He understood the cruelty of this world. Although using poison could deter some of the greedy, as the saying goes, “Men die for wealth, birds die for food.” Someone might just risk everything, killing and robbing for a thousand taels of blue silver.

“Brother Yezi, where are we going?” Grace Young looked at the familiar street, her little face full of confusion. If she remembered correctly, they had just passed by here two quarters of an hour ago.

Of course they had!

Henry Clark appeared calm on the surface, but inwardly he was sneering. Even though he had deliberately taken two detours, there was still a tail following them. Clearly, someone was still eyeing the thousand taels of blue silver.

“To Wenyao Pharmacy.”

Henry Clark realized he couldn’t shake off his pursuer and didn’t bother circling around anymore. He led Grace Young onto another main road and soon arrived at Wenyao Pharmacy, where he was greeted by the beaming Samuel Collins.

“Little Clark, you didn’t bring your distinguished guest this time?” Samuel Collins wore a bright smile on his face, but deep down he was a bit disappointed. He knew Henry Clark was a pauper, not much money to be made from him.

Henry Clark took out eight hundred taels worth of blue silver notes and handed them over, saying, “I want to buy iron ring grass.”

Samuel Collins had sharp eyes and noticed that the stack of blue silver notes Henry Clark produced was worth at least a thousand taels. He asked in surprise, “You managed to gather all the blue silver in such a short time?”

Henry Clark said meaningfully, “Distinguished guests from Zifu County have plenty of blue silver. Whichever pharmacy can satisfy them, those nobles will naturally spend lavishly.”

These words?

Samuel Collins’s expression shifted, weighing these words carefully in his mind. Then he laughed heartily, “Nobles are distinguished guests, but so are you, Little Clark! Since you’ve come again to support my business, you’re giving me, Samuel Collins, face. I’ll give you a ten percent discount on the price of iron ring grass.”

As he spoke, he took out eighty taels of blue silver notes and stuffed them back into Henry Clark’s hand.

“Heh heh…”

Henry Clark chuckled inwardly, but outwardly showed a satisfied expression and said, “Since Manager Collins is so generous, if any more distinguished guests want to buy herbs in the future, I’ll bring them to Wenyao Pharmacy first. By the way, give me two more stalks each of hundred-poison mushrooms and blood-refining grass! The older, the better.”

Samuel Collins’s expression changed and he said, “Little Clark, I do have quite a few blood-refining grass of twenty years’ age. As for hundred-poison mushrooms, I have two that are three hundred years old. What do you think…”

“I’ll take them!”

Henry Clark’s heart trembled, and he said resolutely.

Samuel Collins was silent for a moment, then said, “Two stalks of blood-refining grass, that’s two hundred and sixty taels of blue silver; two three-hundred-year-old hundred-poison mushrooms require one thousand one hundred taels of blue silver, for a total of one thousand three hundred and sixty taels. I’ll give you another ten percent discount, so you only need to pay one thousand two hundred and twenty-four taels of blue silver.”

Henry Clark frowned. He had enough blue silver notes on him, but could he bargain the price down a bit more?

He had gotten five thousand taels of blue silver from selling the purple coffin, of which two thousand taels were collected from the medicine slaves. After deducting the blue silver spent on iron ring grass, he now had two thousand nine hundred and sixty taels left.

Samuel Collins saw Henry Clark’s expression and couldn’t help but feel a bit of contempt, even his smile faded a little as he said, “Little Clark, friendship is friendship, business is business, they can’t be mixed. I’ve already given you a ten percent discount. If you still can’t afford it…”

“If he can’t afford it, I’ll buy it.”

From outside the shop came a loud voice. Charles Turner strode in with a swagger, a proud smile on his handsome face, and came up to the two of them.

It’s him?

In almost an instant, Henry Clark realized clearly that the person who had been tailing him was probably Charles Turner. This guy was greedy by nature; while coveting those poisons, he was probably also eyeing the thousand-plus taels of blue silver that Henry Clark had won.

Damn it!

Henry Clark felt a surge of murderous intent toward Charles Turner, but outwardly remained cold as frost and said, “Manager Collins, I don’t have enough blue silver on me right now. Give me half an hour, I’ll go back and get it.”

Samuel Collins naturally recognized Charles Turner. Hearing Henry Clark’s words, he hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said, “Since Young Master Tong wants to buy, I can only sell to him. After all, there are only two three-hundred-year-old hundred-poison mushrooms.”

Henry Clark said in a deep voice, “I was the first to buy them.”

Samuel Collins replied, “But you don’t have enough blue silver right now.”

Henry Clark was inwardly furious, glaring at Samuel Collins for a few moments, then sneered, “Manager Collins, you’ll face a bloody disaster today, and another one tomorrow. I was planning to buy the herbs and help you resolve it, but I didn’t expect you to be so ungrateful. I won’t bother anymore. I’m leaving now, hope you take care of yourself.”

“You…”

Samuel Collins hadn’t expected Henry Clark, unable to buy the herbs, would dare to curse him. If he weren’t still hoping for distinguished guests to come and buy herbs, he really wanted to slap Henry Clark across the face.

“Farewell!”

Henry Clark grabbed Grace Young and was about to leave Wenyao Pharmacy.

Charles Turner narrowed his eyes, stretched out his arm to block their way, and sneered, “Young Master Clark, it seems you’ve forgotten something! When are you going to give me three times the amount of medicine?”

“Tomorrow.”

Henry Clark replied without hesitation.

Charles Turner raised an eyebrow and sneered, “I helped you on the stage, and you still want to delay until tomorrow? I want it today. If you dare waste my time, you won’t like the consequences.”