Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Clue to the Antidote
A polite opening of greetings must be indispensable, but Kekeli's grandmother always looks smiling and speaks very openly, and it didn't take long for Su Xiao and the others to no longer be restrained. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Grandma, we came here today to inquire about the whereabouts of the antidote." Su Xiao said straight to the point: "I heard that you have news about the antidote here, so we came here to inquire." β
"Antidote...... Hearing this word, the old woman put away her smile and closed her eyes in contemplation, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that this kind of contemplation was by no means thinking, but was touched by a certain heartstring that had been sealed for a long time.
"If you really don't want to say it, don't say it." Chen Yaxuan is soft-hearted, although she came with the purpose of triggering the plot task, but seeing that the old man seems to have something unspeakable, how can she bear to ask the bottom line? This kind of lack of morality that exposes people's scars, Chen Yaxuan will never be able to do it.
"Good boys, you're all good boys." The old woman looked at Chen Yaxuan with eyes that were not yet cloudy, and said with a smile: "Life is only a hundred years, in a world full of killing and deception, what can not be said?" β
Then Kcorley's grandmother told her story.
Kkeley's grandmother was named Triss Bailey, a descendant of a family of apothecaries.
Two hundred years ago, before the last beast tide appeared, Peacock City was the most prosperous city in the Snow Country's potion market, and it was Grandma Trisi's ancestors, the Bailey family, who controlled the potion market. The Bailey family of that generation can be described as a generation of talents, not only the production of medicine is huge, but also the pharmaceutical innovation is endless, what antidotes, scald creams, anti-dizziness prescriptions are exclusively developed by the Bailey family, because of the outstanding merits, the Bailey family has even been received by the king, it is really a smash hit.
There are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and no one knows that the beast tide is quietly coming, and the unprepared human beings are caught off guard by the sudden beast tide, and with the help of the last group of heroes from the other world, they can survive. Seeing that the situation was not developing well, the big boss of the Bailey family was really unwilling to let the family foundation be ruined in his own hands, so he immediately decided to let more than eighty percent of the family's living force hide in the depths of the savage snow mountain along the flow of people who took refuge. Naturally, the prescriptions of various potions were also brought into the snowy mountains by the Bailey family, and were passed down from generation to generation until they reached the young Grandma Triss two hundred years later.
The Bailey family is talented, but genetically destined to be unemployed. The unemployed can't be upgraded and have no skills, and their physical fitness is the same as that of ordinary earthlings, and crossing the snowy mountains almost kills them, even if the people in the same group take care of them a lot, many people freeze to death and starve to death on the way to escape. Therefore, when they settled deep in the snow-capped mountains and built a village with their own hands, the idea of leaving became weaker and weaker.
Two hundred years is enough time to change everything, and the glorious history of the Bailey family has also been buried by time, and the descendants of the Bailey family are not as good as the next generation, until Grandma Tris's parents gave birth to her, and their only mission is to pass on the prescription to the next generation, and the grand ambition to revitalize the family has been forgotten. It was this lack of progress that made Tracey grow from an ignorant girl to an ignorant woman, with no family name and bloodline, but no idea of the family's history and the value of those prescriptions.
One day, the village welcomed one of the few distinguished guests since the establishment of the village. It was a businessman, a handsome, gentlemanly young businessman. Tris, on the other hand, was the first person the young merchant met in the village.
This encounter turns the story into a bloody love drama, the merchant falls in love with Tracy at first sight, the two fall in love, and in order to be with Tracy, the merchant even puts down the family business and lives in the depths of the snowy mountains for half a year.
Perhaps because of the businessman's natural keen sense of smell, in the past six months, he has uncovered the history of the Bailey family step by step, confirmed the identity of the Triss family, and even knew the existence of those prescriptions. Since the relocation of the Bailey family two hundred years ago, the pharmacy market in Peacock City has been depressed, and even the prescriptions of the little red and little blue bottles have almost drained their brains. There is no doubt that the prescriptions in Grandma Tris's hands are definitely a bigger business opportunity than a gold mine, and for a businessman, the value of these prescriptions cannot even be described as getting rich overnight!
The merchant is greedy, and he tricks Triss into his hands on the prescription with his rhetoric. But the merchant also really likes Tris, and promises her that when she is successful in her career, he will come to the village to bring the family back to Peacock Villas, and give her the most solemn wedding and make her the most beautiful bride.
If the wish is not good, it is not a wish, and if there is no accident, dog blood is not dog blood. When the merchant returned home after disappearing for half a year, his parents were anxious and angry, hearing that he had found a lover in a wild village deep in the snowy mountains, and even more so that he had no idea of marrying Tris. Within a year, the young businessman was coerced and lured by his parents to marry a well-connected lady, but he did not make the prescription public. According to his own words, emotionally he already owes Tracey too much, and if he uses those prescriptions to make money, won't he be punished by God?
I have to say that the businessman's wife is also a good wife and mother, and the two live happily after marriage and have their own children. Only the merchant himself knew that the dusty suitcase under the bed was like a spike stuck in his heart, and every time he saw it, he remembered Tracey's rainbow smile. The merchant was ashamed, and he couldn't reassure Tracey, but when it came to the choice between Tracey and his wife, he chose the latter with difficultyβafter all, she was already a woman of his own right, and she had borne a child for herself, and Tracey ...... may have become a good wife and mother to others.
The unemployed are ordinary people, and their birth, old age, sickness and death cannot be interfered with healing skills. When the merchant in his sixties unfortunately fell ill and was dying, he summoned his wife and children to his bedside and revealed his past with Tracey. He said that he had dreamed of God, and that God had told him when he would die, and that his only wish before he died was to see Triss again and return the suitcase containing the prescription to the Bailey family under the bed. And when the merchant saw Grandma Tris, who had gray hair and a fat body, standing in front of him, he knew that she had been waiting for him, and for that unreliable promise, she had to wait from a young and beautiful girl to an old man!
The merchant cried, he screamed, he repented, he laughed at himself, until he fell asleep with a smile on his face......
"So, is this house what he left you?" Su Xiao thinks that he was born in an unhappy family, but compared to Grandma Trisi, who has never had a family, he really has no face to find resonance in it. However, in the face of the game's plot, Su Xiao always retains a trace of sanity, at least he can now be sure that this merchant is not a black market merchant.
The old woman sighed softly, "He doesn't owe me anything, I'm willing to wait, that's my own stupidity, I don't blame him." β
After listening to this story, Chen Yaxuan and Kekeli had already hugged each other and cried silently, so anxious that Alice stretched out her little hand to wipe it on the left and on the right, and said while wiping: "Sister don't cry, sister doesn't cry." β
Su Xiao naturally looked at Chen Yaxuan distressedly, and Grandma Trisi understood Su Xiao's gaze, with tears in her eyes, and said in a slightly trembling voice: "You are all good children, don't follow grandma's old path, ah." β
"Yes......" Su smiled for a second, nodded honestly in agreement, and returned to the topic, "Grandma, I already know that the prescription is the inheritance of the Bailey family, but now that the beast tide is coming, if there is no antidote, the efficiency of our upgrade will be greatly reduced, so, can you please lend us the prescription?" We promise we won't make money with it. β
"You're friends with Kekli again, and of course Grandma won't refuse. Supposedly, I should have passed on the prescription to her, but I did not take it back, and left it at the merchant's house. If you need to, you might have to take two more steps to visit his house. Grandma Triss looked out the window and whispered, "His house is at 45 Carter Street, a big house, very recognizable." β
"Thank you, grandma." Su Xiao knew in his heart that how could he solve the plot with one trip, and he wanted to go shopping for spices at the beginning, didn't he? Su Xiao acted resolutely, got the news, and prepared to set off as soon as possible, turned back to Chen Yaxuan and the four of them, and said, "I'll take a look, you can accompany grandma here." β
"Nope! I want a young master! Hearing that Su Xiao was going to leave alone, Alice jumped up to him like a small spring and hugged his waist.
"Xiao Ai wants to go with you, can you take care of her?" Chen Yaxuan walked up to her and rubbed Alice's long golden hair, and whispered, "I'll go too." β
Chen Yaxuan's request was no longer unreasonable, and Su Xiao was reluctant to refuse, just when he was about to say that Su Geman and Kekeli would stay, Kekeli took the initiative to propose: "I will go with you too, those prescriptions are very valuable, you strangers come to the door, and people may not be willing to give you the prescription." I've been to their house with my grandmother before, and I asked for a prescription, and that's right, isn't it? β
As soon as Kekeli said that she was leaving, how could Sugerman not follow, looking at the lonely old woman, Su Xiao said helplessly: "It's not good to leave the old man at home alone?" β
"What's so bad about it? How are you mother-in-law, isn't it a man? Kekeli glanced at Su Xiao, then turned around and smiled at her grandmother, and said, "Grandma, you wait for us at home, and when we are done, we will come back to have dinner with you!" β
"Good! Good! There hasn't been such a lively atmosphere at home for a long time, and Grandma Trisi said with a smile: "Don't worry, I'll cook a good meal at home and wait for you to come back!" β