Asking About Longevity Chapter 203

Chapter 203 The Cunning Rabbit

The weapon-refining business went smoothly at first, but gradually problems arose because Mo Hua heard Elder Yu curse again.

Mo Hua went to the weapon refining shop to check the formation, and then met Elder Yu and Yu Chengyi to chat.

While chatting, Elder Yu cursed Qian Hong again.

　　What to say about "blood-sucking roundworms", "old turtles wearing tortoise shells", "sinister beasts" and so on.

 Swear in different ways.

As Elder Yu was cursing, he found Mo Hua eavesdropping on the side. He was memorizing something while listening, looking like he was enjoying it.

ˆMuttering words such as "How can you still curse like this" and "Why didn't I think of it" in a low voice.

Elder Yu coughed, stopped, and then said to Mo Hua:

 “You didn't hear anything.”

 “Hmm.” Mo Hua nodded, “I didn't hear anything!”

Elder Yu's anger gradually subsided and he found a chair and sat down evenly.

Mo Hua poured a cup of tea, handed it to Elder Yu, and asked, "Is the Qian family causing trouble again?"

Elder Yu has become accustomed to chatting with Mo Hua, and now he doesn't avoid speaking to Mo Hua, except of course for swearing.

Elder Yu drank the tea poured by Mo Hua, breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said: "We can't sell our spiritual weapons."

 “No one wants it?”

"Of course there are monks who want it. After all, spiritual weapons such as Teng Jia and Pu Dao are used anyway, but I found a few merchants and some demon hunters from other fairy cities, and they all felt that the price was too high."

Mo Hua was a little confused, "Isn't the price we gave you quite cheap?"

 Because the weapon refining shop is very large and has high output, the spiritual weapons are one or two spiritual stones lower than the market price.

“It's the Qian family, and the price they gave is too low.”

“The Qian family is lowering the price?”

"Yes." When Elder Yu mentioned it, he became angry again, "The Qian family's weapon refining shop uses monks as livestock. They work overtime and stockpile a batch of spiritual weapons in advance, waiting for us to start work. They sell them at low prices. They want to use this to suppress us.”

 “Qian Hong, that turtle son of a bastard…”

 In the middle of the curse, Elder Yu glanced at the ink painting and silently swallowed the curse again.

Mo Hua frowned, but after thinking about it, he had no good solution. He raised his head and saw that Elder Yu, although angry, did not look too worried, so he asked:

“Elder, do you have any idea?”

Elder Yu raised his eyebrows, "Did you see it?"

Mo Hua said: "If you have no choice but to feel anxious, your curse words will be even worse than they are now."

 Compared with before, Elder Yu's scolding now can be considered “mild”.

Elder Yu looked a little embarrassed, thinking that he should scold less people next time, or at least avoid making ink drawings when he scolded people.

Mo Hua is too young to imitate him and pretends to be full of curse words...

Elder Yu coughed, covered up his embarrassment, and said, "There is indeed a way."

Mo Hua poured another cup of tea for Elder Yu, "Please tell me."

Mo Hua looked curious.

Elder Yu thought for a moment and felt that this kind of thing could be taught, so he patiently said: "I told the merchants that no matter what price the Qian family gave them, we would be cheaper than the Qian family... five points of broken spiritual stones."

 “Five points…”

As expected of Elder Yu, he lowered the price by 50% and 50%, and was very careful in budgeting...

 Ink painting of the mind.

"Five points is not bad." Elder Yu snorted, "With so many spiritual weapons, a little adds up to a lot, and five points of spiritual stone is not a small amount." "What happens after that?" Mo Hua asked.

"As long as we can sell it and collect the spirit stones, the Qian family will not be able to compete with us in the future." Elder Yu said confidently.

 “Why can't the Qian family compete with us?” Mo Hua was a little confused.

Elder Yu glanced at the ink painting, sighed, and said helplessly: "Because of the formation you drew."

“The Qian family's matters regarding the weapon refining furnace are kept strictly confidential. I can't inquire about them, but I can see the spiritual weapons they refined…”

“The quality of the Qian family's spiritual weapons is very good, but it is still inferior to ours. In addition to Master Chen's superb craftsmanship, there is another reason. The Qian family's weapon refining furnace is definitely not as good as ours..."

"Their refining furnace is of the first grade, and ours is also of the first grade. If there is any difference, it is the formation inside."

Elder Yu drank a cup of tea and said: "I guess they should also have a first-grade molten fire array painted in their refining furnaces. Compared with our small refining furnaces, these refining furnaces are not much different, but compared with Our large refining furnace is far inferior."

 Ink painting suddenly realized.

There is a first-grade molten fire spirit-control complex formation painted in the large refining furnace. This formation is more effective than the general first-grade formation.

“Will the Qian family know about the large-scale refining furnace?” Mo Hua asked.

“Things about the refining furnace are kept secret. I can't inquire about the Qian family, and naturally it's impossible for the Qian family to know about ours,” Elder Yu said.

“Then the Qian family will know sooner or later.”

“As long as you don't know now, it's fine. If you know later, it will be too late.”

 “Is there anything special about this?”

Elder Yu patiently explained, "Lowering prices is a loss-making business and cannot last long. The Qian family lowers prices because they have good furnaces and high output in their refinery. They want to accomplish all their work in one battle, so they lose a little money at the beginning and directly kill us. But what they don't know is that our refining furnaces are better and our output is higher.”

"As time goes by, we turn around and refine more and more spiritual weapons. If they keep lowering the price, it will be like cutting off their own flesh and making a loss-making business."

Elder Yu was a little gloating about his misfortune.

"Then as long as we survive the beginning, we won't be afraid of the Qian family?" Mo Hua asked.

"Not bad!" Elder Yu said proudly: "When the time comes, our weapon refining shop will be bigger than theirs, our weapon refining furnaces will be better than theirs, we will have more weapon refining masters than them, we will refine more spiritual weapons than them, and the quality will be better than theirs. The Qian family has nothing to fear."

Mo Hua nodded, vaguely understanding something, but he felt that there were still some loopholes in it. Even if things really developed like this, the two sides were just competing with each other, and their own side had some advantages.

This will not make Elder Yu feel so proud.

Mo Hua glanced at Elder Yu suspiciously, "Elder, do you have any other ideas?"

Elder Yu paused for a moment, looked at the ink painting, and said helplessly: "Why do you look like a little fox?"

Mo Hua's eyes lit up and he waited for Elder Yu to continue.

“There is another trick, which is to 'take the fire under the cauldron'.”

 “Pull the fire under the cauldron?”

Elder Yu said: "The Qian family's weapon refining shop is rushing to work, and the weapon refining masters there must be working day and night. Their own weapon refining masters are fine, but the hired weapon refining masters must be resentful, and they are just trying to make ends meet. Who wants to really be a cow or a horse..."

"I sent people to win over them secretly. I gave them more spiritual stones, so they don't have to work day and night to refine weapons. After a while, these weapon refiners will come over to refine weapons for us."

“Also, I have informed all demon hunters that the materials obtained from demon hunting are not allowed to be sold to the Qian family. We will purchase them ourselves.”

"I have notified all the markets opened by casual cultivators that they will not do business with the Qian family for the time being. If the Qian family causes trouble for them, they will come to me and I will deal with it."

There was a hint of joking in Elder Yu's eyes, "In the future, the Qian family wants to refine weapons, but there is a shortage of materials and weapon refiners. This is called drawing fuel from the bottom of the cauldron."

 On the surface, they lowered prices with the Qian family, but secretly poached their weapon refiners, and cut off their sources of materials.

Mo Hua sighed: "Elder Yu, you are so insidious!"

 (End of this chapter)

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