Urban Martial Saint

Ye Qing’s acquaintance was, of course, Liu Yuan.

Liu Yuan had indeed bet on the right horse. When Ye Qing had just arrived in Shenchuan City and was still a salesman at Mu Qingrong’s company, he had given Ye Qing several orders. In particular, for a few orders, he had even paid all the amounts in advance, pioneering an industry practice and helping Mu Qingrong’s company survive. Later, when several companies joined forces against Mu Qingrong, he stood by her firm, demonstrating true loyalty.

Now valued by Lin Zhen Nan, Mu Qingrong had risen to be a high-ranking executive in Lin Corporation, overseeing many of the corporation’s businesses. After reaching this point, Mu Qingrong, of course, did not forget Liu Yuan, who had helped her in tough times; she cooperated with him on many projects.

The business of Lin Corporation was no ordinary affair. Liu Yuan obtained abundant business from Mu Qingrong, equivalent to the company’s five-year plan. Such sudden fortune made the company’s president ecstatic, who promptly promoted Liu Yuan to general manager and even shared a significant portion of the company’s stocks with him. Overnight, Liu Yuan went from a sales supervisor to controlling a company, a meteoric rise, and his feelings about this were beyond words.

Moreover, Ye Qing’s assets in Shenchuan City were now exceedingly substantial. Together with Li Lianshan, the underground king of Shenchuan City, their renown was unmatched. In such circumstances, Liu Yuan’s business volume increased even more, and their company expanded several times over, now rapidly growing beyond the boss’s original expectations.

Liu Yuan’s profound gratitude toward Ye Qing for everything he had today was needless to say. When Ye Qing called him, it took less than half an hour for him to drive over, and he also brought a team of decorators to start measuring several rooms on the spot.

Even back when Tie Yongwen was around, the Xingyi Martial Arts School did not have such pulling power. Seeing Liu Yuan and his team busily at work, the Xingyi School members couldn’t help but silently marvel at Ye Qing’s influence in Shenchuan City. Especially those from the Southern Xingyi School who knew Ye Qing’s identity and his poor background before coming to Shenchuan City, living under a bridge. In just six months, Ye Qing had advanced to such a stage, which could only be described as lightning-fast.

Seeing so many people brought over by Liu Yuan, Ye Qing was also somewhat surprised and hurriedly said, ”Big Brother Liu, actually, I called you over mainly to settle some furniture initially since we need to house people tonight. The renovation can wait.”

”Housing people is simple, leave it to me, and don’t worry about anything else,” Liu Yuan waved his hand and summoned someone, ”Go get a batch of beds immediately, tell them it’s for me, and don’t delay!”

”Yes!” That person immediately ran off to take care of the matter. People working under Liu Yuan were indeed very efficient.

Du Yongwu and the members of the Northern Xingyi School watched wide-eyed as Liu Yuan directed on-site, knowing all these efforts were for their future living place. They were all extraordinarily excited and deeply grateful to Ye Qing.

After about an hour, the measurements of these rooms were finished, and what followed was Liu Yuan’s turn to work on the design. Once the design sketches were ready, they would be presented to Tie Weihua before being implemented into the renovation.

Having taken on so much business from Lin Corporation and gained additional projects in Shenchuan City thanks to Ye Qing and Li Lianshan, Liu Yuan was now handling about a third of Shenchuan City’s renovation projects. Smaller decorating companies scrambled to work under Liu Yuan, hoping to snag some lesser projects for profit. Hence, Liu Yuan now had significant sway in Shenchuan City’s renovation industry. All it took was a word from him, and jobs would be taken care of without any concern.

Not long after the measurements were done, more than a dozen trucks drove in, loaded with furniture.

When everyone went out and saw the load of furniture on more than ten trucks, they were amazed. Ye Qing too was astonished and asked, ”Big Brother Liu, why bring so much? Just getting some beds would’ve sufficed to make sure we have a place to sleep for now. We still need to renovate later, and if there’s too much furniture, it’ll have to be moved out again, wasting effort!”

Liu Yuan was also astonished and said, ”I have no idea either. I just asked them to bring some beds. What’s going on here?”

As everyone looked on in bewilderment, the man Liu Yuan had sent earlier came down from one of the trucks. Upon seeing him, Liu Yuan immediately approached and asked, ”Why have you brought so much furniture? Didn’t I tell you to just get a few beds? What all did you bring?”

”Oh, don’t even mention it!” the man slapped his thigh and said, ”Manager Liu, the owner of the furniture store happened to be there. As soon as he heard that you needed beds, and quite a number of them, he insisted on sending over all the beds in the store, saying you could select whichever you liked and send the rest back. I wanted to refuse, but he was so adamant, I had no choice!”

”…” Liu Yuan was suddenly at a loss for words, turning to Ye Qing with a helpless look.

Liu Yuan’s reputation in Shenchuan City’s renovation industry was well known. Furniture and home appliance stores all wanted to build relationships with him since renovations are inseparable from these goods. So, Liu Yuan’s name carried weight, and this furniture store owner really had a knack for leveraging situations—coming up with such a method to curry favor with Liu Yuan, making it impossible for Liu Yuan to refuse.

”So how is the shipping cost calculated?” Ye Qing asked, as the cost was his primary concern. Although his net worth had reached several hundred million, he had come from poverty and was still quite frugal with himself.

”The boss said it’s free delivery,” the man replied. ”Just pick whatever you like and leave it be!”

”That’s good to hear!” Ye Qing nodded, then turned to look at Du Yongwu and others, smiling, ”Senior Du, these will all be for you and the other brothers to live with. It’s best if you choose the beds and such yourselves!”

All Du Yongwu’s disciples had previously slept on communal sleeping platforms and had never seen such luxurious beds before. They stared at the dozens of truckloads of furniture, their eyes wide with amazement.

In fact, even Du Yongwu himself was somewhat shocked. After all, seeing all the beds from a furniture store being moved over was definitely an impressive sight.

”This… there’s no need to choose; let’s see what Master Tie decides…” Du Yongwu said awkwardly, knowing he didn’t have the money and thus didn’t dare to make selections.

”Uncle Du, for things like this, it’s still best to consider what the brothers want,” Tie Weihua said with a smile, turning his head to the Northern Xingyi School members, ”Fellow brothers, when it comes to choosing, you should do it yourselves.”

The members of the Northern Xingyi School looked at Du Yongwu; of course, they wanted to make their selections. But without Du Yongwu speaking up, they didn’t dare to proceed.

After Du Yongwu declined several more times, he ultimately couldn’t resist Tie Weihua’s insistence and allowed his disciples to start choosing.

Upon hearing Du Yongwu’s words, the members of the Northern Xingyi School couldn’t stand still any longer. They immediately ran to the trucks and began selecting. Their excitement was like that of children going to the market and buying new clothes. After all, they had slept on sleeping platforms for half their lives and now finally had their own beds. One could only imagine their excitement.

”Everyone, don’t rush, take it easy,” the furniture store staff, who had accompanied the delivery, said, as they handed out pictures and such to the people, ”These are the display images of our furniture. You can take a look and pick out what you like. Just let me know the model you choose, and I’ll unload it for you right away!”

Half of the Northern Xingyi School members took the display images to look, while the other half, more focused on the practical side, climbed onto the trucks to start their selection.

Seeing such a situation, Du Yongwu felt somewhat embarrassed but was more filled with emotion. These disciples had all been brought up by him from a young age; where had they ever seen such a life? It was normal for them to be so excited!

Eventually, the members of the Northern Xingyi School had all chosen beds they liked, and the furniture store staff immediately moved the beds into the upstairs rooms to set them up. As for Du Yongwu, he had not chosen anything until Ye Qing brought over the display images and, along with Du Tianyi and Tie Weihua, practically forced him to choose a bed before the matter was finally settled.

Once the chosen beds were set up by the furniture store staff, in the end, not even a single truckload had been used. The rest were taken back. The expense of transporting so many beds would have been considerable, but the furniture store owner was even happier. When Liu Yuan’s men went to see him, they had said it was a personal matter for Liu Yuan. Knowing that it was an opportunity to build a relationship with Liu Yuan, the furniture store owner did not mind losing money if it meant handling the matter well!

Of course, his actions greatly satisfied Liu Yuan; this could be seen from the exchange of business cards between the furniture store staff and Liu Yuan as they were leaving. Nowadays, Liu Yuan did not readily give out his business card to just anyone; otherwise, he would be bombarded with nuisance calls all day. If he chose to give someone his card, it meant that he saw potential in them, that there might be opportunities for cooperation in the future.

Carrying Liu Yuan’s card, the furniture store staff left cheerfully, without even mentioning money. However, Tie Weihua approached Liu Yuan to inquire about the pricing.

”Let’s not talk about money for now. Since it’s for the Ye brothers, everything will be calculated at cost,” Liu Yuan said. ”There’s no rush right now. Once the renovations are done and everyone feels comfortable living there, we can talk about money.”

When it came to Ye Qing’s affairs, Liu Yuan never intended to make money. Just like the renovation of the Southern Suburbs Dogfight Arena for Li Lianshan, he took care of it without making any profit. It was because of this that Li Lianshan came to regard him as a brother and later introduced him to many businesses.