Chapter 77: A Ruse to Fool Heaven

The crowd, after being startled and shocked, immediately understood.

The one opposing the Mu Family is Ye Qingran, and that seems plausible.

After all, at the Qingyun Grand Gathering, the Mu Family's attitude toward Ye Qingran was utterly ruthless.

"Ye Qingran, you're being too much!"

Ye Qingran stroked Xiao Naihu's soft fur and laughed, "I'm merely raising the price according to the normal pace. Mu Family Head, why do you say I'm being excessive?"

Mu Yuanzheng choked.

But this Five-grade Pill was clearly about to belong to the Mu Family, and Ye Qingran's commotion…

"Ye Qingran, are you ill?!"

Mu Qingrou sprang up, opened the window, walked to its edge, and even through the veil could feel the fierce anger on her face.

She had already been waiting for the Medicine King Pavilion's staff to deliver the pill, then she would take it immediately; she figured that before the auction ended she could be restored to her original state.

But all of this was ruined by Ye Qingran!

"Mu Family, could you also be hoping to be expelled?"

A faint remark slipped from Ye Qingran's mouth, and in an instant the Mu family father and daughter could only suppress their raging anger.

Having learned from Dongfang Ling'er's previous mishap, they dared not cause trouble in the Medicine King Pavilion, lest they be publicly expelled and later have no face to show in Xiliang City!

Mu Yuanzheng glared at Ye Qingran with murderous intent, then, helpless yet resentful, quoted, "Eleven million taels!"

His heart was bleeding.

The pill originally only required one million to settle.

Mysteriously, an extra ten million was spent!

He only hoped Ye Qingran would give up.

"Eleven million one hundred thousand taels!"

Everyone: "……"

Ye Qingran, are you sure it wasn't intentional?

"Ye Qingran, you're being too deceitful! Zhuang Shopkeeper, Ye Qingran is certainly here to cause trouble; she disrupted the auction order, shouldn't she be thrown out?"

Mu Qingrou truly almost couldn't hold back from rushing to the third floor to fight Ye Qingran.

Everyone stared at Zhuang Xian, awaiting his response.

However, Zhuang Xian gave a faint smile, "Miss Ye's behavior has no fault."

At that moment, in the Crown Prince Dongfang Qingxuan's private box, Gu Dongliu opened the window, stood before it, and waved his Folding Fan: "Back at the Qingyun Grand Gathering, if Miss Mu had not been so overbearing, Miss Ye, even if she coveted that pill, would likely have been moved by the Mu Family's sincerity."

In other words, everything the Mu Family now suffers is of their own making!

Although her actions were deliberate, they still fell within the Medicine King Pavilion's permissible rules, so Mu Yuanzheng had no way to handle her and could only clash with her to the end!

However, no matter how much Mu Yuanzheng quoted, Ye Qingran always added ten thousand taels.

Mu Yuanzheng, sweating profusely, increasingly felt that the pill would not sell today.

He gave a hard stare and simply raised the offer to twenty million taels.

What he can't obtain, even if she takes it, he'll make her shed a layer of skin!

At the twenty‑million figure, he didn't believe Ye Yu would agree!

The sky‑high price of twenty million taels startled everyone.

Even a Five‑grade Pill, no matter how pricey, shouldn't reach such a heavenly price!

If Ye Qingran added that, wouldn't she be the sucker who overpays?

The Mu family truly are ruthless!

Old ginger still packs a punch!

"Twenty million and one hundred thousand taels."

Everyone inhaled sharply.

Sure enough, Ye Qingran was outmaneuvered by Mu Yuanzheng!

"Twenty million one hundred thousand taels, three times, sold! Five‑grade Snow Skin Pill, finally belongs to Ye Qingran!" Zhuang Xian smiled and announced.

In his mind, he thought, "His lady truly knows how to play!"

Watching helplessly as the cooked duck flew away into the hands of her enemy, Mu Qingrou angrily smashed the private box; the Medicine King Pavilion's staff came to claim compensation, saying repair costs required one million taels!

She didn't win the Snow Skin Pill and still had to pay a million taels, nearly taking her breath away!

"I don't believe that stingy Ye Yu would give her over twenty million! If Ye Qingran can't produce that sum, the item will still be ours, and she'll be placed on the Medicine King Pavilion's blacklist, never to set foot there again!"

After Mu Yuanzheng paid, he said in a deep voice, unsure whether he was consoling Mu Qingrou or himself!

However, reality proved Mu Yuanzheng had overthought.

The Five‑grade Snow Skin Pill was quickly delivered to Ye Qingran's private box; she paid, took the pill, and then said to the Xiao Naihu in her arms:

"Xiao Bai, be good, this pill is a reward for you!"

Then, in front of everyone, she stuffed that incredibly precious Snow Skin Pill, bought for over twenty million at a sky‑high price, into Xiao Naihu's mouth!

Everyone: "……"

This…

This…

This…

Silence!

Especially silent!

Everyone was stunned.

What on earth is Ye Qingran thinking?

Such a precious elixir, bought and just fed to the cat?

May I ask, is this cat a Seven Star Bloodline Divine Beast?

Many people looked at Ye Qingran's cat in her arms, envy showing on their faces, while their hearts bled inside.

It wasn't their money being spent, yet they still felt extremely heartbroken!

A true depiction of humans being inferior to cats!

This cat, in one gulp, devoured over twenty million.

A waste of heavenly treasures!

What a sin!

Today's events are enough for this cat to go out and brag to its companions for a lifetime, right?

Mu Qingrou saw this, directly rolled her eyes, fainted from anger, fell straight to the ground, while Mu Yuanzheng clutched his chest and spat out a mouthful of blood!

Everyone saw this, the corners of their eyes twitching wildly.

Holy crap, this Ye Qingran is really toxic!

Whoever offends whom will suffer!

Everyone observed a moment of silence for the Mu Family.

In another private room on the second floor, the Zhao family members trembled with fear, unable to sit still.

Their relationship with Ye Qingran is simply terrible.

What should we do? The auction for Huanfeng Herb is about to start; if Ye Qingran finds out we want Huanfeng Herb, will she also come and compete with us?

Wang Yan wore a nervous expression.

Zhao Tian stayed silent, Zhao Yan wore a sinister expression.

During this time, they have certainly offended Ye Qingran quite a bit.

Given Ye Qingran's meticulous temperament, she will surely do something like this. One can see a hint of it from her revenge on the Mu Family.

Yan'er, what do you have as a plan?

Zhao Yan paced back and forth in the private room; after a few minutes, her eyes lit up, and she said: "To avoid provoking Ye Qingran's revenge, we will arrange for someone to bid in the first-floor auction hall, while we ourselves will symbolically place a few bids..."

Zhao Tian, upon hearing this, thought the plan feasible and immediately ordered people to arrange it.

Soon, the auction for Huanfeng Herb began.

Huanfeng Herb is a rare spiritual plant with healing properties; however, for most people it's as useful as chicken ribs, only showing great efficacy in the hands of apothecaries and pill masters.

Therefore, not many people participate in the Huanfeng Herb auction.

It can be said that this is the most deserted auction session since today's auction began.

Fortunately, the Zhao family has kept tight control over news regarding Zhao Hao's matter, so almost no one knows that the Zhao family needs Huanfeng Herb.

After the Zhao family placed a few symbolic bids, they withdrew; eventually, seeing that the person they had arranged on the first floor was about to succeed, the Zhao family members finally let out a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, this ruse succeeded!