When we arrived at Baotaitang, the young boy from last time was cleaning, while shopkeeper Liu was weighing the medicine on the counter with a small copper scale.
Cheng Xi stepped forward and asked, "Uncle Liu, is my dad here?"
"Here, busy in the backyard, you-" Shopkeeper Liu looked at Cheng Xi and Qin Hai and was stunned for a moment, a little confused as to how they got together.
Cheng Xi took the lead to walk towards the backyard. Qin Hai nodded to shopkeeper Liu and then followed Cheng Xi into the backyard.
In the small courtyard, it was still the same as last time. Cheng Guang was wearing a gray-white mandarin jacket and was tending herbs in a small medicinal garden.
Hearing the footsteps, Cheng Guang looked back. When he found out it was Cheng Xi, he immediately frowned and said with a straight face, "What are you doing back here?"
Just at this time, Qin Hai also walked into the small courtyard. Cheng Guang was a little surprised. He threw away the small hoe in his hand and came up to him and said, "Xiao Qin, why are you here?"
Qin Hai smiled and said: "Uncle Cheng, Miss Cheng and I came here together."
Cheng Guang turned to look at Cheng Xi and frowned.
Cheng Xi said expressionlessly: "Dad, it's not easy for Mr. Qin to come all the way to the capital, and they are also very sincere. If the formula of that ointment is still there, give it to them."
Qin Hai: "..."
He was really speechless. He didn't expect Cheng Xi to have such an attitude when meeting her father. If he had known earlier, it would be better not to ask Cheng Xi for help.
Sure enough, as soon as Cheng Xi finished speaking, Cheng Guang's face turned dark and he said angrily: "Didn't I tell you not to come back again? Why are you coming back? I don't have a daughter as shameless as you!"
"I don't have an unreasonable father like you!" Cheng Xi said tit for tat.
Seeing that the father and daughter were about to quarrel again, Qin Hai quickly walked to the middle and stopped them, "Uncle Cheng, don't be angry yet. If you have anything to say, talk it over."
Then he winked at Cheng Xi, signaling Cheng Xi to stop irritating her father.
Cheng Xi pouted and snorted, turned around and walked into the room.
Cheng Guang was so angry that he was shaking all over, and shouted at Cheng Xi: "Why are you still going in? This is not your home, get out of here!"
Qin Hai hurriedly pulled Cheng Guang aside and sat down, "Uncle Cheng, don't be angry yet, listen to what I have to say."
Cheng Guang always had a bad temper, and now he was angry. If Qin Hai hadn't been introduced by Liu Qingmei, he might have kicked Qin Hai out as well.
After hearing this, he snorted heavily and asked angrily: "What's the matter?"
Qin Haidao: "You may not know that Miss Cheng has broken up with that Zhu Zhiwen."
Cheng Guang was stunned and stood up in shock, "Are you telling the truth?"
"Of course, I can't lie to you with this kind of thing!" Qin Hai said with a smile: "That guy named Zhu is not a good guy. Miss Cheng saw through his true colors and decisively broke up with that guy."
"I've long said that boy is not a good guy, but she still doesn't believe it! What is this called? It's called not listening to the old man's words, and you will suffer the consequences!" Cheng Guang said loudly into the room. Although his voice was still loud, his face was already darker than before.
Much better.
Qin Hai was secretly amused. Cheng Xi was definitely Cheng Guang's biological daughter, otherwise the two people's personalities wouldn't be so similar.
He quickly stopped Cheng Guang and said, "Uncle Cheng, please don't talk about Miss Cheng. Anyway, she and Zhu Zhiwen have been well for so long. This sudden disconnection makes her feel uncomfortable. Please don't irritate her."
She got it."
Cheng Guang nodded happily, "As long as she breaks up with that boy, of course I won't say anything to her. By the way, Xiao Qin, how did you meet Xiao Xi?"
This is a long story. Qin Haizheng was thinking about how to tell Cheng Guang about this matter when Cheng Xi walked out again.
"Dad, thanks to Mr. Qin for saving me last night, otherwise I would have been bullied by those gangsters in Diba. If you have the formula for that ointment, just give it to Mr. Qin. There is no use keeping it anyway."
Cheng Guang's face suddenly changed and he said angrily: "What the hell, why are they bullying you? Tell me and I will go find them!"
Cheng Xi lowered his head and said nothing, Qin Hai said with a smile: "Uncle Cheng, don't worry, that disco bar can't escape. I have already found friends in the police station and asked them to deal with those gangsters."
Cheng Guang glanced at Qin Hai, glared at Cheng Xi and asked, "What is going on?"
To Qin Hai's surprise, Cheng Xi was silent for a while and then said: "Zhu Zhiwen sold me to a disco bar to be a lady for money. It was Mr. Qin who saved me."
You know, on the way back to Baotaitang, Cheng Xi also told him not to tell Cheng Guang what happened last night, but unexpectedly, she told him first.
"This beast!" Cheng Guang roared angrily, turned around and left.
Cheng Xi hurriedly ran over and hugged his arm, "Dad, don't go looking for him. From now on, I have nothing to do with him and I will never see him again!"
As he spoke, Cheng Xi's eyes shed tears again, and his voice became choked with sobs.
Cheng Guang was shocked and stopped walking out. He stretched out his trembling hands to wipe away the tears on Cheng Xi's face and kept nodding his head: "Okay, dad won't go find him. Xiao Xi, don't cry. Dad will see you."
It feels uncomfortable even if you cry!"
"Dad!" Cheng Xi threw herself into Cheng Guang's arms and burst into tears. Cheng Guang stroked his daughter's long hair and rubbed his eyes, tears streaming down his cheeks in the blink of an eye.
Qin Hai looked at the father and daughter hugging each other and cried, sighing, with a relieved smile on his face.
After this incident, Cheng Xi not only saw Zhu Zhiwen's true face clearly, but also reconciled with Cheng Guang, which has to be said to be a blessing!
Not long after, when Cheng Guang and his daughter calmed down, the three of them returned to the house. Cheng Xi brought Cheng Guang and Qin Hai freshly brewed tea.
Cheng Guang pondered for a while and said: "Xiao Qin, it's not that I don't want to give you the formula of the ointment, but I really have no way to give it to you. That ointment is called Jiuzhuan Life-Sustaining Ointment, which was left behind by the ancestors of our Cheng family.
A family heirloom. When it was passed to me, there were only two bottles left in total. I gave one of them to the Liu family. Now I only have the last bottle left. As for the formula, the one that was passed down to me
Only half of the time is left."
"Half?" Qin Hai said in astonishment.
Cheng Guang nodded, went back to the bedroom and took out a plastic bag. Inside the bag was a yellowed piece of paper. The edge of the paper was still a little black, as if it had been burned by fire.
"This is the formula of the ointment. It originally had a total of thirty-two herbs, but because of a fire, the formula became like this."
Qin Hai took the plastic sealed bag from Cheng Guang and looked carefully. There were only fifteen names of medicinal materials left on the shredded paper, not even half of the formula.
Not only that, he had also seen the names of the medicinal materials on the piece of paper from Professor Mo, which meant that the damaged formula Cheng Guang took out was of little use to him.
Qin Hai was greatly disappointed. If this was the case, it would be almost impossible to copy the Nine Turns Life-Sustaining Cream.
At this moment, Cheng Guang continued: "But I know a little bit about the medicine you mentioned last time."
Qin Hai was overjoyed, "It's okay if you know Yaoyin. Uncle Cheng, what kind of medicinal material is Yaoyin?"
Cheng Guang shook his head, "It's not medicine. At least in my impression, there has never been any medical book that records the use of this kind of thing as medicine."
Qin Hai was stunned for a moment, "Then what exactly is it?"