Chapter 25
“Stop!”
Suddenly the crowd heard a voice as deep as booming thunder.
Jiang Chen’s expression changed. He left the ring as quickly as he could.
Almost at the same time, a blast blew a huge hole where Jiang Chen had been standing.
A middle-aged woman appeared in the chaos. She was dressed like a Taoist nun and looked a bit scary with her sagging eyebrows.
“Gui Ya!”
Someone recognized her.
Fan Tu said to him, “Your apprentice molested our lady with insolent words…”
“Fan Tu!” Jiang Wentian hasted to stop him with an angry roar.
Jiang Wentian walked up to Cao Chenghua and said to him, “Master, there might be some misunderstandings…”
Cao Chenghua ignored him. He looked at Fan Tu and said, “Let me ask you. Did you or did you not keep slapping my apprentice even if he had claimed he was an alchemist?”
“I did,” Fan Tu admitted.
“It was his master’s order.” Xiao Hai pointed to Jiang Chen in haste.
“You continued to attack his arms, knowing that he was my apprentice! It looks to me like the Jiang Mansion doesn’t need an alchemist.”
On hearing this, the whole group of Jiangs turned as white as a sheet. The joyful atmosphere was completely gone.
“That’s right. We don’t need a crappy alchemist.”
Jiang Chen spoke, to everyone’s surprise.
“Master, it’s him! It’s him!” Xiao Hai pointed to him agitatedly.
Cao Chenghua, with a long face, looked over. What he saw bewildered him. Wasn’t that the guy whom he met in the Pegasus Chamber of Commerce?
“We’ve met again so soon, Senior!” Jiang Chen was smiling mysteriously.
“My…my young friend, it’s you!”
“It’s me, Master Cao,” Jiang Chen said. “My master has figured out what your problem is. I plan to tell you about it next time. Looks you don’t want to know anymore.”
“No! No!”
The sudden turnaround bewildered Cao Chenghua. He tried to calm down and said, “Could you tell me why you beat my apprentice?”
Jiang Chen took out a Gathering Yuan Pill and handed it over to him. He said, “It’s your apprentice’s work. Please take a look and you’ll see what’s wrong with it.”
Cao Chenghua took it and checked it carefully. He thought his apprentice had made some mistake, but he started to frown a while later.
“My young friend, there is nothing wrong with it. It’s very pure.”
Xiao Hai, who was beside him, raised his head and said, “Master, of course it’s pure.”
“The panacea is all right. The problem is with the ingredients he used.”
Xiao Hai turned pale on hearing Jiang Chen’s words. Cao Chenghua pulled a long face again. He crumbled the panacea and smelt it.
“Why does it have…” Cao Chenghua, frowning, found medicinal materials for class two panaceas were used.
Jiang Chen said, “Because your apprentice’s work is crappy, he has to use better ingredients to guarantee the success rate. We wasted huge amounts of good materials in these two years and were unaware of it. We paid him good money. Master Cao, what do you think? Should I or shouldn’t I break his hands?”