"I understand, go down."
After listening to Zhou Guangyang's report, Zhou Guangren raised his hand to indicate that he was aware. After hearing this, Zhou Guangyang bowed his head and saluted, turned around and left.
Watching Zhou Guangyang salute and leave, Zhou Wuyi turned to look at Zhou Guangren and said: "Master, it's hard to say this. The Fang family is not weak, and the value of the smuggled goods is not high. Even if the five gates are to be investigated, it should be I won’t choose to check their home.”
After hearing what he said, Zhou Guangren hummed, nodded and said, "I thought so too, but after all, there are people coming from above. I think we should leave the smuggling side alone until the limelight passes."
"That makes sense." Zhou Wuyi stroked his long gray beard, but frowned: "But the clan is also in short supply recently, so it is better to trade the goods in hand first to relieve the urgent need."
"Okay." Zhou Guangren nodded: "Grandpa Jiu will make arrangements. If anything happens, I will let you know."
After listening, Zhou Wuyi stood up, nodded with Zhou Guangren and went down. He was impatient. Since this batch of goods was the last batch for a while, it was better to increase the quantity and earn more spiritual stones. return.
Watching Zhou Wuyi leave, Zhou Guangren let out a breath and leaned back on the chair. At this moment, a pair of delicate white hands touched his head, gently pressed his temples, and started massaging him. .
Letting these hands serve him, Zhou Guangren quietly enjoyed it for a while, then opened his eyes, grabbed the catkins with one hand, and gently pulled them forward. A delicate woman with a double bun followed his fingers. Strength emerged from the shadows and poured into his arms.
"Tui'er, go and see what Wu Man is here for. If you find anything, report it to me immediately."
Compared with when Zhou Guangren became the head of the family nearly ten years ago, Cui'er's appearance has almost remained unchanged, and her body is slimmer. Now she has perfected her Qi training, and her skills are best at hiding herself. Once she is hidden, even Zhou Yuncang, the only foundation-building monk of the Zhou family, sometimes cannot detect her existence.
After hearing Zhou Guangren's words, Cui'er responded sweetly: "Okay." After saying that, she stretched out her two white jade-like arms and wrapped them around Zhou Guangren's neck. She raised her head slightly and offered her soft red lips.
Zhou Guangren lowered his head to greet her. After a moment of tenderness, he let go. He kissed Yu Cuier's forehead lightly, patted her waist and hips with his hands, and said, "Go ahead."
Cui'er rubbed her face reluctantly in his arms, finally stood up, smiled sweetly at Zhou Guangren, took two gentle steps, and disappeared in a flash.
After she left, Zhou Guangren stared at the place where her figure disappeared for a moment. His already relaxed brows wrinkled again. He stroked his mustache with one hand and began to think with a serious face.
As Zhou Wuyi said, the current situation of the Zhou family is not optimistic, both financially and in terms of the strength of the clan.
Zhou Yuncang, the only foundation-building cultivator of the Zhou family, is already 219 years old this year and is not far away from the throne. Once he dies, the Zhou family will be reduced to a qi-training family.
If it had been a peaceful period decades ago, it would have been okay. At worst, it would have been possible to shrink the family's sphere of influence and transfer benefits while marrying other families. After all, there was still a way to go. But now, at a time when Zhennan monks are moving north in large numbers, the Southern Zhenyuan Sect is being After the destruction, the whole Dongyi became more and more chaotic. Once the foundation-building monks in the clan died, it would be a question whether the Zhou family could keep their family land, Lishan.
The good news is that several members of the Zhou family have now entered the ninth level of Qi training and can enter the foundation building stage, including Cui'er, Zhou Shiwen, who is ranked fifth in the Zhou family's generation, and even Zhou Guangren himself has been promoted. He has reached the eighth level of Qi training, and he is only forty years old this year, so he has a good chance of reaching the foundation building stage.
Under such circumstances, the Zhou family naturally needed to make great efforts to make money and collect spiritual objects, auxiliary elixirs, etc. for promotion for the clan members. However, it was also at this juncture that Wudaomen adopted strict control measures on its subordinate forces, resulting in The Zhou family's revenue has plummeted, so they have to take desperate risks and use smuggling to earn profits for the family.
Now, the Zhou family's smuggling income has reached more than 70% of its total income. In this way, the Zhou family is also very short of spiritual stones and so on. Once there is no smuggling, I am afraid that the entire family's finances will collapse on the spot. Zhou Guangren couldn't sit back and watch this happen, so he took some risks and asked Cui'er to inquire about Wu Man. It would be best if nothing happened. And if the other party really came here for smuggling, the Zhou family could at least do it in advance. some preparations.
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In early March, just a few days after the Li family's competition, a group of monks from the Zhang family arrived at Yuepan Mountain.
They were escorting the second-order "Chengfeng Shuttle" on this trip, and they also brought some second-order "fixed-point communication talismans". According to the three mutual protection agreements that Li Qingfeng had previously agreed with Zhang and Fan, once they received a certain When a family calls for help, unless it is absolutely necessary, they must take the "Wind Shuttle" to provide support as soon as possible.
Since the interests of the three companies are intertwined, and Li Qingfeng, Zhang Pengyi and Fan Mingcheng have quite good personal relationships, the agreement does not contain many specific binding behaviors for a certain company. It only states that all three companies must use the second-order "flying shuttle" , to ensure that reinforcements can arrive as soon as possible after an accident occurs.
The shuttle body of the second-order "Chengfeng Shuttle" is made of second-order spiritual wood and is engraved with the patterns of "Chengfeng", "Lightness", "Magic Walk", "Soundproof" and so on. It is mainly used for rapid movement, so Only then was he given the name "Chengfeng".
This kind of shuttle is not large in size and can only accommodate six to eight people in the shuttle - in fact, there is basically not much space left for carrying six people, and eight people are indeed a bit crowded.
Compared to manned shuttles that are slow and carry a large number of people, this "flying shuttle" is more suitable for the Li family's situation. After all, the Li family is small, and support requires speed. With this second-level "flying wind shuttle", Li Qingfeng can take his clan members to the Zhang family or the Fan family within a few hours. Compared with the slow first-level manned shuttle from Jindingmen before, This efficiency is much higher.
However, although "Chengfeng Shuttle" has many benefits, it also has a lot of troubles. Taking the most basic point, it needs maintenance on daily basis, and the maintenance method is not that simple. On the one hand, maintenance The player needs to have a certain degree of cultivation. On the other hand, he also needs to have a certain degree of understanding of weapon refining, magic patterns and other related knowledge.
In the Li family, there are only two people who meet this condition except Li Qingfeng, but Li Qingfeng cannot spend too much time on maintaining the shuttle. Fortunately, the Li family only needs to maintain one "wind shuttle" now. If it is well maintained and not used too often, it will not take up too much of Li Qingfeng's time.
