Those who had bought the pills were worried that Yun Ningshuang would come after them for the pills, so they quietly left. A small number of them quietly blended into the crowd to watch the show.
"Yan Xiao, since you're in charge of the Dark Night Pavilion, you should understand that customers come first. As a customer of your Dark Night Pavilion, is this how you treat your customers?" Yun Ningshuang said arrogantly with a pout. "I don't care. I must get a fourth - level pill today. I don't care how you do it, but you must get one for me."
"If the princess really wants to buy pills, she can come back when the pavilion master has fourth - level pills," Yan Xiao said patiently. "However, there really aren't any fourth - level pills today. I don't even have one in my own hands. So, the princess is making unreasonable demands."
"I just want to make unreasonable demands. If you don't get me a fourth - level pill, you might as well close down this Dark Night Pavilion," Yun Ningshuang said angrily with a flushed face.
Everyone was surprised by Yun Ningshuang's words. If the Dark Night Pavilion really closed down because of her, would they still be able to buy fourth - level pills in the future?
Thinking this way, one person stepped forward and said, "I just bought a fourth - level pill. I can give it to the princess."
"Are you running a pill shop?" Yun Ningshuang asked coldly, looking at the person.
The person shook his head. "I'm just an ordinary warrior."
"Since you're not running a pill shop, why are you selling pills?" Yun Ningshuang said discontentedly. "I only want the Dark Night Pavilion to sell me the pills."
Yan Xiao understood that the princess was deliberately coming to pick a fight today. He no longer had his previous gentle attitude and said coldly, "Even if you're a princess of the royal family, you can't act so unreasonably. We're doing business here. How many pills we want to sell should be up to us, not the princess."
Yun Ningshuang was about to speak when Yan Xiao interrupted her directly. "If the princess wants to experience being a boss, why doesn't she just open a pill shop herself? Why come here to seek attention?"
Yun Ningshuang's face changed. She stared at Yan Xiao gloomily and asked, "Yan Xiao, do you know what you're saying? Or do you think that the so - called Duke of State - stabilizing Mansion can protect you?"
"Whether the Duke of State - stabilizing Mansion can protect me is not the princess's concern," Yan Xiao said. "Since the princess is not here to buy pills sincerely today, please leave."
Such a tough attitude made others think that Yan Xiao was very bold. However, seeing that Yun Jie and the others in the Dark Night Pavilion also agreed with Yan Xiao, they wondered what Yan Xiao's relationship with the pavilion master of the Dark Night Pavilion was. How could he be given so much power that he even dared to offend the princess?
Actually, Yan Xiao didn't want to offend the princess, nor did he want to bring trouble to his cousin on the first day. But he also understood that Yun Ningshuang was just here to pick a fight. No matter how much he conceded today, Yun Ningshuang would not let it go.
In that case, he needed to protect the reputation of the Dark Night Pavilion for his cousin.
"Yan Xiao, what right do you have to tell me to leave? With an attitude like yours, you're not fit to be in charge of the Dark Night Pavilion. Call your pavilion master out," Yun Ningshuang had rushed here after hearing about the fourth - level pills. But it was also true that she came to cause trouble for Feng Yuqin.
After returning to the palace yesterday, she went to visit Elder Tan but was rejected. So she blamed it all on Feng Yuqin. If it weren't for Feng Yuqin's high success rate in pill - refining, Elder Tan wouldn't have gotten angry after hearing the news. If Elder Tan hadn't gotten angry because of the Dark Night Pavilion, maybe she would already be Elder Tan's disciple.
Yun Ningshuang's words made Yan Xiao's face turn even gloomier and his voice colder. "You're a princess of a country. Jumping around like a shrew, aren't you afraid of being laughed at?"
"You dare to scold me. You're looking for death," Yun Ningshuang waved her hand, and the guards behind her immediately drew their swords.
"Teach this arrogant bastard a good lesson," Yun Ningshuang said to the guards behind her.
The people in the Dark Night Pavilion saw this and stood side by side with Yan Xiao in unison. They were not afraid of fighting against Yun Ningshuang at all.
Yan Xiao didn't expect these people to have such awareness. After all, standing opposite them was a princess of the royal family. But his cousin's people didn't hesitate to step forward to fight when Yun Ningshuang was about to make a move.
"Yun Ningshuang, what are you doing?" A cold voice sounded outside the Dark Night Pavilion.
Everyone's eyes turned towards the door. They saw Crown Prince Yun Feiyue walking in with a gloomy face.
Yun Ningshuang didn't expect Yun Feiyue to appear. She immediately rushed up to him. "Crown Prince brother, you have to stand up for me."
Yun Ningshuang, playing the victim first, pointed at Yan Xiao and said, "Yan Xiao refuses to sell me pills."
Yan Xiao said coldly, "Princess Ningshuang, it's not that I don't want to sell you pills. Before selling the pills, the Dark Night Pavilion had already put up a notice that there were only a hundred fourth - level pills. Once they were sold out, you'd have to wait for the next batch. There are still other pills. If you want pills, you can choose other ones instead of forcing me to get a fourth - level pill for you. You're deliberately making things difficult."
Did she really think he was easy to bully? Or did she think he would swallow his anger? In the past, the Yan family was framed, and his whole family had endured for so many years. Now that he was watching over the Dark Night Pavilion for his cousin, he couldn't let his cousin be bullied as well. This was also one of the reasons why Yan Xiao was so tough today.
"You're lying. You're just deliberately not selling me the pills," Yun Ningshuang was here today to cause trouble for the Dark Night Pavilion. After all, she was very jealous of Feng Yuqin now. She thought that Feng Yuqin was about the same age as her but had a Dark Night Pavilion and so many pills. Wasn't she, a princess of a country, even worse than the pavilion master of the Dark Night Pavilion?
"Go back," Yun Feiyue looked at Yun Ningshuang and said.
Yun Ningshuang looked at Yun Feiyue in disbelief. "Crown Prince brother, what did you say?"
"I told you to go back," Yun Feiyue said coldly. "You're a princess of a country. Making such a scene, aren't you afraid that Father will punish you?"
"Father would never punish me," Yun Ningshuang simply didn't believe it. "Crown Prince brother, you're my elder brother. Now that I'm being bullied, you're actually standing on the side of my enemy. Are you still my elder brother?"
Yan Xiao also looked at Yun Feiyue in surprise. After all, his grandfather was the Duke of State - stabilizing, and he knew a bit about the royal family's affairs. Yun Ningshuang's arrogance was on the surface, while Yun Feiyue's treachery was hidden. Anyway, neither of them was a good person. Yan Xiao felt a sense of warning in his heart about Yun Feiyue's current actions.
"Someone, send Princess Ningshuang back to the palace and put her under house arrest. She's not allowed to be released until the day of the competition," Yun Feiyue said to his subordinate beside him.
Yun Ningshuang didn't expect Crown Prince brother to do such a thing in front of so many people. This had never happened before. She immediately exploded. "No, I'm not going back. Crown Prince brother, how dare you do this?"