“Selling pills! Selling pills!” Xiao Xiaofan shouted at the top of his voice.
Xiao Xiaodong stood to one side, watching Xiao Xiaofan excitedly yelling, feeling somewhat guilty.
“Big brother, why aren’t you shouting? If we don’t shout, where will the customers come from?” Xiao Xiaofan looked at Xiao Xiaodong with bright eyes.
Xiao Xiaodong: “…”
Xiao Xiaofan had been cooped up for a month. After Xiao Jingting discovered that Bifeng Academy had a marketplace for selling pills, the two brothers finally got a chance to get some fresh air.
Xiao Xiaofan was almost overjoyed to take on the pill-selling task that Xiao Jingting had given him.
“Little brother, what pills do you have for sale here?” Three beautiful female cultivators came together, with a blue-robed young woman addressing Xiao Xiaofan.
Xiao Xiaofan replied without hesitation, “The highest quality pills we have here are aphrodisiac pills. Sister, do you want some? We’re newly opened with a buy-three-get-one-free deal. Our aphrodisiac pills are guaranteed quality and very affordable. If you miss this village, there won’t be another shop! Sister, don’t let this opportunity pass you by!”
Xiao Xiaodong turned his face away, looking like he didn’t want to associate with Xiao Xiaofan.
Xiao Xiaofan beamed with a bright smile, his eyes sparkling as he looked at the blue-robed woman.
The yellow-robed and blue-robed women beside the blue-robed woman first froze, then burst into laughter.
“Biting, do you want some? These pills are guaranteed quality!” the yellow-robed woman said while covering her mouth and giggling.
“Yes! Biting, if you miss this village, there won’t be another shop. You must seize this opportunity.”
The blue-robed woman’s face darkened.
“Little brother, how much are these pills per bottle?” the yellow-robed girl asked playfully.
Seeing “business potential,” Xiao Xiaofan quickly said, “Fifty taels of silver per bottle. Since sister is so beautiful, I can give you a discount of one tael per bottle.”
“Biting, it’s so cheap! Buy three bottles – it’s buy-three-get-one-free,” the yellow-robed girl said.
“Yes! Biting, the little boy is praising your beauty and even giving you a discount,” the blue-robed girl said.
Xiao Xiaofan nodded enthusiastically, promoting earnestly, “Yes! Sister, our pills are excellent quality at low prices, honest pricing for all ages. The effects are really special – you definitely won’t be disappointed.”
Hearing Xiao Xiaofan’s serious promotion, the yellow and blue-robed girls laughed even more heartily. Xiao Xiaofan looked at them in confusion.
Xiao Xiaodong covered his face, showing an expression of unbearable embarrassment.
Biting rubbed Xiao Xiaofan’s head. “Alright! Give me three bottles.”
Xiao Xiaofan said happily, “Sister, you have great taste!”
“Biting, no way! Are you really buying? Do you have a lover? Is your lover not… capable?” the yellow-robed girl nudged Biting with her elbow.
Biting shook her head. “Of course I don’t have one. Even if I did, if he wasn’t capable, I’d definitely kick him out.”
“Then why are you buying these pills?” the yellow-robed girl asked in confusion.
“This little brother called me a beauty, so naturally I should give him some face,” Biting said with a laugh.
Biting sighed inwardly. She didn’t have any lover – it was her younger brother who had problems. Her brother had been traumatized as a child, resulting in poor ability. He had originally had a wife, but she secretly ran away with someone else. Afraid the other party would spread unfavorable rumors about her brother, their parents didn’t pursue the matter.
After his wife ran away, her brother became increasingly dejected. Biting was getting anxious, and now she happened to encounter this stall. She couldn’t help wondering if this was legendary “fate.”
Xiao Xiaofan packaged the pills and said to Biting, “Sister, that’s one hundred fifty taels total. I can give you a three-tael discount, so you only need to pay…” Xiao Xiaofan counted on his fingers but couldn’t calculate it.
Biting shook her head. “No need for a discount. One hundred fifty taels is fine.”
Xiao Xiaofan said with a beaming smile, “Thank you, sister.”
Xiao Xiaofan turned to look at Xiao Xiaodong, cheerfully saying, “Big brother, we opened for business today!”
Xiao Xiaodong nodded. “Yes, we opened for business.”
This actually worked? Xiao Xiaofan had successfully sold aphrodisiac pills to a female cultivator who seemed unmarried, and that female cultivator wasn’t even angry. His little brother was truly amazing.
“Big brother, you said before that if I sold aphrodisiac pills to a female cultivator, you’d never call me an idiot again. You have to keep your word!” Xiao Xiaofan said seriously.
Xiao Xiaodong: “…”
…
In the earth fire chamber.
Xu Mu’an finished refining a batch of pills and looked at Xiao Jingting thoughtfully.
“Mu’an, what’s wrong?” Xiao Jingting looked at Xu Mu’an and asked.
Xu Mu’an shook his head. “Nothing. Is it appropriate for you to have Xiaodong and Xiaofan sell aphrodisiac pills?”
Xiao Jingting touched his nose somewhat guiltily. “Ah! You know, the pills I refine most smoothly are aphrodisiac pills. My own ability is excellent, so I don’t need these things at all. The more I refine them, the more I have, but they’re useless to me. If I don’t sell them, they’re just waste!”
Xu Mu’an: “…”
“Why are aphrodisiac pills the ones you refine most smoothly? The refining difficulty of aphrodisiac pills isn’t low.”
Xiao Jingting: “…” He really wanted to know the reason too! Unfortunately, there was no reason! He just refined these pills smoothly, leading to more and more of them.
A knock came at the door. Xiao Jingting stood up excitedly. “That should be Xiaodong and Xiaofan returning. I’ll open the door.”
Xu Mu’an nodded and responded, “Good.”
Xiao Jingting opened the door and indeed saw two little ones.
“Daddy, we sold forty pills total today,” Xiao Xiaofan said proudly.
Xiao Jingting nodded. “Xiaofan is very capable.”
Xiao Jingting thought to himself: If he had gone himself, he probably wouldn’t have sold more pills than his son. His son’s face was quite useful.
Xiao Xiaofan glanced at Xiao Xiaodong and tattled, “Daddy, big brother said if I sold aphrodisiac pills to a woman, he’d never call me an idiot again. But he still called me an idiot just now. Big brother doesn’t keep his word – he’s so annoying.”
Xiao Jingting looked at Xiao Xiaofan with surprise. “You sold aphrodisiac pills to a woman?”
Xiao Xiaofan nodded. “Yes! I sold aphrodisiac pills to a sister.”
Xiao Jingting looked at Xiao Xiaofan, thinking: The female cultivators in this realm are really bold – they actually come out in public to buy aphrodisiac pills.
Xiao Xiaofan looked at Xiao Jingting’s expression. “Daddy, what’s wrong?”
Xiao Jingting shook his head. “Nothing.”
Xiao Xiaodong took out a stack of banknotes. “Daddy, one thousand eight hundred taels total.”
Xiao Jingting looked at Xiao Xiaodong with approval. “Xiaodong is very capable.”
Xiao Xiaodong felt somewhat embarrassed. In fact, all the pills were sold by his little brother – he only handled collecting payment.
“Daddy, are we going to sell pills again tomorrow?” Xiao Xiaofan asked.
Xiao Jingting nodded. “Daddy has many more pills here. I’m afraid we’ll have to sell them slowly.”
Xiao Jingting brought out a pile of aphrodisiac pills and handed them to the two boys.
“Daddy, what kind of pills are all these?” Xiao Xiaofan asked.
“All aphrodisiac pills,” Xiao Jingting said somewhat embarrassedly.
Xiao Xiaodong frowned and muttered quietly, “How can they all be aphrodisiac pills?”
Xiao Jingting sighed helplessly in his heart. His youngest son didn’t know what aphrodisiac pills were, but his eldest son understood clearly. Having too smart a son was sometimes troublesome too!
“Aphrodisiac pills sell pretty well,” Xiao Xiaofan said nonchalantly.
Xiao Xiaodong looked at Xiao Xiaofan and didn’t say anything more. Xiao Jingting silently breathed a sigh of relief.
…
Xiao Xiaodong and Xiao Xiaofan’s stall quickly gained fame.
The pills at their stall were reasonably priced, and because the two children were cute, many female cultivators buying pills would prioritize their stall.
What was quite unexpected was that the aphrodisiac pills at Xiao Xiaodong and Xiao Xiaofan’s stall actually became famous. Many men who enjoyed visiting courtesans knew that two children were selling very high-quality aphrodisiac pills.
“Little brother, how many aphrodisiac pills do you have today?” A man in bright red robes, fanning himself, asked leisurely.
“There are thirty-two bottles left,” Xiao Xiaodong said.
“I’ll take them all.”
The red-robed man fanned himself, and a strong scent of powder hit them. Xiao Xiaofan was so overwhelmed by the smell that he sneezed.
Xiao Xiaodong looked at the red-robed man, thinking: This person must be a lustful demon. Thirty-two bottles of aphrodisiac pills, and this guy wants to buy them all.
Xiao Xiaofan packaged the pills and handed them to the red-robed man. “The total is…”
“The total is one thousand six hundred taels,” Xiao Xiaodong interjected, knowing Xiao Xiaofan couldn’t calculate it clearly. When the stall first opened, there had been a buy-three-get-one-free promotion for aphrodisiac pills, but that had now been cancelled.
The red-robed man took the pills and pinched Xiao Xiaofan’s chubby cheeks. “Little brother, next time you have these pills, make sure to save them for me.”
Xiao Xiaodong was secretly shocked. This person bought thirty-two bottles of aphrodisiac pills and still wasn’t satisfied. What exactly was this person planning?
Xiao Xiaofan watched the red-robed man’s retreating figure and muttered, “Daddy’s pills sell really fast. Mother-father’s pills sell much slower.”
Xiao Xiaodong secretly rolled his eyes. They sold eight different types of pills in total, but the best-selling ones were the aphrodisiac pills that Xiao Xiaodong had originally thought no one would buy.
Xiao Xiaodong thought: They all look decent on the surface, but they’re actually all inadequate. Really, you can’t judge people by appearances. During this period, aphrodisiac pills seemed to have gradually gained fame – quite a few people came to buy them secretly.
Shortly after the red-robed man left, a burly-looking man walked over.
“Little brother, do you still have aphrodisiac pills?” the black-robed man asked in a somewhat embarrassed, lowered voice.
Xiao Xiaofan blinked. “A man in red robes just came and bought all the pills.”
The black-robed man stamped his foot angrily. “Damn it! That dead transvestite beat me to it.”
Xiao Xiaodong rubbed his chin. “He shouldn’t need that many. I don’t know why he bought so many.”
“That dead transvestite opened a brothel outside. Your pills are being repackaged as ‘Golden Saint Pills’ in his shop, with prices quadrupled, and they’re selling very well,” the black-robed man said.
Xiao Xiaodong’s eyes widened. He had originally thought his father’s specialty aphrodisiac pills were somewhat embarrassing, but now it seemed they were actually quite good! This guy was selling aphrodisiac pills at four times the price – what a profiteer, shameless.
After Xiao Xiaodong returned to their lodging, he told Xiao Jingting that the aphrodisiac pills were selling very well. Xiao Jingting, who received praise, couldn’t help but feel quite pleased with himself.
Xiao Jingting planted more spirit herbs for refining aphrodisiac pills in his jade pendant space.
Xu Mu’an had no objections to Xiao Jingting’s frenzied refining of aphrodisiac pills.
Xiao Jingting’s pills gradually gained reputation, and some people began proactively seeking him out to place direct orders, which Xiao Jingting happily accepted.
“Someone placed an order for six hundred bottles of aphrodisiac pills per month!” Xiao Jingting said.
What kind of lustful demon needed so many aphrodisiac pills? They must be eating pills like food.
Xu Mu’an looked at Xiao Jingting. “With such a large order, we don’t need to have Xiaodong and Xiaofan showing their faces outside anymore.”
Xiao Jingting nodded. “Yes!” Though there were patrols within Bifeng Academy, no one could guarantee accidents wouldn’t happen.
With the spirit spring at hand, Xiao Jingting could quickly replenish the spiritual energy consumed in his body and refine pills non-stop. Perhaps through practice makes perfect, Xiao Jingting’s pill refining speed became faster and faster, and the quality higher and higher.
Dude…