Taoist Xiaoyao agreed and went out. When he arrived at Yuanfu Palace, he saw that the palace gate was deserted and closed. Something seemed wrong. After asking the little Taoist priest on duty in the palace, it turned out that someone from Yuanfu Palace had come recently.
The Heavenly Master Chen Shandao was not happy when people came and made a lot of noise. After asking about the reason, he asked Li Dayin to go to Xiangluxuan to make trouble.
The little Taoist priest pointed to the notice posted under the archway outside the palace gate: "Master Lin, look, there is a notice posted there."
Taoist Xiaoyao moved back and took a look. Sure enough, there was a huge white paper notice posted, stating that the preparation and registration office for the practice ball competition was located in Xiangluxuan. There was also an arrow drawn in the blank space at the bottom of the white paper. The arrow of the arrow pointed to a mountain.
path.
Xiaoyao Taoist walked along the mountain path for less than a mile and came to Xiangluxuan. Xiangluxuan is a Taoist temple affiliated with Yuanfu Palace, and the lay people in Yuanfu Palace usually live here.
Nowadays, Xiangluxuan has been requisitioned as the preparatory office and registration office for Li Dayin's practice ball competition. These laymen have become clerks of the preparatory office doing odd jobs. They work two jobs in Yuanfu Palace and the preparatory office, and their salary is only
Yuanfu Palace’s salary and silver.
As soon as I entered the door, a Taoist priest came to greet me: "Master Xiaoyao is here. Are you here to sign up? Please come over here."
Taoist Xiaoyao saw that he looked familiar, but he couldn't recognize him by his name. He followed him to the outside of a room and saw two yellow-crowned monks lined up at the door. He didn't know where they came from.
The person registering in the room was one of Li Dayin's junior disciples. He was filling in the registration form for a Huang Guan monk. The Huang Guan monk was still asking: "This Taoist Priest, "Junshan Notes" said that the Huang Guan group ranked first.
Is it true that the prize is a thousand taels of silver?"
Li Dayin's junior brother didn't even raise his head, he lowered his head and filled out: "Indeed."
The man asked again: "Anyone who enters the top sixteen will be rewarded with one hundred taels. Is this true?"
"Indeed... you have registered and are ready to participate in the audition. Remember, at the fifteenth day of this month, the Chaotian Palace Practice Stadium will be in the Geng category. Don't be late. Registration fee!"
The monk took out a tael of silver and handed it over. Li Dayin's junior brother grabbed it and threw it into the wooden box next to him. Then he handed a wooden sign to the monk: "Enter by the sign, don't lose it."
Taoist Xiaoyao, a master of Jindan, jumped in directly, and the two Huang Guans outside had to wait.
When Li Dayin saw that he was Taoist Xiaoyao, he quickly got up enthusiastically and quickly filled in the registration for Zhang Tengming. The wooden sign was also collected by Taoist Xiaoyao. Taoist Xiaoyao put one or two silver coins into the wooden box, and the junior brother picked up more from inside.
After he came out of the trap, Taoist Xiaoyao returned it, and then Taoist Xiaoyao forcibly threw him in again...
The two sides had been arguing fiercely for a long time over the two taels of silver. The two Huang Guan waiting in line outside couldn't help but look at each other in confusion after hearing a vague idea, secretly thinking that this senior Jin Dan belonged to some sect and was so powerful.
He is not even willing to pay one tael of silver as the registration fee, which is really audacious.
When Taoist Xiaoyao finally threw a tael of silver into the wooden box on the grounds of "cannot break the rules" and closed the lid of the wooden box tightly, the farce was finally over, and he could wait for him to go back to see him again.
When Li Dayin was away, he was told that the envoy from Li Yuan had just returned to Yuanfu Palace to see Chen Tianshi for a reply.
Taoist Xiaoyao shook his head and decided to visit again another day.
When he left Xiangluxuan, Li Dayin was in the Zichen Hall. Chen Tianshi handed him a piece of paper and said, "Another person has signed up, and they all came to me. It's really annoying."
Li Dayin took it and said with a smile: "That's the teacher's prestige. In name, I'm here to sign up, but in fact, I'm here to curry favor with the teacher."
When he looked down, he saw that the note was written by Yan Shifan. This man was the son of Mr. Yan Ge. He was very smart when he was young. Later, he examined his bones for Zhu Xianjian and took him into his family. This gentleman's cultivation talent is indeed extraordinary, and he is not yet here. At the age of forty, he has reached the level of Huang Guan, and continues to practice with Zhu Xianxian in Chaotian Palace. At the same time, he also holds the virtual title of fifth rank Shaoqing of Shangbaosi.
Yan Shifan loves training balls, which is known to the dignitaries in Beijing, so as soon as the registration notice in "Junshan Notes" was released, he came to Li Dayin to sign up and asked to participate, but Li Dayin refused.
Why not let him sign up? Because Li Dayin doesn't want to make a one-time deal this time, but wants to really run the practice ball competition, and wants to get it on the right track and provide himself with stable income.
At this point, Zhao Ran had repeatedly reminded him not to manipulate the group competition or fake matches. Any such behavior would seriously harm the competition, including those gambling houses that set up gambling outside. It must be strictly investigated and dealt with strictly.
Li Dayin deeply agreed with this, so he didn't know how to face Yan Shifan. Mr. Yan Ge treated him well. If Yan Shifan played, it would be good to win, but if the young master lost, with Mr. Yan Ge's temperament, I'm afraid They want to come to ask him to "arrange arrangements." Once this is opened, what will happen next? If there are one, there will be two, and if there are two, there will be three. It will not take two years, maybe after this year's Winter Games, the competition will be held Damn it, wouldn’t that cut off my huge and stable income every year?
Business is all about rules. Without rules, how can we do business?
After Yan Shifan was rejected, he unexpectedly found his teacher. Li Dayin felt that he might have relied on Zhu Xianjian to help him, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart - I'm afraid that Yan's gambling house couldn't be left to Zhu Xianjian. Come on, people like Lao Zhu’s family only have eyes for imperial power and have no money at all. How can they be banned by then?
In this case, who should give this thirty thousand taels of silver contract to?
Well, I'm thinking too far. I'll deal with the situation in front of me first. I was thinking about how to explain it to the teacher, but I heard the teacher say: "I told Mr. Zhu that this is a big event to be done this year, and we can't mess it up at will." According to the rules, if Yan Shifan wants to participate in the competition, he can do it, but he can do whatever he wants, from...well..."
"Audition."
"Starting from the audition, go forward one round at a time, and get as high a ranking as you can. Zhu Xianjian agreed. He said Yan Shifan just loves it and has no other ideas, as long as he can participate."
Li Dayin nodded: "In that case, report it to him."
After Yan Shifan finished talking about it, Chen Shandao pondered for a moment and said: "The competition you are organizing is very good. I am very satisfied with it. It is in line with what I told you before. I want to create something new this year."
Li Dayin said: "Thank you very much for the teacher's praise. I am really ashamed of myself. Teacher tolerated many nonsense things in the past. This time I will definitely work hard to create a new atmosphere in Beijing and live up to the teacher's ardent expectations for my disciples!"
Chen Tianshi said: "Firstly, it is an expectation for you, and secondly, it is not just an expectation. What you have done is very meaningful. Now it seems that you have become much calmer after entering the realm of the great mage. Very comforting."