"Of course not." Feng Yuqin didn't expect Xia Hao to react like this. She said with a smile, "You know about the compensation the elders gave me today. So I'm not short of medicinal herbs now."
"Compensation?" Su Bing, who was standing beside them, heard this and asked curiously, "My lady, why did they give you compensation? Are the elders you mentioned the ones we met in the Elder Council when we first came here?"
Feng Yuqin nodded. "Yes, they are. Last night, they sent people to assassinate me, but I managed to turn the tables and got a fortune from them instead."
Hearing the word "assassination", Su Bing instantly became tense. She suddenly stood up and was about to check Feng Yuqin's condition. "Is my lady okay? These elders are really too much! How could they carry out an assassination in the Alchemy Union? Isn't this a violation of the union's rules? Doesn't the union's president care about this?"
Feng Yuqin immediately stopped Su Bing's action and comforted her with a smile. "Don't worry. I'm fine. As for the president, of course he cared. That's why I got the compensation."
Su Bing looked Feng Yuqin up and down. Seeing that her mental state and complexion were normal, she felt a bit relieved. "My lady, why don't I cancel my seclusion and just protect you? It's too dangerous for you all the time."
"Su Bing, you're stealing my job." Xiao Ying's voice suddenly rang out, which startled both Su Bing and Xia Hao.
"Xiao Ying, how could I steal your job? Protecting my lady is also my duty." Su Bing quickly explained after she realized what was going on.
After all, Xiao Ying was her lady's spiritual pet. She didn't dare to offend it.
Xiao Ying snorted. "So you think you're better than me?"
Su Bing: "..." So she was being looked down upon?
Hearing this, Xia Hao also thought this spiritual pet was really amazing. It could even retort.
Feng Yuqin was even more speechless. "Su Bing, don't pay attention to it. Remember your current task is to focus on alchemy. Otherwise, when it's time for the competition, I'll replace you and you'll have to go back to the Western Song State."
"No..." Su Bing said, "My lady, I think it's better to stay by your side."
"Then focus on alchemy." Feng Yuqin said, "I got a lot of medicinal herbs last night. So you can alchemy without any worries. There will be enough medicinal herbs."
It had been a long time since Su Bing last heard the word "enough" after Feng Yuqin left.
She thought that although the Dark Night Pavilion in the Western Song State was developing well, they still hoped to see Feng Yuqin more often.
Thinking of this, she brought up an unrelated topic. "My lady, I'll focus on alchemy. But the Feng family is in a bad situation."
Feng Yuqin raised her eyebrows. "Feng Pingqiu?"
"And the second wife..." Feng Yuqin said, "Lord Feng now has a job in the stable. His life is really not good. As for the second wife, it's even worse. Her agelessness has no cure. Feng Chi only gave her a medicine to relieve the symptoms, but not to cure it. So when Lord Feng is in a bad mood, he always takes his anger out on her."
Hearing this, Feng Yuqin looked at Xia Hao and asked, "Do you know anything about the Qi family, Qi Ruyi's family?"
"I know a bit." Xia Hao said, "After all, the Qi family is a big family in the Central Region. But I know the Qi family is quite chaotic. The people in it are quite selfish."
Feng Yuqin nodded and then said to Su Bing, "Feng Yao and Feng Chi are in the Qi family. I'm afraid their lives are not easy either. So they probably won't be able to take care of the second wife. But I think Feng Chi still cares about the second wife. He may try his best to get the antidote."
However, she thought these people deserved what they got.
She didn't kill them because from the original owner's memory, she knew these people had treated the original owner very badly. And she just wanted to torture them.
As long as her Dark Night Pavilion was in the Western Song State for one day, these two people would live a miserable life.
This was also a way to avenge the original owner.
"Before you left, you told us not to let Lord Feng enter the court again. We've always been doing this. My lady can rest assured on this point." Su Bing said.
Feng Yuqin nodded. "I trust you."
Although Xia Hao didn't understand everything, he could guess something from the conversation.
But he was sensible enough not to ask and tried to lower his presence.
After Feng Yuqin finished chatting with Su Bing, she continued the topic with Xia Hao. "Xia Hao, the reason I didn't let you continue to exchange for medicinal herbs is that I got a lot of them last night. So I have a more important task for you."
"A more important task?" Xia Hao asked in surprise, "Are you really going to trust me with it, Elder Feng?"
"Since I said I'm going to give it to you, of course I trust you." Feng Yuqin said, "Originally, this task was handled by the president. But the president may have to deal with the competition from the general union during this period. So he doesn't have time for me. I plan to let you handle it for me."
"Since Elder Feng trusts me, I will definitely handle it well for you." Xia Hao said seriously.
Feng Yuqin nodded and took out more than a dozen storage bags.
Xia Hao was stunned when he saw so many storage bags.
He had lived for almost twenty years, but he had never seen so many storage bags.
So he was so shocked that he stammered, "E...Elder Feng, w...what does this mean?"
"There are fifteen storage bags here. I'm going to be in seclusion for five months. You should send three storage bags to the chief steward of the No. 1 Inn in the Central Region every month. He's a fat man with a mole on his mouth." Feng Yuqin said, "The reward he gives you can be temporarily kept by you. You can give it to me after I come out of seclusion."
Xia Hao stupidly peeked into one of the storage bags with his spiritual sense and was completely dumbfounded. "So...so many pills."
He thought he was lucky that he was in good health. Otherwise, with all the shocks last night and today, he might have been scared to death.
Moreover, he had only peeked into one storage bag. The remaining fourteen were probably also full of pills.
Seeing Xia Hao like this, Su Bing couldn't help laughing. "If you work by my lady's side, you need to be prepared. You may often encounter things that will shock you."
Xia Hao nodded blankly.
Yes, from the large - scale exchange of pills at the beginning, to the corpses all over the place last night, then getting the better of several elders later, and now these fifteen storage bags today, every time he met Feng Yuqin, he would encounter shocking things. He really needed to be prepared.
"Don't worry, Miss Su. I'll strengthen my psychological endurance when I get back. So that I won't be scared to death the next time something happens." Xia Hao joked, which also relieved his overly shocked mood.
Feng Yuqin was speechless listening to their conversation.
"However, Elder Feng, are you sure you want to entrust so many pills to me?" Xia Hao looked at Feng Yuqin and asked, "What if someone steals them or I lose them?"
Xia Hao thought that if such a thing really happened, even if he sold himself, he couldn't afford to compensate.