There was silence in the room.
Upon hearing the news, Ran Qingmo just opened his mouth and said softly.
Xu Yuan on the side frowned subconsciously.
Ran Jianli.
The head of the Sword Sect, the current national master, and the nominal talker of the sect alliance, at this time, asked Ran Qingmo to return to the sect, and also asked Lou Ji to take the lead. This behavior has to make people think deeply.
Just thinking,
Lou Ji's voice floated softly:
"Why, we Changtian can't bear to be with our Mo Mo?"
Xu Yuan came back to his senses and looked at Lou Ji with a serious look in his eyes:
"Not because of that."
Lou Ji saw his eyes and understood, and her words were filled with a hint of teasing:
"Don't think so much."
After a pause,
Lou Ji moved her eyes sideways, glanced at the girl in black across from her, and smiled playfully: "The old man is asking Ran Qingmo to go back now, probably because he doesn't want his precious apprentice to be fooled by you."
Ran Qingmo's beautiful eyes blinked, seeming to understand.
Xu Yuan was stunned when he heard this, and then realized that the news of the marriage had probably reached the old man's ears.
Think of the old man’s bulging muscles and unshaven beard in Cangyuanli
Not impossible.
Xu Yuan was silent for a moment and coughed slightly:
"If so."
"It's too late."
"."Xu Yuan.
"." Lou Ji.
silence.
The corners of Xu Yuan's eyes twitched and he looked back at Ran Qingmo opposite.
Ran Qingmo looked calm, looked at Lou Ji and said seriously:
"Xu Yuan and I have done what a couple can do."
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Lou Ji's beautiful face was obviously stunned for a moment, and then she looked sideways at Xu Yuan opposite.
Xu Yuan opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.
Ran Qingmo's expression was as usual, his eyes were like clear springs, and his voice did not fluctuate at all:
"Xu Yuan, I will explain it clearly to my master when I go back this time."
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Lou Ji seemed to understand, with a hint of approval in her beautiful eyes, she secretly raised her thumb to give him a thumbs up.
But then, Lou Ji stood up charmingly and walked to Ran Qingmo, lifted her chin, and said with a smile:
"Don't let your master know about this for the time being~"
Ran Qingmo was silent for a moment and asked: "Why?"
When Lou Ji heard this question, she stood up straight, crossed her arms, tapped her chin with her index finger, and smiled with narrowed eyes:
"Qing Mo, you don't want our parents to be cut in half by Master You's sword every day, right?"
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Ran Jianli's two-meter-long heavy sword appeared in Xu Yuan's mind, and he shuddered.
Ran Qingmo frowned slightly and thought for a moment:
"Sister, what do you mean, my master wants to kill Changtian? Why?"
Lou Ji was quiet for a moment and rubbed her eyebrows:
"Killing him won't be enough, but beating him a few times is probably inevitable."
Ran Qingmo frowned:
"I will stop the master."
"cough."
Xu Yuan coughed lightly, and after attracting Ran Qingmo's attention, he smiled slightly:
"Ran Qingmo, I think this kind of thing should be said by me personally, what do you think?"
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Ran Qingmo thought for a while and said in a low voice: "Well, it's up to you."
Ran Qingmo left and settled in the wing next to Xu Yuan.
As a meeting gift, before leaving, Lou Ji mysteriously gave Ran Qingmo a packet of medicinal powder, along with two Source Crystals.
It's far worse than Xu Changge. Although the eldest brother likes to be a little more hands-on, he is always generous in giving things, unlike this aunt who just snaps and swishes everything she gives.
There were only two people left in the room again,
Xu Yuan rubbed his eyebrows, looked at Lou Ji who was sending Ran Qingmo away at the door, and asked:
"What did you give her?"
"Hehuan San, your other sweetheart sent it back a month ago."
"."Xu Yuan.
Noticing Xu Yuan's stunned gaze, Lou Jijiao smiled and waved her hand:
"It's just a joke. If she wants to force you, you can't resist. Besides, sister, I'm not that generous."
"Very proud." Xu Yuan gave this stingy aunt a thumbs up.
Lou Ji snorted softly:
"Things like Hehuan Powder have become extinct. What is the main drug, Meishenhua?"
The words stopped abruptly.
next moment,
Lou Ji almost teleported from the door to Xu Yuan, snatched the Charm Flower from his hand, and inspected it carefully.
Seeing the beautiful aunt's posture, Xu Yuan slowly leaned back on the chair and said with a smile:
"The Charm Flower, haven't you seen it? That's right, after all, it is extinct, so it's normal that you haven't seen it before."
Lou Ji took the Charming God Flower into her Sumeru Ring without leaving a trace:
"Long sky."
While speaking, Lou Ji walked up behind Xu Yuan swayingly and gently pressed his shoulders:
"Sister, I'm the best at using poison. With the Charming God Flower, if everything goes well, I can even get rid of a mortal without any sound. Look."
Xu Yuan tilted his head back and leaned against her soft belly. While enjoying the massage, he said tiredly:
"Sister, please take a look at these official duties first."
The corners of Lou Ji's eyes twitched, but her laughter remained:
"Sister, help you."
"But, sister, aren't you an examiner?" Xu Yuan smiled.
Lou Ji put a little force on her hands:
"It doesn't matter. If you don't tell me and I don't tell you, how will that old man Xu Yinhe know?"
When Xu Yuan saw this, he stopped, stood up, stretched, and patted the frightened black-scaled poisonous woman twice on the shoulder:
"Then I'm going to bed first. Sister, please watch over me."
With that said, Xu Yuan threw himself on the soft couch and waved his hand to Lou Ji who was still standing there:
"Please sister~"
After that, he closed his eyes and saw Duke Zhou.
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Lou Ji stood there feeling a little angry and a little funny. Finally, she sighed helplessly and rubbed her eyebrows:
"What a little enemy."
During this sleep, Xu Yuan slept soundly, and when he woke up again it was already night.
There was no light in the room, but Xu Yuan could still see someone sitting at the desk through the moonlight coming in from outside.
A little bit of exercise,
It's Lou Ji.
It seemed that because she was afraid of disturbing his rest, she did not turn on the light. She wore a brocade coat and sat in front of the desk in the dark, carefully flipping through the official documents.
For her, it doesn't matter whether she turns on the lights or not.
Seeing this, Xu Yuan was about to stand up and say a few words, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure hanging outside the open doorway from the corner of his eye.
Looking intently,
This is a woman, and Xu Yuan knows her, a shopkeeper sent by Hua Hong.
"woke up?"
Lou Ji's light voice came over, and then the bright pattern lamp in the room was lit.
While speaking, Lou Ji slowly stood up and carefully handed a cup of tea to Xu Yuan:
"Here, drink water."
Xu Yuan rubbed his eyebrows, took the water and took a sip:
"When I wake up and look at something, it's a bit scary."
Lou Ji smiled slightly:
"It's okay to be scary. You were scared, let alone the other people who came to report."
Xu Yuan glanced at the body hanging on the beam outside the door and asked:
"Killing the chicken to scare the monkey?"
Lou Ji sat down on the edge of the bed, holding hot tea in her hand, sipping it and saying:
"That's right. The second and third batch of shopkeepers from Huahong have also arrived. It's difficult to manage a large number of people. She took some benefits and asked the Wanxiang Sect to smuggle some things away from the warehouse in the east of the city."
Speaking, Lou Ji glanced at Xu Yuan:
"If it were you Changtian, what would you do?"
Xu Yuan was silent for a moment and said truthfully:
"Probably just a bit of banging."
With the teacup floating in front of her, Lou Ji put her hands on the bed behind her and chuckled:
"Changtian, if you don't see blood all the time, it's not called beating. Only if you see blood every now and then, your beating will be effective."
Xu Yuan drank tea and said nothing.
Lou Ji sighed softly, her tone a little playful:
"Sister, I actually don't mind them accepting benefits. After all, I also received benefits from you, Changtian, but it's best to put yourself in the right position before accepting benefits."
Saying,
Lou Ji suddenly changed the subject of the conversation, as if Sichuan opera had changed its face with a hint of sadness:
"Changtian, look at me, sister, I am so lucky, I work for you from morning till night."
"Sister, this is the magic flower."
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Lou Ji snorted and stood up: "Not cute at all."
But after taking two steps,
Lou Ji changed her face again, turned around and asked softly: "Changtian, I took a look at the quality of your magic flower. It should have grown recently?"
Xu Yuan raised his eyebrows, leaned on the bed, and asked with a smile:
"Can you tell that?"
"After all, sister uses poison~" Lou Ji narrowed her eyes and smiled: "No matter how well it is preserved, it is impossible for it to be so active."
Xu Yuan did not hide anything and nodded:
"It was indeed formed recently."
Lou Ji's breathing stagnated, and then became a little rapid:
"What about the Charming Sakura Tree?"
She knew the value of something like the Charming Sakura Tree very well, if she had it.
Just as she was thinking about it, she caught a glimpse of Xu Yuan's sideways glance subconsciously, and Lou Ji's heart skipped a beat:
"Don't tell me that you destroyed the Charming Sakura Tree?"
Xu Yuan coughed lightly:
"Well, this matter is a bit complicated."
Unless he doesn't tell the secret realm of Qionghua Sect, the marks of the slash on the Meishen Sakura tree belonging to Ran Qingmo cannot be concealed at all.
Hearing this, Lou Ji clenched her fists, and the energy in her body began to overflow.
This prodigal!
Xu Yuan sat on the bed and backed away little by little:
"Wait a minute, sister, wait a minute, please listen to my explanation first."
"Okay~"
Lou Ji is not Xu Changge, so she still listens to explanations, and says with a smile: "Changtian, you are quibbling, I'm listening."
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Xu Yuan directly picked out the legitimate reasons he had compiled:
"That's roughly it. If we don't kill the charming cherry tree, we won't be able to get out at all."
Lou Ji stood aside and listened carefully, her breath calmed down, and she felt a little distressed:
"He really looks like an idiot."
Xu Yuan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, and just as he grinned, there was a flower in front of him,
The plump and slim figure appeared directly beside him as if teleporting.
Then,
"boom!"
Lou Ji punched him hard on the head and said coldly:
"Xu Changtian, what kind of cultivation level do you have now?! There are some secret realms in this world that even I dare not enter easily. Do you like taking risks? Next time you encounter a secret realm, don't you dare to go in casually? My sister has newly debugged many kinds of medicines and no one has tested them. You want to Don’t you want to try it?”
After all,
Lou Ji turned around with a snort, walked to the desk, and read the official documents with a cold face and said nothing.
Xu Yuan sat on the bed and held his head in pain for a while. He stood up with a smile and walked behind Lou Ji to massage her shoulders:
"Sister, I know, but can you do this?"
"Snapped!"
Lou Ji threw the official document in her hand directly on the desk and glanced at him sideways:
"I don't have to tell your father about this."
Xu Yuan let out a sigh of relief.
"But I will tell you about that boy Xu Changge."
"."Xu Yuan.
After the negotiation with Lou Ji collapsed, Xu Yuan immediately gave up. He was only responsible for the highest decision-making and left all other matters to her.
If you want the Charming Flower, I will work hard for you.
The price for Lou Ji's handling of complicated affairs was that there were a few more people hanging on the eaves outside Xu Yuan's wing, and probably because of this, the people below were much more honest.
Moreover, with Aunt Lou Ji as a senior wage earner, Xu Yuan had a lot of free time, and was only responsible for occasionally arguing with the senior leaders of Wanxiang Sect.
Time passed like this day by day, but there was not much progress.
After being tough for more than ten days, Xu Yuan suddenly changed his attitude towards the Wanxiang Sect when he tasted the difficulty of taking over the industry.
The Prime Minister's Office backed down.
He promised to retain a certain amount of shares in the properties that Wanxiang Sect paid to Xiang Guofu.
Most of them range from 10% to 30%.
Of course, this part of the shares is allocated to some families within the Wanxiang Sect, not the Wanxiang Sect as a whole.
Of course, the shares given up will not be given away for free, but will be converted into part of the dividend-paying shares of the remaining industries in the Wanxiang Sect by reducing a certain amount.
Xu Yuan tried to reach a simple community of interests with the Wanxiang Sect.
The signal is clear,
Although I, the Prime Minister's Office, have robbed their Wanxiang Sect's cake, the support of the Prime Minister's Office can make the Wanxiang Sect's cake bigger.
If the Xiangguo Mansion eats meat, the Wanxiang Sect can also drink soup, and the meat in the soup you drink will not be less than what you ate before.
The price of doing this was that the Prime Minister's Office suffered a big loss in the negotiations, and the total compensation dropped from the initial 90 million taels to about 80 million taels.
However, if Xu Yuan's idea is realized, the Wanxiang Sect's industry will be infiltrated into a sieve by the Prime Minister's Government in the next ten years or even a few years.
If time permits, he can even plan a change in his sect just by paying money.
After walking around in Vientiane City, Xu Yuan dusted himself off.
Today's Vientiane City, except for the east part of the city which is still firmly controlled by the Black Scale Army, the people have basically returned to their pre-war life. After all, this war lasted only a short time, and most of the damage caused was limited to the vicinity of the city wall.
Goulan Restaurant by the Liuchuan River is still full of singing and dancing.
Walking into his own room, the workers for Meishenhua were still working hard on their official duties.
When Xu Yuan saw it, he walked to sit opposite Lou Ji, poured himself a cup of tea, and asked:
"How's it going today?"
Lou Ji gave Xu Yuan a tired look:
"Your father is very satisfied with the plan you proposed before, but there are some difficulties with the Wanxiang Sect."
"oh?"
Xu Yuan raised his eyebrows, took a sip of tea, and said slowly:
"Is it that Xia Wenlin again?"
Lou Ji nodded:
"Yes, it's him again, he's blocking the plan."
Xu Yuan knocked on the table and said with a smile:
"It seems that Wanxiang Sect also has smart people."
Lou Ji handed a copy of the copy to Xu Yuan, bent her eyes and asked with a smile, her voice was very casual:
"Do you want sister to help you get rid of him?"
(End of chapter)
