Chapter 24 Ancestral Secret Recipe, Guaranteed to Cure All Diseases
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Translator: JayM
Chapter: 24
Chapter Title: Ancestral Secret Recipe, Guaranteed to Cure All Diseases
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"Tsk, I don't know whether sending Yue Ling to you was the right or wrong decision."
Vivi glanced at the list in her hand, naturally knowing that this definitely couldn't have been put together by Su Yi himself.
Only now did she realize that trading Yue Ling away to Su Yi might have been a mistake.
The world she was in seemed to have become unilaterally transparent to Su Yi.
With a local like Yue Ling by his side, it was just too easy for the latter to find out what good things the magical world had.
Conversely, Vivi still didn't understand anything about Su Yi's side at all.
When making the trade initially, she hadn't thought about it so much. She only felt that sending Yue Ling away would save her a lot of trouble, and that the elven princess going to another world would also save her life.
Now it seemed like it wasn't that simple.
"What do you say, can it be done?"
"It can!"
Vivi looked at the list a few times and didn’t decline.
The two immediately began to negotiate the prices for the items on the list. Every single item on it was carefully selected by Yue Ling, and their effects and functions were all different.
Naturally, there were also deviations in their prices.
It was impossible to settle everything with a flat rate. A price needed to be set for each item.
Since the two parties currently had no currency, they temporarily used the tradable and transferable member points to act as their general guideline.
1 point = 100 tons of food.
An adult male Giant Horned Cow was equivalent to 5 points, while a pregnant female cow was equivalent to 10 points.
As for that messy pile of magical plant seeds, they were all priced differently according to their various uses and effects.
The final transaction between the two parties naturally wouldn't be calculated in points. After all, neither of them had enough of it right now.
Using points as a general equivalent and then having Su Yi's side finally convert it into food of equal value for settlement was the most appropriate method.
After the prices were pretty much settled, the two parties agreed to meet again next Monday, which was three days later.
At that time, they would carefully discuss how many goods were already available and how to maximize the use of next week's free trade opportunity.
Afterward, they each returned home, satisfied.
Of course, before Su Yi went back, he spent 10 points to buy a World Language Mastery Card first.
Yue Ling had done her utmost to help him these past two days, so he had to give her the reward she deserved.
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Returning to Blue Star, Su Yi had just handed the World Language Mastery Card to Yue Ling and hadn't even had time to test if it worked well before a phone call came in.
The person on the other end of the phone claimed to be Zhou Yan, the manager hired by Shen Mingshu to help him sort out the farm’s affairs.
Because Shen Mingshu had used his connections in advance, the speed of getting things done on the farm’s end was very fast.
By today, basically all of the necessary procedures had been completed.
Now Zhou Yan was just waiting for Su Yi to give the farm a name and sign a few documents, and his side could handle all the subsequent matters.
By tomorrow night at the latest, the company could officially hang its signboard and open for business.
After Su Yi himself consulted some friends in relevant industries and professional lawyers, he chose an indirect holding model to control the farm.
He changed the business name of the wholly-owned company that Shen Mingshu had transferred money to previously and named it Tianyu Holdings.
Su Yi held 100% of the shares.
The farm, which after consolidation had far exceeded the scale limits of local private farms, was now classified as an ecological agriculture demonstration base.
It was 100% owned by Tianyu Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Tianyu Holdings.
This might seem like taking off one's pants to fart*…
But this was indeed the best choice Su Yi could make after consulting multiple parties and analyzing the information he had gathered with his possible future development paths.
Currently, he only had Vivi as a partner on the trading platform, and they had just preliminarily started trading, so he could only trade agricultural produce for the time being.
But the scope of his business in the future would definitely go far beyond this.
Not to mention the other trading partners he might match with in the future…
Just on Vivi's side alone, once their trades became more frequent, their business dealings wouldn't possibly be limited to food.
Take the arrows and even the hot weapons she needed now, for example.
Su Yi could currently purchase arrows from some factories. If worse came to worst, opening a factory to manufacture them himself would be a minor issue for him. This thing wasn’t illegal in Jiuzhou.
But such a factory couldn't possibly be placed under the same type of company as the farm.
To avoid trouble, another company would definitely have to be established when the time came. And compared to having Su Yi personally hold shares in two completely unrelated companies…
He might as well first set up an investment company belonging exclusively to himself, and then use that as a medium to control other companies, eventually developing it into a group of companies.
This could save him a massive amount of costs in his future operations.
It would also make it more convenient for him to consolidate the resources he had on hand.
If his subordinate team matured in the future, and he was able to make connections abroad, setting up a security company or something overseas shouldn’t be a problem for him, and getting a batch of AKs to send to Vivi wouldn't be impossible then.
For this kind of multinational company, it was obviously more convenient to use the method of an investment company holding corporate shares.
At the very least, when signing contracts, he wouldn't need to appear in person. Sending someone from the company to sign would be enough.
As a professional manager, after hearing Su Yi's ideas, Zhou Yan guessed that the ambition of this new boss of his was definitely not limited to just a small farm.
But he was only temporarily hired by Shen Mingshu to help Su Yi handle these miscellaneous matters in the early stages of the farm's consolidation.
Whether this big boss would let him tag along in the future was still hard to say.
But he didn't care too much about this.
The client made a request, and he just went and handled it.
If it was hard to handle, he would just go find the Shen family.
What was more, these matters weren't considered hard to handle in the first place.
Early the next morning, with the blessing of the Shen family's unimaginably awesome relationship network, Su Yi's Tianyu Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. and Tianyu Holdings completed all the necessary procedures and could now hang their signboards for business.
It is worth mentioning that there was over sixty million in cash in the account of Tianyu Agriculture.
And there was another one hundred million in cash in the account of Tianyu Holdings.
Money didn't fall from the sky. This was naturally Shen Mingshu's handiwork.
Since the other party had done things to this extent, Su Yi naturally had to show his sincerity as well.
That very night, he took Yue Ling and went to the Shen family again.
Because he had notified them in advance, there weren't many people present at the Shen family villa this time.
Besides Shen Mingshu and his daughter, there was only another man and a woman.
The man was old with white hair and beard. He was Shen Mingshu's old father, the true person in charge of the Shen family.
The woman was named Shen Mingyue. She seemed to be about twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, full of a mature older sister vibe, looking mature and capable. She was Shen Mingshu's younger sister.
These were the core members of the Shen family.
Besides this family, there were only four bodyguards with fierce auras in the villa, each with a gun at their waist. They were probably the Shen family's truly trusted confidants.
The pomp was less than when Su Yi came before, but the security detail was clearly better.
Su Yi couldn't be bothered to ask too much about this. After greeting them one by one following Shen Mingshu's introduction, he explained his purpose for coming.
—To cure the illness.
And it was to completely eradicate the little girl Shen Yingying's congenital leukemia.
Although he had long known the purpose of Su Yi's proactive visit this time, reaching this moment, even a big shot like Shen Mingshu, who mingled in both the black and white worlds, couldn't help but feel a bit nervous. He pulled Su Yi to the side and asked:
"How confident are you in curing it? Will there be any side-effects after it's cured?"
"If nothing unexpected happens, I’m one hundred percent confident. Furthermore, not only will there be no side-effects, but she’ll also be healthier and live longer than anyone in the world."
As he spoke, Su Yi took out a palm-sized, exquisite porcelain bottle from his backpack.
"The premise is that Mr. Shen trusts me and lets me administer the medicine to her."
"What kind of medicine is this?"
Shen Mingshu took the porcelain bottle and looked at it.
The mouth of the bottle was sealed with a cork stopper, and no smell could be detected from it.
But holding it in his hand, he could feel that there was some kind of liquid inside.
"Ancestral secret recipe, guaranteed to cure all diseases and prolong life."
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*A very common and humorous Chinese idiom used to describe doing something completely unnecessary, redundant, or making a simple task overly complicated.
T/N - Well now, my guess is that the old man and the younger sister will doubt the MC. While it’s cliche, it’s also pretty logical as long as their disbelief doesn’t go too far. After all, “ancestral secret recipe” sounds shady no matter who says it.
Still, the way I see it, the Shen family will likely be the MC’s ticket to more opportunities like access to hot weapons that Vivi needs. Unless something really stupid happens, the MC shouldn’t want to break ties with the Shen family, and after the MC proves his capabilities, the Shen family should also not be stupid enough to kill the goose that lays golden eggs so to speak. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have survived for so long in the cutthroat business world.