Starting with a cub, the superpower boss becomes the richest man by lying flat

Chapter 141 I regret it
"Tell me, what do you want to do by bringing me to town so early in the morning?" Cui Shi asked, sitting in the backyard of his clinic, looking at Lin Xin, who was lying on a recliner, rocking back and forth, half asleep.

"What do you mean, 'what are you trying to do'? Didn't I already give you the ginseng? You boast that your medical skills are unparalleled, so why can't you make Yangrong Pills?" Lin Xin retorted without even opening her eyes.

"You brat, who said I couldn't make it? There are just a few ingredients that I need to consider. Do you think it's that easy?" Cui Shi blew his beard, glanced at the sky and realized it was getting late. He quickly urged Lin Xin to cook. "I'm an old man anyway, it doesn't matter if I go hungry for a meal, but can you bear to let Nan Nan and Tao Tao go hungry too?"

"How could I not be able to bear it? I'm on your side, why wouldn't I be able to bear it?" Lin Xin said stubbornly, but still stood up and went into the kitchen.

"See that?" Cui Shi, occupying the recliner, pointed at Lin Xin's figure in the kitchen and said smugly to Lin Nan and Lin Tao beside him, "That girl, her mouth is harder than stone, but her heart is extremely soft, especially after she considers you one of her own. She doesn't want anyone to suffer even the slightest grievance! Hehe, luckily this old man is smart and got on her good side early on, otherwise where would we get so much good food!"

"Master," Lin Nan said helplessly, looking at the smug old man, "Can you please stop bullying my sister? She's almost as good as the cook in your house. As long as you're satisfied with your food, that's all that matters. Why are you making fun of her?"

"Hahaha..." Cui Shi laughed loudly, pointing at Lin Nan with his finger in the air, and turned to look at Lin Tao: "See? The old man just said a few words of truth, and he's already defending him so unwillingly." After saying that, he felt a little gratified and sighed: "You're still a kid with a conscience. Your sister didn't spoil you for nothing."

"Of course, when I grow up, I will definitely take good care of my sister."

"When I grow up, I will also be filial to my aunt." Before, no matter what Cui Shi said, Lin Tao always seemed uninterested, but after hearing Lin Nan express his loyalty, he became enthusiastic and immediately repeated it as well.

"Pfft~" Cui Shi spat out the mouthful of tea he had just drunk, looking at Lin Tao with a complicated expression. Even his expression was unusually serious, and he didn't know what to say. He secretly glanced at the busy figure in the kitchen, silently lighting a candle in his heart for her. This was the Crown Prince, and it was good that he had this kind of heart for the girl. He just didn't know what the Emperor would think when he found out.

After lunch, Lin Xin arranged for the two little ones to take a nap, and then spontaneously sat in the yard to help Cui Shi pick up medicinal herbs.

"Have you run into trouble?" Cui Shi asked, finally losing his patience after she had mixed the two different herbs together for the seventh time.

“...Not really,” Lin Xin said after thinking for a moment. “Mo Ziyuan wanted me to go to the capital with him, and I agreed, but now I’m a little regretful.”

"regret?"

“I regret it,” Lin Xin nodded firmly, then glared at Cui Shi with dead fish eyes, “You old geezer, I’m asking you, why did you give up your good job as the head of the Imperial Medical Academy and come to this poor, remote place to be a lousy doctor, and even get squeezed out of business?”

"How can you talk like that?" Cui Shi punched her with the small medicine hammer in his hand in dissatisfaction, then sighed deeply, "The capital is a prosperous place! But how many people have been blinded by that prosperity, changed their nature, and ended up unable to distinguish between human and ghost."

"So what's so good about the capital?" Lin Xin sighed along with him, resting her chin on her hand and tilting her head to look at him. "Mo Ziyuan told me before that you were going back with me this time, and I was wondering, since you've already left, why jump into that fire pit again?"

“You don’t understand,” Cui Shi said, looking at the medicine hammer in his hand, his eyes becoming deep and distant. “Times have changed. Now that’s who’s in charge, I’m thinking that while my old arms and legs can still move, I should also leave my mark on history!”

"Huh?" Lin Xin stared at him in disbelief, as if she were seeing a complete idiot taking shape. "Haha, scared you, huh!" Cui Shi laughed heartily at her dumbfounded look. "I was just kidding."

Lin Xin watched him slap his thigh and laugh foolishly, speechless, unable to understand what made him so funny.

After laughing enough, Cui Shi calmed down and said to Lin Xin, "The one thing I can never get rid of in my life is that I'm a stickler for details. When the late emperor made me the head of the Imperial Medical Academy, I blocked the way for too many people. As a result, when I prescribed a medicine for Consort Feng, another imperial physician insisted that the medicine I used was too strong and that although it could cure the disease, it would cause considerable harm to the body."

At this point, Cui Shi gave a bitter smile: "At that time, Grand Tutor Feng bribed most of the imperial physicians in the Imperial Medical Academy. They all agreed with that physician's statement. In the end, the late emperor and Grand Tutor Feng compromised with each other, which resulted in me being expelled from the Imperial Medical Academy!"

"So you went back this time to re-evaluate your prescription?" Lin Xin asked curiously.

She couldn't help but be curious. So many years had passed; those people had probably all been silenced long ago. And what would be the point of going back now and winning the fight? So many years had been wasted.

"It's ridiculous, isn't it!" Choi Si chuckled self-deprecatingly. "But I'm just not willing to accept it!"

Lin Xin nodded. "Then go. If that person is still alive, throw the prescription in his face and ask him which ingredient he used too much of! If that doesn't work, brew a bowl of the medicine according to your prescription, drink it yourself, and see if he still dares to say that the medicine is harmful to his body!"

Cui Shi was both amused and exasperated, and glared at her, "You're always giving bad advice. You can't just drink medicine like that!"

“Hehe,” Lin Xin smiled, “Didn’t you want to prove that your medicine is okay? This is the simplest way.”

"Alright, stop fooling around." Cui Shi rolled his eyes. "I've finished, now it's your turn. Tell me, why don't you want to go to the capital?"

"Is that even a question? Look at all the troubles we have in our village alone. Imagine how much more we'll have in the capital! Besides, you know I'm not one to suffer a loss. If anyone tries to cause me trouble, I'll definitely fight back. What if I run into someone I can't afford to mess with?"

"Actually, you just don't want to meet Mo's family, do you?" Cui Shi said bluntly.

Lin Xin moved her lips, but in the end, she didn't say anything.

Cui Shi was right. She really didn't want to meet Mo Ziyuan's family. She had to admit the current social reality: marriage absolutely required matching social status. Although she didn't think she was inferior, in the eyes of these ancient people, her background was definitely not respectable. Being able to be with Mo Ziyuan was a stroke of good luck, and she was the one who got a great deal.

"Sigh! His family members are indeed not easy to get along with, especially his stepmother. She's always scheming to make her son inherit the Duke of Dingguo's mansion. She's whispered countless times in Mo's muddle-headed father's ear. If you enter his family, you might really suffer a setback." Cui Shi thought for a moment, and it seemed there was no good solution to this problem.