READ NOVEL ONLINE Chapter 24.2: No Next Time
Did I… do something wrong?
Troubled, Xiao Yan arrived at the council hall. Xiao Yu, who was sitting on a chair, noticed Xiao Yan’s slightly distressed expression as he entered and stood up, approaching him.
“Xiao Yan, what’s wrong?”
“Hmm?”
Xiao Yan snapped out of his thoughts and immediately adjusted his emotions, smiling and waving his hand at Xiao Yu.
“It’s nothing, don’t worry.”
“…”
Seeing this, Xiao Yu didn’t ask further because she knew that even if she asked, Xiao Yan wouldn’t say.
Xiao Yan looked at Xiao Zhan and asked softly,
“Father, you mentioned earlier that you had something to discuss with me?”
“Ah-” Xiao Zhan scratched his head and sighed slowly. “You haven’t been down recently, so you don’t know. The merchants and customers in the Xiao Clan’s market have been taking a lot of lost these days. They have all gone to the market of the Jia Lie clan.”
“Why is that?”
Xiao Yan raised an eyebrow in confusion, and Xiao Zhan explained.
“The Jia Lie clan somehow found a Rank One Alchemist and had him produce a healing medicine called ‘Rejuvenation Powder,’ which attracted all the mercenaries.”
As Xiao Zhan spoke, he sighed deeply, and Xiao Yan nodded understandingly.
The income of the Xiao Clan’s markets largely came from the mercenaries. Once the mercenaries stopped coming, the merchants couldn’t make money, so naturally, they would withdraw from the market. It was only natural.
However, at that moment, Xiao Yu suddenly pounded the table beside her.
“Ah! I was just about to tell the Clan patriarch about it, but I forgot because I was busy going to the back mountain to find you.” Xiao Yu said to Xiao Yan in this manner, then looked at Xiao Zhan. “Clan patriarch, is the alchemist that the Jia Lie clan brought named Liu Xi?”
“Hmm? Have you met him?”
Xiao Zhan was slightly surprised, and Xiao Yu nodded lightly, then proceeded to recount what had happened when she encountered Liu Xi in the Xiao Clan’s market.
Bam!
“That bastard! How dare he do that to my granddaughter?!!”
The First Elder slammed the table and stood up, trembling with anger. Xiao Zhan, sitting next to him, also had an extremely displeased expression.
“The Jia Lie clan has no shame! They not only caused trouble in the Xiao Clan’s market but also tried to kidnap people in public?!”
“Grandfather, there’s no need to be so angry.” Xiao Yu raised her hand lightly and spoke to calm the first elder down. “I’ve already dealt with all the guards of the Jia Lie clan. As for Jia Lie Ao, I didn’t spare him either. As for that alchemist, I instructed the Xiao Clan’s guards to beat him half to death before throwing him out. They shouldn’t dare to cause trouble in the Xiao Clan’s market again.”
Upon hearing Xiao Yu’s words, the first elder anger subsided to some extent, and Xiao Zhan’s expression improved slightly.
“Since you’ve already taught them a lesson, I will let it go this time. If they dare to come again…”
“There won’t be a next time.”
Before Xiao Zhan finished speaking, a cold voice abruptly interrupted him, coming from Xiao Yan who was sitting beside Xiao Yu, leaving Xiao Zhan momentarily stunned.
His son had never before shown such impolite behavior of interrupting an elder while speaking like this before!
Xiao Yu also sensed something amiss in Xiao Yan’s words and turned her head slightly, her pupils contracting in surprise.
Xiao Yan?!