Inside the military tent, Shen Qingshan had already sent the others out.
At this moment, only Shen Qingshan and his son, Shen Lingsheng, were in the tent.
"Say it again, from which aristocratic family did the Pill originate?"
Shen Qingshan’s expression was stern. When he first heard this news, he absolutely didn’t believe it.
Standing not far away, Shen Lingsheng seemed to have anticipated his father’s skepticism.
"Considering the implications, we only captured two minor drug dealers and interrogated them separately.
At first, they were quite stubborn, but seeing that we were serious and prepared to take their lives,
they finally started to confess. Both their answers were surprisingly consistent: the Yun Family..."
Shen Qingshan frowned and turned to sit on a chair.
"Is it really the Yun Family in Anyang City?"
"Hmm..."
The military tent fell into silence.
The Yun Family had just turned hostile against the Shen Family.
Not even a month ago, Shen Lingsheng had just divorced Yun Shuang.
The Shen Family even publicly declared they would no longer purchase Pills from the Yun Family, garnering support from several allied forces to pressure the Yun Family together.
Yet, within less than a month, they faced such a situation...
It was almost 7:00 AM.
The soldiers in the camp were already getting up.
The father and son inside the tent remained silent for a while.
"No wonder... the Yun Family dared to be so stubborn this time. Even with our determined stance, they dared to oppose us..."
Upon hearing this from Shen Lingsheng, Shen Qingshan, as the Patriarch of the Shen Family, looked at him with dissatisfaction.
Unable to hold back, he began to scold again.
"In the end, the main problem lies with you.
You were the son-in-law of the Yun Family. With the Yun Family having such means, why didn’t you know at all?"
A rhetorical question left Shen Lingsheng speechless.
"Ultimately, it’s because you failed to manage the marital relationship.
That Yun family wife has been married to you for years, have you ever cared about her?
Every time you returned to Shen Mansion, you wore a sullen face, often blaming her for no reason. How could she possibly side with you!"
Shen Qingshan had always been someone who criticized after the fact; he did the same previously with Madam Shen.
But there was no choice, he was the General, he was the Patriarch.
Shen Lingsheng could only endure it.
After a long while, he weakly defended himself: "Aren’t my elder and second brothers the same..."
"Do your elder and second brothers mess things up so badly that they can’t even maintain a good relationship with their father-in-law?"
After venting, Shen Qingshan felt slightly less frustrated.
Once calm, it wasn’t about blaming his people.
It was about figuring out how to deal with the current predicament.
Fortunately, the Yun Family wasn’t a Medicine-Refining Family supported by the Imperial Family.
This thought somewhat reassured Shen Qingshan.
"Father, what should we..."
Shen Lingsheng initiated a topic shift, both father and son understood that finding a solution was crucial.
"Talk to those drug dealers, have them sell a portion of their Pills to us.
Handle it this way for now, then find a way to investigate how the Yun Family managed to obtain these Pills."
Upon hearing his father’s suggestion, Shen Lingsheng shook his head immediately.
"I already pressured the drug dealers, but they said if they sell Pills to the Shen Family, the Yun Family would cease all cooperation with them..."
Fate turned in less than a month.
Previously, the Shen Family prohibited buying Yun Family’s Pills, but now, they wanted to buy, yet others wouldn’t sell.
Shen Qingshan’s expression grew more unsightly, clearly showing that this was deliberate by the Yun Family.
The current Pills sold to merchants by the Yun Family came in limited quantities at a time.
If any merchant didn’t comply, they should forget about future cooperation with the Yun Family.
This was the absolute authority brought by a monopoly on Medicine-Refining Techniques.
Even if Shen Qingshan managed to force drug dealers to sell Pills to the Shen Family, it would only be a few hundred pieces.
Not enough to even fill the teeth gap of the Eastern Garrison.
Frustrated, Shen Qingshan couldn’t help but roll his eyes at Shen Lingsheng.
"For now, we can only swallow our pride and approach the Yun Family for negotiations."
"Approach the Yun Family?" Shen Lingsheng was taken aback, showing a hint of embarrassment.
"The Yun Family certainly won’t sell us the Pills, especially after what happened before... and the prohibition to buy Yun Family’s Pills was proposed by us..."
Before the Yun Family, ever since marrying Madam Yun, Shen Lingsheng had always been proud.
In his eyes, it was because of him that the Yun Family reached their current standing.
But now, he actually had to beg the Yun Family...
Someone he once looked down upon, he now had to beseech, Shen Lingsheng couldn’t overcome that mental obstacle.
"If you won’t go, do you want to force me to go?
If others in the military have these Pills while our Shen Family soldiers don’t, have you considered the consequences?"
The army was the foundation of the Shen Family, and problems were absolutely not allowed to arise.
Before Shen Lingsheng could say more, Shen Qingshan directly waved him off.
Shen Qingshan also knew it was extremely humiliating, but those Pills were essential for the Shen Family.
After leaving the tent, Shen Lingsheng’s face was very unpleasant.
He finally understood why the Yun Family signed the divorce papers so swiftly before.
Why the envoys sent by the Shen Family couldn’t even enter the gate of the Yun Mansion.
The Yun Family wasn’t out of their minds; they genuinely had the depth, completely unafraid of the Shen Family.
Relying on the Shen Family to buy Pills was never existent...
Back in his own tent, the military advisor Bai Lin had long been waiting.
Bai Lin still had that same look of worry.
But today, Shen Lingsheng’s expression was somewhat similar, equally anxious.
"General... the old general he..."
Hearing Bai Lin’s voice, Shen Lingsheng turned his head to look at him, his mouth twitching.
"Father wants me to go to the Yun Family, to beg them...
I, Shen Lingsheng, have never begged even the Imperial Family or His Holiness all these years, yet now I have to beg the Yun Family."
"The Yun Family must have a Medicine-Refining prodigy in their midst, as this time, the quantity and quality of their Pills have taken a significant leap forward.
General, don’t let pride get in your way.
If you go too late, even if the Yun Family is willing to sell to us, there won’t be any left..."
Hearing this, Shen Lingsheng looked troubled, but also didn’t hesitate further.
He mounted his Red Lightning Horse, grabbed Bai Lin, the military advisor, along with several deputy generals, and headed towards Anyang City.
Anyang City.
After the Shen Family announced they would no longer purchase Yun Family’s Pills, most people believed the Yun Family would soon collapse.
Following his divorce from Yun Shuang, Shen Lingsheng further solidified the notion that the Shen Family intended to sever all ties with the Yun Family.
Everyone assumed that this once second-rate Medicine-Refining Family would, in no time, become an unworthy Medicine-Refining Family.
But over the days, the citizens of Anyang City gradually noticed something strange.
After reopening their doors, the previously quiet Yun Mansion.
Recently, more and more people came to visit...
The Yun Mansion even had the audacity to only accept one batch of visitors a day.
If guests arrived later, they were outright refused.
For such arrogance, one would expect these guests to turn around and leave.
Yet these visitors seemed to have endless patience, settling in Anyang City and coming even earlier the next day.

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