Chapter 739
"You are keeping the Ephedra Syrup form to yourself and not willing to share it forrge-scale
production, even when the investigation team came all the way from Capital City to request for it.
You are taking people''s lives for granted in order to make a fortune for yourself."
"And yet, you pretend to be a kind and skillful doctor to the public!"
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The old man let out a long sigh. He waved his hand and stepped out of the medical centre.
Hearing this, Fade frowned and looked at the old man, thinking long and hard.
However, the apprentice next to him wentpletely berserk. He rushed towards the old man,
ring at him with fiery eyes, and said, "Stop where you are and apologize to Dr Chen right now."
"Apologize? Why should I apologize? Just because I told you the truth?" The old man said.
The apprentice said angrily, "The truth, what bullsh*t truth! What you said is nder!"
"You know nothing about how much effort Dr. Chen has put in to make this substitute drug, and the
grievances he has suffered because of it. You are talking nonsense and wrongfully using him."
"Efforts and grievances?" There was a look of disbelief on the old man''s face as he said to the
apprentice, "I wonder, as a greedy businessman, what kind of efforts did he put in? What kind of
grievances did he suffer?"
His words made Fade frown again. Fade said, "There''s no need to exin. Send him away. It''s fine
if he doesn''t believe it."
The apprentice looked at Fade in bewilderment. Finally, he blurted out, "Dr. Chen, no, I can''t hold it
in anymore. This old guy ndered you. I must rify things for you, otherwise, I wouldn''t be able to
sleep for the whole week."
"Drop your act," demanded the old man.
His words really infuriated the apprentice. He red at the old man and said, "Shut up. Don''t talk
about things that you don''t know."
"Did you know that when the shortage of antibiotics first began in Dragonville, it caused a sudden
increase in the demand for Life Elixir Wine, and the price skyrocketed? The original price was 500
yuan per bottle, but at that time, it soared up to around 20,000 to 30,000 yuan per bottle, and the
price just kept on rising."
The old man felt a little puzzled and asked, "What do you mean by the Life Elixir Wine? What does
it have to do with him?"
The apprentice continued, "Of course it has everything to do with Dr Chen, he was the one who
developed the Life Elixir Wine. At that time, the price rose sharply and we were running out of stock
everywhere. It was such a golden opportunity to make money, but Dr Chen was strongly against the
intion in pricing. He ordered all the sellers to cut down their prices and keep to the original selling
price."
"If Dr. Chen was really such a money- minded person, why would he give up on such a golden
opportunity?"
Upon hearing this, the old man couldn''t help asking, "Is this true?"
"Of course it is. This has been a hot topic in Dragonville City recently, and Dr Chen had offended
countless businessmen over the matter. Everyone in Dragonville City know about this, you can ask
them about it." The apprentice retorted.
The old man was silent for a while, and then he questioned, "ording to what you said, Dr. Chen
really cares for everyone''s wellbeing. In that case, why did he refuse to sign the patent license
agreement and share the form with the investigation team, but instead name such a high price
for it?"
Hearing this, the apprentice became even more incensed. He said, "Where did you hear that? Who
said that Dr. Chen refused to share the form? Who said that Dr. Chen asked for money from the
investigation team?"
"Am I wrong? But that''s really what I heard?" The old man asked.
The apprentice said indignantly, "I don''t know who you heard this from, but I''m telling you, this is not
the truth at all."
"Before the investigation team arrived, Dr. Chen had already prepared a patent license agreement
which gives them the right to produce the Ephedra Syrup for free, so as to speed up the production
of the drug."
"However, those people were extremely arrogant. They werete for our first meeting and even
refused to get out of the car without a literal red carpet wee."
"We respectfully invited them in and showed them the unconditionally free patent license
agreement."
"But theypletely ignored Dr. Chen''s document, and insisted for us to sign the documents they
provided instead."
At this, the old man frowned and the muscles on his face throbbed slightly. "Really? Then why didn''t
you sign the documents from them?" "Why didn''t Dr Chen sign?" The apprentice bellowed angrily,
"Well, Dr. Chen was already willing to give them the right to produce the Ephedra Syrup for free, but
the greedy Captain Lu shamelessly asked Dr. Chen to transfer the patent right to them for free."
"Transfer it!" The old man frowned and repeated the word.
The apprentice continued in agitated tone, "What''s more, it wasn''t the Ministry of Health whom the
patent was stated to be transferred to, but Captain Lu''s ownpany. It''s called the Bulrush
Pharma."
"Dr. Chen has really spent a lot of time and effort to develop the substitute drug. It''s fine if we share
it out for free in order to save lives. But those people were really too much, they tantly intended
to snatch the patent away from us for the purpose of personal gain."
"If we really passed them the patent right, then all our hard work and sacrifices would have been in
vain!"
"Not long ago, Bald Eagle Pharma had even offered one hundred million yuan to Dr. Chen for his
Ephedra Syrup patent, with an additional interest rate of a few million yuan per year, but Dr.
Chen refused the offer without a second thought. He just wanted to uphold the people''s welfare by
helping the country to ovee the critical shortage of antibiotics."
"Ask yourself, if you were in Dr. Chen''s shoes, would you have signed the document?" The
apprentice shot the old man a re and questioned him in return.
After hearing the exnation from the apprentice, the old man''s face turned grave and solemn. He
nced at Fade and the apprentice, as if trying to make sense of the whole situation. He asked
them, "Are you telling the truth?"
Fade nodded curtly and said, "It''s true. But of course, whether you believe it or not ispletely up
to you."
The apprentice was a little agitated. He said, "Of course it''s true. We have a copy of the agreement
that Captain Lu provided. Moreover, we have the voice record of yesterday''s meeting."
"Can you show me the agreement and recording?" the old man asked.
The apprentice was stunned and looked at Fade.
Fade looked at the old man with a strange expression and said, "Who are you? What do you want
these things for?"
The old man said to Fade seriously, "I mean no harm. I''m just an old Chinese medicine practitioner
who wants to save the world like you do."
"A Chinese medicine practitioner, as expected." Fade suddenly thought of something and said,
"Yourplicated pulse just now was the result of pricking the Wan Gu, Shen Yu, and Feng Chi
acupoints using silver needles beforeing in."
Hearing this, the old man was thunderstruck, "How did you know?"
Fade said, "Your pulse was really strange and irregr earlier. It would easily have been
misdiagnosed as cardiac deficiency and cold by an inexperienced Chinese medicine practitioner.
But with careful examination, the subtle differences could still be identified."
"I saw through your tricks, so I said that you were not sick and asked you to leave instead," Fade
said calmly.