Chapter 358: Establis.h.i.+ng Power in Qingshui (7) Buying Life With Money
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“Eh? Compensation? This…”.
When everyone in the shop heard that Ling Yun wanted compensation, all the Xiangxi people were dazed. He had already beaten them up so badly, so why was there still a need for compensation?
Cui Lao was also slightly taken aback when he heard this. He couldn’t believe that his young master’s intention of beating everyone up was so that he could ask for compensation.
Even though their Ling Family was on the decline, they were still considered to be one of the seven big families in Beijing. They controlled the Department of Trade and the Water Conservancy Department. A starving camel was still bigger than a horse, so why must he beat them up and still ask for compensation?
Cui Lao looked over at Dugu Mo once again. However, Dugu Mo looked as if he already knew Ling Yun would do this, so he was simply enjoying the show.
Ling Yun would look for money as compensation on a dead person after killing him, let alone a living person!
“Indeed, compensation is what I want. You guys hurt my girlfriend so badly, injured my workers, and destroyed my shop. Did you really think beating you up is going to fix all of that?”
When Ling Yun saw how shocked the Xiangxi people were, he couldn’t help but laugh coldly in his heart. This was only the beginning!
That middle-aged man was in despair as he knew he had come hastily and kicked an iron panel. He coughed out blood as he pointed to the man rolling around on the ground. “He…”
“That’s more like it!” Ling Yun got up and lifted that person from the ground before chuckling. “Alright, you can stop rolling around. Isn’t it just a few broken bones?”
That person was around thirty-seven years old and was extremely skinny. Among the people who attacked him, this man attacked him with the most force with the exception of the horse-faced man. Therefore, Ling Yun wasn’t standing on ceremony when dealing with him. During the fight, he punched him so hard that he broke his ribs.
“Cough…” Due to the incredible pain that he felt in his ribs, the person coughed out a mouthful of blood when he was lifted up by Ling Yun like a small chicken.
“Bang!” Ling Yun threw him back onto the ground before squatting in front of him and asking, “Come, tell me, what is your name?”
“Lan Zhenghe…”
Lan Zhenghe opened up a clothing shop in Qingshui City, but because he couldn’t compete with other shops in the same industry, he invited his uncle, who knew how to poison others, to help him get rid of his compet.i.tors. Initially, everything was going smoothly according to plan. However, never in his wildest dreams would he imagine this young man coming to destroy his great plan. He even implicated his own uncle, whose cultivation was wasted.
After they scrambled back to their hometown in Xiangxi, Lan Zhenghe and his uncle weren’t able to accept their humiliation, so they went on to invite a real expert in poison. They invited him to deal with Ling Yun and avenge them.
This top expert was naturally the middle-aged man who was beaten up so badly by Ling Yun within two moves. He was the Houtian Realm Level Eight expert.
The group of aggressive men returned to Qingshui City and reopened their business in a high-profile manner. Following which, this middle-aged man brought his men to Ling Yun’s clinic to show off their strength as they looked openly for Ling Yun. They were incredibly rampant while looking for him.
Back then, Ling Yun was in the crater’s Yin-Yang Dragon Lock Spell. Therefore, they couldn’t find Ling Yun there and decided to smash Ling Yun’s clinic into pieces.
However, this clinic was built up bit by bit by Yao Rou, and it belonged to Ling Yun. On that day, the renovation works were finally completed, which was why Yao Rou treated it with more importance than her own life. She was determined to use her life to defend this clinic.
The middle-aged man practiced dark poison techniques throughout the years, so he already had a twisted character and temperament. He was ruthless and vicious when he hurt Yao Rou with his palm and also sent an extremely poisonous worm into her body.
This incident had nothing to do with the construction workers who were simply waiting for the inspection to be done. However, these workers were all honest and good old men. They weren’t going to sit idle when they saw how the young lady was getting beaten up. They all came forward to get the middle-aged man to stop but to no avail. The middle-aged man didn’t bother wasting time, so he simply poisoned them all too. He even used their blood to feed his Gu worm.
Yao Rou was hurt, those workers were all poisoned, and the newly renovated clinic was destroyed completely. The Xiangxi people felt that half their revenge was taken, so they went back to their clothing shop with pride.
Before they left, they even left word for them. They told Yao Rou and the rest that as long as Ling Yun didn’t appear, they would be waiting in their clothing shop for him. Otherwise, they could forget about reopening the clinic.
This time, Lan Zhenghe felt that he won by a landslide on his return, so he was convinced that he had found the right person to pin Ling Yun down. He was so proud that he returned to Ling Yun’s clinic every now and then just to look at and admire his brilliant masterpiece.
The middle-aged man and the horse-faced man were kept here by Lan Zhenghe to wait for Ling Yun’s return. He knew that Ling Yun would come looking for his revenge, so he wanted the middle-aged man to use his poison to waste Ling Yun. He wanted to settle this once and for all.
However, what Lan Zhenghe didn’t expect was that the two top experts he hired couldn’t even last a minute in front of Ling Yun. They were completely helpless against him!
“Oh, Lan Zhenghe…” Ling Yun nodded as he smiled with intent. “Tell me, how much do you think is suitable to compensate for my losses?”
“One… One hundred thousand?” Lan Zhenghe knew that his life was in Ling Yun’s hands, so there was no way he could forget about paying.
Ling Yun looked coldly at him before spitting a mouthful of saliva on Lan Zhenghe’s face. He scolded, “One hundred thousand? Why don’t you ask the expert you hired what he did to my girlfriend? And how torturous it was?”
The torture that Yao Rou went through after getting poisoned was beyond imagination. Ling Yun wanted to kill someone when he saw what Yao Rou went through, and this Lan Zhenghe thought that one hundred thousand dollars was enough.
Lan Zhenghe was so frightened by Ling Yun’s act of spitting on him that he dared not wipe it off his face. He replied with a trembling voice, “Three… Three hundred thousand?”
Ling Yun was getting frustrated as he replied, “I mean… Do you really not know what your current predicament is? You still want to act oblivious with me? Do you really think I’m here to do business with you?”
He looked around at all the people struggling on the ground before replying coldly, “How much do you think the lives of all these people, including yours, are worth? Be more straightforward and give me a number!”
Ling Yun had many things to settle, so he had no time to fool around with this guy. Therefore, he instantly laid his cards on the table.
Lan Zhenghe was so terrified that his face turned pale, and his body trembled non-stop. He kept thinking about the laws in the country and wasn’t convinced that Ling Yun could kill anyone he wished here in the city.
“Give… Just give everything to him!” At this moment, the middle-aged man by the wall commented. He could tell that if Lan Zhenghe continued to act ignorant, there would be casualties very soon!
The moment Lan Zhenghe heard that, he knew that this was over and that saving his own life was more important. He quickly got up to kneel on the ground as he said, “I’m begging you… As long as you don’t kill us and let us go, I will give you whatever you want!”
Ling Yun sneered and snickered. “See? Isn’t it better to be more straightforward from the start? Or are you trying to keep your lives first and then come back to destroy my clinic again in the future?”
Lan Zhenghe fell back on the ground, and his body trembled more when he heard that. He instantly responded, “Don’t dare, I don’t dare anymore…”
Ling Yun couldn’t be bothered with him anymore as he said, “Just take out all the money you have right now. I’ll see if it’s enough to buy the lives of the few of you! If you bring out less than what I expect, some people might die tonight!”
Lan Zhenghe replied with a trembling voice, “I have, I have… I have about two hundred thousand dollars cash in the store…”
“What? Only two hundred thousand? I’m sorry, but that’s only enough to buy the lives of two people. What about the other ten of you?”
The moment Ling Yun said that, Lan Zhenghe wasn’t the one that was trembling. Even Cui Lao started s.h.i.+vering a little.
Cui Lao thought to himself, Young Master, ah, you’ve saved the lady, so saving the other workers shouldn’t be of much trouble for you. How much do you even need to repair the clinic? Two hundred thousand… and it’s only enough to buy the lives of two people?
“Ah! Two lives?” Tears almost burst out of Lan Zhenghe’s eyes as he forgot the pain in his bones!
“But… I really don’t have any money left!” Lan Zhenghe turned to look at the people around him. Every one of them was staring at him pitifully.
Regardless of whether you’re good or bad, everyone wants to live on!
Ling Yun looked around the place and acted indifferent as he replied, “Oh, this shop looks like it’s worth quite a lot… You ruined my shop, so should I do the same to yours? But if I really do so, it will be quite a pity… Cough cough…”
When Ling Yun said this, even a fool could understand what he meant. Lan Zhenghe smacked his own lips and was dumbfounded!
His shop was about six hundred square meters, and including the clothes in it, everything would cost about one million dollars!
Coincidental or not, it was just enough to purchase the lives of ten people!
Lan Zhenghe’s heart ached, but he had no choice other than to clench his teeth. “I’ll give you my shop!”
Ling Yun smiled as he said, “Hurry up, go get the money and draft the contract. Remember not to write that you are giving me the shop for free. Instead, draft it such that I bought it with three million dollars. Understand?”
By being so vicious, Ling Yun was preventing anyone from coming to claim the shop back!
“Understand… I understand!” Lan Zhenghe was regretful, fearful, and pitiful. He regretted his act of coming back to seek revenge, as he wouldn’t have suffered any of these losses if he chose to stay where he was. This fella was even scarier than the devil king!
Ling Yun knew that Lan Zhenghe couldn’t walk, so he carried him up to his room. He found the two hundred thousand dollars and stored the money in his spatial ring in front of Lan Zhenghe.
When Lan Zhenghe saw the two hundred thousand dollars disappear into thin air in Ling Yun’s hands, the shock on his face couldn’t be described with words. He wondered if Ling Yun was truly a devil king or some deity!
Just like that, the fear in Lan Zhenghe’s heart grew exponentially. All he wanted to do was flee as far away from Ling Yun as possible!
He took out a pen obediently and drafted the contract in a serious manner. He wrote that he sold everything in his shop, including the shop itself, to Ling Yun for three million dollars.
After signing the contract and stamping his fingerprint, Ling Yun gave a cold smile before putting it away. He then carried him back to where they were originally at.