Merchant and doctor

Chapter 2363 Difficult Respiratory Diseases

While Mr. Huangfu was lost in thought, Bian Mu's phone rang. He glanced down at it and saw it was Lao Hou calling.

Bian Muchong smiled and nodded at the two men, then got up and went upstairs to the end of the corridor to answer the phone.

"Are you free tonight? Let's discuss things at 'Yuan Gu'?" Old Hou seemed quite interested in this matter over the phone.

"It should be fine. Let's go to your area and find a local restaurant to sit at! I feel like there's still room for maneuver in Yuangu?" On the other end of the phone, Bian Mu asked Lao Hou for his opinion.

"I feel okay, but... Ma Changzi and his gang might be out of the game."

Upon hearing this, and recalling what Old Liang, the forest ranger, had said earlier, Bian Mu was secretly taken aback.

"You're also playing the 'crossing the river and burning the bridge' trick?!" Bian Mu questioned with a laugh over the phone.

"How could that be! Ever since I started following you... oops! Slip of the tongue! Ever since I started following you to conquer the world, I've always acted with integrity and honesty! Heaven and earth bear witness! I have never had such thoughts! The factory is now divided into two factions. The hemp factory workers are one faction, and the employee representatives are another. Both sides are seeking further solutions. The hemp factory workers' side has the idea of ​​prioritizing technology, while the employee representatives' side emphasizes replacing people, raising funds and taking out loans to upgrade equipment, downgrading themselves, and honestly doing contract manufacturing for big factories to earn a meager living. They plan to accumulate some assets before considering further development. The two sides are quite tense, and in less than half a year, almost all the people with real skills have left." Over the phone, Lao Hou briefly introduced the main conflict on the "Yuan Gu" side.

"Oh... so you're changing personnel like this! I'm having dinner with Teacher Zhao Xicheng right now, it's hard to explain over the phone. I'll come over to your place after get off work tonight, and we can discuss it properly. By the way, has there been any movement from the Daoist medicine successor lately?"

"Not many people have come here lately, but... recently, there have been a lot of skilled chess players at my chess stalls. I suspect some of them are from their side. They come here just to play chess, and they also offer some good tea and cigarettes from time to time. Since they don't say anything, I don't want to pry, right?"

"That's good. I'm fine, I was just asking. We can talk more when we meet!"

"Okay!" With that, Old Hou hung up the landline.

……

Back in the private room, Bian Mu sat down and hadn't eaten much when Mr. Huangfu said he could accept Bian Mu's proposal.

"You're so magnanimous, don't hold it against us juniors, thank you for your understanding! Well... I'll prepare the medicine and plaster cast in the next couple of days. You two have already discussed it with Mr. Bi Shaoxiong, I'll ask for his opinion first. If nothing unexpected happens, you can arrange to meet up and have a good talk." Bian Mu replied with a smile.

"Of course, of course! In the end, this matter is all thanks to the curator, and I will definitely repay you handsomely afterwards!" Mr. Huangfu said politely with a smile.

"We're all family here. As long as the patient is alright, that would be the best," Bian Mu said with a smile, exchanging pleasantries.

Amidst laughter and conversation, the matter was thus reversed, and the treatment direction was readjusted. Everything was acceptable in all aspects, and at least, they could meet up again in the future to discuss things.

……

It was just past eight o'clock in the evening when Bian Mu was drinking water when his phone rang. Thinking it was Lao Hou calling, he picked up the phone and saw that it was Qi Yuewei calling.

"Could you come over to our newly opened branch office after get off work tomorrow at noon? Is that convenient?"

"It should be nothing, I'll go over as soon as I get off work? What's up?" Bian Mu asked with a smile on the phone.

“My dad assigned a female employee over there. She’s not much older than us, and she’s really quite outstanding in every way. But lately, I don’t know what’s wrong with her. She says she can’t breathe and then suddenly has difficulty breathing, regardless of the time or place. She… well, she has some connections. My dad was worried that she would be mistreated, so he specially assigned her to be next to me. We have to take some responsibility for her, right? I thought you should have some ideas.”

"I see... From what you're saying, it seems like it's been checked multiple times in all aspects, right?" Bian Mu casually guessed on the other end of the phone.

"Of course! Her maternal grandparents' family is quite powerful; they would definitely go to the best hospitals and make a big fuss. Her condition fluctuates, and it's gotten a bit worse recently, which is why I'm a little worried. That's why I troubled you to make the trip." "No problem! Are you sure you've had everything checked out?"

"Of course! In the end, they all claim to tell you to find a decent traditional Chinese medicine doctor. Listen to that, right? In the TCM circle, who's more powerful than you?!"

"Hahaha... We've gotten so carried away with this, who am I to judge you! Well... send me the electronic medical record! For other family medical histories, please take the trouble to find out more details. Also, please confirm with her again whether it's an emergency or when she was in junior high school, I mean around the time of her first period, whether she had similar symptoms before. That's about it."

"Okay! I'll go see her mother right away. Keep an eye on things here!"

"Since you've said so, I'll definitely do my best. I'll bring all the good medicines that are available here."

"Get lost! Come over as soon as you get off work tomorrow!"

"Yes, ma'am!" Bian Mu said, then hung up the phone.

……

Old Hou seems to have lost some weight from being so busy all the time, so Bian Mu specially invited him to "Yu Ji Private Kitchen" for a good meal.

The pretty female chef wasn't on duty, so Bian Mu exchanged a few polite words with several chefs he knew and casually picked a stall further inside to order some seafood to cook first.

“Recently, I treated the key figures from Yuangu to a few meals and got a general understanding of the situation. It seems that the two sides are somewhat out of sync. After your suggestion, I was thinking that since Cao Qiling was involved back then, the location must have been easy to choose. Since the people aren't good enough, perhaps… But we're just too small to take them down, and we don't have the strength to rebuild them at their pace. So… there's something I don't know if I should ask?”

Upon hearing this, Bian Mu immediately realized that Old Hou really cared about this matter.

"We're brothers, what can't we say? Please speak!"

"How does your new drug compare to 'Detoxifying Plaster'? I mean, how good is it in the market? Can sales double?"

"How should I put it? The new drug we're developing should be considered a highly effective drug, the kind of completely new traditional Chinese medicine that no other company in the industry can replace."

Upon hearing this, Old Hou's eyes lit up.

"Really? Then... you can make a lot of money?"

“Theoretically, that’s true, but… you know, everything has to be roughly the same. If there are obvious technical or production shortcomings, it’ll be tough. At least it will be less effective. Hongyang is definitely out of the question. Their basic production capacity is simply not up to par. Besides, that Mr. An keeps causing trouble. I’m already fed up with him.”

"What about Elder Liang and Sima Kui?"

"You mean that matter?"

Upon hearing this, Old Hou nodded solemnly.

"They haven't explicitly stated anything yet. They probably think we haven't been able to secure a legitimate pharmaceutical company. You mean... to produce some kind of beauty remedy or something?" Bian Mu replied with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Old Hou nodded quickly.