However, the customers buying medicine in the shop couldn't help but be attracted by the two's good looks and kept looking at them.
"Wow, that little boy is so handsome! He'll definitely be a heartthrob when he grows up!"
"That little girl is so cute and pretty, with big, round eyes like grapes! Today is another day I'm being tricked into having a daughter!"
"Are they siblings? I'm so curious how good-looking their parents must be!"
"I dare not think about it, I absolutely dare not think about it."
Qiqi has keen senses. When she heard someone praising her, she gave the girl who praised her a shy smile, feeling a little embarrassed.
The girl laughed so hard she felt like she'd been struck in the chest, clutching her heart and screaming silently.
"Ahhh, she looked at me! She's so cute and adorable! What should I do if I want to steal her home?!"
What?
He wanted to steal his sister!
Ji Jingchi's face instantly turned cold, and his sharp gaze swept over them from behind his glasses.
The young woman froze on the spot, feeling a chill run down her spine.
How terrifying, the look in that little boy's eyes.
She gave an awkward laugh. "Just kidding, I was just saying!"
Ji Jingchi: I can't even say it!
No, you're not even allowed to think about it!
With a cold face, Ji Jingchi carried Qiqi through the crowd and arrived at the counter.
Behind the counter, the clerk was engrossed in his phone, not even glancing at them.
Seeing the waiter's indifferent attitude, Ji Jingchi frowned.
Seeing that her younger sister was looking around curiously and wasn't upset about being ignored, she kept quiet.
When Huo Fei pushed Huo Yusen in, the little girl was still happily looking around, while the shop assistant was playing on his phone behind the counter, not even giving him a glance. Huo Fei's face immediately turned cold.
She turned her head and gave Huo Fei a look. Huo Fei nodded and immediately stepped forward to place a token-like object on the counter.
Upon seeing the token, the clerk behind the counter's expression changed drastically, and he quickly put down his phone and stood up respectfully.
Just as he was about to speak, Huo Fei gave him a cold look.
The shop assistant flinched, and the words that were about to come out became, "Sir, what kind of medicine do you need?"
Huo Fei turned his head and looked at Qi Qi respectfully, "Miss Qi Qi, what medicine do you want to buy?"
"Oh, oh." Qiqi snapped out of her reverie and flashed a sweet smile at the shop assistant behind the counter. "Hello, brother, I'd like to buy angelica, chuanxiong, peony, and ginseng..."
Qiqi rattled off a string of medicine names.
The waiter was taken aback at first, then his eyes slowly widened.
He looked at the little girl in his arms in disbelief. This little girl, who was not even as tall as their shop counter, actually knew so many medicine names.
Moreover, these medicinal herbs sound like they're for treating heart disease. And judging from their seemingly girl-centric demeanor, could this girl's teacher be an exceptionally skilled healer?!
Lost in thought, the waiter heard the girl's last words, "...Give me twenty catties of all those medicinal herbs you mentioned earlier. Oh, and the ginseng must be thousand-year-old ginseng, the age can't be wrong."
"Pfft!" The waiter couldn't help but burst out laughing.
It seems he was overthinking it. What abilities could a little girl who looks three or four years old possibly have to be chosen as an apprentice by a renowned physician?
Listen to this foolish and ignorant talk. They treat thousand-year-old ginseng like cabbage, spouting nonsense without thinking.
Qiqi blinked her big, dark eyes at him, not understanding why he was laughing. "What's wrong? Brother, what are you laughing at?"
"Little friend, who taught you to take these medicines?" For the sake of the token, the shopkeeper straightened his expression and did not show any disdain or contempt. "Thousand-year-old ginseng, do you think life is like cabbage in your field, where you can just pluck a big one!"
Qiqi could hear the sarcasm in his tone, and she frowned, looking somewhat unhappy.
"Your store is so big, you don't even have thousand-year-old ginseng?" She pursed her lips. "Then you must have eight-hundred-year-old ginseng, right?"
Ginseng is the main ingredient in the prescription; if it is not aged long enough, it will affect the efficacy.
"No!" the shopkeeper shook his head impatiently. "Besides, who's a good person who buys medicinal herbs by the 20-pound mark? You don't even feed pigs like that."
Qiqi was furious at his attitude, her little body trembling with anger.
Ji Jingchi's face turned ashen. Just as he was about to speak up in defense of his younger sister, a figure stepped ahead of him, wheeling a wheelchair to the counter.
"Huo Fei!" The little boy's aura was extremely low, and the coldness in his dark eyes was enough to freeze everything around him.
Upon meeting his gaze, the waiter almost collapsed to his knees.
"yes!"
The bodyguard slid over the counter in a leap, grabbed the shop assistant by the collar, and threw him off the counter with a back throw.
The guy crashed heavily to the ground, his face contorted in pain.
Huo Fei made another impressive move, flipping out from behind the counter and stepping on the other person's chest.
The man screamed in pain and reached out to push his foot away.
But the foot seemed welded to his chest; he couldn't move it at all.
"We really don't have any thousand-year-old ginseng in our shop, we really don't."
Where can I find it?
The shop assistant shook his head. "I...I don't know either. Maybe...maybe Jishantang has some. But...it's unlikely to be a thousand years old. Maybe a few hundred years old."
Upon hearing this, Huo Fei subconsciously looked up at Qi Qi, asking for her opinion.
But then he saw the little girl looking at him with bright, sparkling eyes, full of eager anticipation.
It was as if they couldn't wait to rush over and fight him!
Thinking about how he had lost an arm wrestling match to a little girl before, Huo Fei felt a chill run down his spine for no apparent reason.
"Little sister?" Noticing that the little girl didn't react, Ji Jingchi lowered his head and called out.
Qiqi snapped out of her daze and reluctantly looked away. Uncle Huo Fei's hand gesture was so beautiful! She definitely had to find a chance to fight him.
"Let it be a few hundred years old then. I'll adjust the prescription later and add a few other herbs."
It's normal that this era lacks the spiritual energy to nurture ginseng that lasts a thousand years.
It was better a thousand years ago. The spiritual energy was abundant, and thousand-year-old ginseng was as common as cabbage.
Qiqi looked at the shop assistant, "Brother, do you have enough of the other medicinal herbs?"
"Enough, enough," the waiter nodded quickly.
Huo Fei moved his foot away, and after a moment, the shop assistant quickly got up from the ground and began to prepare the medicine according to the names of the medicines that Qi Qi had given him.
He carefully packed it up, then respectfully handed it over with trembling hands, saying, "Young lady, here's the medicine you wanted!"
Qiqi reached out to take it, but Huo Fei reached out first and took the several large bags of medicinal herbs from her.
Ji Jingchi's icy gaze swept over the other man, the chill in his eyes making the waiter's legs go weak and he almost lost his balance.
"Apologize!" The boy adjusted his glasses with one hand.
The waiter trembled and quickly lowered his head. "I'm sorry, young lady. I was rude and said the wrong thing. I apologize!"
Qiqi looked at Ji Jingchi, who stood up for her: Wow, Second Brother is so handsome!
Suddenly I'm not afraid of my handsome second brother anymore!
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