The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 462: Mystery of the Hundred Ghosts (7)

Nanajo Hiroshi did not take Qian Xiaoyi's rejection as an offense. Instead, he looked at Qian Xiaoyi's back as he turned and left, and said with a smile: "What a unique young man! It reminds me of my youth... If you change your mind, my door is always open to you."

Qian Xiaoyi waved without looking back, picked up a plate of barbecue when passing by the barbecue stall, and left the top floor.

Ah Xin said sinisterly: "Ha~ What an uneducated kid. He doesn't know what he has missed. What a ridiculous idealist."

"We are young, and everyone is passionate." Shichijo Hiroshi waved his hand, signaling Ashin to stop talking. He picked up the drink that Shichijo Masato had not touched on the table and took a sip.

"Cough cough cough cough!!!" Suddenly, he started coughing violently, and the water he spit out was mixed with a trace of black phlegm.

"grandfather!"

"Master Hiroshi! I'll go get the medicine."

After a violent coughing fit, Nanajo Hiroshi finally recovered. Nanajo Masato supported him with concern and asked, "Grandpa, what's wrong with you? Do you want to call a doctor?"

He panted weakly and shook his head, "I thought it was wine. This Ah Xin actually gave him two glasses of something suitable for children to drink. No wonder he refused."

Nanajo Masato said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "Grandpa, is this the time to joke? What's wrong with you?"

"It's okay." Shichijo Hiroshi wiped his mouth with a handkerchief and said, "When people get old, they always have some minor or major ailments."

"That's not what the doctor said." Ashin came over with a ceramic medicine jar and said, "Master Bozhi, have you been drinking again recently?"

Nanajo Hiroshi said stubbornly, "No, it's because there was no wine in the glass just now. I'm not used to it, so I choked. This is all your fault, Shin."

Ashin silently poured the boiling black liquid from the pottery pot into the cup, and an unpleasant medicinal smell emanated from it.

Nanajo Masato frowned, sniffed his nose, and asked, "Is this... Chinese medicine?"

Kampo, or Chinese medicine, has been introduced to Japan since ancient times and is not uncommon here.

Seeing Nanajo Hiroshi drinking the black liquid with difficulty, Nanajo Masato asked, "When did it start?"

"Puha~" After drinking the Chinese medicine, Shichijo Hiroshi took a sip of the beverage to relieve the bitterness. After hearing Shichijo Masato's question, he said, "I started drinking it a few years ago. It's just a minor problem. Don't worry about it. I can still hold on for several more years."

A Xin said: "Master Bozhi, the wind on the roof is still too strong, let's go to the lounge."

"Yes." Nanajo Hiroshi stood up with the help of Shin, and then said, "No need for help, I can walk by myself."

"Yes."

Nanajo Masato looked at the cup on the table and was about to take it away while they were not paying attention, but as soon as he stretched out his hand, the cup was pinched by someone. He looked up and saw Ashin looking at him expressionlessly and said, "Master Masato, leave this kind of chores to me. You should do more things that you should do at your age. Aren't there a lot of models over there? Maybe you can play with them?"

"None of your business." Nanajo Masato stared at him.

Ashin shook his head, turned around and left with the cup, muttering, "Is this the rebellious phase?..." Nanajo Masato stood up abruptly, clenching his fists.

Then, he walked quickly towards the exit without even responding to the guests' greetings.

At this time, Qian Xiaoyi had changed into his original clothes, was eating a plate of barbecue in his hand, and was about to walk into the elevator.

Before the elevator door closed, Nanajo Masato rushed in and stood beside him. Neither of them spoke until the elevator slowly went down. Nanajo Masato then said, "I need your help."

Qian Xiaoyi was eating by himself and asked casually, "What?"

"Join the consortium." Nanajo Masato said, "I feel my family's current situation is very dangerous."

Qian Xiaoyi said: "Your family has too much money. It won't be dangerous if you don't have that much money."

"I'm not kidding you!" Nanajo Masato stared at Qian Xiaoyi with wide eyes: "That Ah Xin, he is giving my grandfather a very strange Chinese medicine! He has been drinking it for several years!"

He told Qian Xiaoyi what had just happened.

Qian Xiaoyi said helplessly: "This doesn't mean anything. Since your grandfather has been drinking the medicine for such a long time, and now he only has such mild symptoms, it means that the medicine should be fine, otherwise he would have been hospitalized before you came back.

Besides, if your grandfather didn't want you to know what disease he had, then as his confidant, then that Ah Xin would naturally not tell you, let alone leave the cup for you to take for testing."

Nanajo Masato said: "You don't know, I have always suspected that Grandpa Axin has other intentions. He has been helping my grandfather to take care of the company's recent affairs..."

Qian Xiaoyi interrupted him impatiently: "So you want me to intervene in your family affairs? Please, I'm an exorcist, not a workplace elite, and I have no experience in dealing with the feuds of wealthy families like yours. So you want me, an outsider, to suddenly enter your consortium and help you with the palace struggle? This is not what I should do, emotionally and logically. I'm not interested in your internal conflicts."

"Aren't we friends?" asked Shichijo Masato.

Qian Xiaoyi said, "Okay, let me give you some advice from a friend's perspective. The best way to ensure your safety now is to ask your grandfather to give you a large sum of money, and then stay away from all these disputes and become a real playboy. Once you step into the vortex of this power struggle, no one can guarantee your absolute safety."

"What are you talking about!" Nanajo Masato shouted angrily, "Are you asking me to abandon my family?"

Qian Xiaoyi asked, "Did you see those people on the terrace?"

Nanajo Masato was stunned: "What?"

"Among those people, there may be Baigui, who may have been in cahoots with Lai Shanchenggong before, persecuting those innocent victims but escaping punishment." Qian Xiaoyi said: "Now that you have overthrown Lai Shanchenggong, those people are attending your banquet in neat clothes as if nothing happened, and continue to discuss with you how to squeeze benefits...

If you want to maintain your so-called "family honor", then you must continue to cooperate with these people, because if you are not assimilated, they will not regard you as one of their own, and your consortium will be isolated by the huge network of interests... Your danger comes from this, you should be most aware of it, but for the sake of your own interests, you acquiesced to this fact and didn't even mention it. "

Nanajo Masato argued, "But at least we succeeded in defeating Laishan and stopped those ugly deals, and they won't happen again!"

(End of this chapter)