Physician Lin walked out from his inner room and saw Ouyang Yan and two people he did not know waiting.
“Physician Lin, let me introduce to you, this is Lord Li Renjie Li, the Young Secretary of the Da Lisi Temple.” Ouyang Yan introduced.
There was another young man, silently following behind this Lord Li, apparently a subordinate, who did not need to be introduced by Ouyang Yan.
“Lord Li is courteous.”
“Physician Lin is courteous.” Li Renjie smiled and returned the salute. This Lord Li did not have the arrogance of a person who was an official at all.
“Physician Lin, I heard that someone in your academy fell down with white foam at the mouth, and I feel that it is related to a serious case that I am currently investigating. Therefore, I have come to take some evidence.” Li Renjie said.
“This ——” Physician Lin’s gaze looked towards Ouyang Yan.
Ouyang Yan nodded his head.
“I have examined this student carefully and found that this is not a disease attack, but due to a medicine,” Dr. Lin pulled out a small blue pill bottle, “I found this on the ground just now, the pill bottle is already empty, but the smell of it suggests that this medicine is causing this student’s strange symptoms. ”
As he said that, Dr. Lin handed this medicine bottle to Li Renjie.
Li Renjie took it, but then handed it to the young man following behind him, “Little Yang, take a look.”
“Yang Bai, the disciple of Song Ci, the old coroner of the Da Lisi, is also very knowledgeable about medicine.” Li Renjie said to Ouyang Yan and Physician Lin.
Yang Bai opened the medicine bottle, put it under his nose, closed his eyes and sniffed, “Dan Sha, Xiong Huang, Zeng Qing ——”
“Your Excellency, it’s Longevity San, but it’s the weaker kind of Longevity San that has been circulating in the market in recent days.” Yang Bai said.
“Lord Li, dare I ask what is Longevity San?” Ouyang Yan asked.
Li Renjie took the medicine bottle and said, “In recent days, a new substance has become popular among the gentry in God’s Capital City, and it is this medicine called ‘Longevity San’. If you take a small amount of this medicine, it will benefit your body. I don’t know if you can live a long life, but you won’t live a short one.”
“If taken in large quantities, it will make you feel like you are in immortality. There are very few people who are not addicted to such a taste, so the more they take it, the more they crave it, until eventually, this Longevity Pill becomes their Life-Saving Pill. A few days ago, the young master of the Xu family, Xu Mingfeng, died at home after taking too much Longevity Pill.”
“This is outrageous,” said Ouyang Yan, his face flushed with anger, his true qi rushing out unconsciously, his hair rising, “how dare someone develop such a scourge to the country and the people?
Ouyang Yan is a great scholar of the world, he knows very well how much trouble this little Longevity San will cause, “Lord Li, if this Longevity San is so harmful, why hasn’t this scourge been eliminated so far?”
“Mr. Ouyang, don’t be angry,” Li Renjie said with a bitter smile, “I have never wanted to put an end to this scourge. But this Longevity Pill is so expensive that only the children of powerful and wealthy families can afford it, and there are so many powerful and wealthy children in the Divine Capital that one hair will move the whole body.”
“Moreover, the traffickers of this Longevity San are building their trading channels in a kind of spider’s web, expanding rapidly from the inside out. The upper line develops the lower line, and the more you develop, the more benefits you get. Extremely difficult to get at!”
“The problem of the powerful and noble children will be solved by the Mountain River Academy, I believe His Majesty will give me the face of the Mountain River Academy.” Ouyang Yan said flatly.
“Lord Li, I only hope that you can catch the culprit before this endlessly poisonous Longevity San spreads to the common people. Break the source of this Longevity San.”
Li Renjie smiled readily and said, “If I can ask His Majesty to look into this matter, Li Renjie will definitely put an end to this scourge.”
“It is a promise!”
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Li Renjie and Yang Bai walked out of the Shanhe Academy.
Yang Bai was delighted, “Your Excellency, with the Shanhe Academy coming forward this time, His Majesty will definitely decree a thorough investigation into the Longevity San, and those powerful sons and daughters will no longer be able to stop us.”
“Your Excellency ——”
Li Renjie did not respond for a long time, Yang Bai looked at him, but saw that his face was not happy, but instead he had a hidden look of worry.
“Little Yang, recently, on the market, there are many more inferior longevity pills, and quality ones are becoming rarer and rarer instead. Do you think that the developer of this Longevity San will ——”
“Golden Cicada.” Qing Yu closed his folding fan and struck his hand.
“The problem with the Longevity San is too big after all, and the poison is widespread. It’s fine for us to sell it to those powerful and noble children who have nothing better to do than to find excitement all day long, but if it gets into the hands of ordinary people, it will cause great problems. At least the Confucian Grand Master of the Mountain River Academy will not sit idly by and do nothing about it.”
“The recipe for the Longevity Pill is not difficult to deduce for someone who is accomplished in the path of medicine. Even without my skills, it would be easy to make a slightly less potent one. So it was only a matter of time before it reached the hands of the people. At least, it is cheap and acceptable to some people. I think someone must have worked out the recipe for Longevity San by now.”
“So, you will sell this formula to those Blue Diamond members in advance to reap a wave of benefits, and also let them confuse the market and attract the attention of people from all sides as a scapegoat.” Feng Jiu went on to say.
“But what about those Purple Diamond members, with all due respect, their mouths won’t be tight.”
No matter how high the membership level was, it couldn’t hide the fact that these Purple Diamond members were all losers, they weren’t any different from anyone else, and when they were caught, they wouldn’t rather die than give in. After all, with their status, if they were willing to confess, they would be able to save their lives.
Moreover, this trading network had not been established for long after all, and there was a great possibility of Purple Diamond members being caught, especially if the Mountain River Academy intervened.
“The Purple Diamond members only know the identity of the Medicine Master, not ours. And Pill Master, I won’t give him any chance to betray me.” A cold aura flashed in Qing Yu’s eyes.
“And, as long as they don’t reveal themselves, won’t they have no chance to confess?”
“How?” Feng Jiu asked.
“Anyway, the Longevity San can’t be preserved and can’t be protected, so just let the Medicine Master bring the real quality Longevity San formula and defect to someone who can shelter him. The benefits of the Longevity San are too great, and as long as one is virtuous enough, there will be countless benefits rolling in, and many people will surely be moved. And in this world, there will never be fewer people who are lacking in virtue.” Qing Yu said.
“Then who do you want the Medicine Master to defect to?” Feng Jiu asked.
“That depends on which people have researched the inferior Longevity San. I think these people, soon, will have to pay for the water ——“
