Chapter 2186: Chapter 2035: I Am Your Elder (Part 6)

"Why are you standing there blankly? Call the police! Before they run away!" Song Xiaodong asked Zhang Yanran.

For a moment, Zhang Yanran couldn’t react, but after Song Xiaodong’s reminder, she remembered to make a phone call to report to the police.

Song Xiaodong gathered some medicinal herbs, and at noon called Wang Xinyi.

"Teacher Wang, are you free? Let’s have a meal?"

"What to eat?" Wang Xinyi asked.

"Teacher Wang, you can choose whatever you like." Song Xiaodong replied.

"I want meat!" Wang Xinyi answered.

"Alright, then meat it is!"

Song Xiaodong waited at the restaurant entrance. Wang Xinyi, wearing flat sneakers, tight jeans, a green long-sleeve top, and a white round-neck shirt inside, arrived fashionably late.

"Hello, Teacher Wang!" Song Xiaodong bowed to Wang Xinyi.

"I’m not your teacher, I’ve taught you everything I had to." Wang Xinyi said.

"Once a teacher, always a teacher." Song Xiaodong argued.

"Whatever you say!" Wang Xinyi ignored Song Xiaodong and directly walked into the restaurant.

Song Xiaodong followed obediently.

The two ate together.

"Teacher Wang, thank you so much for saving my life!" Song Xiaodong said to Wang Xinyi.

"How did I save you?" Wang Xinyi raised an eyebrow.

"It was with the Water Observation Technique you taught me that I was able to break free from someone’s hypnotism, saving both me and my two wives. I’m truly grateful!" Song Xiaodong said to Wang Xinyi.

"Yes, the Water Observation Technique can indeed concentrate the mind, and greatly helps in stabilizing one’s spirit." Wang Xinyi nodded.

"Yes, yes, Teacher Wang, you’re truly amazing!"

"I’m so amazing, and you just treat me to a meal after saving you and your wives?" Wang Xinyi laughed as she questioned Song Xiaodong.

"Of course not, I’ve brought Teacher Wang a little something good!" Song Xiaodong took out a small bottle.

"What is this? Cinnabar?" Wang Xinyi asked, looking at the little porcelain bottle stuffed with red cloth.

"No, no, no, Teacher Wang, it’s an elixir refined with my exclusive secret manual!" Song Xiaodong told Wang Xinyi.

"You can refine elixirs?" Wang Xinyi asked incredulously.

"Of course, I’m practically the Ge Hong of today!" Song Xiaodong boasted.

"Hmph." Wang Xinyi snorted coldly without commenting.

"Teacher Wang, don’t judge this thing by its ordinary appearance. Actually, it has miraculous effects, can beautify the skin, tighten pores, and promote well-being. It’s a must-have for home travel and arson!" Song Xiaodong promoted as if selling health products.

"Really?" Wang Xinyi skeptically took it and asked.

"Teacher Wang, while Qi Refinement is something I’m not as good at as you, I do have quite a bit of insight into alchemy!" Song Xiaodong said.

Wang Xinyi unscrewed the bottle’s cork, gently smelled it, and closed her eyes to feel it, then suddenly said to Song Xiaodong, "Mr. Song, this elixir...isn’t cheap, right..."

Song Xiaodong laughed and said to Wang Xinyi, "Hahaha, Teacher Wang has a keen eye!"

"Why would you give me such a valuable item?" Wang Xinyi sniffed out the scent of precious Chinese herbs in the elixir, which essentially meant the smell of money.

"You’re my lifesaver, it’s the least I can do." Song Xiaodong nodded with a grin.

"Then, should I try one?" Wang Xinyi looked into Song Xiaodong’s eyes.

"Yes, it melts upon entrance, a mouthful full of fragrance!" Song Xiaodong said.

Wang Xinyi poured one into her palm from the bottle.

A dark pill emitting a mixed medicinal scent.

Wang Xinyi wrinkled her nose.

"Teacher Wang, don’t worry, nothing will happen." Song Xiaodong reassured Wang Xinyi.

Wang Xinyi swallowed one, took a sip of water, then savored it for a moment.

"It doesn’t really have a taste!" Wang Xinyi said.

"Elixirs aren’t hawthorn pills, what taste are you expecting?" Song Xiaodong replied.

After a while, Wang Xinyi felt a warm current in her stomach, her whole body began to heat up.

Wang Xinyi then took off her green jacket, her face also blushed.

"I want to undergo Qi Refinement!" Wang Xinyi said to Song Xiaodong.

"Alright, I’ll keep watch for you." Song Xiaodong said.

Wang Xinyi then closed her eyes to gather herself, soon staying as still as if she had died.

After a while, Wang Xinyi came back to herself, beaming: "Wow, this elixir is truly extraordinary!"

"Of course."

After eating, Song Xiaodong took Wang Xinyi home.

"Want to come upstairs for a bit?" Wang Xinyi politely asked.

"No, no, I should be heading back." Song Xiaodong declined.

"Mr. Song, I wanted to say, even though I taught you the Water Observation Method, your Qi Refining Realm hasn’t significantly improved." Wang Xinyi said somewhat disappointedly to Song Xiaodong.

"Indeed, Teacher Wang, since returning, I’ve been so tied up with trivial matters, I haven’t had time to refine Qi." Song Xiaodong explained.

"Yes, Mr. Song is a big shot, being busy is expected." Wang Xinyi said.

"My Qi Refinement method emphasizes foundations, starting slow, truly it’s not for lack of effort on my part." Song Xiaodong said.

"I actually have many other Qi Refinement methods as well. If Mr. Song is interested, I could share them with you." Wang Xinyi said.

"Sure." Song Xiaodong nodded.

Song Xiaodong then went home.

On the third day, Song Xiaodong went with Chu Xianling to the Chinese herbal wholesale market.

In the auction exhibits on the third floor of the wholesale market, nine out of ten are fake, specifically set up to deceive people like Zhang Yanran, who are foolish with money. Song Xiaodong watched for two days, saw nothing particularly enticing, so this time decided not to visit the third floor but instead went to the high-end herbal trading market on the second floor to see if luck would favor him.

Indeed, there were some good things, Song Xiaodong swept away Upper Grade ginseng, deer antler, tiger bone, Lingzhi, and other precious herbs.

Song Xiaodong spent lavishly, soon becoming the center of attention on the second floor. Small shop owners from various herbal stores approached Song Xiaodong, introducing their treasured herbs, and Song Xiaodong accepted them all.

Then he inadvertently offended someone.

A forty-something man with a general’s belly and receding hairline shouted at a small herbal shop owner, "What’s the matter with you? You said there’d be premium deer antler, and now you say none is available?"

The small shop owner looked troubled and said to the man, "Boss Li, don’t get angry, it’s like this, a young man came by just now, took a liking to this batch of deer antler, his eyes are especially discriminating, all the good stuff in my little shop got picked clean by him."

"I told you last month I was planning to acquire a batch of deer antler, couldn’t you have saved some for me?" Boss Li was furious, loudly scolding the small herbal shop owner.

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