Chapter 724: 724: Saved! It Really is the Vermilion Pill!

Mu Huai’s hand hadn’t even touched the plastic bag before Gu Zhiqi snatched it back.

The empty-handed Mu Huai:

“What does this mean?” Mu Huai looked at Gu Zhiqi anxiously and puzzled, fearing that Gu Zhiqi had suddenly changed her mind about the transaction.

“Twenty million and the Xuan Yue Silk.”

Upon hearing this, Mu Huai was taken aback for a moment but quickly understood Gu Zhiqi’s intent and nodded, “It should be so, please wait a moment.”

Having said that, Mu Huai turned around and headed toward the backyard.

Three minutes later, Mu Huai returned, holding a card and a palm-sized cloth bag.

“Here are the money and the Xuan Yue Silk. May I, take a look at the Vermilion Pill first?” Though excited inside, Mu Huai didn’t lose his vigilance and suspicion.

Gu Zhiqi directly took out a Vermilion Pill from the plastic bag and handed it to Mu Huai.

Impatient, Mu Huai reached out, his hands trembling as he took the Vermilion Pill, pinching it between his fingers and bowing his head to examine it seriously, becoming more and more excited as he looked.

“It’s real, it’s really real…” Mu Huai’s lips quivered wildly, and it took him quite a while before he could stammer out a word, his tone and expression both very excited.

“It’s really the Vermilion Pill, there’s hope, An An will be saved! An An! We have the Vermilion Pill now!” By the end, Mu Huai had turned around and shouted into the yard at the top of his lungs.

Mu Huai’s voice was loud, but no one in the yard came out. Holding the Vermilion Pill, Mu Huai stood there, crying and laughing.

However, the joys and sorrows of humans do not always align, and Gu Zhiqi only wanted to get her hands on the money and the Xuan Yue Silk quickly.

“If there’s no problem, please give me the card and the Xuan Yue Silk,” said Gu Zhiqi, raising the plastic bag in her hand.

Having heard that, Mu Huai finally came back to his senses, taking the Vermilion Pill in one hand and passing the card and the Xuan Yue Silk to Gu Zhiqi with the other, “The PIN is sequential from 1 to 6.”

Gu Zhiqi nodded, taking the card and the cloth bag. She then said to Chubby Chiu, “Chubby Chiu, check if there’s exactly twenty million in the card.”

Upon hearing this, Chubby Chiu instantly replied, “Exactly twenty million.”

After Chubby Chiu’s answer, Gu Zhiqi put away the card, opened the cloth bag to glance at the contents, and after confirming it was the Xuan Yue Silk, she also put away the bag.

After receiving the plastic bag, Mu Huai carefully examined every Vermilion Pill inside to make sure there were no problems. Then, with a trembling voice, he asked, “Master, did you… refine these with your own hands?”

Mu Huai was looking down as he asked the question, but after not receiving a reply for a while, he looked up to find that there was no sign of Gu Zhiqi or Yun Yan in the medicine shop.

Mu Huai rushed to the shop entrance.

On the street outside, there were people passing by occasionally. Those two figures were easy to recognize. Seeing that they were far away, Mu Huai moved his lips but, in the end, he didn’t say anything.

Was it his imagination, or did he feel that the young girl looked familiar? He had had a vague feeling the day before but hadn’t taken it to heart. However, today, after seeing the elixirs she provided, that sense of familiarity seemed stronger.

Unable to make sense of it, Mu Huai, after snapping back to reality, hurried to the backyard clutching the Vermilion Pill in his hand.

“An An, the Vermilion Pill! We have the Vermilion Pill now!” Mu Huai said with excitement, choking up a little.

Rushing through the backyard and into the bedroom, he was immediately greeted by intense coughing sounds.

Mu Huai panicked, immediately running to the bedside to lift the woman from the bed, taking out a Red Elixir to give to her, “An An, we have the medicine now, take it quickly.”

The woman’s complexion was as white as paper, her lips tinged with a pale purple, looking extremely weak. She didn’t immediately take the medicine but instead glanced at the Vermilion Pill in his hand, “I didn’t expect… she would really be able to refine it…”

Before she could finish her sentence, her eyes widened upon seeing the Vermilion Pill clearly.