Doctor Howes's supplier was a portly middle-aged man, who lacked Doctor Howes's cleanliness and seemed to have aged prematurely due to social obligations; the man's name was Joe.
"I swear he was very healthy when I saw him, and we talked about the prices of the drugs, you know, factories have been developing rapidly recently, and some brands' pharmaceutical factories are working overtime to produce a large amount of medication at low prices, which made the medication I supplied seem expensive, so I needed to explain that to him,"
Joe started off with this explanation as soon as he saw Cui Siter.
"When I left the clinic, he was about to close up for the day; he said he had other matters to attend to that evening. I asked casually, and he didn't specify, but I guessed it could be a party or seeing a woman, because he had groomed himself very cleanly, you know, the kind of cleanliness that goes beyond his usual meticulousness; he was even cleaner that day."
