25 Chapter 025 - First Step toward her Plans

Ba Yue finally took her first step in recruiting people for her plans. She needs more talented people to work for her. In order for that to happen, she'll need money, lots of money!

"Ho Wai, your martial art skill is not bad. Are you an element user also?"

"Miss Ba, I'm an Orange Level, grade 1 element user."

So, he's on the same color level as me as an element user. But I'm in a higher grade, I have recently advanced to grade 6 of the orange level, though Ba Yue.

"If that's the case, then why are you living here? With your martial art skill and an element user, you can't just be a regular citizen."

"I don't want to lie to you since I will be working for you from now on. The truth is, my sister and I are from the Ho Family in a nearby small country. Our mother is just the third wife of the head of the Ho Family and she has no strong family background.

When my sister is born, she was very weak. Due to her health, she can't train in the martial art. My father was not happy with that so my mother lost my father's favor. Due to our mother not being the favored wife anymore, we have been getting picked on a lot since young.

But when I started training and found out I was an element, my father finally take notice of me. He saw the talent in me and start spending lots of time training me. He also starts to treat my mother and sister better too. I thought if I work hard enough, my mother and sister will live a better life so I keep on training, hoping to be the best in the family.

What I didn't know is that the more my father pays attention to me, the more his first and second wife hates us. The first and second wife of my father, both have a son too. But they are not as talented as me and also not an element user. They are afraid that my father will pick me as the heir so they plotted to get rid of us.

2 years ago, my mother was poisoned to death by my father's first wife. We found out about it and went to my father for justice. But what we got was just a slap in the face. My father didn't give us any justice and said my mother is just a lowly third wife and can't be compared to the first wife. His first wife has a strong and wealthy background.

Soon after my mother's death, I noticed my food has been tampered with. Someone is also trying to poison me, but unfortunately ah Kei ate the food instead of me. Even though we found out quickly and have gotten rid of the poison, ah Kei's body still has weakened more. I know we can't stay in this family anymore, so I took ah Kei to run away from home.

Even though we left the family already, they still wouldn't let us go and have sent assassins for us. I killed all the assassins that came after us and have finally reached this country. There weren't any more assassins coming for us since I killed the last bunch.

Ba Yue nodded her head. She now knows what's going on and more about Ho Wai. He seems to be honest and trusts worthy.

"I understand, don't worry about the past anymore. Someday you stand at the top with me, and at that time, your family will regret what they had done to you."

"Thank You, Miss Ba!"

"Now, the first thing I will need you to do is to go and buy a big residence for me. I will need to recruit more people and I'll need a place for them to stay. You are from a big family so you should know what kind of residence I'm talking about and made sure it's somewhere quiet. I don't want to bring too much attention." Said Ba Yue, as she takes out 50k gold coins and gives it to him.

Ho Wai nodded his head. " I will get it done for you."

He didn't ask any questions like why she needs to build up power or what's it for. All he knows right now is that she is now his "MASTER" and will do whatever she asked.

"Good. Once you brought the place, you and sister Kei can move in first. With the remaining money, you can use it to buy things that are needed for the residence. I will also need you to help me in recruiting more people.

You were at the annual martial art competition so you have seen the people that have joined that day. I want you to go try to recruit only the regular citizens of that competition. You don't have to recruit everyone that was there, only the ones that you think is good. I don't mind if they are weak, but one thing is a necessity, they must be honest people! And if you happen to know anybody that is honest and trusts worthy, you can also recruit them too even if they weren't in the competition.

"I understand Miss Ba, but recruiting normal people is easy. But people that have strong martial art skill will be hard. They usually have pride and won't be easy to settle."

"Tell them I will offer high salary and will give them refined pills if they join. If they decide to join, you can also tell them to spread the word in secret that I'm recruiting and they can also recommend other people to you. You do not have to worried about recruiting too many people or that I don't have enough refined pills or money."

Ba Yue took out 2 small jars of refined pills that she has refined earlier with her spare time. She wanted to improve and better her refining skills, so she brought lots of herbs and have refined lots of different kind of pills. She usually doesn't bring much with her since she doesn't like to carry things around. But with this new space bracelet she has, it makes carrying things with her so simple. All she has to do is just to throw everything in there.

Of course, she can't allow anyone to know about it. So she carries a medium side crossbody bag with her. She puts a hand in the bag and pretends to be searching for something, using the bag as a coverage, she took out the 2 small jars of refined pills. She gave the refined pills to Ho Wai and continues to give him information about the pills.

"The jar on the right is a low grade strengthening pill. It can help the martial artist to strengthen their body to help them train better. If the martial artist is also an element user of the beginner Red level, it can also help them advance 1 small grade. I only have this for now, but will make a better one later for higher level martial artist and element users."

Even though the pills are low grade, it is still very expensive for a regular citizen to afford it, one low-grade pill can range from1-10 gold coins. 1 gold coin equals to 100 silver coins, and 1 silver coin equals to 100 bronze coin.

For example, a lower working class citizen like the maids only makes about 300 bronze coin or 3 silver coins a month and they might get a little reward from their owner if they do a good job. As for a medium working class citizen, such as low-grade guards makes about 7-8 Silver coins a month. So things like the refined pill are catered wealthy people and that's also why lots of regular citizens stop training after they reach a certain level.

"And also, the jar on the left is for sister Kei's illness, she'll need to take 1 pill a day for 2 weeks. It will help her illness but won't completely cure it. In order to completely cured her illness, I will have to perform acupuncture on her for 7 days after she finished taking the pills. She should be all healthy when everything is complete and can also start training too if she wants to."

Ho Wai and Ho Kei both drop to their knees and start giving Ba Yue Bows. There were tears surround their eyes. They never expected that Ho Kei would really get better and not only that, but she can start training too afterward. It was something that they didn't even dare to dream.

While on his knees, Ho Wai looked at Ba Yue with his grateful eyes and said, " Miss Ba, we will forever be grateful you. We will be your servant and you will be our master from now on. We will forever serve you and be loyal to only you."

"Yes, you are our master now. Thank you so much for saving me and giving me a new life!" Said Ho Kei while she's also on her knees.

"No need to call me master, it sounds weird to me. You can either call me Miss Ba or young miss."

"Yes, I understand. Young Miss."

"Now, get up. I have to go back now, but I will be back in 2 days to see how things are going."

"Okay, young miss. I'll send you back home," said Ho Wai.

"No need, take care of your sister." Ba Yue said no more after that, she turns around and left the house.

As Ho Wai and Ho Kei watch she leaves, they both think in their heart that they must repay young miss's kindness no matter what. They will work hard and will not disappoint her!

After Ba Yue left Ho Wai's house, she passed by a different herbal store on her way home. It was a very big store with 3 floors. She currently needs more herbs so she can refine more pills, so she went inside this herbal store.

"Welcome, how may I help this young miss?" asked the shopkeeper.

Ba Yue then told him a long list of herbs that she needs and she wanted a large quantity of it. The shopkeeper was shocked at how much she wants to buy.

"Young Miss, you won't happen to be pill refiner, are you?"

"What does that have to do with you?"

"If Young Miss is a pill refiner, can you sell some of the pills you have refined to our store? We can offer you a very good price for it. We can also give you a very good discount with all your purchases here in this store."

Ba Yue thought about it, and think that it's actually a really good way to make lots of money. She can sell her refined pills and don't even need to pay rent or hired person to manage the store for her.

"What can you offer me? And how much of a discount are you talking about for my purchases?"

"What can give you 50% of the profit we made of the refined pills. And we can also give you a discount of 30% storewide for all current and future purchases of herbs."

It's actually a good offer. If a low-grade refined pill sells for 1 gold coin, I'll get 50 silver coin of the sale. The cost to make that kind of pills only cost about 1 silver coin, and I will be getting a discount when I buy the herbs here so it will cost even less to make the pill. And that is only for the lowest grade and quality of the refined pill.

There are a few different grades for the refined pills. It is the low grade, mid-grade, and high grade. The price of the pill doesn't just depend on the grades but also the quality. The higher the quality is, the more money it can be sold for.

For example, someone refined a low-grade pill with a low quality, it can sell for 1 gold coin. If it was the same kind of pill but has good quality, it can sell for 3 or a little more gold coins. But if the quality of the pill is excellent or high-grade quality, it can sell up to 10 gold coins, etc. The starting price for mid-grade low-quality refined pills are 50 gold coins and a good quality can sell for 100 gold coins and the high-grade one can sell for 100 gold coins or more.

Low-grade pills are not that rare since regular people can refine it without fire element. The mid-grade pill is harder to refine and you might or might not need to be a fire element user to refine it depending on what kind of pill it is. And the highest grade pills are the hardest to refine and it doesn't have a good success rate for it to refine it into a pill. You will need very good control of the fire element and herbs that need to use be for high-grade refined pills are very expensive. So not much high-grade refined pills are available for sale. Those high-grade pills are usually sold in the auction place and are not available that often. When one shows up at the auction for sale, the price can be crazy high!

I can only refine mid-grade low-quality pill for now since I didn't have much practice with my fire element. But I know the quality of my pills is not bad for the low-grade pills. So it didn't hurt to ask for money from the shopkeeper now, right? Though Ba Yue as she schemes in her mind.