As the chief steward of Songfeng County, the house he lives in is not bad compared to the residence of the county governor. It is just a property in the name of Songfeng Mountain. He does not need money to live in it. It does not cost thousands.
Even with ten thousand taels of silver, there is no need to plan to buy such a house in the city. Although the position of steward of Songfeng County is a lot of money, Li Zhouzhao was promoted from a disciple in the outer mountains to his current steward status in just a few years. How could he save so much money?
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The west wing of this house facing south has been smelling of the pungent smell of boiling soup for days. Neighbors complained privately, but no one dared to come to the door. You know you can live next to Li Zhou
All of them are well-known figures in Songfeng County. However, even those who really can't bear the taste of this medicine usually take their families to private houses outside the city to take shelter for a while. Apart from the reason why Songfeng Mountain is popular among the people,
This steward was actually seen and could enter and leave the governor's mansion at will. These people, who can barely be regarded as first-class officials and merchants in Songfeng County, no matter how stupid they are, have some idea of the importance of Songfeng Mountain.
Those ordinary Jianghu sects can be compared with each other.
Even so, Li Zhoudao still sent his confidants with small gifts to visit the owners of several nearby houses, so that they remained silent about the strong smell of medicine coming from Li Zhoudao's house.
Regarding the amount of the banknote, these smart people chose to remain silent in a tacit understanding. There was no smell of medicine. They were bored in the house in the city, so they went out to the city to relax with their beautiful concubines. This is one of the few places in recent times where Li Zhou can be careful
A little bit of a relief.
The number of medicinal materials stored in the warehouse of Songfeng Mountain in the city has recently been withdrawn. The disciples of Songfeng Mountain who are in charge of the warehouse are stunned. Could it be that the disciples on the mountain were attacked and killed more than ten people? Otherwise, how could these many medicinal materials be used? But since the organizer
At this time, the person in charge of the city was Li Guanshi, and seeing that he looked bad, the disciples from Songfeng Mountain in Guanku knew what was going on and didn't ask any more questions.
Although none of his subordinates said anything, every time he took away an astonishing amount of rare medicinal materials from the warehouse, some people would inevitably talk privately about what the manager was doing with so many medicinal materials that week.
Could it be that he has recently opened a drug store and wants to resell the medicinal materials from the sect to make money? Although they were all jokes that were not serious, Li Zhouzhao couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat when he accidentally listened to them.
No sect in the Jianghu sect would easily circumvent those worms who use public tools for personal use to enrich their own pockets, let alone Songfeng Mountain, where there are so many rules and regulations. The rules on that mountain are even stricter than the laws below.
On the mountain, Li Zhoudao didn't dare to think about what would happen if someone reported this kind of behavior.
On this day, Li Zhou went to the warehouse in person and picked up a large bag of medicinal materials. The Songfengshan disciple in charge of the warehouse looked troubled and spoke to him in a hidden corner:
"Manager Zhou, it's not that I won't let you take these medicinal materials. In fact, if you collect them twice more, the warehouse will be emptied. However, it doesn't matter if it is emptied. I just want to inform you in advance that there are still twenty days left on the mountain.
As usual, the deacon who inspects the warehouse must come down, and then please ask Manager Zhou to explain it clearly to those inspectors..."
This disciple of Songfeng Mountain knows how to shut up.
After Li Zhou came out of the warehouse, the man spat on the ground, feeling angrily in his heart. When Li Zhou was greeting people on Songfeng Mountain, you wanted to lick their boots, but now you are pretending to be an official.
When people look at it, they really feel like they are being taken care of by the mountain owner.
Is promotion just a person?
Then he sighed again, trying to compare with these disciples who couldn't survive in the outer mountains, he was no longer a figure.
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Li Zhou hid his face and walked in a hurry. Finally, he entered through the back door of the house and walked outside the west wing. When he saw his confidant who was setting up a casserole on the stove to cook medicinal materials, he put down his bag and came forward to see how hot the soup was.
"Don't worry, we have been working for more than ten days in a row. Even if we take a nap, we won't cause any trouble for you, the manager."
"How is the guy inside?"
"I have become a little more awake these days. I can speak a few words when I am good, but I am drowsy when I am not. I am much more honest than ten days ago when I had to tie my hands and feet with thick iron chains." Old Doctor Guo said the day before yesterday
You came to see it when you were away, and you said that if people were soaked like this, their skin and flesh would be soaked to pieces, and how different they are from being alive to being dead. You said that you had some doubts about your intentions."
After hearing the report from his confidant, Li Zhouzhao also had a headache. Doctor Guo was the one who left him a piece of prescription to extend his life. He didn't even care about a hundred taels of gold or rare medicinal materials, and he didn't give any points for a return visit.
Wen, but the more he was like this, he didn't eat anything, so Li Zhou was unable to deal with it.
"Manager Zhou, these days the brothers are taking turns to cook this soup, and there are still many people who are almost half-blind from the smoke..." Li Zhou's confidant was weak and shook his fan next to the casserole where the medicine was boiling, "Miracle Doctor Guo also said
Having said that, people are still relatively clear now and have returned to their old ways, but you may not be able to survive in a few days..."
"As long as the one inside can still breathe, this medicine cannot be stopped." Seeing the bloodshot eyes and the haggard appearance of his confidants, Li Zhouzhao softened his tone and said: "I'll work hard for you for a while, and then I'll ask you all to do it."
Let’s go drink wine in the nicest building in Wuhang City.”
Regarding those mysterious and mysterious skills of controlling people, Li Zhoudao has never read even a page of classics describing this method. In his opinion, the most important thing is nothing more than the four words of observing words and expressions. The people under his command are manipulated by him.
If he notices that he feels uncomfortable, he will give it a beating. If he works hard, he will feel a little sweet. In recent years, there has never been any big mistake. After all, the most difficult thing to predict in the world is the human heart, and it is difficult for him to do everything.
It's all under control.
With a white handkerchief covering his face, Li Zhou opened the door to the west wing, and the smell of medicinal herbs hit his face. Even though he had been prepared, he still wanted to turn around and leave.
All the original furnishings in the west wing were moved out of the house. In an empty room, there was a large vat that three people could hold together. The charcoal fire under it was kept going day and night, keeping the vat full of medicine always warm.
"It's not good to go out and rest for a while. It's a three-part poison. It's not good to smoke it in this room all the time."
The man lighting the fire next to the tank said calmly: "I have stayed in the abalone house for a long time without smelling the smell. I have stayed in this house with the smell of medicine for a long time and I don't feel that it smells bad."
While the two were talking, feeble groans came from the mist-shrouded tank. The fog in the room was so thick that Li Zhou couldn't clearly see the scene inside the tank. When he was about to get closer to take a look, he was pulled back a few feet by the person who lit the fire, just in time to hide.
There was a vicious grab in the open tank.
"Three of your confidants were caught by this attack in the past two days. If it wasn't for his lack of strength, it would have been three lives. From then on, I will be the one to burn the fire." I don't know when the gray-robed Uchiyama became the fire-burner.
Seeing the hand slowly retracting into the vat, the disciple returned to the vat to light the fire, "Yeah
It’s not that he has any evil intentions, it’s just that he has lived in agony for too long, and the evil spirits and demons in his heart are no longer restrained.”
The half-opened window allowed the steaming fog in the house to disperse a little. Only then did Li Zhou see the person in the vat clearly. He was naked and curled up in the vat, with disheveled beard and hair, and eyes with empty eyes. Not long ago, he had a look that made many female disciples on Songfeng Mountain intoxicated.
Junyi's face was extremely withered, and the green air on his face appeared and disappeared. Even when Li Zhou had the courage to face him, he didn't react at all. His pale lips moved slightly and he didn't know what he was saying.
The method given by the doctor surnamed Guo is to immerse the person in this large vat of medicinal liquid, and use external force to rejuvenate the person while temporarily suppressing the toxins that have already spread to the internal organs. However, this method of treating the symptoms rather than the root cause must be
It takes too many rare medicinal materials to boil this full vat of medicinal liquid. If it weren't for the well-stocked warehouse in the city, Li Zhouzhou would have gone bankrupt to collect the medicinal materials needed for three days.
"Junior Brother Qin Qi was seen decaying day by day with his physical eyes. When he was conscious and clear, he repeatedly begged me to take his life. I said this was the intention of the elders on the mountain. I couldn't do what he asked for." Jia Lingnan, too.
The gray-robed inner mountain disciple said with an expressionless face, "But Li Zhouzhao, he will be boiled alive by the warm water into a pile of rotten flesh in another ten days at most. Now, if we take him to the mountain to give an explanation, at least he will still have breath."
Day after day, being near Qin Qi, who was worse off than life, Jia Lingnan would never have a good attitude towards Li Zhouzhao. After all, if it weren't for the weak relationship with the latter, he and Junior Brother Qin would never have known each other.
Going down the mountain, the situation will not gradually reach a point where even he can no longer stay out of it.
"We must not take him up the mountain, at least we must not take him up the mountain now." Li Zhouzhe poured a bucket of medicinal liquid nearby into the vat with an expressionless face, "If you take this man up the mountain without being human or ghost, the mountain owner will
How to look at it, how the elders on the mountain will look at it, take it one step at a time..."
"It's not all my fault. Why did I agree to you to use this method to save Junior Brother Qin's life?" Jia Lingnan suddenly grabbed Li Zhou by the collar of his robe and growled, "If you take one step at a time, you will end up dead sooner or later.
Go, it's better for me to go back to the mountain and report the truth truthfully, even if you get some punishment, it's better than you just covering it up until the truth is exposed."
Li Zhouzhao, who was out of breath, suddenly laughed. Jia Lingnan didn't know why, and even became murderous.
"My men have been running around Jiangzhou these days. They have discovered the whereabouts of about 20 people from Yanyulou and the Zhang family remnant team in Qishan County. There will be no more luck. I have reported it to the mountain master.
However, some of the crossbow team on the mountain and the disciple brigade on the inner mountain will be temporarily transferred to my disposal." Li Zhouzhao smiled regardless of the pressure and suffocation in his throat, "Since we are encircling and suppressing the remnants of Yanyu Tower, it is inevitable that some people will be damaged.
The disciples have to go first, how can there be no reason not to kill and injure a few people? After such a great feat, how can the mountain master pay close attention to the death of one more person?"
Jia Lingnan didn't relax his hand at all, he glared angrily and said, "Then you had the idea not to save Junior Brother Qin from the beginning?"
"It doesn't matter whether it's a grasshopper on a rope, why bother fighting in a nest?" Li Zhouzhao narrowed his eyes, raised his hand and patted the hand that was holding the collar of his robe, "Senior Brother Jia, don't you think so?
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Jia Lingnan met those slightly narrowed and sarcastic eyes, but in the end, he still didn't use any force.