"So how much did you get for the pills?"
Heavenly doctor Ming leaned in near to Bai Jingfei's ear and whispered.
"One hundred and forty! What the heck!" Bai Jingfei had imagined that the pills would sell for slightly under eighty thousand each. She hadn't even considered that heavenly doctor Ming would be able to scam out one hundred and forty thousand gold coins per pill.
Bai Jingfei turned around with her eyes wide open.
"Master! Please sell some of my pills as well!" She knew very well that she was nowhere near heavenly doctor Ming's level when it came to fraud. She would probably make a lot more if heavenly doctor Ming sold them for her.
"And what do I get if I sell them for you?" asked heavenly doctor Ming cheekily, rubbing his hands together, completely ready to scam Bai Jingfei.
"10% of the profit, no more, no less."
"Deal!" heavenly doctor Ming was glad to make any money at all, let alone 10%.
Bai Jingfei had her own profits in mind while proposing this. Since she was giving heavenly doctor Ming 10% of the profits he would definitely sell them for as much as he possibly could. That itself was higher than what Bai Jingfei would be able to get from the pills.
Yet another yell was heard from the other side of the wall.
"No! Those birds will not come anywhere near my property anymore! They picked my saffron clean and you want to continue feeding them? Why?"
"They're just birds, teacher! If I don't feed them, who will? There's no more saffron anyway!"
A grunt was heard and Bai Jingfei assumed it was heavenly doctor Ling from the effeminate voice. It was raw and guttural and full of frustration.
"No! Those birds will not come here and that is final!"
Heavenly doctor Ming, by then had realized exactly what was going on. Some innocent birds were getting blamed for his crime. Not that it mattered to him of course. Better some bird than him.
He decided to go create some more trouble, so he walked out in front and casually strolled into the neighboring medical hall. He was strutting as if he owned the place and that slightly irked heavenly doctor Ling.
"What happened here?" asked heavenly doctor Ming with a smirk.
Heavenly doctor Ling shooed Song Zihao away and walked over to heavenly doctor Ming slowly, his hands on his hips.
"Can't you walk any faster Ling?"
Heavenly doctor Ling snapped back instantly, "Well at least I can walk without a walking stick!" he yelled.
Heavenly doctor Ming was now ticked off.
"So what happened here?" he asked again, this time not nearly as casually, "What were you guys yelling about?"
Heavenly doctor Ling sighed.
"Zihao's birds ate an expensive herb of mine…"
"Did they, now?" asked heavenly doctor Ming while tilting his head innocently, "What plant was it? How expensive?"
Heavenly doctor Ling sighed and pulled out a chair from a nearby table, plopping himself on to it. He didn't bother to invite heavenly doctor Ming to sit down because he knew that the shameless man would sit down either way.
And heavenly doctor Ming did.
He pulled out the chair opposite to heavenly doctor Ling with a yawn as Bai Jingfei scuttered in quickly to look for heavenly doctor Ming. She then took a seat next to heavenly doctor Ming and smiled at heavenly doctor Ling who reciprocated the smile.
"It was the saffron…" he said with a frown, recalling the pain of his saffron being "eaten", "Feifei should know which one I'm talking about, I showed it to her that day."
Bai Jingfei nodded. She knew very well what herb he was talking about.
In fact the remains of the herb could be found in a little bottle strung on her hip. She was the guilty party here after all. She was more than familiar with said herb.
Heavenly doctor Ming leaned forward with poorly feigned surprise.
"Saffron! How expensive was that! Wow you truly lost a lot didn't you!"
He patted heavenly doctor Ling on the back with pity. "Why don't you come over and buy some seeds from me. I got a batch of seeds very recently. I'm sure you'll love them."
"How much are they?" asked heavenly doctor Ling curiously.
"30 thousand gold coins…"
Only heavenly doctor Ming would be able to steal from someone and then sell them some overpriced goods to compensate. In heavenly doctor Ming's mind he was doing some great and noble deed but he was truly being a scum.
Bai Jingfei could bear to watch. She was truly stunned but respected the hustle. Heavenly doctor Ming truly was going to make all the profit he possibly could, even if that meant robbing, lying and scamming.
Heavenly doctor Ming didn't feel much guilt over this anyway. He had no problems scamming his rival and arch nemesis.
Heavenly doctor Ling nodded.
"It truly would benefit me to start growing something else I suppose!" He stopped for a second to think of his poor saffron plant that was ruined, "I should sever this attachment and move on."
Heavenly doctor Ming smiled.
"Feifei go bring the green bag of seeds while heavenly doctor Ling here pays."
This was probably the first time heavenly doctor Ming had referred to heavenly doctor Ling with his title. The time he was scamming him.
"It's not like your saffron is dead, is it? It will regrow in a few months for sure!" heavenly doctor Ming reassured heavenly doctor Ling while the latter dug through a chest, counting the gold he had to give heavenly doctor Ming.
"So what seeds are these?"
"Tear water rose. Quite exquisite." heavenly doctor Ming gave short and curt responses, his eyes narrowing in on the gold.
As soon as Bai Jingfei returned the transaction was completed.
"Why did you sell him those seeds?" asked Bai Jingfei casually as they left. Heavenly doctor Ming was not the type to make a loss.
"To steal the flowers when they bloom of course!"