Chapter 101
However, his attention was quickly drawn back to him when Jiang Yexun noticed the spoonful of porridge being brought to his sister’s lips.
His exceedingly gentle movements made Su Hongchen wonder if, had he not been sitting here, this man might have chewed the food and fed it directly into his sister’s mouth.
“Xiaoxiao injured her right wrist,” Jiang Yexun gently reminded in a somewhat reproachful tone.
As a loving older brother to Xiaoxiao, he had failed to notice even this and was overreacting to everything.
Su Hongchen awkwardly touched his nose.
After his sister finished her porridge, he summoned the colleagues waiting outside the door.
“Chengchun, Kunlin, after you finish your meals, find a sketch artist right away.”
While they were puzzled as to why, as soldiers, they obeyed orders without question.
“I’ll go to the cafeteria and eat first, then I’ll relieve Chengchun later,” Mu Kunlin said, about to leave.
“I made a lot of dishes; both of you should eat together,” Jiang Yexun suddenly offered.
“No, your food is too expensive,” Mu Kunlin and Niu Chengchun quickly declined.
“It’s fine; I can’t finish it all by myself,” Jiang Yexun said, casting a somewhat helpless look at the two patients.
Su Xiaoxiao heard this and immediately looked at him expectantly.
However, when Jiang Yexun met her gaze, she quickly shrank back, obediently continuing to sip her porridge.
“Thank you so much.”
Niu Chengchun and Mu Kunlin quickly expressed their gratitude and brought two chairs from the next ward.
The food was delicious, but they didn’t dare eat too openly.
After eating enough to be about full, they quickly rushed to wash the dishes.
In less than an hour, Niu Chengchun brought back a police comrade who could create a sketch based on descriptions.
Su Xiaoxiao described the female comrade’s appearance, height, and the feelings she gave off in detail. However, as she described, the sketch artist’s brow furrowed more and more deeply.
Suddenly, he sped up his drawing, and in less than five minutes, he had drawn a somewhat simplified face.
“Is this what she looks like?” He turned the sketch toward Su Xiaoxiao.
She immediately nodded, “Yes, yes, that’s her!”
The man handed the drawing to Su Hongchen. “I just saw her downstairs; she was heading outside the hospital.”
The people in the ward all changed their expressions, and without waiting for Su Hongchen to give orders to Niu Chengchun, he grabbed the drawing and hurriedly left the room.
Su Hongchen said to Mu Kunlin, “Call the superiors and request roadblocks at all the exits out of the city. We need to corner this person in Daisi.”
“Okay, I’ll do that now,” Mu Kunlin said and promptly left.
In the afternoon, the leaders who had taken the medicine to the military hospital returned with the test results.
As soon as they entered the room, the seriousness on their faces made everyone sit up straight.
“Leaders, was the result not good?” Su Hongchen took a deep breath and asked calmly.
The middle-aged leader nodded and handed the information about the composition to Su Hongchen.
As a high school student who excelled academically, he could immediately see how damaging these substances mixed together would be to the human body.
His face immediately darkened.
As black as ink that couldn’t be dissolved.
Su Xiaoxiao tightly bit her lips and urgently brought her head closer.
Su Hongchen wanted to shield her from the information, but Su Xiaoxiao had already seen and remembered what these substances were.
She gasped in horror.
Jiang Yexun became agitated as soon as he heard it.
“Are you saying that you can’t find a solution to the medicine that someone else administered to you? Do you know that Xiaoxiao’s wrist injury hasn’t stopped bleeding, the wound is getting bigger, and it’s already infected?” He gritted his teeth and asked in a resentful tone.
His voice was icy, laced with strong anger.
Su Hongchen felt guilty again as he looked at his sister.
His lips moved slightly, as if he was about to say something, but Su Xiaoxiao tugged at Jiang Yexun’s sleeve and softly advised, “Yexun, don’t be angry. This medicine can be resolved.”
“What do you mean? Young lady, this is a potentially lethal toxin, and you can’t just joke about it!” The hospital director frowned and looked at the young girl who seemed barely an adult.
They had received a call in advance and held a two-hour meeting with all the hospital doctors, but they hadn’t been able to come up with a solution. How could she possibly solve it?
But the leaders in the military didn’t immediately agree with the doctors. Instead, they turned to Su Xiaoxiao and asked, “Do you know the current situation you’re in?”
“Yes. Blood can’t clot, and the body’s tissues and organs are being damaged,” Su Xiaoxiao said with utmost seriousness.
The person behind this medication had combined the effects of Warfarin and Paraquat. However, the most challenging part was the other medication.
Even with a small amount, it would cause irreversible damage to the body.
But in Jiang Yexun’s pharmaceutical company in the future, they developed a treatment for that specific medication. However, due to the high cost of the ingredients, it required a massive amount of resources and connections to obtain.
It wasn’t widely promoted, so it was locked away in a safe.
But she remembered it.
“Xiaoxiao, tell me what ingredients you need, and I’ll buy them now.” Jiang Yexun urgently grasped Su Xiaoxiao’s hand.
But Su Xiaoxiao appeared troubled. “But those ingredients are incredibly expensive.”
“Young Comrade Su, if you really have a prescription that works, why not share it with us? While it might be challenging for both you and your brother to have it reimbursed, what we consider expensive might not be the same as your perspective. The ability to bear the costs can be quite different between individuals and organizations,” said the leader, speaking with great composure, giving a sense of reassurance.
Su Xiaoxiao nodded and began listing the ingredients one by one. “centennial wild ginseng, centennial polygonum multiflorum, fifty-year-old ganoderma lucidum, snow lotus from the Heavenly Mountain, rhinoceros horn, and natural cow-bezoar…”
Before she could finish listing the required ingredients, the faces of the leaders had already turned grim.
The doctors behind them couldn’t hold back any longer.
“What are you talking about? Are you randomly naming expensive Chinese medicinal ingredients? Centennial ginseng and fifty-year-old ganoderma lucidum? Why not go for Millennium?”
“That’s right! What are you even talking about? Chinese medicinal ingredients need to be tested for their efficacy and their healing data proven!”
Su Xiaoxiao was calm when she heard the first person, but when she heard the second person imply that Chinese medicine in their country wasn’t good, she couldn’t take it anymore.
“As a person from our own country, how can you say that our country’s five-thousand-year-old Chinese medicine heritage is not good? Isn’t that forgetting our roots and ancestors?”
Although she knew that in this era, Western medicine was highly esteemed by everyone and had a clear advantage in certain surgeries, examinations, and synthetic drugs, she was also aware that in just a few decades, the world would come to recognize how excellent their country’s traditional Chinese medicine was.
Everyone was eager to buy their Chinese medicine recipes, apply for patents, and make exclusive high profits. The five-thousand-year-old treasure of their country was worthy of respect and preservation, rather than becoming a tool for foreigners to exploit and earn money from their fellow citizens.
“Whether Chinese medicine is good or not is not something we need to argue about. What’s important now is how you can prove that your prescription can certainly work. Do you know how expensive these ingredients are? Just a single root of centennial polygonum multiflorum costs nearly 300 yuan.”
“Rhinoceros horn and natural cow bezoar are cheaper, but they still cost two to three yuan per gram. Not to mention the unpriced centennial wild ginseng and fifty-year-old ganoderma lucidum. These precious ingredients are not even available on the market. Many people are staking their lives on such precious medicinal ingredients; even if you want them, you won’t be able to get them.”
The doctors who followed behind them expressed their views, causing the expressions of the leaders to grow even grimmer.
They exchanged glances, and finally, the leader spoke, “Right now, the issue is not the cost of the medicine but that centennial wild ginseng is not available.”
“What if I can acquire it?” Jiang Yexun suddenly spoke in a deep voice.
His unexpected words startled everyone.