"A heartless shop, an unscrupulous merchant!"
"Medicinal pills are harmful, they destroy conscience!"
People outside were shouting in unison, a loud male voice mixed with a familiar voice.
The commotion escalated, and even An Qinghuan came out to see what was going on.
"Calm down..."
No matter how Zhao Xin tried to persuade her, it was to no avail.
In the blink of an eye, An Zhengzheng walked from the backyard to the front of the shop: "Miss!"
"Why is your face so swollen?" An Zhengzheng frowned and took out some pain-relieving ointment.
She said to Dong'er, "Take her to sit down and wipe her face."
This is a premium pain-relieving and wound-soothing ointment, very precious, which startled Zhao Xin.
"I...I'm fine, but outside..."
"Don't worry, there are girls here."
Dong'er helped Zhao Xin away.
An Zhengzheng walked out, with An Qinghuan following behind.
“Zhengzheng, it’s…it’s them…”
An Qinghuan immediately spotted familiar faces: Zhao Liu, Long San, and Hu Jiu from the outskirts of Rentong City.
The three of them straightened up as soon as they saw them, for behind them was the Zhou family.
"It turns out to be an old acquaintance." An Zhengzheng said with a faint smile, "I wonder if the three of you have recovered your cultivation levels?"
It was like stabbing the three of them right in the heart. They lost half a year's worth of cultivation for nothing. They were really going to be killed by An Zhengzheng.
"Hehe, this was done by Miss An for the young men. She truly is the most vicious woman."
Zhao Liu was nonchalant and not afraid at all of An Zhengzheng hitting him on the spot.
After all, hitting a customer would damage the reputation of Bai Nu Ge (Hundred Women's Pavilion).
Some busybodies wondered, "You two know each other? Didn't they say that the pills from the Hundred Women's Pavilion made people sick? Are you here for revenge?"
Whether it's a frame-up or something that actually happened, nobody knows.
Zhang Liu is quick-witted, but last time he was beaten by An Zhengzheng and didn't even have a chance to speak.
Now, right at the entrance of the Hundred Women's Pavilion, he's starting to play the victim.
"You all don't know, but we brothers accidentally offended their daughter before, and they crippled the three of us for half a year."
"Half a year of cultivation! We're all just ordinary people, we should know how difficult it is to cultivate for half a year..."
He never mentioned how he offended An Qinghuan.
Someone tried to ask, but Long San didn't give them the chance.
He continued Zhao Liu's words: "We brothers come from poor families and can't afford expensive pills, so we came to buy pills from the Hundred Women Pavilion. We never expected..."
The three of them simultaneously rolled up their arms.
Their arms were covered with various red veins, one after another, like vines wrapping around their entire arms.
They were intertwined, as if they were poisoned; it was truly terrifying.
The people around were so frightened that they took several steps back, and some female cultivators even covered their children's eyes.
"Close it now! Why are you taking it out to scare people!"
Among the onlookers, some children were so frightened that they cried, and one of them was so angry that he wanted to curse.
Zhao Liu and his group didn't understand this at all; they generally didn't consider others when they spoke or acted.
Only after being told off by the surrounding cultivators did he reluctantly stop.
Zhao Liuqing cleared his throat before continuing, "Not only that, but I also had unbearable abdominal pain every night, as well as headaches, fever, and general malaise... It took us more than half a month to recover."
Zhao Liu was already as thin as a monkey, which made him seem very credible.
An Zhengzheng also knew that they had actually eaten it.
"Is this true? Miss An, would you like to explain?"
There was a woman who kept buying pills from Bai Nu Ge. She didn't believe it because she and her daughter had taken them without any problems.
An Zhengzheng pondered for a moment and asked, "Did you really buy this pill from the Hundred Women Pavilion? But it's common knowledge that we at the Hundred Women Pavilion only sell to female cultivators who are our partners."
Female cultivators with husbands usually let their husbands or sons sell the things they grow or refine, as it's easier and they can get higher prices.
Therefore, those who are willing to lower prices to sell medicinal herbs at Bai Nu Ge are mostly single female cultivators or female cultivators with daughters.
The magazine clearly states who is selling the products.
“Of course!” Zhao Liu said, “Although I didn’t get it from the Hundred Women’s Pavilion in a proper way, the female cultivators I sold it to did get it from you.”
"There's something wrong with your pills. Everyone else makes Qi-tonifying and blood-nourishing pills without any problems, but yours make people sick!"
Pills like the Qi-Boosting and Blood-Nourishing Pill are something that most alchemists know how to make, and some martial arts manuals also teach them; there is a unified standard for them.
Many people need to buy it because it is complicated to make, or because it is not a product of alchemy.
Unfortunately, the food from Bai Nu Ge (Hundred Women's Pavilion) will harm your health!
Hu Jiu also said, "The things made by female cultivators are already inferior to those made by male cultivators, and now there are even some that are ruined. Your shop is truly heartless."
An Zhengzheng immediately laughed.
"What makes you think that female cultivators' work is inferior to that of male cultivators?"
"Is that even a question? I've gotten this bad from taking all the pills from the Hundred Women's Pavilion!"
Zhao Liu stared intently at An Zhengzheng, his tone full of resentment.
"An Zhengzheng, do you want to explain yourself?"
"Yes, they seem to be real."
An Zhengzheng lowered her head slightly, her smile conveying calmness and composure.
"When you bought the pills, did you know that the Hundred Women's Pavilion magazine publicly stated that everything was sold only to female cultivators and was only for their consumption? Even the talismans were for female cultivators to use."
Even the onlookers knew this.
"But, but that's no excuse for your pills to make people sick."
Zhao Liu didn't understand. Did the Blood-Nourishing and Qi-Boosting Pill have a gender distinction? Wasn't this just like a spiritual fruit, which could be eaten by both men and women?
Nobody understood.
"Of course! Otherwise, why do you think we would have specifically marked it out?"
Amidst the crowd's confusion, An Zhengzheng asked, "Are there any practitioners of the Medicine Sect among you here?"
Everyone looked at each other, then around; there were very few people practicing the Medicine Sect.
But one girl still stepped forward.
She said somewhat nervously, "I...I'm from the Medicine Cultivation Sect."
An Zhengzheng glanced at her cultivation level and shook her head, saying, "Your cultivation is too low. Do you have any senior brothers or sisters around here?"
The girl shook her head.
One of the male cultivators said, "My mother was a cultivator in the Medicine Sect, but she got married after reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, and her cultivation stagnated. Is that enough?"
An Zhengzheng said, "That's enough. Please ask her to come over. Bai Nu Ge will give her a bottle of blood-nourishing and qi-boosting pills for free."
It's free!
This immediately attracted the attention of those around: "Me, my mother is too..."
People called out to each other, and about ten people arrived at once. An Zhengzheng only stopped when she said that was enough.
The women who cultivate medicinal herbs to support their husbands, taking care of household chores, have arrived. Their cultivation has stagnated for hundreds of years, but their ability to identify medicinal herbs has not lagged behind.
"Ladies, please examine these blood-nourishing and qi-boosting pills."
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