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Joe smiled before he replied, “I don’t think that we should go to the hospital now. After all, the doctors will deliberately make his condition out to be more serious than it is just so they can scare us into receiving additional treatments. I know of a prescription that is very good for bruises.”
Claire nodded in acknowledgment, and Joe headed toward the door.
As soon as Joe opened the front door, he saw an acquaintance arriving outside his house.
It turned out to be Graham from the Quinton family.
Joe frowned as he stared at Graham and asked, “Why are you here?”
Graham smiled as soon as he saw Joe. “Mr. Smith, I heard that you encountered some unexpected situations today. Therefore, I gathered some herbs and medicine, and I decided to send them over here for you to take a look.”
After he was done speaking, a bodyguard appeared behind Graham before he presented Joe with a red wooden box respectfully.
Graham opened the lid of the wooden box before he smiled and said, “Mr. Smith, please take a look at this.”
Joe saw that Graham had brought him a wooden box filled with old and thick wild ginseng, some purplish-red shiny Ganoderma lucidum, and a few other medicinal herbs that could not be found in any ordinary herb shop.
Although these medicinal herbs were very precious and expensive, they did not contain much spiritual energy. However, these herbs were definitely better than nothing.
Moreover, these medicinal herbs would also come in handy since Joe needed to prepare some pills for invigorating Jacob’s blood circulation.
Joe nodded slightly before saying, “Okay, give it to me.”
Graham hurriedly closed the box before handing it over to Joe. “Thanks to Mr. Smith’s guidance, everything has been going well for the Quinton family. Also, our business has improved tremendously over the past two days. This is all thanks to you! Please do not hesitate to ask the Quinton family for any herbs or medicine that you might need in the future. I will definitely send it over to you immediately.”
Joe replied, “Alright, then. If there are any good medicinal herbs, please send some to me. It will be very useful to me.”
“Okay!” Then, Graham quickly asked, “Mr. Smith, if you have nothing on, would you like to come over to the Quinton family mansion to enjoy some noodles and a home-cooked meal?”
Joe simply replied indifferently, “Maybe another day. There is something that I need to do for my family now.”
“Okay,” Graham hurriedly replied. “I will not bother you any longer.”
After saying that, Graham left immediately, and Joe also turned around and walked back into the house.
Jacob was currently experiencing an unbearable headache, and so, Claire wanted to walk him to a massage center nearby so that he could relieve his headache and promote the blood circulation in his brain.
However, Joe simply said, “Dad, you should not be walking around now. You should take a break and rest more. One of my friends has just delivered some medicinal herbs to me. I will prepare some pills for you, and I believe that it will be very effective in relieving your headache.”
Jacob could not help but ask, “Joe, do you know how to prescribe medicine and cure diseases as well?”
Joe smiled before he replied, “I learned a bit of medicine in the past.”
He could not tell his father-in-law that he had learned about this secret pill from the Apocalyptic Book.
This was a long lost medicinal prescription, and it could not only remove the blood congestion in the brain, but it also had a miraculous effect on any severe brain diseases such as cerebral infarction or stroke.
If Joe could successfully formulate the secret pill, Jacob would definitely be cured.
Nevertheless, Jacob was still a little worried. He could only awkwardly speak to Joe and said, “Joe, I am saying this not because I do not trust you. I know that you are very good at fighting as I have witnessed it personally. However, I don’t think that you will be able to treat illnesses and save people just by watching television…”
Then, Jacob coughed slightly before he said, “Well, I think I will just ask Claire to take me to the hospital!”
Joe smiled before replying, “Okay, dad. If you do not believe me, you can go to the hospital and seek treatment first. It would be great if they could treat you immediately.”
Jacob quickly replied, “No, it is not that I do not trust you. I am just in a lot of pain, so I would like to go to the hospital to get checked by the doctors.”
After that, Jacob turned around and said, “Let’s go, Claire.”
Claire nodded before she helped Jacob to stand up, and they headed out immediately.
At this time, Joe walked into the kitchen as he began preparing the prescription for his secret pill.
According to the Apocalyptic Book, this medicine was very effective. Since Jacob only had a slight blood congestion in his brain, Joe subtracted a few medicinal herbs from the prescription before he began preparing it so that it would not be too strong for Jacob.
The secret pill was developed by a famous Chinese physician, Sun Simiao, during the Tang Dynasty. His widely circulated works were all but lost. His most famous was a memorandum containing the history of all the clinical experience and medical practices in the past dynasties, and these were also included in the Apocalyptic Book.
This one was more clinically valuable compared to the other two medical books. However, not many people knew about it nowadays. It seemed to have been lost completely, and many medical practitioners had never even heard of this name before.
Joe quickly prepared a box of six walnut-sized honey pills according to the prescriptions in the medical books.
As soon as he was done preparing the pills, Jacob and Claire had also just returned.
Jacob was in a lot of pain, and it was becoming increasingly uncomfortable for him to walk and move around.
Claire was also becoming more worried, and she quickly asked, “Dad, if the massage did not work, should we head to the hospital so that you can get a check-up instead? What do you think about that?”
Jacob simply waved his hand as he said, “Oh, I do not want to go to the hospital anymore. It is so troublesome. I will have to do a blood test and a urine test. I am fine now. I just want to sit down and rest for a while.”
Claire had brought Jacob out for a massage to enhance his blood circulation. However, Jacob had not expected it not to have any effect whatsoever. In fact, he felt that his head was hurting even more right now. He just wanted to sit down and rest. Otherwise, he was afraid that he would really faint.
Just then, Joe walked out with the pills that he had just prepared.
Claire could smell the scent of medicinal herbs floating in the air. Looking at Joe with a shocked expression on her face, she asked, “Joe, are you really making some medicine?”
Joe pointed at the pills in his hand before he said, “Dad, this pill can invigorate your blood circulation and remove any blood clots in your brain. It is very effective. Why don’t you try one?”
Jacob looked at Joe as he picked up one of the pills and observed it carefully. He could smell a particularly fresh medicinal scent passing through his nostrils, and he instantly felt refreshed.
He looked up at Joe in surprise as he asked, “You made this pill yourself?”
“Yes!” Joe replied immediately. “I just made it.”
Jacob asked again, “Have you studied medicine before?”
Joe quickly replied, “I learned it from an old man who used to work as a cleaner at the orphanage. His ancestors were all Chinese physicians.”
Jacob looked at Joe in disbelief before he asked, “Are you sure about this? Will something that a cleaner taught you actually work?”
“I guarantee that it will definitely be effective. Dad, why don’t you take one of the pills? I am sure that you will feel better in an instant.”
Jacob felt a little nervous, but as he thought about his current situation and the pain that he was feeling right then, he made up his mind and quickly swallowed the pill.
Before Claire could even ask Joe about the origins of the pill, Jacob had already taken it. Thus, Claire quickly looked at him and asked, “Dad, how are you feeling?”
“It seems as though… my head is no longer hurting that much even though I have just taken the pill.” Jacob was also pleasantly surprised at the effectiveness of the pill.
Even though the pills looked plain and unremarkable, he felt as though he was completely refreshed and energized as soon as he took the pill. It was much easier to breathe, and he felt that his head was much clearer. Moreover, Jacob could feel the pain that he had been feeling at the back of his head slowly disappearing.
Jacob then looked at Joe happily as he asked, “Joe, where did you buy this medicine?”
Joe replied, “Mr. Quinton delivered some medicinal herbs over to me just now.”
Jacob was very pleased, and he praised Graham. “Mr. Quinton is such a good person! He delivered medicinal herbs over to us as soon as he heard that I had suffered some injuries.”