Chapter 397 The Shen family transfers benefits in exchange for medicinal materials
Since Heza is the fastest and has already agreed to the second game, it is not easy for others to object.
After all, everyone is fighting on behalf of their respective countries. If nothing else, they want to save face. If they object now, I am afraid that neither Long Guo nor He Zha will agree—
From Long Guo's point of view, they were just afraid and did not dare to compete. Although their performance in the first game was good, it was already their limit. They were afraid of showing their cowardice, so they did not dare to play.
From He Zha's point of view, these people looked down upon him. Their score in the first game was higher than his, so they looked down on him. They also wanted to confirm this ranking and put him at the bottom, which was really heartbreaking.
The other people didn't want to be called cowards by Long Guo and didn't dare to compete, and they didn't want to be labeled as looking down on others by He Zha, so they could only follow Shen Yueran's words and continue to participate in the second game.
Seeing that everyone agreed, Shen Yueran said:
“Okay, it’s getting late, let’s go back first. We will have a day off tomorrow and recharge our batteries. We will officially start the day after tomorrow. We look forward to your new results.”
Soon, these judges and the foreign magician group left.
Comrades from the Identical Bureau also evacuated the competition venue and moved all the live broadcast equipment away, preparing to move to the second venue. After all, it will be used in subsequent matches.
Shen Yueran and Officer Du stayed at the end to watch everyone finish their work and make sure there were no mistakes or omissions before returning to the abnormality bureau together.
Bureau Guo has returned from Central City. When he saw them, he couldn’t help but give a thumbs up:
“Yueran’s move is good. He deliberately stimulates them to compete with you and uses rankings to divide their interest groups. It seems that as long as Heza is here, we won’t be able to complete our delaying plan.”
Hearing the compliment, Shen Yueran smiled modestly:
"I just tried my best. I didn't expect it to be effective. If Xiaozhu was here, she would definitely be able to solve it better than me."
“Master is great, and you, as an apprentice, are not bad either. Don’t always think about what Master Pei will do. From the looks of it, you have already come up with the best plan.” Director Guo patted her shoulder.
But Shen Yueran didn't really have low self-esteem and felt that she couldn't do well. It was just because she met a very powerful and amazing person in her life, so she unconsciously brought herself into the other person's perspective.
No matter what happened, she would think about it subconsciously:
What would I do if I were Pei Anzhu?
Then she discovered that Pei Anzhu was too powerful, and Shen Yueran was currently unable to do some of the things she could do.
Officer Du listened to the two people talking back and forth, and then asked a question that he was more concerned about:
“By the way, Director Guo, how are you preparing the medicinal materials that Master Pei needs?”
Bureau Guo smiled and said:
“Today I went to Central City to watch the live game with the big leaders, and we talked about this topic during the process. They said that they have almost prepared it, and there are only two or three medicinal materials left, and they can’t find a suitable replacement.”
"But the old professors at the Medical College are already thinking of a way. If the raw materials cannot be replaced, then they will try to come up with a synthetic drug with the same effect. However, no matter what, the drug search team outside is still trying its best to find ”
“According to the big leader, there should be results within five days at the latest.”
Shen Yueran was very happy when he heard this:
“Great! I will try my best to postpone the competition to give Xiaozhu and the Medical Academy more time.”
"Actually, I've thought about it. Although Heza couldn't stand the excitement and agreed to the competition, if others really want to object, it's not without reason. The reason why they don't object is definitely not just because of face issues."
"Just like I studied their methods and weaknesses when they competed, I think they also want to find out our background, and the competition is the best way, because in order to stump them, I will use the dragon to defeat them. Everything in the country has been moved out. If they really finish five games, then they have almost beaten us. "
After all, the Dragon Kingdom had been cut off for two to three hundred years due to the Xuanmen inheritance, so it really had no trump card.
All the demons and ghosts who can compete on the stage have participated in the five competitions arranged by Shen Yueran, and all the people who can be regarded as disciples of Xuanmen are only Pei Anzhu and Shen Yueran.
But this secret cannot be known to the foreign magician group, otherwise if they secretly cause trouble in the Dragon Kingdom, it is not known how much chaos and impact it will cause, and the Dragon Kingdom does not have the extra manpower to stop it.
This is an obvious empty city plan.
After hearing Shen Yueran’s words, Director Guo showed a helpless smile on his face:
“Even if they figure out our trump card, we have nothing to do. Who gave us the curse of a great demon and cut off the Xuanmen inheritance for hundreds of years?”
“Forget it, let’s hold off. As long as we still have Master Pei’s trump card, we have nothing to fear from people like them.”
Police Officer Du and Shen Yueran nodded.
After all the things that needed to be communicated were discussed, the three of them went to have a rest. The next day was a rare rest day because there was no competition. Shen Yueran carried the little fox back to Shen's house and settled comfortably at home. one day.
However, the melancholy between her brows and eyes was still discovered by her father Shen Qinghe.
Since Shen Yueran returned from the island, Shen Qinghe, an old father, has experienced the joy of finding his daughter. Although he knew that it was just a show performed by Shen Yueran, after Shen Yueran came back, he doted on her more than before.
Seeing his daughter's frown, Shen Qinghe sat next to her and asked:
"What's wrong with you?"
Based on the principle of keeping secrets, Shen Yueran didn't want to say anything at first, but then he thought about it. His father knew Pei Anzhu, and he also knew that Pei Anzhu was a very powerful master of metaphysics. There were some things that he couldn't say.
So he considered some words and said:
“Dad, it’s like this. Last time Sister Xiaozhu and I went on a mission to the island. In order to save me, she fought with a very powerful monster by herself. Later, she even wanted to be seriously injured to subdue the monster.”
"No, after Sister Xiaozhu came back, she went into seclusion because of her injuries. But if she wants to treat her injuries and recover, she needs many precious medicinal materials. The Irregularity Bureau has worked overtime and sent people to search for them, but there are still several kinds. We didn’t find all the medicinal ingredients.”
"If the medicinal materials are not available, Sister Xiaozhu's injury will not recover. I am very worried about her."
After hearing this, Shen Qinghe nodded clearly:
“So that’s it, let me help you think of a solution.”
When Shen Yueran heard this, he was immediately surprised:
“Dad, do you have any idea?”
Shen Qinghe smiled and explained:
“Although I don’t know what specific medicinal materials Master Pei needs to heal his wounds, I think that no matter what medicinal materials it is, the more valuable it is, the better.”
“Little Moon, the aristocratic families in Yuncheng all have the habit of collecting precious medicinal materials, including the Shen family.”
“The so-called three surnames, four families and five households, in fact, to put it bluntly, at our status, we are no longer short of money. Even if the state spends a lot of money to purchase medicinal materials, they may not be tempted, because they all know that life is more important than money.”
"They have to keep these medicinal materials so that they can use them in case they have any physical problems in the future. Even if they don't need these medicines, in order to find a good doctor, they can give these medicinal materials as gifts. Doctor, please give me a chance to treat your illness. After all, no doctor would refuse such a precious medicinal material."
“If nothing else, I can guarantee that there will definitely be something Master Pei needs in the warehouses of those wealthy families.”
"Let your brother take you to the Shen family's warehouse later. You can look for anything you need. If so, you can take it away. As for the others, give me the list of medicinal materials and I will help you find a way."
When Shen Yueran heard this, he jumped three feet high with joy.
She didn't expect that she would find out the whereabouts of the medicinal materials from her father.
"Thank you, Dad, I will give you the list of needed medicinal materials." Shen Yueran smiled and ran back to the room to make the list.
Out of her absolute trust in her father, she did not ask him how he should obtain these medicinal materials. After all, she only wanted Pei Anzhu to recover quickly.
After Shen Yueran left, Shen Yue'an, the eldest son of the Shen family, came out and said to his father, Shen Qinghe:
“Is father planning to use the Shen family’s interests to trade with other families?”
Shen Qinghe raised his eyebrows:
“As expected of his son, I’ve already guessed this.”
"It's easy to guess, isn't it? That girl, Little Moon, can't figure out the twists and turns." Shen Yue'an said about her sister, with a helpless smile on her face.
Yes, if you want to get medicinal materials from other wealthy families, you can only exchange them with the interests of the Shen Group.
After all, as I said before, money is no longer important to wealthy families who are already rich and prestigious, but only if the benefits are sufficiently impressive to impress people can they make concessions.
One is the huge profits that are close at hand, and the other is medicinal materials that it is unclear where they will be used in the future.
Comparing the two, there are still people who are willing to bend for this benefit.
What's more, in today's wealthy circles, the secret that Pei Anzhu is the master has spread. Not to mention that Shen Yueran of the Shen family and Qin Xiaoyu of the Qin family are all friends with Pei Anzhu. The Zhou family, who has been singled out, has asked for help several times. Pei Anzhu's Ji family all have an inexplicable relationship with Pei Anzhu.
But apart from that, the other families tried every means to get involved with Pei Anzhu, but they never got the point.
Now, someone from the Shen family comes to the door and offers an olive branch. It not only brings huge benefits, but also indirectly establishes friendship with Master Pei. This is better than buying and selling. I believe everyone knows how to choose.
What's more, if you really get on the line with Master Pei, what kind of doctor will you need?
Isn’t Master Pei the best doctor?
So, this is the fundamental reason why Shen Qinghe wants to use the interests of the Shen Group to exchange the medicinal materials in the hands of others. It is because Pei Anzhu is the backer. To put it bluntly, he still takes advantage of Pei Anzhu.
However, the Shen family is willing to sacrifice their own interests for Pei Anzhu's medicinal materials, which can be regarded as a great favor.
But the Shen family was repaying their kindness. If Pei Anzhu hadn't taken the initiative in the first place, their family might not have become associated with the little fox, let alone have the chance to continue to develop. Instead, they would have fallen into decline long ago. This kind of kindness can never be repaid, not to mention that Pei Anzhu also led Shen Yueran on the road to Xuanmen.
You must know that in the Dragon Kingdom, apart from Pei Anzhu, Shen Yueran is the current metaphysician. If Pei Anzhu cannot be hired, then Shen Yueran will be the most popular. In terms of the Shen family's status and connections, Shen Yueran will become a metaphysician. The door is the invisible gain.
This move is also Pei Anzhu's kindness to the Shen family.
Therefore, the Shen family is willing to give up their interests for her and find other families in exchange for medicinal materials.
"Tomorrow, you can give me a summary of the latest information on those companies, and then draw up a charter to cooperate with them to the greatest extent, but you can't damage the foundation of Shen's company. After all, Shen's company still has many employees who are pointing at us. Let’s have dinner at the company,” Shen Qinghe ordered.
"Don't worry, Dad, I know what's going on." Shen Yue'an nodded and then spoke.
And he had a hunch that the transfer of benefits and the exchange of medicinal materials with other families should go smoothly. After all, Pei Anzhu, a metaphysician, is quite impressive.
Didn’t you see, the Shen family and the Qin family, who were friends with Pei Anzhu, are now prosperous; the Zhou family and the Pei family, which had offended Pei Anzhu, have now completely declined from Yuncheng, and the other is on the decline.
Even if it is for the long-term interests of the family, there will be no one who is short-sighted and has to care about this little thing.
In the next period of time, Shen Yueran continued to accompany the foreign magician group to compete, while the Shen family father and son visited wealthy families with three surnames, four families, and five families in Yuncheng to negotiate terms and exchange medicinal materials.
As Shen Yue'an expected, after weighing the pros and cons, those people did not embarrass the Shen family too much and happily changed.
Among them, the Qin family and the Ji family also made great efforts. They did not even ask for the benefits of the Shen family, but decisively took out the medicinal materials collected by their families and gave them to Pei Anzhu.
The head of the Qin family even said:
"I have been abroad during this period and have not had much contact with Master Pei. My daughter Xiaoyu has always been in contact with Master Pei, so I don't know the inside story. If I had known that Master Pei needed medicinal materials, I would have taken them out long ago. ”
Ji Yunyao is now the head of the Ji family, but she also has an old man from the Ji family. This is what she advised her grandfather:
"Without Master Pei, Ji Yunxiao would have harmed our whole family if he practiced that kind of medical voodoo trapping technique; without Master Pei, my second uncle would have been buried in the belly of a wolf with no bones left."
"Now, she needs these medicinal materials. It happens that our Ji family also has these medicinal materials. It is the time to repay the favor. We must not be so angry that we are reluctant to part with it. If we receive a favor and do not know how to repay it, if we owe the karma, we will be punished."
“Grandpa, you don’t want our Ji family’s efforts and hopes to be ruined for generations, right?”
Since the Ji family came into contact with metaphysics, they have deeply believed in cause and effect, and it is taboo not to repay a favor, so the old man agreed to take out all the medicinal materials collected by the Ji family and present them to Master Pei.
If nothing else, the Ji family’s Tibetan medicine is really rich.
This is all due to Ji's second uncle Ji Lianhe who likes to explore everywhere. He often travels all over the country and around the world. He goes to dangerous places such as deep mountains, old forests, quiet valleys, etc. Naturally, he can bring back a lot. Unusual plants.
As for those unusual plants, some of them were judged by doctors and were definitely precious medicinal materials, so the Ji family specially hired knowledgeable people to raise them carefully.
After years of saving, the Ji family actually has a large garden dedicated to growing medicinal materials.
Now, I heard that Pei Anzhu needed them, so he donated them all.
The Shen family took the lead, with the help of the Qin family and the Ji family, and the cooperation of the other Su family, Fu family, Xu family, etc., so Shen Qinghe collected a large number of precious medicinal materials in a very short period of time.
Ginseng, deer antlers and cordyceps have been around for hundreds of years and are very rare treasures on the market.
It is enough to show how rich the background of these wealthy families is.
Shen Qinghe was also unambiguous. After getting all the medicinal materials he could get, he called Shen Yueran and then sent someone to deliver the medicinal materials to the Yibiao Bureau.
When Shen Yueran came back from presiding over the competitions of the foreign magician groups, he was immediately shocked when he saw such a large number of medicinal materials in the Yitong Bureau, and even rare and exotic grasses growing in the ground.
“Dad, you are so awesome. Almost all of these are what Xiaozhu needs, and many of them are hundreds of years old. They are much better than the ones we collected from the private sector.”
This is natural. After all, most of the world's wealth is concentrated in the hands of a small number of people.
Even if the powerless people at the bottom have really valuable things in their hands, they are just like children carrying gold bricks through the busy city. They are easily targeted by various forces and then try to take them away.
Shen Qinghe didn't know where the medicinal materials from other families came from.
Perhaps the conscientious ones bought them with money, and the unconscionable ones may have snatched them from others, but it is undeniable that the medicinal materials brought out by these wealthy families must be much better than those collected by the state from the people.
“Send all these medicinal materials to Master Pei. I’m very happy to be able to help her.” Shen Qinghe said with a smile.
He told his daughter a few words, asking Shen Yueran to remember to rest, eat and sleep well even when he was busy, expressing a father's concern for his daughter, and then left the strange bureau.
Subsequently, the Irregularity Bureau reported this matter to the big leader, and upon hearing this, the big leader immediately sent all the medicinal materials that he had gathered before to the Irregularity Bureau, and then ordered:
“Your Alien Bureau has a defensive formation and metaphysical security system set up by Master Pei. It is relatively safe and is relatively close to Master Pei. Once she comes out of seclusion and contacts you, you will immediately send these medicinal materials to her.”
“Leader, please rest assured.” Director Guo immediately agreed.
Subsequently, Bureau Guo asked people to put all these precious medicinal materials in the safest room of Yibiao Bureau, and only waited for Pei Anzhu to finish his retreat and come to pick them up.
At the same time, the competitions designed by Shen Yueran are still going on.
In the second venue, the half-human and half-ghost puppet directly taught them how to behave. This time the level was not as easy as before -
Melissa gave up directly in the second level.
Because her crystal ball told her that the entire place was filled with a strong and gloomy ghost energy. As long as she stepped into it, it would be a bad omen and she would definitely die.
She thought that this was a competition and the Dragon Kingdom would not really let her die, so she went in anyway. However, she did not expect that after entering, her crystal ball immediately malfunctioned and her witchcraft power could not be released at all in the huge ghost realm.
No matter how hard she tried, what appeared on the crystal ball was always a dark and ominous light, as if there was no way out.
At the same time, A-Puppet also used ghost energy to create many illusions, which made it difficult for people to distinguish between true and false, and it was easy to fall into traps and be unable to get out. Melissa was trapped in a trap for more than half an hour, and found that no matter what After being unable to break through no matter what, he decisively chose to give up and came out without scoring a single point.
Heza, who was the second to enter, thought this was his home field. After all, he controlled ghosts.
But he didn't expect that after entering, he would directly come to a powerful ghost realm, where ghosts were everywhere. He released many fierce ghosts and resentful ghosts to help explore, but after these ghosts came out, they only had the instinct to tremble.
Under the suppression of Ah Pup's powerful ghost energy, both the fierce ghosts and the resentful ghosts could only surrender.
He Zha gritted his teeth and released a ghost general, but found that the ghost general was of no help here. Later, he released a ghost king from the Wangui Sail, and then he barely resisted the ghost energy here and started exploring inside.
But there is no room for two tigers in one mountain. A-Pup herself has the strength beyond the ghost king. Other ghost kings cannot make any waves in her territory. In order to retain her trump card, Heza does not want to release more powerful ghosts.
So in this level, he barely got 30 points to find things, and couldn't get the rest because it was impossible to move forward at all.
What's more, it is very difficult to find Ah Puppet in this ghost realm where ghosts are everywhere.
The third one to enter was Kue, who also had a way to restrain ghosts.
After all, Ku'e is a Buddhist practitioner. His wooden fish seems to be able to confuse the mind. The rhythm of knocking is different, and it seems to have different effects. When he knocks on the wooden fish, the wooden fish emits a slight Buddha light, which dissipates some ghost energy and makes him In this huge ghost realm, I can temporarily not be disturbed by the ghost energy.
However, the time he could persist was limited. After reaching the limit, he started vomiting blood again. In the end, just like Heza, he only completed the first task and failed to complete the next two levels.
Anne, the fourth person to enter, did the same as her first scene. After entering, she did not do anything.
She walked inside despite the ghost aura, and no matter how many illusions and traps the ghost aura created, she was able to break them one by one with her extraordinary intelligence and powerful brain.
This made Shen Yueran look at it from the outside and couldn't help but sigh, this woman is too powerful and has no shortcomings.
Annie also became the first person to complete the first two levels and score 60 points.
When it came time to answer the gatekeeper boss, she began to pull out a dagger and stab herself with her own blood. In her opinion, vampires are ghosts, and the Eastern Ghost King is also a ghost. They are all creatures of darkness, so her blood is useful.
Sure enough, the moment her blood dripped on the ground, the ghostly auras avoided each other and all rushed in a certain direction, and quickly returned to Ah Du's body.
In this way, Annie found where Ah Pup was and successfully answered three questions.
She scored 130 points, the same as last time.
As for Abe Jinsuke, he was the fifth to enter. He released three shikigami as usual, but this time there were three shikigami. It was no longer the red umbrella banshee, ghost king and black cat from last time. Another batch.
The strength shown by this group of shikigami is even better than the last three.
Of course, Abe Jinsuke also successfully scored 130 points, and in less time than Anne, he once again became the first place in this competition.
Heza was defeated again at the competition venue known as his home court. His face was dark and he was obviously in a bad mood.
There was something wrong with the way he looked at Anne and Rensuke Abe.
Shen Yueran saw all this, but did not point it out. He only wrote down their performance in this competition, and waited for Pei Anzhu to show it to her when he came out.
It has to be said that Shen Yueran’s delaying policy is effective.
She dragged this group of people until the twenty-seventh day of Pei Anzhu's retreat. At this time, Pei Anzhu ended the retreat and finally came out.