Chapter 25: Lythrum (1)
Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
There was no hint of sadness on Ye Qingtang’s face. Instead, she wore a smile and looked towards the waiting staff. “Call your manager here.”
The waiting staff was slightly taken aback. “If there is anything, you can tell me…”
“If you want the Lythrum, call someone of power here.” Ye Qingtang’s eyes turned cold.
Her glare made the waiting staff feel numb all over suddenly. However, the word “Lythrum” ran through his mind like a flash of shocking lightning!
Duan Tianrui did not know what Ye Qingtang had up her sleeves and only felt that she was inviting humiliation. Looking at the waiting staff, he said, “Go ahead and look all you want, I…”
Before Duan Tianrui could finish his sentence, the waiting staff had left frantically to search for someone.
Just a moment later, a middle-aged man nearing fifty rushed back along with the waiting staff.
“Are you Lady Ye? I am the manager of Lin Town’s Pavilion of Treasures.” The middle-aged man looked towards Ye Qingtang and continued. “I heard that Lady Ye mentioned the Lythrum just now, I wonder… if Lady Ye knows anything about it?”
His tone was stable, yet anxiety filled his eyes.
The Lythrum was an item that the Pavilion of Treasures’ pavilion master desired. He had looked all over the world and placed a notice in every branch of the Pavilion of Treasures of a 100,000 gold reward for finding it yet had no clue up until today.
“I know the place that has the Lythrum,” Ye Qingtang said.
A sneer emerged on Duan Tianrao’s face upon hearing her words.
Ye Qingtang was only fifteen and had never left the city of Lin town up to this day. How would she know where the Lythrum was?
The manager’s eyes glistened. “Lady Ye, as long as you provide us with the location of the Lythrum, the Pavilion of Treasures will definitely express our gratitude with hefty rewards.”
Ye Qingtang replied, “The Lythrum is at the Dead Leaves Forest outside Lin Town.”
At this instant, Duan Tianrui was really about to laugh.
The Dead Leaves Forest was close to Lin town. Although there were quite a few medicinal herbs, they were all common ones. Amongst all the precious medicinal herbs, the Lythrum was extremely hard to find. Ye Qingtang must have been crazy to recklessly make up a lie that the Lythrum was in the Dead Leaves Forest.
Not a single person would believe her words.
The Pavilion of Treasures’ manager did not think that Ye Qingtang would actually mention the Dead Leaves Forest. The excitement in his eyes vanished as though a flame was extinguished by a bucket of ice water, and his expression hardened.
“Lady Ye, please do not joke around. How would the Dead Leaves Forest have Lythrum?”
“What if there really is?” Ye Qingtang continued, “Have someone prepare a pen and some ink. I will draw out the exact location of the Lythrum.”
Initially, the manager had thought that she was unreliable. However upon seeing her calmness, he could not help but frown. After hesitating for a while, he asked someone to prepare a pen and some ink.
Ye Qingtang drew a simple drawing quickly and indicated on the picture the location of the Lythrum.
The manager passed the drawing to his henchman doubtfully.
After seeing a staff leaving the Pavilion of Treasures with the drawing, everyone was curious.
No one knew where Ye Qingtang’s confidence came from.
Despite the fact that Ye Qintang was rumored as an unreliable person, the manager still had a tiny glimmer of hope. Having heard from the waiting staff that Ye Qingtang and Duan Tianrui were fighting over the Flower Moon Stone, the manager told Duan Tianrui, “Young Master Duan, I hope you can wait a while for this issue to settle.”
Duan Tianrui laughed. “I’m not in a rush. I, as well, hope that the Pavilion of Treasures can obtain the Lythrum.” Then, he looked at Ye Qingtang sneeringly.
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Chapter 26: Lythrum (2)
Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
The manager smiled gratefully.
“Third Young Master, is what Lady Ye said true? Is the Lythrum really in the Dead Leaves Forest?” The servant from the Si family asked Si Bai after he noticed there was no further movement on the other side.
Si Bai reclined to a side with his fingers stroking the white jade in his hands. Laying his eyes on Ye Qingtang, a smile tugged on his lips, and he said coolly, “Who knows?”
The servant became even more confused. “If there isn’t, wouldn’t Lady Ye be ridiculed publicly? Third Young Master, do you really not intend to… Ouch!”
A dejected expression was etched on the servant’s face as he covered his forehead, which had just been flicked by Si Bai.
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.
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?!”
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.
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Chapter 27: Lythrum (3)
Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
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.
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