The formal work has not yet started, and the people who come to send gifts and greetings are already queued up in a maze. Xiaojiao, a few people from Nanjiu and Nanzi generations blocked the door and stopped everyone, no matter who they were, they were all told to leave.
Wan'er was greatly encouraged by the resignation of Elder Xuanyuan. She felt that she and Ximen Wuhen had a promising future, so she went to prepare for the wedding with peace of mind.
The leader's wedding is as important as the celebration. The two large-scale events are too close together and the underground people are too busy. It also takes time to prepare gifts.
Ximen Wuhen followed the advice of the elders and decided to organize a grand event to give his subordinates and congregants some time to prepare.
I was afraid that a hasty event would leave many unsatisfactory results and would offend the wife of the would-be leader.
The last thing Ximen Wuhen wanted to do was to wrong Wan'er. Moreover, the jade mountains had not yet been processed, so making jade articles was the most time-consuming.
Ximen Wuhen didn't want the craftsmen to finish the work hastily, so he asked them to make the jewelry as exquisite as possible.
Yun Zhou and I are Wan'er's parents' family, and I am still my mother-in-law's family, so I can't ignore the wedding.
Wan'er has no relatives or friends in the world, and the master Yun Zhou is not smart enough to make decisions for her.
Yunzhou's part of the responsibility was transferred to me.
I have only attended modern weddings. I have never been to a wedding. I only know the common sense rules and procedures.
The mother's family is supposed to prepare a dowry for the bride. In the past, Wan'er followed Yun Zhou, and when she got married, Yun Zhou could pick some valuables from the family bank for her.
Nowadays we carry nothing of value with us, only money!
There are no shops in the Demon Cult headquarters, but there are some in the towns outside. However, business has been sluggish for a long time, and the stores have not stocked good goods for a long time.
Ximen Wuhen saw that the time was delayed, so he wanted to build a new yard and let Wan'er live in a new house.
But that would take too long, so I suggested to him that he just need to renovate it and add some soft furnishings.
Renovating a second-hand house is more time-consuming than tearing it all down and rebuilding again.
Ximen Wuhen personally led the decoration team to start the work, and the elders were happy that he didn't care about business and allowed him to worry about the wedding room.
They may also know that Ximen Wuhen’s ideas coincide with theirs.
The elders hoped that he would be busy with personal matters and not interested in official matters.
This way they can deal with me without any worries.
Ximen Wuhen thought the same thing, but he just wanted me to let go of dealing with them. He would take care of things if anything happened, and he usually pretended to be blind.
The emotional crisis between Ximen Wuhen and Wan'er was secretly resolved. Wan'er had confidence in me, so she relaxed and got busy with the wedding.
They both got busy and didn't appear in front of me for several days.
On the day I took office wearing my new clothes, they sent someone to send me a congratulatory gift. It was a pen holder placed on my desk in the shape of a big heart. The two beauties, a man and a woman, facing each other on both sides were carved in their likeness. They worship each other in front of me every day.
Show affection!
Xiaojiao and Guard Jia also gave gifts. Cheng Fei gave him paintings. If he lived in modern times, he would probably become a cartoonist.
He had no place to frame the painting, so he could only wrap the paper edge with silk. This gift looked like it was given by a child. I hung it behind my office chair. Cheng Fei was embarrassed and said that the painting was too crude. It doesn't match my temperament and identity.
I personally like his paintings very much. There are four large cartoon characters for "the evil spirit is awe-inspiring". Above or below the characters, next to the strokes, there are several cartoon characters lying, sitting or leaning on them. They are all Q version characters with bun faces. , but the personal characteristics are captured very accurately, and you can recognize who is painted at a glance.
I don't quite agree with his use of the words "evil and awe-inspiring". I want to be fair and aboveboard!
The immortal swordsman Du Li sent away himself. He had nothing to do in the Demon Cult and was so bored that he was sword-fighting with his reflection in the water.
He strongly recommended himself and asked me to arrange a job for him.
He can also run errands and do odd jobs, but the main reason is that he has nothing to do with farming. I asked him and Cheng Fei to grow vegetables in the small yard. He either forgot to water the vegetables or removed the vegetables and grass together.
Cheng Fei's small vegetable garden was full of life and beauty, but his was miserable.
I don't use the people on my side, but I have considerations, fearing that their lives will be in danger.
This contest is not a kindergarten tug-of-war, it is a fight of life and death, and the opponent will not show mercy.
Du Li didn't care about this at all. He had been wandering around the world for many years, and there was a possibility of burying corpses in weeds every day. He was not afraid of death, he was afraid of boredom.
"Then you go to the Garden Hall. I'm just planning to arrange for one of our own people to fill the spot."
"Huh? Gardening? Planting again? Lord Demon Girl, please be kind and keep me away from the plants!"
"This is an organizational need. Don't take it personally. Just go with peace of mind. Others will do the work of planting flowers and grass. Please help me investigate one thing. If you do well, I will transfer you elsewhere."
"Oh, that's okay! Whatever you say, I can definitely handle it!"
I told him his secret mission in a low voice. After hearing this, he waved his hand and said it was a trivial matter.
Du Li was the first person I assigned a job to after I took the top position in "Human Resources".
Many people took this as a signal and thought that I was going to stuff a large number of my own people into positions in the Demon Cult.
But after Du Li, I stopped moving, and I didn’t even make arrangements for the transfer of other personnel. Everything remained as it was.
Those who thought they were determined to move did not relax at all, but became even more nervous.
Sometimes people think too much, and it is themselves who suffer.
The relationships between people in the devil's sect are intricately intertwined. If you remove one and replace it with another, you are also replacing someone else's undercover agent or confidant.
Anyway, I am not of the same mind, and I am wasting my time by switching back and forth.
Since the personnel have not changed for the time being, no matter how they mutter in their hearts, they have to continue with their daily work. On the surface, nothing has changed.
It's too calm, and some people can't sit still.
How can you oust me without finding fault in my position?
But except for Du Li, everyone else remained at their original posts, doing their usual jobs. Why was there so much trouble?
After thinking about it for three days, they finally figured out a way to encourage some middle-level managers to come to me and ask for a job change.
I am originally a secret guard, not a butler. I am a monster hunter, not a group CEO.
If problems such as disputes between neighbors and disagreements between colleagues are put before me, I don't have the wisdom to sort out the mess.
"The teaching has recruited a large number of new people year after year but has not increased the number of jobs. This is the work that Xuanyuan Wumu has not finished. Now that he has retired due to illness, I have taken over his position and have the responsibility to first solve the problem of too many idle people in the teaching. question."
"Recently I am considering layoffs, oh, that means firing, dismissing, and sending away the extra people. Do you understand these words? Whoever can do their job well will be kept. Whoever can't do it well will be kept. People who are redundant will be judged based on their ability. For example, those who cannot do small things such as harmonious coexistence among people will be given priority to be sent away."
Having said this, I really want to laugh, ease the tense atmosphere, and be an amiable boss.
However, the original face was weak, so I could only squeeze out a sneer.
I healed her old and new injuries, and detoxified her, so her facial paralysis should have been cured long ago.
But this problem is beyond the scope of my treatment. Perhaps more exercises and regular facial muscle movements will help her face return to normal.
"These are all old people in the church, and they know everyone from top to bottom. Do you have any recommended candidates? I'm worried that no one will do the surgery." As I said this, I observed their expressions, and my eyes flickered from their faces. He glanced at it with a "cold" smile that he tried hard to pull out.
"By the way, the guys who came here just now, why are they here?"
Several people were suddenly asked, their heads shook like rattles, and they waved their hands and said nothing happened. They came to congratulate me on my promotion and report on my work.
Reporting work has a fixed time and place. If you don't report at a specific time or place, it means "please say hello" in it.
My words are not simply to scare them, but to implement "tyranny".
Originally, the Demonic Cult's income and expenditure were not balanced. It had been unable to make ends meet for many years, and it had been resting on its laurels.
There is no benefit in having too many idle people. Either expand new business to make money or lay off employees.
The ability of employees to work is of course important, but I have to send them away no matter how capable they are, if they get up and cause trouble every three days and are against me.
The "tyrant" does things in a snappy manner, cutting through the mess with a sharp knife, but not solving the mess.
The people who were laid off in the end were either undercover agents of this elder or relatives of that elder. They were not our people after all.
The people I sent out have found out their background.
And when Xuanyuan Wumu was here, he didn't care about trivial matters.
Some people who come to me to wait for instructions to lock things up will be deducted money as "incompetent".
If this kind of thing comes to me again, pack up and leave.
Some people are timid and become more honest after being frightened.
Some people are so bold that they insist on giving it a try and will not give up until they hit the wall.
The man who came to attack the southern wall was Wu Zhiyuan, the nephew of the elder who was responsible for weapons management and guarding the magic weapons of the ancestors of the demon sect.
Wu Zhiyuan is responsible for weapons manufacturing, repairing damage and loss, etc.
The person who purchases weapons-making materials uses inferior materials and passes them off as superior materials in order to pocket the cost of making weapons.
The buyer is responsible for buying the materials, and Wu Zhiyuan is responsible for checking and accepting the materials, giving the green light along the way, and then the two divide the accounts.
The forged sword is at risk of breaking, not to mention being used on the battlefield, but even if you are practicing martial arts and chopping down a straw man.
Because the Demon Cult has not had contact with the outside world for many years and has not fought a war for a long time, other than practicing, ordinary members of the cult have no chance to use weapons.
Only the swords used by the patrols were relatively normal. If other elders' subordinates wanted to use weapons, they never applied to the weapons hall and purchased them themselves.
Every hospital and every family has their own tricks, and no one can tell anyone else. If they know the inside story, they will avoid it, and they won't let it out, and they won't shout it in front of Ximen Wuhen.
This matter was brought before me because of a "duel" within the church.
The two parties agreed that life and death depended on their own abilities. If the person was inferior in skill and died under the knife of the other party, the family would never get involved.
The outcome of the duel was of course life and death. The family of the deceased did not abide by the agreement and instead brought the matter to my attention.
The family members held the deceased's knife. The material of the knife was not much stronger than modern plastic.
But the winner's knife is a genuine and good knife with exquisite materials.
There was no difference between the two knives in appearance. This family member was also very powerful. In order to redress his family's injustice, he desperately took away the winner's knife and presented it to me as evidence.
They are the knives used by ordinary cult members. Those who have been in the Demon Cult for a period of time, and those who have passed the test will be issued weapons uniformly.
This was a rule left over from the early days when the sect was founded. At that time, there were frequent battles between the demon sect and other forces in the world, and group fights were commonplace.
Therefore, believers who pass the assessment must be equipped with swords and can participate in battle at any time.
Now that there is no fight, this knife is basically just a decoration.
So some people thought of making a fuss about it. I don’t know how much they can do, but mosquitoes are still meat no matter how small they are, and there are always people who care about them.
The duel originated from a love triangle. The family member who bravely seized the evidence was the eldest brother of the family. He had a younger brother, who was the deceased.
The parents of the two brothers died early, and there was a famine in their hometown. They escaped from the famine, and when they met the demon sect and recruited people, they voluntarily joined, hoping to make a living.
They are not just hired men, they are trained to be armed forces.
The family members were named Wang Mu, and his younger brother was named Wang Lin. Originally, there was a third brother named Wang Sen in the family, but he couldn't support him and died at the age of four.
As the eldest son in the family, Wang Mu wants to lead his family to live a good life.
However, natural and man-made disasters continued. First, his parents went into the mountains to collect wild mushrooms, but they encountered a pack of wolves and both died.
Later, he experienced successive years of drought, and his family's thin fields failed to produce any harvest.
The brothers fled their hometown and wanted to make a living elsewhere.
They were in the countryside before, had never heard of the Demon Cult, and knew nothing about the Jianghu.
I just heard that there was a place looking for people to take care of the food, so they came.
After joining the Demon Cult, he may have accepted certain "ideas"
educate".
Wang Lin felt that his life had been in vain. Young men like them should have joined the world long ago and made a name for themselves. Farming could not change their destiny. Only by practicing martial arts could they become masters.
Wang Lin therefore worked hard and his short-term goal was to join the patrol team.
After working hard for several years, I finally got a chance, but my ideals failed in the face of love.
Wang Lin fell in love with a girl in the church, and in order to meet her, he neglected his usual martial arts training projects.
He even bravely accepted a duel for love, but Wang Mu dissuaded him, and he almost fell out with his elder brother.
The result of the duel was already in the morgue. Wang Mu realized something was wrong and immediately grabbed the evidence and came to me to complain.
He said that if it was a fair duel and his brother lost and died, he would admit it no matter how sad he was.
But Wang Lin's duel was not fair at all. Wang Lin used the knife issued by the sect, and the one used by the opponent was obviously different, and the quality was too poor.
I sent two secret guards from the Xiang family to check the background of the Wang brothers. I left him in my office, asked my servants to bring tea and snacks, and asked him to sit down and talk slowly.
Wang Mu is a person with no ambitions. This is his self-introduction. He likes farming and wants to cultivate a happy life with his hands for the rest of his life.
So when Wang Lin was trying to get promoted to the patrol team, he was studying "growing vegetables on the balcony."
He planted more than a dozen pots of vegetables on the window sill of their dormitory. They went to the cafeteria to eat three meals a day and usually did not have the opportunity to cook by themselves.
He grew vegetables like flowers. Everyone laughed at him for being down-to-earth, and secretly laughed at him for his lack of ambition.
But he just wants to live a peaceful farming life. In fact, he is not bad at all.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to seize the sword from the winner. He practiced martial arts to accompany Wang Lin. Many times, Wang Lin couldn't learn it, and they were unwilling to teach him a second time, so he would learn it once and then tutor Wang Lin. Teach him over and over until he understands.
