Dan Chenzi's idea was simple.
Before the bosses of other medicinal material shops knew that Tianbao Pavilion and Ao Ji had terminated their cooperation.
Sign contracts with those people.
After all, Tianbao Pavilion is the largest medicinal material merchant in Gan Country.
The resources it holds are not as much as others combined.
If Tianbao Pavilion proposes to develop with them, those people will definitely agree readily.
In this way.
Even if they knew the truth.
It would be too late.
To put it bluntly, this is taking advantage of a time difference.
But if it works, it would be as if they were still cooperating with Ao Ji.
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At the same time.
Gong Jian returned to the Gong family.
Gong Yi seemed to have expected Gong Jian to return.
He waited at the door with a group of wicked servants.
"I knew you would come back." Gong Yi sat on a stool, crossing his legs, with a dissolute demeanor.
"But."
"The Gong family is not a place you can just leave and come back to as you please."
Gong Jian suppressed the anger in his heart: "What do you want?"
Gong Yi snapped his fingers.
Those eight wicked servants stood side by side with sinister smiles.
Then they spread their legs simultaneously.
Gong Yi's lips curved upwards: "As long as you crawl between their legs, you can return to the Gong family."
"And you can be the chef you want to be."
Gong Jian instinctively clenched his fists.
At this moment.
He wanted to kill.
Never had such a strong desire.
He really wanted to sever Gong Yi's head.
And use his head as a chamber pot.
After all.
It was he who cut off his own lifeline, forcing him to return to the Gong family.
Now that he was back.
The other party was humiliating him like this, making him crawl under the legs of a group of servants.
This was simply treating him like he was not human.
But thinking of Chen Nan's words.
He still knelt on the ground.
Like a dog begging for mercy.
He crawled between the legs of the eight servants.
Even if he was humiliated today, it was no big deal.
As long as he could become the new patriarch of the Gong family.
These people would pay a heavy price.
Just as Gong Jian endured the humiliation and crawled between the legs of eight people.
Gong Yi appeared in front of him.
He was like a king ruling over the world: "My shoes are a bit dirty, lick them clean for me."
"Of course."
"You can also say no."
"But you need to understand one thing, my father is now the patriarch of the Gong family."
"With just a word from me, I can decide your life or death."
"Oh, and the life or death of your slut mother."
"I'll lick it, I'll lick it..." Gong Jian bent down and licked the dirt off Gong Yi's shoes.
Humiliation.
Anger.
Intertwined at this moment, turning into a ferocious killing intent.
But he knew.
It was not yet time to turn hostile.
Once he ascended to the position of Gong family patriarch, he would repay the shame he suffered today a hundredfold, a thousandfold.
"Bang!"
Seeing Gong Jian's obedience.
Gong Yi was very angry.
He kicked him more than ten meters away, blood gushing from his mouth.
"Trash, no backbone at all."
"What's the point if you're like this and I bully you?"
Just then.
Gong Yi's father, Gong Qingyang, walked out of the Gong family.
He was Gong Jian's second uncle.
The current patriarch of the Gong family.
Seeing Gong Jian spitting blood, he frowned, seemingly displeased with his son's behavior.
With a stern face, he said, "He's just a bastard, what's the point of bullying him?"
"Isn't it better to just kill him?"
Gong Yi said with a smile: "Father, he is my elder uncle's son, and the blood of our Gong family flows in his veins. As fellow kinsmen, how can we harm each other?"
"Let him stay in the kitchen, his culinary skills are quite good."
"As you wish!" Gong Qingyang said indifferently, "I just received a message from Xia Maofeng, asking me to go to Tianbao Pavilion. You come along to get acquainted."
"Okay." Gong Yi was overjoyed, and then said to the eight wicked servants: "Arrange this guy in the kitchen, and remember to treat him well."
"After all, he is my brother, my dear relative." He winked.
"Young master, don't worry, we will definitely serve young master Gong Jian well." A cunning-looking fellow grinned.
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Then the father and son headed to Tianbao Pavilion. Gong Yi was full of curiosity: "Father, Tianbao Pavilion has always been our competitor, why did Patriarch Xia invite us this time?"
The Xia family is the largest medicinal material merchant in Gan Country.
They monopolize seventy percent of the medicinal materials on the market.
They have always looked down on other families.
This time they were invited to Tianbao Pavilion, Gong Yi couldn't understand what medicine they were selling.
Gong Qingyang: "Judging by Patriarch Xia's tone, it should be good news."
Gong Yi didn't say much and followed his father to Tianbao Pavilion, where he met Xia Maofeng.
Although he had been beaten severely before.
Dan Chenzi was a Grandmaster Alchemist.
He possessed many elixirs.
Therefore.
Xia Maofeng had already recovered by this time.
He had prepared tea.
"Please sit down, both of you!" Xia Maofeng made an inviting gesture. After the father and son sat down, he got straight to the point: "I am a straightforward person and I don't like to beat around the bush."
"Let me tell you why I asked Patriarch Gong to come."
Gong Qingyang: "Patriarch Xia, please speak."
Xia Maofeng said: "Medicinal materials are the number one leading industry in Gan Country, bringing enormous tax revenue to the imperial court every year."
"However."
"Currently, the medicinal material industry in Gan Country is a mix of good and bad."
"As far as I know, there are dozens of different named and hundreds of medicinal material shops in the capital alone."
"It is indeed convenient for the common people to buy medicinal materials."
"But the quality of medicinal materials in the shops is uneven."
"As far as I know, the imperial court will soon rectify the medicinal material industry."
"To make it standardized and regularized."
"My intention is simple: let our two families join forces to seize the entire market share."
As soon as these words were spoken.
Gong Qingyang and Gong Yi gasped.
Clearly, they hadn't expected such good news.
Of course.
They did not doubt Xia Maofeng's words about the imperial court rectifying the medicinal material industry.
After all, his master was Dan Chenzi.
A Grandmaster Alchemist in Gan Country.
After hesitating for a moment, Gong Qingyang said, "Patriarch Xia, there is something I, Gong, do not understand."
"In terms of financial strength and family heritage."
"My Gong family can only be considered upper-middle, but why did you choose us?"
Gong Yi's eyes were also full of confusion.
Although he was arrogant and overbearing.
He still had some self-awareness.
Xia Maofeng choosing the Gong family made the father and son feel flattered.
But as the old saying goes, every abnormality must have its reason.
Xia Maofeng said: "The reason for choosing the Gong family is mainly because of Patriarch Gong's character."
"Righteousness reaches the clouds, loyalty and righteousness."
"If I had to choose one person among the many medicinal material merchants in Gan Country."
"Besides your Gong family, who else could it be?"
Gong Qingyang swallowed involuntarily.
"I am righteous and reach the clouds? Loyal and righteous?"
If I hadn't killed my own brother with my own hands.
Perhaps I would have believed your nonsense.
Just then.
A staff member from Tianbao Pavilion rushed in: "Master, something has happened! Ao Ji Teahouse has posted a notice announcing the termination of cooperation with us."
Xia Maofeng's face turned ashen.
He didn't expect Ao Ji to make this public so suddenly.
This move was beyond his expectations.
It made him unable to guard against it and difficult to cope!