A life of two souls traveling through time

Chapter 497 Honghua is the first to buy the purple dolphin flower

"General Shufeng, don't worry. I will pay for the 80,000 taels of silver!"

Just when Shufeng was about to sign an installment contract with Baiwuyou out of desperation, he suddenly heard a charming woman's voice coming from the roof.

Shufeng and the middle-aged scholar were shocked and couldn't help but reach out to protect the purple pig flower. Before they could speak, a charming middle-aged woman appeared in the room. She ignored the two people in front of her and only glanced at the purple pig flower on the table. Her eyes flickered. She turned to Shufeng and smiled, "I hope General Shufeng will forgive me for intruding so late at night. I am Honghua, the elder sister of Xuanyu. I hurried here because I heard that General Shufeng was spending a lot of money to find the purple pig flower for my sister."

"Ahem, it turns out to be Madam Honghua, I've heard of your name for a long time!" After hearing this, Shufeng secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the woman was indeed somewhat similar to Huanyu. However, he couldn't help feeling a little shy when he heard her speak so frankly about her feelings for Huanyu. He coughed twice and stepped forward and bowed in a pretentious manner. He was also amazed at how the master of the Southern Xinjiang Poisonous Insect Valley was so good at light work that he could break into his general's mansion silently.

"General Shufeng is really amazing and has a way to find this flower. In this way, I don't have to go to the East China Sea to take risks." Honghua saw his shyness but didn't pay much attention to him. He just put a stack of banknotes in front of the middle-aged scholar and said, "Please count them, sir?"

This rare flower was of vital importance, so she could not act recklessly as usual. Her serious look made the middle-aged scholar, who did not know her identity, dare not neglect her. After bowing, he counted the silver bills in front of him.

Shu Feng was surprised to see that Yan Yu's sister was so generous, and he couldn't help but wonder if the Poisonous Insect Valley in Southern Xinjiang was so rich that it could rival a country?

Honghua was surprised and delighted when she learned from Si Yao that General Xiyue actually fell in love with her sister and secretly spent a lot of money to find purple pig flowers for her sister. Although Yanyu already had Zeng Si, and General Shufeng was just being too eager, Honghua still hoped that he could find the purple pig flower, so that her sister would have more hope. After all, she could not guarantee that her trip to the sea after the New Year would be as smooth as in the desert.

Before this, Honghua had asked Xiu Ming to inquire in the medicinal materials business. However, the purple pig flower was a rare medicine in the world and no one had found it yet, so there was no definite price. It was probably between one thousand and ten thousand taels of gold. Honghua took advantage of the time when she was avoiding Lao Zhou to raise money everywhere for emergencies. Of course, her way of raising money could not raise 100,000 taels of silver in an honest way.

"I have already offered 80,000 taels for Baiwuye. In front of General Shufeng, I will only take your 80,000 taels. Please keep the rest for yourself." The middle-aged scholar only counted out the 80,000 taels of silver notes he was going to take, and did not touch the rest. Then he raised his eyes and smiled at Honghua.

"In this way, the deal is done, and this purple pig flower belongs to us." Honghua walked forward and put the remaining silver notes back into her sleeve, then looked at the purple pig flower and smiled charmingly.

The middle-aged scholar nodded and smiled, then bowed to Shufeng and Honghua again before turning around and leaving, disappearing into the darkness.

"Thanks to the general's help this time, my sister and I will come to thank the general in person in the future." Honghua was overjoyed. Thinking that she had to ride as fast as she could to send the purple pig flower in front of her back to Sanxiu Pharmacy, she hurriedly put away the iron box, thanked Shufeng, and was about to leave.

"Madam, please stay!" Ran Shufeng stepped forward quickly to stop her, but then seemed to be hesitant to speak.

"General, do you have anything you want me to tell my sister?" Honghua guessed most of what he meant from his expression, so she asked.

"Madam, isn't it dangerous for you to walk alone at night with this rare and exotic flower in the world? Why don't you let Shufeng give you a ride?" Shufeng hesitated for a moment and then smiled.

He had originally planned to use the purple pig flower to win back Xuanyu's favor, but he didn't expect that Madam Honghua had gotten there first and completed the deal with Baiwuyou. He must have felt unwilling to see the purple pig flower he had someone find taken away like that, so he could only take this opportunity to meet Xuanyu.

"It's New Year's Day, so please don't bother General Shufeng." Honghua smiled knowingly, but rejected him without thinking. She turned her eyes to the dark night sky and left a sentence before disappearing: "General, don't worry, I'm not alone."

Shu Feng, the general of Xiyue State, is a son of a noble family in Shangjing City. Not to mention that Xuanyu has made a lifelong commitment with Zeng Si, even if Zeng Si and Honghua were not there, Xuanyu would not be entangled with such a son of a noble family. The noble status of a famous family also means that their marriage must be well-matched. If Xuanyu wants to enter the uncle's family, she can only be a concubine. In the deep mansion, women are always eaten without spitting out bones. She can't let her own sister go to that cage where people are calculating everywhere and be bullied.

Shu Feng wanted to say something else but Madam Honghua had already disappeared. He could only sigh helplessly and then muttered dejectedly, "Forget it, it's all just a mirage. What's the point of meeting her? It only adds to my troubles!"

Honghua left the general's mansion carrying the heavy iron and wooden box, and jumped out of the wall of Wucheng, but saw Lao Zhou waiting outside the city with his horse.

"Why are you like a dog-skin plaster that I can't get rid of?" Although Honghua had expected Lao Zhou to show up, she still pretended to be surprised and annoyed and yelled at him.

Ever since she came to Wucheng, she felt that there was a tail behind her that she couldn't get rid of. There was nothing she could do if he found her. Besides, she came to Wucheng for important business and had no time to play hide-and-seek with him.

"Who asked you to provoke me first? Now that you have provoked me, you can't get rid of me in this life!" Old Zhou had a resentful look on his face and snorted at her.

"Aren't you afraid that one day you will be implicated by me and die without a burial place? Or that you will experience torture worse than death like Xuanyu?" Honghua suppressed his expression and walked in front of him, smiling desolately.

"Is this the reason why you are hiding from me?" Lao Zhou also became serious.

"Now that the purple dolphin flower has been found, we will have to return to the Poisonous Insect Valley after the strange poison in Yanyu is cured. Once we leave Sanxiu Pharmacy, the Shadow Clan will definitely retaliate again. I cannot let you get involved..."

Before Honghua could finish, Old Zhou had already embraced her in his arms, muttering, "We are both this old, how many years do we have left to live? Since we got married that night, we are husband and wife. Husband and wife should live and die together. How can you abandon one another when disaster strikes? If I were a coward, I would have died at your hands long ago!"

"It is precisely because you are a man that I, a vicious woman, don't want to harm you!" Honghua smiled tenderly, leaned on his shoulder and sighed in a rare quiet manner.

"If you didn't want to harm me, why did you hook up with me? You are such a greedy woman..."

"Old man Zhou, don't be so ungrateful!"

Before Lao Zhou could finish his words, his left ear was twisted. He was in so much pain that he dared not continue speaking and had to give in and beg for mercy.