Chapter 48: Exorbitant Appearance Fee!

  Exorbitant appearance fee!! Collecting!!

  Yan Jing paused for a moment, her beautiful eyes staring intently at Wu Zhengye. She waited until she saw Wu Zhengye's seemingly nonchalant expression, but actually perked up his ears to listen, before Yan Jing smiled lightly and said, "Master Wu, the appearance fee for each of those three families is one million!"

  "Gosh! So much!" Wu Zhengxie's eyes widened in shock, and his lips kept mumbling up and down.

  When she saw Wu Zhengxie's appearance, for some reason, Yan Jing's heart was very happy. However, she hadn't paid much attention to this strange phenomenon yet. After all, Yan Jing in the police station was known as the 'Ice Beauty', who never liked to smile and always had a serious expression.

  Now he insisted on splitting a sentence into two parts to torture Wu Zhengye, this 'master' who had no pursuit at all.

  Only then did Yan Jing smile lightly and continue, "After the matter is settled, each of the three families will still have two million in compensation. Calculating it, each family would be three million."

  "Three... three million!!!!!" Wu Zhengye plopped his butt down on the stone slab behind him, which was covered with two hospital gowns, muttering to himself, "Damn it, three million must be worth a lot of old people's heads! If you split them up, wouldn't that be enough to cover a bed? If you tied them together, could you knock someone dead with one hit?"

  If I get that 3 million, even if I take just one layer, it's still 300,000. 300,000 yuan, Master can eat three meals a day, each meal eating six pieces of tofu rice, three times six is fifteen... no, three times six is eighteen!

  One day is eighteen yuan, ten days is one hundred and eighty yuan, twenty days is three hundred and sixty yuan...... thirty......”

  "Cough, cough," Hearing Wu Zhengye's muttering, Yan Jing slapped him on the shoulder, "I'm telling you, Master Wu, it's still daytime and you're already daydreaming? The hospital thing hasn't been resolved yet, why would they give you 3 million?"

  This sentence was like a basin of cold water poured over Wu Zhengye's head, making him suddenly wake up. At this moment, Wu Zhengye couldn't sit still anymore, and he reached out to pull Yan Jing's jade-like hand towards the outside of the cave, saying "I'm telling you, Sister Yan, hurry up! If we're slow, others will make the money and I'll definitely regret it until I die."

  Wu, who was blinded by money, did not notice that Yan Da Mei, whose hand he was holding, had a slightly red face, but she surprisingly did not resist.

  If this scene were seen by the police of H City's north and south cities, Wu Zhengyi, Wu Dashi would definitely be killed by their eyes.

  Just as they were about to leave the cave, Yan Jing suddenly pulled her hand back forcefully from Wu Zhengye's grasp. Wu Zhengye was taken aback and immediately understood what was happening. For a moment, Wu Zhengye smiled foolishly...

  Today is January 16th, and H city still has fine snowflakes floating around, but they are much smaller than the last two days. However, it's just as cold!

  Standing at the entrance of the cave, as the cold wind blew in, Yan Jing's face suddenly turned three shades paler, and her entire body swayed.

  She was caught by Wu Zhengye, who rushed forward to support Yan Jing. With the bright light outside the cave, Wu Zhengye finally saw Yan Jing's current appearance, and for a moment, his eyebrows furrowed tightly.

  "Yan Jie, during these four days, have you been working overtime?" Wu Zheng Xie said solemnly, "I told you before, you were being tracked by that Corpse Evil. Although I blocked the most critical hit for you, the remaining evil corpse aura is not something you can withstand. These four days, if you had quietly rested and recovered, it would have been fine, at most a serious illness, and you could have recovered in two or three months. But now..."

  "I'm fine!" Yan Jing struggled to get up, "Wu Zhengye, help me up, you see, I'm not in trouble, right? It's just that these few days have been a bit tiring, after they pass, I'll rest for a while and be fine."

  "Nothing's wrong?" Wu Zhengxie looked at Yan Jing's pale but determined face and said in a deep voice, "Yan Jing, do you know what you're consuming now? You're consuming your limited life force! If this continues, you'll collapse within seven days, and once you collapse, you won't be able to wake up again."

  "I'm really fine!" Yan Jing struggled to shake off Wu Zhengye's big hand, stood up, and gave Wu Zhengye a sweet smile. That haggard face plus this beautiful smile made Wu Zhengye's heart twitch violently.

  "Wu Dashi, you're very concerned about me?" Yan Jing blinked her enchanting beautiful eyes, smiling yet not smiling as she looked at Wu Zhengyi.

  Upon hearing this, Wu Zhengyi's old face suddenly turned red for no reason and he reflexively said, "What are you talking about? This master is just remembering the 5,000 yuan that was left at your place. Oh right, didn't you promise to compensate me with a down jacket back then? It still hasn't been fulfilled yet."

  "Do you still remember?" Yan Jing smiled and said, "Let's go, today I'll give you a set of clothes and treat you to a meal."

  "What, is this a good thing?" Wu Zhengxie was suddenly delighted, but immediately Wu Zhengxie shook his head, "Yan Jie, I think we should go and solve the hospital matter first, that's 30 million yuan!"

  Bai glared at Wu Zhengyi, and said calmly, "Don't worry about the hospital matter, those three families have agreed to hold a ritual tonight, we can make it there this afternoon. Besides, I still have your 5,000... Ah, 5,000 yuan? Your sect's rules say that it should be used to help others, so now, let's go donate these 5,000 yuan, what do you think?"

  "Wu Zhengye gritted his teeth, and for a moment, he really didn't want to give in. But when he saw Yan Jing's serious gaze fixed on him, Wu finally clenched his teeth and agreed, "Alright, but Sister Yan, I'm only donating 4,500! The remaining 500 is the master's survival money for traveling the world."

  "Stingy ghost!" Yan Jing let out a cold hum and immediately headed towards a van parked by the side of the road below the cave.

  In the back, Wu Zhengxie's face looked extremely ugly, and he muttered in his mouth, "Damn it, 4,500 bucks, Yan Jie lend me an ID card, Master will put these 4,500 bucks into the bank, after a hundred years...".

  "Hey, Yan Jie, wait for me!" Wu Zhengxie, who was muttering to himself, saw Yan Jing start the van and hastily said, "I haven't reached the state of being able to fly through the air yet, sigh... I'm telling you, Yan Jie, wait for me!"

  Yan Jing poked her head out of the driver's seat and smiled, "Master Wu, get in. However, riding in this lady's car isn't free, you know."

  "A toll?" Wu Zhengxie's footsteps stopped abruptly, and he looked at Yan Jing with a puzzled expression. "I'm saying, Yan sister, you're not going to charge me, are you? I've saved your life before, this is how you repay me?"

  "Just kidding with you,"

  Upon hearing this, Wu Zhengyi's face lit up with joy and he exclaimed, "I knew it, Sister Yan, you're the best! This old master has been traveling the world for decades, meeting countless people, but truly good people are hard to come by. If I had to compare, you, Sister Yan, would definitely be one of the most outstanding!"

  "Cough," he silently gave Wu Zhengxie a cold glance, shifted gears and stepped on the gas pedal, driving forward. "Wu Zhengxie, male, Han ethnicity, from Baohe Town, H City, currently 25 years old, didn't I get it right?"

  In the rearview mirror, Wu Zhengyi's face looked slightly embarrassed. "I just didn't understand, Master Da has been traveling the world for decades... cough, tens of years, and never had an ID card. How did you find out about me, Yan sisters?"

  Upon hearing this, Yan Jing's mouth curved up slightly in a pleased smile. He glanced at Wu Zhengye through the rearview mirror and said, "This is a secret of our police department. You want to know? It's not impossible, but you have to promise to help us solve one of our recent cases for free."

  "Is there a reward?" Wu Zhengxie asked in a low voice.

  The only response was a calm and gentle hum, "Master Wu, is there anything else in your eyes besides money? Is money really that important to you?"

  "Of course it's important!" Wu Zhengyi immediately replied, "We cultivators, before our strength reaches the legendary level of Bigu, that is, the state of relying on absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to sustain life, need worldly spiritual objects to supplement what we need. Of course, the higher the realm, the greater the quantity needed."

  Sister Yan, you must know that treasures known as heavenly and earthly spiritual objects are extremely precious. Take ginseng for example, real wild mountain ginseng is priceless to me, even if it's just a ten-year-old ingredient, let alone a hundred-year-old one!

  And I currently need the most is to take in food and clothing from the wild mountains and ginseng and other spiritual things to nourish my energy, otherwise, my cultivation will not be able to progress.

  "And all of this is based on a foundation of money, you say, how important is money to me?"

  When Wu Zhengye finished speaking, Yan Jing rarely did not refute him. After a moment of silence, Yan Jing said, "Wu Zhengye, I have a police academy classmate from Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin Province. His father is an old ginseng farmer in the Changbai Mountains. He should have some old ginseng there. If you need it, I can ask my friend to mail some over."

  "Yan Jie, I don't have that much money right now." Wu Zheng said gloomily, "Even if we successfully resolve the matter of H City's First People's Hospital, the most I can get my hands on is 300,000. At the price of old ginseng, 300,000 can barely buy a five-year-old ginseng."

  After a moment of silence, a stern voice came quietly, "Wu Zhengxie, I have some savings here for several years, but not much, only 600,000 yuan. The rest of the money has been donated by me. I can lend you this 600,000 yuan, but you must promise to help me solve the few unsolved cases that have appeared recently."

  Upon hearing this, Wu Zhengye was taken aback for a moment and carefully examined Yan Jing's expression through the rearview mirror. After a brief moment, Wu Zhengye's face changed.

  "Yan Jing, now you have a feeling too, right?" Wu Zhengxie said solemnly, "According to the current situation, you only have five days left to live."