?72: Chapter 71: Granny Yangjin?

    72: Chapter 71: Granny Yangjin?

    After all, Wang Dadong had accepted the girl’s gift, and naturally, he couldn’t let the girl go empty-handed; he gave her a small dagger.

    “This is for you.”

    Wang Dadong extended the dagger to the pretty Zhuanghu girl.

    Although he didn’t know much about the customs of the Zhuanghu people, he knew that this nomadic ethnic group had a special affection for weapons, and giving a dagger to the girl was more than appropriate.

    “Yangjin Meiduo thanks Zhaxi.” Receiving the dagger from Wang Dadong, the girl seemed even happier, tiptoed up, and pecked Wang Dadong on the cheek before she hugged the dagger and ran off shyly.

    The girl’s action somewhat embarrassed Wang Dadong; he sneakily glanced at the Female CEO next to him, found her merely sipping her butter tea head down without looking his way, and felt relieved.

    Around eight o’clock, the party ended.

    The Zhuanghu houses were flat-roofed with multiple windows and mostly built with stone, modelled in a simple yet ethnic style.

    The two found the westernmost ordinary stone house, which was the home of the old Zhuang doctor, Yangjin Zhuoga, who had the formula.

    To his surprise, Wang Dadong encountered the young Zhuanghu girl, Yangjin Meiduo, who had given him the silver belt again.

    “Meiduo, what are you doing here?” At the moment, Meiduo was sitting beside a pile of grass outside the house, singing cheerfully.

    Seeing Wang Dadong, Meiduo was delighted; her eyes curved into crescent moons as she smiled and said, “This is Meiduo’s home.”

    “This is your home?

    Then, who is Yangjin Zhuoga to you?” Something seemed to dawn on Wang Dadong.

    “She is my granny.”

    Learning that Meiduo’s granny was the magical old Zhuang doctor, smiles simultaneously appeared on Wang Dadong’s and the Female CEO’s faces.

    “Meiduo, could you take me to see your granny?” Lin Shiyan walked over and affectionately took Meiduo’s hand.

    “Of course, Granny loves guests!” Meiduo answered cheerfully, leading Lin Shiyan towards the stone house.

    The stone house was small yet very tidy, with items like copper basins, copper pots, cow bones, and cow horns that had strong ethnic characteristics.

    After entering the stone house, Meiduo draped two yellow silk satins around their necks.

    It was said that this object, known as Hagen, was used by the Zhuang ethnic people only for their most honored guests.

    “Granny, Granny, we have visitors at home!” Meiduo’s voice was as pleasant as that of a warbling oriole.

    They entered the inner room by lifting the door curtain.

    In the room, patients lay haphazardly around, and a woman wearing a silver crown was busy taking pulses and treating the patients, who lay in chairs moaning in agony.

    The woman turned her head with a soft smile, “Meiduo, entertain our guests for now; I’ll tend to them personally once I’m done here.”

    “Alright, Granny.”

    Wang Dadong and Lin Shiyan were stunned.

    After a long pause, Wang Dadong finally spoke, “Meiduo, she, she is Granny Yangjin?”

    As Meiduo was moving stools for them, she smiled, “Yes, she is my granny.”

    Wang Dadong and Lin Shiyan exchanged glances, both faces registering disbelief.

    They had thought that Yangjin Zhuoga would surely be an old woman with white hair, hunched with age, but the woman before them had red lips and white teeth, with a cascade of black hair flowing from under her silver crown like a ribbon of black satin.

    By now, the woman seemed to have finished her tasks, adjusted the patient’s blanket, turned around, and looked at them with a jovial smile, “I am Yangjin Zhuoga; why, don’t you believe it?”

    “No, it’s not that, Granny Yangjin, you just look too young; are you really eighty-eight years old?” Lin Shiyan could hardly believe her eyes.

    The woman in front of them appeared to be only in her thirties or forties.

    If someone said that the woman was fifty years old, she might still believe it, but if they said she was eighty-eight, she would never believe it, not even if it killed her.

    An eighty-eight-year-old granny looked just like a woman in her thirties; could that even be possible?

    “Doesn’t Granny look incredibly young?

    Everyone who has seen Granny can’t believe it,” Meiduo said with a smile.

    Indeed, Granny Yangjin not only looked very young but was also very beautiful, with not a single scar on her face or hands.

    Anyone who saw her would never believe she was a nearly ninety-year-old granny.

    The joy in Lin Shiyan’s heart was uncontrollable; it seemed her father had not deceived her, the old Zhuang doctor indeed possessed some amazing formulas.

    And it wasn’t just a scar-removal secret, but also one for delaying aging.

    If Shiyan Group could acquire these two formulas, expanding the market share of Shiyan Group would be child’s play.

    “I wonder what brings you to seek out this old woman?” Granny Yangjin asked, smoothing her hair at her temples and smiling.

    Every gesture she made seemed to carry the allure typically found in women in their twenties or thirties.

    In fact, Granny Yangjin’s real age wasn’t over eighty either.

    But no one knew her real age.

    Her age had always been a secret.

    Some said she was actually over a hundred years old.

    Others said she was just in her forties.

    And eighty-eight was just speculation.

    Suppressing the ecstasy in her heart, Lin Shiyan said very earnestly, “Granny Yangjin, I’ve heard that you possess a unique scar-removal formula.

    I hope you can share it to benefit all women who love beauty around the world.

    If Granny Yangjin is willing to sell the formula to me, I will offer you a substantial fortune.

    I am Lin Shiyan, the CEO of Shiyan Group, and here is my business card.”

    As Lin Shiyan spoke, the initially smiling expression on Granny Yangjin’s face gradually stiffened, finally revealing a hint of anger.

    Out of respect, Lin Shiyan held out her business card with both hands to Granny Yangjin.

    However, Granny Yangjin didn’t reach out to take the business card, but instead coldly said, “I don’t have any formula.

    Meiduo, see the guests out.”

    “Granny Yangjin, do you think my offer is not generous enough?

    We can actually negotiate the terms...”

    “Meiduo, see the guests out!”

    Granny Yangjin had already turned away, her body trembling slightly.

    “Granny Yangjin...”

    Lin Shiyan still wanted to try, but Wang Dadong stopped her, “We’ve disturbed you, Granny Yangjin.”

    After saying that, he pulled Lin Shiyan out of the house.

    “Wang Dadong, why are you pulling me?” Lin Shiyan asked, somewhat angrily looking at Wang Dadong.

    She had known it wouldn’t be easy to obtain the formulas; otherwise, her father would have acquired them five years ago.

    So, she wanted to try harder, but Wang Dadong had pulled her out.

    How could she not be angry?

    Wang Dadong frowned and said, “Didn’t you see the old lady was getting angry?

    If you had stayed, it would only have made the situation worse.

    Leaving now might give us another chance to see her in the future.”

    “Meiduo, what’s going on here?” Wang Dadong asked, looking at Meiduo, who had also come out with them.

    For some reason, at that moment, Meiduo’s gaze toward Lin Shiyan was filled with a faint hostility.

    “Zhaxi, can I just talk to you?

    I don’t want to talk to her,” Meiduo said.

    The women of Zhuanghu are generally straightforward, so they speak directly without beating around the bush, saying whatever is on their minds.