Reborn as a Hatrack in the Mystical Land-Chapter 602 - 59: The Eavesdropping Scandal

Lady Fen Xiang, after accepting Yue Jinghua’s kind gesture, also candidly disclosed to Yue Jinghua her reasons for targeting the Duke Mansion.

Just as Yue Jinghua expected, the major forces of Linlan Street unanimously troubled the grocery store due to someone’s secret instigation.

"A few days ago, some of my sisters were invited by Young Master Qing of the Yanyue Chamber of Commerce to entertain guests. After the banquet, he personally walked a few sisters back and subtly hinted to me that as long as I could cause unrest for the Duke Mansion’s grocery store, he would introduce them to influential and high-ranking officials in the Imperial City. I was blinded by his flattery at that moment and rashly made a promise," Lady Fen Xiang revealed the mastermind behind the scenes.

The reason why Lady Fen Xiang agreed to Young Master Qing Zizhu was firstly, she thought that Yue Jinghua was merely a superficial and inexperienced young master, and dealing with him would not require much effort.

Secondly, a month or so earlier, Master Ji Yun of the Ji Residence had also declared that as long as someone could teach the Duke Mansion’s people a lesson, he would greatly support their organization.

To win favor with two of the Imperial City’s "official scoundrels" at once, Lady Fen Xiang originally thought she was playing a winning game, but she hadn’t anticipated that Yue Jinghua was a hidden talent, and instead of gaining, she ended up losing several measures of rice.

So it is, Yue Jinghua sneered coldly, a shade of harshness crossing her brows.

What an Yanyue Chamber of Commerce, such a cunning tactic of retreating in order to advance.

While speaking, suddenly, a "thud" sound came from outside the door, echoing through the air.

Yue Jinghua immediately extended her Divine Sense and saw Chi Xi carrying a pot of wine hurrying away.

Hearing the noise and rushing over, Hongling saw and asked, "Miss, do you need me to chase that person down?"

"No need, if she really has her son’s best interests at heart, bringing her back would be pointless," Yue Jinghua stopped Hongling. She was determined not to let Yanyue Chamber of Commerce and Young Master Qing off easily. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

If Chi Xi remained unable to step out from the shadow of the Qing father and son, then keeping her in the "July Mercenary Team" would be a mistake.

After the lesson learned from Zhen Ni, Yue Jinghua would never allow such a ticking time bomb to remain by her side.

Just before dawn, Yue Jinghua, as usual, came out of the room to practice the Dark Skill.

In the milky-white morning mist, Chi Xi stood stiffly like a wooden figure, her hair and brows all covered with dew, looking as if she had gone white overnight, clearly having stood there the entire night.

"Captain, I won’t interfere with Zizhu’s affairs," one could imagine, as a mother, the kind of struggle and restless tossing Chi Xi must have gone through last night to make this difficult decision.

To err in teaching is the parents’ fault.

As the mother of Qing Zizhu, Chi Xi was well aware that the child was naturally arrogant and unless he experienced a setback, it would be difficult for him to find his true nature back.

Even though she knew that Yue Jinghua usually acts unconventionally and shows no mercy to enemies, for some unknown reason, Chi Xi always believed that no matter the difficulty, the captain would lead them to solve it effortlessly.

"Chi Xi, you’ve finally come to your senses," Yue Jinghua praised with a smile, "Don’t worry, leave the rest to me. During this time, you should enter seclusion. I hope that when you come out again, you will be able to cook the legendary Divine Food and elevate your culinary skills to the Dan Realm."

Death Star Mercenary Chi Xi currently only possesses Jade Profound Cultivation, and for her, the prospect of a Dark Practitioner advancing to the Dan Realm is already an impossibility in this lifetime.

But there are many roads to Rome. Though Spiritual Food Masters do not specialize in Dark Skill cultivation, they have their unique ways to advance to the Dan Realm.

Just as Pill Masters can reach the Dan Realm through the Holy Pill, Spiritual Food Masters can reach the Dan Realm through their culinary skills.

Chi Xi’s talent in spiritual food is truly remarkable. However, over the years, her inability to let go of her children mentally has kept her from breaking through the "Supreme" level and cooking the so-called "Divine Food".

In earlier years, Chi Xi was limited by not having good fire for cooking. But after acquiring a bit of the Chaos Green Lotus Fire from Yue Jinghua, her culinary achievements in spiritual food greatly improved.

Under Yue Jinghua’s persuasion, Chi Xi entered a period of seclusion.

After a month and a half, through "Bilun’s transport channel," the Duke Mansion had unconsciously accumulated a considerable number of excellent goods.

Only after everything was properly prepared did Yue Jinghua begin her true counterattack.

Lady Fen Xiang, who had received the house deed, and a group of prostitutes also started to get busy with this "reform" activity.

Originally, Lady Fen Xiang did not believe that Yue Jinghua would truly let bygones be bygones with her, nor did her sisters believe Yue Jinghua would drop their past grudges.

However, shortly after the establishment of the tavern, the series of conditions offered by Yue Jinghua amazed these young prostitutes who have been scrapping by in the pleasure quarters for years.

"Alcohol promotion reward mechanism, the more you sell, the more you’re rewarded. The money earned from extra sales is split 30% to the tavern and 70% to the female bartenders."

"Old-age support system, once becoming a female bartender at the tavern and serving for over five years, a sizable severance pay can be enjoyed upon getting old."

"Work injury warranty system, any physical or verbal conflict with customers that results in injury inside the tavern, the treatment costs will be entirely covered by the tavern."

"Health check system, all female bartenders have a probation period of one month. Those who pass the probation and successfully stay on will enjoy a health examination once a year."

"..."

Such terms, not to mention the common women, even the well-informed Lady Fen Xiang was seeing such conditions for the first time.

"The terms aren’t actually that complicated. You just need to remember, ’from now on, the tavern is your home. If someone insults you, tell me; if someone hurts you, tell me; everything is covered by me and the Duke Mansion,’" Yue Jinghua assured them grandly, thumping her chest.

This speech made all the women’s noses tingle with emotion.

The existence of the tavern and Yue Jinghua’s words gave them a feeling like duckweed finding its roots.

Just as the tavern quietly started trial operations, the Yanyue Chamber of Commerce had unknowingly fallen into the abyss of troubled business.

"Master, Young Master, something’s off about the dark beast trade in our store lately," a short, chubby steward reported the recent accounts to the Qing father and son.

Looking at the letter, Qingfeng discovered that, over the past month, the number of high-quality dark beasts and Dark Beast Cubs acquired from Xuan Beast Ridge had been dwindling, and in recent days, not even a single dark beast had been collected.

It’s only been a short while since spring turned into summer, a time when the Xuan Beast Ridge should be in the active phase of dark beasts. In previous years at this time, it was the peak of dark beast breeding, when the price of dark beasts was the lowest and the quality was the best.

"By the way, Young Master, the brother who came back from Xuan Beast Ridge with news brought this object along with the letter, which may be of use to you," Qing Zizhu said with suspicion, opening the object that came with the letter.

Inside the box lay a beautifully patterned shell glowing with black radiance.