Chapter 3216 — Trust

"Ah?" Liu Tianli was slightly taken aback, and then he understood what was going on. So his daughter was already together with Wei Zhao? Thinking back to the several times Wei Zhao had let him off, it was probably because of that connection. For a moment he could not help but feel deeply ashamed—in the end, he had needed his daughter's relationship to spare him. He did not know how much pressure Liu Jinghan had been under! At this thought, Liu Tianli sighed. "Jingjing, even though you and Mr. Lin have this relationship, when I'm lucid I still seem like a normal person, but once the addiction kicks in, I simply cannot control myself and I lose my reason! I don't want to cause you any more trouble, and I don't want my affairs to affect your relationship with Mr. Lin or make Mr. Lin look down on the Liu family. Besides, this drug addiction is a living death—just give me an end to it..."

Now that he had seen the relationship between Wei Zhao and Liu Jinghan, Liu Tianli was reassured. At least the Liu family would not fall within the next hundred years; if he died, so be it! Had he gone into business with President Lang and the others in the first place for anything other than keeping the Liu family standing?

"Uncle Liu, I can cure your addiction!" Wei Zhao said, waving a hand.

"You can cure it? Really?" Liu Tianli was slightly stunned, somewhat disbelieving. His addiction had lasted so long and had never been rooted out—could Wei Zhao really cure it?

"Uncle Liu, have you forgotten how the Liu family and I first met? Have you forgotten my old trade?" Wei Zhao said with a smile.

"Ah! Of course—you're the Divine Doctor Lin!" At this thought, Liu Tianli was both startled and delighted! The Liu family's acquaintance with Wei Zhao had begun precisely because Wei Zhao had treated Liu Zhenhu's illness; it was only that so much time had passed, and Wei Zhao's later inventions of medicines and the like had made Liu Tianli forget all about it.

Wei Zhao nodded, then sat down on the sofa and said to Liu Tianli, "Take off your shirt. I'll give you acupuncture."

"Yes!" Liu Tianli hastily sat down on the sofa with the utmost respect. Although he now knew of the ambiguous relationship between Wei Zhao and Liu Jinghan, he did not dare to presume on his seniority. Wei Zhao was no ordinary man, and he himself was still an offender awaiting judgment, so Liu Tianli did not dare show the slightest arrogance.

While Liu Tianli was taking off his shirt, Wei Zhao wrote out a prescription for Liu Jinghan, then spoke to her in a voice condensed from true qi: "This is the prescription for the Longevity Detox Pill. Go and prepare some—buy whatever is missing from the pharmacy, but don't buy everything from a single pharmacy."

Liu Jinghan was slightly taken aback. She knew well the efficacy and value of the Longevity Detox Pill. Back at the Yu family auction, it had sold for hundreds of millions, and Kang Jingming had racked his brains for just such a prescription!

Of course, that had been a prescription Wei Zhao had deliberately made harder, turning it into a third-grade pill formula. But what Liu Jinghan held in her hands was a medicinal prescription—a mere prescription capable of producing the effects of a third-grade pill formula. It would not be an exaggeration to call such a thing priceless, a rare treasure of the world.

Yet Wei Zhao clearly trusted her utterly, telling her without the slightest hesitation! Of course, it was Han Jingyi whom Wei Zhao trusted, and Han Jingyi was equally unreserved with Wei Zhao, so Wei Zhao had nothing to hide from her either.

Liu Jinghan took the prescription. Though her face showed nothing, her large, liquid eyes were full of emotion. She nodded, turned, and went out.

Liu Tianli did not know what prescription Wei Zhao had given Liu Jinghan, nor did he ask. He simply waited for Wei Zhao to perform the acupuncture.

In truth, Wei Zhao needed only to help Liu Tianli gather the drugs in his body together, and then have him take the Longevity Detox Pill to thoroughly expel the drug residue from his system, and all would be well. This was an easy matter for Wei Zhao—compared with the poisons in cultivators such as fire poison, it was simplicity itself.

Very quickly, Wei Zhao finished the acupuncture treatment, and by then Liu Jinghan had returned. Following Wei Zhao's prescription, she had prepared several pills and handed them to him. Wei Zhao took one out and gave it to Liu Tianli. "Take this, then go squat in the toilet and stay there."

Liu Tianli's body contained a good deal of toxin. Although Wei Zhao had driven it together by means of acupuncture, once Liu Tianli took the Longevity Detox Pill, the drug residue would begin to be discharged, and would continue until it was completely expelled.

Sure enough, after taking it, Liu Tianli ran for the toilet. Liu Jinghan breathed a sigh of relief, then suddenly threw her arms around Wei Zhao and kissed him on the cheek. "Thank you, Brother Wei Zhao..."

"Jingjing, there's no need to say such things to me." Wei Zhao shook his head. "It's just that right now it feels like Liu Jinghan is the one kissing me—what a strange feeling!"

"Hehe, it's all Jingjing anyway. Isn't it nice to have two Jingjings?" Liu Jinghan said with a laugh.

"All right." Thinking it over carefully, Wei Zhao actually found it rather exciting. It was not unacceptable that Han Jingyi had two identities.

"By the way, Brother Wei Zhao, is this really the prescription for the Longevity Detox Pill? Why did you tell Jingjing? This thing is very precious," Han Jingyi said, pointing at the prescription in her hand and asking cautiously.

"Which of my pill formulas don't you know?" Wei Zhao patted Liu Jinghan's head and said, "As for the remaining Longevity Detox Pills, give them to the Liu family to take. Your grandfather is getting on in years, and his bodily functions are declining, so toxins build up easily. As long as he takes one every five to ten years, there's no problem with him living to be over a hundred."

"Really?" Liu Jinghan was rather surprised.

"You're a pill refiner yourself—don't you know the effects of the Marrow-Cleansing and Bone-Tempering Pill?" Wei Zhao said with a bitter smile. "If he weren't so old, he could cultivate directly! Why do you think that idiot playboy Kang Jingming could cultivate so astonishingly fast? Wasn't it because he took this too..."

"So that's how it is." Liu Jinghan nodded.

Liu Tianli squatted in the toilet for over two hours before he came out. He looked utterly drained, yet the color of the skin on his face was indescribably fresh and clear, whereas before, though he had had some spirit about him, he had been deathly dull.

"How do you feel?" Wei Zhao asked.

"The smell of the waste I discharged nearly suffocated me. There was the smell of drugs in it too. This time, I feel sick to my stomach at the very sight of drugs—let alone taking them." Liu Tianli waved his hand and said, "I won't even smoke cigarettes anymore."

"Good. From now on, Jingjing will stay by my side. As for the Liu family's businesses, Uncle Liu, you should go back and manage them. Remember, in the future, whenever you run into difficulties, come to me or to Jingjing first—either of us will do." Wei Zhao nodded and instructed him.