Chapter 98

Lying in bed, Fang Qiu couldn’t fall asleep but dared not speak .

Likewise,

Jiang Mengjie remained silent, lying on her side . It was pitch black but she gazed at Fang Qiu’s direction .

The pair didn’t sleep .

The night went by slowly .

A quiet night .

An eventless night .

The next morning .

“Awake?”

At daybreak, Fang Qiu saw Jiang Mengjie lying in bed with eyes open .

“Emm… I think my body misses my own bed so I wake up early . ”

Said Jiang Mengjie, nodding her head .

“What about getting up to do some exercise?”

Asked Fang Qiu .

“Sure . ”

Jiang Mengjie nodded with a smile .

The pair got up and left the hotel .

They began jogging on the track by the Central Lake of the university .

“I’m leaving today . ”

Said Jiang Mengjie abruptly .

Fang Qiu was quiet for a while before asking, “What time is your train?”

“It would be time after breakfast . ”

Jiang Mengjie replied .

“I’ll see you off . ”

Said Fang Qiu .

“Of course . Otherwise you would let me, a girl, leaving alone?”

Jiang Mengjie laughed .

After two laps of jogging,

Fang Qiu and Jiang Mengjie stopped . They entered the cafeteria while talking .

After breakfast, it was 7:30 in the morning .

Jiang Mengjie’s ticket was for the 8:30 service .

Fang Qiu took a taxi to the high-speed railway station with Jiang Mengjie .

“Do you hate to part with me?”

After getting her ticket in the high-speed railway station, Jiang Mengjie asked Fang Qiu with a smile .

“You are leaving anyway no matter whether I hate to part with you or not . ”

Fang Qiu laughed .

“Give me a hug . ”

Jiang Mengjie opened her arms and said with a smile, “I’m boarding . ”

Fang Qiu didn’t say anything .

He walked up and hugged Jiang Mengjie .

Jiang Mengjie with a sweet smiled leaned to Fang Qiu’s shoulder and whispered to his left ear, “We’ll see each other soon . ”

After,

She let go her arms and turned around to leave .

In the waiting hall through the glass window, Fang Qiu watched Jiang Mengjie board the train and then turned around to return to school .

“See each other soon?”

Fang Qiu murmured to himself while walking .

He didn’t understand what Jiang Mengjie meant by this .

Would she return after going home?

No way .

The national day holiday would end soon and Jiang Mengjie should go back to school for her classes . She couldn’t come back .

After pondering for a good while,

Fang Qiu still couldn’t figure out . He shook out the thoughts .

Out of the high-speed railway station,

“Dee-dee-dee…”

His mobile suddenly rang in his trouser pocket .

He took out the phone and saw an incoming call from Jiang Miaoyu .

“Hello?”

Fang Qiu answered .

“It’s me . ”

Jiang Miaoyu’s voice came through . “I want to ask when Mengjie will leave . I’d like to see her off . ”

“She’s already left . ”

Answered Fang Qiu .

“ah?”

Jiang Miaoyu was shocked . She asked, “When?”

“Just now . I just watched her board her train . ”

Said Fang Qiu .

“Oh!”

Jiang Miaoyu nodded her understanding . After some hesitation, she asked again, “Didn’t you go back to school last night?”

“No . “

Fang Qiu hesitated but told the truth in the end .

It was silence from the other end .

After a long while,

“I have to study now . ”

Said Jiang Miaoyu before hanging up .

Hanging up .

Lying in bed, Jiang Miaoyu frowned and felt blocked in the pit of the stomach .

Outside the high-speed railway station,

Fang Qiu put on a wry smile .

He knew Jiang Miaoyu had misunderstood .

He didn’t return to school all night .

It sounded too obvious to her .

Jiang Miaoyu knew he escorted Jiang Mengjie back to her hotel .

What kind of place was that?

A hotel!

He didn’t return to school so he must have stayed in the hotel .

With an empty dorm room in school, Fang Qiu wouldn’t have checked in another room in the hotel . If he didn’t get another room, then he must have slept in Jiang Mengjie’s room .

He knew Jiang Miaoyu had misunderstood and he wanted to explain but he realized he couldn’t clear it .

Why was that?

How to explain?

He could explain but would Jiang Miaoyu understand?

Spending a night with a girl alone… How would any girl think about it?

Fang Qiu looked up into the sky and laughed bitterly .

He decided to leave everything behind .

He must deal with the earth treasure first!

He took a taxi back to school with a wry smile .

“The national day holiday will end soon . I must hurry . ”

Back in his dorm, Fang Qiu grabbed his backpack and left again .

Inside his backpack there were a few ganoderma and wild ginsengs .

He planned to sell them to a pharmacy .

People in other places might not know much about it . He had to find a Chinese pharmacy .

Walking out of the school gate, Fang Qiu was busy searching for Chinese pharmacy on his mobile .

Soon,

He found one named Shide Pharmacy with the label “over one hundred years old Chinese medicine store” .

The reviews were rather positive .

And this pharmacy was not far from the university, about several kilometers away .

Fang Qiu walked over instead of taking a cab .

Of course .

At a much faster speed than an average man .

After fifteen minutes,

Fang Qiu reached the pharmacy .

Raising his eyes,

This Chinese medicine store was decorated with aged black wood, giving off an air of great antiquity .

The store had three faces .

The two on the sides were blocked by glass and the one in the middle was wide open under a traditional inscribed board with four golden characters, “Shide Chinese Medicine Shop” .

“Looking good . ”

Fang Qiu thought to himself as he entered the pharmacy .

As soon as he walked in,

All kinds of scents of Chinese medicine flew into his nose . It was not unpleasant .

He saw

The layout and decoration of the shop were very traditional with two waist-high wooden chests in the middle which were divided into several slots that each accommodated one type of medicinal materials that didn’t have any intense smell .

Three tall and wide medicine chests stood separately against three walls, almost covering the walls completely .

To his right,

There was a wooden counter with many bottles and jars .

A man in his 50s was sitting behind the counter, dealing with some medicinal materials .

Next to the counter was a consulting desk .

An old Chinese medicine doctor was sitting by the consulting desk reading a medical book with narrowed eyes .

“Hello . “

At the counter, Fang Qiu asked politely, “May I ask if you are the owner?”

The middle-aged man looked up at Fang Qiu and nodded with a smile . “I’m the owner . How can I help?”

“Your shop can diagnose patients?”

Fang QIu glanced at the old Chinese medicine doctor by the consulting desk with curious eyes .

“You mean him?”

The owner shook his head and continued, “He can’t really examine patients but he takes care of prescriptions because many people come to get medicine with a prescription . We don’t have to check much if the prescription was from a big hospital but we need to be very carefully if it was given by a random Chinese medicine doctor . After all, the medicine comes out of our shop . We need to be responsible for our patients . ”

Fang Qiu nodded with understanding .

He felt reassured .

At least, this shop seemed decent so far .

With a good work style in medical field .

“Do you have a prescription?”

Asked the owner .

“Ah . I’m not here to get medicine . ”

Fang Qiu shook his head and continued to explain, “I have medicine to sell . ”

“Medicine to sell?”

The owner was confused .

Over there, the old Chinese medicine doctor put down the medical book and looked up at Fang Qiu .

“What medicine do you want to sell?”

Asked the owner out of curiosity .

“These . ”

Fang Qiu took out three wild ganoderma lucidum and one wild ginseng from his backpack .

“Hmm?”

Seeing the plants, the owner quickly took them from Fang Qiu’s hand and called, “Li, come and have a look . ”

The old Chinese medicine doctor came over .

The two of them put Fang Qiu’s plants down on the counter and looked at them carefully . From time to time they reached their hands out to flip them around .

“These plants are great . ”

After a long observation, the owner said with a slight nod . Then he looked up at Fang Qiu and asked, “Where did you get such good plants?”

“Picked in the mountains . ”

Answered Fang Qiu .

Hearing that,

The owner shook his head slightly and said, “According to my experience, these wild ganoderma and ginseng are not from some random place . At this age, I don’t think you can make it so deep into the mountains, can you?”

Fang Qiu was puzzled .

How did this have anything to do with selling medicine?”

“Young man . ”

Said the old Chinese medicine doctor, “Your plants are good but our shop can’t take medicine of unidentified origin . ”

Fang Qiu felt helpless .

He had to pack the plants away .

It was a pity for him but the response of this owner and the old Chinese medicine doctor was expected . Fang Qiu would hesitate if they agreed to buy generously .

After all, such wild plants of so good quality were rare .

It made sense that Fang Qiu was suspected for his young age .

For example, these might be stolen .

Or maybe there would be trouble after buying these plants .

A big medicine shop like this hated nothing more than trouble .

Once in trouble, the shop’s reputation would be damaged and nothing could make up for that .

Even if it was of a clear origin, would it be poisonous?

It was hard to tell without an inspection report .

“Sorry for the disturbance . ”

Putting the plants away, Fang Qiu said with a nod, ready to leave .

In the meantime .

A voice came in .

“Ouch… Boss, do you have the same plaster I bought last time left?”

Looking up,

A man in his 40s walked in with his hands on his waist, appearing in great pain .

“What is it? The waist is hurting again?”

Asked the owner hastily .

“Yeah . “

The man burst out . “Get me a few plasters for some relief . I’m afraid I won’t be able to walk long if the pain continues . ”

The man slowly moved towards them as he spoke .

Seeing this man,

Fang Qiu ceased his steps from leaving and gazed at him .

Probably due to the severe pain in his waist, the man didn’t notice Fang Qiu’s eyes on him .

He reached his arm out to the counter as he passed Fang Qiu .

With his eyes locked on him, Fang Qiu suddenly made a shocking move .

It could be seen .

Fang Qiu lifted his right foot and kicked abruptly at the middle-aged man’s waist as he moaned painfully .

“Bang!”

“Ouch!”

A loud scream came right after the kick .

The middle-aged man was sent to the floor by Fang Qiu’s kick .

Seeing this,

The owner’s face changed .

The old Chinese medicine doctor standing next to the owner froze there in shock .

What happened?

Why didn’t he suddenly get physical?

On the floor,

The fallen middle-aged man glared at Fang Qiu with anger and confusion .

“What are you doing?”