Before he could finish, Wu Weenxiong said, "How could it be possible?" I also want to ask you why this herbal dicine is counterfeit."
Yu QingWeen paid no attention to Wu Weenxiong, but grabbed the three bags of herbs and threw them at his apprentice’s face, asking, "Ah Kai, tell why this herbal dicine is moldy!"
Facing Yu QingWeen’s questioning, the group of apprentices imdiately panicked, glancing at each other in confusion. No one dared to speak easily.
Seeing them all silent made Yu QingWeen even angrier. He grabbed Ah Kai’s collar and angrily demanded, "Especially you! Explain this to clearly! Why did this dicine get moldy?"
Ah Kai, having been thrown into a panic after hearing Wu Weenxiong’s talk of counterfeit dicine, was now even more terrified under the pressure from his master. But in his flustered state, he quickly ca up with an idea. He joked, "Master, this kind of dicine definitely isn’t from our store!"
"I... How would I dare to send counterfeit dicine to Master Wu? Besides, where are the moldy herbs from our store?"
Where are the moldy Chinese herbs? The warehouse is piled high with many things.
Yu QingWeen suspected Kai’s words. Facing this situation, he had no choice but to kill him or admit that the moldy goods were in his store.
The Wu Family had been practicing dicine for generations in Yuan’an County, and even the whole city, so they valued their reputation the most.
Every ti a patient ca to see Wu Weenxiong, he would do his best to relieve the patient’s suffering.
But the day before yesterday, suddenly a patient ca to the door and accused him of murder, which terrified him greatly.
After careful inquiry, he learned that the dicine caught by the apprentices was actually moldy and rotten herbs. Instead of alleviating the sickness, it made it worse.
Although Wu Weenxiong’s clinic was not very large, it had been open for decades, and he had never encountered an issue with the herbs.
Moreover, the herbs and even so secret pills in the shop were all purchased from Jiqing Hall, so how could there be a problem?
At first, Wu even suspected the other party was deliberately blackmailing him, but when the other party produced the moldy dicine and he personally inspected the dicine cabinet, it was a mix of sha and anger.
The essence of the sha lay in his decades-old innocence being destroyed, and the anger naturally ca from being deceived, having procured so inferior dicines.
To placate the other party and prevent the matter from spreading, he not only paid a large compensation but also sent the patient to a Western dicine clinic.
For a descendant of a traditional Chinese dicine family, as an old practitioner of many years, it was imnsely humiliating and infuriating to send a patient to Western dicine.
At that ti, he wanted to rush to the city imdiately to find the master of Jiqing Hall, Yu QingWeen, but was stopped by his son.
To cover up his negligence and to avoid guilt, his son, who was responsible for the procurent, claid it might be the apprentices in the store. They replaced high-quality herbs with moldy inferior ones.
Although Wu Weenxiong was furious, he could not deny the possibility. He found several apprentices in the store and questioned them one by one.
However, so clueless apprentices coincidentally denied it, claiming they had long noticed the discrepancies in the herbs but had misunderstood due to the mix-up.
After all, the greatest skill at Jiqing Hall, according to Yu QingWeen, was not saving lives but manufacturing Chinese Herbal dicine.
Although these apprentices had not been working in the store for long, they were still honest, and Wu Weenxiong naturally accepted their words, pointing the bla at Jiqing Hall.
Wu Weenxiong sent his apprentices to find the patients who had taken these inferior dicines. He reclaid the inferior drugs and issued apologies. Then he headed to the city to confront Yu QingWeen.
But before he could encounter Yu QingWeen, he ran into Zhang Dadan, who accused Yu QingWeen of bullying the city and roping people into this incident.
As a pharmaceutical expert, Yu QingWeen was very knowledgeable about various herbs, but he was accused of describing Wild Mountain Ginseng of only two or three years as twenty years old.
This nonsense made Wu Weenxiong more convinced that he was dealing with a greedy and profit-driven rchant, capable of anything.
Therefore, Wu Weenxiong first helped Zhang Dadan testify, exposing the fact that Yu QingWeen tried to deceive Brother Chen.
Then he systematically revealed the good and bad dicines sold by him, making it public knowledge.
Zhang Dadan loudly proclaid to the onlookers, who, upon hearing that Yu QingWeen bullied and kidnapped people and sold counterfeit and inferior dicines, were stunned and incredulous.
They also heard that he even sold fake and inferior dicines, incited his wealth, and imdiately the crowd started to burst out in anger in front of Yu QingWeen, cursing him.
When Ah Kai saw the excitent of the crowd, fearing the boss would accuse him of the cri, he falsely claid the dicine had not left the store.
Although Yu QingWeen was suspicious, realizing that the apprentices in the store, including the prince, might have mistaken the matter, for the sake of the store’s reputation, he had to respond.
When Wu Weenxiong saw him not admitting, he threatened, "Boss, are you not admitting that this is yours, right?"
"Then don’t bla , Wu Weenxiong, for my old affection. I will report the matter to the police and let them investigate the whole story."
The apprentices in the store, upon hearing Wu Weenxiong’s ntion of the police, beca even more frightened, not knowing what to do.
Ah Kai, seeing the sorrowful boss, quickly pulled up his sleeve and pulled him to the back of the apprentices.
A group of onlookers mistakenly thought they were trying to escape and rushed over angrily, yelling, "What are you running for? Aren’t you selling fake dicines?"
Ah Kai saw the crowd self-righteous, hastily telling the other apprentices to stop them.
Although the apprentices were weak, they were already on the sa rope with Ah Kai. Seeing him take a natural course, they naturally helped him stall for ti.
The lon-eating onlookers, although excited, didn’t dare to be too presumptuous. Seeing so were stopped, they chose a strategic retreat.
"Let’s not move! Stand here, and I bet they still can’t fly away even with wings," soone joked.
Everyone heard these words and quickly agreed, "Yes! The shop seems to have no back door. They can’t escape!"
Yu QingWeen, the owner of Jiqing Hall, knew if he could escape the Holy Temple, he wouldn’t attempt to slip away.
"Ah Kai, are you aware?" Yu QingWeen was almost certain that this storm of counterfeit goods was caused by Kai and the others.
However, faced with Wu Weenxiong’s questioning and the righteous indignation of many onlookers, if he didn’t rely on Ah Kai, who could he rely on?
Ah Kai secretly glanced at QingWeen and whispered, "Master, actually the culprit is Sixth Son!"
Sixth Son? Yu QingWeen couldn’t help looking at the youngest apprentice who was usually foolish; could he have such insight? Ah Kai was clearly shifting the bla.
Wait! Ah Kai, they intended to make Sixth Son a scapegoat. If they needed a scapegoat, as long as everything was on Sixth Son, wasn’t it all auspicious?
Ah Kai was the leader of the apprentices; as long as he pushed out Sixth Son, the others would surely recognize him.
Then, although Sixth Son wouldn’t admit it, he couldn’t argue. While such apprentices could still harm reputation, it was better to throw the dirty water directly at Jiqing Hall’s head.
A master and an apprentice, a few words, then reached an understanding. In the store, the six apprentices, constantly under harsh criticism from the master, harbored resentnt.
When the Wu Family ca to purchase herbs, they deliberately tried to discredit Jiqing Hall by pretending inferiority, aiming to earn the master’s renovation.
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