Chapter 154

Chen Banyu fainted.

What is going on?

Lin Qinghen did not explain immediately. He led the people inside, and then reached out to pull Lin Yunsi and Li Yan in. By the way, he asked someone to call Song Xuemiao, and gave her a few instructions, asking her to bring a few things for him when she came.

Chen Banyu followed him inside and kept looking at the people in the yard.

It’s really not easy.

During this short journey, he had seen several Heaven Rank and quite a few Earth Rank. Although they seemed a little puzzled when they saw him, they did not ask much. The main thing was their way of addressing Yin Jiuxiao. They all called him "Young Master" very politely, but they called Lin Qinghen "President Lin" instead of "Madam Young Master".

Lin Qinghen...President Lin?

Many of them were obviously not members of the Yin family, which made Chen Banyu even more confused.

What is going on in Beizhou now?

When he entered the room in the courtyard, Chen Banyu, full of doubts, saw another acquaintance.

"Senior Zhang Fu?"

"Mr. Yao Zun? You..."

Chen Banyu was indeed a social butterfly among the alchemists, so it was natural for him to know Zhang Fu, who was older and more experienced. He looked at Zhang Fu, then at Lin Qinghen, Yin Jiuxiao, and the people around them, and finally asked, "What is going on?"

Lin Qinghen and his group walked out of Beizhou at this time. The first group of people consisted of about sixty people, which was not a lot, but they were all elite.

Lin Qinghen picked out the three best performing alchemists from Diemeng, and also brought Zhang Fu out, as well as a few smart guys who were good at accounting, in preparation to open a branch of Diemeng Pharmacy here.

Yin Jiuxiao brought Wei Lin, as well as a dozen smart people from the Wolf Clan, and three Heavenly Rank people from the mercenary group he had recruited. These people had fought big battles with him and were now very honest. They were all low-star Heavenly Rank people. If they really went out of their minds and wanted to cause trouble, Yin Jiuxiao and Wei Lin could easily deal with them, but they didn't dare to do so now.

The rest all belong to the Yin family.

A few selected Earth-level people and Yin Rongyu, Yin Ye and others who came voluntarily, Ding Lian also came with the five people in his team. The composition was quite diverse, with all kinds of people and all levels, gathered together and in good order.

Lin Qinghen asked Chen Banyu to sit down and put the pot of Begonia on the table. Song Xuemiao arrived soon and handed him a bag of things. He then began to slowly mix something that Chen Banyu could not understand. He only felt that the spiritual energy was very strong. Then he started to explain to him briefly what had happened in the Yin family recently.

Chen Banyu also knew that the Yin family had had a difficult time over the past ten years, but he had also been a wanted criminal for more than twenty years and could hardly protect himself. Moreover, if he showed up, it would easily bring disaster. He was in a situation where he had the will but not the ability.

But he never expected that the Yin family could turn things around in such a short period of time, and to a point that he couldn't understand.

"That's about it... In a few days, they will be able to wipe out Wang Yulin in one fell swoop, and the Yin family will be the real master of Beizhou. Such big news is completely unknown to the outside world. Of course, we also deliberately blocked it, otherwise how could there be a surprise? Isn't it necessary to choose a noble family? The Yin family cannot let everyone down."

As Lin Qinghen spoke, he spread out a pile of mixed powder in his hand, and drove two bee crystal butterflies to absorb it. He then urged the butterflies to sprinkle the spiritual energy particles digested by the butterflies on the half-dead flower.

Chen Banyu saw that the flower straightened up as if it had received a sweet rain, as if it had transformed decay into something magical.

"…How did you do that?"

"You will know after you raise it more. Every spiritual plant has its own temperament. This dragon crabapple is not used to the local climate and cannot absorb spiritual energy. It will die naturally. Just change the nutrients it is given." Lin Qinghen smiled at him, "You see, even if I am not an alchemist, I also understand medicinal materials."

Chen Banyu saw him smiling at him, and he looked more like Shen Luoying. He stuttered and asked again: "Then you, you and the Shen family..."

"Li Yan and I are both related to the Shen family. I know that," Lin Qinghen said. Chen Banyu had seen through it, so there was no need for him to deny it. "But the Shen family may not be completely trustworthy. At least for now, I don't plan to acknowledge my relationship with them immediately."

The reborn Yin Jiuxiao's evaluation of this family is very complicated, and it cannot be simply described as good or bad. After all, it is a family, not just a single person. The old patriarch of the Shen family, Shen Luoying's father, has a kind and amiable personality, in other words, he is too weak, but now he is no longer in charge. The new patriarch, Shen Luofei, does have deep feelings for his sister and has always been attentive, but as the patriarch, he cannot act on his emotions most of the time.

There are all kinds of people in the Shen family, some are honest and kind, while others are treacherous and evil. After all, all the hardships that Shen Liyan suffered when he returned home in his previous life were not in vain. What's more, if Fu Xin Miao Fa comes to interfere at this time, it will only make things more chaotic.

In the outside world, relying solely on "family affection" is unreliable.

Chen Banyu frowned and thought for a while, then took stock of the current situation: "Then what do you want me to do?"

"I would like to invite you to join the Northern State Alchemist Association," Lin Qinghen said, "Now, let's start by opening a pharmacy."

"You opened a pharmacy on the Shen family's territory?"

Chen Banyu thought he was simply daydreaming.

He originally thought that these two people wanted him to join the Yin family. Chen Banyu had thought about it on the way here, and he was quite willing to do so.

But he didn't expect that between the recovered Yin Jiuxiao and Lin Qinghen, the one he was mainly facing was Lin Qinghen.

When Lin Qinghen explained it previously, he only glossed over many things and did not explain them in detail, resulting in Chen Banyu now having no idea about what the pills produced by Diemeng are like.

Chen Banyu thought he didn't understand, so he began to explain to him earnestly: "You still don't understand, why is the most lively place in Sunset City only the medicinal materials market and not the elixir market? It's because as long as you are in Xizhou, the only medicine store is Shen's Medicine Store. Even Bai Lu Zongheng can't get involved. The other medicine stores are not even big enough. How can you compete with them?"

Lin Qinghen naturally knew it too.

He found out everything before he came.

The Shen family is the oldest family of alchemists, and its fortunes have also had their ups and downs. Alchemists have no ability to protect themselves, and when they are down they have to look for someone to rely on. For example, when Shen Luoying got married, the Shen family was in a period of bad luck.

Not long after entering the room, Lin Zhongtian brought in a concubine. The Shen family was naturally angry about this great humiliation, but there was nothing they could do.

They needed the Lin family at that time, and Shen Luoying knew it, so for the survival of the family, she swallowed her anger.

This situation did not start to improve until her brother Shen Luofei came to power. The Shen family learned from their mistakes and changed their style. Firstly, this family head was indeed talented, and the new generation of the Shen family was trained by him, so the output of top-notch elixirs was increased immediately. Secondly, Shen Luofei developed a new sales method for Shen's Pharmacy - a customer grading system, which changed the previous elixir supply model.

In Shen's Pharmacy, customers are divided into six levels, and they can upgrade after spending a certain amount of pills. Some precious and rare pills that have been enhanced by the Shen family's special abilities are only available to customers of certain levels. There is no price increase, and even the price is very low when compared horizontally. It's just a matter of qualification.

Some extremely precious, heavenly-grade elixirs produced by the direct descendants of the Shen family have always been in short supply and have been fought over by some forces for years. These are not sold at auctions, but only supplied to the highest-level customers, with very reasonable or even low prices. The most important thing is that they are produced by the Shen family, with stable quality, and sometimes even extraordinary performance, which makes a lot of money.

This allowed the Shen family to immediately connect with other aristocratic families, and they also reached stable supply cooperation with many second- and third-rate forces. They also attracted some combat-oriented heavenly-level spiritual masters to join the family as guardians, and the family was completely transformed in a short period of time.

For ordinary people in Xizhou, even if the ordinary pills from Shen's Pharmacy are not blessed with special spiritual essence, their quality as products from a family of alchemy is slightly better than Bai Lu Zongheng's.

Moreover, once you purchase a certain level and are able to buy level-limited elixirs, not only will it be good for you to use them yourself, you can also make a fortune by reselling them. Many people in Xizhou make a living from this, and they do quite well.

Later, the relationship between the Shen family and Fuxin Miaofa improved, and Fuxin Hall provided him with a large number of alchemist resources, supporting the Shen's pharmacy throughout Xizhou. If it were not for the fact that the Shen family's spiritual marrow was indeed difficult to inherit, and there were only a small number of direct descendants, the highest level of elixirs supplied would have been really limited, otherwise this business empire would probably have been more than just Xizhou long ago.

When the Shen family became powerful, Shen Luoying wanted to negotiate a divorce with the Lin family and take the child in her belly back, but Lin Zhongtian refused and dragged it out for a while, which led to the fact that she could not be saved later.

As far as Lin Qinghen was concerned, the head of the Shen family was actually selling the high-level elixirs produced by the Shen family as luxury goods, which was indeed in line with the positioning of luxury goods.

Although he also uses a similar points system, Lin Qinghen takes a people-friendly and universal route. His current direction does not actually conflict with the Shen family. Instead, they complement each other to some extent.

The Shen family's high-end market is indeed powerful, and it is unique and irreplaceable in the spiritual world. It can use this to bundle the mass market and soar to the top, but this bundling relationship is actually not stable enough.

His yellow-grade and black-grade elixirs are a little better than those from Bailu Pharmacy, but not significantly so. They just have other added value as a basis for customers to upgrade, and they don't have a big advantage in quality. However, Lin Qinghen does.

If both the upper and lower ends can be done well, the effect of one plus one being greater than two will naturally be achieved.

Lin Qinghen knew that they had to compensate for each other, and he also knew that he had a family relationship, but it was precisely because of this that he was more cautious. He could seek cooperation, not be used, and certainly not be swallowed up.

According to Lin Qinghen's personality, even if he cooperates, he often has to take the initiative, but the Shen family is probably not an easy person to deal with.

To be honest, Lin Qinghen is actually only concerned about Shen Luoying now. He has never even met the others. It will not be too late to talk about family affection when both sides are on an equal footing.

"I will be responsible for the matter of the elixir. I think if this medicine shop can be opened, it will be opened. Medicine Master, you may as well give it a try. If I fail, I will still keep this flower alive for you, and you can leave at any time."

Chen Banyu looked at him, then at the flowers on the table, then at Yin Jiuxiao, and asked, "Do you have any objections?"

After Yin Jiuxiao took off his mask, his aura became elusive. It was obvious that several Heavenly Rank masters in the yard listened to him, but here it was Lin Qinghen who always spoke.

"Qinghen has always been in charge of the elixirs. What opinion do I have?"

So Chen Banyu was silent for a long time, and then said, "Then what do you want me to do?"

Lin Qinghen just smiled and said nothing.

After Chen Banyu nodded, they moved quickly. About three days later, Elder Yuanjiang, who came to Sunset City, could no longer sit still.

He received two bottles of elixirs that were both familiar and unfamiliar. It was said that they were sold by a new pharmacy that opened in the city today.

——Those are two bottles of hemostatic powder.