Chapter 768: Cheng Antai is an old fox
It turned out that although Cheng Antai looked so rich on the surface, in fact, he was just the agent of a big family in Binyang in the provincial capital.
This family is the Ouyang family of the four major families in the provincial capital.
Although the Ouyang family ranks low among the four major families in the provincial capital, its strength should not be underestimated. Not only in the political and business circles of the province, but also looking at the whole country, the Ouyang family has strong backstage support.
The Ouyang family has a great business and has a large number of its own supporters in the provincial capital, such as the Fang family, the Liao family, etc., all of whom are allies who stand on the same front as the Ouyang family.
Not long ago, the old man of the Ouyang family had a strange disease, and he searched for a famous doctor to treat it, and finally a Taoist priest provided a home remedy, saying that if he found an extinct creature to make medicine for the old man, he could cure his disease.
As soon as the Taoist priest's prescription came out, the people of the Ouyang family looked for this strange recipe everywhere in line with the idea of a dead horse being a live horse doctor. As a subordinate of the Ouyang family, Cheng Antai and they were not idle and participated in the search.
However, this method is easy to say, but it is as difficult to do as a fantasy. In this world, since it is said to be an extinct creature, there is naturally no trace of it. Could it be that you want to find a dinosaur to come out and stew it for the old man?
In the past six months or so, the Ouyang family has dispatched almost all the forces that can be used, but they have never found the strange formula that the Taoist priest said. And just when everyone wanted to give up, they didn't want to be really inquired by Cheng Antai for some news.
Cheng Antai learned that Lao Zhao in the small fishing village had a Yangtze River anchovy that had disappeared for 20 years, so he thought about it and decided that this Yangtze River anchovy was the extinct creature that the Taoist priest said.
If you think about it carefully, this is indeed the case, just imagine, a creature has not been seen for 20 years, isn't it equivalent to being extinct? Now that it has suddenly reappeared in the world, isn't it equivalent to the life-saving medicine that God sent to the old man?
So, Cheng Antai personally found Lao Zhao and wanted to buy the divine fish from Lao Zhao at a high price.
Although he didn't understand Cheng Antai's true purpose of buying fish back, he knew that Cheng Antai didn't have the meaning and ability to pass on the Yangtze River anchovy at all, so he didn't sell it to him anyway.
Cheng Antai couldn't find a fish, and even decided that this kind of divine fish was the best medicine to treat Old Man Ouyang, so he asked for it many times, and even sent a bald head to rob it.
After listening to Cheng Antai's account, Liang Fei only felt that he couldn't cry or laugh for a while. He himself is a doctor, but he doesn't know what other divine fish in this world can have such a miraculous effect, and it can be used as a special medicine to treat diseases and save people.
"Mr. Liang, what are you laughing at?"
Cheng Antai had just finished speaking, but he saw Liang Fei smiling disapprerovingly there, and couldn't help but ask strangely.
"Hahaha, Mr. Cheng, I'm laughing at you for not arguing right and wrong, but believing in the words of a demon. ”
Liang Fei didn't hide what he meant at all, and laughed: "Although in Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica, some fish can also be used in medicine. But just because it can be used as medicine doesn't mean that fish is medicine. I have studied medicine for many years, and I have never heard that eating fish can cure a disease. ”
"This ......"
Hearing Liang Fei say this, Cheng Antai and everyone also showed shame. None of them are stupid people, but this matter is in a hurry, and it is the Ouyang family who is in a hurry to go to the doctor, putting pressure on them in many ways, and they are also very passive.
"Mr. Liang, what you said makes sense. ”
Cheng Antai's face was a little embarrassed, and after glancing at Liang Fei, he sighed helplessly and said: "Actually, we also had this idea at the beginning, thinking that this violates the fundamental law of food and medicine. Although some foods are also medicines, and medicines are also physical objects, it is true that no one uses fish to cure diseases......"
Cheng Antai hadn't finished his words, but he paused halfway. Liang Fei didn't bother, he knew that Cheng Antai must still have something to say.
Sure enough, as Liang Fei expected, Cheng Antai paused for a moment, then turned around and said suspiciously: "But this Yangtze River anchovy seems to be a little different......
This fish, which used to be a delicacy on the table, has since become extinct, and now it has suddenly appeared, but only a few have appeared. Is this exactly in response to the Taoist priest's proverb, which can really cure Old Man Ouyang's illness?"
Although this is just Cheng Antai's own guess, he doesn't dare to use his own guess to figure it out, even if he knows that Liang Fei doesn't believe it, he doesn't dare to convince him forcibly?
"Boss Cheng, you guys are too superstitious!"
However, Liang Fei unceremoniously gave him a negative statement about Cheng Antai's speculation, and even said in Cheng Antai's irrefutable voice: "I can tell you clearly that the Yangtze River anchovy is just a kind of fish, it is fresh and can be eaten, but it is tantamount to a fantasy to count on it to cure diseases."
What's more, this fish has disappeared for twenty years, and now it has reappeared, which is protected by the state, even the king of heaven and Lao Tzu can't eat it!"
"This ......"
Hearing Liang Fei's long speech, Cheng Antai and the others were suddenly speechless by him, and looked at Liang Fei in amazement, with his mouth wide open, but he couldn't speak.
After a long while, Cheng Antai seemed to have realized something from Liang Fei's words, and asked tentatively: "Mr. Liang, do you ...... If you don't give this divine fish to Old Man Ouyang to eat...... I don't know if Mr. Liang has any better way?"
To be honest, in fact, Cheng Antai is really entangled, and he doesn't want to spend such a big price to buy that divine fish.
If this fish is effective in treating Old Man Ouyang's illness, then it is easy to say, but if there is no egg, wouldn't all the silver spent by himself go to the water?
"What else can be done?"
Seeing Cheng Antai's pitiful look with a crying and sad face, Liang Fei only felt angry and ridiculous, and immediately glared at Cheng Antai angrily: "Since Old Man Ouyang is sick, then we must first find out what kind of disease his old man has, and then prescribe the right medicine and cure his disease." ”
"Well, well, that's what I thought too!"
Although Liang Fei's words sounded natural, he was inadvertently led into the pit by Cheng Antai. When Cheng Antai heard this, a pair of shrewd old eyes were no longer cloudy, but their eyes were shining, and he looked at Liang Fei and said: "Mr. Liang, you are a generation of miracle doctors, and your medical skills are so clever, I wonder if you can accompany me to the provincial capital to see the old man of the Ouyang family?"
When Liang Fei heard this, he suddenly had a general feeling in his heart that he had been calculated by Cheng Antai, an old fox. It seems that Cheng Antai's real purpose for asking himself to come here today is really not to buy the divine fish at a double price, but to invite himself to go to the provincial capital to treat Old Man Ouyang!