Chapter 17

Early the next morning, Liu Qingcang sat in the City Master's Mansion with a bitter face again.

Yesterday he came to find Xu Bingkun, hoping that the City Master could help the current situation. After all, Shen Tang just let Xu Bingkun push a very simple new regulation, which allowed the Shen Clan Trading Firm, which had nothing, to establish a foothold in Xiazhou directly. He had such a good foundation, if the City Master could also help support it, wouldn't he be able to hang ten Shen Clan Trading Firms?

However, the proposal to push the new regulation was proposed by Shen Tang, not Xu Bingkun. Xu Bingkun himself had no good strategy in business.

He could only appease Liu Qingcang, saying that he would let Manager Chen Jinnian of the Elixir Department issue a notice saying that the Divine Qi Pill's toxicity was no problem.

The note was handed to Chen Jinnian, and Chen Jinnian also smiled and said he would follow the City Master's order, but no one knew when the notice would be issued. Chen Jinnian is the number one alchemist in Xiazhou, a dignified sixth-grade alchemist, and can be called a treasure of the town in this remote place. He, Xu Bingkun, cannot force him too much, otherwise, what if he needs him to treat his illness in the future?

One night passed, and the situation of the Danxia Gang did not improve at all, but fermented even more seriously.

Citizens went to major elixir shops to return goods, and elixir shops also suspended purchase agreements with the Danxia Gang on the grounds of "major flaws in elixirs," and some with backers even came to Liu Qingcang for compensation.

The elixir shops belonging to the Danxia Gang were crowded with people early in the morning, not to buy medicine, but all to return goods.

They returned not only Divine Qi Pills, but also those low-grade Yiqi Pills and so on.

The low-grade elixirs were all refined by apprentices brought out by Lu Xingzhou, strictly following Lu Xingzhou's elixir formula. Although the refining level was average, it would definitely not have the heavy elixir toxicity of the Divine Qi Pill. Unfortunately, it was brought by the trend of the Divine Qi Pill. Most citizens are not professional, and they will also feel that the elixir toxicity of these low-grade elixirs is heavier than other shops, and they don't want them. No matter how the Danxia Gang explains, it is useless.

If this continues, the Danxia Gang's elixir business will not be able to do it at all, and it will return to the medicine peddler business of the year overnight.

"City Master, can't wait!" Liu Qingcang beat his chest and stamped his feet in front of Xu Bingkun: "Chen Jinnian is now bought by Lu Xingzhou and will not be so kind to help us refute the rumors. Even if he is willing, I don't know how many days it will drag on, and the day lily will be cold."

Xu Bingkun's expression was ugly. His death soldiers were all wiped out and he didn't know what happened, so he was worried, and he was in no mood to pay more attention to this kind of broken thing. He secretly thought that your own elixir business had a problem, so why did it look like his responsibility... The new regulations were aimed at the whole city, why didn't other shops have problems, but you did?

However, he also really needed Liu Qingcang to confront Shen Tang on the bright side, so he endured his annoyance and said: "Then what do you want?"

"Chen Jinnian is unwilling to testify for the Divine Qi Pill, but he can let him speak for other elixirs." Liu Qingcang hurriedly said: "Our other elixirs are indeed no problem, and the elixir toxicity is even lighter than others! Even if Chen Jinnian can't be relied on, he can let others in the Elixir Department speak."

Xu Bingkun said: "Why is it that they are all refined by you, the Divine Qi Pill's toxicity is heavy, but other elixirs are light?"

This is something even Xu Bingkun doesn't believe...

Liu Qingcang flushed his old face, how could he be embarrassed to say that other elixirs were the legacy left by Lu Xingzhou, but he drove people away and changed to a venereal disease man?

Xu Bingkun paced back and forth for a few steps, and finally said: "It is said that your elixir shop is being blocked by people now... In this trend, letting the Elixir Department say a word with empty teeth has no effect. If you are indeed sure, then the best strategy is to place it on the surface for public inspection. That will clear the doubts in an instant, and can also have some publicity. But if you deceive this official, and there is a problem with the inspection, that is a collapse of the sky. You have to consider it carefully!"

Liu Qingcang was overjoyed: "Other elixirs are definitely no problem!"

Xu Bingkun emphasized: "Most citizens are cultivators, not all of them don't know the goods! The Elixir Department's public inspection will only tell the truth, and it is impossible to lie for you!"

Liu Qingcang patted his chest with a slap: "If there is a problem, I will bear it myself."

Xu Bingkun wanted this sentence, and with a dark face, wrote another note, letting Liu Qingcang go to the Elixir Department to find someone.

Liu Qingcang breathed a sigh of relief, took the note and was about to leave, and suddenly looked back: "City Master, if you feel that it is not convenient for you to openly deal with Shen Tang, then I suggest that you can break her arm first."

Xu Bingkun froze: "What does this mean?"

"Shen Tang established a foothold in Xiazhou at a high speed, our offensive was resolved easily, and we were in a mess... City Master thinks it is all Shen Tang's ability? No, because someone is planning for her."

"Lu Xingzhou?"

"Not bad... Take advantage of the fact that these two have not yet completely merged, and are just a landlord and tenant relationship, breaking them one by one still has a chance. Wait until they are more intimate, I am afraid that Shen Tang's rise will be unstoppable."

When Liu Qingcang said this, he also felt that it was a sin. The two of them had no relationship at all, and the beginning of the relationship was because he poached Bai Chi and drove Lu Xingzhou away.

Who could have thought that the situation would be so intertwined...

He also really didn't have the heart to say more, left this sentence and flew to the Elixir Department.

This time, even Chen Jinnian agreed to inspect. He just didn't want to say a lie for the Divine Qi Pill, which didn't mean he didn't want to issue a certificate for normal elixirs.

A group of people rushed to the Danxia Gang's medicine shop in a hurry. The citizens surrounded the house three layers inside and three layers outside, almost dismantling the house. Liu Qingcang's voice spread throughout the field: "Fellow folks, don't be anxious, our elixirs are definitely no problem! Manager Chen will verify it in public to release everyone's doubts... Even if you don't believe Liu, you should believe Manager Chen!"

Chen Jinnian's reputation is indeed very high, and the crowd that was in a mess finally calmed down, stretching their necks to see the results.

"Everyone, don't be impatient. If you don't believe my Elixir Department, you can also invite experts to enter and check with us." Chen Jinnian arched his hands to the crowd and paced into the elixir shop.

There were still a few baskets of elixirs sent early this morning in the medicine shop, and they hadn't even had time to enter the cabinet because everyone was making trouble... Chen Jinnian reached out and weighed a few and distributed them to his subordinates, and he also took one and broke it to smell it lightly.

Liu Qingcang looked at Chen Jinnian's expression expectantly... and then watched Chen Jinnian's face get uglier and uglier.

"Nonsense!" Chen Jinnian held the broken elixir, his hands shaking: "This kind of most ordinary Yiqi Pill, I don't know how many alchemists have self-played new ideas for thousands of years, which can be regarded as an introductory work. Even for such an introductory work, you can match it so crookedly! If you really can't match it, you can buy a public formula at the Elixir Department!"

Liu Qingcang said angrily: "How is it possible, who doesn't know that our elixirs are of the best quality? My Danxia Gang is based on this! Manager Chen, you won't be deliberately..."

Before the words fell, a folk cultivator who volunteered to follow in and check interrupted sharply: "In front of everyone, who dares to talk nonsense? Your Yiqi Pill clearly has a very poor effect. What's going on with adding a lot of sweet potato puree in it, is it for deliciousness?"

Liu Qingcang: "?"

"After this neutralization, it is not even as effective as the medicinal herbs that have not been refined and chewed directly! This thing is also called an elixir, it is simply shameful, and you still have the face to frame Manager Chen!"

Someone else sighed: "That is to say, it is non-toxic... otherwise, your crime of harming the people is very big! Even so, this suspicion of passing off inferior goods as superior cannot be avoided. You actually dare to let us check in public, where is the courage..."

The citizens were in an uproar.

It must be known that one of the duties of the Elixir Department is to check whether major elixir shops are passing off inferior goods as superior. Once verified, this can be directly sealed and dealt with, and the fine can be fined until people lose everything!

Liu Qingcang was dumbfounded. How did the Yiqi Pills refined by apprentices for half a year suddenly change? Could it be that what Lu Xingzhou brought out was such a thing?

Thinking of this, he hurriedly said: "Manager Chen, everyone knows that our Yiqi Pills use Lu Xingzhou's formula, and people are also taught by him! If there is a problem with the Yiqi Pill, it is also Lu Xingzhou's problem!"

Chen Jinnian stood with a straight face and didn't speak. It turns out that your meaning is that our Elixir Department was derelict in its duties before, and even passed this kind of sweet potato pill?

He paced to the counter and pointed to the counter: "Take a few of the past elixirs and look at them."

The shopkeeper took a few and distributed them tremblingly. Chen Jinnian checked for a while and was furious: "The elixirs of the past have no problems and are of high quality. This is clearly that you have changed the elixir formula without authorization to pass off inferior goods as superior because of recent losses, trying to return to the capital quickly, and even want to splash dirty water on the former hero! Danxia Gang's character, this old man knows it!"

Liu Qingcang's brain was buzzing, and he couldn't figure out what was going on no matter how he thought about it.

He didn't think that if he treated apprentices as beasts of burden, the beasts of burden would also kick him.

This kick was so heavy that it stepped into the eighteenth layer of hell, almost unable to turn over.

But elixirs are not refined by blind changes and blind refining. Apprentices refining such things blindly can only refine whole furnaces of waste slag. This is something that experts can change!

If it was Lu Xingzhou who did it, how could this time be cut so ruthlessly and accurately?

Chen Jinnian announced to the outside with a face full of anger: "The Danxia Gang's elixir shop is closed immediately. The Elixir Department will urge rectification later. When it is changed, it will open!"

Chen Jinnian flicked his sleeves and left. Liu Qingcang looked at the citizens three layers inside and three layers outside the house, feeling dizzy and confused.

At the corner of the street, Dugu Qingli pushed Lu Xingzhou's wheelchair and stood there watching for a long time, before asking in a low voice with a complex expression: "How can you be sure that your apprentices dare to do this, and even think it's okay to give it to anyone."

"As long as they are people, they have temper." Lu Xingzhou said faintly: "During this period, Liu Qingcang indulged Bai Chi to bully them, which has already made people angry and dare not speak. Yesterday, in order to make up for the loss, he doubled their work. This dark surge of strong pressure only needs a fuse to surge and break the dike. As the Master who brought them for half a year, my instigation is a sufficient fuse."

"You... aren't you afraid that Liu Qingcang will be unfavorable to them after going back?"

"So I originally felt that this method was a bit impatient and didn't want to implement it so quickly. But since I decided to do it, then be thorough." Lu Xingzhou said leisurely: "They are in a mess here, A-Nuo has already gone to pick up the apprentices and leave... The Shen Clan Trading Firm receives such a batch of apprentices, and can also establish its own elixir system. I just don't know if Miss Qingli dares to deal with Liu Qingcang's anger?"

Dugu Qingli was expressionless.

The person who makes the decision for the Shen Clan Trading Firm is Shen Tang, not me. What's the use of you provoking me?

Having said that, you came here to watch the fun, why did you specifically ask me to push the chair, just because I participated in this matter? What does this have to do with me pushing the wheelchair?

The white-haired girl thought with a straight face for a long time, but didn't figure out the logic here.