Chapter 353
Chapter 353 What’s Between You and Him
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“You want to know why?”
Arthur pulled an inexplicably baffling and amorous smile at Elspeth, who held her breath and said, “Tell
me.”
“It’s a secret!” With that, the man walked away resolutely.
Then, something seemed to have hit him as he turned back around. “That reminds me. Our engagement
party was ruined. We’ll have to redo it in a couple of days. You better get ready for it again.”
Elspeth had just lost interest in why he would poison Ginna, and now he threw this bomb at her.
“Can’t we just leave it as it is? We’ve already done it once, and everyone already knows.”
All things aside, just having to wake up at 5.00AM to get her makeup done was already torturous
enough.
“That won’t fly. I’m a man of principles; everything needs to be done through and through.” Arthur shook
his head with a frown. It seemed that he cared a lot about this matter.
In the end, he still left after he said everything he wanted to.
Elspeth didn’t have anything important to see to either. Then, it suddenly urred to her that she hadn’t
given Isabel the medicinal herbs she had brought back the other time. Hence, she decided to buy a few
other medicinal herbs from the hospital to mix with that batch after reaching home.
However, there were too few medicinal herbs in hospitals abroad. Even if the hospital she was in had the
city’srgest medicinal herb dispensary, she couldn’t enter as she pleased, let alone obtain those
medicinal herbs.
Still, she went with a glimmer of hope.
Just as she arrived at the entrance, the middle-aged man guarding the medicinal herb dispensary stood
up and cautioned gravely, “Persons concerned only, miss. Please leave.”
“I’d like to purchase some medicinal herbs. May I please speak to your person-in-charge about it?”
Elspeth asked politely.
“But…” Seeing that a stunning, polite woman pleaded to him, the middle-aged man started hesitating.
At that, Elspeth began imploring and talking her way into it. Coupled with her impable smile, the man
gave in immediately. “Alright, alright, let me check.”
With that, the man left and returned with a Damorian guy, whom Elspeth thought looked familiar but just
couldn’t quite figure out where she had seen him.
As thetter was also from Damoria, he lowered his guard immediately after seeing Elspeth, and he
asked, “May I know what you’ll be doing with these medicinal herbs, miss?”
“I have a friend seeking medical treatment,” she answered euphemistically, “and I happened to specialize
in traditional medicine, so I’d like to buy some medicinal herbs.”
Hearing that she specialized in traditional medicine, the man narrowed his eyes slightly, and he sized her
up arbitrarily with his piercing gaze. “You look like you’re just in your early twenties, and you say you
specialize in traditional medicine?”
Elspeth suspected that the man doubted her because she said she ‘specialized’ in the study, so she
backtracked her words at once. “Well, not really. I just know a thing or two.”
“Know a thing or two, and you already dare treat someone else so casually. Are you not worried you’ll
cause your friend misfortune?”
The man was displeased no matter what she said.
“Yes, I only know a thing or two, and I’m not skilled enough, but my mentor’s a master in traditional
medicine. Nothing will happen to her.”
At that, the man became even more skeptical. “You have a mentor? What’s his name?”
Anyone with a good temper would’ve long be annoyed after so much questioning, let alone Elspeth.
“This doesn’t have much to do with my wish to purchase medicinal herbs, does it?” Elspeth’s gaze turned
cold.
“Of course, it does. If something bad happens to your friend after consuming the medicinal herbs you got
from us, people wille to us after finding out the source of those herbs. So, to avoid any unnecessary
issues, I have to get things straight.” At the end of the day, the man was just doing his job. “I only have
some trust in you and asked so many questions because you’re also from Damoria. If it were someone
else, I’d have shooed them away immediately.”
“I’m really sorry. I can’t tell you my mentor’s name. But I can most certainly treat my friend’s illness.”
Elspeth realized her overreaction might have upset him.
“In that case, you can forget about purchasing any medicinal herbs from us.” The man’s expectant gaze
dimmed at once.
After all, how could anyone bet on a person’s life so easily?!
“Well, can I please have a private moment with you? I’ll tell only you,” Elspeth negotiated, seeing that the
man wanted to leave.
He stopped at once, and he looked side-eyed toward the foreign man next to him. Thetter understood
at once and walked away acquiescently, as unwilling as he was.
“Alright, tell me.”
Now that it was just the two of them, Elspeth answered frankly. “He’s Sonny Schwartz.”
The man’s expression stiffened at once. “Are you sure that’s his name?”
“Yeah. Do you happen to know him personally?” Elspeth’s heart skipped a beat, and an inexplicably
ominous feeling crept up to her, for his expression wasn’t one of the joys of encountering a friend but the
repulsion of meeting a foe.
Sure enough, the man turned grim at once. “I can’t sell my herbs to you then.”
The next second, he turned and left angrily.
With that, Elspeth went up to him and grabbed his wrist in desperation.
She had such a firm grip on him that he couldn’t break free at all. For a moment, he didn’t know what to
say. “What are you doing?”
“I really need the herbs. I hope you can overlook the grudges between you two and sell them to me,”
Elspeth entreated anxiously, causing a chuckle of anger to escape the man. “You think I have a grudge
against him? Do you even know the backstory?”
Elspeth was rendered at a loss for words for a moment. “But you turned me down as soon as you heard
my mentor’s name. Is there no grudge between you two?”
The man hurriedly wrested his wrist free while she was distracted. “Alright, fine. You’ve proven your
point. You really have to buy them, don’t you?”
“Of course.” Elspeth nodded.
“In that case, you have to pass my test.” The man felt his chin before continuing, “As long as you pass
this test, I can give it to you for nothing.”
Have I just hit the jackpot?
“Alright.” Elspeth nodded. “What’s the test?”
“You can use all the herbs in this dispensary. I will specify a sickness, and you have to dispense it. As
long as I am pleased with your results, I will give you the herbs for free.”
Well, it wasn’t a difficult task, but it wouldn’t be easy either.
Back when she was living with Sonny, the old man would force her to dispense medicine every day. With
time, she would know what herbs have been dispensed for certain medications without even having to
look at the prescription.
“But if I’m not happy with the result… You will have to leave immediately.”