Daily Life in the Countryside After Being Reborn-Chapter 250 - 38: Pueraria Root + Mint = Xiao Xian Brand Hangover Medicine_2

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"Why bother with traditional Chinese medicine to lower blood pressure when Grandma Zeng has already bought the best hypertension medication? The celery in the kitchen is sufficient," Xiao Xian replied as if it were obvious, without the slightest sense that she was benefiting from the space’s advantages, treating cheating as something shameful.

The next day, early in the morning, when Mrs. Zeng got out of bed and went downstairs, her head was still pounding with pain. She seemed a bit hungover. When she reached the dining table, in addition to breakfast, she also noticed two cups containing suspicious liquids.

Mrs. Zeng glanced towards the kitchen, surprised not to see her mother’s figure. She then remembered it was the weekend, and her daughter was nowhere in sight either. The entire house was quiet.

Leaning closer to the two cups to take a sniff, one of them had a strong smell of celery, "Celery juice?" Mrs. Zeng pondered, wondering since when the household had stopped drinking soy milk for breakfast and switched to celery juice instead.

The other cup didn’t appear to be vegetable juice; it was a light brown color, and it smelled of cooling mint and an aromatic herb. After a hangover, one can’t help but feel a dry throat and dizzy head. Upon smelling the aroma, Mrs. Zeng felt somewhat refreshed. It looked and tasted palatable, so she gulped it down. As for the cup of celery juice, she couldn’t be bothered to drink it.

When Grandma Zeng returned home with groceries, she saw Mrs. Zeng still seated at the dining table, having finished the porridge and steamed buns, and now she was staring blankly at the cup of celery juice.

"Drink up the celery juice; don’t leave a drop," the forty-something-year-old Mrs. Zeng was taken aback by Grandma Zeng’s words. Listening to her mother’s tone took her back over thirty years, to when she was a four-year-old child. In the blink of an eye, her hair was grey, and she has been a business-savvy, strong woman for over a decade, yet she silently obeyed and finished the cup of celery juice.

"Mom, where is Xiao Rou? And what was the other cup of medicine on the table earlier?" asked Mrs. Zeng. The day after being drunk, she felt weary and had little appetite, and in worse cases, she would feel chest tightness and stomach pain. Today, after drinking that cup of herbal medicine, she found her spirits lifted significantly, and she cleaned out the breakfast on the table.

"It’s an herbal remedy from Xiao Rou’s good friend—Pueraria Root and Mint leaves. Xiao Rou was worried about your stomach discomfort, so she added honey. How do you feel, more comfortable after drinking it?" Traditional Chinese medicine tends to be cooling, and too much can upset the stomach. Grandma Zeng knew an old TCM doctor who concocted the brew early in the morning, and it was Xiao Xian who reminded to add a few red dates to warm the stomach.

"The effect is very good. Unlike the previous hangover medicines, its efficacy wasn’t nearly as good, whether it’s because of the honey or the red dates, but it left a warm and comfortable feeling." Mrs. Zeng had just finished speaking when she suddenly digested what her mother had said earlier. Daughter’s good friend? Since when did Xiao Rou have good friends?

Zeng Xuerou was reluctantly "lured" by Xiao Xian and Zhang Yiyi to the doorstep of a beauty clinic. She had only taken the hangover cure to a hospital for appraisal, and it would take two hours to get the results. That’s when Zhang Yiyi brought up the idea to look around.

As a native Beijinger, Zeng Xuerou felt obliged to play the host, but had no idea they would end up in front of a place called "An’an Beauty Salon."

"This is it. Last time I was here, I heard about a ’smart drug’ for sale," Zhang Yiyi did not mention who had given her this information.

After repeated persuasion to no avail, and perhaps under a sense of guardianship, Zeng Xuerou bit the bullet and walked into the beauty salon.

"I’m looking for the consultant who attended to me last time," Zhang Yiyi’s height is indeed memorable, not to mention that, after she left on that day, the beauty consultant threw a fit for a good while—the receptionist couldn’t forget even if she wanted to.

Upon seeing Zhang Yiyi again, the beauty consultant smirked awkwardly. Seeing the two people she brought along, she couldn’t guess the intentions of this returning customer, "Little... big student, you’re back? As I told you last time, we don’t sell smart drugs here."

"I’m not here to buy drugs for boosting intelligence," Zeng Xuerou couldn’t stand such an idiotic conversation, preferring to get to the point instead. Spending another minute here felt like an insult to her intelligence. "Do you have a kind of medicine here, similar to the steroids athletes use, like stimulants? My sister needs this kind of medication, and we are willing to pay for it."

As Zeng Xuerou spoke, she fiddled with her private car keys conspicuously. She had her own insights into the psyche of salespeople like these.

The beauty consultant, internally sizing up the lead female student decked out in designer labels, with car keys in hand, had already calculated the potential deal.

With business knocking at the door, how could she refuse? Carried away by the allure of money, the beauty consultant set aside the salon’s policy that purchasing ’A Element’ required referrals from acquaintances, and eagerly pulled it out.

"This comes from the American Mengshan Company’s subsidiary research institute, a purely natural sports medicine, entirely different from the stimulants you’re mentioning." The beauty consultant praised ’A Element’ to the skies, using flattering words like green, pollution-free, and more.

"It says here that it’s extracted from deep-sea algae and multiple plant seeds, completely harmless and without side effects to the human body—is all of this true?" Zeng Xuerou scrutinized the ’A Element’ in her hand.

The dark brown bottle was styled like an oral solution, 35 milliliters each. Upon opening a bottle, it had no discernible scent.

"Xiao Xian, come take a look," Zeng Xuerou handed the medication to Xiao Xian. She also recalled that last time during an environmental sanitation assessment, Xiao Xian was planting vegetation. Moreover, her previously crafted hangover remedy was the most reliable choice for appraisal.

(To be continued. If you like this work, the author would appreciate your votes for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets at Qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.)

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