Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 671 - 98 Selling Elixir Medicine_2
Chapter 671: Chapter 98 Selling Elixir Medicine_2
Chapter 671 -98 Selling Elixir Medicine_2
Feng Hang was a man of few words. Faced with Ye Jun’s questioning and doubts, he simply said, “I didn’t switch the packages,” and would not discuss it further.
Ye Jun narrowed his eyes, sizing up the three people. He felt the two sisters’ faces showed genuine anger and grievances, thus unlikely feigned, and Feng Hang didn’t seem like a completely wicked person either. However, how many in this world had appearances that belied their true selves? So he waved his hand, ready to have the constable take the three away for a thorough interrogation.
“Wait,” suddenly spoke Yan Yu, who had been silent all along, “Let me see the elixir medicine.”
Ye Qianru took out the elixir bottle on her side and tossed it to Yan Yu.
Yan Yu, quick to react, caught it, opened the bottle, and glanced inside before asking:
“The appearance of the bottle hasn’t changed, right?”
“Of course. But what does that prove?” Ye Qianru scoffed in response, “These kinds of elixir bottles are common everywhere. Maybe he just happens to have an identical one, so he got the idea to switch them at the last minute. Who knows?”
“Heh,” Yan Yu chuckled, “The elixir inside, is it blue-green with a scent of grass and wood?”
“How did you know?” Ye Qian asked in astonishment, “Were you there at the time?”
“That settles it,” Yan Yu said as he tossed the elixir bottle back to her, then turned to Feng Hang and asked, “You poured out the elixir medicine to inspect it, right?”
“Yes,” Feng Hang’s reply was brief and to the point.
The bottle was small; seven or eight pills would fill it halfway. Without pouring them out to inspect each one, it would be easy to get duped if only the top layer was actual elixir medicine and the rest were glass marbles meant to deceive. Therefore, the Ye sisters found nothing amiss and listened as Yan Yu continued:
“Blue-green color is typical of the Primordial Spirit Replenishing Qi Pill. It belongs to the Jiamu category with overbearing spiritual energy and is a marvelous medicine to replenish physical deficits. However, it must not come into contact with gold and iron substances, as it would lose effectiveness upon contact, which is why it needs to be stored in an elm wood bottle. When you poured it into your hand, it came into contact with gold and iron, naturally disrupting the spiritual energy.”
“He caught it with his hands; where did the gold and iron come from?” Ye Qian asked, puzzled.
Suddenly, Feng Hang stretched out his right hand, revealing to everyone for the first time the many metal fragments stuck to his work gloves.
“What happened to your hand?” Ye Qianru asked through clenched teeth.
“I am a worker,” Feng Hang replied.
A worker dealing with metals in the factory would inevitably get iron filings on his person. The Ye sisters were at a loss for words, realizing they were probably the ones at fault—because as potential interested buyers, the other party couldn’t have known that the bottle contained Primordial Spirit Replenishing Qi Pills in advance, and thus would have had no way to take preventive measures. Meanwhile, they, as sellers, had the goods in hand from the start and should have been clear about what they were selling, taking on the responsibility to warn the buyer.
Alas, the sisters had no clue about what they were selling, leading to this absurd situation. Logically, they were the ones at fault.
Of course, logic aside, reality is another matter. As long as the sellers can make an unreasonable fuss, adopting a stubborn stance that says, “Indeed, I didn’t understand this thing, but don’t you have any responsibility at all?” and then encountering a mediator who likes to smooth things over, some of the loss could be recovered.
However, the Ye sisters were strong-willed and wanted to argue, but they hesitated to speak and could only stare in frustration.
On the other hand, Feng Hang was silent for a moment and then suddenly took out the Flying Sword he had intended to exchange with to begin with, and tossed it to the sisters, saying:
“This is all I have.”
The sisters looked at each other and, after a moment of silent communication, hesitantly accepted the Flying Sword.
Watching this unfold, Ye Jun was displeased and transmitted his voice to Yan Yu secretly:
“It was clearly those two sisters who didn’t understand the situation, so why should this man have to compensate? If I were the buyer, and you didn’t tell me ‘the elixir medicine can’t be poured out,’ and then something went wrong, and you demanded compensation from me, I definitely wouldn’t agree.”
“You are a woman, after all,” Yan Yu said with a laugh.
“I don’t like that comment,” Ye Jun replied with a side-eye, transmitting his voice in return, “What about women? Can’t women defend their own rights? If I bought a soup dumpling and the soup leaked out, I would still demand the vendor give me another one!”
“What I mean is, you don’t understand men,” Yan Yu explained.
“Men are supposed to indulge women, suffer losses silently?” Ye Jun retorted, “He did nothing wrong, got nothing in return, and yet he lost a sword for nothing.”
“He gained emotional value,” Yan Yu said leisurely.
Ye Jun was momentarily rendered speechless. On second thought, there did seem to be men with that sort of personality… In life, when facing conflict with a woman, they would take a step back, then pride themselves on being “real men,” and strut around with an arrogant sense of pride.
Fine, fine, as long as you’re happy, nobody cares.
Sure enough, Feng Hang adopted a nonchalant attitude, turned his back to the Ye sisters, and asked Yan Yu:
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“Can I go now?”
“Wait a moment,” Yan Yu said with a smile, “I happen to have a job for you. Are you interested?”
“What job?” Feng Hang asked.
“Temporary work,” Yan Yu said, “As you’ve seen, this place is often in chaos from people fighting every few days. We need someone to maintain order.”
Maintaining order was a task that Dingbei Army cultivators were indeed doing. The issue lay in the fact that the higher-ups wanted to hold a Cultivator Competition, encouraging civilian cultivators to register. Thus, it was necessary to foster a relatively positive public sentiment. However, the Dingbei Army cultivators were somewhat cautious in their actions—but by replacing them with civilian cultivators, there would be far fewer concerns. When necessary, fight; when necessary, kill. And if a severe accident ensued? Simply claim it was infighting among civilian cultivators! Our official stance towards civilian cultivators remains one of tolerance and benevolence!
The approach adopted by Yan Yu was the same one that had been tested repeatedly and proven effective in his former life in Yanjiao. The essence was to co-opt a group of civilian cultivators, then incite division and internal conflict among them.
