I was reborn after my cousin stole my life.

Chapter 177: Let's Compare

Once inside the pharmacy, Hao Jia slammed her hand on the counter!

"Come on, whoever wants to confront me, hurry up! Don't all know Yuan Xiu has a good temper and pick on the weak!"

Wang Xiaomei was somewhat afraid of Hao Jia. Director Hao was her uncle, and she was afraid of him. Whenever she saw Director Hao, she would run away like a mouse seeing a cat.

"We're not bullying anyone. We're talking business. The leadership will definitely know about the patient vomiting in ward number three immediately. If something goes wrong, someone has to take responsibility, and this is clearly your pharmacy's responsibility!"

"It's too early to say that."

Yuan Xiu said, "If the three bottles of medicine taste and have the same ingredients, then why did yesterday's medicine cause the patient to vomit? The responsibility doesn't lie with the pharmacy, but with the nurse in charge of the ward."

The nurse in charge of ward number three immediately retorted, "Impossible! I took the medicine you prepared and immediately delivered it upstairs. I personally witnessed the old leader drinking it. How can the responsibility be on me?"

"Don't try to shift the blame! It's your pharmacy's responsibility," Wang Xiaomei said.

Hao Jia: "Then smell it! Why aren't you smelling the medicine? Can't you smell it?"

Wang Xiaomei was furious. They had already changed the subject, but Hao Jia brought it up again.

"Didn't you say Yuan Xiu could smell it? She smelled it first."

Wang Xiaomei tilted her head back and said, "If she could tell the exact ingredients, the time each herb was prepared, and the heat used for decocting it all without even looking at the prescription or the decoction records, just by smelling it, then she'd be incredibly skilled!"

"Is it just because I'm good? Or is the responsibility not on our pharmacy?" Yuan Xiu asked.

"Whether it's in your pharmacy or not isn't up to you to decide!" Wang Xiaomei said.

Yuan Xiu and Hao Jia were both amused and exasperated.

"You say the responsibility lies with the pharmacy, so it's the pharmacy; we say it's not with the pharmacy, so why can't you provide any evidence? Why don't you just take charge of this hospital? If you're so capable, why don't you become the hospital director!" Hao Jia shouted angrily, hands on her hips.

Wang Xiaomei snorted coldly: "After saying so much, you just know you can't do it! I advise you two to stop shirking responsibility. If you made a mistake, you made a mistake. Admit it, apologize, and reflect on yourselves..."

"Who says it can't be done?" Yuan Xiu looked at Wang Xiaomei: "Comrade Wang Xiaomei, I know you're quite resentful of me, thinking that someone like me, who came from humble beginnings, isn't qualified to take your place at the pharmacy."

At this point, Yuan Xiu covered her mouth and said, "No, that's not right. It's not that I took your place. You were sent back to the personnel department by our Traditional Chinese Medicine Department, so even if I didn't come, this position wouldn't be yours."

Wang Xiaomei hated it most when people brought up her being sent back to the personnel department by the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Yuan Xiu saying it in front of so many people made her feel both embarrassed and angry.

Hao Jia burst out laughing: "Haha, you're not right at all. How can you say she took her place? It was clearly our TCM department that didn't want her. I don't know what this person was thinking, that they could think she could get the recommendation spot."

After speaking, Hao Jia looked at the others and asked, "There are five of you, but only two spots. How are we going to divide them?"

"Don't change the subject. What do you mean by quotas? Today's matter is about work responsibility, it has nothing to do with quotas." Wang Xiaomei quickly interrupted Hao Jia, afraid that her words would affect their relationship.

Nurse in Ward 3: "Exactly, don't change the subject."

Hao Jia pouted, "Stupid fool, he probably won't get any of them."

Yuan Xiu continued the previous topic: "Comrade Wang Xiaomei, let's have a competition, just like you said."

Yuan Xiu took out two pieces of paper. "Let's smell each of the three bottles of medicine one by one, and write down the medicinal materials we smell, how long it has been used, and the heat level on the paper."

She pointed to a stack of prescriptions kept by the pharmacy on the counter. "The prescriptions are in here. After the comparison is complete, you can find the prescription for ward number three and compare it. The decoction records are hanging on the wall of the decoction room. You can take them out and look at them later. Is that fair enough? So, Comrade Wang Xiaomei, shall we begin?"

"Oh, right, let me add something. If you can't even beat someone like me with my unorthodox methods, then you're even less qualified to compete for this college student recommendation spot. It wouldn't be right to give it to you, would it? And everyone would be dissatisfied. Of course, if you can beat me, I'll definitely vote for you when the hospital organizes the vote."

Yuan Xiu's words put Wang Xiaomei in a difficult position. If she didn't want to compete, wouldn't that be tantamount to admitting that she couldn't even catch up with Yuan Xiu?

If we compete and I win, that's fine; I'll at least get a vote. But if I lose, it'll be too embarrassing.

She turned her head to look at the nurse in ward number three.

When the nurse saw her looking over, she quickly took a step back.

She couldn't compare to Yuan Xiu; she wasn't a traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy major, but rather a nursing student in vocational school.

Wang Xiaomei gritted her teeth and decided to compete. She refused to believe that she, a vocational school graduate majoring in pharmacy, was inferior to Yuan Xiu, a self-taught student!

Let's begin!

Yuan Xiu smiled and said, "Then let's begin."

Yuan Xiu sat down at the counter, picked up a bottle of medicine, sniffed it, and began writing the names of the herbs on a piece of paper. She finished quickly, put down the bottle, and picked up a second one...

The ingredients in all three bottles of medicine are the same; the only difference lies in the slight variations caused by the heat level during decoction.

Therefore, the further along the journey, the faster Yuan Xiu's speed increased.

"Yuan Xiu is so fast! Could she really smell it all?"

"So what if she smelled it? Isn't it normal for someone who works at a pharmacy to be able to smell it?"

"No, look at Wang Xiaomei, she..."

Wang Xiaomei held the medicine bottle and smelled it again and again. It took her a long time to write down the name of a single herb on a piece of paper. As a result, Yuan Xiu had already put down the second bottle of medicine, but she was still holding the first bottle of medicine that was important to her and smelling it.

"Comrade Wang Xiaomei, I'm still waiting for the medicine you have. Please hurry."

When she urged her, Wang Xiaomei realized that she had fallen so far behind.

She started to panic, and the more panicked she became, the more chaotic she became. She felt like everyone was laughing at her. In the end, she could only write down the names of a few herbs on a piece of paper based on their general taste.

As for the heat and the decoction time, she just wrote them down casually.

As she wrote, she comforted herself, thinking that even if she didn't get everything right, she was still more correct than Yuan Xiu. How much could Yuan Xiu possibly understand?

Understanding medicinal herbs isn't something you can achieve by picking them up quickly.

A moment later, Yuan Xiu put down her pen and sat down to wait for Wang Xiaomei to finish.

Hao Jia: "Are you done yet? How much longer do we have to wait? Hurry up, or we'll be off work soon."

Wang Xiaomei rolled her eyes at her and slammed the pen in her hand heavily on the counter!

"Where are the backup prescriptions and brief notes? Bring them out!"

Hao Jia rolled her eyes at her, "Don't cry later!"

He turned around and went into the decoction room to take out the decoction record.

The people who came with Wang Xiaomei also took out the backup prescriptions from the pharmacy.