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Chapter 105: Like thunder, like flowing water

However, after Wei Wanzong dealt with the internal affairs of the Blue Robe Guards, he went to another mansion adjacent to the Blue Robe Guards’ base.

Its area is much smaller than the guard’s base, but the interior decoration is more exquisite and refined. This is the residence specially prepared by Kang Le Ji for him, the new leader.

Wei Wanzong went straight to the reception room, but saw many people already waiting there.

At the core were the heads of the other six wards and Mr. Chai of Changping ward, and around them were three or five people from each ward.

For example, among the four people gathered around Mr. Chai, two are logistics leaders who are specifically responsible for the statistics of various materials for this autumn hunt.

There were two people who had actually contacted and communicated with the various guilds under Li Qun's instructions in the past. They were also the ones in Changpingfang who were most familiar with the situation and business operations of the various guilds in Kangle Ji.

The topic they had gathered together to discuss was naturally about putting aside Kangleji Pharmacy and finding a new buyer.

All the neighborhoods rushed to put the blue robe guards issue from paper into reality within one day today, with the main purpose of being able to handle the matter more legitimately.

Kang Leji's original plan of having an actual combat confrontation with the black-robed guards eventually turned into a simple hand-to-hand fight to test their cultivation.

It was said that Master Fan had made a temporary change of idea in order to simplify the process, but in fact it was the result of the unanimous request of Wei Wanzong, Master Chai and others.

The purpose is to avoid wasting too much time on actual combat confrontations involving hundreds of people, and to facilitate the actual landing of the Blue Robe Guards as soon as possible, so as to facilitate the legitimate operation of what everyone really cares about.

Before this, the various districts had actually already discussed the general direction.

Wei Wanzong originally thought that he only needed to endorse it in the name of the new leader and make some final confirmation on some specific matters.

But he soon discovered that he was naive.

“Our opinion is that in addition to contacting medicine shops in several nearby markets at the same time, we should also proactively look for some potential buyers.

Although each guild operates independently, they must have connections with each other. There's no guarantee that this lunatic Zang Zigao hasn't communicated with them and is planning to join forces to strangle us."

"Looking for a complete amateur with no experience? Is this... is this reliable?"

"It doesn't matter if he has no experience, we can help him. As long as he has money and ability, we can teach him how to enter the industry.

Although we don't have as much experience in this area as the pharmacies, if the eight of us put together, we're not much worse than the pharmacy in Kangleji.

After all, the real threshold has never been the recipes for medicinal wine or pills, but a continuous and stable supply of resources.

As long as the eight of us work together, we can fully support an entire pharmacy.

Since Zang Zigao has gone crazy and is deliberately making things difficult for people, we might as well be ruthless and not play along with them anymore. Let's build our own pharmacy!
If they don’t take it seriously, these guilds won’t know who is begging for food!”

Wei Wanzong took a deep breath and thought to himself, he was only away for a short while, why did everyone's thoughts suddenly become so wild?

Or, his becoming the president of Kangleji was equivalent to untying an invisible chain that bound the hearts of the people in the neighborhood.

In addition, the Blue Robe Guards are the bond that unites the eight originally independent families, forming a combined force.

It was like releasing a bunch of beasts that had been hungry for too long.

Things that I didn’t dare to think about before, I now not only dare to think about them, but also dare to do them.

Although I feel that everyone is taking too big a step and may be causing trouble.

But as the head of a neighborhood, he couldn't help but be deeply moved by the prospect described by everyone.

However, he was not completely dazzled by the prospect.

“This is a good suggestion and we can work towards this direction in the future.

However, right now, our priority is to get rid of the supplies as quickly as possible."

"certainly……"

Following everyone's discussion, the next actions were finally sorted out and clarified according to the principle of priority.

But at this moment, a man walked out of the door and said to Wei Wanzong: "Master, there is someone outside who wants to see you."

"Who? Who is the master visiting?" Wei Wanzong asked casually.

The man shook his head and said, "No, I don't know this person. He doesn't look like a local."

"Stranger?"

Wei Wanzong was stunned, and the originally casual expression on his face first turned confused, and then became serious.

"Yeah." The person who answered nodded seriously.

"How did you figure it out?"

"The accent and the clothes."

Wei Wanzong nodded. He was certain that this person could not be so bored that he just wanted to come and see the honor of the new leader.

There must be something going on here!
Wei Wanzong, with many thoughts in his mind, turned his head and looked at the other people in the room.

Everyone also looked at him.

Soon, he said to the person who reported back, "Go and invite the person in."

After saying that, he turned back to his seat and said to the others, "Let's see where this guy comes from."

At this moment, all the core decision-makers of the surrounding eight villages are here. No matter whether the visitor is a human or a ghost, he is confident that he can take it on.

After a while, the person who reported the incident led someone into the house.

When they saw this person, Wei Wanzong and others understood why they could judge from his clothes that he was not a native of Kangleji.

It's just that this person's dressing style is so different from Kang Leji's.

This is a man about fifty years old, with a fair complexion, a chubby face and a face like that of an old woman.

The clothes on her body are colorful and exquisitely made. Even the patterns on the shoes on her feet are finely carved.

A huge red gem was inlaid on the gauze hat on her head.

His fingers were not idle either. He wore an emerald green ring on his right thumb and a gold ring inlaid with a huge blue gem on his left hand.

Just looking at the way this person is dressed makes one want to rob him.

Compared to this person's flamboyant and ostentatious dressing style, Kang Leji is much more pragmatic from head to toe.

Even if there are differences in the clothing of different people, it is mostly due to the type and quality of the fabrics. The styling styles are very simple and mostly similar.

Compared with Kangleji, people in the neighborhood are even less particular about this.

At this moment, Wei Wanzong and others all focused their attention on the newcomer, their eyes widened, like bumpkins who had never seen the world.

It was not until the old-fashioned man smiled and bowed to greet him that Wei Wanzong seemed to come back to his senses. He coughed twice and asked:
"Where does the distinguished guest come from?"

From his expression to his tone, everything became much more polite.

It was totally different from the initial posture of interrogating a criminal.

The man with the mother-in-law face smiled and said, "It's not important."

"Then what's important?"

"I can help you solve one of your most difficult problems."

"Oh, that's strange. What kind of thorny problem is it that we don't know about, but the distinguished guest has seen it?"

"I can buy all the autumn hunting supplies that are in your hands." He said in a relaxed tone.

But these words he said lightly, pierced the hearts of everyone present like a sharp sword.

Wei Wanzong, who had been talking to the visitor, was silent for a long time before he spoke again:

"Buy them all? That's not easy."

The man with the old lady's face gently moved the lever on his thumb with his right index finger and said with a smile:

"Whether it's easy or not, that's my question.

All you have to consider is whether to sell or not."

Then, he said meaningfully:
"...Master Wei and all of you are from the neighborhood, and I believe you all have straightforward personalities.

Don't start learning to speak in a roundabout way and in official language on your first day as the chairman.

Whether it will work or not, please give me your final word!"

Wei Wanzong's eyes swept around the room and suddenly fell on Mr. Chai, who was leaning on the back of a chair next to him, looking like an outsider watching the fun.

He asked respectfully, "Master Chai, what do you think?"

Mr. Chai glanced at him, called him a "slippery guy", and then asked directly: "How much is the price?"

The man with the old woman's face also looked at Master Chai, bowed as if asking for courtesy, and then said, "Name your price."

But Master Chai did not respond. He turned to Wei Wanzong and said, "Okay, you name your price."

Wei Wanzong opened his mouth and said, "Ah, is it decided?"

Mr. Chai didn't respond to his half-true, half-false performance at all. He continued to lean back in his chair, treating himself as an outsider.

Wei Wanzong thought quickly in his mind.

This person's identity is obviously very problematic.

But does it matter to them?

No relationship.

The most important thing now is to sell the autumn hunting supplies that have been piled up in hand. As for who the buyer is, it’s up to him or her.

As for the selling price, it must be higher than the asking price of Kangleji Pharmacy, which is a matter of course.

But how much higher is appropriate? He believed that the other party asked them to make an offer first just to test their psychological bottom line, not to really make an offer, and they would inevitably have to bargain around the price later.

This means that the offer cannot be too outrageous, otherwise it will lose its meaning.

But we can't be too gentle. Everyone knows that making less profit means losing money.

After some thought and consideration, Wei Wanzong slowly stretched out his left hand, pressed his thumb against his little finger, raised the three middle fingers, and said, "Three times!"

The voice was soft, but the tone was firm.

The man with a mother-in-law face was stunned: "What do you mean three times?"

Wei Wanzong said:

“Kangleji Pharmacy carefully evaluated the supplies we had and gave us a quote for everything, but the price was so low it was tantamount to humiliation, which is why we refused the deal.

Based on the quotation from Kangleji Pharmacy, increase it by three times and we will continue the discussion.

Otherwise, please go slowly."

The man with a mother-in-law face thought for a moment and asked, "Can you show me the details?"

Wei Wanzong turned his head and signaled to the person next to him, and the person held a book in both hands and handed it to the man with a granny-like face.

The man took the book and began to look through it.

Wei Wanzong glanced at the people present, as if to say, it's up to you now.

A few people understood and nodded slightly, with determination in their eyes.

They are the most experienced veterans in bargaining in each shop. Since they can bargain, they can naturally defend themselves.

What they have to do is to use three times as a baseline to prevent others from cutting off too much.

The man with a mother-in-law face read the book very carefully at first, as if he was reading it sentence by sentence and line by line.

But as he read two or three pages carefully, his hands moved faster and faster.

Everyone watched carefully, but there was no expression on his face and his eyes were as calm as water.

It didn't take long for him to finish reading a book.

He closed the book, looked at Wei Wanzong, and said two words softly.

"can."

"boom--"

These two light words were like two heavy hammers hitting Wei Wanzong's head, and for a moment he even lost the ability to open his mouth and speak.

The situation of other people was not much better than his. The only one who remained calm and sober was Mr. Chai, who always regarded himself as an outsider.

Seeing that the others were not helpful, he had to step up and ask, "When is the transaction?"

Then he added: "It will take too long, and it will be meaningless for you to offer ten times the price."

The man with the old woman's face asked, "Have you prepared everything?"

Master Chai nodded and said, "We can start the shipment at any time."

"Then we can trade now, and after the trade is completed, we will ship it immediately."

Mr. Chai looked at the sky outside and reminded him, "It's very late now."

"This is a problem I want to solve."

Mr. Chai thought for a moment and then said, "One last question. We only accept full payment in cash."

The man with a mother-in-law face nodded and said, "That's not a problem. I brought the money."

As he said this, he turned to the person who had just led him in and said, "Please ask the young man to open the side door."

This person looked at his own abbot, but Wei was still in a trance and did not respond to him at all. He had no choice but to look at Master Chai.

Master Chai nodded and said, "Go ahead."

The man trotted to the side door. When he opened it and looked outside, he suddenly felt his scalp tingling.

Outside the side door is an alley, and at this moment, carriages are parked in the alley in an orderly manner.

In front of each carriage stood two horses that were almost as tall as a human, and in the driver's seat of each carriage sat a horse driver wearing coarse linen clothes.

But except for the occasional gentle snort of a horse, this bustling and crowded alley was completely silent without a single noise.

Just as he was frightened to the point of having his hair stand on end by what he saw, a bearded man sitting in the driver's seat of the nearest carriage suddenly said, "Is everything settled?"

The person who opened the door nodded slightly.

"Take down the threshold." said the bearded man.

The man who opened the door wanted to refuse, but when his eyes met the other person's, he was like a rabbit under the gaze of a tiger.

Apart from following orders, he didn't have the courage to resist at all.

After the threshold was removed, the bearded man did not even whip the horses to drive them away. The two big horses seemed to have some intelligence and entered the yard through the side door, pulling the carriage.

The carriages lined up in an orderly manner at the back entered the courtyard one after another.

The only sounds throughout the journey were the clatter of horse hooves and the rumbling of wheels across the ground.

One carriage after another passed through the corridor and the courtyard, and finally stopped in the open space in front of the reception room.

When the carriage stopped, all the carriages were facing the reception room.

"bang bang bang-"

All the drivers jumped out of the carriages and opened all the doors, revealing the wooden boxes of normal size that filled each carriage.

The bearded man took out a wooden box from his carriage, put it on the ground with a bang, opened the lid, and then kicked it over.

"Crash-"

A box of neatly stacked, gleaming silver bars poured out directly from his thoughts and flowed onto the open space.

The bearded man did not stop and continued walking towards the next carriage.

"Bam—"

He picked up a wooden box and placed it roughly on the ground.

"Crash-"

Another box full of glittering silver bars flowed out of the box.

"Bam—"

"Crash-"

"Bam—"

"Crash-"

"..."

In the field, inside and outside the house, apart from the dull thud of wooden boxes falling to the ground, the only sound was the rustling of silver bars flowing.

A room full of country bumpkins from the neighborhood watched the whole thing in amazement.

For the first time, they knew that silver could really flow like water.

When the bearded man walked towards the seventh carriage and wanted to pick up a box from it to show everyone, the man with a grandmotherly face who had been standing in the house and watching with a smile with the people in the neighborhood suddenly raised his hand and said:
"Okay, okay, there's no need to drive the rest. These six cars should be enough."

The bearded man, who had been silent the whole time, was stunned for a moment before finally speaking, complaining in a dissatisfied tone:

"Since we don't need so much, why transport so much? Do you think it's easy to escort these things?"

The man with a grandmother-like face smiled and soothed her, "It's better to be prepared. I'll trouble you to escort the extra ones back."

The bearded man nodded helplessly and signaled the other drivers to close the carriage door again.

He also sat back in his carriage and did not say a word to the people in the house during the whole journey.

The man with the face of a grandmother turned his head to the idiot-looking Wei Wanzong and said:
"Master Wei, the silver is all here. Can we make the transaction now?"

Wei Wanzong, who was already in great doubt because of his own offer, suffered at least 100,000 points of critical damage because of the seemingly casual conversation between the woman with a grandma's face and the bearded man.

He looked at the carriages whose doors had been closed again, his eyes filled with regret and sadness.

He didn't want to talk anymore, so he just waved his hand casually and let others take care of the rest.

Mr. Chai was the first to recover from his shock. He looked at the man with a granny face and asked a question that made the other people in the neighborhood feel cold:
"Zang Zigao did it on purpose. Is he cooperating with you?"

Wei Wanzong, who looked like a widower just a moment ago, wanted to rush over and cover his mouth.

My Lord Chai, why are you trying to expose the underwear of such a ruthless man who can run around with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver?
We are just a bunch of country bumpkins who know nothing and are short-sighted. Whoever pays is the boss. Is it necessary for you to be so nosy?

The man with the mother-in-law face just smiled and didn't answer.

Neither saying yes nor no.

Master Chai seemed not to notice the expressions of Wei Wanzong and the others, and continued: "Can you really transport the things out?"

Some people are like this. When a bowl of rice is placed in front of them, they will be picky and disdainful of it, and even act as if they won't eat it even if it's rotten or spoiled.

But if someone wants to take this bowl of rice away, it will immediately reveal its ferocious nature of protecting its food.

The man with a grandmother-like face smiled and said, "Thank you for your concern. We will solve this matter."

(End of this chapter)