"I want a hundred thousand catties of Shenghuan Grass! Go and acquire it for me nationwide."
As soon as Zhou Xuan said this, Xu Ying turned and left, waving her hand back at him.
"You're such a Zhou Bapi, boss. I can't do it!"
"One, two, three!"
After three counts, Xu Ying still turned back, helpless.
"I must have owed you in my past life. For some reason, I can never be hard-hearted towards you."
"Don't be like that. I must have been a romantic in my past life, incapable of letting anyone down."
Zhou Xuan spread his hands with a grin.
"Although this request is difficult, I believe that with your strength and talent, it will be a piece of cake."
"Stop buttering me up. Just keep enslaving and squeezing me dry. If I die of overwork, who will diligently serve you like this?"
Xu Ying pouted dismissively at Zhou Xuan's "sweet talk."
"Well, if you really die of overwork, I'll burn eight or ten effigies of handsome men and beautiful women to serve you in the afterlife."
"Scram!"
Xu Ying glared at Zhou Xuan, feeling utterly helpless against him.
"Alright, alright, I'm not teasing you anymore."
Seeing Xu Ying finally stop fussing, Zhou Xuan also restrained himself a bit.
"I'm serious about needing those hundred thousand catties of Shenghuan Grass, as it's very important to me."
Xu Ying understood immediately.
"You scoundrel, you're not planning something bad, are you? I'm telling you, that's against regulations!"
"How would I dare? I genuinely need it. It's for refining the Ningshen Pill."
Xu Ying sighed.
However, she still nodded. If Zhou Xuan hadn't brought it up, she would have forgotten about it long ago.
"Although Shenghuan Grass is a golden-grade divine medicine, very difficult to harvest and cultivate, I hope your Xu family can speed up its cultivation."
"I will do my best. The Xu family has considerable medicinal fields in Shangjing and Cangyun City. I will urge everyone to work hard. When do you need the goods?"
"First, give me all the existing stock nationwide. I want the rest within half a year."
"Alright, alright! Boss, if you can really refine a lot of Ningshen Pills, it will definitely bring enormous wealth to the Xu family and Precious Medicine Pavilion. Perhaps other national pharmaceutical companies will come to book orders in the future. If you could mass-produce it..."
"Heh... If this could really be mass-produced, it wouldn't be profitable. We'll stick to the high-end, rare and valuable route."
"Understood!"
"Since everything is settled, let's have dinner together tonight. Consider it my apology to Miss Lu."
Baili Lie also nodded.
"Alright, thank you, sister. I won't be polite tonight, then?"
Zhou Xuan asked with a cheeky grin.
Xu Ying rolled her eyes, ignoring him.
Just then, Xu Ying's phone rang.
She casually said, "Hello. Who is this?"
"Xiao Ying, come back quickly, it's urgent."
Hearing her father's voice on the phone, Xu Ying's expression turned serious, and she immediately agreed, "Okay, I'll be right back."
"I'll go with you, I have nothing else to do," Zhou Xuan said.
"Never mind, you stay here and take care of Miss Lu. About dinner, I'm sorry, I'll accompany you tomorrow." Xu Ying shook her head, refusing Zhou Xuan's kind offer, and turned to walk outside.
Seeing this, Zhou Xuan quickly called out to stop Xu Ying.
"Xiao Ying, you should bring a couple more bodyguards this time, I won't be at ease otherwise. If you get kidnapped like last time, I can't guarantee I can find you."
Hearing this, Xu Ying rolled her eyes again.
"Fine, if you want to send people to protect me, I'm certainly not going to refuse."
"Alright, remember to notify me if there's any news. Don't make me worry about you."
Zhou Xuan patted Xu Ying on the shoulder and gave her a few instructions before she hurried away.
Back at the Xu residence.
Xu Ying anxiously asked, "Dad, why did you call me back in such a hurry? What happened?"
"The house is haunted."
"Haunted? Dad, I'm very busy. Can you be more scientific? If you're so superstitious and feudal, it makes things difficult for me."
Seeing that everything was fine at home, Xu Ying breathed a sigh of relief, then felt utterly speechless.
"When am I superstitious? I'm telling the truth. Do you know that I received an emergency call early this morning saying that someone found a dead body in front of our house, and it was a girl? Isn't that strange?"
"You're not kidding, are you? A dead body in front of our house? I might as well say there's a gold mountain and a silver mountain."
Xu Ying was stunned for a moment, then laughed.
"You don't need to worry unnecessarily. Even if there was, it wouldn't be a haunting."
"If you don't believe me, you can turn on the TV. I'll let you see the news."
With that said, Xu Ying turned on the TV and started playing today's news.
The news being broadcast was exactly what had happened at the entrance yesterday.
"See, isn't this it?"
"This body was discovered yesterday morning, and I think I saw her at home last night!"
Xu Ying pointed at the corpse on the TV screen and laughed, "You saw her? Maybe you were dreaming?"
"Your father isn't so old that he's lost his mind and can't distinguish between a dream and reality."
"You didn't look closely. This girl was wearing a red qipao, with a curvaceous figure and snow-white skin."
"Yes, she is quite beautiful."
Xu Ying didn't investigate further. She was sure her father was just being overly anxious because of her kidnapping incident, becoming nervous at every slightest disturbance.
"If you don't believe me, I really think this girl resembles your deceased sister."
Speaking of Xu Ying's only sister, her father also sighed.
"I'm telling the truth, and that thing is incredibly powerful. Quickly look at the TV, I'll get you the newspaper."
Her father hurried to get a newspaper from the study and handed it to Xu Ying, telling her to open the TV herself.
Xu Ying took the newspaper and looked at the TV screen, and was immediately stunned.
On the TV screen, a girl in a long red dress lay on a barren mountain. At her feet was a dark cave, from which wisps of green light were constantly emanating.
The scene then shifted, and the style suddenly changed to a luxurious mansion. An old man was sitting in the hall talking to another girl.
Beside the old man in the scene stood a young and handsome man. On the other side sat a buxom woman and two beautiful young girls.
"Who is that woman? She's so beautiful, even more beautiful than me."
Xu Ying exclaimed as she looked at the people on the television.
"What are you talking about? There's nothing on TV!"
As her father approached, he suddenly spoke, and his words sent a shiver down Xu Ying's spine.
When she looked back at the TV, it was already broadcasting foreign news. Where was the woman in the qipao, the old man, and the man?
Xu Ying didn't notice anything, only feeling a chill all around her, so cold that even her heart felt frozen.