Chapter 53: Does Stepmother Have an Affair?

  The rain came down in fits and starts until it finally stopped completely at midnight.

  The weather started to clear up on the second day, with sunshine everywhere and a slight rise in temperature. In the humid air, it seemed as if the footsteps of spring could be smelled gradually approaching.

  Today is Saturday.

  As usual, Qin Lang should have gotten up early to go to the school library. But he was an exception and slept in until noon before getting out of bed.

  It wasn't that Qin Lang was lazy, or the library didn't open its doors, but rather he had slept very late last night and only entered dreamland when it was almost dawn.

  In one night's time, Qin Lang didn't do anything else and completely devoted himself to summarizing, analyzing and understanding the information.

  Yesterday's incident did not affect Qin Lang's enthusiasm for reading afterwards. He still stayed in the library until closing time before leaving. What was different was that this departure marked the end of his crazy reading spree over this period of time.

  He had read all the books in the library which were of any use to him.

  In such a short time, browsing so many books, Qin Lang didn't have the time to fully absorb them, most of which were like taking pictures, recording the contents of these books in his mind. So after returning home, he began to digest the tens of millions of books in his mind without stopping.

  Such a large amount of information, it's not easy to deal with. Qin Lang spent a whole night and only processed one tenth of it. He plans to fully process the information recorded in his mind within a week from now.

  At that time, this brand new world will become familiar to him from being unfamiliar.

  "The weather is nice!"

  He stretched his waist and got out of bed. After a simple wash, he took out a bank card from the drawer of the bedside table in his bedroom.

  This card was Qin Dashan's little gold vault, and naturally it also became Qin Lang's little gold vault. The card stored Qin Lang's annual lucky money, and the living expenses given by Qin Fengyang every month would also be transferred to this card.

  "According to Qin Da Sha's memory, there should be 100,000 yuan left on this card." Qin Lang pinched the bank card and thought carefully for a moment, feeling that it shouldn't be wrong. However, he felt a little regretful in his heart because originally, there should have been more money on the card than this. To know that just Qin Fengyang's monthly living expenses were 10,000 yuan, let alone the accumulated lucky money over the years, which was not a small amount. For a high school student whose spending was not extravagant, the existing savings should be far more than 100,000 yuan.

  Unfortunately, Qin's previous foolishness was too simple, being extorted by his younger brother, and paying protection fees to the thin monkey gang, plus some miscellaneous reckless spending, finally leaving only 100,000 yuan on this card.

  "Although it's only 100,000, it should be enough to buy the materials for the Fourteen Sons' Nourishing Tendon Soup." Shaking his head, Qin Lang put away the card and walked out the door.

  His preparatory work has been completed, although the information he has processed is only ten percent, but this ten percent of the information is the core information carefully selected by Qin Lang. Now, for the species distribution of this world, as well as various things that can become Dan medicine materials, he is already familiar with them like the back of his hand.

  It was precisely because of this that Qin Lang, who knew that time is life, made up his mind last night to go buy the materials for the Fourteen Sons Yuzhijin Decoction today.

  In a small restaurant near Nan Chen Alley, after having a full meal, Qin Lang began to shuttle back and forth among the major pharmacies in Ping An City.

  This time, Qin Lang did not repeat the same mistake. Since he was already familiar with the name changes of the two world's species, it only took him less than an hour to buy ten out of the fourteen materials he needed from several pharmacies.

  So smoothly, Qin Lang's mood became comfortable, and he continued to run a family pharmacy, wanting to quickly gather the remaining materials he needed.

  But his good luck seemed to have ended there, and for the next period of time, he almost ran through all the pharmacies in the city, but got nothing.

  "It shouldn't be." Walking on the street, Qin Lang carried a bag of materials, his eyebrows furrowed tightly. He was still short of four kinds of materials.

  Two of the four materials were not in the category of traditional Chinese medicine and could not be bought in a pharmacy, but they were not difficult to find, so Qin Lang planned to take some time to get them himself.

  However, there are two other materials that belong to real Chinese medicinal herbs. According to the information Qin Lang obtained from books, these two medicinal herbs are considered relatively precious, but not to the point of being priceless. How is it possible that none of the pharmacies in the entire city sell them?

  As he pondered, Qin Lang's gaze was soon drawn to a pharmacy operating on the side of the street.

  This was the last pharmacy he could find. If this one also didn't have the two Chinese medicinal herbs he wanted to buy, then he would have to think of another way.

  "I hope this pharmacy won't disappoint me." Qin muttered to himself and walked in.

  After informing the medicine master of the two medicinal materials he needed, the medicine master's reply once again disappointed Qin Lang. "We don't have them, our store doesn't have Di Fu Zi and Tong Ma Cao. Young man, you probably don't know that these two medicinal materials are orphaned medicines, generally not sold in ordinary pharmacies."

  "Orphan drug?" Qin Lang's heart cooled down a bit, he knew what these three words represented. Orphan drugs were special medicines used to treat rare diseases, because the market demand was small, the price was expensive, and the collection was difficult, and basically there was no profit to be made, so most pharmacies would not normally stock them.

  It seems that the information in the book is not comprehensive either. At least, I didn't find any mention of these two medicinal materials being "orphan drugs". This is troublesome. Qin Lang furrowed his brow, feeling a bit bitter in his heart. He really hadn't expected that collecting materials for such a simple decoction would be so fraught with setbacks.

  Just as Qin Lang was leaving the pharmacy, the medicine master seemed to have thought of something and shouted at Qin Lang: "Young man, you can go to the 5th floor of Lianqiao International Building to take a look at the Fu Gui Pharmacy, which is the largest pharmacy in Ping An City, a Sino-foreign joint venture. Maybe you can find the two orphan medicines you want there."

  Disheartened Qin Lang heard this and a glimmer of hope rose in his heart, he thanked him and then hailed a taxi to rush to Lianqiao International Building.

  In a taxi, Qin Lang learned some basic information about Lianqiao International Building and Fugui Large Pharmacy from the talkative driver.

  Lianqiao International Building is located in the bustling downtown area, with a superior geographical location, a mature central business district, and a wide range of facilities. All of them are well-known domestic and foreign brands, high-end goods, and high-quality products. Those who can afford to shop here are either rich or noble.

  Fu Gui Da Pharmacy is located on the fifth floor of the building, occupying the entire floor. It specializes in imported health products and imported Chinese and Western medicines. Moreover, there are Ph.D. experts who have returned from overseas to provide guidance. The pharmacy operates 24 hours a day without interruption. Throughout Ping An City, or even the entire province, Fu Gui Da Pharmacy is considered one of the top-rated pharmacies in terms of scale.

  When Qin Lang got off the car, his hope grew a bit bigger. As he raised his eyes to see the towering building of Lianqiao International and the huge advertisement board hanging at the fifth floor, a premonition suddenly rose in his heart, "Maybe there really is the medicine I need here."

  After entering the building, Qin Lang rushed straight to the elevator, and the Fu Gui Da Pharmacy was on the fifth floor.

  Just as he was walking towards the elevator, his gaze swept over the crowd of people coming and going in the mall, unintentionally catching sight of a figure to his side front, his footsteps momentarily froze.

  "Huh? Isn't this Qin Dashi's stepmother?"

  Qin Lang was stunned.

  In his line of sight was a woman under forty years old.

  The woman's attire looked very luxurious, with an LV bag slung over her shoulder, a short leopard-print fur coat on top, and tight-fitting cowboy jeans on the bottom, as well as this year's latest handmade high-heeled shoes from Italy. The gold and jade accessories on her wrist and neck sparkled with dazzling light.

  Anyone can tell at a glance that she is an aristocratic lady.

  In Qin Lang's eyes, this noblewoman was his stepmother, or rather the woman named Cao Yan whom his father had married after his mother's death.

  Cao's wife was walking sideways towards Qin Lang, and the distance was relatively far, so she didn't notice Qin Lang's existence. She was walking with a man in his 40s.

  The two people were very close, although they didn't make any overtly intimate moves, but some subtle signs revealed that their relationship was not simple.

  Qin Lang's face suddenly turned gloomy, and the memories of Qin Da Shuai left to him made him full of disgust for Cao Yan.

  What's in front of him is Cao Yan's performance, which makes him even more furious.

  Thinking of her father Qin Fengyang working hard every day to earn money and maintain the expenses of the whole family, isn't it all for the sake of letting his family live a good life? Without the money earned by her father, where would this woman's luxurious lifestyle come from? But what is this woman doing now? Taking advantage of her father's business trip abroad, she actually had a private meeting with another man!

  "You're a good one, Cao Yan, you're a great Cao lady, actually sneaking behind my father's back and flirting with other men outside." Qin Lang was getting angry and his feet moved as if he wanted to go over and teach this woman a lesson.

  But just as he took a step forward, he suddenly calmed down and thought to himself: No way, if I rush over like this now, it will be completely useless. As the saying goes, "catch the thief and catch the stolen goods", this woman can come up with ten thousand reasons to deal with me, and can even turn the tables and say that I am framing her.

  After some deliberation, Qin Lang felt that he couldn't alarm the enemy for the time being and could only make this woman speechless if he had solid evidence.

  He stared at Cao's wife's back until the couple disappeared from his sight, then he walked towards the elevator with a cold face.