The embarrassed figure was Dr. James. At this moment, he pulled Chen Yuan in panic and said:
"Mr. Chen... let me hide for a moment!"
"Is it possible that the thief the villagers are shouting to catch is you?" Chen Yuan asked in surprise.
"They want to arrest me, but I didn't steal anything. You let me hide first, and I will explain to you when it is safe!"
Looking at James who was sweating, Chen Yuan agreed to his request first, since he couldn't run away even if he was watching.
Chen Yuan quickly pulled James to his room. After waiting for a while, the shouting outside gradually became quieter, and then James stood up straight with a look of shock on his face.
Chen Yuan looked at James and chuckled:
"Tell me, how come you, a doctor, became a thief and stole things?"
James sighed:
"I didn't steal anything. I was just walking in the village after dinner. I happened to pass by a house. When I saw that the window was open, I wanted to warn him. Who knew there was a woman taking a bath inside!"
"Then I couldn't help but look at it for a while, and accidentally hit my arm on the window and made a sound. The woman inside the house found out, and she shouted to catch the thief!"
"I bet you were caught peeping instead! You are a professor during the day and a beast at night," Chen Yuan said with a wicked smile.
James looked a little embarrassed and said:
"Mr. Chen, I am not allowed to peep. I really want to kindly remind the villagers to close the windows!"
"I hope you can help me keep the secret! I owe you a favor!"
"Okay, I have the strictest words, and I will help you keep secrets!" Chen Yuan continued with a bad smile:
"By the way, I have another question to ask you. How do you cultivate herbal medicine?"
"This... is the result of our research and is not disclosed to the outside world. I hope you can understand..." James said cautiously.
"Hey, I thought you Americans were just like us in the Dragon Kingdom, and you always repay your kindness. You just said you owed me a favor, but you forgot about it in just a few seconds!"
Chen Yuan laughed sinisterly and continued:
"Having said that, now that we are all eating from the same pot, I shouldn't be considered an outsider.
And we can fly with each other to exchange experiences and see how our herbal cultivation in traditional Chinese medicine is different from that in your country!"
"There is an idiom in the Dragon Kingdom, which is to learn from each other's strengths, do you understand?"
After Chen Yuan finished speaking softly and forcefully, James hesitated for a few seconds and said:
"Okay, what Mr. Chen said makes sense. You and I should go somewhere!"
Seeing that James agreed, Chen Yuan was overjoyed. He had always been curious about what was so special about the foreigner Gao Ya invited.
Chen Yuan left home with James and came to the house on the right side of Yang Fan's house. This house has three rooms. It used to be a carpenter's own residence. It was bought by Gao Ya and became the temporary residence of James' team.
As soon as the two entered the house, Chen Yuan was shocked by the scene in front of him.
In the living room, there was a long table. On the table were various bottles and jars that Chen Yuan had never seen before, and some electronic instruments. Sun Meng and four others were busy doing something around the long table.
When Sun Meng saw Chen Yuan coming, she glared at him angrily and said nothing.
Chen Yuan ignored it, pretending to be invisible. After following James through several people, James took out a test tube filled with blue liquid from an instrument that looked like a rice cooker and handed it to Chen Yuan.
Chen Yuan took the test tube, smelled it with his nose, and said doubtfully to James:
"What is this? Why does it feel like it has a sour smell?"
James smiled proudly:
"This is the research and development result of our team. I gave it a nice Chinese name, Shennong Water!"
"Shen Nong Water? What is its function?" Chen Yuan asked puzzledly.
"I have been researching this Shennong water for three years and developed it with painstaking efforts. As long as it is dripped on the plants, it will be ready for harvesting in a week!"
"So magical?"
Chen Yuan looked at the blue liquid in his hand and was secretly surprised. Although this thing called Shennong Water was several days slower than the cultivation technique he inherited, it was already very difficult based on modern technology.
Listening to Chen Yuan's praise, James' face lit up with joy, and he pulled Chen Yuan to show off:
"Mr. Chen, I want you to witness with your own eyes the magic of this Shennong water, lest you say I'm bragging!"
Chen Yuan nodded curiously, and James immediately took out a petri dish with Chinese medicine seeds.
Then he poured a few drops of Shennong's water in. After a few minutes, under Chen Yuan's eyes, a bud broke out of the ground and grew to five centimeters high in an instant.
"What are you doing, Mr. Chen, I didn't lie to you!" James said sarcastically.
Chen Yuan nodded and sighed secretly, this Shennong water is extraordinary.
Chen Yuan stretched out his hand to touch the growing buds with a smile on his face. The moment he touched the buds, Chen Yuan's expression suddenly changed and he said:
"James, there's something wrong with you. These seeds do germinate and grow quickly, but they have no medicinal effect at all!"
Chen Yuan's words attracted the attention of everyone in the room. James immediately changed his expression and retorted to Chen Yuan:
"Mr. Chen, this is absolutely impossible!"
Chen Yuan said seriously:
"I'm not kidding you. Although this herb is not yet mature, I still feel that it has no medicinal effect!"
When Sun Meng heard this, he snorted coldly:
"Chen Yuan, don't use your narrow vision to doubt our results! How can you understand this kind of science and technology!"
"Who says it's not the case? Just do your job as a Chinese medicine practitioner and come here to make comments! If you knew science, you wouldn't even bother staying in this rural area!" Another male member also echoed.
"I don't understand science, but I do understand Chinese herbal medicine. Although the herbs you ripen with Shennong's water grow fast, they have no medicinal value at all. They are not useful!"
Chen Yuan's words directly ignited the anger in everyone's hearts, and they all stared at Chen Yuan with hostility. After all, who else could not accept the results of his three years of hard research and be questioned.
James suppressed his displeasure, but still said in a dissatisfied tone:
"Mr. Chen, do you have any scientific basis for questioning our results?"
"I said, I don't understand science! But I'm sure this has no medicinal effect! It's just useless!"
"You have no scientific basis and it's hard for us to believe you just by talking about it!" James said with stern eyes.
Sun Meng also snorted and mocked:
"Although I am also a Chinese medicine practitioner, I believe in scientific data more! I advise you not to get involved in our affairs, otherwise you will bring shame on yourself!"
Chen Yuan also lost his temper at this time. It was not that he wanted to fight with James and others. If herbs that lost their efficacy were cultivated using Shennong water, it would be extremely harmful to patients once they were sold and flowed into the market.
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He has the inheritance of his ancestors, how could he watch this happen, so he must stop them.
"Since you don't believe me, I will prove it to you!" Chen Yuan gritted his teeth.
A male student named Zhang Wei in the team joked:
"You are the only village doctor who doesn't even understand science to prove it to us. If you can prove that it has no medicinal effect, I will make cows and horses for you from now on!"