Back at the helm, Wei He was in a good mood, and inexplicably everything he saw seemed much more pleasing to the eye.
After a good night's sleep, Lin Xiaoxiao brought his younger brother here to pay New Year's greetings early the next morning.
Outside the tiller door, Wei He brought a bunch of long firecrackers, dragged the red firecrackers on the ground, and lit them with charcoal.
The crackling sound attracted a lot of attention from the surrounding people.
The children all ran out to watch the fun, and some adults quickly came out to protect the children from being injured by the firecrackers.
There were several martial arts masters in brocade robes on the roof not far away. When they passed by, they paused for a moment and were startled.
Lin Xiaoxiao covered her ears and looked at the exploding firecrackers with a pretty face, feeling a little moist and nostalgic. She didn't know what she was thinking of.
She is obviously much plumper than before the contract with Wei Hehe, and her complexion is very good.
Standing next to him was a boy half a man tall, wearing a tiger skin hat, with a round face and round eyes, and his body was also wrapped in a circle. From a distance, he looked like a green leather ball.
Soon after the firecrackers were set off, Wei He hugged his fists towards the surrounding neighbors.
"Excuse me! New year, new atmosphere!"
"Master Wei, you're welcome!"
"Master Wei, please come out after a long time. Don't always go to high places. Everyone is eager to walk around with you, but we can't find the chance." Someone laughed.
"It's mainly because I'm too busy with work. Recently, there have been a lot of troubles in Yubei Town. Didn't you see that I leave early and come home late and are busy every day? We will definitely get together if we have the chance!" Wei He said with a smile.
Naturally, he won't waste time on surrounding people.
Most of these neighbors were moderately large and wealthy businessmen. They wanted to get close to him, but they just wanted to cling to him because he was older and single.
At his level, ordinary people can no longer look down on him.
In fact, on the market, those who can be bought with money and ordinary exotic animal meat are generally those with three blood levels.
Further up, the martial arts masters and the like have the power to protect their bodies, and ordinary people cannot cut them with weapons.
At this level, it can already crush ordinary soldiers.
No matter how many ordinary people there are, they are just lambs in the eyes of martial arts masters. Only warriors and soldiers who have practiced martial arts and military formations are threats.
Ordinary resources are of little use to this level. After all, the money a martial artist can earn every year is no worse than a moderately wealthy household.
After hearing what Wei He said, everyone around him stopped talking.
There are only four martial arts masters in Wanqingyuan of Tianyin Sect. Although Wei He is rumored to be the weakest one and has lost his martial arts, in the eyes of ordinary people, he is still stronger than Sanxue. After all, he is still a martial arts master.
After a few polite words, Lin Xiaoxiao and her brother brought people to present New Year gifts.
It is a bright red paper gift box.
On it are three auspicious animals: auspicious white deer, egret and white foot, forming a huge circular pattern.
"We are all old acquaintances, and they are still doing this." Wei He laughed, and asked someone to collect the gift box, and pointed at Lin Xiaoxiao, "Let's go in first."
Lin Xiaoxiao didn't say anything and just smiled. She wasn't worried about Wei He being angry because the two parties were already familiar with each other's temper.
The three of them entered the helm, and Zhuang Ping had already prepared a banquet.
There were only a few people in the courtyard. Everyone went back to their hometowns to celebrate the New Year. Those who stayed behind were all without parents.
I set up several large tables in the courtyard to celebrate the New Year by myself.
Wei He was given a round of wine in return, and then he returned to Lin Xiaoxiao's table.
"How's business lately?"
"Fortunately. Some small things were solved by you." Lin Xiaoxiao answered briefly.
"There may be some unrest in the city recently. You should be careful. Don't feel bad if you can spend money to calm things down." Wei He suggested.
"Yeah." Lin Xiaoxiao nodded.
The supply and demand relationship between the two had actually reversed somewhat from the moment Wei He took over as the helmsman.
Wei He made it clear behind his back that he could only become the helmsman of this branch with the support of Wanqingyuan.
Therefore, Lin Xiaoxiao can benefit from this and her troubles are greatly reduced.
"In addition, in terms of fragrance, we should also open up new channels for purchasing raw materials. Don't be too single, as there may be some fluctuations." Wei He added.
Lin Xiaoxiao couldn't help but nod.
One of them speaks and the other listens, just like a teacher to a student.
After talking for a while, Lin Xiaoxiao suddenly said: "Brother Wei, the Zizhu Club will be held again this year. Are there any good candidates that you can recommend?"
"Zizhuhui" Wei Hexiao, it was through this channel that he met Lin Xiaoxiao.
"By the way, where is the genius I joined the club with at that time? How is he doing now?" He suddenly thought.
It is said that Lin Zhao from the Huaqi Academy joined the association with him at that time.
Lin Xiaoxiao shook his head: "Still on the third level of blood. It is said that he is out on a mission."
"I don't know what geniuses will emerge this year." Wei He was somewhat interested.
However, a new genius emerged from Wanqingyuan this year. He is said to have rare qualifications in a century. He is a weirdo who likes to dress up as a man. His name is Sun Qi.
It is said that the family background is quite mysterious and very powerful.
However, Wei He didn't have much contact with it. He was now practicing martial arts to accumulate energy and blood, and he didn't have time to study pharmacology. He had no time to care about other things.
"Do you want to go?" Lin Xiaoxiao asked.
"Forget it. By the way, besides celebrating the New Year, you have other things to do here today, right?" Wei He smiled.
"" Lin Xiaoxiao blushed a little, but still stood up firmly and pulled her younger brother to stand up as well.
"Brother Wei, please see if you can accept my little brother as your disciple?"
She is not good at words, and this is the limit of her words. But the hope and pleading in her eyes are extremely clear.
Wei He narrowed his eyes and looked at the boy in the tiger hat.
"Why don't you go and pay homage? Tianyin Sect accepts many disciples, so you won't refuse them."
"I can't get in. My abilities and understanding are all average." Lin Xiaoxiao's words were concise and to the point.
"Then you think I can handle it?" Wei He shook his head. He has a poor understanding, so what's the point of practicing?
Even if he is a low-ranking person, but his understanding is above average, he still needs cheating to rise up. This kid has neither.
It's hopeless, just wait for death, plug-ins can't do anything.
"I don't ask him to be strong, I just want him to stay fit and live a long life." Lin Xiaoxiao said seriously.
"It's okay to be a named disciple," she added.
Wei He was silent for a moment.
"Let me tell you first, there is no way I can teach him the skills of the Tianyin Sect."
"It doesn't matter." Lin Xiaoxiao nodded.
"That's fine. It's just a name registration." Wei He nodded.
It's time for him to recruit some disciples now. If martial arts practitioners only rely on themselves, they will be weak and weak, so they must form cliques.
Only in this way can we cover everything.
At that moment, Lin Xiaoxiao knelt down on her knees with her tiger-skin hat on her head reluctantly, and banged her head nine times in a row to represent the highest etiquette.
Then he came forward to offer tea. Wei He took it and drank a cup, which was considered as the completion of the ceremony.
This means that the relationship between the two is very close. If it were to be a formal ceremony, it would be very troublesome to summon witnesses, elders of the sect, etc.
But Wei He waved his hand and got rid of all this. He didn't have time for such nonsense.
Tiger Skin Hat's official name was Lin Yuan, and his nickname was Lin Xiaohu. After becoming his master, he went back to prepare, and then he had to live with Wei He so that he could train at any time.
Come for half of each month and teach from the very basics.
Wei He couldn't teach Tianyin sect martial arts, but he studied so many martial arts at the same time and taught some basic boxing and kicking.
After Lin Xiaoxiao achieved his goal, he took the people away.
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Lingxu and Meng Qing came together to bring people to pay New Year greetings. They gave many gifts.
Then Huzi Cheng also came. This guy was frightened by what happened to Xiao You before, but now he is even more respectful to Wei He, acting like a younger brother.
When Wei He was still a third-blood person, he was afraid of him. Now that Wei He has gained strength, he has even lowered his profile and even came over to discuss the establishment of the boxing academy.
Then, the shopkeepers and stewards of Yuxingfang, as well as other merchants under Wei He's jurisdiction, came to pay New Year's greetings.
After a round of various visits, it was finally the afternoon and I felt peaceful.
But it didn't last long before a message came from the Tianyin Sect.
Chief Wan Ling asked him to go back.
After Wan Qingqing left, the position of the new chief was vacated and needed to be re-elected.
Wei He also rushed back to select a new chief.
This time, he recognized all the martial arts masters of Wanqingyuan who were not present last time.
In addition to Yao Hansheng, there are two others, namely Ding Xiaohe and Bai Rui. Plus Wei He, there are exactly two men and two women.
The four of them had a small meeting, and Wei He had nothing to argue with. After all, he was just a new martial artist who had passed away his skills, so the final result was that Yao Hansheng, the strongest, was appointed as the new chief.
Since Yao Hansheng suffered a disastrous defeat in the competition with the generals in the army, he has devoted himself to training after returning home, and now his actual combat has reached a higher level. If Wan Qingqing hadn't made a breakthrough, the outcome of the two would have been unknown.
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Zhongling Villa,
Zhou Yugui returned to Shanhe Tower again. He had returned here more than once to inspect the scene where Yan Jiuhai was attacked.
But unlike the previous times, this time, he brought Xuan Jing, the old head catcher from the government office, Xia Houji, who claimed to have solved 90% of the cases over decades.
Xiahou Ji was greedy for money and lustful. Although he was very capable, he always looked for opportunities to enrich his own pockets every time he solved a case.
This time Zhou Yugui also spent a lot of money to hire this great talent.
This time Yan Jiuhai was seriously injured in the attack and is still in a coma. As a result, Yan Jiushan had a very bad impression of him, Zhou Shun and his son, and almost injured each other several times.
And because of this, the Lishan Sect suppressed the disciples of the Tianyin Sect at every turn. Not long after, many of the Tianyin Sect's industries suffered heavy blows and their income plummeted.
The head of the Shangguan Sect had to go to the Lishan Sect to negotiate in person to stop this trouble.
But even if it was stopped openly, the previous attack still caused the Lishan sect's master team, Tianyinmen, to suppress them secretly.
The Tianyin Sect, which was already in decline, became even more declining under this pressure.
Both Zhou Shun and his son also knew that Yan Yanshan was out of anger, and it was clearly his son who had caused the incident. He also suspected that their Tianyinmen deliberately set up the trap, but the two of them could do nothing about it.
Xiahou Ji had already gone upstairs first and was checking carefully on the second floor.
This old man is only less than 1.5 meters tall. He is extremely short, but he is very capable.
Not long after, he exclaimed.
"Master Zhou, I have some clues."
Zhou Yugui immediately became energetic and stepped forward.
"how?"
"Fortunately, Shanhe Tower was temporarily closed due to the accident, and no guests continued to damage the scene." Xiahouji said quickly, "According to the confession I collected before, the attacker was wearing a big black cloak that covered his whole body, and also wore a mask.
Obviously to completely hide his identity.
So the question is, why did he hide his identity? There are several possibilities.
One is to prevent others from remembering his face.
Second, one’s own identity or characteristics cannot be seen in the light, for fear of being recognized.
I prefer the second one here, because this person not only wears a mask, but also hides his figure, which means that he has an extremely unique figure, and it is easy for others to identify him regardless of his face or figure."