"It's like this, do you know that your master has a medicine furnace?"
"Yes, I know. I've had contact with them a few times."
"Besides you and your master, who else in the Chinese Medicine Association do you know who has come into contact with this medicine furnace?"
Bean Sprout thought carefully and then said, "There shouldn't be anyone else. Master usually treasures this furnace. It's not used for refining ordinary pills. Even I've only been in contact with it a few times."
"Old Xiang, Bean Sprout, I have something I want to tell you."
"you say."
Bean Sprout wasn't too nervous, but Old Man Xiang was a bit anxious. Could something have gone wrong with his family heirloom?
"Mr. Xiang, calm yourself down first. Take a few deep breaths."
As soon as Su Ya mentioned it, Elder Xiang knew. It seems there really is a problem with this medicine furnace, but we don't know what the problem is.
"Tell me, I'm old enough to have seen all sorts of storms."
Su Ya saw that Xiang Lao's mood had improved a lot.
Then he spoke up, saying, "Elder Xiang, your current medicine furnace is fake. If your previous medicine furnace was real, then it was switched with another one."
“It’s impossible that it was switched. I always keep this medicine burner with me. I put it in the safe when I come here and take it back to the safe at home when I go home. It has never left my sight. Moreover, the character for incense is engraved on the inside of my medicine burner.”
Su Ya put her hand into the medicine furnace and indeed felt words inside.
She then opened her backpack, took something out, squeezed it, put it back into the medicine furnace, found the character, and pressed it down hard.
After a while, he took it out again and handed it to Old Xiang, asking, "Is this the 'fragrance' you're referring to?"
Old Xiang took it and examined it carefully, then said, "No, that's not how it is. The character '香' in my family's name has the bottom horizontal stroke not closed, but this character '香' is clearly closed."
"Do you have any photos or comparisons, Mr. Xiang?"
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