Shen Yao could tell they weren't short on money. "Don't agree too quickly. The price I'm asking isn't low at all."
Luo Yunping remained calm. As long as a problem could be solved with money, it wasn't a problem.
"As long as you can cure Xiao Jun, our boss will definitely not treat you unfairly."
"Alright," Shen Yao nodded.
"Tell me a few things you need me to prepare. Then, you need to tell me everything about where Xiao Jun went before he fell ill, and find a relative with a blood connection to Xiao Jun, the closer the better." httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět
Luo Yunping found the first two requests acceptable, but the last one... "I'll have to ask our boss for permission. After all, regarding Xiao Jun's situation, he needs to agree."
"Fine. When you're ready, just come find me next door. I'll write down what I need you to prepare in a moment." Shen Yao didn't linger. She went to the front desk, found a pen, and wrote down everything she needed.
Luo Yunping took the slip of paper from Shen Yao and pushed Xiao Jun back into the room.
Inside the Shen Residence
"Mother, you're really going to treat that sickly child?" Mo Xuan asked Shen Yao.
Shen Yao often gave Mo Xuan Dragon Bone Grass. For Mo Xuan, whose true form was a Flood Dragon, Dragon Bone Grass was a great tonic.
Therefore, Mo Xuan could now maintain human form for a period during the day. However, ever since Shen Huaisang left, he hadn't gone out and had spent all his time cultivating in his room.
"What sickly child? That's a sugar daddy. He's paying, unlike you, who eats and drinks for free."
Shen Yao retorted without any politeness.
Mo Xuan: ...
"I can't maintain human form for long yet, Mother. You wait. Once I can maintain human form, I'll go earn big money for you!"
Mo Xuan said this with great conviction. Then, he felt that he had been too rash. If he had known he would come to her world with his mother, he would have definitely brought all the treasures from his cave dwelling!
He wondered if his cave dwelling had been discovered and if some little brat had benefited from it!
The future little brat, Jiaozi, who would take his older brother's treasures: ...
"Alright, I'll wait. We'll see if I have that kind of luck," Shen Yao said lightly.
Actually, Mo Xuan wasn't entirely eating and drinking for free. She did have quite a few treasures from Mo Xuan in her spatial artifact, but those treasures were... hard to describe!
What was Mo Xuan? He was a Flood Dragon!
As everyone knows, what do dragons like? Besides shiny things, what else do they like?
(Mo Xuan: Flood dragons are also dragons! Don't dismiss a bean bun as not a grain!)
So, after so many years in the cultivation world, she hadn't dared to use a single thing Mo Xuan gave her in front of others. She couldn't afford to lose face!
"Mother, forget it. Once I stabilize my human form, I'll go earn money for you. Don't help him anymore."
Mo Xuan still felt that it was not worth it for his mother to save that little sickly child. After all, this was the era of Dharma Decline. To save such a sickly child, one needed to find his soul.
It had been so many years since his soul was lost, and finding it wasn't simple. In her current state, it wasn't suitable, even with her spatial artifact.
"Get real. I've already promised them. Besides, I have my spatial artifact, it's fine."
Shen Yao hadn't considered putting Mo Xuan into her spatial artifact for him to cultivate properly.
However, this good-for-nothing carried demonic energy, and the spatial artifact rejected him. He simply wouldn't go in!
"Alright, alright, get lost. Looking at you makes me angry."
Shen Yao's temper flared up just thinking about it, and with her pregnancy, her mood was even more unstable.
Mo Xuan dared not provoke her bad mood and quickly retreated to his room.
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After Luo Yunping settled Xiao Jun, he immediately called his boss and relayed everything Shen Yao needed.
On the other end of the phone: "Prepare everything for her. I'll come over then."
Luo Yunping: "But boss, can you leave?"
"It's fine. Just agree."
Upon hearing his boss agree, Luo Yunping quickly instructed someone to look after Xiao Jun and rushed to the Shen residence.
"Miss Shen, my boss has agreed. The things you need will be delivered tomorrow. Our boss might arrive the day after tomorrow."
Shen Yao was confused. "Why would your boss come the day after tomorrow?"
"Didn't you ask for someone with a blood connection to come? Our boss is Xiao Jun's uncle. Apart from the old man, he's the closest by blood." Luo Yunping explained.
Shen Yao fell silent. Well, she hadn't made herself clear beforehand.
"Tell me about Xiao Jun's situation now so I can formulate a plan. As for your boss, he doesn't need to come for now. After I receive the items, I'll still need two days to prepare."
Luo Yunping didn't hesitate and recounted what happened before Xiao Jun fell ill.
Five years ago, Xiao Jun was still a healthy and lively child. However, on his way home from school, he was abducted into a car.
His abductors were a group of vicious kidnappers who wanted money. In one day, they had kidnapped eight children, including Xiao Jun.
The ransom for each child was ten million. Refusal meant immediate execution.
The kidnapped children all came from very affluent families, so to save their children, they agreed to the kidnappers' terms, as long as they released the children.
The kidnappers demanded that they send a representative with the money to an abandoned warehouse in the suburbs and ordered them not to call the police, or they would execute the children.
Xiao Jun's father became that representative.
Xiao Jun's father brought the money to the abandoned warehouse, but someone secretly called the police, and they were discovered.
The robbers began indiscriminate shooting, deciding to kill everyone before fleeing.
Because Xiao Jun was held tightly in his father's arms, the bullets didn't hit his vital organs, but he was so terrified by the sight of so many people dying in front of him that he went mad.
That day, the blood of those people flowed onto the ground, forming a pool of blood.
The outcome was that the robbers were caught. They were all wanted murderers.
According to the robbers, they hadn't intended to kill anyone this time. They just wanted to pull off this job, then go abroad, change their identities, and live a good life.
But since someone called the police, they had to find scapegoats, which led to the subsequent shooting.
The person who secretly called the police was one of the children's stepmothers. She felt it was not worth it for her husband to spend so much money to redeem one child and secretly reported it.
In the end, all the robbers were executed, and the woman who secretly called the police was retaliated against by the other parents, eventually becoming a beggar on the streets.
As for the sole survivor, Xiao Jun, after being rescued, he was dazed and unresponsive, not saying a word. Everyone thought the child was just scared.
However, they later realized something was wrong. A hospital examination revealed that he had a severe survivor's illness and autism.
Xiao Jun's mother, under the double blow of her husband's death and her son's illness, also committed suicide.