C15 Tragic Manager Tong

Carrying five thousand taels of silver into his own room, Zhen Yinjian sent off all his women and servants, and concocted the Spring-Returning Pill without any rest during the past few days. He had to admit that the one year of success in concocting pills in the System Dimension had not been in vain.

He felt that he could easily control the fire, the method, and the quantity of the herbs used to concoct the pills. The ancients said, practice makes perfect, sincerity does not fail!

As for the servants and maids of Zhen Mansion, they discovered that Zhen's room had become much quieter, and there was no longer any black smoke or stench coming from it. Instead, it was replaced by a rich and pleasant medicinal fragrance. Just a whiff of it would make one feel much more energetic.

"Young master Zhen succeeded in forging the pill!"

News of Zhen Yinjian's success in refining pills was spread throughout the manor, and even the Patriarch, Zhen Yong, was aware of it. When he heard the news of Zhen Yinjian refining pills, he let out a sneer.

"Child tricks!"

With Zhen Yong's status, he obviously knew that a trivial Spring-Returning Pill was nothing, even if he got lucky and managed to make it. Of course, he knew that refining pills and cultivating immortality were professions that paid a lot of attention to one's aptitude and heritage. This brat did not concentrate on the path of cultivation, but instead concentrated on the Dao of alchemy. It was truly hilarious.

The Innate realm, the kind of person who was obsessed with cultivation and alchemy, had never heard of anyone possessing any great accomplishments.

Four days later, Zhen Yinjian opened his room door with a smile on his face. He instructed the young maid to prepare a bath as he was extremely tired after these few days of focusing on concocting pills.

But when he saw his room filled with pills, his heart felt as sweet as if he'd drunk honey.

"Humph, I want to make that damn old geezer's loss hurt!"

Zhen Yinjian washed himself and put on his new clothes before leaving the house under the care of Lotus Fragrance, a servant girl. He carried the basket of Lotus Fragrance in his hand and went straight to the city square with a big basket of pills.

After arriving at the city square, he asked two passersby about it and finally found the apricot leaf. This medicinal shop was located in the most lively center of the city square. It was five meters tall, with the shape of an Immortal pavilion, grand and majestic. On top of the door beam, there was a large, magnificent golden board with three words written in ancient charms — apricot leaf.

Looking at the people walking in and out of the door, whether it was immortal cultivators or distinguished officials, they were indeed extraordinary.

Zhen Yinjian swaggered into the attic. Under the astonished gazes of the three waiters, he found a table and sat down by himself. He placed the heavy vegetable basket on the red table with a "pa" sound and shouted out loud.

"Is Tong Manager here? I have a big business deal to discuss with you!"

The faces of the three waiters darkened. A fat guy angrily said to Zhen Yinjian:

"Do you know the rules? Our apricot leaf is silent. "Get lost now! If you want to cause trouble, you came to the wrong place!"

"Who called me!" The mahogany door on the wall beside the counter creaked open and a skinny old man with a goatee walked out. It really was Tong Manager.

Seeing Zhen Yinjian come with stuff, he was also surprised. Did this person really succeed?

"Brat, what are you looking for me for? Could it be that you want to beg me to cancel the bet? I won't do that."

The old man pushed aside the waiters and let them in, smiling at Zhen Yinjian in a hurry. He didn't believe that this kid could actually concoct the Spring-Returning Pill.

Even though the Spring Restoration Pill was an ordinary pill, only Connate realm and above pill refiners with legacy could refine it. It was almost impossible to concoct it using the shallow books on the market. Zhen Yinjian had also bought a lot of Spring-Returning Pills from others, so it was impossible for him to earn a difference in the price.

In Peace City, only apricot leaf would have such a pill for sale. He believed it without a doubt.

"Old man, I've refined the Spring-Returning Pill. Can't you give me twice the price?" Zhen Yinjian laughed complacently.

"Whatever, since you have other methods, I won't waste my breath on you." You aristocratic kids have such great face, I'm too lazy to argue with you. "

Tong Manager's face was filled with dissatisfaction. He didn't expect this brat to purposely buy the Spring Restoration Pill from him for face. It was just to refute his pride.

However, he was still an old man who had been living in poverty for dozens of years. Thus, he did not want to get into any trouble with this foppish young lord and decided to pay more money to settle the matter. After all, these rich kids were causing trouble for him as well.

"How many do you have, one, two, three? One Spring Restoration Pill is priced at 1000 gold taels, I will make 2000 gold taels for each pill. " The old man continued to knock on the abacus and looked at the accounts for the day.

Dong!

With a dull thud, a large vegetable basket smashed onto his counter. The force behind it caused his abacus to flip upside down.

"You young man, why are you so impetuous?" Tong Manager pressed his abacus and his expression darkened.

"Boss, this basket is full of pills. Count them all!" Zhen Yinjian continued to smile mischievously.

"W-what?" Goateed Old Man swallowed his saliva and opened the cover of the basket with trembling hands.

A basket full of pills, all of them were Spring-Returning Pills. The full shape and the full aroma of the pills had allowed him to confirm the authenticity of this batch of pills.

"Wh-were you the ones who refined them?" The old man was defeated as his hands trembled.

"Yeah, I've been busy for two days and I've finally made it. Please count it out." Zhen Yinjian wiped off his sweat and pretended to be honest.

"You, why are you using a vegetable basket?" The old man let out a few words from his throat as his chest heaved up and down.

"This thing is easy to make. I've only made a big bowl out of all the herbs. There's no need to use bottles or jars to make it." Zhen Yinjian scratched his head and laughed.

"A bowl?" Looking at the weight of the pills in the basket, there were at least a hundred of them. Then based on the price of 200 taels of silver for each pill, that would be 200,000 taels of silver!

Thinking of this, the old man actually became agitated and fainted.

The three shop assistants finished their work and walked out. When they saw Tong Manager lying unconscious on the ground, their expressions changed and they quickly helped him up.

"Shopkeeper, what happened to you?" A quick-witted fellow patted the old man's face before he woke up.

"Count, count how many pills are in the basket." Tong Manager got up and said while clenching his teeth.

He was, after all, the manager of the apricot leaf in Peace City, and he could not deny things that he had already done. This 200,000 silver was something he could afford by clenching his teeth.

"The shopkeeper has a total of 121 pills." The waiters counted the number of Spring-Returning Pill one by one. They were all surprised by the number.

The Spring-Returning Pill might not be a precious pill, but it was still the first time there were so many of them.

Goateed Old Man quickly calculated and came up with a number that made his heart tremble.

"One hundred and twenty-one pills. According to the price of one pill for two thousand silver, it's two hundred and forty-two thousand silver."

"Then I'll be grateful, Tong Manager." Zhen Yinjian sat at the table with a smile on his face. The customers coming and going at the table were all amazed by the scene in front of them.

No one had ever seen so many pills stacked like clay bricks in a vegetable basket. Moreover, they could tell at a glance that this was a Spring Restoration Pill. After all, the position of the apricot leaf was between nobles and cultivators, so the price of this pill was naturally not cheap.

"This is the Dragon Fang's banknote, two hundred and forty-two thousand taels. Take it." The old man gritted his teeth as he felt extremely aggrieved in his heart.

Who would have thought that such an ordinary kid would be able to refine so many Spring-Returning Pills? One had to know that every month, the sales of the Spring Restoration Pills in Peace City was even half of the amount refined by this kid.

Even low tier pill refiners who were usually happy to concoct such low-tier pills would not be able to concoct this much in a month. Including the fact that refining was a waste, the amount of money spent was an enormous amount.

Spring Restoration Pills were not difficult to concoct. Most low tier pill refiners only had a success rate of sixty to seventy percent. What was even more terrifying was that Tong Manager had already noticed that all of the pills were above mid-tier and even had a small amount of high-grade pills. The quality of the pills themselves was not low.

One had to know that middle and high tier pill refiners did not know how to concoct this kind of pill, and low tier pill refiners also had very few mid tier pills. Most of them were low tier pills.

Although low-grade medicinal pills had their effects, there were still quite a few dregs. As for mid-grade and even high-grade medicinal pills, the dregs were much lower. This herb dregs actually contained a pill poison, and it was called a medicine with three parts poison. For those who were severely ill and physically weak, the effects of the pill's poison on their bodies were not small nor small. It would affect their health.

Furthermore, the higher one's status was, the more value they had for their lives. The lower the requirement for medicinal dregs was, the better it was. They valued it greatly. For high-grade pills, the medicinal dregs and poison content was very low. Normally, the effects on a mortal's body would be minimal.

The fact that Zhen Yinjian was able to concoct a high quality Spring-Returning Pill in such a short period of time shocked him.

"Is this kid really a genius alchemist?"

After he made the bet with Zhen Yinjian, he secretly sent people to investigate and found out that this brat was from the side branch of Zhen Mansion. Moreover, not long ago, he bought an《 Elementary Reading of the Alchemy Dao》 that wasn't even in the Alchemy Book, and then he bought an extremely trashy pill furnace and a batch of herbs in the city square. He was actually concocting pills in his room these days!

When he thought about how he could concoct such a high quality Spring-Returning Pill without having to receive guidance from anyone just because of such lousy equipment and low-leveled theories, he was greatly taken aback.

All the signs filled him with curiosity about this young man.

"Little brother is truly talented. You are indeed a rare genius in the dao of alchemy. It is this old man who broke his promise." This little old man will apologize to you. " With that, Tong Manager made a face. This old man really can take it.

"Just a small matter, not worth mentioning. "Old mister, I still have something to show you. Please help me to assess how much I can sell it for!"

"What is it?" The goat breathed while looking at Zhen Yinjian with doubt in his eyes.