Chapter 250: Why Haven't They Come Yet

Huang Wu, dressed in luxury goods, brought attendants and guards to the Town.

He wore an arrogant and haughty expression toward the people in the Town, making no effort to hide it: "I have already become someone you cannot hope to climb up to!"

Tired from walking, he first looked for a place to drink tea.

On the edge of the Town, on a certain street newly built in the last two years.

Near the entrance of the street was a medium-sized medicine hall. The medicine hall had seven managers, all from the same county in the South. The seven were as close as brothers and sisters, so they named the medicine hall "Seven Treasures Hall".

Inside Seven Treasures Hall, the Head Manager and the Second Manager were chatting idly.

There had been many incidents in the Town lately, and everyone was afraid of being implicated, so business at every shop was sluggish.

The Head Manager held a pot of hot tea, leaned casually against the back of his chair, and sighed in a low voice: "When that Rong Huan first came to the Town to drink tea, he drank the entire Medicine Gang's tea shop business into collapse! Sigh!"

Beside him, the Second Manager looked at the Account Book and sighed along: "Isn't that the truth!"

Now, there were hardly any people in the Town who dared to drink tea at a medicine hall.

Their Seven Treasures Hall had joined the Medicine Gang, so their interests were one and the same in this matter.

Did the people of the Medicine Gang hate Rong Huan?

Of course they did!

"The managers of the various medicine halls in the Medicine Gang hate him so much their teeth ache. But in the short term, no one in the Medicine Gang dares to make a move against Rong Huan," the Head Manager said.

Having witnessed the might of the Zhao Clan, who would dare to target Rong Huan during this period?

At least on the surface, the people of the Medicine Gang did not dare.

Precisely because everyone knew the Medicine Gang hated Rong Huan, if anything were to happen to that man surnamed Rong, everyone would certainly suspect the Medicine Gang first.

It had been many days since the Armored Soldiers of the Zhao Clan entered the Town, yet that scene was still vivid in their minds.

According to the original agreement between Shenyi Gu and the Six Great Clans, Armored Soldiers were not allowed to enter the Town! Even if soldiers came to the Town, they could not be fully armed.

But the poisoning of Rong Huan was indeed carried out by locals, and it even dragged up the old affair of the near-extermination of the Su Family, the medicine merchants, back then.

Would those who carved up the Su Family's resources back then spit them back out? How could that be possible!

Weighing multiple factors, the people of the Medicine Gang would rather let this matter pass quickly than quibble over the Zhao Clan's Armored Soldiers entering the Town, and even took the initiative to help them find excuses.

The Second Manager clicked his tongue twice and said: "Before the chaotic times, if I could be given thirty—no, twenty would do! Give me twenty Armored

Soldiers, and I could push straight through from the east of the Town to the west!"

The Head Manager scoffed: "If this were before the chaotic times, if you took twenty Armored Soldiers to fight on the street, your entire clan would be wiped out!"

What kind of beautiful dream are you having? That's treason!

What is your status that you can mobilize Armored Soldiers? Do you think your family tree has too many people and you want them cleared out?

Household registration cancellation warning!

The Second Manager was not annoyed, just smiled: "I am indeed angry that business is affected, but I am also truly envious. As expected of the Six Great Clans, they are indeed powerful!"

As he spoke, he added in a low voice: "The Medicine Gang is not worth looking at in front of the Six Great Clans!"

Their Seven Treasures Hall were not locals; they had come as refugees, so they did not have much empathy for the Medicine Gang's predicament, and privately, they would watch the joke.

The time the Zhao Clan dispatched Armored Soldiers also gave those of them who had come as refugees from other places a clearer positioning: local snakes like the Medicine Gang, when facing others in the valley, were the fighting cocks among cocks, extremely aggressive and quite imposing!

Yet, when facing the Six Great Clans of Beidi, the Medicine Gang turned directly into quails, acting as atmosphere-setters.

The Head Manager sipped his tea and said: "Those are matters for the big shots. For our little shop, living a stable life is enough."

Just as they were chatting, a few people entered the doorway.

Seeing Huang Wu at the lead, the two managers tensed up inside, but on the surface, they smoothly switched to smiles: "Yo, Young Master Huang Wu!"

Huang Wu lifted his chin with satisfaction; he liked hearing people call him "Young Master," as it sounded as if he were born into an aristocratic family.

Huang Wu shook his head and swayed as he stepped into Seven Treasures Hall, smiling as he raised a hand to pat the Head Manager's belly: "Haven't seen you in many days, your general's belly has even more style; you've skimmed quite a bit of profit, haven't you? Hahaha!"

Continuing inside, Huang Wu saw a figure, his eyes lit up, and he took two quick steps to block the other person: "Yo, Little Seven, have you grown taller again? Let me see!"

He raised his hand, intending to touch the Seventh Manager's young and handsome face.

The Seventh Manager turned to the side to avoid it, but his hand was grabbed, and he endured his anger to pull free.

Before Huang Wu could get angry, a young woman walked over from the side: "Is it Young Master Wu who has come?"

Huang Wu immediately shifted his gaze: "Ayy, Wuniangzi~"

The Fifth Manager gave him a look as if chiding him, followed the other's intent to respond a few times, then said: "Is Young Master Wu here to pick up goods today?"

Huang Wu shook his fan: "Of course! Didn't you send word up the mountain that the goods were finished? Where are they?"

"Right here!" The Second Manager had already brought over a wooden box.

He opened the lid to display the goods inside.

Inside was a ceramic-fired item: an elephant carrying a gourd, the glaze a verdant green, lustrous as jade, with an elegant texture.

"The Treasure Elephant Gourd can serve as an elegant ornament, symbolizing health and good fortune, warding off evil and bringing blessings, and it can also be used as an Incense Burner; it is quite practical," the Second Manager said, piling on the smiles.

Huang Wu nodded with satisfaction: "Beautiful!"

It looked very high-class!

"Alright, leave it here for now; I'll take it when I'm done with my tea. I'm thirsty from the journey here."

Huang Wu walked toward the second-floor tea room, familiar with the way.

While going upstairs, he still complained: "I heard the medicine halls in the Town are all undergoing rectification recently? I don't see where you've rectified anything; the stairs are still this narrow!"

Huang Wu sat in the second-floor tea room, choosing the best vantage point.

The tea room had windows on two sides, allowing him to see the street outside and the main hall on the first floor.

Once the tea was served, Huang Wu's mouth still didn't stop: "You wouldn't be poisoning this, would you?"

The Third Manager, who had personally brought the tea up, hurriedly said: "We wouldn't dare do such a wicked thing!"

Huang Wu said proudly: "Hmph, I assume you wouldn't dare! If I suffer even the slightest injury, everyone in your Seven Treasures Hall will be finished! My master knew I was coming out today!"

As he spoke, Huang Wu became smug again: "I must drink my tea quickly; I won't have time later. My status is extraordinary now; every time I enter the Town, there are many people looking for me."

As he spoke, Huang Wu cast a glance downstairs, his eyebrows arching high in triumph: "Look, isn't that them arriving now!"

Taking a closer look, the smile on Huang Wu's face instantly dropped: "That is—is that the one surnamed Rong?"

Huang Wu was displeased, and the several managers of Seven Treasures Hall felt their hearts skip a beat at this moment.

It is Rong Huan!

The one who nearly drank every medicine hall and teahouse in the entire Town into bankruptcy, it's Rong Huan!

Oh no, are they coming for us this time?

The head manager went to greet them personally. His expression remained unchanged, but his internal vigilance was raised to the maximum.

Wen Gu walked into this medicine hall and looked at the items on the shelves on the first floor.

Seven Treasures Hall had no technical barriers in medicine, no exclusive secret recipes, and was mediocre in this regard with little room for growth; furthermore, being outsiders, they belonged to a marginalized medicine hall within the Medicine Gang.

Seven Treasures Hall called itself a medicine hall, but it actually focused mainly on medicine packaging and containers.

Things like medicine boxes, medicine bottles, and the like.

Wen Gu's gaze swept over them, and he picked up a narrow-mouthed medicine bottle the height of a thumb, asking: "Do you accept custom orders here?"

The head manager said cautiously: "What kind of object are you looking for?"

Wen Gu described to the head manager the medicine bottle he wanted to have customized.

The two of them chatted about the custom business.

Second-floor teahouse.

Huang Wu pretended to sip his tea, gradually becoming somewhat impatient.

He was waiting for the one surnamed Rong to come up and find him.

He waited and waited, drinking cup after cup of tea.

The pot of tea was about to run dry, yet they were still chatting downstairs.

Huang Wu stared blankly at the empty teacup.

Why hasn't that one surnamed Rong come upstairs yet?