Even so, it didn't make the head of the Shi family feel much better. The smiles on the faces of the poison masters were a blatant reminder that others were just taking advantage of him.
In particular, some of the clansmen who were poisoned this time were the organizers of the ancestral worship ceremony. They are currently bedridden with the poison and the entire ceremony cannot be prepared smoothly until they are cured.
After receiving their rewards, the poison masters quickly left the Shi family and dispersed to various regions as previously agreed, hiding their identities for a period of time until the Shi family's ancestral worship ceremony was over before reappearing. Although it sounded a bit aggrieved, they all expressed that they were willing to cause trouble for the Shi family head even if it meant seclusion in the deep mountains and forests for ten years.
Among them, Guiyue was unwilling to leave Dongfangmian. She had sworn to be loyal to Dongfangmian, so Dongfangmian told her to find a place to hide first, and that he would make arrangements for her after things were settled.
After the poison masters left, all the elders and protectors at the banquet that day, except for the Grand Protector who left early, were punished by the Shi family head. This made the Grand Protector break out in a cold sweat, and he was extremely grateful to Dongfang Mian for giving him some pointers.
At the same time, the Mu family also began to suppress the Shi family's businesses. Originally, the Shi family and the Mu family's businesses had no overlap. The Mu family mainly ran a medicine shop, while the Shi family's businesses on the surface were mostly treating cultivators who had been poisoned.
But in the past few days, the Mu family suddenly infiltrated the Shi family's territory and began to promote a new type of healing pill from their Mu family, claiming that it could cure all diseases and detoxify all poisons. They even treated many poisoned people in the Shi family's territory for free on the spot as a form of publicity.
Then, before the Shi family could arrive, the Mu family members ran away and disappeared. Soon after, they reappeared in another Shi family territory and continued their propaganda.
Most importantly, the Mu family's healing pills were really effective. Many patients who couldn't be cured by the Shi family were cured after taking them just once. This made the Mu family famous in the medicine field, subtly overshadowing the Shi family, and the Shi family's business plummeted as a result.
The healing pills for the Mu family were provided by Dongfang Mian, but they weren't as pure as the ones she initially gave to the poison master. Dongfang Mian divided one water therapy pill into one hundred portions, claiming it could cure all diseases and detoxify all poisons, but in reality, it was only particularly effective for minor ailments.
Anyway, Dongfang Mian wasn't aiming to make money from this; her only goal was to create chaos within and outside the Shi family.
It must be said that the plan was quite successful. At least when Dongfang Mian saw the head of the Shi family again, the latter not only had bloodshot eyes and looked exhausted, but also had a big pimple on his forehead, which made Aju burst out laughing on the spot.
If it weren't for Dongfang Mian's sake, the head of the Shi family would have sworn to take that tiger that mocked him to his face as a sacrifice in the ancestral worship ceremony.
This embarrassment made the head of the Shi family too embarrassed to appear in front of Dongfang Mian again, and he only sent someone to inform her to prepare to participate the day before the ancestral worship ceremony.
"Phew, it's about to begin," Dongfang Mian breathed a sigh of relief.
She heard from the Great Protector that because the Shi family had been unstable both internally and externally recently, the ancestral worship ceremony was simplified. The head of the Shi family didn't even care about going through those complicated procedures; he just wanted to summon the ancestor as soon as possible to take revenge.
Keeping everything simple means that the ancestral worship ceremony will not be heavily guarded, making it easier to get close to Bao Bao. Although Dongfang Mian doesn't care about having more or fewer Shi family members, these people will still have to serve Bao Bao in the future, and Dongfang Mian doesn't want Bao Bao to be a head of the family without anyone.
"Alas, it's a pity that my divine beasts can't come and display their divine power," Aju sighed.
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