Chapter 74: The sinister plot of poaching
Chapter 74: The sinister plot of poaching
Five days passed, and the booming business that Boss Wen predicted did not occur at all, and the market remained quite depressed.
In the entire market, only Baiweilou and Wuyinfang had customers, and the rest of the shops didn't sell even half a single item.
The dishes at Baiweilou are indeed delicious. The employee meals are delivered there every day. Cheng Ziwei and Li Yu enjoy every meal very much.
But even if the dishes are delicious, since the ingredients are not high-level spiritual beast meat and spiritual plants, the price is not expensive, and the profit is not high. The same is true for Wuyinfang. Although the music is moving, the profit is only the money for tea, snacks and dried fruits.
Business has been bad, and Boss Wen's condition seems to be getting worse day by day.
Today, which was the third day, Cheng Ziwei sat at the counter, frowning as she looked at Wen Rui, who was lying in a spread-eagle position in the store. She even suspected that this man had been possessed by someone.
He was a well-behaved and calm person before, but when he got drunk he started talking nonsense and acting crazy.
Wen Rui was drunk as a wretch. Even though he was dizzy and unable to get up, he continued to drink while lying on the ground.
"I look to the moon with my heart, but the moon shines on the ditch! Why are you all so principled?"
"I didn't succeed in any of them. This month's KPI has been ruined again. I've lost the Hell Experience Card exemption. It's gone!"
"Why do new disciples have to undergo character assessments? They say they want to learn from their failures and not just randomly recruit new members. Back then, the Jiejiao recruitment criteria were not like this!"
……
It seems that he has suffered a great blow, which seems to be related to his recent failure to lure employees into joining the church.
Although Cheng Ziwei didn't understand why he was so distressed, she couldn't help but feel a little sympathy for him when she saw his miserable drunken appearance.
The girl made a cup of hot tea using the tea set on the counter, then brought the tea to Wen Rui, squatted down and handed the cup to his mouth.
"Boss, have a cup of tea to wake you up."
Wen Rui opened his sleepy eyes, looked at her face clearly, and said, "It's Xiaowei. Xiaowei, I'll give you one million, can you join Jiejiao?"
The girl rolled her eyes at him and shook her head, "Boss, stop talking nonsense when you're drunk, don't say that..."
"What about five million? I'm serious. You know I can afford it!"
"Uh..." Cheng Ziwei couldn't help but pause, but she quickly woke up from the temptation and shook her head more resolutely: "No!"
The kind master who treated her like her own daughter and the happy fellow disciples who were as close to her as a family could not be exchanged for mere spirit stones.
Wen Rui sighed deeply, shook his head helplessly, and whispered: "Jarvis, control the nanorobots to remove the alcohol in my body."
After this order was issued, his drunken eyes immediately cleared up and the strong smell of alcohol on his body dissipated.
Cheng Ziwei didn't understand what was going on and guessed that it was the secret hangover-removing spell of the Jiejiao sect that was used.
Wen Rui, who had sobered up, looked at the female monk with sharp eyes, as if he was thinking about something, and muttered softly: "Only gentlemen are allowed to be recruited, but there is a way, gentlemen can be deceived..."
"Boss, the way you look at me is a little scary. What are you talking about?" Feeling a little chilly, the girl couldn't help but take a step back.
"Xiao Wei, I have a question for you. It's not a difficult question. You just need to follow your heart and tell the truth."
"Um, just ask, don't ask me weird questions..."
"Suppose, for example, there is someone you care about and he is in danger of death or poisoning. In short, his life is hanging by a thread."
Although Wen Rui's tone was kind and soothing, Cheng Ziwei felt it was eerie. "Only I can save that person. If I don't take action, he will die. But the condition for me to take action is that you must join Jiejiao. What will you choose?"
"Eh? Eh!"
The female monk was confused. Although she was inexperienced, she was not a fool and she heard something bad from the question.
"You can't do anything rash! What are you going to do to my friends and family?"
Wen Rui quickly waved his hands and said, "You seem to have misunderstood. This is not a threat. I can swear a great oath that I will never attack your relatives and friends in order to force you to join Jiejiao."
After swearing an oath to appease the panicked girl, Wen Rui continued to explain: "It's just an idea. I have mastered many secret methods of saving people that are unique to Jiejiao. If you encounter a difficult situation, you can come to me for help. Then you can't blame me for taking advantage of you."
Cheng Ziwei frowned and said angrily: "You know that doing this is taking advantage of someone's misfortune. You use family affection to force people to join the religion. It's too despicable!"
"Is it mean?" Wen Rui looked confused. "I don't owe you anything, so why should I help you? Do you think I'm the kind of person who likes to make selfless contributions? The Human Religion took advantage of my Jie Religion during the Conferred Gods War, so I'm very generous not to take advantage of you Human Religion believers and retaliate in kind."
At this point, he spread his hands and said, "Speaking of character and principles, Jiejiao people only help Jiejiao people. This is also a matter of principle. I think it is fair. The choice is yours, not mine."
"You... this is not..."
Cheng Ziwei was speechless for a moment and really didn't know how to organize her words to refute Wen Rui's fallacies.
She thought about it carefully. If her master was poisoned and dying, Wen Rui was the only one in the world who could save him. There was nothing to blame him for not saving him. After all, they were not disciples of the same religion and had no obligation to rescue him. What's more, they were enemies five hundred years ago.
It's like when a demon is injured and asks a moralist for help. It's good enough that the moralist doesn't kill the demon. Can you morally blackmail him by saying that the moralist didn't help?
Then the choice is really up to me, and it becomes a question of whether I should stick to my principles and watch my master, who is like a father to me, die, or abandon my principles and defect to the Jiejiao in order to save my master's life.
"Don't talk about this or that. Be honest. If this is the case, what would you choose?"
"I, I will agree to join Jiejiao..."
Wen Rui was delighted and waved his fist at the air: "Great, such a good idea, why didn't I think of it before?"
His depressed mood suddenly made a 180-degree turn. He paced back and forth excitedly, muttering, "Jarvis, notify the Chamber of Commerce to spread the news. If there are disciples from various sects of the Human Religion who are willing to sacrifice themselves to save their relatives and friends, as long as they are willing to swear to defect from their sect and join the Jie Religion, I, Wen Rui, will do my utmost to help them and ensure the safety of their relatives and friends!"
He rubbed his hands together and muttered happily, "I must spread my name, 'Timely Rain' Wen Rui, throughout the martial arts world. This will not only help me recruit disciples with good conduct, but also help me save people and accumulate merit. It's really the best of both worlds!"
A good mood doesn't appear out of thin air, it just moves.
Cheng Ziwei felt terrible, and her heart was heavy and depressed, just like Wen Rui who was depressed and drinking just now.
She felt as if she had accidentally opened a Pandora's box and released a lot of bad things.
“Timely Rain” Wen Rui?
This rain is not a good rain, it is a rain of treason. Whoever it falls on will be regarded as a traitor.
A disciple who is willing to save others and sacrifice himself voluntarily must have good moral character, but he has no choice but to betray the sect in this dilemma. If he sticks to his principles and refuses to betray the sect, and watches his master or fellow disciples die, how will he cope with the future in the sect?
The feeling of guilt and remorse alone can destroy the pure mind of a person who is striving for progress.
This is simply digging into the foundation of the human religion, and it's digging into the aorta!
Wen Rui also noticed the change in Cheng Ziwei's expression. As if he had thought of something, he waved his hand and said, "Jarvis, temporary engineer Ziwei has made great contributions in giving advice. I will give her a bonus of 100,000 spirit stones. It will be paid out together with the next salary settlement!"
"Who gave me advice? I don't want any bonus!"
The girl screamed in terror and ran away.
(End of this chapter)