When Xie Jiling saw Chen Xing and He Yuliang, Xie Jiling thought that they had visited for reasons related to exorcism.
At this moment, Xie Jiling was eating food with her roommates in the canteen.
Chen Xing, He Yuliang, and Zheng Binzhou carried the canteen food trays and came over together.
Zheng Binzhou looked really worried.
Chen Xing and He Yuliang dragged Zheng Binzhou over to join Xie Jiling’s table.
He Yuliang then said, “Jiling, Zheng Binzhou needs help with something.”
“Why? Did something bad happen?” Xie Jiling asked.
Chen Xing immediately gestured a thumbs-up toward Xie Jiling as he said, “Jiling, you can predict that?”
“…” The corner of Xie Jiling’s mouth twitched as she said, “I’m not a fortune teller. Zheng Binzhou just looked really worried. Anyone can tell that something bad happened.”
There was no other option for Zheng Binzhou. Hence, he had been thinking about asking Xie Jiling.
After all, Xie Jiling was known as the little shaman in class.
Her advice was really effective.
He then heard from Chen Xing and He Yuliang about how Xie Jiling exorcised a ghost.
Since Zheng Binzhou didn’t actually see it with his own eyes, he thought this was quite unbelievable.
However, the other students present that night had seen it and had told him the same story.
Zheng Binzhou had to believe it.
Aside from that, he really had no other choice.
Even though he was slightly doubtful, he decided to make a Hail Mary effort.
Besides Xie Jiling, he really didn’t know who else to ask for help.
“Jiling, I heard from Chen Xing and Yuliang that you are able to exorcise even ghosts that are very powerful?” Zheng Binzhou asked.
Actually, Zheng Binzhou didn’t know what was considered a powerful ghost.
To him, even the ordinary vengeful ghosts were powerful.
He didn’t know the level of vengeful ghosts that Xie Jiling could handle.
“It depends on how powerful it is.” Xie Jiling didn’t give an absolute answer.
She had never met a vengeful ghost she couldn’t handle.
However, she couldn’t be too overconfident. What if she encountered a high-level vengeful ghost that she couldn’t handle?
“I have no other choice. I don’t trust other people. I’m scared that they are liars,” Zheng Binzhou said, “Can you take a look at it? How do you charge your service? My family definitely won’t let you do this for free.”
“In this case, the base price of my service is five million, and the price increase according to the level of the vengeful spirit.” Xie Jiling answered.
Zheng Binzhou was speechless.
His family really couldn’t afford to pay five million.
Was an exorcism this expensive?
His family had asked another exorcist and that exorcist charged them 500,000.
He was worried that the person had lied and would be unable to complete the request even after receiving payment for it.
But he didn’t expect Xie Jiling’s service to be even more expensive.
However, according to Chen Xing, Xie Jiling was the real deal.
This meant that Xie Jiling was capable enough to charge such a high price.
Zheng Binzhou would rather believe Xie Jiling.
“That is the usual price for the service in our line of work. The people charging less than seven digits are most likely scammers. Even if the person was not a scammer, he would not be someone who is truly capable. Most of them are just pretending,” Xie Jiling said, “Of course, someone charging more than seven digits, might still be a scammer. A big scammer.”
Unless they were a big scammer, why would they ask for such a huge amount of money?
Zheng Binzhou didn’t know what to say.
How could he determine if the person was a scammer?
Ren Linna, who was at the side, was astonished. “Jiling, if it cost so much to exorcise a ghost, aren’t you very rich now?”
Xie Jiling nodded. “I previously helped He Qingyang…”
Xie Jiling was worried that they didn’t know who He Qingyang was, so she explained, “The in-laws of Lu Qi, the celebrity who died.”
As expected, they had no idea who He Qingyang was.
However, when Lu Qi was mentioned, they immediately recognized the He Family.
“So it’s that He Family.” Ren Linna nodded, saying that she understood.
Xie Jiling then said, “It’s that He Family. I exorcised once for them and charged them five million. Then, I sold four cleansing talismans to him with each being priced at five hundred thousand.
He Yuliang stuttered and said, “Then… the cleansing talisman you gave us earlier…”
“It’s that one. And your protection amulets. For outsiders, I sell them at the price of five hundred thousand,” Xie Jiling said, “We are classmates. Obviously, I won’t ask you to pay so much.”
Xie Jiling said to Zheng Binzhou, “This is the price I give to other people, but it will definitely be different for you guys.”
Xie Jiling really didn’t know the price that normal people could handle.
After all, the Xie Family didn’t need money. When she left the Xie Family, she went to the Mount Lan Compound.
The Mount Lan Compound was a place that had no concept of money.
Since she came out of the Mount Lan Compound, the people who had been requesting her service were all wealthy people.
As of now, Xie Jiling wasn’t sure how much she should price her service if it was an ordinary person requesting it.
Xie Jiling thought about it and said, “We are classmates. Just pay me what you can. However, you must pay me, even if it’s a dollar. That is the rule in my line of work. If I exorcised the ghost, I must take payment for resolving this karma. If I do it for free, then I will acquire karma and it will be troublesome for me in the future.”
“I can exorcise the spirit first. You can pay me after you are certain that the issue is resolved.” Xie Jiling said.
Zheng Binzhou shook his head and said, “Actually, my elder female cousin is the one in trouble. Her husband does business and they can pay. However, five million is a little too much for them to afford. If you can give them a discount, then—”
“Two million.” Xie Jiling said.
Since the husband had a business, Xie Jiling had no intention of losing profit.
She would be risking her life to do an exorcism.
Considering that Zheng Binzhou was her classmate and that his family was just an ordinary family, she would just take anything, symbolizing that she had accepted payment.
But since he had no relation to Zheng Binzhou’s elder female cousin and since her family could afford it, Xie Jiling didn’t try to be courteous.
Still, Zheng Binzhou thought it was good.
This meant that he was important.
If it was him, Xie Jiling would be willing to accept one dollar.
If it was his elder female cousin, she would charge two million.
And she even gave a discount because of him.
Zheng Binzhou didn’t try to haggle. He wasn’t really being mean to his elder female cousin.
He just thought that Xie Jiling had reduced the price by a lot.
In addition, this was a dangerous task. He couldn’t allow his elder female cousin to take advantage of Xie Jiling.
It was best to meet each other in the middle.
If Xie Jiling could resolve the issue, his elder female cousin would be willing to give five million, not to mention two million.
“Sure.” Zheng Binzhou said, “When are you free? Come with me to see my elder female cousin soon.”
“My elder female cousin is pregnant. She has a big belly, but she is so skinny. She looks so scary. She looks as though she would collapse at any time,” Zheng Binzhou said.
“Let’s go now then,” Xie Jiling said, “Give me fifteen minutes.”
