At that moment, the Princess, whom everyone was frantically searching for, was in a Pharmacy flying the Li Family banner, so furious she felt like flipping a table.
"I’ll say it one more time! This is mine. It was given to me by my second uncle. He drew it himself! How can you claim it was drawn by some darn Doctor Zhong from your Li Family Pharmacy?"
Xiaosuisui was infuriated. This was too much bullying!
She had been feeling seasick earlier and had gone out of the cabin to vomit. But as she was vomiting, she heard a familiar voice pleading desperately for his stuff to be returned.
Xiaosuisui had very sharp hearing. The voice sounded very familiar the moment she heard it, and after listening carefully for a while, she remembered who it was.
Zhao Fei, a young man who had resorted to robbery to get medicine for his sister.
Even though this young man had stolen a beautiful young lady’s medicine pouch, he had left a rather good impression on Xiaosuisui.
Suisui listened to the young man’s pleas and recalled how he had implored that beautiful young lady to save his sister.
What could make the young man plead so desperately?
Curiosity piqued, Xiaosuisui gathered her Qi and used Feifei to take flight.
This led to the earlier scene where the Ji Family was searching for the missing Princess.
Taking a deep breath, Suisui flew to the top of the tallest building beside Xilin Lake. From her high vantage point, she scanned the surroundings and finally spotted the source of the voice.
Xiaosuisui quickly leaped down, landing directly in front of the young man who was being kicked and cursed.
"Stop it! What are you doing to him?"
With a shove for each, Xiaosuisui pushed aside the men attacking the young man. Then, she angrily questioned the individuals dressed in the Pharmacy’s attendant uniforms.
"Hey! Where did this little brat come from, sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong! Get her!"
The lead Pharmacy attendant, furious, began to roll up his sleeves. With a wave of his hand, he ordered his men to attack Xiaosuisui.
Hearing this, Xiaosuisui’s eyes widened. "You want to hit me?" she asked.
The attendants didn’t speak, instead closing in on her menacingly.
Seeing the Li Family’s attendants acting this way, Zhao Fei, who had been beaten half to death, cried out anxiously, "Benefactor, run! They’ll kill you!"
These vicious dogs from the Li Family Pharmacy were infamous for bullying others by relying on their backing. Usually, he would take a detour whenever he saw them. But today, he had no choice but to come here because his belongings had been stolen.
No! To be precise, those weren’t his things. It was an illustrated atlas of a hundred herbs that his benefactor had accidentally left at the City God Temple, which he had found. He had been fortunate enough to use the drawings in it to gather herbs on the mountain, sell them for money, and save his family with that very atlas.
A few days ago, Xiaosuisui and Xie Pan’Er had hastily left the City God Temple because they were in a rush. In her haste, Xiaosuisui had carelessly left behind the illustrated guide to a hundred herbs that Ji Youran had drawn on the spot to teach her.
At the time, Zhao Fei picked it up and chased after them, but they were nowhere to be found.
That night, as he examined the herb atlas under the moonlight, a sudden inspiration struck him. The next day, he took the atlas to the mountains to gather herbs, sold them at Ping’an Pharmacy, and bought medicine for his sister.
And just like that, after two or three days, Zhao Fei had earned enough money to rent a small house near the City God Temple, supplemented by the few silver taels Xie Pan’Er had given him earlier.
He decisively used the money, and his family of three finally settled into a home. They were no longer beggars, as insignificant as ants!
Unexpectedly, his sudden prosperity attracted the jealousy of others. Someone spread the word that he possessed an atlas that could identify a hundred herbs.
When this news reached the ears of the head shopkeeper of the Li Family Pharmacy, they immediately hatched a plan to seize this treasure!