Chapter 82
Debating
Zhuang Xue'e never expected things to turn out this way. Although she was furious, she lacked the professional knowledge in this area.
Blindly protecting Qin Mo will only make people think that Qin Mo is just taking advantage of her influence and has no real skills.
Qin Mo, who was at the center of the conversation, remained calm and shook his head with a smile.
"Professor Liu, I've heard that you are highly respected and have a serious and responsible attitude, and that you have made contributions to human health and well-being."
"I respect you, so I'm willing to discuss this with you."
"But now, you can't even point out what's wrong with my prescription. You only see that it's a Chinese medicine prescription and criticize it relentlessly. I'm really a bit disappointed."
The moment he finished speaking, Sun Qian's face was already filled with anger, and she scolded him playfully:
"presumptuous!"
"Who do you think you are? What right do you have to discuss this with my teacher?"
"Is there even a need to discuss your so-called prescription?"
Yang Jie pushed up his glasses, his expression icy: "That's right, your professional knowledge, let alone Professor Liu, even Sun Qian and I, can crush you by eight streets."
"Want to discuss this with my professor? You'd better go to Columbia University and get a degree first before you're even eligible to join the queue!"
As Liu Xueyi's students, the two of them had always felt honored to be associated with him.
How can we allow a nobody to criticize their teacher?
Liu Xueyi wasn't angry; his contempt for Qin Mo only intensified.
"Ha, it seems you young man won't give up until you've hit rock bottom."
"Alright, for Miss Zhuang's sake, I'll give you a chance."
"Let me tell you the problems with your prescription, so you can give up on this idea completely!"
He didn't pick up the prescription; relying solely on his memory, he pinpointed the problem.
"First of all, the theory of monarch, minister, assistant, and guide in your prescription cannot be quantified at all."
"Secondly, the effective components of the medicinal materials are unclear, and the extraction process is very primitive."
Third, there is no data from any double-blind clinical trials!
"Aren't my three reasons enough to prove that your so-called 'ancient elixir formula' has absolutely no scientific basis?"
Liu Xueyi's words were forceful and eloquent, each one a gem.
The other staff members present were all impressed.
Even Zhuang Xue'e was speechless.
She gently tugged at Qin Mo's clothes and lowered her voice, "What should we do? He only glanced at it and found so many problems. Have you thought about how to solve them?"
"Want to? Why should I want to?"
Qin Mo shrugged it off, a slight smile playing on his lips: "What he's saying isn't my problem at all."
"On the contrary, it highlighted his own problems."
Seeing that he was still being stubborn even at this point, Sun Qian was furious.
"Enough! You can't even refute the questions my teacher raised, and you're still stubbornly spouting nonsense. Someone like you doesn't even deserve to stand in front of us!"
Qin Mo ignored her and walked unhurriedly to a whiteboard in the laboratory, picking up a pen.
Seeing this, Sun Qian became even angrier: "Still pretending!"
Yang Jie was a bit calmer, but not much better: "Heh, let him pretend. Let's see what kind of nonsense he can come up with!"
Qin Mo ignored the two of them and stared directly into Liu Xueyi's eyes.
"You say it can't be quantified? Fine, then I'll quantify it for you."
After saying that, he casually wrote a string of professional symbols on the whiteboard.
"Professor Liu, is the core ingredient of your flagship Qingxin Capsules Danshen (Salvia miltiorrhiza)?"
"Through alcohol extraction, you can obtain 2.3%, the purpose of which is to achieve the antiplatelet aggregation effect."
"In my prescription, the chief ingredient, Red Yang Ginseng, has the same effect as yours, but in a lower concentration."
"At first glance, we are not as good as you. But your research results have also stopped there."
Before Liu Xueyi could react after Qin Mo finished speaking, Sun Qian almost screamed.
"Wait, how do you know the main ingredients of Qingxin Capsules!"
Yang Jie was also extremely surprised: "Did Miss Zhuang tell you?"
Not only them, but everyone else, including Liu Xueyi, was stunned.
From beginning to end, no one showed Qin Mo the data on Qingxin Capsules!
Liu Xueyi was also stunned and subconsciously looked at Zhuang Xue'e.
Zhuang Xue'e spread her hands: "Don't look at me, Professor Liu, your experimental data hasn't been submitted to me yet."
The deputy manager nodded in agreement: "Yes, it was your own condition. We can't interfere too much until your experiment is completely completed."
Liu Xueyi knew perfectly well that they were both right.
He panicked even more: "Could the experimental data have been lost?"
He suddenly looked at Qin Mo: "How did you know?"
Qin Mo smiled calmly at this: "Of course, I can tell by smell."
This laboratory was originally provided for Liu Xueyi to research Qingxin Capsules.
They had just finished the previous round of experiments before Qin Mo and the others arrived.
The air was still filled with the smell of medicine.
As soon as Qin Mo entered the room, he could smell the key medicinal herbs in the complex atmosphere.
Then, by using the name "Qingxin Capsule" and the incomplete data they had originally written on the whiteboard, they were able to extract most of their key data in one go.
His ability greatly shocked Liu Xueyi.
"This...this is impossible!"
"You can analyze my main components and extract content just by smelling me?"
"How could you possibly understand my data!"
Yang Jie and Sun Qian exchanged a glance, their faces revealing their panic and shock.
Qin Mo played with the pen in his hand and smiled:
"Professor Liu, don't rush, I haven't finished speaking yet."
He touched the whiteboard, on which was written the name of a new medicinal herb.
"The essence of ancient prescriptions lies in the adjuvant and guiding herbs."
"This Ice Soul Grass is ineffective in itself."
"But after the ancient method of nine distillations and nine sun-dryings, and the winemaking process at specific temperatures..."
"What do you think?"
Since Professor Liu is so knowledgeable, he would naturally think about the next step after Qin Mo had gone this far.
Liu Xueyi was still in shock from what he had just experienced when he turned around and continued thinking along Qin Mo's lines of thought.
Yang Jie and Sun Qian, on the other hand, had no idea about Ice Soul Grass, which was an obscure substance.
Normally, no one would use it in medicine.
Because its transformation conditions are extremely demanding, relevant literature is also extremely scarce.
As Qin Mo spoke, he wrote down a series of transformation equations on the whiteboard.
To others, what Qin Mo wrote was nothing more than pretentious scribbles.
But the more Liu Xueyi read, the more excited he became, his whole body trembling.
"This, this is..."
Qin Mo finished writing in one go and then threw the pen aside.
His formula, placed side by side with the data for Qingxin Capsules, formed a stark contrast.
Liu Xueyi's usually serious and arrogant face now radiated an unusual brilliance.
Amidst the bewildered gazes of the others, Qin Mo smiled nonchalantly:
"So, Professor Liu, you still think my prescription is completely useless?"