"Brother? What are you saying?" Guyang asked hurriedly. He had thought that his brother was here to help him take revenge, but instead, Zhou Ren had said that he needed that lesson.
"Shut up! You've already embarrassed enough," Zhou Ren said. "Did you think that just because you are my brother that I will side with you when you are in the wrong?"
Alex looked at the two brothers with a confused expression. "So, are you not here for the revenge?"
"No," Zhou Ren said. "I'm just here to apologize for my brother's behavior."
Zhou Ren looked to the side to see Guyang's surprised look and suddenly hit him on the back of his head.
"Ow!" Guyang cried in pain. "Why did you hit ?"
"Was I the one that did the wrong thing or was it you?" Zhou Ren asked.
"I… it was ," Guyang said.
"Then why aren't you apologizing yet?" Zhou Ren shouted at his brother.
Guyang got scared and apologized to Alex for fear of being reprimanded by his brother. Alex looked at the two, unsure what he was to say.
"It's fine," Alex said. "He was already punished yesterday."
"No, he is not nearly punished," Zhou Ren said in response to Alex as a hateful look appeared on his face.
"This bastard has been using our family na all the ti to force his way through places or to bully the weak. As his older brother, I can't watch him ruin himself," Zhou Ren said.
"As such, I hope to punish him even more." Zhou Ren then turned to Alex and asked, "Would you be willing to have him work in the clinic? You won't have to pay him at all and he will be like your servant."
"Brother!" Guyang tried to speak.
"Shut up! You've embarrassed us enough. You will accept this punishnt," Zhou Ren said.
"I don't think that's necessary, brother Zhou," Alex said. " I don't think there is any more punishnt I can give him."
"No, I insist," Zhou Ren said. "Since he dared do sothing so unbecoming of soone from our family, he deserves this punishnt."
Alex was about to refuse as he didn't like the thought of having soone unknown working in his clinic, but he did need a worker.
So, he decided to accept the offer. "Very well, he can work as a guard in my clinic," Alex said.
"Thank you, brother Yu," Zhou Ren said. He then turned around to his brother and said, "rember, act well."
After that, Zhou Ren left the clinic, leaving his brother back with Alex.
"Shurin, I think your job will be changing from tomorrow on," Alex said. "Teach him how to do what you are doing."
Alex went on to treat the rest of the patients there while Shurin made Guyang look after the people so that they didn't cut in line as he did.
That day, the incident that took place in the clinic reached the entire capital and even more as people learned that a young elite talent like Zhou Ren had visited the clinic and even bowed his head to Alex.
That only made Alex's clinic even more popular and even more, eyes fell on him.
The next morning, as Alex and Shurin reached the clinic, they found the people in an orderly line, with Guyang making sure no one went out of line.
"Oh, he's here already," Alex said with a bit of surprise.
"Hello, brother. What do you need to do?" Guyang asked respectfully.
"Uh… nothing really. Do what you've been doing," Alex said. He then brought out a storage bag and handed it to Shurin. "You're in charge of selling these. Do what I told you."
"Yes, brother Yu," Shurin nodded.
Alex turned around to the group of people that were lined up and shouted, "Who is here to buy the dicinal paste and want nothing to do with being treated?"
A bunch of voices rung out and hands were raised.
"Please step to your right," Alex said. Most of the people stepped away from the line, but a few of them were suspicious that they were going to be turned away, so they sat in their line.
"Please line up here in a different file. You will be buying your pastes from her and I will only be treating patients from now on," Alex said.
The people who had left the original line imdiately got onto a new queue. While the one that remained regretfully went to the back of the new line.
Alex started treating the patients soon while Shurin helped sell the pastes. After that, the day went smoothly.
Guyang, despite being punished to be here, didn't shy away from the work he did and did it as well as he could. Being from a big family, he was a proud man and would masterfully do what he was made to do.
A few days passed and the clinic got more popular. Fortunately for Alex, once the people who had been walking around with their wounds for ages were healed, there were not many new patients despite the vastness of the capital.
Even if there were a good number of injured or sick that appeared every day, they would simply buy the paste instead of going to get treatnt.
As such, Alex got a bit more free ti during the day. During such free ti, he started making more and more pastes to reach the demand of the custors.
Spirit stones gushed in like water from an open dam, but so did the stress. Every day, Alex focused his ti on either treating the wounded or creating pastes.
At night, he once again used his free ti to make more pastes. Soon, that beca his daily routine.
His only relief ca when the weekend arrived and he was finally free to do whatever he wanted.
During those days, Alex simply went to libraries and read up on new things, or stayed in his room and cultivated.
Perhaps it was because of the stress, or perhaps he was simply not getting enough ti to deal with it, Alex's yang body flared once more and was getting hotter and hotter.
He needed so yin treasures to deal with it, but he had none right now. Since Yin treasures were quite rare, to begin with, he would need to send soone to an auction.
Fortunately, the Royal palace always had people go in place of others to buy items from the auction house, so Alex had the princess buy sothing for him too.
The next week went fine for Alex, but the stress one increasing on him.
One of these days, Shen Jing showed up for training, but Alex had no ti at all.
"You beca a healer, huh? Suits you quite a bit," Shen Jing said.
"Brother Shen, can we move our schedule to the week's end? I don't have the ti to train at all," Alex said.
"I'm afraid I can't do that," Shen Jing said. "I'm on quite a tight schedule too. I only have today as a free day to train you for the next few weeks."
"But I can't…" Alex was a little saddened.
"No worries, I will just take Pearl. Besides, you won't make any real progress until you break through," Shen Jing said.
"Right," Alex said. "He needed to do that too."
"Well, don't kill yourself trying to take care of others. You need to take care of yourself too," Shen Jing said.
After that, he left with Pearl to train and didn't return until it was late evening.
The next few weeks went by the sa, but slowly Alex started to feel more and more overwheld with all the work.
On one of the free days, he sat down to relax in the garden when Princess Xui arrived by his side and sat down.
"You're a busy man, little brother," she said. "It is getting hard to get a hold of you."
"I'm sorry, I've been really busy," Alex said. "Did you want sothing?"
"Actually, yes," the princess said. "Have you kept any track of ti at all? How long you've been here?"
Alex thought for a mont and he shook his head. The days were bleeding into each other.
"It's been over 3 months," the princess said. "You know what that ans right?"
Alex thought for a second and lost the color on his face again. "You are running out of the pills and pastes, aren't you?"
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