After delivering the pills, Li Jishen's call came right after. In short, he thanked him profusely—for everything!
Of course, Chen Mo did not refuse. He also said that this batch of pills had been painstakingly refined, that the medicinal materials had been difficult to gather, and that many medicinal materials nowadays were cultivated, with their medicinal potency severely diminished, and so on.
When you did something, you had to make sure to say so. Otherwise, not only would you fail to receive genuine gratitude, people might later come to see it as only natural.
Sure enough, upon hearing that, Li Jishen immediately said, "The West City Special Affairs Administration warehouse has collected some medicinal materials of fairly good quality. I'll have someone deliver them to you."
See? If he had not mentioned how hard he had worked or what he had invested, where would this doorstep delivery and gratitude have come from?
After chatting for a while longer, the two finally hung up. Chen Mo immediately turned the car around and headed back to Gourd Valley. He still had to treat more than ten people, so time was tight.
However, he had not expected to run into Xi Zhihan when he returned to Chen Family Village and was about to turn toward Gourd Valley. She was sitting in her car, waiting for him.
"I've been waiting for you for three hours! Why did you only get back now?" Xi Zhihan complained. They had agreed over dinner yesterday that she would come to Chen Family Village to haul the goods back.
"Why are you in such a rush? I thought you'd come over this afternoon." Although they had made plans over dinner yesterday, they had agreed on the afternoon because Chen Mo had considered that something might delay him in the