Hidden Moth-Chapter 321 - 178: A Commoner’s Wrath Knows No Bounds

Ye Liangcheng quickly said, "Senior, you haven’t eaten either, right? Let me personally prepare some dishes and accompany you for a few drinks!"

He was very happy in his heart, it seemed that Elder Huo Qing had been secretly observing him. His efforts and changes in this period were noticed, which was why he appeared again and was willing to share a meal with him.

This relationship, of course, had become much closer compared to last time; there were many topics they could talk about now.

He invited He Kao to the "office building" dining hall and personally made several dishes. There was a vegetable garden in the park; the vegetables were freshly picked, and he had a brood of free-range chickens, the chickens and eggs were self-produced.

After preparing the dishes, he opened a bottle of Wuliangye, Ye Liangcheng was going to enjoy a real drink with Elder Huo Qing.

Ye Liangcheng’s cooking skills were unexpectedly quite good, probably honed over this long period. Being able to cultivate techniques to Tier Three, as long as he puts his mind to it, learning other things is also usually good.

He Kao watched Ye Liangcheng and unexpectedly recalled Old Man Jiang and Elder Li coming over to have dinner at his place; he too busied himself cooking several dishes... It seemed Ye Liangcheng really regarded him as an esteemed high senior.

Ye Liangcheng’s curiosity was perpetually piqued, Elder Huo Qing just mentioned something about Tier Three Cultivation but then shifted the topic, obviously realizing he did not quite understand, hence showed no further interest to elaborate.

But Ye Liangcheng wanted to ask, after toasting several times, asked if the dishes were tasty before carefully probing, "Elder Huo Qing, what exactly did you mean when you mentioned Tier Three Cultivation earlier?"

He Kao: "I’m not quite sure how Master Kucha teaches you, tell me about your cultivation progress first."

Ye Liangcheng: "Master Kucha told me that we are Secret Cultivators. And the realms of Secret Techniques in the world, there are upper, middle, and lower three levels. I have barely reached the upper level, but still far from reaching the peak of the upper level... Is this what you referred to as Tier Three Cultivation?"

He Kao lifted his cup in contemplation and said, "Upper, middle, and lower three tiers? Such a saying could be valid to low-tier sorcerers; Kucha might not want you aiming too high too soon, instead to solidify your foundation first.

To my understanding, the Secret Technique you’re cultivating is called Micro-Entry Skill, you can now be considered a Tier Three Sorcerer, which is also the upper level Kucha told you about. Yet, above Tier Three there are realms, once reaching that level, one can be deemed a true cultivator."

"Micro-Entry Skill?" Ye Liangcheng couldn’t help but murmur repeatedly.

He Kao said quietly, "You haven’t heard of this name?"

Ye Liangcheng: "Master Kucha never mentioned it, he just told me it’s a Secret Technique."

He Kao: "There’s more than one line of inheritance of Secret Techniques in this world; Micro-Entry Skill is just one among them. Kucha didn’t tell you understandably, the name isn’t that significant; whichever Secret Technique one practices can lead to the great path."

Ye Liangcheng: "Then has Master Kucha and yourself transcended beyond Tier Three already, are you true cultivators?"

He Kao: "These questions are premature for you now, when your cultivation reaches there, you will naturally come to know."

In Ye Liangcheng’s view, Elder Huo Qing seemed uninterested in anything else, and his reason for appearing was to offer him some guidance in cultivation, hence he must seize this rare opportunity.

Seeing Elder Huo Qing dislike too many questions, he proactively shared his cultivation experiences... Since deciding to drink heartily with the elder, he himself certainly drank a lot.

The first bottle of liquor quickly ran dry, and Ye Liangcheng opened another.

At the table, it was almost just Ye Liangcheng talking, He Kao merely listened silently, occasionally interjected a hew queries, seemingly unconcerned about other trivialities, as his questions pertained to cultivation.

Why was Ye Liangcheng unfazed by He Kao’s reaction? He showed neither suspicion nor caution, trustingly placed his faith in the mysteriously originated Elder Huo Qing?

He extolled how his understanding of certain things could somewhat elucidate this demeanor when informed of his history.

Back then, the Ye Family Company sought connections to undertake the Jinxiu Entrepreneurship Park’s electric and cabling project; otherwise, why would such a substantial project be handed over to them?

Father Ye sought the help of someone named Hu Shulue; it’s said this person had significant influence, capable of smoothing out various developer-side wrinkles. Father Ye naturally spent quite a sum, amounting up to about three million in public relations fees.

However, as long as the project could progress smoothly, all this would be worthwhile.

Such a colossal project, deducting materials, labor costs, public relations expenses, roughly accounts for a profit of over ten million, not considering final payment scenarios.

Developers frequently find assorted excuses to delay and withhold project payments, which is a common occurrence. Contractors during their bid calculations often have already factored such aspects into consideration.

Yet, the Ye Family Company not only didn’t receive the balance payment, they didn’t even get the precursor sum!

The costs for the first building’s project were covered by Ye Family’s advance payments, and the second building’s renovations had already commenced, logically by this stage the first project payment should be due, ironically just then the project went belly up. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

The developer is a powerful conglomerate, with no heard-of issues beforehand, therefore the Ye Family Company took on the venture through connections, never anticipated such an outcome!

Many contractors and material suppliers in construction receive payments from the developer often in the form of commercial paper. In the developer’s incapability to honor payments when due, those notes practically turn into waste paper.

The Ye Family Company didn’t even receive such waste paper!

Crunching the initial public relations costs and subsequent construction charges, Ye Family Company sunk nearly ten million; liquid capital in millions is typically infeasible for regular companies, they too had a substantial amount of arrears.