Chapter 2073 — Zhong Yongliang Goes Up the Mountain
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"Screwed you over? What exactly happened?" You Zhentian's expression darkened slightly as he frowned. "Panhu, you're not a child anymore. Even if you've taken a loss, you must keep your temper. Don't curse the moment you open your mouth. Tell me the specifics."
"Yes, Uncle..." You Panhu nodded and recounted to his uncle everything that had happened that day.
You Panhu did not dare conceal anything or add embellishments, because he knew that although Yellow Hair and Purple Hair were both his subordinates, the two of them would not hide anything in front of his uncle either. If he made things up wildly, then when his uncle learned the truth, he would likely be even angrier.
"So to put it that way, this was your own carelessness? Wei Zhao clearly warned you several times—that we of the Hidden You family have his kind of goods as well, and that trading with him would be a trap. Yet you insisted on making the trade yourself?" You Zhentian asked.
"Uncle, that may be so, but you know as well as I do that Wei Zhao is a crafty one. Under the circumstances back then, anyone would have thought he was saying that because he didn't want to trade, and was talking that way to inflate the value of the goods in his hands... Who'd have known it would actually turn out that way..." You Panhu said with a bitter face. "You can't blame me entirely for this, can you..."
"I suppose I can't blame you entirely!" You Zhentian waved his hand. "Still, a fall into the pit, a gain in your wit—from now on you must be more on your guard against that Wei Zhao. A first-grade medicinal cauldron and a second-grade medicinal cauldron are valuable indeed, but our Hidden You family can afford to lose them. Let the matter rest here."
"Yes..." You Panhu said this aloud, but inwardly he did not agree in the least.
Let the matter rest? Given You Zhentian's forceful character, if anyone else had swindled the Hidden You family out of something, how could he possibly let it rest? But facing Wei Zhao, what choice was there but to let it rest? Not only had You Thirteen been destroyed, even the late-Earth-rank experts of the Hidden Zhao family had been killed by Wei Zhao. To stand against Wei Zhao, one would have to send Heaven-rank experts!
But to send Heaven-rank experts over one Wei Zhao and thereby provoke the Xuandan Sect—that was plainly a most unprofitable business. To maintain the balance these days, even the Xuandan Sect did not dare casually send Heaven-rank experts into the secular world. What virtue or ability did the Hidden You family have to dare do such a thing?
"By the way, the Hidden World Families Summit is about to be held. Your strength has broken through to the early Mystic rank as well—you should be absolutely certain of refining first-grade pills now, shouldn't you?" You Zhentian changed the subject and looked at You Panhu.
"There shouldn't be any problem!" You Panhu nodded. "Still, after I take the two Spirit Gathering Pills and raise my strength a bit further, I should be even more certain!"
"Mm. When the time comes, at the Hidden World Families Summit, one of the competitions is a pill-refining contest. We of the You family may well send you as our representative, since only your age is suitable!" You Zhentian said. "As long as you can refine a first-grade pill, you will have won—after all, the other hidden families have no pill refiners to enter. Their pill refiners are all over twenty-five, beyond the rules of the contest!"
"Ah, good!" You Panhu nodded hurriedly. "Rest assured, Uncle—if that's the case, victory is surely mine!"
"Good. Since that's so, you may go back!" You Zhentian said. "You took a loss this time; next time look carefully before you act, so you don't repeat the same mistake!"
"Yes, Uncle!" You Panhu breathed a sigh of relief, turned, and took his leave.