Chapter Two Hundred and Sixty Two – Unprofitable Business (2/2)

Many incidents had told him when his daddy wasn’t in a good mood, nothing good would come out of appearing in front of him.

Ma Fan carefully gave a smile as he said, “Boss, you don’t know how poor the Outer Hall is, so poor that they only have xiu slaves. We didn’t have any solution. If we came back with empty hands, that doesn’t fit in with what you usually teach us.”

“Yes, yes!” Lei Peng hurriedly agreed as he furiously nodded his head.

Zuo Mo smiled coldly. “Not bad, not bad! You guys really remember my words well.”

“Of course!” Lei Peng beat loudly on his hairy chest. Xie Shan and Ma Fan exchanged a look and obediently close their mouths. The two of them looked with sympathy at Lei Peng.

“Then you can support them.” Zuo Mo glanced at Lei Peng. “You forgot the other phrase I said. We don’t do unprofitable business. Oh, I will take it from your rewards.”

Lei Peng gave a sky-shaking howl and grabbed onto Zuo Mo’s leg. “Boss! I was wrong! I really was wrong!”

The anger in Zuo Mo’s heart erupted as he kicked Lei Peng out twenty zhang away and swore, “You also know you are wrong! Ha! Do you know how much jingshi you people spend every day? Five pieces! Seven hundred people, three thousand and five hundred pieces of third grade jingshi every day! Do you really think ge is a tycoon? Ge is so poor right now ge almost can’t eat!”

Everyone was scared by the acrimony in Zuo Mo’s words that they were shaking. They found he was right as they thought about it. They would consume large amounts of jingshi when they cultivated every day. All of the expenses were provided by Boss. They had never thought about it before. Now that Boss calculated it, they jumped in fright. Many people suddenly felt guilty. As long as it was jingshi for cultivation, Boss was always open and had never shorted them.

“Ha! Now you guys have taken back this many xiu slaves, you just want ge to go bankrupt!” Zuo Mo’s anger had not eased. Nothing could infuriate him more than going bankrupt!

“Boss, we’ll go steal jingshi for you!” Lei Peng rolled and climbed over to express his determination.

“Right, Boss, we can’t let you lose!”

“We’ll rob them blind!”

The crowd of people instantly started howling. Their killing intent scared the one thousand xiu slaves into paling.

“Then what to do with the xiu slaves? Sell them?” Ma Fan carefully asked.

“Sell to whom?” The anger in Zuo Mo’s heart had decreased greatly as he snorted coldly, “Wouldn’t that be telling other people what you guys did Nan Sheng Village?”

Everyone stared at each other, and instantly found it was a problem.

“Should we kill them?” Xie Shan hesitantly asked. The expressions of many of the surrounding people were not natural.

Once the words came out, the xiu slaves that were nearest instantly paled and knelt down with a bang, furiously kowtowing and begging, “Daren! We can work! We’re willing to do any work! Daren, we only ask for something to eat … …”

“Get up! Get Up!” Zuo Mo instantly had a headache. He had never seen anything like this before.

Those xiu slaves didn’t dare to get up, all of them kneeling down in a wave as they furiously kow-towed, “Daren … …”

The already impatient Zuo Mo suddenly raged, “All of you, shut up and get the motherf***ing up! I’ll kill anyone who kneels!”

These words were very effective at silencing everyone.

Zuo Mo didn’t speak another word, turning and leaving.

Ma Fan and the others that remained behind looked at each other with frowns on their faces. Those people who had suggested to take the xiu slaves with them were full of regret but at this time, no one was in the mood to talk.

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Zuo Mo found a formation battle watchtower in a dejected mood, and laid down. He might have many people under his command, but in reality, he still was a youth who hadn’t seen much.

Wu Kong Sword Sect also had xiu slaves. He had some sympathy for xiu slaves. They were a group of pitiful people.

But life was not easy. His sympathy wasn’t going to be used on xiu slaves he didn’t know or related to. This group of xiu slaves were a great burden, but he couldn’t do something like massacre all the xiu slaves.

Usually, he was used to facing these things from an objective perspective. Who could have thought that something like this would one day occur to him?

Little Mountain Jie was full of danger. Their goal was to quickly leave. Where did he have the energy to take care of this group of helpless xiu slaves? What Zuo Mo needed right now was xiuzhe with offensive power, and not xiu slaves that could not fight.

These xiu slaves also needed to consume ling grains or jingshi. Even though it wouldn’t be a huge amount, but due to the large numbers, it wouldn’t be a small amount. The already heavy burden would grow bigger.

Why had he encountered such a terrible matter?

Zuo Mo laid down with anger and no strength. Looking at the exquisite formations on the ceiling, he fell into a daze.

Suddenly, Pu Yao’s voice suddenly sounded in his mind, “I have a solution.”

Translator Ramblings: Poor Man Fan and Xie Shan. They sincerely want to begood and useful, and they try so hard. Now they’ve “failed” twice in a row.

Zuo Mo finally shows some of the pressure he is under. The jingshi has to come from somewhere, and people in Little Mountain Jie are not that rich. The stuff they get from conquering other people are not enough, especially since they have to pay the forgers for the city building materials and also Gongsun Cha’s army who probably needs more ling power as they expend it in fighting.

To continue on names, let’s talk about Wei Sheng. It is written as “韦胜”. Wei is a very old surname, part of the Hundred Names. It also means tanned leather. Sheng has multiple means. The first is “victory” or “to win.” It is also “surpass,” “superb” and many other synonyms along those lines. It’s a pretty simple name. Though nothing is as simple as Pu, which is just a rush or a vine, and one of the words in the Chinese name of dandelion. Plant based name for a species that came from plants … … very easy to create names this way.