Chapter 119

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

Half an hour later, Lu Yuanyuan returned to the Hongfeng Valley Trading Point with a flushed complexion.

"Yuanyuan, you're here."

Liu Shuang immediately stepped forward, his gaze roaming back and forth over the other person's well-proportioned figure.

"Mm!"

Lu Yuanyuan gave a slight nod, then swept her gaze over Xu Zhangqing and the others, first glancing at Han Xin's decent looks, then locking onto Li Sancai as she asked, "Senior Brother Lingbi's cousin, did you come to me because Senior Brother Lingbi has some need?"

Two crisp "Senior Brother Lingbi"s in a row left Xu Zhangqing and the others speechless; at first listen, they thought Lu Yuanyuan and Li Lingbi were a couple.

Li Sancai stood up from his chair and said with a smile, "There are indeed two matters."

"Which two?" Lu Yuanyuan showed a curious expression.

Li Sancai immediately said, "The first matter is that Junior Brother Lingbi indeed needs a batch of spirit plants; we'll discuss the details later. This time, we mainly revolve around the second matter."

Upon hearing that Li Lingbi needed help, Lu Yuanyuan's eyes lit up, and she hurriedly asked, "Alright, then what is the second matter?"

Li Sancai's smile faded, and he said in a deep voice, "Before discussing the second matter, I want to ask Daoist Lu first: did you send someone to sell things at Zhuqi Peak, or even steal business?"

Hearing this, Lu Yuanyuan felt bewildered: "I don't even know what you're talking about!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Zhangqing and Han Xin exchanged glances, and both breathed a sigh of relief.

It seemed this matter had nothing to do with Lu Yuanyuan, of course, it wasn't ruled out that this woman was lying.

Li Sancai nodded slightly, then pointed to Xu Zhangqing to introduce him: "This is my junior brother Xu Zhangqing, and also a member of my cousin's team,

he and two other friends recently set up stalls at Zhuqi Peak, earning a decent income, but were targeted by someone, and that person..."

"Someone from the Nongxin Society?" Lu Yuanyuan wasn't stupid either; she immediately guessed it.

Li Sancai glanced at Wang Xuan, whose face was deathly pale, then continued: "This Dao Friend clearly admitted that he was instructed by a man named Xu Mingsheng from the Nongxin Society to maliciously steal business at Zhuqi Peak."

Lu Yuanyuan's expression sank: "Xu Mingsheng is indeed a member of the Nongxin Society, and even an intermediary connecting other spirit farmers."

"So it really is someone from the Nongxin Society." Han Xin suddenly spoke, somewhat sarcastically.

Lu Yuanyuan locked her gaze onto Xu Zhangqing, then asked, "At Zhuqi Peak, how much is your daily income?"

Xu Zhangqing answered honestly: "Thirty middle-grade spirit stones a day!"

Actually, at most it was only ten middle-grade spirit stones a day, but he deliberately said more.

This way, not only could it attract extra attention from the other party, but it could also make Li Sancai and Han Xin beside him pay more attention.

"Thirty a day?" Wang Xuan stared wide-eyed, showing an expression of disbelief.

He worked himself to death, had to take the blame, and would even be suppressed by Han Xin in the future, all for just one middle-grade spirit stone.

Wasn't it said that if Xu Mingsheng took the business at Zhuqi Peak, there would be at least twenty or thirty middle-grade spirit stones coming in per day, and a few hundred per month?

Even Li Sancai felt surprised; he thought ten a day was already good, at most twenty, but he didn't expect that setting up a stall at Zhuqi Peak could earn so much money.

Han Xin, the Array Master who earned even more, now widened her almond eyes, her eyes full of shock.

Only Lu Yuanyuan had no great reaction after hearing it: "Thirty middle-grade spirit stones a day? It seems setting up a stall at Zhuqi Peak indeed earns money, but... I don't care for it!"

As the highest manager of the Nongxin Society at the Hongfeng Valley Trading Point, she received over a thousand middle-grade spirit stones in monthly dividends, and the year-end dividends were even more; she truly didn't care for this paltry thirty.

This was mainly to tell Xu Zhangqing and the others that as a cultivator who earned a lot of money, it was absolutely impossible for her to instruct Xu Mingsheng to do such a thing.

Obviously, the other party was using the 【Nongxin Society】 to deliberately scare people, so that Xu Zhangqing and the others would retreat in the face of difficulty.

Li Sancai stepped forward and said with a rather serious expression: "We naturally consider this Xu Mingsheng's personal behavior and it has nothing to do with Daoist Lu.

But after all, he has the backing of the Nongxin Society, which is why he's so bold, even instructing a man named Wang Xuan to beat one of our friends into serious injury!"

"Ah?" Wang Xuan looked completely bewildered.

If he remembered correctly, he had only broken Zhao Ziyue's water bubble; how in the blink of an eye did it become that the other person was seriously injured?

He opened his mouth, about to explain, but suddenly felt Han Xin's fierce gaze, and immediately sensibly closed his mouth.

Anyway, now it was yellow mud falling into the crotch—whether it was shit or not, it was shit.

Lu Yuanyuan nodded slightly: "Rest assured, I will personally give you an explanation, and will never allow anyone to ruin the reputation of our Nongxin Society."

Xu Zhangqing couldn't help but sneer in his heart: "Does your Nongxin Society even have any reputation to speak of?"

Li Sancai saw that the other party had already given a guarantee, so he stepped back, then said: "Rest assured, I won't let Lingbi know about this matter."

Lu Yuanyuan breathed a sigh of relief, then turned to look at Liu Shuang, one of the managers of the trading point: "Shuang'er, go call Xu Mingsheng over."

Liu Shuang understood immediately, turned around, and ran outside.

As one of the managers, she had Xu Mingsheng's communication talisman, so why did she still have to go outside to personally call this person over?

Xu Zhangqing and the others weren't fools either, but they could only watch helplessly, with no other choice.

After all, Lu Yuanyuan had clearly stated she would handle it personally, so they couldn't press too hard, otherwise she might turn hostile.

By then, they wouldn't be able to negotiate at all.

Seeing this, Han Xin simply turned and left as well.

It wasn't to supervise Liu Shuang, but because she felt she was no longer needed here.

Not long after, Liu Shuang brought the person back.

"Sister Lu!" Xu Mingsheng knelt down with a thud as soon as he entered, looking extremely frightened.

Lu Yuanyuan narrowed her eyes, looking down at him, and asked in an unfriendly tone: "It seems you know you did something wrong?"

Xu Mingsheng immediately wailed: "I was wrong, I shouldn't have coveted other people's business, and I shouldn't have damaged the reputation of the Nongxin Society!"

Lu Yuanyuan said to Li Sancai, Xu Zhangqing, and Wang Xuan: "You three go out first; I need to teach this fellow a good lesson."

Hearing this, Li Sancai and Xu Zhangqing brought Wang Xuan out.

After they left, Lu Yuanyuan stepped on Xu Mingsheng's face with one foot, grinding her shoe sole hard into it, her expression turning ferocious as she said coldly and sternly:

"I won't say anything about you normally taking a middleman's cut from other spirit farmers, but now you actually dare to ruin my image in Senior Brother Lingbi's heart—do you want to die!"

That is to say, she did not think the person underfoot had done anything wrong; she was merely worried that her image in Li Lingbi's heart would be damaged.

At this moment, Xu Mingsheng had no mood to peek at the scenery under the other's skirt, and said with a trembling voice: "Sister Lu, I was wrong, I won't dare again!!!"