Chapter 15 Something Earth-Shattering Occurred at the Bai Family Meeting!

• It was still early in the morning but it was already very happening in the Bai family’s ancestral home!
• Every one of the senior executives of the Bai Group were seated around, engaged in an eager discussion.
• The outbreak of the AS Pneumonia virus was no doubt a disaster for the residents of Jiang City, but for the pharmaceutical companies, it was an opportunity of a lifetime!
• The first person to develop a cure for the AS Pneumonia could virtually take over and monopolize the drugs market in Jiang City and several major neighboring cities in a short amount of time!
• This was especially true in the case of the Bai Group!
• If one out of the three masters—the eldest, Bai Hai, the second eldest, Bai Chuan and the youngest, Bai Shan—is able to come up with a cure, it goes without saying that they would be revered and gain the right in the decision making within the company.
• “Have you heard? Master Bai Hai actually managed to secure a master in Traditional Chinese Medicine and concocted an ancient prescription. The medication can keep the AS Pneumonia virus at bay for up to a month’s time! Although it will still relapse, that’s already really amazing!”
• “Haha… Master Bai Chuan is doing too bad either! He sought many Chinese and foreign medical experts and prepared medicine as well. Apparently, it can inhibit the AS virus for half a month!”
• “Hehe, as expected of Master Bai Hai and Master Bai Chuan, the pillars of the Bai Group! It's just that our dear Master Bai Shan is screwed this time! I heard that all the masters in Chinese Medicine and foreign experts he invited all failed! I wonder how he is going to explain himself to Old Master Bai later!”
• “...”
• There was a lot of noise coming from the senior executives of the Bai Group.
• And the words that came out of their mouths were mostly related to Master Bai Hai or Master Bai Chuan since basically everyone knew that they had come up with treatments that could suppress the virus in a short amount of time.
• Although they haven’t found the cure, being able to suppress the virus for a short period of time was already extremely valuable!
• In contrast, should Master Bai Shan, who was already not held in high regard, fail to present anything at the meeting this time, he would further become the butt of the joke.
• Hearing the mocking laughter around him, Bai Shan couldn’t help but clench his fists as a thick wave of sadness and bitterness covered his face.
• He had mentally prepared himself to be reprimanded by Grandpa Bai.
• And Bai Yi, who was standing behind Bai Shan, could not help but feel her heart ache as her father’s forlorn figure reflected in her eyes.
• Perhaps I’ll family will be kicked out of the Bai Group this time…
• The thought of Lin Fan involuntarily appeared in her mind.
• I wonder if a miracle would appear if that lad was here…
• When that thought crossed Bai Yi’s mind, she quickly shook it away.
• All the people involved in the research of the medication were all famous experts in Chinese or Western Medicine. Even if Lin Fan’s behavior last night deeply astonished her, it’s not like he’s some god, there’s no way he would know anything about medicine.
• Very soon, line after line of people entered the room amidst the noise.
• “Hahaha… Bai Shan, how did you do this time? Did you manage to find a treatment for the virus?” a cheery voice asked following a peal of laughter. Then, everyone was greeted with the sight of Master Bai Hai and Master Bai Chuan entering side by side.
• Following closely behind the two were their children.
• It’s just that this group of people was all looking at Bai Shan and Bai Yi with eyes filled with ridicule and contempt.
• “B-Bai Hai! Bai Chuan!” Bai Shan hurriedly got up to greet them, looking a little rattled.
• Looking at Bai Shan’s reaction, a hint of derision flashed across the eyes of Master Bai Hai and Master Bai Chuan.
• “Alright! Take a seat!” Master Bai Hai said with a smile while patting on Bai Shan’s shoulder, “Even if you didn’t have any results, at most, you’d just be scolded by Father! It’s alright!”
• As he said so, Bai Hai pointed at his son, who was standing behind him, Bai Yifan, and continued with a face full of pride, “What I’ve accomplished is also all thanks to Yifan! He was the one who personally invited the master in Traditional Chinese Medicine who then developed a prescription that can suppress the virus! Father even praised Yifan just now! Haha…”
• Although Bai Hai sounded like he was trying to comfort Bai Shan, anyone could read between the lines that he was showing off his son, Bai Yifan.
• Sure enough, all the senior executives around them stood up and paid Bai Hai court upon hearing his words.
• The voices of those people were all laden with flattery, trying to curry favor with Bai Hai.
• Faced with everyone’s flattery, the faces of Master Bai Hai and his son, Bai Yifan, were covered in pride and joy.
• But that wasn’t the end of it!
• A young lady walked up to Bai Yi and said, “ Oh my! If it isn’t our brilliant and capable cousin! Why didn’t you do anything to help Uncle Bai Shan? Aren’t you known as the most beautiful woman in Jiang City? If you were to go out and ask, I’m sure there would have been countless masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western medical experts who will fly to bow down at your feet!”
• That lady’s words were extremely tart and spiteful.
• Bai Yi immediately felt her heart well up with anger and she warned, “You had better not go overboard, Bai Yan!”
• The young lady standing in front of her was called Bai Yan, she’s the daughter of Bai Yi’s uncle, Bai Chuanl.
• Ever since they were kids, that girl had always been jealous of Bai Yi—jealous of her beauty, jealous of her educational background, and even more so, jealous of her competence.
• Bai Yi and Bai Yan were even the two candidates competing for the position of general manager of the Bai Group.
• In the end, Bai Yan completely lost to this cousin of hers, which made her resentment for Bai Yi reach the boiling point.
• But now!
• “Hmph! So what if I’m going too far, Bai Yi!” Bai Yan provoked Bai Yi as she stared at the latter dead in the eye, “This time, I’m the one who contacted the overseas Western medical expert who developed the drug to suppress the medicine! Grandpa complimented me just now as well!”
• “But what about you? What have you done! And that useless husband of yours! Other than being a mockery to the Bai family, all he can do is idle around and await death!”
• “The way I see it, I’m afraid both you and that useless husband of yours will be thrown out of the Bai family after today! Hahaha…”
• Bai Yan laughed maniacally!
• Then, she took her seat alongside her father and the others.
• Seeing that sight, the pain Bai Shan felt inside, intensified.
• Both Bai Shan and Bai Yi could sense the malice coming from the two families. It was clear to see that they wanted to make use of this matter to kick the former out of the Bai family!
• Once he thought of that, Bai Shan couldn’t help but shaking his head with a wry smile. Just then, he froze for a moment.
• He suddenly recalled the words Lin Fan said to him last night.
• “Pocket?” Bai Shan muttered while feeling in his pocket to produce a bunched up ball of toilet paper.
• The toilet paper was all crumpled up but on it were rows of words written with a brow pencil:
• ‘Resurrection Pill
• Formula: Perilla frutescens 10 g, Solanum nigrum 8 g, chicken gizzard membrane 5 g…’
• The paper was packed full of words, listing out various medicinal herbs as well as the amount required.
• Bai Shan was dumbfounded by what he had in his hand while Bai Yi, who was behind him, asked in puzzlement, “Father, where did you get that? Resurrection Pill? What’s that? And why is it written on a piece of toilet paper?”
• Bai Yi had confusion written all over her face.
• Hearing her string of questions, Bai Shan replied with a wry smile, “I think Lin Fan wrote this down in the bathroom last night! When we were drinking, he specifically told me to bring take it out today!”
• What!
• Lin Fan wrote it in the bathroom?
• Bai Yi felt like her brain had blanked out a little.
• However, before she could say anything, her cousin Bai Yan, who was seated at the side, clearly witnessed this scene as she snatched the ball of toilet paper away.
• “My! So you still have something up your sleeves! Seems like that useless brother-in-law of mine isn’t all that useless after all huh?” Bai Yan exclaimed, her face filled with great contempt, “Resurrection Pill! My god, what a name! Does he have eighth-grade syndrome! Does he actually think this thing can actually bring the dead back to life, regrow flesh from bone and rejuvenate the dead with spirit?!”
• “And this formula: Perilla frutescens, Solanum nigrum, chicken gizzard membrane… Hahaha, just what is this crap!”
• As she spoke, Bai Yan waved the toilet paper in her hand and uttered in her fits of laugher, “Hahaha… Do you see this everyone? This is the brilliant plan my useless brother-in-law, Lin Fan, gave to Uncle Bai Shan! A Resurrection Pill!”
• Boom!
• Her words left all the senior executives of the Bai Group in an uproar.
• Of course, they had heard of this person!
• Lin Fan, was the most famous parasitic piece of crap of the Bai family!
• He was a man with no job or any ability, who married into the family and spent his days doing chores, cooking and washing clothes!
• Everyone instantly burst into fits of laughter as well:
• “Hahaha… Oh Bai Yi, did your husband read one too many novels? To think that this is the secret trick he had up his sleeves!”
• “Yeah! What the heck is a Resurrection Pill? Does he actually think that this rubbish he wrote on a whim could compare to the treatments developed by masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine and renowned Western medical experts?”
• “Haha… And he actually wrote this in the toilet! This Lin Fan is really quite something!”
• “...”
• As the mocking laughter and voices sounded one after another, the expression on Bai Shan and Bai Yi’s faces worsened to the point it couldn’t get any worse.
• However, what all these people didn’t know was that right at this very moment, the two elderly men just outside the main hall were having a serious discussion about the Resurrection Pill!