Chapter 49

"Unreasonable, simply unreasonable!"

A small menial actually threatened him. Eunuch Lu was really angry: "I must drive her out of the Menial Hall."

Hearing this, Yu Gui's eyelids jumped. He hesitated for a moment, but still summoned the courage to say: "Eunuch Lu, that Hua Changxi has always been bold. If you want to drive her out of the Menial Hall, she might really dare to run to Eunuch Jia to make a scene, and she might also really dare to stab you in the back."

As soon as Eunuch Lu heard this, his face turned even darker. He looked at Eunuch Yu: "What grade of martial artist is that Hua Changxi exactly?"

Eunuch Yu shook his head: "We haven't fought, but my pressure is useless against her."

Hearing this, Eunuch Lu sat back down with a dark face: "Could it be that this matter is just over, and we just let a menial climb on top of our heads and act recklessly?"

Eunuch Yu did want to cooperate with Eunuch Lu. After all, this would allow more medicinal materials to be mobilized. With more medicinal materials, more medicinal pills could be refined, and more silver could be earned.

He was also unwilling to share four percent of the profit with Hua Changxi, and Hua Changxi's attitude of having no awe for them also made him very unhappy.

"Think of a way to teach her a lesson."

The matter of refining medicine cannot stop, but Hua Changxi cannot be allowed to take them for granted.

Yu Gui looked at Eunuch Yu, then at Eunuch Lu, and reminded: "The various medicine manors are about to reach the day of planting medicinal materials."

Eunuch Yu glanced at Yu Gui, a bit surprised. This godson of his was usually quite good to that Hua Changxi.

Yu Gui's expression stiffened under the gaze, and he immediately said righteously: "In my heart, Godfather always comes first."

Eunuch Yu listened and looked satisfied. He looked at Eunuch Lu: "What do you think?"

Eunuch Lu hesitated: "Going to the medicine manor to help will take several months."

He wanted to discipline Hua Changxi, but he also didn't want to delay earning silver.

Yu Gui glanced quickly at Eunuch Lu, feeling very disdainful of him. He wanted to rely on little sister Changxi to earn silver, but also wanted to suppress her. He wanted everything, even greedier than his Godfather.

Eunuch Yu also didn't want to interrupt the refining of medicine. He thought for a while and said: "I have thought of a way to make Hua Changxi obediently listen."

Yu Gui's expression tightened. He looked at Eunuch Yu, waiting for him to continue.

Unfortunately, Eunuch Yu didn't say anything more, just told Eunuch Lu to wait for news.

Hua Changxi had just confronted Eunuch Lu and Eunuch Yu, and was prepared for retaliation. Who knew that after waiting for a few days, nothing happened.

On the 15th of February, Yu Gui told Hua Changxi that Eunuch Yu had obtained another batch of medicinal materials and asked her to go to the No. 9 Imperial Pharmacy Pavilion to refine medicine. The profit sharing was still the same as before.

"I don't know what the Godfather wants to do. You should be careful in everything."

Yu Gui ultimately reminded Hua Changxi.

Hua Changxi thanked him and went straight to the No. 9 Imperial Pharmacy Pavilion.

When she arrived at the No. 9 Imperial Pharmacy Pavilion, Hua Changxi found that Xiao Xizi, who was beside Eunuch Yu, was not there.

Before, when she came over to refine medicine, Xiao Xizi was almost always there. Even if he didn't watch her refine medicine all the time, he would come over and shake around from time to time.

Hua Changxi looked at the medicinal materials placed in the courtyard, her brows raised high.

There were not many medicinal materials, and they were all processed.

After Hua Changxi looked at the medicinal materials one by one, she knew that these were the medicinal materials for refining Earth-Gang Pills.

Earth-Gang Pills are the medicinal pills most needed by Seventh-Grade martial artists, which can assist Seventh-Grade martial artists in transforming internal energy into Gang energy.

The medicinal materials used by Seventh-Grade martial artists are naturally precious. That is to say, in the Medical Department, a steward of the warehouse can easily take them out. If it were outside, a martial artist wouldn't know how many years it would take to collect the medicinal materials for refining once.

Hua Changxi didn't know what Eunuch Yu wanted to do. While dealing with the refining of medicine, she was also guardedly paying attention to the situation around her.

Soon, she heard several very slight walking sounds outside the courtyard. A few breaths later, the sounds were gone.

Hua Changxi's five senses were quite keen now. The walking sounds were gone, but the breathing sounds were still there. Without going out to look, she knew that there must be several people outside the Imperial Pharmacy Pavilion monitoring her.

She seemed to have guessed what Eunuch Yu wanted to do.

Eunuch Yu was eight or nine out of ten wanting to frame her with the crime of stealing medicinal materials. Now that people hadn't rushed in, it was estimated that they were waiting for her to refine the Earth-Gang Pills.

When Hua Changxi thought about these things, her refining movements didn't stop.

The medicinal materials placed by Eunuch Yu in the courtyard were collected according to the formula for refining Earth-Gang Pills in the Medical Department, requiring more than seventy kinds of medicinal materials.

She only needed thirty-six kinds to refine Earth-Gang Pills.

Hua Changxi didn't want to leave the extra medicinal materials for the people outside as evidence. She unleashed her spiritual power, directly turning the medicinal materials into powder, and then, a strong wind blew, and the powder instantly scattered.

At this moment, except for the medicinal materials being refined in the alchemy furnace, there was no trace of other medicinal materials in the courtyard.

Not long after, the Earth-Gang Pills were refined. Hua Changxi quickly put the medicinal pills into a porcelain bottle. Taking advantage of the fact that the people outside hadn't reacted yet, she climbed over the wall and left the No. 9 Imperial Pharmacy Pavilion.

She wouldn't obediently submit. The medicinal materials were gone. Even if Eunuch Yu wanted to frame her for stealing medicinal materials, he had no physical evidence.

The layout of the Medical Department was generally rectangular, with the Nine Streets Medicine Hall in the front and the Apprentice Hall and Menial Hall in the back.

Between the Apprentice Hall and the Menial Hall was a huge square.

The location of the No. 9 Imperial Pharmacy Pavilion happened to be in the northwest corner of the Menial Hall. As soon as Hua Changxi climbed over the courtyard wall, she arrived at the square.

There were people chasing behind her, so Hua Changxi had to run quickly toward the Apprentice Hall.

In the north of the center of the square stood a huge three-legged stone tripod. Hua Changxi couldn't help but look at it twice while running.

This stone tripod seemed like the Shennong Tripod she used as a storage jar in her previous life!

Just as Hua Changxi ran past the stone tripod, there was a sudden "buzz" in her brain, as if something was about to break out of her brain.

Hua Changxi's face turned pale instantly. At this moment, she only had one feeling: her head seemed about to explode.

The intense pain drained all of Hua Changxi's strength. Dizzy, she fell directly to the ground.

"Quick, Hua Changxi is by the stone tripod."

The people Eunuch Yu arranged to catch Hua Changxi had already chased after her.

Hua Changxi's vision was already starting to blur from the splitting headache. She didn't know what was wrong with her, and subconsciously urged the spiritual energy in her body to gather toward her head.

As the spiritual energy wandered, the intense pain in her brain gradually eased.

Seeing that doing this was effective, Hua Changxi let out a sigh of relief. Seeing that Eunuch Yu's people were getting closer and closer, she struggled to get up.

Just at this moment, a "creak" sound rang out from the north of the stone tripod. The old courtyard door facing the stone tripod, which was rarely opened, was opened from the inside.

The next moment, a white-haired old man with a hunched back of nearly ninety degrees stepped out of the courtyard door, trembling as he leaned on a cane.

The suddenly appearing hunched old man made Eunuch Yu's people stop in their tracks.

Hua Changxi looked at the hunched old man walking toward her, her expression also very stunned.

In the distance, Eunuch Yu knew that Hua Changxi would definitely not be captured without a fight. Worried about not getting the Earth-Gang Pills, he had been secretly following behind the people he arranged. When he saw the hunched old man, his brows immediately twisted into a knot.

The hunched old man walked to Hua Changxi, sized her up carefully, doubt flashing in his eyes, and then circled around her a few times: "Little girl, what's wrong with you?"

Hua Changxi instinctively concealed her situation and said casually: "I... have low blood sugar."

The hunched old man: "... Do you want to go to my courtyard to rest for a while?"

Hua Changxi felt that the hunched old man was very strange, and his appearance was a bit scary, so she refused directly: "I'm fine, I won't trouble the old man."

After saying this, she struggled to stand up.

The hunched old man looked up at her and smiled: "Little girl, I think you look kind. You can come to my courtyard as a guest in the future."

Hua Changxi looked toward the old courtyard with the half-open door. When her gaze fell into the courtyard, her head started to feel dizzy and swollen again.

When she withdrew her gaze, she vaguely saw a magnificent and imposing palace. When she endured the pain and looked carefully, it was just a dilapidated courtyard.

Hua Changxi was powerless to think about whether she was having hallucinations at this moment. She twitched the corners of her mouth, forced a smile, and politely declined: "I am just a small menial, and I have to be busy with my duties on weekdays."

The hunched old man smiled, didn't say anything more, turned his body tremblingly, glanced at Eunuch Yu in the distance, and returned to the dilapidated courtyard leaning on his cane.

The courtyard door closed, and only Hua Changxi and Eunuch Yu's people were left in the square.

Hua Changxi's head still hurt badly, making it impossible for her to think about how to deal with Eunuch Yu. She could only wait for them to make the first move, and then she would take it step by step.

Eunuch Yu looked at the old courtyard door, then at Hua Changxi, and finally waved his hand, taking his men and leaving.

Seeing this, Hua Changxi was very puzzled, but she couldn't think about the reason. She held her head, endured the pain, and walked quickly back to the Sixth Bureau.

"Where is Hua Changxi? Didn't you catch her?"

Eunuch Lu looked at Eunuch Yu, who returned empty-handed, somewhat dissatisfied.

Eunuch Yu glanced faintly at Eunuch Lu: "I saw Old Gu in the square."

Eunuch Lu frowned: "Old Gu? What Old Gu?" As he spoke, his expression changed, "You don't mean that old hunchback, do you?"

Eunuch Yu suddenly didn't want to talk to Eunuch Lu. Someone who even the Director had to give a few points of face to, he actually had a contemptuous attitude. It was better to have less contact with such a person.

"I don't want to continue the matter of disciplining Hua Changxi. How you want to cooperate with her, you look at it yourself. I will still give her the profit according to the original share."

Hearing this, Eunuch Lu's face was a bit ugly: "You, a steward managing the warehouse, are actually afraid of a menial."

Eunuch Yu was not angry either. At this moment, his mind was full of Old Gu inviting Hua Changxi to be a guest in his courtyard.

Old Gu rarely appeared in front of people, and would not invite people to his courtyard casually.

The people he had invited, he only knew of three: one was the Minister of the Heaven Department, one was the current Director of the Medical Department, and the other was Zhang Tianshi of the Tianshi Mansion.

Regardless of why Hua Changxi caught Old Gu's eye, just because of the identities of the first three people invited by Old Gu, he didn't intend to have a conflict with her again.

Eunuch Yu let Hua Changxi go, but Eunuch Lu didn't want to let her off so easily. After thinking about it, he decided to send Hua Changxi to the medicine manor to help.

Knowing that Mao Yong and Mao Wei of the Three-Fork Medicine Manor had a grudge against her, in order to force her to submit to him sooner, he directly added Hua Changxi's name to the list of people going to the Three-Fork Medicine Manor.