Yellow earth?
The woman stared at the prescription, wondering if she had misread it.
She looked again. It was, indeed, yellow earth.
'But the yellow earth here must be some other kind of medicinal herb, not the yellow earth I'm thinking of.'
"Doctor, this yellow earth is..."
Before she could finish, Li Xu knew what she was going to ask and replied, "It's just ordinary yellow earth. Preferably, earth from underneath a stove."
The woman exploded. "Yellow earth? Earth from under a stove? Doctor, are you joking? How can yellow earth cure an illness?"
The reporters, who had been waiting bored outside the consultation room, heard the argument inside and immediately perked up. They all crowded around, blocking the doorway completely.
When they saw the two words "yellow earth" on the prescription in the woman's hand, they grew even more excited, like sharks that had smelled blood.
"What? Curing illnesses with yellow earth? This is huge news!"
