Chapter 840 - 252: [Situation Reversed]
Chapter 252 [Reversal of Situation] (6300)
The news that Chu Keqing released was very skillful.
By saying that she was invited to Port City to visit friends, she was telling her peers in Port City that she was not here to stay or establish a base.
She was just here for a bit of fun and would leave afterward, so there was no need to worry about her taking anyone’s territory.
She mentioned forming a bond, but only with one family.
Meaning, she’s not here to grab much, just earn a bit.
This greatly reduced the hostility and resistance from peers in Port City.
After all, it’s common to occasionally come over to do some business; who hasn’t done that?
Since everyone is in the same field, no one can guarantee that they won’t have the opportunity to travel north to the Mainland for business in the future.
She promised to bond with just one family, not to take more.
After all, she was a renowned master from the Northern Sect, Elder Zi.
People were willing to give her this face.
·
The top-level big capital families wouldn’t approach Elder Zi—those people are the top tiers locally, and even if they wanted to collaborate with someone from the mystical arts, they have long-term connections and more trusted local experts.
An outsider, no matter how famous, generally wouldn’t be easily consulted or invited for collaboration.
However, medium and small families are not so particular.
Especially the Yang Family, a medium-small family in Port City.
It’s said that at their peak, the family’s total assets were only two billion.
In recent years, with the poor economic environment, they have shrunk considerably.
The patriarch of the Yang Family is quite superstitious!
However, the top masters in Port City have been befriended by top wealthy families.
Although the Yang Family occasionally meets such top experts in Port City, the relationships are not deep, and every meeting is costly.
They heard that the masters from the Northern Sect have many methods.
It’s rumored that Elder Zi is even a sect leader, very renowned within the Northern Sect.
The Yang Family further discovered that a distinguished master who was quite prominent in Port City in previous years and unexpectedly passed away this year was actually a fellow disciple of Elder Zi!
The patriarch of the Yang Family immediately became interested and sent someone to the Peninsula Hotel to deliver a note to Chu Keqing.
·
The so-called forming good bonds, in the mystical arts realm, is somewhat akin to recruiting a long-term cooperation partner.
But there is a particular etiquette.
At this point, the mystical arts practitioners will choose one family to approach. In the first contact, they will help the family with something, either to observe or to do something, the idea is to let them see their capabilities!
First, test the quality!
Moreover, generally speaking, nothing is charged for this first job before it’s done!
Once it’s completed, done well, done impressively, calculated clearly and accurately!
The host family then must give a red envelope.
The amount depends on their graciousness.
Upon receiving the red envelope, the cultivator and the host family will have completed a mutual contact.
If the cultivator feels that the red envelope was generous, well-intended, then this good bond is formed!
If the host family is stingy, giving a small red envelope, then the affair ends here, with no follow-up.
Once this bond is formed, the family seeking the bond will maintain a long-term cooperative relationship with this master.
An advisory fee, unshakeable, must be given every year.
And each time, if there is something requiring the master’s intervention, tea and transportation fees must also be provided.
The next day, Chu Keqing received a total of six invitation notes, including one from the Yang Family.
Without hesitation, she chose to have her assistant contact the Yang Family!
That evening, Chu Keqing accepted the invitation to visit the old residence of the Yang Family for a banquet.
It’s unknown how the meal went between Chu Keqing and the patriarch of the Yang Family, or what they discussed.
After the meal, Chu Keqing returned to the hotel to continue her stay.
Three days later, the 80-year-old patriarch of the Yang Family personally went to the Peninsula Hotel! To visit Elder Zi!
From this point, everyone knew that this good bond was halfway formed!
Elder Zi must have displayed some technique, impressing the Yang Family!
According to information from within the Yang Family, on the night Chu Keqing was a guest at their banquet, specifically what happened.
It’s said that Elder Zi, holding a compass, circled the Yang Family’s old residence twice, finally pinpointed a location, and ordered the ceiling ventilation duct to be smashed open!
Subsequently, from the smashed ventilation duct emerged a two-meter-long big black snake!!
When the two-meter-long black snake emerged, two servants of the Yang Family were so frightened they nearly collapsed, screaming as they ran outside.
The patriarch of the Yang Family almost fainted from fear, fortunately, the old man had some insight and composure, forcibly suppressing his fear, repeatedly ordering to quell the chaos onsite.
In full view, Chu Keqing, wearing a qipao, calmly approached, tossed a Yellow Paper Talisman, and the black snake, raising its head and darting its tongue in fright, finally quieted down, stiff on the spot, moving no more.
Chu Keqing instructed them to take this snake, wrap it in a yellow cloth, and apply a paper talisman.
"Snakes bring partial wealth, but they also bring disaster." Chu Keqing told the patriarch of the Yang Family, "This snake must not be killed, only released far away, which can keep the Yang Family safe from its ensuing disaster, yet not harm the Yang Family’s wealth."
Then ordered people to send it to the mountains, walk southwest for three kilometers, and release it at a pond.
According to the returning people, after being released, the snake immediately crawled away quickly, darting into a hole, never to be seen again.
And just after midnight that night.
News came from the hospital that a descendant of the third generation of the Yang Family’s main branch, who had been in a coma for nine days after an accident at a ski resort last month, had woken up!