After hesitating for a while, one person finally spoke in a barely audible voice, "Is it right here?"
After saying that, she blushed and turned away, but received no response for a long time. When she turned around, she found that Dongfang Mian and Aju had already been lying on the table, carefully planning how to cause trouble for the Shi family.
Only then did she realize she had been tricked. She sat there angrily watching the two of them have a heated discussion. Anyone who didn't know better would have thought she was a resentful woman sitting there.
Dongfang Mian and Aju had probably devised a plan to cause trouble. The first step was to prolong the Shi family's journey to the swamp forest, which would increase the resentment of the poison masters. The second step was to see if Dongfang Mian's teleportation array could send them into the Shi family's treasury and plunder it. The third step was to go to the poison masters' camp in a high-profile manner to incite public anger. These were not ordinary people; they were all poison masters who could poison without leaving a trace. If they really got ruthless, the entire Shi family would probably be turned upside down by them.
Even such a plan couldn't appease Aju. Dongfang Mian promised him that if he had to fight the Shi family in the end, he could release all the divine beasts of the Beast Realm to raze the Shi family to the ground. Only then did Aju nod in satisfaction.
Soon, after the Grand Protector relayed the message back, although the Shi family head did not understand why Dongfang Mian had suddenly changed his mind, he still sent a luxurious team to pick up Dongfang Mian and the others and personally welcomed them and settled them into extremely luxurious accommodations.
The news of the Shi family head's high-profile actions quickly spread throughout the entire Shi family. Many people secretly went to the vicinity of Dongfang Mian's residence to see who this person was who could receive such attention from the Shi family head.
Because the Shi family head and the Grand Elder did not reveal Dongfang Mian's identity and issued a gag order to the few people who knew, no one thought that Dongfang Mian was just a poison master. Most people firmly believed that Dongfang Mian was the concubine that the Shi family head was preparing to marry.
This news seemed to be confirmed after the matriarch of the Shi family had a big fight with the head of the family and ran back to her parents' home. There was an undercurrent of tension within the Shi family, with everyone speculating whether this newly married concubine would have any impact on the current situation of the Shi family.
The most dissatisfied with this matter were the high-level poison masters. Even a concubine who hadn't yet entered into the family received better treatment than them, which made these poison masters feel extremely unbalanced. The Shi family members also frequently encountered unknown poisonous creatures crawling around on the road.
Although the Shi family is a family that has been using poisons for generations, and the members of the clan often deal with poisons, even so, these endless tricks still cause the Shi family a lot of trouble.
The head of the Shi family never expected that things would turn out this way without him explaining anything. However, he swallowed his bitterness for the sake of his family's secret plans. Nevertheless, he still planned to collect poisons in advance so that once the ancestral worship ceremony was fully prepared, these poison masters would be dispensable to him.
While the head of the Shi family was stomping his feet in frustration, Dongfang Mian was comfortably enjoying the delicious fruit that the Shi family had carefully prepared. Aju, while eating and splashing juice everywhere, asked, "Amian, now everyone outside is saying that the head of the Shi family is keeping a mistress in a golden house. Aren't you angry?"
"Angry? What's there to be angry about? Anyone with eyes can see that Patriarch Shi isn't even worthy of a single hair on my head. No matter how much you say, it's useless for those who don't have eyes," Dongfang Mian said leisurely.
This remark was overheard by the Grand Protector who had just entered, but he had grown accustomed to the patriarch being described as utterly useless by Dongfang Mian over the past few days, so he pretended not to hear it.
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