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Bai Guo did not so much as blink. “I truly can’t help you. Just take it back with you, alright?”
He didn’t even bother with a polite, “Why don’t you ask somewhere else?” He Lingchuan could tell that Bai Guo just wanted the old man gone.
He Lingchuan asked, “What illness is your grandson suffering from?”
Old Man Wang whipped his head around, eyes locking onto He Lingchuan as if he had just spotted a lifeline. “A high fever that won’t break! We went to the clinic and begged for two prescriptions, but neither of them worked!”
Hope flooded his face as he begged, “This is a genuine relic. Please, buy it!”
He Lingchuan asked, “What does your scroll say?”
“My ancestors said it’s a profound divine technique.” Old Man Wang gave a bitter smile. “But I can’t read it, and no one in my family cultivates. All I can do is sell it.”
“Can I take a look?”
“You can read it?” Old Man Wang peeled the beast-skin paper back a little, but only by a tiny bit. “Then here, you can have a look.”
“Bring the child here,” He Lingchuan said after scanning a few lines. “I’ll have someone treat him. If he’s cured, this beast-skin paper is mine.”
“Huh?” Old Man Wang froze. “Bring him… here?”
“That’s right. I’m meeting a friend here, and his medical skills are superb. Treating a child’s fever is nothing to him.”
“Ah, I see.” Old...
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