The Devil's Tribulation

Chapter 163 Qing'er's Difficulties

At the Zhong family's Juxian Manor, Qing'er reported the family affairs to Qian'er. After Qing'er finished speaking, she waited on the side. Qian'er thought for a while and said, "Forget it, there is no need to kill them all. Let them leave Fancheng. You take over and liquidate those assets, and..." The two sisters, Qing'er knew what her sister wanted to say. Qing'er said, "It's better for my sister to go to the Li family. It's better for my sister not to go. It's too much of a face, and I'm afraid they will cause trouble." Qian'er was also worried that if she went there in person, the Li family might do whatever they want in Fancheng. It's just right for my sister to go, because at least others dare not confirm whether the Zhong family really doesn't care about the Li family. When the time comes, the Li family will be suppressed by all sides and will soon fall apart. After all, it is the family they were born into, and Qian'er and Qing'er still can't bear to see their family decline.

After Qian'er dealt with family affairs, she began to retreat. Aunt Zhong was the same. Pan Chengfeng began his boring life of cultivation again, but this time he absorbed the best crystal beads. He had practiced in Wangyou Valley for a while before, and now he used the best crystal beads to practice, so the speed was much faster than before. Finally, a month later, Pan Chengfeng's cultivation level also broke through to the third level of foundation building. Shuang'er was at the fourth level of foundation building, still slightly ahead of Pan Chengfeng. As soon as he finished practicing today and walked out of the practice room, Shuang'er came to report that someone was looking for him outside. Pan Chengfeng thought to himself: "Finally they are here, how far have they run?"

Guan He was waiting in the hall of Juxian Manor, feeling a little restless. He thought to himself, "The young master asked me to come here to find him. The Zhong family just produced two masters of the Divine Transformation Realm." Just as he was getting worried, he heard Pan Chengfeng's voice, "Where have you been? Why are you so slow?" Guan He stood up hastily. Seeing a young girl following Pan Chengfeng into the hall, he was pleasantly surprised and said, "Young master, are you really here?" Pan Chengfeng frowned and said, "Why can't I be here?" Guan He seemed to realize that he had said the wrong thing, and hastily corrected himself, "What I meant was, how do you know the Zhong family?" Pan Chengfeng chuckled, "More than knowing them, I'll tell you later. Have you arrived in Nanzhou? Have you settled down?"

Guan He said a little embarrassedly: "It hasn't been long since I arrived in Nanzhou when I received the message from the young master. This high-level message talisman is really expensive. I really..." Pan Chengfeng smiled and said: "I'm sorry, the resources I gave you are indeed not enough for you to practice." Guan He hurriedly said: "No, no, no, the young master gave you enough, but I was reluctant to exchange it for the Glazed Grass."

Pan Chengfeng said, "You brought the Glazed Grass, didn't you? I didn't think about it before. If I give you the elixir, you still have to find someone to refine it. Ten Glazed Grasses are a bit eye-catching. Your cultivation is not enough, and I am afraid that you will be remembered. Give the Glazed Grass to me." Guan He didn't dare to disobey. He didn't know what the young master was going to do, but he still took out the Glazed Grass and returned it to Pan Chengfeng. Pan Chengfeng put away the Glazed Grass and threw a storage bag to Guan He and said, "There are 20 Broken Mirror Pills and high-quality crystal beads in it. Take it and gain a foothold in Nanzhou. Any high-level communication talismans, just buy them and use them. Report your progress to me from time to time in the future. Well, that's it, you can go back quickly."

Guan He felt a little dizzy. Now, let alone the cultivation resources for the brothers, they even had enough resources to cultivate to the middle stage of the Spiritualization. He looked into the storage bag and found these things. He asked excitedly, "Master, is there anything else?" Pan Chengfeng said, "No, you should hurry up and cultivate. It took you a month for this trip. It's too slow." Guan He lowered his head in shame. He had come here at the fastest speed while ensuring safety. However, the risks along the way were not small. After all, it was across states, and he was still alone without reaching the Spiritualization stage. It was quite dangerous.

Seeing Guan He lower his head, Pan Chengfeng consoled him, "I think your cultivation has reached a bottleneck. This time when you go back, you should work on breaking through. This is the Zhong family's experience of the breakthrough to the God Transformation stage. Take it to your brothers to have a good look." After throwing a jade slip to Guan He, Pan Chengfeng went back with his hands behind his back. Guan He took the jade slip and bowed to see Pan Chengfeng off. Some people couldn't wait to check the jade slip, and it was indeed the experience of the breakthrough of the God Transformation cultivator. This is really a timely help. How can they, the casual cultivators, get these things? These are only available in big families and sects, and the young master gave them to him casually. Guan He thought to himself, "What Li Zao said is right. We brothers are going to make it!"

Shuang'er asked in surprise, "Master, who is he? Why does he call you Master? Is he from Master's family?" Pan Chengfeng said with a chuckle, "I guess so, but it can't be made public now. I'll tell you in detail later." Shuang'er nodded and followed Pan Chengfeng with a little disappointment. Pan Chengfeng noticed Shuang'er's mood and asked, "Shuang'er, are you missing your family?" Shuang'er nodded and said, "Shuang'er wants to go see my brother, but I can't bear to leave Master..."

Pan Chengfeng touched Shuang'er's little head and said, "What's the big deal? Since you miss your brother, I'll let Qing'er arrange a party. You can take a few people to find your brother and reunite with him. The young master won't run away here~" Shuang'er was happy at first, then worried. She said with some entanglement, "My brother is fourteen now. If my father and mother were still here, we should find a wife for him. He is the only one left in the Gu family now."

Pan Chengfeng laughed and said, "Yes, Shuang'er is seventeen, and I am seventeen too. I will be eighteen next year. It seems unreasonable if I don't get married. Otherwise, Shuang'er will marry you first..." Before he finished speaking, Shuang'er was embarrassed and punched Pan Chengfeng's arm with her little fist and said, "Don't say it! Don't say it!!" Pan Chengfeng grabbed Shuang'er's hands with one hand and said, "It's only a matter of time. Why are you shy? Come on, let me kiss you first!" Shuang'er closed her eyes and waited for Pan Chengfeng's kiss. This kind of atmosphere would basically be destroyed. Qian'er did it several times, and Shuang'er was no exception. Qing'er was outside the door at some point. She coughed and said, "Brother-in-law, my sister just went into seclusion, and you are like this. Isn't it not good?" Qing'er knew that Shuang'er was Pan Chengfeng's personal maid. With this identity, she would be Pan Chengfeng's person sooner or later. However, as Qian'er's sister. How could she let Shuang'er get ahead?

Pan Chengfeng blushed for a rare time and quickly let go of Shuang'er. Shuang'er also lowered her head and ran back to the house shyly. Pan Chengfeng smiled and wanted to ease the awkward atmosphere. He changed the subject and said, "Sister Qing'er, have you finished dealing with family affairs? How come you have time to come and see your brother-in-law?" Qing'er said, "It's not that simple. There are so many trivial matters. Now it's just me and sister Qiaoli who are busy. It won't be that fast. After all, the Bai and Han families have thousands of years of heritage. Shops, mines and disciples all need to be counted and arranged one by one." Pan Chengfeng said, "Then sister Qing'er still has time to come and see your brother-in-law?" Qing'er said, "I'm just too busy, so I want to ask my brother-in-law for help~"

Pan Chengfeng shook his head and said, "I don't know how to do this. You should ask someone else." Qing'er said anxiously, "When the Bai and Han families left, they took away some shopkeepers and accountants. It's not that fast to train these people. Besides, these people have to be trusted by the family. With so many assets now, even if the original Zhong family members don't rest every day, they will have to work for several years to count them clearly." Pan Chengfeng said, "Then you should go find the accountant, why are you looking for me?"

Qing'er said with a smile: "Isn't my brother-in-law a good brother of Pavilion Master Chu? It shouldn't be difficult for you to borrow people from Pavilion Master Chu? Their Wanbao Pavilion has much more accounts than our Zhong family, and his people are definitely more powerful than the Zhong family. Let these arrogant guys in the Zhong family see that I can do without them!" Pan Chengfeng knew that Qing'er must have pushed those people too hard, and they collectively rebelled! How can you work overtime without overtime pay? ! Moreover, technical talents like this also have some tempers, and it must be difficult to appease them now.

Pan Chengfeng stared at Qing'er. Qing'er dodged Pan Chengfeng's gaze with a guilty conscience and said weakly: "Brother-in-law, what are you looking at..." Pan Chengfeng teased: "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect Qing'er is also a Zhou Ba Pi~ Did you pay them overtime?" Qing'er blurted out in a hurry: "Of course not! It's just that they want three times! It's a huge demand!" Three times is reasonable and can't be considered a huge demand. After all, if they have to work day and night, it's okay to pay more. Pan Chengfeng sighed: "What are they asking for now?" Qing'er said hatefully: "They want five times now! Let him dream! I won't ask anyone for help, but I won't ask them!" Pan Chengfeng said: "I can't go to Brother Chu for everything. We can solve trivial matters ourselves!"

Qing'er asked in confusion, "How do we solve this?" Pan Chengfeng asked, "How many of them are there? What are their cultivation levels?" Qing'er thought for a moment and said, "There are thirty-two people in total, two of them are at the Jindan stage, and the rest are at the foundation-building stage." Pan Chengfeng smiled slightly, "This is a small matter, let your brother-in-law solve it for you. Ask them to come to the hall and say they have something to announce."

In the hall of Juxian Manor, a group of accountants from the Zhong family have arrived. Qing'er has also arrived, but she didn't say anything. Everyone was wondering why Pan Chengfeng came. He sat down at the lower right position of the main seat in the hall with a smile. Now this is his exclusive seat. Everyone in the Zhong family knows him. He is the man chosen by the head of the family. He has just built his foundation, but he has sworn brotherhood with a big man like Chu Xuanji. So everyone didn't dare to neglect him and hurriedly bowed and said, "Hello, young master~" Qian'er didn't know how to introduce Pan Chengfeng, so she asked the family members to call Pan Chengfeng the young master. This was also Pan Chengfeng's own request.

Pan Chengfeng looked at the crowd, young and old, all of whom seemed to be in poor spirits. Statistics are a delicate job, and even though the energy of a cultivator is much stronger than that of a mortal, it is limited. Pan Chengfeng said with a smile: "Don't be polite, I am here today to help you solve your problems. No matter what happens, family affairs must come first, I think everyone should understand, right?"

The leading Jindan cultivator said, "Master, we know that, but the Seventh Elder is too much. He wants us to work day and night, but he only increases our monthly salary by 30%! We have families, so it's okay to do this. It's only for one or two years. We just ask for three times the salary. That's what the Eighth Elder gives, and we're all willing to do it, aren't we? But the Seventh Elder said that it was the Eighth Elder's business, and if we didn't want to do it, we could go find the Eighth Elder. If the Eighth Elder didn't have enough people, we would have really gone! At worst, we can just go our separate ways!"

Qing'er said angrily: "Zhong Jing! The family has spent so many resources to train you! Now it's time to use you, but you keep asking for more money! When there is nothing to do, has your salary ever been short of a crystal bead?! You..." Pan Chengfeng raised his hand to stop Qing'er from saying the rest. Pan Chengfeng was probably going to scold her. If they started arguing, things would be difficult to handle. At that time, they could only be suppressed by force. This kind of disunity is not a long-term solution. Qing'er was not in charge of these things originally. It was the second elder and the sixth elder who were in charge. Now both of them are dead, and Qing'er has taken over temporarily. It is only a matter of time before problems arise.

Pan Chengfeng pressed his hand and said, "Qing'er is indeed wrong in this matter~" Qing'er hurriedly said, "Brother-in-law~" Pan Chengfeng said in a serious tone, "Shut up!" Qing'er was still a little afraid of this brother-in-law. Although he only had the foundation-building cultivation, he gave her a lot of pressure. Seeing Qing'er shut up, Pan Chengfeng continued to smile and said, "Is this Mr. Zhong Jing?" Zhong Jing bowed and said, "I don't dare to be a gentleman. I just worked as an accountant in the family from the beginning and have been in charge of the inflow and outflow of the Zhong family's minerals. It has been three hundred years now." Pan Chengfeng nodded and said, "So he is an old accountant. Now let's not argue about who is right or wrong. The affairs of the Zhong family cannot be delayed, otherwise the head of the family will go out of retreat, and everyone will have a hard time explaining, right?" After speaking, he glanced at Qing'er and continued, "You are counting the assets of the Bai family. Let me ask you, if you go all out, how long will it take to finish?"

Zhong Jing didn't know what Pan Chengfeng meant, but he turned around and discussed with another Jindan cultivator and several foundation-building accountants. It seemed that these few were the leaders. After about a quarter of an hour, Zhong Jing bowed and said, "Master, if we go all out, we should be able to complete it in eight or nine months!" Qing'er said angrily, "You said it would take a year and a half!" Zhong Jing ignored Qing'er. Although he was only at the seventh level of Jindan, his contribution to the Zhong family, except for fighting, was far better than Qing'er. Pan Chengfeng turned his head to look at Qing'er, shook his head, and thought to himself, "I don't even want to tell you the truth, you are really a failure, it seems that Qing'er is really not suitable for managing family affairs."

Pan Chengfeng stood up and said with a smile, "Okay! If you report the results to the Seventh Elder before the patriarch comes out of retreat, I promise that you two will each get one Infant Transformation Pill, and one Condensation Pill for the remaining one! And you will get five times your salary for working overtime!" Zhong Jing shuddered with excitement, "Master, are you serious?" Pan Chengfeng said, "Look, I gave all these pills to the Seventh Elder." As he spoke, he took out the pills, opened them in front of him, put them back, and then gave them to Qing'er, saying, "As long as they finish on time, these pills will be distributed to them." Qing'er took the pills and said angrily, "Got it." Zhong Jing said excitedly, "What are you waiting for? Get to work! We must complete the goal even if we die of exhaustion!" To die of exhaustion is an exaggeration, it is not so easy for a cultivator to die of exhaustion.