Xiao Mo Nong.
Bamboo tower.
Chen Tai was currently holding Su Su’s pair of large white legs, giving her a foot massage.
A voice came from outside, calling out, “Wu Meng.”
“Is it Cai Shu who brought Shen Xing to see me?”
“Tell them I’m still refining pills, let them wait for a while.”
After saying this.
He pressed forward, forcefully pressing on the area right below the row of jade-like toes.
Su Su involuntarily let out a cry of pain.
“This area represents your lungs. You’ve been breathing in secondhand flour from your sister, don’t think it only harms her body.”
“Just like secondhand smoke, secondhand flour is pungent. You’ve been breathing in this stuff, so your lungs have developed some problems.”
Chen Tai pressed again, forcefully.
His finger directly pressed into the plump, pink abductor pollicis brevis.
As he moved his finger back and forth, Su Su didn’t know if it was pain, pleasure, or both.
She couldn’t help but feel it, and because her feet were caught, she couldn’t escape from Chen Tai’s clutches.
So she kept swaying her waist, trying to shift the pain.
Until Chen Tai slapped her on her backside, making a “pop” sound.
“Don’t move, I’m massaging you.”
The abductor pollicis brevis is located above the upper half of the transverse arch of the foot.
The main function of the transverse arch is to distribute body weight and absorb impact from the ground, making it a crucial part of the foot.
In fact, many parts representing the five internal organs are also located on it.
Chen Tai’s finger continued to slide down, pressing on the flexor pollicis brevis.
Su Su made a soft moan, “Yin-ning~,” but she still gritted her teeth and didn’t speak.
“This is your stomach. I can see your reaction is so big, after moving to Xiao Mo Nong for more than a year, have you been eating irregularly and unhealthily, causing many problems with your stomach?”
“Drink some milk later. If you are lactose intolerant, then drink soy milk.”
“Don’t be silent, give me some reaction.”
“Alright, alright.”
“This area here represents your liver. Don’t say it, your liver is actually quite healthy.”
“This is your kidney. Tsk, I told you, you have a kidney deficiency. Just now when I pressed this area, you looked like a shrimp with a bent back.”
“Alright, let me press again.”
He continued downward like this, until he finished pressing the medial longitudinal arch, the lateral longitudinal arch, and then went back to press all the toes again.
Su Su was already drenched in sweat, lying limp on the table, with no strength left.
Chen Tai also satisfiedly put down the two large white legs.
“Your body is much worse than Wu Meng’s.”
It’s true.
Su Su was born in Long Guo, although she wasn’t exactly raised in luxury, she never had to worry about food and clothing, and never had to do heavy work.
But Wu Meng was different. In this border region of Chan Guo, ever since the colonists brought over flour cultivation.
In ordinary native villages, the men either smoke flour or go to war.
The burden of the family directly falls on the women.
The women are the ones who work the fields, and they’re also the ones who carry bricks.
Wu Meng had been working since she was young, and as she grew up, she not only became short, but she also had a slight hunchback.
Thankfully, she met Chen Tai, and every night he kindly helped her straighten her bones.
This allowed her, in just a month or two, to grow into a beautiful young lady.
“Alright, get up and get to work.”
Seeing Su Su still lying on the table, Chen Tai gave her another slap.
…
“Cai Shu, I apologize for making you wait.”
Chen Tai walked into the guest bamboo tower, still carrying a few boxes in his hand.
“Master Tai, no, no, we’re the ones who disturbed you, wasting your precious time.”
Cai Shu put on a smile, clasped his hands together and bowed.
But at the same time, his eyes kept glancing towards the boxes.
“New product, Cai Shu, do you want to try it?”
Chen Tai raised an eyebrow at him.
Cai Shu looked excited, “Master, is it alright? I’d be honored.”
But Chen Tai pretended to put the boxes away.
“Unfortunately, this thing is not for your condition, Cai Shu. It won’t help you if you eat it.”
“It’s fine, it’s fine. If it’s not for my condition, then it means my body is fine, which is the best, which is the best.”
Cai Shu’s mind was racing, and he tentatively asked, “Excuse my boldness, Master, what is this new medicine used for?”
Chen Tai threw the boxes directly in front of him.
“If someone in your family becomes addicted to flour, when they experience withdrawal, they can take one of these. They won’t feel as uncomfortable.”
After all, Chen Tai had put some thought into it, and he explained the Wu Xian Zhen Dan pill.
“However, this pill has some side effects.” Chen Tai said.
“You and I both know that flour, to put it bluntly, is a way to deceive the brain, causing it to secrete excessive amounts of dopamine, making people excited, even hallucinating.”
“The purpose of this pill is similar to a sedative and painkiller. After taking it, it will make people lose all feeling, both physically and mentally.”
“However, it won’t harm the body, it won’t cause addiction, and the effect won’t last very long.”
“I’ve made a few versions, targeting patients with mild, moderate, and severe levels.”
He sighed, “It just lacks some efficacy, but I actually think that’s better, to prevent people from using it for evil purposes.”
Cai Shu was dumbfounded.
What kind of immortal is this?
He wasn’t a flour merchant, and he didn’t understand some of the words that Chen Tai used.
But he knew that, currently, most things that help people quit flour addiction only prevent the withdrawal symptoms from manifesting.
There is a type of substitute medicine that is similar to painkillers and sedatives.
But it itself has a slight addictive quality.
In other words, it’s actually a type of flour that’s not easily addictive.
It requires strict dosage control, and is also a strictly controlled drug.
But the Master Tai before him.
He said he had refined a pill that is non-addictive, and even more effective.
Cai Shu firmly believed that, if the effect is real, not to mention what the flour merchants would think.
At least those positive, addiction treatment organizations would welcome it with open arms.
He cautiously asked, “Master Tai, when you said it’s better to have side effects, what did you mean?”
Chen Tai sighed.
“Sigh, tell me, if there was a medicine that could make flour addiction ineffective, who would be the happiest?”
Cai Shu thought for a moment, “The people who are addicted?”
Chen Tai glanced at him, “Cai Shu, you’re not smart enough. The happiest would be the flour merchants. Wouldn’t it mean that flour can be freely consumed?”
This sentence was like lightning splitting the sky, shocking Cai Shu’s mind.
He mumbled, “Yeah, if there were no side effects, the happiest would be those bastards!”
“But, if...”
He looked at Chen Tai, “Master Tai, this medicine will cause a strong reaction from the flour merchants.”
“You’re going to cut off their source of income!”
Chen Tai motioned for him to come closer.
“You lean in close.”
“Go to Long Guo...”
“Find a Long Guo representative...”
“Register a company...”
“Donate it to a drug rehabilitation organization...”
“Official cooperation...”
Cai Shu’s eyes lit up more and more.
His gaze was so intense, it could melt a person.
To say who in this world hates flour merchants the most?
It has to be Long Guo.
Haven’t you seen, over all these years, which country has been the most determined to crack down on flour merchants?
Basically, only Long Guo is genuinely cracking down.
And if you can get Long Guo’s backing.
Would he, Cai Shu, still care about this broken place, San Bian Po?
“Master!”
Cai Shu immediately knelt down.
“Please let me do this!”
Chen Tai had his eye on Cai Shu.
After all, this guy has a sharp mind.
He is also a Chan Guo person. If there is a disagreement later, it won’t be a pity to throw him away.
So he patted Cai Shu on the shoulder and let the other man kiss his foot.
“Right, what’s the matter with you coming this time?”
Cai Shu then suddenly remembered that he had come with a purpose.
But his vision was too small compared to Master Tai’s.
He said awkwardly, “I felt that Master’s living space was a bit cramped, I want to find a bigger place to honor Master.”
“Now that I think about it, it was my shortsightedness.”
But Chen Tai waved his hand, “It’s alright, just tell me. As long as it doesn’t go against your conscience, I support you in doing it.”
His words clearly showed that he already considered Cai Shu as his subordinate.
But Cai Shu didn’t feel anything wrong with it.
He pulled over Shen Xing, who was already sitting anxiously by the side.
“One is that Ah Xing’s uncle has news, he wants to ask Master for help.”
“And secondly, I want to take over Ma Niu Town, to build a temple for Master.”
Ma Niu Town.
Chen Tai thought for a moment.
He had been wanting to find a place to breed poisonous insects on a large scale for a long time.
“Alright, I’ll let Ba Zi help you.”
“You go ahead and do it.”
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