Playing Off Each Other

"I'm going to get rich?" Zhang Xiaohu asked, utterly baffled. "How come I didn't know? Besides, if I'm getting rich, what the hell are you so happy about?"

"Hehe." Zhang Xiaohua ignored him, checked that no one was in the courtyard, then slipped into the place where Zhang Xiaohu used to bathe.

Mm, not bad. The wooden tub full of bathwater was still sitting properly in the corner, and a faint fragrance still drifted from it. Knowing Xiao Tiantian would arrive soon, Zhang Xiaohua did not delay. He took out several empty jade bottles, pointed a finger, and sent a spell through them, drawing some water into the bottles. Thus, the "Whitening Elixir" was made.

Zhang Xiaohua released his divine sense and happily swept it through the "elixir" in the jade bottles, though his heart still ached a little. Although most of this "elixir" was merely water and hardly worth mentioning, the minuscule amount of Heavenly Bell Stone Milk within emitted spiritual energy extremely similar to Primordial Qi. Trading it for a gold hairpin was rather not worth it... "Sigh, who told me to be a man who cherishes flowers and treasures jade?" Zhang Xiaohua found himself an explanation.

He then tucked the several jade bottles full of "Whitening Elixir" into his robes. Looking at the entire tub of "Whitening Elixir," he stretched out his hand and stored it in his belt. The secret to an exclusive business was to keep the source of the goods mysterious. Zhang Xiaohua had grasped that without a teacher.

Seeing Zhang Xiaohua emerge empty-handed, Zhang Xiaohu was deeply puzzled. "What did you go into my bathing room for? What could be inside besides bathwater? Oh, I listened to you—I never poured that water out..."

Before he could finish, hurried footsteps sounded outside the door,