"Then how did the herbs from your Medicine King Valley end up on this black market?" Ye Tianfan wondered, since Medicine King Valley didn't trade with these people, where did the auctioned herbs come from?

Yao Lingshan's face turned suddenly cold, a rare murderous intent flashed in her eyes. The usually carefree and innocent Yao Lingshan showing such an expression took Ye Tianfan by surprise.

"Intercepted!" Yao Lingshan clenched her tiny fist and said, "Does Brother Ye know that twenty years ago, a batch of herbs was hijacked thirty miles outside our Medicine King Valley?"

Twenty years ago?

Herbs?

Hijacked?

A series of information flooded Ye Tianfan's mind. If it was twenty years ago, wasn't that when Bai Yufei was still a medicine slave at the Yao Family?

"Lingshan, was that batch of hijacked herbs escorted by a medicine slave with the surname Bai?"

As soon as Ye Tianfan said this, Yao Lingshan looked shocked and repeatedly asked, "Brother Ye, how do you know?"

"Really someone with the surname Bai?"

"Yes." Yao Lingshan nodded and said, "After that batch of herbs went missing, our Medicine King Valley did investigate for a while, but to no avail. Until recently, when I went to Jiangzhou City to find you, I suddenly received news from Medicine King Valley that the batch of herbs that disappeared twenty years ago appeared again."

"So you left immediately?"

When Yao Lingshan said this, Ye Tianfan understood. Yao Lingshan's sudden departure was for this reason. The hijacking of herbs from Medicine King Valley was a big deal. According to Ye Tianfan's understanding, Medicine King Valley had been hidden for centuries, and such a shocking thing had never happened before. The herbs being hijacked on their way was a blatant provocation to Medicine King Valley.

The people of the Yao Family naturally would not let it go, and tracing the whereabouts of this batch of herbs became the top priority for Medicine King Valley.

Yao Lingshan nodded: "I left the night I received the news and didn't have time to say goodbye to you."

"Then do those herbs auctioned in the black market match up?"

Yao Lingshan quickly nodded: "They match exactly, they're all from the batch hijacked twenty years ago, not a single one missing, whether in number or type, all match exactly."

A glint of coldness also flashed across Ye Tianfan's face, and he asked solemnly, "Have you found out who hijacked them?"

Yao Lingshan shook her head and said, "Not yet. Although this batch of herbs appeared on the black market, it doesn't necessarily mean the black market owner hijacked them. He doesn't have that capability."

Ye Tianfan nodded, what Yao Lingshan said was right. Based on Ren Ningyue's confrontation with those dozen black-clad men earlier, Ye Tianfan could also judge that although most people on the black market belonged to the Ancient Martial Realm and some were experts, their strength was just slightly above average.

If they were very strong, they wouldn't need to set traps throughout these dense forests.

Moreover, the most important thing is, twenty years ago, Bai Yufei was quite formidable, and it wasn't easy to snatch the herbs from him.

"Even if it's not the black market owner who did it, the black market owner must know the inside story. As long as we find this owner, at least we can ask who brought these herbs to him for auction, right?"

"I think so too." Yao Lingshan quickly nodded, "That's why I came here directly to investigate."

As soon as Yao Lingshan finished speaking, she suddenly thought of something and looked at Ye Tianfan like lightning, then asked, "Then how did Brother Ye come here?"

"Uh..." An awkward look flashed across Ye Tianfan's face, and he said, "A shipwreck... We encountered a shipwreck."

"We?"

Yao Lingshan glanced at Ren Ningyue, pursed her lips, and asked poutingly, "You and her? Went to sea together?"

Ye Tianfan helplessly nodded.

Yao Lingshan looked at Ren Ningyue again, frowning tightly: "What do you mean by 'married man' just now?"

Ren Ningyue looked on as if enjoying a spectacle and said with a slight raise of her willow-leaf eyebrows, "You should ask your Brother Ye about that."

Yao Lingshan turned to Ye Tianfan: "Could it be that you're married?"

Facing Yao Lingshan's questioning, Ye Tianfan felt utterly helpless. If he told Yao Lingshan about his marriage with Qin Ruomeng now, who knew what crazy things Yao Lingshan would do, after all, this was a remote island, not Jiangzhou City.

But if Ye Tianfan didn't say, he also knew that the paper could never contain the fire, especially with a troublemaker like Ren Ningyue around...

Complicated, frustrated, bitter.

"Brother Ye, did you marry that woman Qin Ruomeng?" Yao Lingshan's pressing gaze repeatedly questioned Ye Tianfan.

Making Ye Tianfan feel a headache, saying or not saying both weren't options.

"Yes, your Brother Ye is already married to Qin Ruomeng." Ren Ningyue's words were full of sarcasm, and her words were like a fuse igniting a barrel of gunpowder, causing Yao Lingshan to explode.

While Ren Ningyue gracefully turned to leave with a parting remark: "I'll wait for you by the cave entrance," as if giving Ye Tianfan and Yao Lingshan private space, taking her leave coolly with achievements hidden under her cloak.

Ren Ningyue was gone gracefully, but Ye Tianfan was left with a splitting headache!

After hearing Ren Ningyue's words, Yao Lingshan lowered her head in silence, extraordinarily quiet, but Ye Tianfan saw Yao Lingshan's tears dropping onto the ground.

This little girl was crying.

Ye Tianfan was at a loss, not knowing how to comfort Yao Lingshan in this situation, especially when his marriage with Qin Ruomeng was a fact.

"Brother Ye is a bad guy!"

After a long silence, Yao Lingshan wiped the tears off her cheeks and blurted:

"Yes, yes, I'm a bad guy, I'm a bad guy, Lingshan, please stop crying, okay?"

In this situation, even if Yao Lingshan called him a bad guy or worse, he'd have to admit it! Otherwise, if she goes crazy, it wouldn't bode well.

"Qin Ruomeng is a big bad guy too!"

In her anger, Yao Lingshan stomped her foot: "No, I need to find her, Brother Ye, you have to divorce her."

Divorce...

The corner of Ye Tianfan's mouth twitched.

Medicine King Valley has been secluded for a century, following ancient customs, but Yao Lingshan probably didn't realize that there's no such thing as divorce in today's society...

"No, Brother Ye, you must divorce her. Even if there's a marriage contract, I have to be the main wife."

Yao Lingshan's thoughts were still bound by ancient customs, where men could have multiple wives, yet Ye Tianfan felt dizzy, shouting in his heart about the injustice, wondering where those fine traditions from ancient times had gone!

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