“The... the Gu Family Free Drive-Thru Detox Stall?!”
Up on the tenth-floor golden balcony of the Supreme Immortal Clinic, Chosen One Dr. Chen Ao nearly sprained his neck trying to look down at Gu Changsheng’s wooden folding table while keeping his chin tilted at forty-five degrees.
For a full three seconds, Dr. Chen Ao stared at the scene below in utter disbelief.
Right in the middle of Emerald Plaza—directly across from his solid-gold clinic doors where wealthy patriarchs usually knelt for three days. The strange family from the flying brick courtyard was setting up what looked like a cheerful neighborhood street-food and clinic booth!
Twelve-year-old Gu Nian in his yellow bunny apron unfolded a bright red canvas canopy over the long wooden table to keep the noon sun off the patients.
Seventy-year-old Grandpa Yao in his crisp white Pill-Saint coat set a row of sparkling, crystal-clear glass specimen jars along the front edge of the table. Next to him, Auntie Qin arranged a tray of warm, honey-glazed roasted chicken wings and fragrant five-spice tea eggs in a heated bamboo steamer. Meanwhile, Ten-year-old Su Nuannuan and twenty-year-old Lady Bai Zhi poured cups of warm [Sweet Honey-Candy Dew].
And right on top of the red canopy, twelve-year-old Gu Nian hoisted a thirty-foot-wide wooden billboard that he had just finished painting in bold, bright red brushstrokes angled at forty-five degrees so Dr. Chen Ao could read every word from his balcony:
