After a long while, Ma Yibiao, leaning against the wall, staggered back to the banquet hall, apologized to everyone from afar, and then took his leave. He was helped by two waiters to the door. His plump body was hunched over, and from behind, he looked like a huge Australian lobster.
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Chapter 204 Get them
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The banquet naturally ended. With no appetite for drinking or eating, everyone forced themselves to stay for about ten minutes before unanimously deciding to leave.
"Serves him right!" Lin Hongmei cursed angrily from her Toyota van. "What goes around comes around. My Yao'er was right. That Ma Yibiao did bad things to Minhong, and God will punish him too."
"Nonsense, she's just unwell." Luo Jimin retorted to his wife's statement with a wry smile, thinking to himself that his wife was still like a child who had never grown up, even resorting to idealism.
"Yao'er, you've decided to start online sales?" Luo Jimin, sitting in front of Lin Yao, turned around and said to Lin Yao with a hint of surprise in his voice. "I've read the report from the Legal Affairs Department. I didn't take it seriously at first, but what Section Chief Zhang said today was very representative. Sometimes the way functional departments work is not purely based on legal documents. They will also directly follow the principles of their superiors, even if they haven't been documented yet."
"Let's get started. It's time to fight against these bad practices in the industry. We can't always be on the defensive. People will think that Minhong is a pushover, and everyone will want to take advantage of us." Lin Yao thought that now that he was in the business, he had to go all out. He was no longer the sickly person who could die at any moment. He had even surpassed the average person. Living such a timid life was too stifling and would be a disservice to Xiaocao.
"I don't care if you're worthy of me. It's okay if you're unfaithful to me, I forgive you." Xiaocao's voice rang out at the right time, startling Lin Yao. He thought to himself that he was really careless. He hadn't controlled his thoughts and intentions when speaking to Xiaocao. He had accidentally let Xiaocao know his thoughts. Wasn't that a complete loss of confidence?
"Little Grass, you're quite free? Why don't you go into seclusion?" Lin Yao asked, trying to make conversation.
"Not at all, I'm not idle at all," Little Grass replied excitedly. "I was just thinking about how the method I used to harm that fat guy was flawed. I could have done it better; it could have given him diarrhea for a month without any aftereffects. But the method I used only gave him diarrhea for a week. What a failure!"
Lin Yao was speechless. A week was too short? That was accompanied by serious symptoms like bloody stools and bloody urine. Ma Yibiao must have been terrified. A week of continuous bleeding in the hospital and they still couldn't find the cause. With his selfish personality, he probably felt like the sky was falling.
If it continued for a month... Lin Yao didn't dare to think any further. He didn't know if Ma Yibiao would have a mental breakdown and be admitted to the Fourth Hospital (a mental hospital), or simply kill himself to avoid continuing to suffer that kind of fear.
"Little Grass, are you feeling better? Why are your leaves still bare?" Lin Yao asked, raising his most pressing question. Little Grass should have recovered by now, given its current lack of activity, so why hadn't its leaves changed at all? A bare leaf axis looked so strange.
"I'm much better now. The spirit stone replenished my foundation. If I want to grow leaves, you'll have to get me another spirit stone." The little grass said casually. "Yaoyao, my leaves will be very beautiful in the future, even more beautiful than before. But they're already beautiful enough. They're practically a divine whip."
Lin Yao felt like a failure. He regretted telling Xiao Cao stories, including some martial arts stories and movie plots that she liked when she was a child. She was particularly fond of the movie "The God Whip." Was it because he had a talent for storytelling? Could he have influenced Xiao Cao by making an old movie so vivid?
"Yao'er, Yao'er..." Lin Hongmei's voice woke Lin Yao, mainly because she hugged Lin Yao's neck and shook him vigorously, which brought the deep Lin Yao back to reality.
"Oh, what's wrong, Mom?" Lin Yao stared blankly at his mother, Lin Hongmei. Under the dim light of the Toyota van, Lin Hongmei's expression was somewhat tense.
"It's nothing. You were so quiet just now, and you didn't respond when I talked to you. It scared me." Lin Hongmei pulled her arm away from Lin Yao's neck and patted her chest. "Your dad said that Minhong is standing against all the medical institutions in the country, which is not good for its future development. He also said that those who act justly will have many supporters, while those who act unjustly will have few. He asked for your opinion."
“I have no objection, let’s do it this way.” Lin Yao immediately perked up. “The help of the masses is not limited to distributors and hospitals and clinics. The help of ordinary people is more important. What’s there to be afraid of?”
"Unless they all agree with Minhong's principles, it's fine not to cooperate with these people; we can do it ourselves. The exorbitant profits in the pharmaceutical industry should have been rectified long ago. The government even issued documents to separate hospital medical services from drug sales, allowing hospitals to play a social role as purely medical service units, but what has been the result?"
Apart from the United States, most developed countries in the world adopt a management approach that separates medical practice from drug sales, meaning that patients go to hospitals for treatment, but the drugs come from pharmaceutical companies, and hospitals do not sell drugs.
The separation of medicine and medical services has been mentioned many times in my country's medical reform. However, due to the long-standing conflict of interests, hospitals are unwilling to give up drug sales, and drug manufacturers are unwilling to enter fair market competition. Therefore, some practitioners advocate that "separation will only lead to higher prices" as an excuse not to reform.
In reality? It's all about profit. Hospitals and doctors are unwilling to give up these huge profits; they can't give them up for either their organizations or for themselves. Look at Uncle Yang who came to our house last time—he's your classmate. He kept bragging about the Hummer his family bought privately. Without these profits, could they afford it? (Completely fictional, unrelated to reality, a story from a parallel universe)
Most developed countries in the world adopt a system that separates medical practice from drug dispensing, which demonstrates its undeniable superiority. The reason the United States has not adopted this system is because their health insurance system is different and functions well within a separate framework.
Lin Yao, speaking eloquently, radiated brilliance, making his mother, Lin Hongmei, overjoyed. It was as if she had returned to the time when she first met Lin Yao's father, Luo Jimin, and felt a sense of high spirits and a man's courage to face challenges head-on.
"Everyone knows that many medications prescribed by hospitals are unavailable on the market or in pharmacies. Why? Because of this unspoken rule: pharmaceutical companies manufacture special drugs specifically for hospitals and ensure they don't circulate through ordinary sales channels. Without comparable products, the price is entirely up to the hospital," Lin Yao's tone became even sharper. "To put it bluntly, many so-called 'specialty' or 'specialized' drugs are just repackaged versions of similar drugs on the market, yet their prices differ by several times or even ten times. Isn't this just ripping off ordinary people?"
"Anyway, I just can't stand this kind of thing, and I'm going to give it my all no matter what." Lin Yao concluded, "We'll start with over-the-counter drugs, and then move on to prescription drugs. We'll set prices based on the hospitals' costs, which means we'll limit outpatient prices according to their different levels. If the hospitals won't sell them, we'll sell them ourselves. We'll open our own hospitals. I refuse to believe we can't handle them!"
Luo Jimin was filled with excitement, as if he had returned to his youth. What his son said was exactly what he and his wife longed to see. For this ideal, he supported Lin Yao without hesitation, and would not back down even if there was a possibility of failure. He was determined to shake this extremely unreasonable rule.
Reaching over his wife, Luo Jimin patted his son Lin Yao's shoulder forcefully, "Yao'er, your mother and I fully support you. Minhong, just follow this principle and you must win them over!"
Lin Hongmei was struggling to breathe under her husband's weight, but she didn't say anything, as she couldn't spoil his excited mood at that moment.
Lin Hongmei lowered her body slightly and said with a smile, "You two, father and son, will definitely be able to accomplish great things. It is said that father and son go to war together, and you performed very well at today's banquet, working together to fight against the evil forces."
Luo Jimin sensed his wife's discomfort, withdrew his arm, and sat up straight. "It was the three of us working together, including Youmin, Xiao Wuzi, and Brother Zhong."
With a smile, Luo Jimin continued, "Yao'er, look how well your mother behaved today! She's practically a heroine."
"That's right, Mom is the most capable. 'Heroic and dashing' doesn't even begin to describe her charm." Lin Yao generously offered free flattery, making Lin Hongmei laugh heartily, filling the entire minibus with a cheerful and happy atmosphere.
Only now did Yi Fei truly understand the true character of the elder who was revered as a guest elder by the Yi family, and he felt even greater respect for him. Before, he had only respected Lin Yao out of gratitude towards the Yi family, but after hearing these words today, he realized how superficial he had been.
This young man is indeed above all others; his realm of thought is so lofty. He is truly someone worth protecting.
The phone rang, and Luo Jimin answered it. After hanging up, he turned to Lin Yao and said, "It's Mayor Duan calling. He knows about today's banquet, but the organizers didn't invite him."
“He told me some things on the phone, saying that someone had contacted higher-ups to suppress Minhong, and even hinted that he should stop protecting Minhong.” Luo Jimin lowered his voice. “Mayor Duan told us to be mentally prepared, and not to relax in any aspect of production and sales, lest someone have a handle against us. He also said that he would never back down, and his father would not allow him to back down either.”
Lin Yao thought to himself, "So that's how it is." When his father, Luo Jimin, answered the phone earlier, he didn't say much, just nodded and hummed to indicate that he heard, which made him feel very strange.
Lin Yao had a good impression of Duan Hanyuan, the patriarch of the Duan family. Although the two had never spoken a word to each other, only exchanging glances during treatment, Lin Yao just felt that the old man was nice. This feeling was different from his first impression of Duan Qing, and compared to seeing Old Man Xia... well, never mind that tyrannical old man.
Lin Yao smiled but didn't say anything. He just looked intently into his father's eyes. In the dim light, his father's furrowed brows looked very manly.
Luo Jimin stopped thinking, looked up and found his son staring at him. Father and son exchanged a glance, instantly understanding each other. A smile returned to Luo Jimin's face, his furrowed brows relaxed, he clenched his fist, and shouted, "Fuck them! Don't be afraid of them!"
He swore! Lin Hongmei turned to look at her husband's handsome face. She felt no disgust at Luo Jimin's vulgarity at this moment. On the contrary, she felt that this was the most powerful expression of her man. A man who is not afraid of difficulties and is willing to take responsibility is a true man who stands tall and upright.
Thinking of this, Lin Hongmei smiled knowingly.
That smile was incredibly charming and radiant, and an aura of happiness filled the small space...
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Chapter 205 The Real Alchemy (Sorry)
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