Transmigration with QQ Farm

Chapter 68 part 9

Crazy News; Everybody Has Their Own Thoughts (9)

The master and the servants rushed to the front door to welcome the newly arrived.

Old man Ning had long been waiting for their arrival!

After a while, old man Ning had welcomed his three good friends into his house. Everybody was happy from getting together with their old friends again.

They all settled down in front of the table in the study.

"All my brothers finally arrived!" old man Ning felt very emotional!

Old man Lin raised his brows, "Old man Ning, your message was so delayed. We've planned on making a trip out here when we heard that the mystical spring was in Willow. We received your message when we were just about to take off, so we left right away. Even then, it took us over half a month to get here!"

"He's right, old man Ning. We almost thought you were never going to tell us when we finally got your letter, ha ha ha ha ha...."

Old man Ning was a little bit embarrassed by the teasing of his old friend, helplessly he said, "Old Quan, stop teasing me. Why would I try to hide this from you? We tried so hard in the first few days to establish contact with the Cheng's, unfortunately, we ended up mucking things up and were snubbed by the Cheng's. I've sent you the letter the first opportunity I got, I guess it's all my fault!"

"HAHAHA..." Old Du laughed out loud, "Oh, Ninglao di1, we are just messing with you. Don't take it so seriously. How long have we been friend, eh?"

"Exactly, we have traversed jianghu2 together back in the days and known each other for over forty years. Our bond is stronger than this!"

"Yeah, our bond will last for life, Ning di, don't mind Quan di's little joke!"

"HAHA, that's wright, old man Ning will never be so petty. We know him well by now!"

The old men chatted and laughed happily in the study and Ko Yang standing to one side also smiled a little. With them being here, he believed those from School of Divine Condor will behave slightly better.

After all, these were all elders from the nine top sect. Their being here, even if those from School of Divine Condor were arrogant, they would have to refrain themselves some in front of them.

In front of his old friends, old man Ning felt even more guilty. After all, he was being selfish at the beginning and didn't notify them right away.

Now that they were teasing him friendly about it, he felt quiet embarrassed. Lucky this was not his first rodeo, he was good at hiding his feelings.

After the laughter died down, old Lin regained his composure, he asked with a bit uncertainty, "Ninglao di, it seems kind of noisy in your place, are the folks from School of Divine Condor still here?"

"Yeah!" replied old man Ning with a bitter smile, "They haven't left yet. Looks like they will be staying here for a while longer."

"Oh, why is that?" asked old Lin, baffled.

Old Quan frowned too, "There were quite a few of them. It's a pretty hefty to provide them with room and board for a prolonged period of time!"

They knew that while old man Ning was well off, his assets were like night and day when comparing with some of the other sects.

They started worry for him, but they also knew that they'd just hurt his ego if they offered to help him out. So they felt obligated to remind him.

"Don't worry, all my good brothers. I can afford to house them for a while long, that's not the biggest problem, the real problem was..."

"Was what?" asked old man Lin, seeing how troubled old man Ning was.

"Old brother, let me tell you what have been going on lately!"

With the recount of events by old man Ning, everybody had learned of the manners of those from School of Divine Condor, especially their behaviors in front of the Cheng's. They made all the elders frowned.

"I can't believe their mannerism have deteriorated so much in merely several dozen years. What have they been feeding their students?"

"Whatever happened to the most prestige school in Dafeng? At this rate, it is going to turn into a school for rich, spoiled children before we know it!"

"Ridiculous! So ridiculous! School of Divine Condor really need to beat their students into shape. They should be ashamed of their behaviors as it stand!"

The three old men were very upset at the behaviors of those from School of Divine Condor.

Old man Ning nodded and sighed, "Yeah, I found it hard to believe too. I would never have believed it myself if they weren't living in my house. I couldn't believe this is true!"

"Hrm, School of Divine Condor is surely going downhill. It's is going to get even worse over time!" shouted old Du angrily.

The other three nodded in agreement.

"Well, we couldn't worry about that right now. Let's put that aside!" Old man Lin changed the subject and said to Old man Ning next to him, "Say, Ning lao di, regardless of those from School of Divine Condor. In my opinion, you need to rein in your grandson Xunzong. Otherwise, he is going to bring about the destruction of the Ning's sooner or later. You know, you always hear stories where a small bickering or conflicts go entirely out of hand and brought down the entire family. This is serious matters!"

"That's right, Ning lao de, from your story it sounded like your grandson had changed drastically. He was a simple child, how did he get like this? Lin lao ge was right. He just might bring about disasters to the family, this is not a joking matter!"

"Exactly, you need to be careful, Ning lao de!"

The words from his three brothers made old man Ning nodded. He understood that they meant well and this was, indeed, serious matters.

"Okay, how should we proceed?"

Old man Lin had already thought about something else, "Your relationship with the Cheng's had already been soured. It'd be difficult to mend the fences anytime soon. Ning lao de, you have any thoughts?"

"Oh, my fellow brothers, my thought is to have you establish some sort of an agreement with the Cheng's. I will pay you secretly and you can help me acquire some of their goods, that way I will be able to benefit some as well. What do you think?"

When old man Ning expressed his idea, he understood clearly that he would no doubt need to invest some on the three. Otherwise, he would have no chance getting his hands on any of the Cheng's goods.

It'd only make sense that the Cheng's hate their guts right now.

Upon hearing old man Ning's words, the three of them exchanged a look. They seemed somewhat surprised and also somewhat expected it.

After a long while, old man Lin finally said, "Ning lao di, we promise we will help you out, but I will say it upfront that we can only share a little bit with you. After all, we have to report back to our respective sect. I hope you'd understand!"

"Of course, of course. I don't want to put you in a bad position. Anything you are willing to part with will be fine!"

"Don't mention it. What we need to do now is to discuss how to approach the Cheng's. Ning lao de, why don't you describe what it's like at the Cheng's so we can plan for it?"