Chapter 15 Gathering of Experts

Qing Yu pushed open the left wing room, explaining with a smile, "Mr. Jing, under normal circumstances, the working hours are twelve hours a day, from 9 am to 3 pm, and from 5 pm to 11 pm. You just need to be on standby during these twelve hours. We'll inform you in advance if there are any special circumstances. If Mr. Jing wants to wander around Lanyue City, he can do so outside of working hours."

"Rest assured," Xu Jingming nodded.

"There's nothing much to do in the residence. You can either cultivate your mind in the room or practice your weapons in the courtyard," Qing Yu said. "But if foreign enemies invade, you must protect the life of my young master. In fact, the possibility of being attacked in the residence is very small."

Xu Jingming nodded, looking at the left wing room. It was quite exquisite, twelve meters long and five meters wide, divided into living, reception, and study spaces.

"Hmm?" Xu Jingming suddenly sensed something.

The door to the right wing room opened, and a burly man walked out. At the same moment, a woman with a saber at her waist walked over from the front yard residence.

"Gentlemen, this is Mr. Jing, newly hired by my young master," Qing Yu immediately introduced. "Please chat, you three. I'll take my leave first."

With that, he left.

Xu Jingming, Mr. Lu, and Miss Zi Teng gathered in the courtyard.

"I heard Young Master Chang mention that he would hire three experts to help," Zi Teng said with a smile. "Today, the three of us are finally together."

"Let's work together for the next three months and complete the mission well. That way, the mission evaluation from the Cosmos Group will be higher," Mr. Lu said.

"Actually, the mission isn't too difficult. In the residence, Young Master Chang often logs out of the virtual world, so the enemy can't find him even if they want to assassinate him," Zi Teng said. "It's only when he has to show his face that there's danger."

Xu Jingming nodded slightly.

Yes, logging off was the safest way to hide.

"Come, come, come. I just bought some wine in Lanyue City yesterday. Let's chat over drinks. Twelve hours a day, it gets boring besides cultivating our minds," Mr. Lu said enthusiastically, leading Xu Jingming and Zi Teng into the house to chat over drinks.

…

In the backyard garden of the residence, the drizzle had completely stopped, but the sky was still gloomy.

"The three great experts have all arrived," Chang Yi said, leaning against the railing and feeding the fish in the pond. He casually instructed, "Go, invite the three matchmakers that were arranged before, to my residence immediately! Stagger the times."

"Yes, Young Master."

Three guards beside him responded in unison and left.

Chang Yi watched the fish chasing after food in the pool, his eyes distant. "Ever since I became the master of the Chang family, the targeting in the Blood Rain World has obviously intensified. I almost got assassinated on the way to send Old Man Chang off. I have to be more careful. Once I make a wrong step, all the previous investments will be in vain. For this plan… I sold all my assets in reality! I even took out a loan! Whether I can turn the tables in one fell swoop… depends on this!"

He had been exploring the Blood Rain World for more than ten years, and only after a suitable opportunity arose did he dare to play big!

In just half an hour, a matchmaker arrived.

"This humble one greets Young Master Chang." This matchmaker arrived at the backyard garden and respectfully bowed. As a mere matchmaker, he was an ant that the master of the Chang family could crush at will, so he naturally dared not be disrespectful in the slightest.

"Mm."

Chang Yi sat there, casually instructing, "I'm preparing to sell my thirteen rice shops. Your agency should help broker the deal as soon as possible."

"The Chang family is giving up the rice shop business?" the matchmaker asked in surprise. "It's a century-old brand, and the business has always been quite good."

"The rice shop business is quite troublesome. I don't have the ability to manage it. Rather than have it fail in my hands, it's better to sell it off early," Chang Yi said. "It's best if these thirteen rice shops are sold to one buyer, so I don't have to run around so much."

"Yes, yes, yes, leave it to us," the matchmaker nodded. "Then Young Master Chang, what price are you planning to sell them for?"

"A minimum of 5,300 taels of silver," Chang Yi said.

"This humble one will keep it in mind," the matchmaker nodded.

"As soon as possible. If you can't find anyone within half a month, I'll have to go to other agencies," Chang Yi said.

"Young Master Chang, rest assured. I'll handle it for you now," the matchmaker was very enthusiastic. This was a big deal! Once successful, the commission would be considerable.

After this matchmaker left, another matchmaker arrived more than half an hour later, close to lunchtime.

"My Chang family's three restaurants are also ready to be sold together," Chang Yi instructed. "Find a buyer for me within half a month for a minimum price of 2,200 taels of silver."

In the afternoon.

"My Chang family's gambling den still has a two-year lease, rented to the Three Waters Gang. I'm planning to sell the gambling den! You can contact the Three Waters Gang first. If they don't intend to buy it, then contact other potential buyers," Chang Yi instructed the last matchmaker. "This gambling den must be at least 3,800 taels of silver."

In just one day, Chang Yi, through three agencies, prepared to sell the three most important assets of the Chang family. As for the remaining odds and ends and the ancestral home, Chang Yi wasn't in a hurry.

…

For the sake of the commissions, the three agencies were all working diligently to arrange the deals, and those who had been secretly paying attention to the Chang family also quickly received the news.

At night.

Lanyue City, in the elegant room of a luxurious seven-story restaurant, three men were drinking, eating meat, and chatting and laughing, with beautiful women pouring wine and serving them, having a great time.

"I toast Brother. If it weren't for Brother's accurate calculations, we would have suffered a great loss this time."

"That's right, it was dangerous! We had just killed that traitor when the Iron Eagle Gang surrounded us. It seems they used the traitor as bait, deliberately ambushing us. Fortunately, Brother sent people to arrive and joined forces with us from inside and outside to achieve a great victory. Although we lost seven brothers, the Iron Eagle Gang lost nearly a hundred people in this wave. They must be heartbroken!" The two men were a little excited.

The man in the golden robe sitting in the main seat said calmly, "In this world, if we don't want to be eaten, we can only eat others!"

The beauties beside them were terrified.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

"Hmm?" The three men frowned slightly.

Then, the door opened, and a gray-clad youth poked his head in with a smile, "Chief."

"Come in," the man in the golden robe said.

The gray-clad youth carefully stepped in, walked to the man in the golden robe sitting in the main seat, looked left and right, and didn't speak.

"You guys go down first." The man in the golden robe glanced at the serving women and instructed.

"Yes." The women retreated.

"What's the matter?" The man in the golden robe frowned.

"So cautious, what's the big deal?" The two burly men beside him also looked at the gray-clad youth.

"It's Chang Family's illegitimate son," the gray-clad youth whispered. Immediately, the three men in the golden robe became more serious. The gray-clad youth continued, "That illegitimate son is selling rice shops, restaurants, and gambling dens today through three agencies respectively. It seems he wants to sell all his assets and slip away."

"Sold everything?" the man in the golden robe asked with a frown. "What about the Chang family's ancestral home?"

"I haven't heard anything about the ancestral home," the gray-clad youth immediately said. "As soon as I learned that he was selling the rice shops, I arranged for people to run all over the nineteen agencies in the city, including the official agencies. I didn't hear anything about him selling the ancestral home."

"Hmm."

The man in the golden robe and the two burly men looked at each other.

"When Old Man Chang was dying, a childless old man, we were all ready to swallow the Chang family's property, and we even took care of the government," one of the burly men said, shaking his head. "Who would have thought that Old Man Chang would find an illegitimate son before he died! And let him take over the Chang family's business."

"We've been trying to find an opportunity to kill this illegitimate son, but he's very careful. A group of guards have been protecting him closely, and he hardly goes out," another burly man said. "Moreover, he shamelessly spent a lot of money to become a godson of Wu, the Blood Rain Guard commander. The Blood Rain Guard commander is not easy to provoke."

The man in the golden robe sneered, "That Commander Wu is very greedy and has a bunch of godsons! We're dealing with his godson, not dealing with Commander Wu! At worst, when we swallow the Chang family's property, we'll give Commander Wu a share of the benefits. Commander Wu… has to give our Flowery Moon Gang face too."

The Flowery Moon Gang was one of the three major gangs in Lanyue City, deeply rooted with tens of thousands of members. Although the Blood Rain Guard was a violent department, the imperial rule was weakening now, and the Blood Rain Guard's deterrent power had also weakened a lot.

"Now that Young Master Chang is selling his family property, once it's all sold, he might slip out of Lanyue City, and we won't get anything," the man in the golden robe said. "We can't wait any longer. We must keep an eye on this Young Master Chang. Once he leaves the house… find a chance and kill him!"

"He doesn't go out much," one of the burly men said.

"He's selling rice shops and restaurants, so he'll definitely have to go to the government to transfer the deeds!" the man in the golden robe said. "So he must leave his residence. As long as he comes out, we'll kill him in the street!"

"Yes."

The two burly men nodded.

In a large family like the Changs, there must be traps and mechanisms in the ancestral home, so they would suffer a great loss if they broke into the mansion. But outside? They were confident, after all, he was just an illegitimate son.