Chapter 85: Life 61, Age 27, Martial Grandmaster Peak
A dozen new potential clients coming to my door the day after the new King was appointed made me feel like these were not clients I would be particularly happy about having.
Instead of meeting with them on an individual basis, I entrusted Manager Bai with handling most of these requests with a direct rejection. While they might be interested in having me make pills for them, if they were poised to make an offer as generous as the Hu Clan, they wouldn’t have ignored me for several years.
She wasn’t exactly happy to be delegated these responsibilities, but she still accepted the task. With the pettier parties taken care of, she gave me a rundown of some of the bigger clients available. We set up a meeting to discuss these offers in detail before entering negotiations, but when it came time to decide how to proceed with these negotiations, it was not Manager Bai who came to talk to me. It was Alchemist Li who I hadn’t seen since my registration exam when I first entered the city.
“Su Fang, how have you been? Has Eight Flower been treating you well?” he asked in a grandfatherly manner.
“Alchemist Li.” I bowed to the older man. “Thank you. I have been very well.”
“Come and sit, let’s talk about your future,” he said, guiding me to sit in one of the conference rooms. “I have been paying close attention to your progress. It seems you have made great strides in filling those gaps in your knowledge.”
“Thank you, Alchemist Li.” I cupped my hands in salute to him. “I have done my best to learn what I can here. There are many new herbs to explore.”
The older man took out a small pill bottle, poured out the pill inside, and held it up to the light.
“You have indeed been progressing very well,” he said in admiration. “I must admit, your ability to mend medicinal energy has even surpassed my own, and I’ve been studying for centuries.”