15 Extortion

"Are you questioning me? How the hell would I know how he poisoned me? As for what poison it was, honestly, you should ask your baby boy. What the hell do I know about it? The only thing I know is that I am a heavy drinker with a hollow leg, and on that night, I got fxxking drunk after just three shots." Ye Xiao said viciously, "I spent the whole night sleeping. What could I be if I wasn't poisoned?!"

"Urh..." Wang Danian couldn't believe him and said, "If you had been poisoned like you said, it shouldn't have been this easy for you to recover, right? And now you are here, all fine and healthy. It means you were not poisoned. Right?"

When Wang Xiaonian saw his father, he thought his savior had come. When he saw that his father had totally lost his usual vigor, acting weird and arguing powerlessly, he seriously felt disappointed.

How could he realize that Wang Danian was seriously shocked?

Wang Da-Nain was arguing with his mouth, but thinking differently in his mind, [Who on earth cured him? Who was it? That should be incurable. How could it be cured? Who on earth knows how to deal with such powerful poison? This is so bloody weird...]

"I did get poisoned anyway! I got drunk with only three shots. That's the evidence. Lan Langlang was there. He is the witness. There are both an evidence and a witness. How dare you disavow it?" Ye Xiao didn't want to be reasonable at all, "I was poisoned and I want your explanation! Otherwise, let's find someone to check my body. Okay, I will send for a royal doctor to check my body carefully. Let's see how you continue feigning. Humph..."

"That is surely unnecessary." Wang Danian was scared. He thought, [Although I don't know who cured this bastard's poison which was supposed to be fxxking incurable, it may still remain inside his body. If it is found out, I will surely go to hell... Ye Nan-Tian will definitely come and wipe my family out. This foppish bastard came here only to get some advantages. I think it will be fine if I give him some money and send him away."

"Hahahahaha..." Wang Danian made the decision and laughed, "I see. Lord Ye drank too much that night..."

"Who says I drank too much?" Ye Xiao was angry, "I was obviously poisoned!"

"Fine... Fine... Let's say you were poisoned." Wang Danian simpered, "Okay then, what 'explanation' would you like, lord Ye?"

Ye Xiao was surprised and turned to Lan Langlang, "What do we want?"

Lan Langlang was surprised too and couldn't find anything to say. He rolled his eyes and swallowed, before sneakily kicking Zuo Wuji's foot.

Zuo Wuji was rolling his eyes, trying to think of something he wanted, but failed. Ye Xiao suddenly frowned and murmured like he realized something, "Oh right... wasn't there this six-hundred years old... hmm... what was it... hmm..."

"Blood ginseng!" Zuo Wuji suddenly remembered what they had been discussing before coming here. He shouted in excitement, "Give the blood ginseng to Ye Xiao as compensation, otherwise, we won't let you get away from this!"

"Exactly! You will not get away this time! Lord Ye was badly weakened because of your poison. He won't recover unless he gets something nutritional!" Lan Langlang was delighted and shouted spiritedly.

"This is totally unfair!" Wang Xiaonian got really angry as his face turned red. He yelled, "You bastards! You actually want to extort our ginseng! You must be crazy! You are making a huge mistake bastards! I am going to..."

His mouth was covered by his father before he could even finish speaking.

"You are gonna do what?" Ye Xiao sneered, "You tried to kill me but failed and got caught. Now you want to deny your guilt. What? Do you even want to kill us all to cover your sin?! Wang Xiaonian, how dare you? You actually want to murder us! Are you trying to be a rebel?"

Lan Langlang and Zuo Wuji went along with him, "Wang Xiaonian, are you trying to be a rebel? We are witnesses!"

Wang Xiaonian breathed heavily, "You... You bastards..." He could hardly utter a word.

"Blood ginseng it is then!" Wang Danian agreed immediately, "Since you, the three lords, want it, I can only submit and agree with your terms, but you must promise me one thing..."

He was sad and angry, and he quavered, "I am only a low-position guard. I wouldn't dare to argue with you three lords... But from this point onwards, please forget about this issue with the poison... I can bear it this time. It is nothing but spending some money to avert trouble. However... you should know that everyone has a temper and even a rabbit will bite if it is pissed..."

"Dad!!!" Wang Xiaonian had shock all over his face as he stared at his father with wide opened eyes.

He could have never imagined that his valiant father had actually submitted to the three foppish lords.

"Shut up!" Wang Danian shouted angrily.

"A rabbit will bite... A rabbit... Hahahaha...." Lan Langlang laughed and rubbed his favus-infested head. On the opposite side, Wang Danian and his son turned red in their faces. They looked so angry, as if they almost wanted to swallow somebody.

"Of course." Ye Xiao pushed Lan Langlang aside and said, "A wise man should not tease the weak. He who leaves some leeway will always make new friends. We are not unprincipled..."

Everyone felt sick about what Ye Xiao had said, including Lan Langlang and Zuo Wuji. Their faces distorted and it looked like they were about to puke a mouthful of blood.

Ye Xiao had extorted a six hundred years old ginseng by making trouble out of nothing and arguing irrationally... if that wasn't the pinnacle of being unprincipled, then who in this world could possibly be considered unprincipled?.

"... Don't worry about it. If your baby boy didn't flaunt that he had a six hundred years old ginseng and that he would use it to boost his cultivation and beat us up... and most importantly, if he hadn't poisoned me... as a noble-minded, knightly, gentle, and brave gentleman, why would I make trouble for him? I will usually not even look at small fries like your son. And none of us three are interested in rabbits..." Ye Xiao talked like he was a sage with a lofty attitude...

"I see." Wang Danian heard what Ye Xiao said and felt a slight sensation of relief forming in his stomach. He turned to his son and shouted, "Rascal! You were going about flaunting my riches! You are truly a black sheep! When will you finally let me be free of worries..."

"..." Wang Xiaonian opened his mouth but couldn't say a word. He felt that his blood had accumulated at his throat, and he had great difficulty to keep it in his mouth and not spray it around the room.

"Go get the ginseng and give it to Lord Ye." Wang Danian sighed. He felt unwilling to give this rascal the ginseng. But he felt like he had no other choice, so he told his son to go and fetch it.

"Dad!!!" Wang Xiaonian shouted bitterly. But, when he saw Wang Danian's face turning green, he didn't dare to disobey anymore; he walked to his room completely depressed. It looked like his soul had departed early from his body, leaving it to walk this earth all soulless.

"Lord Ye!" Wang Danian took a deep breath, "Shall we get this over with already?"

Ye Xiao smiled, "Sure. Absolutely. I am a tolerant man after all. I won't bother with your stupid son anymore!"

Wang Danian felt relieved, "Lord Ye, a man who cannot be trusted is an unwelcome guest to any party. I hope you will keep your promise... But if you don't... I might not be able to stand your behavior anymore."

"Haha, of course I will keep my promise. What am I? An honest man." Ye Xiao said disdainfully and thought, "Keep my promise to you? In your dreams! Pooh..."

Wang Xiaonian came back from his room, moving extremely slowly, hoping a miracle would fall down from the heavens and save his precious ginseng. He was holding a small box as he walked through the door. Ye Xiao shouted, "Quick! Bring me my ginseng! Don't dawdle! It is mine no matter how much you dally!"

"Dad... I really didn't poison him..." Wang Xiaonian looked at his father sincerely. He was trying to make his last effort to keep the ginseng. The blood ginseng was a crucial stepping stone on his long path of cultivation.

Wang Xiaonian still didn't understand why his father would give up such a valuable treasure and hand it over to the good-for-nothing foppish Lord Ye. He, of course, couldn't know what his father was thinking. As such, he had no clue that there was nothing he could do to change the current chain of events.

Wang Danian sighed and thought, [You silly boy. If it wasn't for what I've done and the fact that Lord Ye is standing right here in front of me, how would I ever let them take our blood ginseng with such ease? They were only standing here making trouble out of nothing...]

"Give it to Lord Ye, son. Let's admit our misfortune." Wang Danian waved his hand and said hopelessly. He was thinking, [I can't afford to be stubborn right now anyway. The poison... even it has really been cured... I know it will still need at least an entire year for it to completely leave his system. Ye Xiao is acting especially lively. It is very likely that he has a detoxifying expert helping him. Maybe Ye Xiao is a little bit muddleheaded, but that detoxifying expert behind him must have known what has happened. If I don't give up now, I will only be putting a curse onto myself. I might even put the curse on my family or even on my entire bloodline. I will just let this bastard have this little advantage... I may have lost a simple blood ginseng, but now I've learned that Ye Xiao has actually survived the poison. It is not all that bad!]

Ye Xiao rushed forward and quickly grabbed the blood ginseng. He laughed and turned around to face Lan Langlang and Zuo Wuji, "Let's go!"

The three foppish lords left full of vigor and feeling completely refreshed.

"Ye Xiao, I will never leave your side!" Wang Xiaonian shouted while trying to catch up.

"Hahahaha... We will have a lot of time ahead of us to play these games! I am not afraid of rabbits, let alone biting rabbits!" Ye Xiao's voice was coming from far down the street. They had already made quite a distance from the Wang Family House.

"Dad, Ye Xiao was obviously not poisoned! They were obviously here to extort us! They were only here to take the blood ginseng!" Wang Xiaonian felt like heaven was playing a trick on him and asked his father sadly, "Why did you..."

"Shut up!" Wang Danian's face twitched as his eyes turned vicious. He breathed heavily and was about to say something but stopped. Then he just said, "Stay at home. Don't leave the house. I need to go somewhere."

Then he turned around and hurriedly left.

At the same time, Ye Xiao was holding the blood ginseng with one hand and waving with the other, "Let's go back to my place, let's celebrate this victory with some drinks! My treat!!"

Zuo Wuji and Lan Langlang were totally impressed, "Lord Ye, you have really extorted the ginseng! We could have never expected Wang Danian to be such a pxssy..."

Ye Xiao's mouth twitched upon hearing those words. He was thinking, [It is not because Wang Danian is a pxssy... Instead... it is because the departed Lord Ye has sacrificed his life for this blood ginseng... I was just the lucky one to take it in his name...]

...