The Sword God of the Universe

Chapter 196: Chapter 195 Difficult Person Chapter 196: Chapter 195 Difficult Person The issue with the transfer of the first workshop had been settled.

Next, Jing Yan and the other two made their way to another building not far off; it was a weapon shop that spanned two floors.

The scale of the building was much larger than the previously visited clothing shop.

This structure covered almost two hundred square meters, which equaled roughly four hundred square meters over the two floors.

“Jing Yan!” Jing Tianying stood beside Jing Yan, his brow slightly furrowed as he looked at the weapon shop.

“This weapon shop is different from the clothing shop we dealt with earlier.

The clothing shop was small, and the building itself was property owned by the Jing Family, making the tenant Liu Dalin easy to talk to.

But this weapon shop doesn’t belong to the Jing Family.

It’s just located within the workshop area and is subject to our family’s management, meaning it only has to pay a certain tax to us,” Jing Tianying said with a concentrated expression.

His implication was clear: the owner of this weapon shop seemed to be a tough nut to crack, and he wanted Jing Yan to be prepared.

He clearly had some understanding of the owner of this shop.

“Businessmen chase profits.

As long as I’m willing to compensate their losses sufficiently, I believe they will definitely agree to the transfer,” Jing Yan said with a smile towards Jing Tianying.

In the South District Market, who would dare to bite more off than they could chew with the Jing Family?

As long as the other party’s terms weren’t outrageous, Jing Yan wouldn’t mind compensating them with more Spirit Stones.

What he needed most at the moment was to establish the Pill Tower quickly, and Jing Yan didn’t want to waste too much time and energy on this matter.

“Mm!” Hearing Jing Yan’s words, Jing Tianying nodded in agreement.

The three of them stepped into the weapon shop.

“Not bad at all.

It seems like this weapon shop’s owner has some connections, managing to acquire quite a number of Mid Grade Weapons, and even High Grade Weapons are available,” Jing Yan remarked as his gaze swept the surroundings, with most of the displayed weapons catching his eye.

Weapons of Top Grade were already quite pricey for ordinary martial artists.

Many High-level Martial Artists didn’t even own a single weapon of this grade.

After the three of them entered the shop, a man in a brown robe with short facial hair approached them with narrowed eyes.

“Greetings, Fourth Elder!” the man in the brown robe nodded slightly to Jing Tianying, then turned his gaze to Jing Yan, “This must be Young Master Jing Yan, whose fame shakes Donglin City!”

He had recognized Jing Yan instantly.

“I am Jing Yan.

Are you the owner of this shop?” Jing Yan inquired.

“Replying to Young Master Jing Yan, I am merely the manager of this weapon shop; you can call me Li Er,” the man in the brown robe, Li Er, replied with a smile.

He recognized Jing Yan, but his expression remained unchanged, as if Jing Yan were no different from any random person on the street.

“Li Er, is the shop’s owner here?” Jing Tianying asked with his hands clasped behind his back and a stern tone.

“The manager is indeed present in the shop.

May I know the business the three elders have with him, or perhaps discuss it with me first?” Li Er’s expression had not changed much since Jing Yan and the others had entered.

Upon hearing Li Er’s words, Jing Yan’s brows immediately furrowed.

It seemed that the owner of this shop was not very accommodating to members of the Jing Family.

Jing Yan didn’t believe that a shop’s manager would dare to block members of the Jing Family from talking to the owner without the latter’s orders, especially when among the three from the Jing Family inside the shop were an overseer of South District Market and a rising star of the Jing Family in Donglin City.

Either of them was a person of standing!

If the owner of the weapon shop truly respected the Jing Family, he would at least have instructed his manager accordingly.

And of course, how could a manager, without such discerning eyesight, competently run a weapon shop like this?

Jing Tianying and Jing Yan exchanged a glance, their eyes both carrying a faint chill.

“We are here indeed to see your boss; it’s not something you can decide on, so please, call your boss out quickly.

His name is Long Chenyu, correct?” said Jing Tianying with a dismissive gesture.

Although clearly displeased, Jing Tianying wasn’t about to seriously quarrel with the manager of a weapon shop.

“But, Elder, the manager is likely resting at the moment.

Would it be possible for you to return later?” Li Er added.

“Hm?” Jing Tianying was genuinely angry now, his eyes wide with irritation.

Neither he nor Jing Yan liked to throw their weight around.

But this weapon shop’s owner was going too far in not showing them respect.

If the owner truly wasn’t within the shop, that would be one thing.

But he was right there inside, and now he didn’t even want to show his face.

What did this mean?

“Just call him when you’re told to, why all the nonsense?” Jing Tianying glared.

“Don’t be anxious, Elder.

I will go inform him at once!” Li Er, seeing Jing Tianying’s real anger, let out a chuckle and quickly turned to head upstairs after leaving those words behind.

On the second floor, within an elegantly luxurious room.

“You’re saying Jing Tianying and Jing Yan are in my shop?” A man in his thirties wearing a dark red robe, his eyes narrowed into a line, asked the manager Li Er.

“Yes, they said they had business with you, the manager.

When I asked what it was, they wouldn’t say,” Li Er replied with a dismissive curl of his lip.

The man in the dark red robe facing him was Long Chenyu, the owner of the weapon shop!

“Oh?

They wouldn’t say what it was?”

“Heh, since they are unwilling to reveal their business, it seems they are not here to buy weapons.

I mean, the Fourth Elder of the Jing Family and the overseer of South District Market, even if they’ve fallen on hard times, wouldn’t come to my weapon shop to make purchases,” Long Chenyu coldly remarked.

“Then…

please ask them to leave, so as not to affect our business,” continued Long Chenyu, waving his hand dismissively.

From his demeanor, it was evident that he didn’t take Jing Tianying or Jing Yan very seriously.

An average person, upon hearing of Jing Tianying’s arrival, would have rushed out to greet them.

But this Long Chenyu clearly didn’t care much.

He was so overconfident for a reason.

Although he didn’t have deep connections in Donglin City, in Lanqu County City, he had relatives in a major family.

His mother was a member of a prominent family in Lanqu County City.

Therefore, he didn’t take the Jing Family in Donglin City too seriously.

Even when the Zhao and Cai families, previously in control of South District Market, managed his shop, only a minimal tax was required due to the influence of his family ties.

The Zhao Family had given him that break out of respect for his background.

In Long Chenyu’s view, the Jing Family should be courting his favor now.

And the fact that his manager had inquired about the intentions of Jing Tianying and the other visitors, who then failed to directly answer, also filled Long Chenyu with displeasure.