Ultimate Village Doctor

Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Two

Long Xiaoshan cracked a faint smile. "Director Bai is too polite. Any man would stand up in the face of such injustice."

Is that so?

Seeing how lightly Long Xiaoshan spoke, Bai Susu considered his words. They sounded simple, but when faced with a man like Wang Sihai who had connections in both the underworld and legitimate society in Hechuan City, how many would dare to take a stand, let alone do so for her, Bai Susu?

Bai Susu bit her lip gently and said softly, "Xiaoshan, there's no need to call me Director Bai. I'm only a few years older than you. If you don't mind, just call me Sister Su."

"How could I possibly mind? It's my honor, Sister Su," Long Xiaoshan called out.

Bai Susu's face blossomed into a smile, beautiful and breathtaking to the point that even Long Xiaoshan was stunned.

Seeing Long Xiaoshan staring straight at her, Bai Susu's cheeks flushed red.

She quickly said, "Xiaoshan, didn't you want to see the medicinal materials? I'll take you to see them now."

"Hmm," Long Xiaoshan nodded hastily.

The two went downstairs.

The living medicinal materials were not kept at the company. Bai's Medicinal Materials had its own botanical garden, not very large, since cultivating medicinal materials is quite difficult. It was used for experiments and temporary cultivation.

Bai Susu drove Long Xiaoshan to the garden.

In the garden that spanned several acres, with steel frames set up, a variety of medicinal materials were cultivated: ginseng, notoginseng, fleece-flower root, dendrobium...

Each type of medicinal material was neatly categorized, with different soils, climates, and water qualities...

Bai Susu strolled with Long Xiaoshan through the garden.

"Xiaoshan, the living medicinal materials you want are all here. Pick whatever you like," Bai Susu now understood.

Long Xiaoshan was definitely not an ordinary person.

A man who could make Wang Sihai flee in panic, begging like a pathetic dog, how could he be simple?

So she didn't talk about how difficult some medicinal materials were to grow.

Long Xiaoshan bent down, faint golden light flowing in his eyes. The entire garden's medicinal materials could not escape his gaze. His Spirit Eye had evolved into the Divine Heaven Eye, which could cover a radius of hundreds of meters. He could easily discern which herbs were full of spiritual energy and which ones lacked medicinal properties.

After a short while, he selected a few medicinal materials.

Ginseng, notoginseng, fleece-flower root...

Bai Susu watched as Long Xiaoshan chose the materials and couldn't help but nod in approval.

Being a merchant of medicinal materials, she could tell that the ones Long Xiaoshan chose were of extremely good quality and were all older than ten years.

Long Xiaoshan didn't pick many.

He only took seven pieces and then stopped.

"Xiaoshan, is this little selection of medicinal materials enough?" asked Bai Susu.

"It's almost enough. I want to run some tests first."

Long Xiaoshan intended to cultivate Hundred-Year-Old Medicine, valuing quality over quantity. Besides, even if he wanted more, he didn't have enough Spiritual Liquid to cultivate them.

"Alright then," Bai Susu said with a gentle smile.

"Sister Su, how much do I owe? Please tally it up for me," he said.

Bai Susu shook her head. "No need to pay. Take these medicinal materials with you."

"That's not acceptable."

Bai Susu said, "You've helped me out so much today, saved Bai's Medicinal Materials, a few herbs are nothing. If you refuse again, Sister Su will get angry."

Although Bai Susu pretended to get angry, her temperament was too gentle and soft, unable to appear truly upset.

"Alright then, thank you, Sister Su." Long Xiaoshan was not one to dilly-dally.

Seeing Long Xiaoshan agree, Bai Susu's face revealed a satisfied smile.

Having obtained the medicinal materials, Long Xiaoshan left the botanical garden and bid farewell to Bai Susu.

Bai Susu said, "Xiaoshan, it's almost noon, and today I'm playing host, you must stay and have a meal."

"This... Alright, thank you, Sister Su." Long Xiaoshan hesitated for a moment, but seeing the expectant look in Bai Susu's eyes, he nodded in agreement.

A hint of a little girl's joy danced in Bai Susu's eyes.

Driving Long Xiaoshan, they arrived at a villa complex.

"This is..."

"This is my home." Bai Susu stopped in front of a villa.

Long Xiaoshan hadn't expected that Bai Susu's invitation for lunch was at her home, but since he was there, he took it in stride. Ever since gaining the Deity Spirit body, Long Xiaoshan found his mindset becoming ever more detached.

The villa was European-style, with a courtyard in front of it that had a small fountain, and even a Cupid sculpture—little Ding peeing into the pond, quite amusing.

Bai Susu opened the door.

Long Xiaoshan followed inside.

Bai Susu said, "It's just my daughter and me at home, we didn't prepare men's slippers, sorry about that."

"I can go barefoot." Long Xiaoshan was rather unaccustomed to it; in the countryside, who needs slippers, so he simply took off his shoes and walked barefoot on the floor.

"Xuehen, Xuehen!" Bai Susu called upstairs.

After a while, a voice responded.

"We have a visitor at home, come entertain them for a bit, I'll go cook," Bai Susu shouted.

"A visitor?" The girl on the second floor seemed puzzled. Her mother always liked quietness. Only relatives might visit during holidays, but she never brought outsiders home, not even important clients. The holidays were still far away; where did this visitor come from?

Amid her confusion, she got up and left her room, looking downstairs from the second floor.

At the same time, Long Xiaoshan also looked up.

He saw a girl in a white home dress with a classic elegance.

Both were stunned at the same time.

In unison, they said, "It's you!"

Bai Susu appeared perplexed, looking at them and saying, "You know each other?"

Long Xiaoshan said, "It's really a coincidence, yesterday I was at Tulip Grand Hotel..."

Bai Xuehen quickly ran downstairs, interrupting Long Xiaoshan, "Mom, he's my friend."

Long Xiaoshan's words were cut off as he looked at Bai Xuehen.

Bai Xuehen gave Long Xiaoshan a look.

He realized that Bai Xuehen didn't want him to mention yesterday's events.

Though he was a bit puzzled, since Bai Xuehen didn't want to talk about it, of course he wouldn't pry, so he just smiled and said, "Sister Su, Xuehen and I do indeed know each other."

"Sister Su? What do you call my mom?" Bai Xuehen said with a displeased expression.

"Uh!"

Long Xiaoshan was slightly embarrassed; he realized that Bai Xuehen was about the same age as him. If he called Bai Susu "Sister," he would be inadvertently making Bai Xuehen a generation older.

Moreover, he really hadn't noticed at first that Bai Susu could already have a daughter this old; she looked to be only around thirty.

"This... I didn't know, Auntie looks too young," Long Xiaoshan said helplessly.

"Xuehen, it was me who asked Xiaoshan to call me Sister," Bai Susu intervened, her cheeks turning a shade of red.

After all, wasn't it obvious to her that Long Xiaoshan couldn't guess her age?

But at that moment, she couldn't figure out why, perhaps because Long Xiaoshan's demeanor reminded her too much of Yang Xiao when he was young, and on a whim, she didn't want Long Xiaoshan to call her Auntie.

Bai Xuehen looked at Bai Susu with puzzlement; with her keen mind, she knew her mother was acting out of the ordinary today, but she didn't dwell on it much and instead cooed, "Mom, if he does that, he'll be older than me by a generation. No, I won't allow him to call you that."

"I'll call you Auntie Su then," Long Xiaoshan quickly said.