Chapter 2853 — Spirit Beast Rampage
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"Best let Little Cui explain it to you in detail." Xiao Chunjie gestured to Cui Mianshi. Today was the day to haul in the net, so to be safe, Xiao Chunjie wanted Cui Mianshi to do the talking.
True, all this time it had been Cui Mianshi ceaselessly feeding Liu Tianli psychological suggestions, and on top of that Xiao Chunjie had courted Liu Tianli's favor, forging a "fine" friendship with him over cigarettes—so that when all was said and done, there was no flaw to be found.
"It's like this: this is the season when that little country's tobacco leaf harvest comes in, so the price of cigarettes has dropped quite a bit lately—around eight thousand yuan a carton. Seize the moment, and if we bring back a large batch, then even if we can't sell it all at once, we can sell it off over a month or so, slowly, and still make more." As he spoke, Cui Mianshi laid out the story he had prepared in advance for Liu Tianli. Of course, he barely needed to waste his breath—even as he spoke, he was already layering hypnotism onto Liu Tianli.
"So you're saying that as long as we put in more capital, we can make more money?" Liu Tianli had grasped Cui Mianshi's meaning.
"Exactly. What does President Liu think? President Lang's view is that it's better to be prudent. Sure, we could make more money now, but it would tie up a great deal of capital—and doesn't money sitting in the bank earn interest?" Cui Mianshi said this deliberately, yet as he spoke he used hypnotism to suggest to Liu Tianli that tying up capital was no problem at all—so long as it made money.
"Tying up capital is nothing much. I'm well acquainted with Doctor Guan's Pharmaceuticals; there's no harm in paying them a little late. Holding them off for a month or so is no problem. It's just that raising another sum is rather difficult—I'll have to wait for Doctor Guan's Pharmaceuticals to deliver this month's goods, wholesale them out, and then wait for the provincial agent and the distributors to remit payment to me. That will take a few days." Had it been any other business, Liu Tianli probably would not have been so blind, but he had smoked these cigarettes—he knew how good they were—and surely no small number of wealthy men felt as he did. Add to that Cui Mianshi's hypnotic suggestion, and there was only one thought left in his head: how to raise the money. The notion of doubting anything never crossed his mind.
"Fine—at any rate, President Liu, it's your call. If this deal goes through, naturally that's for the best, but don't let it burden President Liu's company! There's no end to the money to be made—there'll be other chances down the road!" Xiao Chunjie said, feigning generosity.
"Ha ha, President Lang, money is certainly no problem. Since I've agreed, I can naturally raise it. Since the opportunity's here, let's do it big. I'll go get ready right now!" Liu Tianli said no more and hurried off to raise the funds.
"Very well, then I won't trouble President Liu any further. When there's good news, share it with me." Xiao Chunjie rose to his feet as well. "I'll take my leave, then—President Liu, attend to your business first!"
With his standing as general agent and chief supplier for Doctor Guan's Pharmaceuticals, money was not much of a problem for Liu Tianli. Squeeze both ends a little, and he could raise even a billion. So after seeing President Lang and Cui Mianshi off, Liu Tianli lit a cigarette; puffing out clouds of smoke, he began to study the matter of misappropriating company funds...
Today was the fifteenth day of the Xuandan Sect's trial. Only a handful of trial participants had returned through the teleportation formation to the rear mountain of the Xuandan Sect; the great majority of them would remain here forever!
Across the Five Fiends Wildlands, at every interval one could see the corpses of cultivators—trial participants slain by spirit beasts.