"The old man is delirious, and you're going crazy too? That other one has been spoiled rotten in the countryside for ages, and you're going to fawn over a useless person like that?"
In Pharmacist Xie's view, Xie Ziyuan is so outstanding that she will sooner or later inherit the Xie family's traditional Chinese medicine tradition and Huichuntang.
Only Xie Ziyuan deserves to be fawned over. A good-for-nothing from the countryside, rushing to curry favor with her, what about the face and dignity of an alchemist?
Pharmacist Chen replied calmly, "You don't need to trouble yourself with that."
When he first met Xie Li, he probably thought the same thing: why get angry?
After showing off his power and being very proud, Xie, seeing the medicinal herbs in Wu Jiang's hand, gave his assistant a look, and the assistant stepped forward and snatched all the medicinal herbs from Wu Jiang's hand.
Wu Jiang immediately exploded: "We got these medicinal herbs first! Can't you have any shame? You actually stole them!"
"I don't like hearing that. What do you mean by 'stealing'? Isn't the rule here that whoever has the most merit points gets priority in choosing medicinal herbs?" Pharmacist Xie's assistant sneered. "Do you know that with the young lady's help, our Pharmacist Xie has 800 merit points this month!"
The rules at the TCM base do indeed allow for the exchange of medicinal resources based on merit points.
Only alchemists who make greater contributions are qualified to receive more resources.
800 monthly merit points is indeed very high. Pharmacist Chen used to get 500 points, and Pharmacist Xie got even less, usually only 300 points.
No wonder they dared to openly steal the medicinal herbs today.
Wu Jiang couldn't help but ask, "So what if you have 800 merit points? Do you even know how many merit points our Pharmacist Chen has this month?"
"Wu Jiang!" Pharmacist Chen whispered, "Stop talking. Let them have those medicinal herbs."
Wu Jiang pursed his lips and remained silent.
Pharmacist Xie interpreted this as Pharmacist Chen being guilty; he was shouting loudly, but what good was it? At the TCM base, it was always about ability that mattered.
Wu Jiang turned around and quickly protected another pile of medicinal herbs: "These are the herbs that our Pharmacist Chen needs to treat the old man..."
As it turned out, he was quick to protect it, and Pharmacist Xie's assistant was just as quick to grab it, saying, "This is exactly what our Pharmacist Xie needs!"
Wu Jiang was furious: "The old man is the head of the Xie family! You're trying to steal the medicine meant to treat his illness?"
"Your Pharmacist Chen has been treating the old man for over half a year, and there's been no improvement whatsoever. How dare you say that?" the other person scoffed. "If you ask me, either Pharmacist Chen isn't as skilled as the rumors suggest, and is just a fame-seeker; or he's an outsider, and he's not truly on our side!"
For a mere assistant, these words are already extremely offensive.
Normally, not to mention the assistant, even Xie, who was jealous of Chen, wouldn't dare to speak to Chen like that.
Seeing this, the herb manager at the TCM base shook his head and sighed inwardly. Sure enough, fortunes change. The more glorious Chen the pharmacist was in the past, the more pathetic he is now.
Because of his high talent and the favor he received from Old Master Xie, Pharmacist Chen held a very high position in the Xie family, even though he wasn't a member of the family.
But now that Old Master Xie is seriously ill and has initiated the selection of the Xie family's heir, it is clear that he is planning to make arrangements for his passing.
While the other children were still in a daze, barely understanding what traditional Chinese medicine or ancient medicine was, Xie Ziyuan had already left them far behind and was striving to become an intermediate-level alchemist.
Xie Ziyuan is undoubtedly the heir to the Xie family, the successor of the Xie family's traditional Chinese medicine practice, and the owner of Huichuntang.
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