Chapter 443: Yuan Family’s Signature Product
Translator: Tim Editor: GlobeGlotter
Seeing Ye Mo’s continued silence, Gu Chong quickly added, “Four years ago, at the Yuan Bei Lou food poisoning incident, forty-three workers died. This was also suppressed by Mayor Niu, who was then only a Vice-Mayor.”
Even that could be suppressed? With modern technology, you’d have to be very capable to do that. This was different from Ye Mo’s slaughter in the hidden sects. No matter how many people died in the hidden sects, no government would care.
However, Ye Mo hadn’t expected something as significant as a food poisoning incident to have been covered up.
Gu Chong said, “These were homeless people the Yuan family had found. So when the incident happened, it didn’t matter much. Many people never even heard about it.”
‘No wonder!’ Ye Mo thought.
Wait, if the Yuan family really wanted to build Yuan Bei Lou, they would need more than forty workers. And why homeless people?
Maybe to create that underground base? Ye Mo immediately understood. On the surface, the Yuan family used them to build Yuan Bei Lou, but secretly, they used them to dig the underground base. After that, they were all killed. This was comparable to the methods of ancient emperors.
“How did your brother-in-law find out about this?” Ye Mo continued.
Gu Chong answered without hesitation, “My brother-in-law used to be the mayor’s secretary. He only became the Police Vice-Chief this year.”
So that was it! Ye Mo nodded.
“Bring me to where you keep the copied information. You’ve saved your life,” Ye Mo said. He could give Shi Xiu anything of little use to him, to help him progress.
“Yes, yes, Big Brother. About my two men…” Gu Chong muttered shakily.
Ye Mo said plainly, “They won’t die yet. Once you return, just splash water on their faces.”
Gu Chong knew Ye Mo meant to splash them with water, but he didn’t dare to refute. He was scared of angering Ye Mo.
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Gu Chong didn’t live far away, so twenty minutes later, Ye Mo and Lu Yingying were taking a storage disk from Gu Chong’s place. After confirming the data, Ye Mo was finished with Gu Chong. He left with Lu Yingying without even treating his hand.
Ye Mo believed Gu Chong wouldn’t dare to reveal this. If word got out, it would be bad for him and his brother-in-law.
“Come over to my place for a chat?” Lu Yingying looked at Ye Mo expectantly.
“Sure.” Ye Mo wanted to know where Lu Yingying had gotten her Blue Flower Blue Leaf Grass. If she had a lot, he wouldn’t need to worry about cultivation resources anymore. He could easily enter the chi gathering tertiary stage.
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Lu Yingying’s place wasn’t far from the bar. She rented a one-bedroom apartment.
It was an old building. When Ye Mo arrived, there was only a sleeping old man guarding it, and the entire block was deserted. Even the streetlights were dim.
Lu Yingying lived on the third floor. When Ye Mo entered, the lighting was poor. Luckily they were on the third floor; otherwise, it would have probably smelled musty.
Ye Mo sat in the living room as Lu Yingying poured him a drink. Ye Mo could tell the drink contained Blue Flower Blue Leaf Grass, but it was useless to him; the herb lacked even a single flower.
Although Ye Mo was disappointed, he didn’t speak. He knew Lu Yingying had brought him here because of the Blue Flower Blue Leaf Grass. There was no need to ask before she spoke.
Lu Yingying poured herself a drink and sat facing Ye Mo. Then, she asked shakily, “Since you know it’s a herb, are you a cultivator?”
Ye Mo thought for a moment. ‘Cultivator’ was ambiguous; ancient martial arts were cultivation, as was spirit chi cultivation. Since she asked this way, she didn’t understand cultivation.
Ye Mo didn’t explain and nodded, “Yes, I am.”
Lu Yingying nearly spilled her drink. She stood and knelt before Ye Mo.
Ye Mo felt strange. Lu Yingying begged, crying, “Please help me, Qianbei.”
Ye Mo frowned and said coldly, “If you have something to ask, sit down and speak. I have questions too, but if you keep kneeling, I’ll leave.”
Lu Yingying quickly sat down. She wiped her eyes and said, “My family is from a small village in Jing City, but my parents weren’t there. I lived with my younger brother and grandfather. My grandfather became a doctor of Chinese medicine, taught by a master who gave him recipes and a herb cultivation method.”
A herb cultivation method? Ye Mo immediately thought of the Blue Flower Blue Leaf Grass, which needed spirit chi to survive. Even in the wild, it grew in places with spirit chi. Although Lu Yingying’s herb lacked flowers, if she’d grown it herself, that was astonishing.
Lu Yingying continued, “This recipe is for Heart Protection Serum, and it requires many herbs, making it very complicated. Blue Flower Blue Leaf Grass is a main ingredient. Four years ago, two men, one in his fifties and one in his forties, came to my grandfather to buy the serum. He refused, but they killed him and my brother, and took our ancestral recipe.”
Ye Mo sighed. Lu Yingying was pitiful.
Lu Yingying continued, gritting her teeth, “The dog’s barking alerted the village and scared them away. When I returned, my grandfather was dying. Before he died, he told me what they looked like and said that if I found someone who knew about Blue Flower Blue Leaf Grass, I could ask for help. He said that without finding someone, I shouldn’t seek revenge. They didn’t know the recipe lacked the main ingredient, Blue Flower Blue Leaf Grass. It would still work, but it would be less potent.”
“Why someone who knows about Blue Flower Blue Leaf Grass?” Ye Mo asked subconsciously.
Lu Yingying calmed down and explained, “Because the master who gave my grandfather the recipe was a cultivator, and he said only cultivators would know about Blue Flower Blue Leaf Grass.”
Lu Yingying looked at Ye Mo before continuing, “Three years ago, Yuan Bei Corporation’s Heart Safety Serum entered the market and became their top product. Then I realized it was the Yuan family. I stayed in He Feng, in the bar closest to the Yuan family, advertising Blue Flower Blue Leaf Wine. I wanted to attract someone who knew about Blue Flower Blue Leaf Grass and find a way to kill Yuan Zhirong.
But in three years, I haven’t found anyone, nor had a chance to kill Yuan Zhirong. In desperation, I met you. My grandfather said that if I met a cultivator who knew about Blue Flower Blue Leaf Grass, I could give them the cultivation method and ask for revenge.”
After saying this, Lu Yingying walked to a cabinet and opened it, taking out a disk-shaped object. “This cultivates Blue Flower Blue Leaf Grass. Just plant the seed in fresh air and put the disk beside it. Then the herb will grow.”