"Have you forgotten all about the injuries you sustained before?"

"But do I have to take a few more beatings?"

An Zhengzheng was like a cat, staring at the mice in front of her.

Zhao Xin had already been brought over by An Qinghuan.

She was familiar with this; An Zhengzheng had taught her this way before.

“Young lady, we know we were wrong. The Zhou family sent us here. You offended them and were too sharp-tongued. Even if it weren't us, someone else would have…”

Zhao Liu blurted it all out: "We've already reformed and haven't offended female cultivators again, this time too..."

He was also instructed by someone else.

He muttered to himself for a long time, and Long San and Hu Jiu both lowered their heads and agreed.

An Zhengzheng looked around and met the people sent by the Zhou family to keep watch.

"Zhao Xin, who hit you?" An Zhengzheng asked.

Zhao Xin's face has been less swollen and the pain has subsided considerably, but the red marks are still there.

She pointed at Long San.

Zhao Liu and Hu Jiu breathed a huge sigh of relief before remembering that they were afraid for Long San.

"I...I...she insisted on stopping me, so I just did it..."

Long San looked around at the crowd. Most of them had gone to the Hundred Women Pavilion to buy pills, while some were just watching.

"Even though you've come here to demand an explanation, you shouldn't have hit people!"

"Yes, we all saw it. At first, we thought the Hundred Women Pavilion had really lost its conscience and sold something, but it turned out to be a misunderstanding. You slapped that girl, so you have to apologize to her!"

Zhao Liu tugged at Long San, who quickly admitted his mistake: "Yes, I... I was wrong. Please forgive me, young lady."

...

"Madam Pei, are we opening a branch shop?"

At the end of the month, An Yirou brought the talisman and medicine practitioners from Siyue Sect to Bai Nu Ge for the handover. On the way, she saw a newly opened shop on the next street.

The shop was originally entrusted to her by her sister, but later her father left with his men, and Bai Nu Ge couldn't spare the time to open it, so it remained vacant.

Madam Pei was currently checking the magazines; new issues were about to be released.

As she tidied up, she said, "You'll have to ask Miss Zhao Xin about this."

Zhao Xin was also helping with the inventory. When she heard Madam Pei mention her, she quickly explained, "It's not me, it's the young lady."

I recounted what happened that day.

Zhao Liu, Long San, and Hu Jiu gave away the last bit of their savings to Zhao Xin.

However, they were just low-level thugs with little savings. They had also spent a lot of money on medical treatment after being whipped, so they didn't have much to compensate.

The plan to cause trouble at Bai Nu Ge that day fell through. The Zhou family refused to pay and even accused them of slandering the Zhou family.

For a time, they were in a very bad situation.

"Perhaps the girl was afraid that they were desperate and would harm others, so she let them watch the shop."

"Looking at the shop?"

An Yirou didn't understand. She knew those people weren't good people: "...Can they be trusted?"

“The girl set up a magic array in the shop to bind them,” Zhao Xin said. “We just need to deliver two meals a day, and they can only stay there and watch the shop all day long, unable to leave the magic array.”

Sure enough, my sister always has her own ideas.

An Yirou was no longer worried, but she was puzzled: "What are they selling?"

The goods at Bai Nu Ge are in high demand and short supply, so there's no way to move any extra goods to the branch stores.

"You'll have to ask the girl." Zhao Xin didn't know either. "Dong'er usually delivers the meals. Dong'er said it's just like the shops outside."

An Yirou walked through the shop to the backyard and headed straight for An Zhengzheng's courtyard.

"You've arrived." An Zhengzheng was practicing alchemy in the courtyard. As soon as he saw An Yirou, he put away his alchemy furnace.

Each batch yields ten pills with a 100% success rate, using the cultivation method personally taught by Master Suotang.

The yard was filled with raw materials, all of which An Zhengzheng planted herself.

An Yirou: "Are we really short of raw materials?"

That shouldn't be the case.

An Zhengzheng smiled and said, "No, I'm looking at the characteristics of the materials."

She has no shortage of raw materials now, so alchemy is not a problem, but if she wants to cultivate well, she needs to lay a solid foundation.

"Sister, you opened a new shop?"

"You mean Dongfeng Ferry?"

Dongfengdu is the name of the newly opened shop.

An Zhengzheng told her, "Some of our pills are not made with Linggu powder, and male cultivators can also use them. Those things can be sold at the same prices as outside."

The extra money earned can be used for the reproduction of Bai Nu Ge.

"There are also some magical artifacts that I don't need, which are all in Dongfeng Ferry. They sold them for me. I collected everything that female cultivators couldn't sell and then transferred it to Dongfeng Ferry."

The pills they are currently taking are half-price on the market and contain Linggu powder.

The pills consumed by the male cultivators were still at the original price.

An Zhengzheng had those three men watch the shop, which meant they were doing things for her.

Outsiders look down on the things cultivated or made by female cultivators. If they want to sell their products to the male cultivator market, those three men are the perfect intermediaries.

They're still using the male-only price.

"Could they possibly be willing?"

An Zhengzheng laughed: "The art of employing people is to prioritize self-interest. Just you wait, I'll teach you how to deal with this."

Days passed by, and An Zhengzheng shuttled back and forth between Siyue Gate and Bainu Pavilion.

At the end of each month, An Yirou would come to hand over her duties, and she would return to Siyue Sect to change her cultivation method. Sometimes she would visit Master Suotang to have him examine her alchemy results.

As for the socially awkward old man, Master Wushang, he mostly sent greetings via jade slips and occasionally left some food outside his cave.

This news came from Master Suotang. Master Wushang loves to eat, but he is afraid to go out because of social anxiety.

In the blink of an eye, Zhao Liu and his group had been looking at shops in Dongfeng Ferry for three months.

"No, when is that crazy girl going to let us go?"

Hu Jiu had been trapped in the shop for too long, and he was really frustrated. It was like a spirit beast trapped in a cage; it was hardly a human life.

"Let's just wait and see. That crazy girl is quite cunning; even the Zhou family can't beat her."

Zhao Liu was still staring at the jade slip. "These past few months, it's been all over the martial arts forums."

Long San, still listless, chimed in, "What are you all talking about?"

He even gave away the jade slip to that female cultivator who greeted guests named Zhao Xin; he was so bored.

"Didn't the Zhou family also try to recruit female cultivators like the Hundred Women's Pavilion? Well, guess what? They made a huge fool of themselves! Now everyone's saying that you shouldn't hire anyone who isn't a female worker from the Hundred Women's Pavilion!"