Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times-Chapter 212 - 123 Crushing the Pioneers on the Beach_2
Chapter 212: Chapter 123: Crushing the Pioneers on the Beach_2
Chapter 212: Chapter 123: Crushing the Pioneers on the Beach_2
“You!” Hu Tiandong, who was supporting his father, began to retort upon hearing the boasts, but was swiftly pulled back by Hu Yihai.
“What about me? Do you see who is beside me? It’s your own uncle, Hu Bingzhi, Imperial Doctor Hu! Even Elder Yhan has praised him, saying ‘every generation has its talents.’ What more do you have to say?” Jiao Fangyi gloated triumphantly, pointing at Hu Bingzhi with the smug expression of a petty man.
Such words left everyone from the Liuzhou Medical Guild gnashing their teeth in anger, yet they were rendered speechless.
“Does Chief Jiao not know the next line to ‘every generation has its talents’?” Gu Changsheng yawned as he stepped out the door, cradling five medicine jars.
“Each dominated their era for hundreds of years!” Jiao Fangyi snorted disdainfully, looking down on Gu Changsheng, as if he were nothing more than a mouthy kid.
“Indeed, but sorry, I, Gu Changsheng, don’t even want to give you the chance to dominate for a century!” Gu Changsheng glanced at Elder Yhan, who was still being helped by an attendant, and smirked, “In my eyes, the next line to ‘every generation has its talents” is ‘the new waves of the Yangtze River drive on those ahead, one generation stronger than the last.’ Do you believe I can crush your rising wave on the shores right now?”
Upon hearing this, the Taizhou Medical Guild and pharmacists burst into a wave of laughter.
“Ridiculous! Gu Changsheng, all talk and no action, aren’t you afraid of biting your tongue?” Before Jiao Fangyi could respond, Hu Bingzhi scoffed derisively.
Accomplishing Superior Medicine Refiner status was always a matter of chance, and Hu Bingzhi had not been confident about succeeding in advancing his rank in this competition. However, fortune had favored him, and he succeeded! Thus, he was filled with pride and could not tolerate Gu Changsheng’s blatant provocation.
“Imperial Doctor Hu, whether I’m merely talking big will be proven by facts soon enough. I just wonder if your heart is strong enough to face this bleak life of yours,” Gu Changsheng said, while instructing Xiao Cui, who waited by the door, “Xiao Cui, hurry and fetch the emergency heart-saving pills I developed, just in case we have a casualty. That wouldn’t be good at all.”
The crowd erupted into laughter again, while Xiao Cui obediently bowed and went to fetch the medicine.
“Look at her, acting as if it’s all real,” Jiao Fangyi laughed so hard he could barely catch his breath.
“Arrogant brat, truly has no filter!” Hu Bingzhi also laughed mockingly, turning his back with a semblance of dignity, choosing not to stoop to Gu Changsheng’s level.
“Ha ha… truly laughable. I’ve spent half my life in medicine and never have I met someone so rude to a Superior Medicine Refiner. It’s true what they say: youthful ignorance is fearless…”
“Exactly, exactly!”
“…”
Amidst the growing laughter, Elder Yhan slowly stepped forward, helped by an attendant, “Since the lady has prepared the medicine, let us proceed to the display platform!”
Gu Changsheng nodded noncommittally and followed Elder Yhan.
Leaving behind those who had just been mocking, now exchanging confused glances.
“What is Elder Yhan doing? A Superior Medicine Refiner has already emerged, yet he still proceeds so formally…”
“Yes, could it be…”
“What could it be, just hurry up and follow them and see!”
Elder Yhan of the Bozhou Medicine Merchants Association was no mere reputed figure; countless had sought an audience with him unsuccessfully. He was a distinguished Master of Medicinal Refining and a respected drug authentication expert. His seriousness made the pharmacists anxious, and they hurried after him.
“Old fool!” Jiao Fangyi spat disdainfully towards Elder Yhan’s direction.
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Hu Bingzhi was displeased by his conduct but, sharing the same stance, said nothing and led the way for the others to follow.
At the display platform, Gu Changsheng, still yawning, approached with five small medicine jars.
“From five big baskets, only these five little jars of Panax Pseudoginseng, tsk tsk…”
“The value of medicine lies in its quality, not quantity. Chief Jiao has surely heard this saying, right?” Gu Changsheng yawned, raised an eyebrow at Jiao Fangyi, then turned to the pharmacists, “The drug-authenticating pharmacists, please come forward.”
As her voice fell, indeed several pharmacists responsible for drug authentication advanced. In matters of drug authentication, pharmacists far surpassed doctors.
Gu Changsheng stood on the platform, glanced at the bustling crowd below, and slowly opened the first medicine jar.
In an instant, the rich aroma of Panax Pseudoginseng wafted from the jar.
“What a strong medicinal fragrance!” A pharmacist below took a deep breath, eyes widening, unable to help but speak out.
The drug-authenticating pharmacists rushed forward, surrounding the small medicine jar.
“Superior!”
It was one of the drug-authenticating pharmacists who hesitantly uttered this pronouncement.
A moment of disbelief was followed by an uproar from the crowd below; Jiao Fangyi and Hu Yihai’s faces instantly turned pitch black.
Superior! It was indeed superior!
Lady Changsheng! Truly a sight to behold!
The crowd looked towards Gu Changsheng with unprecedented eagerness, their eyes blazing with a heat that seemed to pull her in right there and then. She yawned nonchalantly, “It’s just some substandard products, brought out merely for everyone’s amusement.”
At her words, everyone was dumbfounded!
Superior! Substandard superior products! Equaling superior to substandard products!
It wasn’t that their knowledge was flawed, or their ears were faulty, or that Changsheng’s Mother’s knowledge was confused!
After all, ‘superior’ and ‘substandard’ are concepts that are worlds apart; they cannot be compared, much less deemed equivalent!
“Since I intend to crush Imperial Doctor Hu, who has produced superior medicinal materials, on the beach, how could I use superior to suppress superior?” Gu Changsheng’s lips curled into a sinister smirk as she reached for the second small medicine jar.
