"Very well then, if you so insist, I have a proposal that I think can solve this problem as well," Yu Ane said with a smile.
Wan Liu was intrigued after he heard this.
The Ma clan elders had kept on insisting that it was impossible to give a 70 percent share of the inheritance to the Bai clan: thus, Yu Ane and Yu Ene gave a proposal after seeing the persistence of the Ma clan.
"What proposal? Go ahead, I am intrigued," Wan Liu said after thinking for a while.
"We can give you forty percent of the share if you are not satisfied with the thirty percent." Yu Ane said after looking around.
"What?!! We don't want forty, we want fifty percent, "
"Yeah, we will never agree to forty percent, we want half, "
"Don't you think that you are still being unreasonable, elder Yu Ane?"
"Yeah, we are ready to share half of the inheritance with you even though it is in our territory, but you want sixty percent of it, don't take us lightly."
A commotion broke out again; however, their voices were not that loud and were like normal people's conversation. Even though they were unsatisfied with Yu Ane and Yu Ene, Ma clan elders did not forget their manners of a gathering place.
"Let's hear it," Wan Liu waved his hand, indicating for others to stop talking before asking Yu Ane to speak. He knew that it was already good that they were getting forty percent of the share; otherwise, he also knew that the inheritance place was out of their territory.
"Let's hold a competition. If you win, you will get forty percent of the inheritance: however…," This time it was Yu Ene who spoke, he stopped for a moment before speaking again,
"However, if we win, we will get eighty percent of the inheritance. It's like, if you win, you will get 10 percent extra and the same goes for us if we win."
"Hmm…,"
"Now I understand," Wan Liu's eyes narrowed after hearing Yu Ene.
He now understood the reason for the Bai clan to send eight of their disciples to the Ma clan with the academy leaders. It was because the Bai clan knew that the Ma clan would not agree to the Bai clan taking seventy percent of the share and would demand for fifty percent of the share of the inheritance. Therefore, they sent eight disciples to the Ma clan for this purpose.
They wanted a competition to be held from the very beginning, this competition could serve as two choices for the Ma clan: first was that the Ma clan agrees to the competition, and if they lose, they would only be able to get twenty percent of the share. It might demotivate them, and they might accept the thirty percent share. The second was that the Ma clan doesn't agree to the competition and will only get thirty percent of the share.
"So, what do you say?" Yu Ane asked Wan Liu once again.
"How about that, if we win the competition, we will get half of the inheritance, but if we lose, we will only get twenty percent of the share. We will not agree to anything less than that," Wan Liu said after contemplating over this matter. He also saw this competition as an opportunity.
"Yeah, clan leader is right, we will not agree to anything less than this,"
"If you don't agree to this, then this conversation is over,"
"Think about it, there is no loss in this for you in this. If you win, you will get eighty percent of the inheritance, but if you lose, you will still have half of it,"
"You should also take a step back. We are already agreeing to hold a competition, right?"
The Ma clan elders did not understand why Wan Liu was ready to hear Yu Ane's proposal at first: but, after hearing Wan Liu, all of the elders present understood his motive and supported his decision. After all, what they just had to do was to win the competition to get half of the inheritance.
"Okay then, let's talk about this." Yu Ane and Yu Ene agreed to Wan Liu's condition without any hesitation, it was like they wanted this to happen.
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"It's been two hours already, but they are still inside discussing something." Bang Ju said to Til Gen with a tired expression. It seemed like he got tired of staying outside the hall for two hours.
"What do you think is taking them this much time?" Qian Fa asked Feng Qi.
"Who knows," Feng Qi shook his shoulders, indicating that he also did not know what was taking the academy leaders this much time.
Whilst they were talking to each other, the door of the hall opened, and Yu Ane came out of the hall.
"Elder, why is this taking so much time, is something wrong? Can we help?" Everything greeted Yu Ane after which Feng Qi asked.
"No, nothing's wrong, and you can all return to your rooms, it might take a while for us inside: there is no point in standing outside doing nothing, you might as well return to your rooms to cultivate or do something else that you want." Elder Yu Ane entered the hall again after he said this to everyone.
"Well, if it's going to take them more time, then I am going to return to my room to cultivate." Feng Qi said this and left.
"Me too,"
"I think I should return as well,"
Everyone left for their rooms after elder Yu Ane entered the hall. However, Yang Zhai did not return to his room, instead, he stood outside the hall waiting for everyone to leave, after which he left with Jun Haru.
"Brother, I already obtained one of the rank 3 materials that you wanted, do you want me to hand it to you right now?" Jun Haru asked Yang Zhai. He did not directly give the material to Yang Zhai because he thought that Yang Zhai might not want to receive something from him in public, as someone might suspect something.
"No, wait until we reach the bazaar¹. Even though I don't think that someone would be keeping an eye on you, we should still be careful. In the bazaar, as there would be a lot of people in the crowds, you can hand it over to me there, if someone is really keeping an eye on you, they would not be able to see anything in this much rush." Yang Zhai did not take the rank three material and asked Jun Haru to wait until they reached the bazaar.
"Don't you think that it would be risky to take it in the bazaar?" Jun Haru, however, had his doubts about that.
"It won't be, in fact, it's the exact opposite. If I take it here in the open and someone is by chance keeping an eye on you, then that person will easily be able to see us exchanging materials as there is nothing around us to cover us. However, it would be difficult to see in the rush of people. As the saying goes, `` the most dangerous place is the most safe place." Yang Zhai said.
Even though it was not a big deal about Yang Zhai taking something from Jun Haru, he still preferred to be cautious. After all, it was not strange for two unknown persons to become friends, especially for a guest to become friends with the host. And Yang Zhai had also talked to Jun Haru nicely when he was in the Bai clan. Thus, it was not strange if they became friends.
They talked and laughed like they were guests and a host. It was like a host was taking a guest around for a walk.
Yang Zhai knew that it was better to be careful than to be sorry.
"As for the second rank 3 material that you wanted, can you tell me the name of it, so that I can obtain it for you?" Jun Haru asked the name of the second rank 3 material because Yang Zhai had only told him the name of only one material.
"Hmm, about that, just wait." Yang Zhai smiled.
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1-Bazaar: Another word for market or its synonym.