Qin Feng and Ge Buqun had signed their nas on the life-and-death pledge, and then, the pledge was handed over to Ouyang Bingbing.
Ouyang Bingbing didn’t rush to sign her na but instead looked at Qin Feng with concern and asked, "Can you do it?"
"How could a man fail? Sign it! It’s okay, I won’t lose. I’ve never lost in my life, and this ti won’t be an exception."
"Be careful, and don’t you dare have an accident! If sothing does happen, see how I’ll deal with you?"
After she finished admonishing Qin Feng, Ouyang Bingbing signed her na on the life-and-death pledge.
From the mont the two walked through the door, Ge Buqun had sensed that the relationship between Ouyang Bingbing and Qin Feng was extraordinary.
Now, seeing Ouyang Bingbing’s evident concern for Qin Feng, he was certain their relationship must be that kind.
Ji Jinpeng was slated to propose to the Ouyang Family on Ouyang Yi’s eightieth birthday, asking for Ouyang Bingbing’s hand in marriage.
anwhile, here was Ouyang Bingbing, showing affection with another man.
The relationships within wealthy families are indeed chaotic enough!
However, this was of no concern to Ge Buqun.
He was just a dicine seller, only interested in making money.
Still, Ge Buqun couldn’t help being a little gossipy and asked Ouyang Bingbing, "What is your relationship with this young man?"
"He’s my boyfriend," Ouyang Bingbing replied straightforwardly.
"Boyfriend?"
Ge Buqun pretended to be very surprised, then turned to look at Qin Feng and asked.
"To beco the lady of the Ouyang Family’s boyfriend, you must co from no ordinary background, right? A boy from an average family could never possibly win the lady of the Ouyang Family’s favor."
"I am just a child from an average family."
"A child from an average family, at such a young age, dares to challenge in a poison duel? I’ve been practising dicine for decades and have seen countless people.
Without learning so ancestral skills, how would you know about the Rejuvenation Pill and the Gentleman Pill? How could you have identified the herbs I used just now?
Traditional Chinese dicine emphasizes lineage!
What is lineage?
Bloodline is lineage!
If you have no bloodline, who would impart the real skills to you?
It’s fine if you don’t reveal your background.
I’m not in a rush to pry.
After all, there’s plenty of ti ahead!"
Having said that, Ge Buqun walked over to the dicine cabinet and began to prepare the dicine.
Qin Feng swept his gaze over the entire row of dicine cabinets.
There were a total of 163 dicinal ingredients, of which sixteen were highly toxic. Ge Buqun selected nine out of these sixteen.
The nine ingredients he chose were not only the most toxic among the sixteen but also exponentially increased in toxicity when combined.
In the end, Ge Buqun added one non-toxic ingredient to the mixture.
With this one ingredient included, Ge Buqun’s concoction wouldn’t kill a person.
However, after drinking this dicine, one’s bones and muscles would contract, and their entire body would shrink to half its size, turning them into a dwarf.
This wouldn’t be an imdiate transformation but would happen gradually over ti, an excruciating process.
For a man, most crucially, that part of the body would start to shrink first and would beco incredibly small, like a bean sprout.
Of course, there was an antidote to this dicine.
After taking the antidote, one could slowly revert back to normal.
Ge Buqun must have been certain that only he could co up with the antidote.
So, he concocted this dicine, wanting to keep himself firmly within his grasp!
The clever Qin Feng saw through Ge Buqun’s intentions at a glance.
Seeing that Ge Buqun had stopped adding ingredients, Qin Feng asked with a chuckle, "Doctor Ge, are you done?"
"Yes, I’m done."
"The dicine you’ve prepared doesn’t seem quite legitimate, does it?"
Ge Buqun felt Qin Feng must have noticed sothing, so he asked teasingly, "What do you an by not legitimate?"
The dicine he had just prepared wasn’t based on so rare secret recipe, but on a well-known prescription called Dwarf Soup.
However, he had modified Dwarf Soup slightly, making the small parts beco even smaller, as tiny as an embroidery needle.
This modification was tailor-made for Qin Feng.
"This is Dwarf Soup, isn’t it? Or rather, a modified version of Dwarf Soup!
The extra two grams of lovesickness seeds you added were specifically for , right?
With such a modification, do you want to use an embroidery needle to pick your family’s lock?"
Since Ouyang Bingbing was there, Qin Feng didn’t feel it was appropriate to speak too bluntly and could only hint at it like this.
Ouyang Bingbing, feeling completely baffled, looked at Qin Feng curiously and asked, "What’s Dwarf Soup? What’s an embroidery needle?"
"Dwarf Soup is an ancient prescription that slowly shrinks a person after drinking it. A good Dwarf Soup can reduce a person’s size by half."
"And the embroidery needle?"
"Er... Since the body shrinks, naturally other parts would shrink as well!
Doctor Ge specifically added two grams of lovesickness seeds, which can cause the shrinking to be even more pronounced, by over a hundredfold.
In such a case, wouldn’t it turn into an embroidery needle?"
After Qin Feng finished speaking, Ouyang Bingbing instinctively glanced over.
Then, blushing, she scolded Qin Feng, "You shaless thing!"
"The Dwarf Soup was made by Doctor Ge; if anyone’s shaless, it’s him! What does that have to do with ?"
Ge Buqun took over the conversation, saying, "Many people know the recipe for Dwarf Soup. But, there are very few who know the antidote to the poison of Dwarf Soup.
My recipe has so variations from the original Dwarf Soup. It’s not difficult to spot the changes, but to find a solution to these changes, that’s definitely beyond you.
So, it’s not too late for you to admit defeat now.
Turning into a dwarf isn’t such a big deal, but for a grown man to be using an embroidery needle when it matters most—that’s not going to work!"
"You’re asking to admit defeat? If I admit defeat, can I just go ho?" Qin Feng asked.
"If you lose, then you have to pay the price. If you admit defeat, you don’t have to drink the Dwarf Soup, but you must stay and beco my apprentice to test my dicines."
"Test your dicines? Wouldn’t that be like being your lab rat? I’d rather drink the Dwarf Soup and beco a dwarf than do that!"
"If you won’t admit defeat, then please go ahead," Ge Buqun gestured toward the dicine cabinet, indicating that it was Qin Feng’s turn to prepare his dicine.
Qin Feng casually opened a few drawers and randomly selected several herbs.
These herbs were not only non-toxic but also quite nourishing; they could even be used to stew a nourishing chicken soup.
Qin Feng neatly packed up the selected herbs and handed them to Ge Buqun, saying, "Done!"
"You’re choosing just these? Don’t you want to add sothing else?"
"Right! Just these!"
"Will you boil it yourself, or shall I help you boil it?"
"This is your turf, you help boil it! After all, this dicine will be drunk by you!
The dicine I’ve prepared, just as soon as you drink it, within three minutes at most, you’ll be begging for rcy and admitting defeat."
Qin Feng’s confidence amused Ge Buqun.
"Ha ha! With this dicine, you expect to admit defeat? I guarantee that after drinking it, nothing will happen!"
Reviews
All reviews (0)