Fu Min greatly enjoyed Xuan Lan's astonishment and said smugly, "Simply sending them over for nothing naturally wouldn't win anyone's trust! Think about it—how could the Gengshan Liao Family possibly believe it?"
"Well..." Xuan Lan pondered for a long while, then shook her head with a bitter smile. "Senior Brother Fu, how could this little brain of mine think through such profound matters? You'd better tell me quickly!"
"Hehe, think again... If the previous head of my Fu Family suddenly vanished, and he had strongly advocated pill refinement while the current head strongly advocated talisman-making, then... who would believe that pill-refining arts were like poison to the Fu Family?"
"Ah! Senior Brother Fu, I finally understand!" Xuan Lan said with a face full of yearning. "The Fu Family head secretly sent people to deliver the pill-refining arts, pill furnaces, and such to the Gengshan Liao Family in the previous Fu Family head's name, saying these things were extremely good, but that some within the Fu Family opposed them, leaving him no choice but to send them to the Liao Family!"
"Haha, you've finally had an awakening!" Fu Min laughed. "You're basically right! But there was no need to make it so troublesome. The Fu Family head merely sent those things to Gengshan in the previous head's name, saying they were only being entrusted to the Liao Family for safekeeping and would have to be returned once he seized the position of family head!"
Xuan Lan nodded slightly. "But afterward, the previous head vanished without a trace, and the pill-refining arts and pill furnaces became gifts to the Liao Family for nothing. Once the Liao Family obtained such genuine and valuable goods, how could they not be tempted? And Gengshan of the Liao Family happened to have earthfire as well, so