Chapter 2165: Chapter 2020: Melodrama (Part 4)

Song Xiaodong was covered in soot, coughing incessantly, staring blankly at the glowing black residue in the pill furnace.

Black smoke was still billowing out of the Alchemy Room.

"I was wondering why the fire alarm didn’t go off?" Qingqing and Xuanxuan came downstairs, looking at the now-silent alarm system on the ceiling of the hallway and asked towards the Alchemy Room.

"I turned it off." Song Xiaodong answered.

"It’s really dangerous to turn it off!" Qingqing said to Song Xiaodong.

"Wow, why don’t you buy a range hood or maybe a gas mask, this is terrifying. Did ancient people make elixirs like this? You’re clearly making chemical weapons!" Xuanxuan said.

Song Xiaodong, playing mysterious, said to Xuanxuan, "Alchemy focuses on controlling the fire, and fire control is about controlling the speed of charcoal burning, which is also controlling the wind. Installing a range hood would mess up the Feng Shui in this room, affecting my control of the wind."

"Nonsense, let me see what you’ve made." Xuanxuan was about to walk into the Alchemy Chamber.

"Don’t look, it’s not good for the baby." Song Xiaodong smiled and blocked Xuanxuan from looking.

"Don’t scare me!" Xuanxuan pushed Song Xiaodong aside, walked up to the Pill Furnace, and peeked in.

The pill furnace was still smoking, Xuanxuan covered her nose and waved her sleeve, scattering the smoke, revealing some deeply black pills inside.

"Hahaha! Sis, look! Xiaodong has made some great stuff!"

Qingqing also walked in, looked at the elixirs in the pill furnace, and burst into laughter too.

"Failure is the mother of success. Edison relied on such perseverance to bring electric light to humanity." Song Xiaodong said confidently.

"Stop contributing to the country’s smog problem." Qingqing mocked.

"Where did it go wrong?" Song Xiaodong scratched his head.

Just then, a Family Guard from the Su Family came in to report, "Family Head, someone outside says they want to see you." With that, he brought over a tablet showing the Su Family Courtyard’s gate monitor.

Song Xiaodong saw it was Wang Xuezhong’s wife and children.

"I won’t see them." Song Xiaodong waved his hand.

"Who is it?" Qingqing lazily asked Song Xiaodong.

"The patient’s family." Song Xiaodong replied.

"What happened, treated a patient poorly and now they’re here to cause trouble?" Qingqing asked.

"Obviously they’ve heard of my high medical skills as Song Shenzhen and came specifically to request my help." Song Xiaodong said proudly.

"They’re asking and you won’t go? And you won’t see them, acting high and mighty." Xuanxuan said.

"I originally planned to treat them, but they didn’t cherish the opportunity. Now it’s too late to ask." Song Xiaodong said.

"Still holding a grudge!" Qingqing said to Song Xiaodong.

"What grudge, I went to treat them, but they didn’t believe in Traditional Chinese Medicine doctors and wouldn’t let me treat them. What could I do? Now they want to find me? Can anyone just ask for me?" Song Xiaodong raised an eyebrow.

"Whatever, let’s go, sis, let’s play another game."

Qingqing and Xuanxuan went off to play games again.

After layers of notifications, the two Family Guards at the courtyard gate said to Wang Xingye, "Sorry, the Family Head is busy now and can’t see guests."

Wang Xingye and the others exchanged glances, then Wang Xingye cautiously spoke to one of the Family Guards, "Could you please report again, we have a family member with a heart attack in the ICU critical care unit, and it looks like they won’t make it. We want to ask Mr. Song to see my father. It was our mistake before, we unintentionally offended Mr. Song, and we are here today to apologize and ask Mr. Song to forgive our faults and save my father’s life!"

Song Xiaodong continued his alchemy, the fire was at a crucial point, and the pill furnace was already emitting a fragrant aroma, until suddenly another Family Guard came to the Alchemy Room door, knocking, which distracted Song Xiaodong, the fire got too big, and the bottom of the pill furnace turned red-hot, emitting another burst of black smoke.

Chapter 2023: The Wicked

"Ugh! Seriously, it’s like a toad crawling on the top of your foot, it doesn’t bite but it’s annoying!" Song Xiaodong tossed aside the large bamboo fan in annoyance, sitting grumpily on the meditation mat and looking at the Family Guard.

The Family Guard, seeing that Song Xiaodong was angry, quickly adopted a cautious expression and quietly reported to Song Xiaodong, "The person outside said there’s a patient in their family with a heart attack and they are in critical condition, they want the Family Head to see them."

"Nonsense, they say they’re dying but one bottle of my medicine will keep him alive for at least half a month, they’re not dying, not a single truthful word." Song Xiaodong said angrily.

"Family Head, should I just chase them away?" the Family Guard tentatively asked Song Xiaodong.

"No, they’re not here causing trouble, why chase them? Just tell them their old man has a heart condition, acupuncture can’t treat it, they should seek help elsewhere!"

The Family Guard then relayed the message back.

At the entrance to the Su Family Courtyard, the Family Guard who received the message said to Wang Xingye, "We’re truly sorry, our Family Head said your elder’s illness is heart disease, acupuncture can’t treat it, you should look for a Western Medicine Doctor instead!"

"This..."

Wang Xingye sighed heavily in frustration.

They had brought it upon themselves, more to blame than anyone else.

A group of people left with their heads down.

Song Xiaodong continued alchemy, seeing the herbs from Boss Feng of the Land of Fish and Rice were nearly used up and he had yet to successfully refine a single elixir.

Previously going to Lop Nur, he ended up giving away a bottle of elixir, a loss.

Frantic, Yu Xiulin went directly to find He Wenbai, crying all the way, and knelt down outside the hotel room where He Wenbai was staying, knocking on the door.

When He Wenbai opened the door, Yu Xiulin clung to He Wenbai’s leg, snot and tears streaming, and said to He Wenbai, "Doctor He, please look at our Old Wang, this old woman is begging you, I’ve knelt down for you!"

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