AWB Chapter 978: Miserable Young Master
Chapter 978: Miserable Young Master
Fu Chu didn't waste any time talking to the young master and asked him directly about the progress of his plan.
As a result, the young master has almost finished planning, but there are still a few things missing.
"Sea Dew Flower, Blue Crystal Snail, Lake Lily of the Valley, and Rainbow Rose, these are the only four missing." The young master enumerated the missing items and sighed, "Few of the debt collectors under my command are careful, and except for the Blue Crystal Snail, the other items are difficult to preserve, so..."
After hearing this, Fu Chu still didn't understand what the young master meant, so he just asked him to help get these things.
In fact, these things are all specialties of Fontainebleau, and you can collect them all by taking a few walks in the wild.
But the difficulty lies in preservation. The blue crystal snail is not so difficult. Although it will quickly lose its luster after leaving the water, it can be restored as long as it is soaked in water.
But the same cannot be said for the others. Sea dew flowers and lily of the valley need to be constantly moisturized with water elements to keep them in the most perfect condition after being picked.
As for the rainbow rose, the shelf life of this flower after picking is not short, but it still cannot last long enough for the young master to pack it into a gift and give it to a child.
Moreover, these three plants are particularly dependent on the water and soil of the Fontaine. Even if the whole plant is transplanted into a flowerpot, it will wither quickly as long as it leaves the Fontaine.
Taking all this into consideration, the young master thought of asking Fu Chu for help.
After all, with Fu Chu's means, it is not difficult to make a few Fontaine's specialty flowers live longer.
"You are a very calculating fellow."
"It can't be helped. If Hua Mora could solve it, I wouldn't have to beg you here."
It's so helpless. The young master has spent a lot of Mora on this matter, but he still got stuck in the end.
"Things that can be solved with Mora are really not a big deal for the Northland Bank as financial support." Fu Chu muttered, and then continued to keep it a secret: "Actually, it's not impossible for me to help you, but..."
The young master was startled and said quickly, "I can still ask the rich man for a loan of tens of thousands of Mora, but if you want to move half of the Northland Bank branch, the rich guy will really want to shoot me."
The young master had a look of horror on his face at this moment. There was nothing he could do. Even after a long time, the rich often brought up the incident of Fu Chu moving away half of the Liyue branch of the Northern Bank to confront the doctor.
If the doctor hadn't smashed the Fuyun Temple and kidnapped Amber, Fu Chu wouldn't have directly moved away half of the bank, even the shelves in the bank's warehouse.
Although the whole thing was not entirely the fault of Young Master, he was the head of the Liyue region of the Fatui at that time, and the rich people would also criticize Young Master when they were criticizing the Doctor.
In short, the young master now has only one attitude.
He could pay Fu Chu the maximum amount of Mora he could afford, but what happened last time must not happen again.
Fu Chu also understood what the young master meant. He was not the kind of person who would do anything extreme. He would not do anything reckless until the Fatui provoked him.
"Although I am curious about the scene of rich people chasing you with guns, but seeing how miserable you look now, I'd better forget it."
"Does that mean that if I wasn't bedridden, Fu Chu, you would have watched me get beaten up by the rich?"
"Maybe." Fu Chu shrugged noncommittally and passed over the topic. "So, how much can you offer? It takes a lot of talismans to preserve those things individually, which is not cheap."
Just as Fu Chu said, the cheap talismans in his hands are for ordinary people to use to exorcise evil spirits, bind demons, and protect lives and bodies.
For things like charms used to preserve perishable items, that's another price.
Fu Chu opened the Fuyun Temple for two reasons: one was to settle down and the other was to provide some shelter for ordinary people. Everything else was just incidental.
If functional talismans like the shaping talisman were priced low, the merchants coming to Fuyun Temple would be able to break down the door of the temple, thus causing Fu Chu to deviate from his original intention of opening the Fuyun Temple.
The young master was also mentally prepared for Fu Chu's offer, so he tentatively said, "Since I plan to ask you to collect those things in person, how about the talismans used in the process be settled at three times the price you set at Fuyun Temple?"
"Three times the original price... Sir, you are quite generous. It's not your own money anyway, right?" Although Fu Chu did not agree directly, this price was indeed beyond his expectations.
"Maybe." The young master returned the words to Fu Chu and then asked: "Are you satisfied with this price? If not, I can increase it. There is a lot of room for maneuver here."
The young master's meaning was very clear. It was entirely up to Fu Chu to decide how many talismans he used in the process of entrusting him to do the job. It didn't matter even if Fu Chu reported more.
However, Fu Chu still disdains to do things like falsifying quantities.
It is okay to increase the unit price, this is a reasonable price regulation.
The pricing of the talismans was originally entirely based on Fu Chu's words, and whatever he said was the price.
It is not okay to report an overstated quantity. The quantity is real and it should be exactly how much it is.
As the saying goes, if there is a first time, there will be a second time. Some things cannot be allowed to happen for the first time.
"You also know that I'm not that kind of person. The price of the talisman should still be based on the price of Fuyun Temple, but you have to give me an additional fee to ask me to do it. It's not much, just one million Mora, and it will be put into the donation for the reconstruction of Fontaine."
"Wow, although I expected this, I still want to say that you are such a kind person, Fu Chu."
"...I feel like there's something else behind your words. Can I take it that you're mocking me?"
"No, no, no, I'm sincere. As a token of my appreciation, I'll add another million. I still have a lot of my vacation money that I haven't spent yet, so I'll use it right away. As for why I haven't spent it, you know the reason, Fu Chu."
When this was mentioned, the young master's resentment emerged.
He had originally intended to relax during this vacation, but he was turned away at the Buffati Mansion and then sent to jail in Mellow Petersburg.
He didn't mind being turned away or having prison food, but he was later attracted by the Sky-Devouring Whale, and then fought for a long time in the Primordial Sea with the Demon King's armed forces.
This attack nearly killed the young master. If there were no special treatment, it would probably take him a month or so to recover.
The young master's vacation period had long exceeded the time limit. If he had not been lying down and unable to move, he would have been recalled to the Winter Kingdom long ago, and his original plan to prepare gifts for the children of the Hearth House would have been shelved.
All in all, the young master's vacation trip to Fontainebleau was visibly miserable.
Ying and Paimeng, who also stayed in Mellow Petersburg for more than a month, were not so miserable. They used the hawthorn pills given by Fu Chu to exchange for many benefits with other prisoners underwater, and their lives were quite comfortable.