Hidden Moth-Chapter 458 - 259: Lightly Clad, Boldly Venturing into Risk

Chapter 458: Chapter 259: Lightly Clad, Boldly Venturing into Risk

These complaints and reports, albeit verified as nonsense, still demand attention from Chang’an Residence.

Unregulated service? Although this bone-setting hospital is run like a private club, what He Kao saw in his on-site inspection was nothing but regularity. Could there really be someone lodging complaints?

If the leader says there’s an issue, then there is, and indeed, it can be unpredictable. Competitors or just anyone with a grudge against Chang’an Residence might easily file a report without much effort.

Even if the bone-setting hospital operates very regularly, persistent complaints would still be problematic, so it’s necessary to maintain relationships. For instance, the relationship between Chang’an Residence and this police officer seems well managed.

Even though they’re talking behind closed doors in the office, there’s no escaping Li Xiuyuan’s perception. He Kao noticed it too, but hasn’t realized that Chang’an Residence has already broken through Tier Three.

At the moment, Chang’an Residence hasn’t employed any Divine Techniques, remaining in a natural, ordinary state, making it hard to assess.

Li Xiuyuan: "You’ve been full of questions since I got in the car today. Why aren’t you asking anything now?"

He Kao: "I’m a bit too lazy to think. I’m just here to accompany you, Elder."

Li Xiuyuan, however, wasn’t keen to let him rest, instead asking: "What do you think of Kung Fu Chang, and how about this hospital?"

He Kao: "Kung Fu Chang’s reputation isn’t unwarranted, and he genuinely puts effort into teaching his disciples. Most of the time, he doesn’t even need to step in himself."

Li Xiuyuan: "Speaking of teaching disciples, of those three people just now, who do you think has the most potential and could possibly enter Technique cultivation?"

He Kao: "Not the Senior Osteopath Duan Xinglou with the photo, but rather the assistant who gave me a massage, named Lu Quan according to the name badge."

Li Xiuyuan: "Glad you weren’t mistaken! Anyone else?"

He Kao: "Also, this hospital has quite the intricate schemes, with excellent marketing."

Li Xiuyuan: "You shouldn’t just focus on their marketing. Everyone knows the Jianghu tactics, but being able to genuinely implement them so effectively is a skill."

He Kao echoed: "Yes, knowing the tactics and having the skill, while still being willing to put in effort."

Li Xiuyuan: "Don’t you have any criticism?"

He Kao: "If I had to nitpick, there certainly are issues. For instance, a clock lasts forty-five minutes, and the assistant works for forty of those, with the named osteopath only showing up for the last five."

Li Xiuyuan: "When performing surgery, does the chief surgeon do the shaving and stitching?"

He Kao: "I don’t know."

Li Xiuyuan posed another question: "Does your hometown have bone-setting massages?"

He Kao: "Yes, there are quite a few places, but the skill of ordinary masters can’t compare to this place."

Li Xiuyuan: "Give a specific example."

He Kao: "Once, my grandfather hurt his back and went to a master in town for massage and bone-setting. I accompanied him.

The shop front was small, just a room facing the street in his own home, not very expensive, fifty per session, without strict timing rules, each session lasting about half an hour."

Li Xiuyuan: "How was the skill?"

He Kao: "The skill was quite decent, he went ten times, spent five hundred, and everything was fine." 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Li Xiuyuan: "How many years has the bone-setting master been working, and what’s the situation with that shop?"

He Kao: "The master was under fifty, had been working for nearly twenty years, always at that small shop in town."

Li Xiuyuan: "On a busy day, how many businesses can he handle?"

He Kao: "It’s physical work, even half an hour requires resting to recover strength before continuing. Running continuously isn’t feasible, doing ten or eight a day is quite exhausting... he also sells other items, mainly medicinal wine."

Li Xiuyuan: "Ten or eight customers occasionally is fine, but if every day is like that, he’d probably be quite exhausted, unable to do anything else, with all his time tied up.

Imagine you’re known far and wide, and there’s a flood of customers coming to see you, you’d definitely be overwhelmed... if you were Kung Fu Chang, what would you do?"

Elder Li inadvertently started yet another teaching session.

He Kao said with a laugh: "Just like Kung Fu Chang is doing now."

Li Xiuyuan: "Correct! In reality, regular massage doesn’t require Chang’an Residence’s personal involvement. The real Kung Fu that needs him could be done in just a few moves, not even within five minutes.

But if truly done in just a few minutes, people would inevitably feel he’s slacking, that the money wasn’t worth it.

So he trained a batch of disciples, first letting them loosen muscles and improve circulation, warming up the customers. Once they’re comfortable, he steps in, and the customer’s perception instantly shifts — Master Chang truly lives up to his name!

Thus, charging high prices while saving time, he must have been doing this for years. When his disciples all become adept, and continue using his tactic, then they can reach today’s business scale.

Otherwise, if he’s doing it alone, personally handling each clock session, regardless of high fees and good publicity, how much business can he take on in a year working to exhaustion?"

He Kao: "I looked up his information, oddly enough, though there are introductions online, there’s not much you can find. This hospital’s on-site marketing is done so well, but there’s not even a website, nor has there been much on traffic promotion..."

Li Xiuyuan: "What you call traffic promotion is just the usual client projects you encounter, different nature. Do you think there would be many people who read an online introduction, then like us, fly to Luzhou just to seek his bone-setting massage?"

He Kao then smiled too: "There shouldn’t be many, this isn’t like ordering express delivery."

Li Xiuyuan: "Different businesses, different strategies, he doesn’t need to do things that way, there’s neither need for the cost nor is it effective marketing.

He has real skill, just making a breakthrough among a certain clientele is sufficient, he might even struggle to handle the volume.

I did casually inquire just now, and found that in the latter half of last year, Chang’an Residence allegedly went away for further studies, missing from the hospital for several months... probably went chasing down enemies, matching the situation you are aware of.

If he hadn’t taught about ten disciples to keep the place running, this spot would have had to shut down! Xiao Kao, how do you think his life is going?"

He Kao: "He’s crafted his skill for many years with cultivation, and has been managing well for so long. Living comfortably is only fitting."

Li Xiuyuan mused: "I investigated this hospital’s financial status, faced some pressure from significant investment in earlier years, but now annual profits have reached over ten million.

He can live comfortably without having to take personal risks, chasing enemies over miles into such chaotic places. At the time, he only had Tier Two Cultivation, quite frankly insufficient for self-preservation. Undoubtedly his experience will have been hard, but he still went."

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