Ways To Be Powerful

Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Time passed. The manager ordered tea to be served for Ye Qingtang and Duan Tianrui to enjoy.

The servants from the Duan family who came along with Duan Tianrui stood beside Duan Tianrui and glanced at Ye Qingtang from time to time.

“Third Young Master, Lady Ye is crazy. Why you are still playing along with her?!”

Si Bai chuckled. “We don’t need to worry about her. Just set your mind at ease and watch on.”

The servant rubbed his forehead and could not understand what was going on anymore.

Duan Tianrao looked up and cast Ye Qingtang a glance with an obvious curl tugging at the corner of his lips.

“If she wished to embarrass herself, why shouldn’t I fulfill her wish?”

As he finished his sentence, Duan Tianrui looked at the entrance of the Pavilion of Treasures to see the man who had been sent to find the Lythrum rushing back hurriedly with a body covered in dust. Duan Tianrui smiled widely and placed his cup down.

“An interesting show is about to start…”

Many customers stayed in the Pavilion of Treasure to watch the development of events. Both the Ye and Duan family are top family clans in Lin town; obviously, they did not want to miss such an exciting show.

When the man came back, he was covered in dust and carrying something in his arms very carefully as if it was something precious.

“How did it go?” the manager asked him immediately.

Panting, he could not hide his excitement and nodded his head continuously. “I found it! However, it was hidden in the hole of a dead tree. If not for Lady Ye’s drawing, I wouldn’t have been able to find it.”

With that said, gasps sounded in the Pavilion of Treasures immediately.

The Lythrum was really found!

How could this be?

Everyone had a look of confusion on their faces.

The man carefully removed a beautiful box which was covered with soil from his hands and passed it to the manager, who opened the box hurriedly only. In it quietly rested an emerald Lythrum covered with dew drops.

In that instant…

The manager heaved a heavy sigh of relief!

“Lady Ye, thank you… I must really thank you this time.” the manager looked Ye Qingtang with a wide smile on his face as he held the Lythrum carefully.

God knows how many years the owner of the pavilion had spent looking for this Lythrum!

If not for Ye Qingtang’s directions, who would have known that such a precious Lythrum was actually growing in the hole of a dead tree!

Ye Qingtang smiled faintly. “You’re welcome.”

Lythrum was indeed hard to find now, but that was only because people had thought wrongly the place where Lythrum grew in. Decades later, the existence of Lythrum would no longer be a rare one. In her previous life when the Great Elder sent people to kill her, she once escaped to the Dead Leaves Forest and saw this stalk of Lythrum incidentally. Of course, she remembered its position clearly.

No one else would know all of this.

With the finding of the Lythrum, Duan Tianrui, who had been anticipating Ye Qingtang to embarrass herself completely, wore an extremely ugly and dark expression.

In a while, the manager ordered for the reward of 100,000 gold to be carried out.

The glistening of three whole big boxes of gold the onlookers dizzy.

Ye Qingtang glanced at the gold and reached out for the gold bricks each the size of a palm, slamming them onto the counter with the Flower Moon Stone.

A commotion stirred with her every action, yet Ye Qingtang did not mind at all. Instead, her narrowed eyes were set directly on the gloomy looking Duan Tianrui, whose expression turned darker with every gold brick placed down.

“30,000 gold bricks. I am taking this Flower Moon Stone,” said Ye Qingtang with her lips curled as she placed down the last brick of gold.

Duan Tianrui was furious. He did not expect that Ye Qingtang had this up her sleeve.

Indeed, she did not have enough money. But, so what?

Not only did she not have to pay any money, she even received three boxes of gold from the Pavilion of Treasures!

While Duan Tianrui was grim, he was so pissed by Ye Qingtang’s arrogance to the point that his breathing turned erratic.

“Young Master Duan, I’m really sorry. The Pavilion of Treasures has always had a first-come-first-serve rule. Thus, this Flower Moon Stone…” the manager said tactfully as he walked straight towards Duan Tianrui with his eyes on the Flower Moon Stone in Duan Tianrui’s hands. After obtaining the Lythrum, the manager obviously would be on Ye Qingtang’s side.

Duan Tianrui silently gritted his teeth and returned the Flower Moon Stone which he initially thought would be claimed by him back to the manager.

The manager then handed the Flower Moon Stone to Ye Qingtang in front of Duan Tianrui and said, “Lady Ye, this Flower Moon Stone is yours.”

Raising her brows and looking at the Flower Moon Stone about the size of a soybean, she looked up and cast Duan Tianrui a glance.

Her glance almost made Duan Tianrui’s lungs explode from holding his anger back.

He originally wanted to watch Ye Qingtang embarrass herself, yet it turned out that he was the one to be embarrassed!

“Congratulations, Lady Ye, for obtaining what you wanted. I still have something to do and will take a leave first,” Duan Tianrui forced his words while gritting his teeth and left with his people without turning back.

No one had expected the incident to end this way, and everyone could not help but sigh.

After seeing Duan Tianrui leave in anger because of Ye Qingtang, Si Bai, who had been watching from a side, chuckled lightly as he looked away and continued to pick a jade.

“Lady Ye, feel free to choose whatever you want. I will go ahead and process the Lythrum first,” the manager told Ye Qingtang with a smile.

Ye Qingtang nodded slightly. The Flower Moon Stone was an unexpected joy; she had more important things to find.

The manager left the hall on the first floor and headed towards the highest floor.

The door to the elegant room on the highest floor was locked tightly. Arranging his clothes, the manager knocked on the door respectfully.

“Pavilion master, it’s me.”

“Come in.”

The manager pushed the door open and entered.

In the room, an attractive looking Mu Su was sitting at a table. Once the manager saw Mu Su, he immediately went on his knees and respectfully handed him the beautiful box that contained the Lythrum.

“Reporting pavilion master, the Lythrum has been found.”

Mu Su lifted his brows slightly and received the box. After seeing the Lythrum, his lips tugged upwards involuntarily.

No one would have expected that the mysterious owner of the Pavilion of Treasures was actually Mu Su, the renowned City Lord of Fallen Stars City.

“Quite a long time was spent, but at least it is finally found. You settled this issue pretty well,” Mu Su said satisfactorily as he placed the box down.

The manager knelt at the spot respectfully and replied, “Thank you for the compliment.”

Mu Su suddenly arrived at Lin town yesterday night. The manager, who had always been fearful of Mu Su, was shocked when he saw him. Good thing the Lythrum was found today, or else he would really not dare to come here.

Seeing that Mu Su was in a good mood, the manager suddenly remembered something and quickly said, “Reporting pavilion master, there is one more thing.”

“What is it?” asked Mu Su.

“A few days ago, the Si family sent someone to deliver a letter and wanted me to hand it to you,” the manager replied as he passed the letter that he carried along with him to Mu Su.

“The Si family?” Mu Su was curious. Master Si was one of the few who knew about Mu Su’s identity as the pavilion master of the Pavilion of Treasures.

Mu Su opened the letter, and his expression turned increasingly weird as he read on.

“Ye Qingtang from the Ye family wants to see me?” With a face of surprise, he instinctively glanced at the inner chamber in the elegant room.

The man sitting inside the inner chamber frowned slightly.

The manager noticed Mu Su’s gaze but did not have the nerves to look towards the inner chamber and further lowered his head instead.

Mu Su came along with another person yesterday night, and towards this person, even a person of high status like Mu Su had to be very respectful.

The manager could not help but recall that his master was loyal to the Antiquity Palace… Could it be that that person was the rumored God himself… As he thought about it, the manager did not dare to speculate any further and watched his own words and actions.

After hesitating for a moment, Mu Su asked, “What is Ye Qingtang’s relation to the Ye family?”

When he went to see the young lady of the Ye family with His Highness, he still did not know the girl’s name and whether she was the said Ye Qingtang.

The manager replied hurriedly, “Ye Qingtang is the Young Lady of the Ye family and the next successor of the Ye family.”

“Other than Ye Qingtang, how many ladies are on the Ye residence now?” Mu Su asked.

“The Ye family has three daughters in total. One of them is family Master Ye’s daughter, Ye Qingtang. Another is the Great Elder’s granddaughter, Ye You. The last girl is an orphan whom the family master adopted, Ye Xun. Ye You left for Yunxiao Sect not long ago while Ye Xun usually resides in the manor outside the Ye family on normal days. Ye Qingtang should be the only lady of the Ye family on the residence now,” the manager replied honestly.

“It really is her?” Mu Su’s eyes widened slightly.

The manager added on, “Actually, we could only find this Lythrum after Ye Qingtang provided us with its location. Lady Ye is currently still in the Pavilion of Treasures.”

At this point, Mu Su really wanted to laugh.

He suffered an internal injury in his early years and needed the Lythrum for treatment. After waiting for so many years, it was actually found with the help of the girl whom His Highness was searching for.

“Since she is a customer of my Pavilion of Treasures and she even helped me to find the Lythrum, I need to thank her well. From now on, whenever Ye Qingtang comes to my Pavilion of Treasures, all items will be sold at twenty percent discount to her,” Mu Su said generously and peeked at the inner chamber.

“Noted,” the manager nodded his head as he noted to himself in surprise that the twenty percent discount which Mu Su said was not only applicable to the store in Lin Town but all the Pavilion of Treasures branches over the world.

God knows how many extremely pricey treasures there were in the Pavilion of Treasures. She could save a shocking amount with this discount!

After hearing Mu Su’s orders, the manager exited the elegant room quietly.

After the manager had finally left, the man in the inner chamber came out.

The moment Mu Su saw the man, he immediately stood up and knelt on the floor with one leg.

“Your Highness!”

There was no hint of emotion on Han Cangming’s gorgeous face. As his deep set of eyes looked over at the letter from the Si family, a deep voice sounded.

“Agree to her request.”

“Noted! I will notify the Si family now.”

Han Cangming was the boss, and Mu Su was to fulfill whatever he said.

Using his feet to think, Mu Su also predicted that his highness would want him to agree to the request. However, he did not know why Ye Qintang wanted to meet him.

Ye Qingtang, who was still seeking treasures in the Pavilion of Treasures, seemed to not notice that a pair of deep eyes were monitoring her every action from the highest floor.

In the dark room of the Pavilion of Treasures, Mu Su accompanied Han Cangming to stand and monitor Ye Qingtang with a heart full of curiosity towards the alluring-looking girl.

So this was whom the Heart of the Demon God was in?

Mu Su could not help but recall the question Han Cangming asked him when they were leaving the Ye family yesterday night.

His Highness wants to have a child with this kind of girl…

Mu Su secretly glanced at Han Cangming, who had his eyes fixated on Ye Qingtang and did not realize what his subordinate was thinking at all.

There were countless of precious treasures inside the Pavilion of Treasures. Since Ye Qingtang helped the Pavilion to find the Lythrum and even got a mouth-watering discount, she would not hold herself back.

The manager, who received Mu Su’s orders, was personally accompanying Ye Qingtang to take her pick. He had originally thought that Ye Qingtang would take this opportunity to choose a few valuable treasures, yet Ye Qingtang actually stopped in front of a counter nobody cared about.

“Is this the Floating Pagoda?” Ye Qingtang asked while pointing at the emerald object, which was about the size of a cobblestone, displayed in the counter.

Looking in the direction, the manager nodded his head.

The Floating Pagoda was produced from a rank 5 spirit animal of which had an extremely strong combat power and needed a few hundred people to take it down successfully. However, the Floating Pagoda itself was of little value.

Its hardness was such that it was difficult for weapons to cause it any damage. Furthermore, due to the difficulty in killing a rank 5 spirit animal, the Floating Pagoda had a hefty price tag. Up to this day, no one knew what the Floating Pagoda could be used for, and, thus, it was used as a decoration even though it was not as dazzling as gemstones. Other than a few family clans who would buy a few of this only to boast their wealth, nearly no one cared about the Floating Pagoda.

Yet, Ye Qingtang was deeply attracted to those few Floating Pagodas.

This item may be useless to others, but to her, it was extremely useful!

“How many Floating Pagodas do you have here?” asked Ye Qingtang.

The manager did not understand why Ye Qingtang was interested in the total number of Floating Pagodas and dismissed it as an act of her curiosity. “There are more than ten of them in stock.”

This item was extremely hard to sell. The Pavilion of Treasures barely sold one every year and, thus, had large stocks of them.

Touching her chin, she said with a glint of happiness in her eyes, “I want them all.”

The manager’s eyes almost popped out.

She wants all of them?

“Lady Ye, each one of these Floating Pagodas would cost 1000 gold. Are you sure about this?”

Ye Qingtang nodded.

A look of confusion was etched on the manager’s face.

He had thought that after obtaining a twenty percent discount, Ye Qingtang would buy some valuable things back. Yet, who would have thought that this Young Lady wanted nothing but the Floating Pagoda, which was no different from a stone!

All of these Floating Pagodas would cost over 10,000 gold!

Buying a pile of useless rocks was simply a b****y loss!

Before the manager was able to persuade her, Ye Qingtang placed 10 gold bricks on the counter. Now, he could not even utter a word.

Helpless, the manager could only force himself to order people to bring out all the Floating Pagodas in the Pavilion of Treasures.

A total of seventeen Floating Pagodas amounted to 17,000 gold, and with Ye Qingtang’s discount, it would cost 13,600 gold in total. Perhaps the manager thought the Floating Pagodas did her dirty, he generously rounded down the price to 13,000 gold.

Even so, he still felt he was doing Ye Qingtang dirty.

However, Ye Qingtang was full of smiles upon receiving the Floating Pagodas.

Although people did not know the use of the Floating Pagoda now, news of it being able to nourish the spirit root would spread a few years later. The Floating Pagoda was one of the few treasures in the world that could nourish the spirit root. While its current price of 1000 gold was expensive, the price shot up so rapidly upon the circulation of the news such that one Floating Pagoda was very difficult to be bought even with 10,000 gold.

Hence, how was it a b****y loss to Ye Qingtang? She more than profited!

“I’ll trouble you to let me purchase all the Floating Pagodas if there are any in the other branches of the Pavilion of Treasures,” Ye Qingtang said with a smile. The Pavilion of Treasures had stores all over the world, and if she could work with all of them, she would not need to worry about the supply of the Floating Pagodas.

However, the manager looked incredulous.

Is Young Lady Ye crazy?

The manager did not dare to agree straight up and merely said he would consider while he made a mental note of Ye Qingtang’s obsession towards the Floating Pagoda. Seeing as to how she bought such huge amounts, could it be that the Floating Pagoda had other benefits?

Ye Qingtang was not in a hurry as well. Ten Floating Pagodas were enough for her to use for a while.

Other than accumulating the Floating Pagodas, Ye Qingtang also purchased a scale of the Fiery Sunset Beast.

The Fiery Sunset Beast was an extremely fierce spirit animal active in places covered with magma, and its scales were especially resistant against fire. However, due to the unparalleled large size and shockingly heavy weight of the scales, it was very difficult to build an armor out of it. Hence, only a few people would buy it.

The manager trembled upon seeing Ye Qingtang’s consecutive purchase of two invaluable items. He really could not figure out why she liked to only pick junk!

To store the huge Fiery Sunset Beast’s scales, Ye Qingtang also bought a space ring from the Pavilion of Treasures and stored everything she bought in it.

Mu Su, who was observing her from a dark place with Han Cangming, was perplexed as he watched Ye Qingtang’s face full of happiness after buying a pile of junk.

“Your Highness, uh… Lady Ye’s taste is really special…” Mu Su’s lips twitched a little as he carefully took a look at Han Cangming.

He did not purposely do Ye Qingtang dirty with all those junk; it was Ye Qingtang who bought them herself! He should not be blamed for this.

Han Cangming did not respond to Mu Su’s attempt to prove his innocence and merely looked at Ye Qingtang meaningfully.

Ye Qingtang, who had used her rebirth to her advantage to obtain a heap of treasures, was deeply satisfied. After looking around the Pavilion of Treasures, she did not see anything she needed and was ready to leave. Just as she walked to the door of the pavilion, she suddenly saw Si Bai and his servant, who were about to leave as well.

It just so happened that Ye Qingtang was preparing to visit the Si family to check the condition Si Bai’s body. Now that they have bumped into each other, it was convenient as they left the Pavilion of Treasures and headed towards the Si residence together.

Mu Su silently watched Ye Qingtang and the good-looking young man talking and laughing as they left. He turned around to look at His Highness…

Han Cangming was expressionless.

Mu Su secretly pulled a long face. Your Highness, you should watch out!

He mentally decided that he must find an opportunity to bring Ye Qingtang to his highness the next time he sees Ye Qingtang.

If you want to have a baby, shouldn’t you take some action?

“I saw you buying quite a few Floating Pagodas and the scales of the Fiery Sunset Beast just now?” Si Bai asked Ye Qingtang along the way to the Si residence. He was quite curious about Ye Qingtang’s stance when she was buying large quantities of the items in the Pavilion of Treasures.

Si Bai had heard of the Floating Pagoda and scales of the Fiery Sunset Beast but really did not know what was so special about them.

“Yes.” Ye Qingtang replied with no intention of hiding.

In Ye Qintang’s previous life, many people had tried to find out the usage of these two items in. However, they only discovered it after many years. Ye Qingtang bought them in large quantities. People at the side were all very confused as they could not figure out why Ye Qintang bought such useless items.

“Your preferences are really… quite interesting.” Si Bai chuckled but did not plan to ask for a reason.

Soon, they arrived outside the door of the Si family. Just as they just stepped inside, Si Bai felt the atmosphere was not quite right.

Ye Qingtang heard some noises before she arrived at the hall.

“Grandfather, second junior brother’s condition is very serious. I shall talk to the Duan family for the Flame-repellent Pills.” A deep male voice could be heard from the hall of the Si family.

“Master Physician Xu is treating your brother now. It’ll be very difficult to ask the Duan family to hand over the Flame-repellent Pills. Though we seem to be in good terms with the Duan family, many things have happened secretly. Even if you go over, they’ll not give the pills to you.” Master of the Si family clan then spoke. His voice sounded hopeless.

Si Bai exchanged a glance with Ye Qingtang. They then rushed into the hall.

Besides the master of the Ye family clan, there was another handsome and tall young man in the hall. The young man and Si Bai looked alike, but he appeared to be more stable and full of spirit.

“Elder brother?” Si Bai was stunned as he saw the young man.

That young man was the Eldest Young Master of the Si family and Si Bai’s elder brother, Si Ye.

“You’re back, Third Brother,” Si Ye nodded slightly as he saw Si Bai.

“How come you’re back, brother? Just now, I heard you mentioning second brother… What happened to him?” Si Bai spoke in a serious tone.

The Si family only had the three brothers in the younger generation. Si Bai had been physically weak ever since he was young. The eldest brother Si Ye and the second eldest brother Si Qiong treated him with care all the time. The three brothers were in good relationships with each other. They were so close that nothing could separate them.

Si Ye suddenly became very serious when Si Bai mentioned the second brother Si Qiong. He did not reply to Si Bai immediately but instead looked towards Master Si.

Master Si sighed softly. “Your brother was attacked by the fire beast and is suffering from the flame toxin. Master Physician Xu is trying to treat him now.”

Si Bai was astonished.

The flame toxin of the fire beast was very deadly. It would burn all the internal organs and could not be suppressed by any medicine. Anyone who suffered from the flame toxin had to bear with the internal burning until the end of their lives.