Chapter Nineteenth: Tiger's Gaze, Wolf's Surveillance

  "Little master, you're saying someone has been rummaging through these things?"

  Watching Yue Yu carefully flip over the dozen or so sandpots on the lawn, Ruan Li's face turned dark and gloomy.

  He had always been puzzled about how Yue Yu learned such anti-reconnaissance skills. However, it was undeniable that Yue Yu's abilities in this regard were indeed exceptional, and since he had made up his mind, the truth was probably eight or nine out of ten.

  Ran Li is not foolish, on the contrary very clever, at this moment just slightly associate, and guess that someone has doubts about their behavior.

  "It must be correct, I've checked, those marks on the outskirts are definitely not made by a monster."

  Yue Yu let out a cold laugh and stood up with a frosty face. "And these medicinal dregs in the pot have also been tampered with. But it's not a big deal."

  Since it's pretending to study orthopedic medicine, it can't be three days fishing and two days sunbathing. Therefore, Yue Yu almost every day, will bring out some medicinal materials from the city, with varying quantities. Anyway, these things are cheap and won't cost much money. Among them, the drug factors used for Peiyuan Pill were also extracted and stored separately in a porcelain bottle, which can't be considered wasteful.

  Because of their laziness, they had left all the auxiliary tools, except for that small bronze cauldron used to decoct medicine, on the grass. At this moment, however, these originally neatly arranged medicine jars and sand pots were all knocked over onto the ground, with several of them shattered into pieces.

  In addition, the wooden fence was also damaged with two gaps, and Yue Yu found several traces of monster footprints on the grass. However, those who disguised this scene probably never thought that his auxiliary intelligent system had the function of recording the specific amount of residual medicine residue, and even had the ability to analyze fingerprints.

  In fact, even without these, the clues left behind by those people could not deceive his eyes.

  However, Yue Yu's words were easy to say, but Ruan Li heard these words and instead felt even more depressed, his two thick eyebrows knitted together.

  From the intentions of those people this time, it is indeed not a big deal. What they suspected was not that they were decocting Pei Yuan Wan, but trying to distinguish from these medicinal dregs, the progress of Yue Yu's trial production of bone injury medicine.

  However, Rang Li thought further, the people who made a move on Yue Yu two months ago obviously still haven't given up their surveillance of her.

  This also means that danger is still lurking around them, and will come at any moment. Moreover, in trying to kill him, Yue Yu eliminated any possibility of inheriting those industries.

  "Little master, I think it's better to be more cautious in the future!"

  "Don't worry, I'm perfectly clear about this!"

  Yue Yu glanced at the worried-looking young man beside him and smiled faintly. In fact, things weren't as serious as Rong Li thought. If those people had succeeded in their first attempt, that would have been the end of it. His 'father's' old friends might not be satisfied, but they wouldn't say anything. But if a second incident were to occur, it would likely spark public outrage.

  In the city of Yuejia, those who have vested interests in their industries would not want their descendants to be treated this way after they die. Therefore, even if someone has absolute power within the clan, they still cannot act rashly.

  Of course, Yue Yu also felt a pressure in her heart. The feeling of being monitored at all times was not pleasant.

  Moreover, he is more worried that his plan to enhance his strength through medicine will be affected. Using the trial-made bone injury medicine as cover, it can only deceive for a while. As for buying medicine, aside from the financial difficulties, he will not be able to rely solely on Pei Yuan Wan to increase his strength in the future.

  So no matter what, he must think of a way to prepare for the future. The problem is that until now, he still can't think of a way to break through.

  Actually, Yue Yu had also considered it at first, whether or not to let his family open a pharmacy.

  The Yue family has always allowed other ordinary people and ethnic groups to do business in the city, on the condition that the businesses monopolized by the clan would not be affected.

  In fact, within the walls of the Yue family's castle, there were only a dozen or so pharmacies in total. The clan was only concerned with the procurement and sale of precious medicinal materials. In fact, compared to the profits from the latter, those scattered businesses could only be considered small change.

  Yue Yu's intention was not to make money, but rather to use this as a cover for his own procurement of medicinal materials. Of course, with his abilities, it would not be difficult for him to improve and create more effective tonics and wound medicines.

  However, so far, Yue Yu is still hesitant. The reason lies in another rule of the Yue family - if there are children and younger brothers in the clan who can hire four or more martial artists with income other than land property, they also have the qualification to inherit the ancestral property left by their parents.

  This is a clan policy, used to encourage those younger brothers who do not have the talent for martial arts to find another way of making a living and reduce the burden on the clan. It can be used by others as well. But with the personality of Yue Zhangshi, if he cannot see any benefits, it is impossible for him to agree to his request. And even if it really generates profits, it will only force those people in the clan to take action ahead of time.

  Unless he has enough self-preservation ability now, or it is an unavoidable situation. Otherwise, the idea of opening a pharmacy is absolutely not feasible.

  However, this idea was temporarily put down by Yue Yu. But Yue Yu never gave up. Buying those medicinal materials was not only for cover but also for research on how to improve the bone injury medicine and other high-transaction-volume patent medicines.

  These prescriptions are all recorded in the Yue family's library, but the specific quantities and decoction procedures and methods have their own unique secrets for each family in the city. And these things can't be made public to others, nor can ordinary people intervene in the business of pharmacies.

  Of course, this is not difficult for Yue Yu. He only needs to buy these medicines and analyze them, and then he can learn from the strengths of others. He also doesn't dare to increase the efficacy of the medicine too much, generally just improving it by about 10% based on the best kind of medicine. Compared to simply increasing the efficacy, this is actually more difficult to control.

  In addition, cost considerations are also necessary. Not only should some commonly used drugs be selected, but the price cannot be too expensive or too cheap.

  Yue Yu was shocked to find that if he added all these together, the workload for improving this medicine would take at least half a year to a year. It was even more troublesome than refining Pei Yuan Pill.

  This result left Yue Yu with a wry smile. In fact, if he had gone all out at this moment, it would have taken about two months to complete. However, most of his energy still had to be focused on improving his own strength. This was the foundation for him to stand in this world, and without a solid foundation, everything else was just an illusion.

  With a sigh, Yue Yu stretched out his hand and together with Ruan Li, they straightened up the overturned sand pots one by one. It took another half day to re-mix and repair the damaged fences.

  What is lost is not necessarily a blessing, this time Yue Yu had enough reason to upgrade the original fence that could hold one hand in the gap to a thick and solid wooden wall about one and a half people high.

  Although this can't block those prying eyes with ulterior motives, the existence of this wooden wall has greatly reduced the danger of him being exposed while practicing his swordsmanship.

  For the next few dozen days, Yue Yu and Rang Yi treated it as if nothing had happened, everything went on as usual. Rang Yi, with the help of Pei Yuan Dan, made an all-out effort to break through the eighth level of Huichen's Great True Power. While Yue Yu was practicing the Great Hunyuan Gong, he also began to improve his basic swordsmanship and knife skills that he had practiced in the past.

  Afterwards, the two of them also discovered several times that the things they left inside the wooden wall had been disturbed by someone. Three times it was during rain, and twice it was a repeat of the same trick, with extreme caution throughout the process. It wasn't until two months later, seemingly after having made a definitive judgment about Yue Yu's pharmaceutical talent, that this gradually decreased. The tense nerves of the two finally relaxed.

  And in the last ten days of the third month, Rong Li finally made another breakthrough.