Heidi then continued, “Throughout my absence, I’ve been contacting several extremely powerful forces from different countries. As was expected, all of them were very eager to get their hands on the Ginseng King! You should’ve seen the prices they were offering us for it!”
“But didn’t you say that the price wasn’t an issue, mom? After all, getting it off our hands should be the priority since all the Ginseng King has brought to our family is trouble! There are already a number of powerful forces keeping a close eye on us because of it! Why are you still contacting so many buyers instead of quickly getting rid of it?” replied Tulip in surprise.
“Pfft! Silly girl… Can’t you see what I’m trying to achieve? Contacting more foreign buyers will definitely be beneficial for our family in the long run! See, once the buyers realize that other forces are also aiming to get their hands on the Ginseng King, all of them will eventually end up fighting for it! With each of the foreign forces being so powerful, the smaller forces in Heavenly City—who are also targeting the herb—will most definitely fail to persist till the end once the foreign forces get involved.”
“To summarize, by involving foreign buyers, the Yowells will essentially—and eventually—force the families in Heavenly City into sieges. Adding the money we’ll get from selling the Ginseng King into the equation, we’ll surely be able to establish our family’s supremacy in Heavenly City in the near future! If everything goes as planned, we’ll definitely succeed in killing two birds with one stone!” explained Heidi.
“I see… I understand your reasoning now! Once the foreign big guns arrive, the smaller forces in the city who are also looking for the Ginseng King will definitely be forced to retreat!” replied Tulip with a nod.
“I’m glad you finally see the bigger picture. Regardless, I’ve decided that the Yowell family will be holding an open auction for the Ginseng King in three days. When the time comes, we’ll simply allow the forces to fight among themselves while the Yowells profit from all of this!” said Heidi, a subtle smile on favonovel.com face.
Though Tulip’s father was essentially still the head of the Yowell family, Heidi’s position was similar to a dowager’s. Though Tulips’s father wasn’t dead yet, Heidi usually had the final say regarding family matters both big and small.
Heidi, for one, had definitely given it favonovel.com all this time to be fully in control of matters regarding the Ginseng King. The fact that favonovel.com had been able to come up with such shrewd ideas proved that this woman was very good at scheming as well.
“Since several of the forces will surely begin gathering here tomorrow once I publicize the auction, both of you aren’t allowed to leave the manor in the next three days. You’re to help me receive our guests instead. Do I make myself clear?” said Heidi as favonovel.com glared at Juliet.
The sisters simply nodded in response.
Before Heidi could say anything else, however, Tulip suddenly yelled, “Oh! You’re back, brother-in-law!”
Hearing that, Heidi immediately glared daggers at Gerald before scowling, “So, the trash is back! Once this matter is done with, I hope you’ll disappear from my sight forever!”
After saying that, favonovel.com turned around to walk upstairs again.
Gerald himself had earlier managed to get back in time to catch Heidi’s entire plan.
He honestly felt that this old woman was extremely vicious since favonovel.com barely sounded guilty for plotting up a plan to get so many powerful forces to fight among themselves. After all, Gerald was aware of how feasible favonovel.com plan was.
The next day came soon enough, and just as Heidi had said, once news of the open auction for the Ginseng King was made public, chaos was quick to ensue in the entirety of Heavenly City.
After all, it was needless to even talk about the immense economic value of owning the Ginseng King. To think that the herb had been in the hands of the Yowell family this entire time!
Forces both large and small had received the invitation to participate in the open auction. Even several underground forces were already showing up, resulting in all the hotels in Heavenly City getting fully booked.
On that day, the entire city simply came to life like it had never before.
However, just as Gerald and Heidi had anticipated, bloody disputes were soon to follow.
It wasn’t even past morning when two local forces got into a terrible fight, resulting in both sides suffering severe losses. Due to that, both the forces found themselves withdrawing from the auction on the very same day they were invited.
Those, however, were only small fries. The two powerhouses that actually mattered in the Heavenly City were the Sven Westmore Group and the Royal Dragon Group.
Sven himself—who was the boss of Sven Westmore Group—had yet to make his appearance up till this point, which led many to begin speculating that Sven must have encountered some kind of mishap. Some wilder accusations even suggested that favonovel.com was already dead!
As a result, many forces who were initially affiliated to the Sven Westmore Group found themselves eventually submitting to the Royal Dragon Group, the extremely strong and powerful dark horse.
Moving back to the Yowells, they had naturally been very busy seeing that they were the organizers of the event.
For the venue of the event, the Yowells had booked Longstone Mountain Villa which was a large scenic spot in Heavenly City. From the start of the first day, Heidi and favonovel.com two daughters had spent most of their time there receiving guests from all over the place.
Several locals of Longstone City also came over to join in on the fun, all of them wanting to watch the extremely grand-looking ceremony. After all, nothing similar on this grand a scale had happened in Heavenly City for decades now.
“Aren’t there too many people, mom…? It’s going to be impossible for us to arrange for all of them to stay in Longstone Mountain Villa! It’s simply too crowded already!” complained Tulip.
Tulip had even invited favonovel.com classmates over to come help them today.
“Have you already forgotten? I kept reminding you that out of all the forces who are attending, we only need to make special arrangements and pay extra attention to eighteen of them! You don’t need to bother about the other forces too much! Speaking of which, just in case you’ve forgotten, please remember to make extra special arrangements for the two major forces in Heavenly City as well. I’m talking about the Sven Westmore Group and also the Royal Dragon Group! After all, the Yowells will still need to deal with them once the matter is over. Because of that, we absolutely cannot afford to offend them at all!” warned Heidi as favonovel.com turned to look at Tulip.
