The five-and-a-half-year-old baby doctor comes to the city to cure those who refuse to listen.

Lin Jianguo's anger was extinguished by the phrase "I want to eat meat buns."

Looking at his innocent-looking grandson, and then at the stinking mud on the ground, his mind went completely blank.

Chu Chen ignored him and walked up to Lin Fu with his short legs.

He rummaged in his pocket for a while and pulled out a dark, round pill that looked like dregs scraped from a cauldron.

He crouched down and held the black pill close to Lin Fu's eyes, saying in a childish voice:

"Uncle Fu, you care about me so much, this award is for you."

Lin Fu's teeth chattered and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.

He looked at the unassuming pill and felt like his soul was about to fly away.

"Young...young master...spare me...I'll never do it again..."

"This is called 'Three-Day Heartbreak Red'."

Chu Chen's voice was calm, as if he were introducing a new type of candy.

"If you eat this and don't have my antidote within three days, your intestines will rot inside you, and lots and lots of black fluid will leak out. It'll look awful."

Lin Jianguo felt a chill run down his spine. He finally came to his senses and rushed over in three quick steps.

"Chen'er! Stop fooling around! What's the point of keeping this beast around!"

He pointed at Lin Fu and yelled at the guards next to him.

"Drag him out! Beat him to death!"

Grandpa.

Chu Chen didn't turn his head, and his voice wasn't loud, but it made the two guards who were about to step forward stop in their tracks.

"What's the point of beating a dog to death?"

He gently touched Lin Fu's trembling lips with that black pill.

"Living, being an obedient dog, is the most fun."

Lin Fu's body was ice cold, and it seemed as if his blood had stopped flowing.

He looked at the tender little face in front of him, and saw that there was not a trace of the emotions a child should have in those clear black and white eyes.

It was a cold indifference that looked down upon all living beings.

Chu Chen withdrew his hand and tilted his head.

"You have three seconds to choose."

"one."

"Are you going to eat me and become my dog, or have my grandfather chop you up right now and feed you to the dogs?"

"two."

Lin Fu looked at Lin Jianguo's murderous face, then at the pill in Chu Chen's hand that would decide his fate.

He scrambled forward, opening his mouth, his face covered in tears and snot.

"I'll eat! I'll eat! I'll be a dog! I'll be the boss's dog!"

Chu Chen casually flicked the pill into his mouth.

"Swallow it."

Lin Fu's Adam's apple bobbed, and with a loud swallow, the pill slid into his stomach.

"That's a good girl."

Chu Chen stood up and dusted off his hands.

He walked up to Lin Jianguo, took his big hand, and looked up at him.

"Grandpa, don't you always say I'm too thin? This Jishetang is a big and powerful business, we can't let me go hungry."

Lin Jianguo was taken aback by his rambling.

"What do you mean?"

"Jishetang is too rich, which makes it a target for people."

Chu Chen pointed to Lin Fu on the ground.

"Look, even your own dog will try to bite back, let alone the wolves outside."

He counted on his fingers, doing the accounting in a very serious manner.

"My 'serious injury' needs treatment, right? Treatment costs money, right? These hundred-year-old ginseng and thousand-year-old snow lotus, they'd be used up like water, wouldn't they?"

"And there's the courtyard house that Grandpa Zhou gave me. It's such a big house, it's such a waste to leave it empty. Selling it to get money for my medical treatment is perfectly reasonable, isn't it?"

Lin Jianguo's eyelids twitched as he listened.

"Chen'er, what are you doing...?"

"Grandpa, our family is going to go bankrupt."

Chu Chen grinned, revealing two rows of tiny teeth.

"We have to be dirt poor, so poor that we can barely pay our workers' wages. That's how it should look if I'm seriously injured in the bombing and the Lin family is crippled."

Everyone in the courtyard was stunned.

Sell ​​the courtyard house that Chief Zhou gave us?

What exactly is this little rascal trying to do?

Lin Jianguo looked at his grandson and felt a chill run from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

This is no five-year-old child; it's clearly an old fox that has lived for a thousand years.

One trap after another, each linked to the next.

He even began to suspect that Lin Fu's rebellion might also be part of this little thing's scheme.

"Uncle Fu".

Chu Chen then turned his gaze to Lin Fu on the ground.

Lin Fu jolted awake and scrambled to his feet, kneeling upright.

"Young master, what are your orders?"

"You go back to Huichuntang now and find Manager Zhao."

Chu Chen gave the instructions.

"Just say that the alchemy furnace exploded, I was blown to bits and barely alive, the Lin family was in complete chaos, and my grandfather was so angry that he was bedridden."

"Make it convincing; you can't skimp on snot and tears, understand?"

Lin Fu nodded like a chick pecking at rice.

"I understand! I understand! I'll definitely act even more convincingly than the real thing!"

"Acting alone is not enough."

Chu Chen then took out the jade bottle containing the body-tempering fluid from his bosom.

He uncorked the bottle and flicked a drop at Lin Fu's chest from a distance.

The drop of emerald green liquid traced an arc in the air and precisely disappeared into Lin Fu's clothes.

Lin Fu felt a chill in his chest, followed by an indescribable stench emanating from his body, like a dead fish that had been rotting for ten days.

"vomit!"

The two guys closest to him vomited on the spot.

Lin Fu himself almost fainted when he smelled the odor.

"This is……"

"This is the pus and blood that came out of my wound, and it got on you."

Chu Chen continued to spout nonsense without changing his expression.

"Come back to me in three days to get the antidote. By then, the smell will be gone."

"For the next three days, you'll carry this smell and go to inform Manager Zhao. If he doesn't believe you, just let him smell this."

Lin Fu's face looked worse than if he had been crying.

With that smell, he'd be stoned to death on the street, let alone going to Huichuntang.

But he dared not utter a single complaint.

In order to save his life, he gritted his teeth and kowtowed three times to Chu Chen.

"Don't worry, young master! I'll not only lure that guy surnamed Zhao out for you!"

"I'll also write down every single one of Huichuntang's shady dealings over the years—selling fake medicine, causing deaths, evading taxes—in my little notebook, as a pledge of loyalty to you!"

This old dog is really going all out to survive.

Chu Chen nodded in satisfaction.

"Get lost."

Lin Fu felt as if he had been granted a pardon, and he scrambled out of the alchemy room, the stench following him away.

The courtyard finally returned to peace.

Lin Jianguo looked at his grandson, opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word for a long time.

After a long while, he finally let out a long sigh, his face filled with a complex expression.

"Chen'er, tell your grandfather, who exactly are you?"

Chu Chen walked to the half-person-high purple copper alchemy furnace, stood on tiptoe, and touched the warm furnace wall.

He turned around and looked at Lin Jianguo, his face showing a weariness beyond his years.

Grandpa.

"I am your grandson, Chu Chen."

He paused, then added a sentence.

"One, Chu Chen, wants to wake his mother up, wants to protect his grandfather, and wants all the bad guys to pay the price."

Lin Jianguo's eyes welled up with tears. He stepped forward and pulled the small body into his arms.

"Okay! Okay! Grandpa will listen to you! I'll listen to everything you say!"

He patted Chu Chen on the back, his voice carrying a fierce determination.

"So what if you go bankrupt? My Lin family will burn this Jishetang down and play along to the bitter end!"

Chu Chen, nestled in his arms, revealed a sly smile.

"Grandpa, I've set up this game."

"Those in the capital who want to see our family make a fool of themselves, and who want a piece of the pie, must be getting restless by now, right?"