The Fifth Heir gazed at the shopkeeper and asked, "Shopkeeper, do you have any more Xi Pills? Or perhaps you know of a pharmacy that sells them?"
The shopkeeper looked troubled, "Young Master, this is our store's treasure, precious due to its rarity."
"I have only one, and there's not a second one to be found in the Capital and surrounding towns!"
"If it weren't for the insistence of the Duke Ping family's young lady, I wouldn't have let it go."
The Fifth Heir frowned, "So... the Xi Pills are made from rhinoceros horn ground into powder, mixed with other medicinal herbs, correct? In that case, I'll go buy rhinoceros horn for you, you handle the processing, and I'll pay extra, how about that?"
The shopkeeper shrugged helplessly, "Ordinary rhinoceros horn won't do; it must be from a Purple Rhinoceros horn over fifty years old."
That's the difficult part.
Purple Rhinoceroses are rare, let alone one that has lived for fifty years.
