Chapter 726 Little Trouble in Little Clinic
A week into opening the clinic, Alex's days got busy.
The first two or three days were mostly free as not many people noticed his clinic, or it hadn't gone through enough ears to be recognizable.
However, once he had treated enough cultivators, that too with comparatively very cheap medicine, his clinic got lined up from day's start to day's end.
It got so ridiculous that Alex had to decide to take a dedicated day off on the weekend or else he would be overworked.
Shurin came to help out in the clinic as well, mostly just to make sure people were staying in line.
Alex used her Royal disciple robes to gain some more popularity as well. After all, anyone who could employ a Royal disciple had to be someone notable.
And yet, when the people tried to figure out his identity, they didn't find anything notable about him.
He never learned anywhere, had not appeared in any auction, had not been part of any school, sect, or family.
The Alchemy guild didn't openly give away their alchemist's private information, and the princess made sure everything about Alex was under wraps in the palace, so no information about him could ever reach the public.
As such, Alex became an enigma that came out of nowhere and took the capital's lower-end citizens and cultivators by storm.
The rich ones would still look for pills, and the strong cultivators never trusted a mere doctor to take care of their issues.
As such, Alex was stuck to selling healing pastes made from common rank ingredients, while his True rank pastes never saw the light of day.
Shurin played around with Pearl as they waited for Alex to be done in the room inside.
This was the last customer of the day and they would leave after this.
The man who went in with a limping leg, came out all straight with a happy smile on his face.
"Thank you so much, doctor," the man said. "I can't tell you how long this leg has troubled me."
"It's my pleasure," Alex said and waved the man away.
"Phew! That's it right?" he asked.
"Yes, brother Yu," Shurin said.
"Alright, let's leave," Alex said and left with the two.
The next day was a day off for Alex, so he spent the day making pills as a way to cool off. He didn't really know what else he could do aside from that.
He wanted to fight, but then without Shen Jing, he just couldn't. Alex sighed and returned to making more pills and pastes.
A set of ingredients for a normal paste usually cost him about 20 to 30 spirit stones, whether it was Common rank or True rank.
Each paste made with these ingredients would give about 20 to 25 scoops worth of paste, meaning if Alex sold each scoop for 5 spirit stones, he would earn about 100 spirit stones, giving him nearly 4 times the profit on his investment.
He started wondering if he should lower the cost even further, but then he decided not to. At least, not right now.
The next day, Alex returned back to shop with Shurin and saw a long line of customers.
"Physician, please hurry up."
"I needed you yesterday."
"Do you still have enough pastes to sell? I want to buy some."
"Sir, I am from the Snowhill merchant group. Do you have time to talk with me?"
People spoke one after another, but Alex walked without acknowledging them. Only after he was in the front of the room did he turn around and spoke.
"I will immediately start treating you all. Don't worry about the pastes, I have plenty, but you cannot buy more than a jar each. As for merchants, I have no intention of doing any business with you all," he said and called the first person on the line before entering.
Alex treated one after another as well as sold pastes at the same time. 'Sigh, I need to get someone else to do the selling part,' he thought. He wanted to employ Shurin for that job, but she was already handling the line outside and making sure people were orderly.
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