My Evil Imperial Wife is Too Arrogant

st advantageous position.

“You just said that the Energy Nourishing Pill has the miraculous effect of treating internal and external injuries?” Yun Tian Chen fell silent for a moment before staring at Lou Mu Yan, unable to conceal the delight and burning desire in his eyes.

“Yes!” Lou Mu Yan had to admit that maybe Yun Tian Chen wasn’t a good husband, but he was a good Emperor.
What he now thought of was definitely using the Energy Nourishing Pill in the army.

The Tian’ling Continent not only lacked Alchemists, but pill recipes were also scarce.
Even a Grade 1 recipe would be vied for by numerous entities.
The Energy Nourishing Pill had never appeared on this land, so it was even more precious.

“Lou girl, can you sell these pills to us?” Yun Tian Chen wanted to test the Energy Nourishing Pills for its effects.

Lou Mu Yan played with the porcelain bottle she had taken back from Ruan Li, pondered for a bit, before raising her head and said: “Sure! But I don’t want money.
I want Spiritual Herbs in exchange.”

“That’s not a problem.
You can write down the Spiritual Herbs you want.
As long as the Imperial Treasury has it, we can give it to you.” Yun Tian Chen agreed with a smile.
Being so generous naturally also meant he wanted to win her over.

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Lou Mu Yan also wasn’t humble.
She took out a piece of paper and brush from her interspatial ring and began to write the list on the table.
Then she handed an entire page full of Spiritual Herbs to Yun Tian Chen, and amongst them were also the Spiritual Herbs required to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Yun Tian Chen took the paper and glanced over it casually, then his face changed.
The corners of his lips couldn’t help but twitch.
Not only did she want so many kinds of Spiritual Herbs, but there were even some high-level Spiritual Herbs scattered within that even the Imperial Treasury didn’t have.
Was she trying to rip off some foolish spendthrift3?

He couldn’t help but hand the paper over to the Imperial Teacher.
Whether or not to give Lou Mu Yan these Spiritual Herbs also required the Imperial Teacher’s input.

Seeing the Emperor’s helpless look, Yun Cang took a look, and his expression also changed in an instant, then handed the paper to Ruan Li with a frown.

Ruan Li took a look at the paper curiously and couldn’t help but smile.
This girl was a master who wouldn’t suffer.
In what way was this a deal, this was simply an extortion.

But what could he do when Lou Mu Yan was a student of his Imperial Academy? He, Ruan Li, was very protective, so his heart must lean towards his students.

“This is only a little bit of Spiritual Herbs.
Your Imperial Family’s large and prosperous, this little bit of Spiritual Herbs is just a single fur from nine oxen2.
Based on my opinion, you aren’t at a disadvantage in this transaction.”

Yun Cang was originally a very rigorous and strict person, but right now he couldn’t help but glare at Ruan Li.
This old thing had nothing to do with this, that’s the only reason he could speak so casually. 

Lou Mu Yan didn’t expect that Ruan Li would stand on her side, but understood when she thought of Ruan Li’s identity.
A smile rose on her lips—this old man wasn’t that bad.

If one wasn’t prepared to risk their child, they would never catch the wolf4.
So after a short moment, Yun Cang nodded to Yun Tian Chen.

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“Lou girl, we have two-thirds of the Spiritual Herbs on this list in the Imperial Treasury, but the rest might not even be found in the hands of a Sword Monarch in the Empire, let along the Imperial Treasury.

“Which ones?” Lou Mu Yan already had a guess in her heart.

“Deep Orchid, Seven-Leaf Ginseng, Holly Grass…” Yun Tian Chen read out the nine types of Spiritual Herbs that they really didn’t have in the Treasury.

Although Lou Mu Yan was a little disappointed, but it was already a huge profit to exchange more than thirty precious Spiritual Herbs.

She threw the bottle in her hand to Yun Tian Chen and said straightforwardly, “Forget it.
I’ll suffer the loss.
Other than these nine kinds of Spiritual Herbs, give me two of everything else.” 

Yun Tian Chen and Yun Cang almost couldn’t help but spit out a mouthful of blood5—did she suffer a loss? And two of each? Did she even want any face…

1I had trouble translating the colour 青 (qing) for a while.
I translated it as blue, then I edited it to green… but why did I never think of cyan? I don’t know why it took me so long to figure out how to translate it when it was that simple – it’s a mix between blue and green so it’s cyan, duh!

2recognise an amazing person

3a colloquial saying often used between friends, usually to describe a person, or rhetorically describe themselves.
Means that the person was so foolish to do something that was obviously at the disadvantage, usually to do with money.

4if one is unable to take risks, they cannot achieve great things. 

5they almost couldn’t control their anger/dismay.