After being exposed by Yun Jiao that time, the Yang Family was kicked out of the Medical Association, which meant they were cut off from many industry updates—for example, which medicinal herbs were in short supply, which ones might go up in price—none of this information ever reached them.
Although their pharmacy was still operating, they repeatedly failed to procure scarce herbs; common folk came to their shop and couldn't get a full prescription filled, and after a while, they simply stopped going.
Their business grew worse and worse until it really couldn't be sustained; not long after, Yang Yuan's father, Yang Xiong, simply closed the pharmacy down.
A few years later, Yang Yuan opened another pharmacy on his own. He went to Elder Qin and begged for a long time, saying he knew he was wrong and pleading with Elder Qin to give father and son a way to survive.
