Chapter 67
"Artwork? Is
it a tea bowl or something like that?" "Well, it's like pots, pans, bottles, jars, etc. You know, company directors, people like this kind of style, so you have to collect cultural atmosphere Antiques, fragments of prehistoric civilization and so on. Look like you are a cultural person.
In short, you know that when you reach the level of a company director, you no longer care about money."
After being entertained all night, of course we have to talk about work seriously. .
So Kiriko Shiranui was packed and shipped directly, put on the company's shuttle, and then went back to pick up the goods and deliver them to Wuche Academy. Wow, another six million arrived in her account.
Li Pan and Keiko Saito formally discussed the company's merger and acquisition case.
Saito Keiko is not a lunatic. She doesn't dare to pack up the Tokugawa family's assets and give them to the company. She is just acting as a representative to discuss part of the shares in Saito House, and may help old customers buy a few villas for monsters. The company's introduction of capital flow will also provide a backer to tide over the current difficulties.
Li Pan ate and took everything, and he agreed to say more nice things to Keiko, but he still hinted to her that he was just a wage earner, and he still had to prepare some souvenirs for his bosses as a matter of etiquette.
Saito Keiko finally breathed a sigh of relief, probably secretly thinking that I risked my life to play forty-eight moves with you, and almost broke my waist, so I finally gave in to the trap.
So he immediately took Li Pan to the warehouse to select antiques.
Oriental people don't just have a lot of tea bowls. The Oda family especially likes to hold tea parties, and Saitoya Onsen naturally has matching tea sets. These things theoretically belong to the Oda family, but since the Oda family is gone, who cares about you? If someone really checks it, won't you burn down the warehouse?
So Li Pan walked around the warehouse twice and saw the 'jar' as expected. Although they look exactly the same, they don't look as 'disgusting' as they did in the previous dream.
Is it because it is empty...
So Li Pan pretended to be casual and asked,
"Hey, general, this jar belongs to your family? And where is the family crest?"
Unexpectedly, Saito Keiko came over to take a look, and turned to Li Pan silently,
" Manager, are you here specifically for this jar?"
Li Pan couldn't help but be stunned. He didn't expect that the other party was so sharp and saw through it right away.
Keiko sighed,
"I knew...this was just a laser-printed fake. The original had been taken away by Kiriko, and she is in your hands. If you want to know anything, you should ask her."
Li Pan thought about it and decided not to hide it from this charming landlady.
"Female general, your family has been running this hot spring for generations, so you should know about the elves, right?"
Upon hearing that Li Pan even talked about the elves, Saito Keiko nodded,
"I have heard a little bit, but there was a hidden one here before. The elf village was later wiped out, so I said from the beginning that the Eternal Spring Soup and so on are all nonsense, just gimmicks to attract tourists." Li Pan pointed to the jar, "Then have you ever been curious
,
Wu Che's Jonin, why do you have to come to your hot spring house to work, and why do you have to come and buy this jar in your hand?"
Saito Keiko was silent for a while. It was obvious that she was by no means ignorant, but was still weighing whether or not to speak.
So Li Pan increased the weight.
"Keiko, you entertained me with all your heart last night, and I also felt your kindness. Moreover, I saw your plan and saw that you didn't want to take advantage of the opportunity to escape. Instead, you wanted to preserve the family business as much as possible and prevent Saito House from being ruined. Take it into your own hands.
So how about this? Regardless of whether the head office can do it or not, I, Li Pan, am a bit thin in the Night City. The Security Bureau, Ye Family, Yu Chai, etc., all give me some face, just a hot spring. I think the house can still be covered. If you have any problems, I will help you solve it. Do you believe me?"
Saito Keiko sighed and leaned into Li Pan's arms again,
"How could I not believe Li Sang? As for my ability, I still don’t know how much Wu Zi has, let alone Wu Che who can easily redeem him for six million. I can only follow your
orders. I just ask you to take care of me when you remember. That's all."
Wow, this boss lady really knows how to flatter men. Li Pan gave her a few words, and then started to get angry again. He quickly said seriously,
"Ahem! Of course! If you can help me once, boss lady, I, Li Pan, am not a person who doesn't know how to repay me in return." "
Saito Keiko didn't dare to hide it, so she told Li Pan roughly the rumors within the Saito family and some secrets that Shiranui Kiriko communicated with her.
In short, this thing is a magic jar that seals the devil.
According to the elven documents found in the ruins near the hot spring, there is some kind of demon from another dimension sealed in this magic jar. As long as this demon comes into contact with liquid, it becomes infinitely powerful. It can also divide and parasitize and control its host. If left unchecked, the entire population and the entire planet can be melted, devoured, completely corrupted, and merged into one natural disaster.
And these elves were ordered to seal the demon god, so they took a starship and came to the world of 0791. They suppressed the clay pot that suppressed the demon god under the volcano, and guarded it for generations to prevent the demon god from breaking the seal.
"Sealed under the volcano?"
"That's what the document said. Buried deep underground and sealed with a river of lava to prevent the devil from escaping. But from the later geological survey, it seems that a long time ago, the Hakone volcano erupted and changed the landscape. , the underground water changed its course, so the hot springs of eternity flowed out. Maybe some demons broke out, causing the elf village to be destroyed." Keiko Saito recalled, "Of course,
these
were investigated by Kiriko, she did it more than once I want to get this jar.
The first time was thirty years ago. I was still in high school at Jinyao College. During a public communication class at an art exhibition, I promoted a hot spring tea party held by my family. One of the photos was taken This jar.
So Wuzi and her classmates came to me and said they wanted to work in my hot spring house during the summer. But then I don’t know what happened. Nine people died, and only Wuzi survived. The incident at that time had a great impact on my family’s reputation
. It had a great impact. I was so angry that I questioned Kiriko. She was also mentally traumatized before she told me these things. She revealed that she was actually a trainee demon-sealing ninja from the fifth car. They were a group who came to take the genin exam. Unexpectedly So many people died in the first demon-sealing trial.
At that time, she begged me to give her the jar, but Gao Tianyuan put this thing here by name, and I checked, and I had an agreement with your company at the beginning. , saying that the jar must not be allowed to leave the scope of the Hakone volcano. So I refused.
Later, five cars of people picked her up, and the jar was never mentioned again."
Keiko Saito paused, and handed over a written contract The photo was clearly a paper contract sent to Li Pan by the company to testify, and then continued,
"I thought I would never see Wuzi again, but then the war ended, the Imperial Court was disbanded, and Wuzi became a five-car A teacher, a free ninja with no subordinates.
She told me that although the mission failed at first, because of her experience of surviving the Demon Sealing, Kiriko was still reused and became a Sealed Demon Ninja. Later, she began to come to our hot spring house from time to time. You don't have to spend money to work part-time, just rent a jar with me and say you want to study and practice ninjutsu, borrow the power of the devil to practice or something.
She is indeed a professional ninja and has the ability to make men yearn for it. As long as she promises not to take the jar away, I agree to let her keep it. Alas, she was working as a ninja outside, pretending to infiltrate everywhere and assassinate demons. She was always under great pressure because I knew her true identity, and she ended up becoming best friends with me. "
Saito Keiko brought Li Pan to Kiriko's private employee housing.
The jar is indeed here, and the smell is obvious as soon as you smell it, and it's so dirty, it's the accumulated old age mixed with various dark matter slime human body fluids. Spittoon! What kind of dark practice are you usually doing? Damn it!
Even Li Pan, who worked illegally in the garbage dump, was shocked. Saito Keiko ran out with her face covered.
In the spirit of the manager of Monsters Inc. With a serious and responsible attitude, Li Pan still took a closer look.
Except for a ball of turbid and disgusting stained mucus, he couldn't see anything clearly. It was simply chaos itself...
Li Pan thought for a while, imitating the sound of his tongue,
"てけり— —り, てけり——り..."
So from the turbid mucus in the tank, a bunch of eyeballs bubbled out, like fish floating out of the water to breathe...
Oops? Oh, Gisseg's vomiting !
Don’t tell me that this is what you soak in the hot spring!
Li Pan shook his head quickly, really not wanting to look or think about it anymore.
So the eyeball group also disappeared, and he didn’t know whether he sank down again. , it was still a pure hallucination, and there was still a piece of sticky, horrible and disgusting chaotic water in the jar.
Li Pan also came out to take a breath and looked at Saito Keiko who had a look of 'take this disgusting thing away quickly'.
"I have to Explain the situation to the company. It is best to provide me with a copy of the original contract you provided before. If there is some kind of seal under the volcano, then it is indeed better to keep this jar with you.
How about this, I apply for the company to sign an outsourced warehouse contract with Saito House, hold shares in proportion, and pay the warehouse management and maintenance fees regularly, and the jars will be left to you for safekeeping. Anyway, nothing has happened for so long, so it will be as usual. Come on, don't mess around and cause problems.
In this way, Saitoya can be regarded as a joint venture partner of the company and is protected.
"Of course I don't have any objection if you can arrange it this way. Can it be done as usual? " Saito Keiko frowned, "Are you still letting Kiriko take care of it?" "
Li Pan shook his head,
"I definitely can't let her interfere anymore. She can swallow such disgusting things. It seems that she has fallen deeply deep in her bones.
If there really is a will like a 'demonic god' in this jar, then according to our definition, she might also be an 'apostle' that needs to be guarded.
Anyway, let's put it back in the warehouse first. I'll go talk to the people in the fifth car. Since the incident happened because of them, they have to take responsibility. "
After it was finalized, Li Pan suddenly remembered something,
"By the way, female general, you just mentioned that you graduated from Jinyao Women's College? Or the middle school department? Pure gold? Saito
Keiko pursed her lips and smiled,
"The manager is really well-informed. Does he know the joking names in this small circle?" In fact, when I was in school, the situation was not as extreme as relying on donations to enter the school. Although it was a college that mainly served children of the upper class, and three generations of the family were screened when enrolling, you still had to pass the exam and interview.
Our family is not a wealthy family, but we are close servants of the board of directors, so we are taken care of by regular customers and have the opportunity to enter school. Do those young ladies also need maids to take care of them? Haha, by the way, I still have my school uniform and maid outfit. Li Sang, do you want to take a look?
"Okay, ahem! " Another day, another day, cough! "
So he and the female general asked about the address of Jin Yaoyuan, and Li Pan left in the floating car, first escorting Shiranui to the Five Car Academy. Of course,
six million is more important, so Kotaro should insist on it.
"Mr. , I am Yamazaki, I, I finally climbed Mt. Hakone! "
Uh...
" Oh, Yamazaki, that's it. I just got information that there may be some kind of ancient seal under the volcano! It may be related to the safety of Night City! The stakes are too high to let slip! Could you please go down the mountain to check again and take a photo for me?
"Yes, yes, I promise to complete the task! " "
Ahem, six million is more important. I'll arrange a car to pick up Yamazaki when I get back. I
saw the nine-headed Principal Koga again.
Today, Principal Koga is wearing a formal short skirt and an open-collared shirt. The ponytail with glasses and the beautiful legs in stockings showed the true character of the OL royal sister.
She stepped onto the shuttle, folded her arms, looked at her Jonin friend who was packed into a rubber mattress with a cold face, and stared at Li Pan coldly, as if I wish I could eat him alive.
Li Pan laughed and slapped the goods, making her tremble wildly.
"Why, isn't this packaged tightly? Look at it, isn't it still alive and kicking? Or is it better to take it apart and give it to you? "
Koga Asaki narrowed her eyes and said coldly,
"Private message link, don't waste my time. "
Why, transfer money, wait, wait, wait, the electronic contract is being processed, I don't want to be taxed." Oh, by the way, Principal Koga, do you know what this is? "
Li Pan said, taking out a vase and taking out the plastic bag containing the mucus.
"This, I heard it is the devil sealed under Hakone, the kind that would leak into the sea. By the way, this should be the one in charge of the seal on your Demon Sealing Ninja side, right? I seem to have heard enthusiastic netizens say that stealing the power of the demon god is a capital offense among you demon-sealed ninjas, right?
But guess what, the devil came out of her hole! Cool! How disgusting! I have a video, do you want to watch it? "
Koga Asanhime was shocked. It seems that she also knows a lot of information and completely understands what Li Pan means.
"So I said, Mr. Principal, how do you Demon Sealed Ninja do things? Is it true that they all gave up their jobs? Even the demons you have sealed are taken out and used by yourself? Hey, do you have any spirit of contract? Where is the craftsman spirit! ah! ? "
Li Pan smiled so brightly that he walked directly in front of Koga Asaki, so close that the principal even took a step back. Apparently he didn't want to be slandered anymore.
"You, you guy..."
Principal Koga bit his lip. , but was interrupted again before he could speak.
"Hey! What a guy! Is it Manager Li? Five cars of your people came to assassinate me. I'll forget the blame and help you solve a big problem. I'll wipe Principal Koga's ass clean, right?
Do you have to call your benefactor a little bitch? How do you set an example to others! Are you misleading me? Principal Sensai~~~! "
Gu..."
Koga Asaki was so angry that she really wanted to draw her sword and kill someone, but she still gritted her silver teeth and said,
"Yes, I made a mistake. Thank you for your help." "
Ha, I really apologized. This person is quite interesting. These days, he still maintains a strange sense of responsibility and honor. He treats the incompetent students and teachers of Wuche Academy as if they are lumberjacks. .It
’s a big mistake.
Then Li Pan's face changed, and he smiled and said,
"Wouldn't it be better if we could do this earlier? Sense! Why bother to fight and kill? Let's be honest, how many times have you assassinated me? How long have I not had an affair with you? I have to send it back to you intact. Is there anyone in the world who is as open-minded as me?
But it’s just one code, my own affairs don’t matter. I feel aggrieved and a dumb man eats Coptis chinensis and just swallows it. But things Matters related to public safety should not be kept so private!
What if you, five ninjas, open seals everywhere, break the tacit understanding, use the sealed demons to strengthen themselves, and let the news spread that the peace of the Night City is ignored, what do you think? Would the company think so? What would the Safety Committee think?"
"Hiss... Huh..."
Koga Asanhime took a deep breath and straightened her expression,
"I understand, you are right."
Li Pan smiled, " That's good. Then how much do you think the safety of the teachers and students of Wuche Academy is worth?"
Principal Koga said sternly,
"Of course it's a priceless treasure. What you're teaching, Manager Li, is that Kiriko Shiranui secretly opened the Demon God's Seal, which is a crime. It is a taboo of the Demon Sealed Ninja people in the imperial court. What she did is unforgivable. Since she has violated the taboo of the Demon Sealed Ninja, she should be punished and not allowed to be shielded!
Although she and I have been comrades for many years, in order to protect Wu Che , to protect the students, I can only bear the pain and make a decision.
Kiriko Shiranui! As the head of Koga Ninja, I, Koga Asahime, will remove you from the fifth carriage! From now on, you will be a traitor to the ninja!" "...Ah
, Huh?"
"You can hand her over to the Security Bureau, or tear it down. It doesn't matter. Anyway, the college's surveillance has recorded your car. In short, our five cars will not take care of it anymore." After saying that, Koga Qianji turned around and left
. .
"Ah, hey, hey! You are regretting it! No, wait! Wait! Six million! No! Principal! The price is negotiable, principal! Think about it again! Principal!" Principal Koga walked away
. It's gone, I just swiped it, and I don't know where to go. I'm wearing high heels, but it's so neat...
WTF, WTF? ? ?
Li Pan was stunned.
No, it was a good six million, why was it gone in just three sentences? ?
Shiranui Kiriko said, "Oh oh oh oh oh..."
Li Pan was furious, he went up and opened his bow left and right, causing a frightening wave of slaps.
"Why are you still ooohing! It's all your fault! If you can't come up with 6 million to redeem yourself, don't give it to me!" Shiranui Kiriko said, "Oh!" Li Pan said
,
" ..."
That's right, I haven't even asked her how much money she has? Anyway, the six million he got flew away, so Li Pan shrugged and took off the chew in her mouth.
"Ha...ha...ha..."
Shiranui Kiriko flexed her teeth and gasped,
"I...I have...six million...let me go, and I'll give you six." One million..."
Then Li Pan smiled like a flower again and said,
"Hey, you could have just said no earlier. You have made people go around in such a big circle. It's a deal!"
(End of this chapter)