Chapter 593 Jinli Gang
It's just that Tian Shengcai has bad luck. Recently, the monsters in Tujiao Mountain have been quite restless. Although he has gained something after entering the mountain, it is not enough to pay back the loan sharks. In addition, he was injured. The loan sharks' spiritual stones kept increasing, which eventually led to this situation.
Seeing his friend in trouble, he must help, but Qingyang would not give out the spiritual stones for nothing. First, he didn't want to give these loan sharks a bargain. Second, he was full of elixirs and couldn't take out so many spiritual stones at once. So Qingyang turned his head and looked at Boss Meng.
When Qingyang appeared, Boss Meng felt that something was wrong. Later, when he saw that Qingyang was familiar with Sang Qinglan and Tian Shengcai, he became even more panicked. However, the pressure from the foundation-building cultivators was too great. He didn't dare to leave without Qingyang's permission.
Now seeing Qingyang looking at him, he was even more frightened, but he was unwilling to give up the benefits he had obtained. He could only try not to look at Qingyang, and mustered up his courage. He said to Sang Qinglan sternly: "I am also embarrassed to embarrass you. For the sake of this senior, I will give you a few more days, but it is natural to pay back debts. You can't owe any less spiritual stones."
Half of this was said to Sang Qinglan, and the other half was of course said to Qingyang. It is natural to pay back debts. Even if you have a high level of cultivation, you can't refuse to pay, right? Although the status of Qingfeng Hall is very high, it is said that the head of the sect is here, but you have to consider the reputation of the sect, right?
After Boss Meng finished his bluffing, he didn't dare to stay here any longer, and turned around to leave. Before he took a step, Qingyang suddenly said, "Stop."
Boss Meng seemed to have expected that it would not be so easy to leave. He could not help but tremble, turned his head and said with a sad face, "What did the senior call me for?"
Qingyang said, "Aren't you here to collect the debt? Why are you leaving empty-handed?"
With you here, how dare we force Sang Qinglan? A good man will not suffer a loss in front of him, and will slowly settle the accounts later. Boss Meng waved his hands and said, "No, no, for the sake of the senior, we can slow down. We are not in a hurry. We will pay them back when they have spirit stones."
Qingyang looked at this guy and couldn't help but sneer. It is natural to pay back debts. Tian Shengcai borrowed their spirit stones, so it is natural to be asked to pay back. No one's spirit stones are blown by the wind. However, these people are too evil. They only borrowed 60 spirit stones at the beginning, but the price has increased to more than 200 in just half a year. Even Tian Shengcai, a former disciple of Qingfeng Temple, can be forced into this state. It can be seen how evil these people are.
When Qingyang was a child, he followed his master Songhe Zhenren to hang out in the martial arts world. He also saw many loan sharks in the secular world, such as "nine out and thirteen back" and "donkey rolling". If you encounter a more evil-hearted person, as long as you borrow his high-interest loan, even if you can pay it back, he has ten thousand ways to make you miss the repayment deadline, so that the principal and interest will increase to an astronomical figure and fall into their trap completely.
Qingyang can rely on his strength to drive these people away or refuse to pay these spirit stones, but there will always be a time for him to leave. In the future, these local snakes will still cause trouble for Tian Shengcai and others, and it cannot solve the fundamental problem, so he decided to meet these people first and see the situation.
Thinking of this, Qingyang smiled at Boss Meng and said, "Isn't this bad? Your interest is so high. Sixty spirit stones have risen to two hundred in just half a year, not counting the one hundred that has been paid back. If it is delayed for a while, won't it rise to thousands? Then Tian Shengcai and others can't pay it back. I didn't expect that the profit of loan sharking would be so lucrative. I am tempted by it. I also have several thousand spirit stones here. How about you help me lend it out? Just give me 10,000 spirit stones for the annual profit, and the rest will belong to you. I can't let you work in vain, right?"
This person actually has thousands of spirit stones? The disciples of the immortal sect are so rich? A trace of greed flashed in Boss Meng's eyes. But he quickly reacted. He couldn't afford to offend the foundation-building cultivator. In addition, he was a disciple of Qingfeng Hall. Not to mention them, I am afraid that the city lord Tu Jiao Sanren would have to give him three points. How could he afford to offend him?
The other party was deliberately making things difficult for them. Although their loan sharking business was lucrative, it was also a small business. How could there be so many fat sheep to be slaughtered in Tujiao City? They couldn't afford to provoke the strong ones, and those with weak strength were all poor ghosts. They couldn't earn much spirit stones no matter how hard they tried. The Tian Shengcai family was a fat sheep that they had finally managed to get, but they had only earned 40 spirit stones so far, 10,000 spirit stones a year, and they couldn't afford to buy them out.
Boss Meng's face turned bitter, and he said, "Senior, you are joking. We are all small businesses. We can't make more than one or two hundred spirit stones a year, and we have to share it with many brothers below. How dare we take over your spirit stones?"
Seeing Boss Meng's look, Qingyang knew that this guy was definitely not someone who could be the master of the house. There must be some power behind him. A small mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator was not capable of lending money at high interest rates in Tujiao City. Qingyang was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, so he said, "Since you can't make the decision, go find the person behind you and I will talk to him in person."
Boss Meng thought Qingyang was going to let him go, so he turned around and was about to leave, but was stopped by Qingyang, who only asked the uninjured follower behind him to go back and report the news.
In front of the foundation-building cultivator, Boss Meng could no longer have any small thoughts, and could only stand obediently in the yard, not daring to move. Qingyang has been practicing hard in Qingfeng Palace these years and seldom went out for training. Now he suddenly found that he had unknowingly become an upper-middle-level cultivator in Jiuzhou Continent. With his cultivation in the foundation-building stage, he was already able to shock others outside.
During the waiting time, Qingyang was not idle. After a conversation, he roughly figured out the other party's origin from Sang Qinglan. This gang of loan sharks is a gang composed of three sworn brothers, called the Jinli Gang. The eldest brother's surname is Jiao, the second brother's surname is Hu, and the third brother's surname is Meng. They occupy this area in the south of the city and usually make a living by loan sharks.
The eldest brother, Boss Jiao, and the second brother, Boss Hu, are both in the late stage of Qi Refining. Boss Meng is slightly worse, but he also has the cultivation of the middle stage of Qi Refining. In addition to a group of younger brothers, the Jinli Gang is also a considerable force in Tujiao City. In addition to the City Lord's Mansion and a dozen larger families, the Jinli Gang can almost walk sideways in Tujiao City.
As for whether there are people behind the Jinli Gang, it is hard to say, but it is definitely necessary to manage and maintain relationships, otherwise it will not survive at all. Because underground organizations like them force people to repay debts and force people into slavery. Many things are quite out of line, at least they are playing a borderline ball. If there is no acquiescence from the City Lord's Mansion, how can they survive until now?