Lu Yuanyuan Turns Hostile, Xu Mingsheng Admits Defeat (3/3)

Half an hour later, Lu Yuanyuan, her face flushed, returned to the Red Maple Valley Trading Post.

"Yuanyuan, you're here."

Liu Shuang immediately stepped forward, her eyes scanning the other woman's curvaceous figure.

"Um!"

Lu Yuanyuan nodded slightly, then glanced at Xu Changqing and the others. She first looked at the pretty Han Xin, then fixed her gaze on Li Sancai and asked, "Ling Bi's cousin, are you looking for me because Ling Bi has some needs?"

The two crisp "Senior Brother Ling Bi" calls left Xu Changqing and the others speechless. At first glance, they thought Lu Yuanyuan and Li Lingbi were a couple.

Li Sancai stood up from his chair and said with a smile, "Indeed, there are two things."

"Which two?" Lu Yuanyuan asked with a curious look.

Li Sancai immediately said, "The first thing is that Ling Bi cousin Lingbi does indeed need a batch of Spirit Plant. We can discuss the details later. This time, we'll focus on the second matter."

Upon hearing that Li Lingbi needed help, Lu Yuanyuan's eyes lit up, and she quickly asked, "Okay, what's the second thing?"

Li Sancai's smile faded, and he said in a deep voice, "Before discussing the second matter, I'd like to ask Fellow Daoist Lu, have you sent people to Foundry Peak to sell things, or even steal their business?"

Lu Yuanyuan was baffled by this. "I have no idea what you're talking about!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Changqing and Han Xin exchanged glances and both breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems this matter has nothing to do with Lu Yuanyuan, although it's possible she's lying.

Li Sancai nodded slightly, then pointed to Xu Changqing and introduced him, "This is my junior brother Xu Changqing, and also a member of my cousin's team."

He and two other friends recently set up a stall near Foundry Peak, and the profits were decent, but they caught the eye of someone, and that person...

"They're from Farmer's Heart Society?" Lu Yuanyuan wasn't stupid; she immediately guessed.

Li Sancai glanced at Wang Xuan, whose face was ashen, and continued, "This fellow Daoist clearly admitted that he was instructed by a man named Xu Mingsheng from the Farmer's Heart Society to maliciously seize business from the Foundry Peak."

Lu Yuanyuan's face darkened. "Xu Mingsheng is indeed a member of the Farmer's Heart Society, and even an intermediary connecting other Spirit Farmer."

"So you really are from Farmer's Heart Society." Han Xin suddenly spoke up, her tone somewhat sarcastic.

Lu Yuanyuan fixed her gaze on Xu Changqing, and then asked, "How much do you earn each day at the Foundry Peak?"

Xu Changqing answered honestly, "Thirty Mid-Grade Spirit Stone a day!"

In reality, he could only earn a maximum of ten Mid-Grade Spirit Stone a day, but he deliberately exaggerated.

In this way, not only will it attract the other party's extra attention, but more importantly, it will also make Li Sancai and Han Xin, who are by his side, pay more attention to it.

"Thirty a day?" Wang Xuan's eyes widened, his expression one of disbelief.

He worked himself to the bone, had to take the blame, and would even be suppressed by Han Xin in the future, all for a mere Mid-Grade Spirit Stone.

Doesn't that mean that if Xu Mingsheng were to steal the business from the Foundry Peak, he could earn at least twenty or thirty Mid-Grade Spirit Stone a day, which would amount to several hundred a month?

Even Li Sancai was quite surprised. He thought that ten coins a day would be good, twenty at most, but he never expected that setting up a stall at Foundry Peak would be so profitable.

Han Xin, the array master who made even more money, also widened her eyes in shock.

Lu Yuanyuan, however, didn't react much after hearing this. "Thirty Mid-Grade Spirit Stone a day? It seems setting up a stall on the Foundry Peak is indeed profitable, but... I'm not interested!"

As the highest-ranking manager of the Farmer's Heart Society's Red Maple Valley Trading Post, she receives over a thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stone as her monthly dividend, and even more at the end of the year. She really doesn't care about this mere thirty stones.

The main purpose of this statement was to tell Xu Changqing and the others that as a cultivator who made a lot of money, it was impossible for him to instruct Xu Mingsheng to do such a thing.

It was obvious that the other party was deliberately using [Farmer's Heart Society] to scare people, hoping to make Xu Changqing and the others back down.

Li Sancai stepped forward and said with a serious expression, "We certainly believe that this is Xu Mingsheng's personal behavior and has nothing to do with Fellow Daoist Lu."

But he had the backing of Farmer's Heart Society, which gave him such confidence. He even instructed this man Wang Xuan to severely injure one of our friends!

"Huh?" Wang Xuan looked completely bewildered.

If I remember correctly, I only popped Zhao Ziyue's blister, how did it turn into him being seriously injured in the blink of an eye?

He opened his mouth, about to explain, but suddenly felt Han Xin's fierce gaze and immediately shut his mouth.

Anyway, now it's like mud dripping down your pants; even if it's not shit, it's still shit.

Lu Yuanyuan nodded slightly. "Don't worry, I will personally give you an explanation, and I will not allow anyone to damage the reputation of our Farmer's Heart Society."

Xu Changqing couldn't help but think to himself, "Does Farmer's Heart Society. still have any credibility?"

Seeing that the other party had made a guarantee, Li Sancai took a step back and then said, "Don't worry, I won't let Ling Bi know about this."

Lu Yuanyuan breathed a sigh of relief, then turned to Liu Shuang, one of the managers of the trading point. "Shuang'er, go and call Xu Mingsheng here."

Liu Shuang understood immediately and turned to run outside.

As one of the managers, she had Xu Mingsheng's Communication Talisman, so why did she need to go outside and personally call this person over?

Xu Changqing and the others weren't stupid, but they could only watch helplessly, with no other options.

After all, Lu Yuanyuan has made it clear that she will handle it personally, so we can't push her too hard, or she might turn on us.

At that point, we won't even be able to negotiate.

Seeing this, Han Xin simply turned and left as well.

It wasn't that he was there to supervise Liu Shuang, but rather that he felt his help was no longer needed here.

Not long after, Liu Shuang brought the person back.

"Sister Lu!" Xu Mingsheng knelt down with a thud as soon as he entered, looking extremely frightened.

Lu Yuanyuan narrowed her eyes, staring down at her, and asked in an unfriendly tone, "So, you know you've done something wrong?"

Xu Mingsheng immediately burst into tears, crying, "I was wrong! I shouldn't have been greedy for other people's business, and I especially shouldn't have damaged Farmer's Heart Society's reputation!"

Lu Yuanyuan said to Li Sancai, Xu Changqing, and Wang Xuan, "You three go out first. I'm going to teach this guy a lesson."

Upon hearing this, Li Sancai and Xu Changqing led Wang Xuan out.

After everyone left, Lu Yuanyuan stomped on Xu Mingsheng's face, grinding it hard with the sole of her shoe. Her expression turned ferocious, and she said in a cold, harsh voice:

"I can't say anything about you taking a cut from other Spirit Farmer' prices all the time, but now you dare to ruin my image in Ling Bi Brother Lingbi's eyes? Do you have a death wish?!"

In other words, she didn't think the person beneath her feet had done anything wrong; she was merely worried about damaging her image in Li Lingbi's eyes.

At this moment, Xu Mingsheng had no interest in peeking under her skirt. His voice trembled as he said, "Sister Lu, I was wrong, I'll never do it again!!!"