Chapter 33: Damage Power

"Brother Yu, can you still pull in a partner?"

Hua Changxi thought for a while. Although Yu Gui was in charge of the warehouse and the abandoned medicinal herbs were not counted, it was okay to misappropriate some once or twice. If it happened many times, it was not guaranteed that it would not be discovered.

Such things are fine if not discovered, but once discovered, they will definitely be dealt with.

Yu Gui heard this and said quickly: "Sister Changxi, the fewer people who know about this, the better. How can you let others know?"

Hua Changxi: "Brother Yu, what I mean is, in the misappropriation of abandoned medicinal herbs, it is best for us to be able to go through the bright road."

Yu Gui was speechless: "Sister Changxi, why are you so naive? How can such a thing go through the bright road."

Hua Changxi: "Why is it impossible? Didn't you say it? Many inferior pills outside are refined from abandoned medicinal herbs. Martial artist drugs are expensive. You don't have to think to know that there must be a lot of profit in it. Is it possible that no one in the warehouse wants to share a piece of the pie?"

Yu Gui: "So what if they want to? I said it, the merchants who come to pull abandoned medicinal herbs are designated by the top, and they all have nobles behind them."

"Although they are all abandoned medicinal herbs, how to distribute them is not up to the warehouse."

Hua Changxi pondered for a while and asked again: "Brother Yu, who has the greatest power in the warehouse?"

Yu Gui: "Of course it's my godfather, Eunuch Yu."

Hua Changxi's eyes lit up and she asked quickly: "What is Eunuch Yu like?"

Yu Gui: "What do you want to do?"

Hua Changxi: "I want you to tell Eunuch Yu that I can refine pills with abandoned medicinal herbs."

Yu Gui didn't speak, and his expression was a bit hesitant.

Seeing this, Hua Changxi explained to him carefully: "Brother Yu, think about it carefully. Abandoned medicinal herbs cannot be taken out. In the Menial Hall, if only you and I cooperate, the first problem to face is where to refine medicine. Can you find a place for me to refine medicine?"

Yu Gui frowned, his lips pressed tightly.

Hua Changxi continued: "I believe in Brother Yu's control of the fifth warehouse, and I can misappropriate medicinal herbs without being discovered, but you only manage one warehouse. The types of medicinal herbs you can find from abandoned medicinal herbs are limited."

"Eunuch Yu is different. He manages all the warehouses and can mobilize all the abandoned medicinal herbs. With him coming forward, the types of medicinal herbs we get will be more, and the types of pills I can refine will also be more."

"Also, with Eunuch Yu blocking in front, even if someone finds that the abandoned medicinal herbs have been misappropriated, I guess no one dares to say anything."

"Brother Yu, what do you think?"

Yu Gui was silent for a while, looking at Hua Changxi: "Sister Changxi, if my godfather is involved in this matter, the fifty-fifty split between you and me will not count."

Hua Changxi saw that his attitude was loose, so she smiled: "How about this, Eunuch Yu takes four shares, and you and I each take three shares."

Yu Gui looked at the "naive" Hua Changxi: "Sister Changxi, have you ever thought that if my godfather is not willing to split like this, he wants to take the big head, for example, he takes eight shares, and you and I each take one share; or, he wants to take it all, and only give you a little hard work fee, what will you do?"

Hua Changxi naturally wouldn't do it: "Is Eunuch Yu so greedy?" Seeing Yu Gui not speaking, she immediately said, "Then forget what I just said to you."

Yu Gui explained: "My godfather used to have a small status in the inner court, but unfortunately he was involved in the struggle between nobles, and all his half-life savings were confiscated."

"Even after it was proven that my godfather was wronged, his accumulated family property was not returned. After he was sent to watch the warehouse, he desperately wanted to fish for silver."

"As the steward of the fifth warehouse, I gave all the filial piety fees from the people below to him without leaving a single wen."

Yu Gui looked at Hua Changxi: "You can refine martial artist pills with abandoned medicinal herbs. My godfather will definitely be moved when he hears it, but I really have no bottom line about how to split it."

Hua Changxi was also a bit uncertain at this time. Before, she got Yuanling grass, but she still refined it in the canteen of the Sixth Bureau.

Although she had a good relationship with the people in the canteen, if she refined medicine too many times, it would definitely attract attention.

"Brother Yu, can you find a place for me to refine medicine?"

Yu Gui was also a bit tricky about this. He lived in a single room, but it was definitely not okay for the room to always smell of medicine.

Hua Changxi saw that he didn't speak, so she knew he had no way. She thought for a while and asked: "Brother Yu, is Eunuch Yu the kind of person who turns his face and doesn't recognize people?"

Yu Gui didn't quite understand what Hua Changxi meant.

Hua Changxi: "That is, you go and tell Eunuch Yu that I can refine medicine with abandoned medicinal herbs. As for how to split it later, I will talk to him."

"I just want to know, if we don't talk about it, will he hate me because of this, and then retaliate against me and drive me out of the Menial Hall?"

Yu Gui hesitated and said: "My godfather still has some tolerance and is quite good to his own people."

"His own people?"

Hua Changxi thought, she was obviously not his own person to Eunuch Yu.

"Brother Yu, forget it."

Although Hua Changxi really wanted to facilitate this cooperation, she still showed a posture of wanting to retreat.

She and Yu Gui, saying they are friends, but this friendship is not firm.

For Yu Gui, Eunuch Yu must be more important.

If the cooperation really succeeds and Eunuch Yu is involved, Yu Gui must be on his side.

She cannot be too active now. Who knows if Yu Gui will stand with Eunuch Yu and squeeze her interests together.

Yu Gui was anxious: "Don't forget it."

Hua Changxi: "Brother Yu, you know my temper. I definitely won't work for nothing. Rather than offending Eunuch Yu because we can't talk about the split, I'd rather not do it from the beginning."

As she spoke, she turned to check the medicinal herbs in the warehouse.

Yu Gui saw her like this, paced back and forth a few times, ran to Hua Changxi's side: "I will talk to my godfather. Even if it doesn't work, I will never implicate you, sister."

Hua Changxi saw joy in her eyes, but said in her mouth: "Brother Yu, should we forget it? What if you offend Eunuch Yu because of this?"

Yu Gui waved his hand, showing a posture of not letting Hua Changxi worry.

Three days after talking to Yu Gui about cooperating in refining medicine, Hua Changxi was intercepted by a little eunuch when she went to collect medicinal herbs.

"Eunuch Yu wants to see you, follow me."

The little eunuch had an indisputable tone and didn't wait for Hua Changxi to respond, turning and leaving.

Hua Changxi looked at the eunuch's back, was silent for a moment, and finally followed quickly.

After crossing most of the Menial Hall, Hua Changxi followed the eunuch to a courtyard in the northwest corner of the warehouse.

On the steps of the main room of the courtyard, a middle-aged eunuch without a beard sat on a reclining chair, drinking tea slowly. On his right side behind him stood Yu Gui, who looked a bit nervous and uneasy.

The little eunuch brought Hua Changxi into the courtyard and pointed to a pile of abandoned medicinal herbs in the courtyard: "This is part of the abandoned medicinal herbs from yesterday. You find the usable medicinal herbs from it. There are medicine tools over there. Refine a few pills for the eunuch to see."

Hua Changxi didn't move, looked at Eunuch Yu on the steps. He didn't seem to have any interest in her at all. Except for glancing at her when she came in, he didn't

She was not asked who she was, nor was she asked why she could refine medicine; there were only orders and instructions.

This is the gap of power; regardless of whether she is willing or not, she only has the role of obeying.

Hua Changxi did not forget that one of her original intentions for entering the Medical Department was to improve her medical skills; because she obtained an opportunity, her head was stuffed with medical knowledge, but she was inexperienced in practical operations.

She had no money to purchase large quantities of medicinal materials for practice, so these discarded medicinal materials became the resources she was most likely to reach at her current stage.

"Hurry up, the Eunuch is waiting to see."

Seeing Hua Changxi standing still, the young eunuch urged her impatiently.

Hua Changxi wanted to facilitate the cooperation, so even if she felt uncomfortable inside, she still lowered her head and visually estimated the pile of discarded medicinal materials; there were at least five or six cartloads.

Before, when she took a few withered herbs, she had to hide and skulk, but others pulled so many carts and placed them directly in the courtyard; this is the difference between having power and not having power.

Hua Changxi knew clearly that only when she demonstrated the corresponding medicine refining techniques would that Eunuch Yu talk to her, so she let go and began to pick through them.

On the steps, Eunuch Yu appeared nonchalant, but in reality, he was paying attention to every move Hua Changxi made.

This little girl dared to look him over so brazenly; she indeed had some courage, just as Yu Gui had said.

It was just that he did not care about the temperament of a young lady; what he cared about was whether this little girl could really refine medicinal pills for martial artists.

After Hua Changxi began to pick medicinal materials from the pile of discarded ones, Eunuch Yu paid close attention.

However, upon seeing the individual medicinal materials Hua Changxi picked out, Eunuch Yu's brows furrowed tighter and tighter.

He himself was a seventh-rank martial artist; although he could not refine medicine, he still knew the prescriptions for medicinal pills commonly used by martial artists.

The medicinal materials the little girl picked out were clearly not any kind he knew.

Eunuch Yu glanced at his foster son behind him and, seeing the cold sweat on his forehead, felt some disdain; this foster son had the ability to observe, but he lacked courage.

At least one-third of the discarded medicinal materials still had medicinal efficacy; Hua Changxi did not pick many, only selecting materials for refining Blood-Qi Pills, Body-Tempering Pills, and Root-Solidifying Pills.

In fact, she did not know the specific prescriptions for the martial artist pills sold on the market, but she could formulate corresponding prescriptions based on the detailed explanation of medicinal properties in the "Commentary on the Hundred Herbs Classic."

After Hua Changxi began to process the medicinal materials, Eunuch Yu's expression became serious.

Hua Changxi's technique for processing medicinal materials was too proficient; cleaning, soaking, grinding, mixing and blending, rolling into pills, and finally baking on the stove with a fine fire—every step was done just right.

Eunuch Yu had been in the Medical Department for several years and knew quite a few pharmacists, and he had seen them refine medicine with his own eyes, but not one pharmacist's process was as smooth and natural as this little girl's.

The most important thing was that the variety of medicinal materials she used to refine the pills was too small.

Smelling the medicinal fragrance wafting in the courtyard, Eunuch Yu had already guessed that the three types of pills Hua Changxi was refining were Blood-Qi Pills, Body-Tempering Pills, and Root-Solidifying Pills.

He happened to know the prescriptions for these three types of pills, and what he knew were the general formulas of the Medical Department.

For the Blood-Qi Pills used by first-rank martial artists to enhance blood and Qi, the Medical Department's formula required twelve types of medicinal materials, but this girl in front of him only used three.

As for the Body-Tempering Pills, for martial artists below the third rank, the more body tempering, the better; the Medical Department's formula required more than fifty types of medicinal materials, yet the little girl only used eight.

As for the Root-Solidifying Pills, a healing pill useful to all martial artists, the Medical Department's formula required more than twenty types of medicinal materials, while the little girl only used five.

Eunuch Yu couldn't wait to walk to the stove, and without caring that the pills were not yet fully refined, he reached out and took a Blood-Qi Pill to put in his mouth.

The effect of the pill was better than Eunuch Yu had expected.

Eunuch Yu turned his head abruptly to look at Hua Changxi, his eyes glowing with golden light; at this moment, Hua Changxi was a glittering gold ingot in his eyes.

"I agree to the matter Yu Gui mentioned, but I will only give you one-tenth of the profit."

Hua Changxi looked straight at him: "Four-tenths is my bottom line."

Eunuch Yu laughed 'haha', then his smile vanished, and he looked at Hua Changxi gloomily: "Do you have the qualifications to bargain with me?"

Hua Changxi's expression did not change: "Then you can find someone else to help you refine medicine." As she spoke, she was about to leave.

Yu Gui, who was on the side, saw this, his expression changed drastically, and he trotted over to pull Hua Changxi; just as he reached her arm, he fell to his knees on the ground with a 'thump'.

Hua Changxi saw this and was startled: "Brother Yu, even if the deal doesn't go through, we can still be friends; you don't need to kneel to me."

Did Yu Gui want to kneel? No. At this moment, Yu Gui only felt a mountain-like force pressing down on him; he couldn't help but kneel even if he didn't want to.

Yu Gui knew that this was his foster father activating his internal energy, wanting to force Sister Changxi to agree, but the range of the internal energy radiation was too wide, and it affected him.

What he couldn't figure out was, why was Sister Changxi completely unaffected even though he was already kneeling on the ground?

Hua Changxi saw bean-sized beads of sweat visibly seeping out on Yu Gui's forehead, the sweat gathering into a stream flowing down his cheeks; she immediately sensed something unusual and couldn't help but look up at Eunuch Yu.

Upon looking, she realized that the little eunuch who had led her here earlier was also kneeling and prostrate on the ground.

And the way Eunuch Yu was looking at her was truly strange.

Hua Changxi blinked her eyes, and after staring at Eunuch Yu for a while, she seemed to understand something.

At this moment, Eunuch Yu moved and suddenly launched an attack toward Hua Changxi.

In the eyes of Yu Gui and the little eunuch, the fist Eunuch Yu swung was fast and fierce, but in Hua Changxi's eyes, Eunuch Yu's fist was approaching her as slowly as a snail crawling.

Hua Changxi raised her right hand and used only her thumb, index, and middle fingers, lightly and easily catching Eunuch Yu's wrist as if she were holding a pen.

After learning the Lingbo Weibu, she had spent no small amount of time studying "Mount Wuzhi."

The "Mount Wuzhi" technique was very powerful, gathering the attack methods of palms, fists, fingers, and claws together.

Watching Eunuch Yu's hand unable to move at all between her three fingers, Hua Changxi curled the corners of her mouth, very satisfied with the power displayed by Mount Wuzhi.

Hua Changxi was secretly happy, while Eunuch Yu's heart was surging with stormy waves, and at the same time, a look of fear appeared in his eyes.

"You... are you a martial artist?"

And her martial arts cultivation was even above his.

Hua Changxi shook off Eunuch Yu's wrist, and after waiting for Eunuch Yu to take a few steps back and stand firm, she said: "If we can't cooperate, then forget it; why does Eunuch Yu still want to hurt someone?"

Eunuch Yu suppressed his shock and forced a smile: "Little Lady Hua, you misunderstood. Yu Gui is my foster son, and you are his friend; just for his sake, I wouldn't make things difficult for you."

"I will agree to your terms. From now on, I will provide the discarded medicinal materials and this courtyard for refining medicine, and you will be responsible for refining. For the refined pills, you and I will split them four-six... no, you and I will split them four-four, and the remaining two parts will go to Yu Gui."

Hua Changxi was excited in her heart; she actually got one-tenth more than she expected!

When she said four-tenths just now, she was waiting for Eunuch Yu to bargain.

Hua Changxi suppressed the secret joy in her heart and smiled at Eunuch Yu: "Good, let's do it as Eunuch Yu says. I hope we have a pleasant cooperation in the future."

Sure enough, it is not enough for a person to have only technology; one must also have powerful martial strength.