Chapter 78 — To Interfere or Not (Faster Updates, Please Recommend, Please Bookmark, Please Give All Kinds of Support)
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Ordinary people might notice nothing of the killing intent on the girl, but Wei Zhao, being in the same line of work, could sense it keenly. It could indeed be called a kind of sixth sense.
Only Wei Zhao had spotted her, while she had not spotted Wei Zhao.
After years of tempering, Wei Zhao had learned to conceal his own killing intent very well, yet those who could reach his level were few and far between.
In the end, Wei Zhao shook his head. The girl's dress clearly showed she did not want attention. Though she was hurt, Wei Zhao had no thought of helping her. Each minded his own business. Even if they might be in the same trade, no one in the trade wished to be disturbed by another while on a mission. What was more, people in the same trade might belong to different organizations, and might even be enemies of each other.
"Excuse me, what is Golden Wound Medicine?" Wei Zhao asked the shop assistant casually.
The assistant froze, then looked at Wei Zhao as if he were an idiot, as though his question were too silly and naive to deserve an answer. "It is a surgical medicine for healing wounds, of course. Even if you want to buy it, there is none in stock."
Wei Zhao gave a wry smile. It seemed it must be some new medicine, and a very popular one at that.
The assistant disdained to answer Wei Zhao's question, but someone was eager to answer for her. Before Wei Zhao could say anything more, an auntie beside him had already launched into an endless chatter.
"Young man, you do not even know Golden Wound Medicine? You know Miracle Doctor Kang, right? Miracle Doctor Kang of a family of Chinese medicine, a towering figure in the world of Chinese medicine!" The auntie began to recount the deeds of Miracle Doctor Kang as if counting her own treasures. "Golden Wound Medicine is a fast-healing medicine put out by Miracle Doctor Kang. It lets a wound recover swiftly, and afterward not even a scar is left. Amazing, is it not?"
"That miraculous?" Wei Zhao had not expected this Doctor Kang to be so capable, actually rivaling the healing medicine he compounded himself.
"Yes, they say it is an ancestral secret formula. This Golden Wound Medicine is supplied to the military first. Because of limited output, only a small amount is released to civilian pharmacies from time to time, so it is very hard to get," the auntie said. "If you hope to buy it in a drugstore, it is all but impossible. My niece's boyfriend's third sister's aunt's fifth cousin is the sales manager of the XX chain pharmacy. Last time I got a bottle only through his connections. I hear the moment stock arrives, it is taken up internally. It never even gets to the shelves."
"Is that so?" Wei Zhao thought to himself. If the medicine were truly as miraculous as this auntie claimed, its popularity would be no surprise.
"Of course! Especially for young girls, how ugly to have a scar on the body. It is not only about healing the wound fast, the main thing is leaving no scar," the auntie said. "I hear nowadays people no longer give platinum or gold as gifts. For gifts, they give Golden Wound Medicine."
"Really?" Wei Zhao listened in a daze, unsure whether what the auntie said was true or false.
"Of course it is true. Would I lie to you?" The auntie put on the lecturing air of one trading on her age.
"Oh, I see. Thank you, but it seems I have no use for it for now." Wei Zhao said to the auntie with a smile.
"True, a strapping young fellow like you has no use for that stuff," the auntie nodded, clearly misunderstanding Wei Zhao. What Wei Zhao meant was that he could compound medicine himself and had no need to buy any.
Wei Zhao naturally offered no explanation, and turned to the counter for Chinese herbs. The herbs he wanted had already been weighed out, each kind placed separately in a sealed bag.