古董下山 (ENGLISH: Old Fogey Goes Down The Mountain)

Chapter 30 - The Truth

Swayed by Tuan JieYi's expert sales pitch, Qiu GuoKai did not hesitate to buy a membership card.

Qiu GuoKai felt that this company didn't feel quite right and, to be honest, he didn't trust Lin HanYang's recommendation either when he came. After all he had never heard of the name TaiCang Sect before. It seems to have only appeared in the capital recently. No matter how you look at it, it looks like a spiritual huckster trying to con people out of money. If it weren't for the several temple masters he had already seen who told him that he didn't look like someone being harassed by a ghost or curse, he wouldn't be testing his blind luck here today.

But putting the matter of the varicose veins aside for now, it was still odd how he kept getting beat up. For the time being, WeiXi didn't see what the problem was, so he decided to follow Qiu GuoKai to his home for a look.

Before they set off, Qiu GuoKai saw this group of his leaving with empty hands. He couldn't suppress the suspicion in his heart and asked: "Ma-master, don't you need to bring anything?"

WeiXi paused, but Tuan JieYi reacted very quickly, saying that he had forgotten and pulled his shifu aside. "Shifu, I read in the books that shidi gave me that many skilled masters would take spiritual tools with them, like peachwood swords, yin yang currency etc, do we have anything like that?"

WeiXi replied: "We don't need those."

"I still think we should prepare a few things." Tuan JieYi added, "Shifu, you probably don't know, but the entrepreneurship forums have said that a company must have proper equipment prepared for activities in order for the customers to feel that we are professional and reliable and strong. Sometimes impressions are very important."

WeiXi thought about it and thought this felt right, so he took his apprentice upstairs to find a suitable rucksack. Seeing that the rucksack was empty, he thought about it some more, and stuffed it with tissue packs and a few bars of chocolate.

ShuoZong: "......"

But as a result, Qiu GuoKai felt relieved after seeing a bulging rucksack. He couldn't help but ponder, just what kind of people are WeiXi's customers?

As they headed out, the ladies in the yard saw WeiXi and cheerfully greeted them: "Little Xi, where are you heading off to?"

Tuan JieYi smiled and helpfully replied: "Shifu received Mr. Qiu's ritual commission, so he's leaving to perform spiritual work."

Spiritual work.....

Everyone's expressions were a bit strange. After WeiXi left, they couldn't help but ask Shu WanRong: "..........I thought the business printed on the TaiCang Sect business card was a joke, but your eldest son really does spiritual work?"

Shu WanRong: "......."

She picked up her cup and drank, her expression numb, she already didn't want to speak anymore.

　　***

It was only on the road when they discovered that Mr Qiu was originally in the film and television investment industry, but his family was wealthy from a few generations ago so he can still be considered a rich N generation.

Perhaps out of nervousness, he kept talking endlessly: "Oh, and people around me all envy me, saying that I have an ancestral fortune and I don't need to start a business from scratch. But the market is growing so fast nowadays, how can it be so simple to maintain success? Entertainment investment isn't exactly easy, the projects that my company recently invested in made me worry so much my hair nearly all fell out. If it wasn't for my wife supporting me from behind the scenes, how could I've stuck with it for this long?"