“We’re still at the clinic...” Xyla sobbed and said, “Grandpa intends to pack everything up tonight.”
“Okay!” Charlie said immediately, “Wait for me at the clinic. I’ll go there now!”
When Charlie drove and arrived at Anthony’s Serene World Clinic, the signboard of the clinic had been taken off and had been casually discarded to the side.
There was also a signboard wrapped in red satin silk at the door, but it was impossible to see what was written on the signboard at the moment.
When Charlie arrived at the Serene World Clinic, Anthony was packing up all kinds of medicinal herbs and materials from the medicine cabinet with Xyla and his worker’s help.
Xyla saw Charlie coming in and shouted excitedly, “Master Wade!”
After saying that, she ran toward Charlie, threw herself into Charlie’s arms, and started crying.
Charlie quickly asked her, “Xyla, what exactly happened? Tell me everything.”
Anthony also saw Charlie’s expression at this time. He was shocked and staggered over with a look of shame as he sighed and said, “Master Wade, why are you here? Is it because Xyla said something to you?”
Xyla cried and said, “Grandpa, I don’t want to leave Aurous Hill, so I asked Master Wade to come and persuade you...”
Anthony let out a long sigh and said, “Sigh! Since I made a bet, I should be willing to admit defeat. Since I lost, how could I continue staying here shamelessly?”
Charlie asked in surprise, “Dr. Simmons, what exactly did you lose that you had to hand Serene World Clinic over to others?”
Anthony said with a look of shame, “Master Wade, it’s because my skills are really not as good as the other party’s. It’s a fact that I lost and I feel ashamed to mention it in front of you.”
Xyla who was aside blurted out, “It’s an old man who came here two days ago! As soon as he arrived, he said that he wanted to compete with Grandpa, and he said that he wanted Grandpa to remove Serene World Clinic’s signboard if he won so that he could run the clinic instead. If he lost, he would give Grandpa an ancestral medicine cauldron passed down from his ancestors to Grandpa. I don’t know what Grandpa was thinking to agree to his bet...”
Charlie said curiously, “Dr. Simmons, it sounds as if the other party has obviously set up a trap for you. Based on your style of behavior, you shouldn’t have fallen for such a trap!”
Anthony’s face reddened, and he struggled for a while before he lamented, “Master Wade, to tell you the truth, I saw that his medicine cauldron was really a good thing, and I thought of how you would usually refine your own pills. I thought that I would definitely be able to help you ease some of the burdens for you when you refine pills in the future if I could win that medicine cauldron for you. I didn’t expect to mess up instead. It’s really a disgrace!”
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