Qi Yaoling weighed her meaning: "Shall I help Master find it?"
"No," Tang Shijin said, "I don't want you to do such a thing. I hope you can do more trivial things like standing in the sun and having fireworks."
She paused: "I just wanted to discuss it casually."
Qi Yaoling looked at her: "Generally speaking, if a sect has the skill to do harm, its members will be loyal. If they don't want to betray, they can use poison to control them."
She shook her head: "Don't use poison. Let me think about it again."
As the two of them talked, they went to the county town. There are medicine gardens in the county town. Apart from Hua Lang, they are Wanniantang and Shunhetang. Hualang has very few varieties. They went to Shunhetang again and picked up what they had, which was almost enough.
I bought a lot of them in Yihula and asked them to come directly tomorrow to help them plant them.
Then Tang Shijin went to Hualang again, whispered to Hualang quietly, and stole two boxes of bees from him.
Xiao Hualang is the kind of person who doesn't like to think divergently. He knew that she took two boxes of bees, but he didn't know exactly how she took them, and he wouldn't think about it continuously, and he wouldn't have to figure it out.
Very well-behaved and very worry-free.
It's much easier to worry about than some people who are looking for the root cause.
When Tang Shijin and Qi Yaoling came back, they saw some people standing by the lake.
Tang Shijin was walking from behind. Seeing that he was ignoring her, she reached out and pushed his back.
He quickly held her hand with his backhand and turned around: "Where have you been?"
She said: "I went to the county town to buy some medicinal materials so that I can fill the medicinal garden."
"Oh," he also remembered: "I would have forgotten it if you didn't tell me."
She asked: "Where are they?"
"I let them stay in the guest room, and let the three of them slowly discuss the drawings. The three of them can echo each other and the scenery will not be ruined."
Tang Shijin nodded.
Several people entered the hall while talking. After dinner, Tang Shijin went back to his room to practice calligraphy. Yan Baiwei also followed and sat down next to him to write.
Tang Shijin said: "I want to move some of my bamboos out, so that when Tang Congwen needs them, he can pick them directly. Then he won't be afraid of the crowds in the future."
Yan Baiwei nodded: "You move it out and I'll ask someone to plant it."
She added: "I also want some people who are more loyal than people like Tang Congyi, because the scale of our affairs is getting bigger and bigger, and there are so many things involved that the two of us can't do it."
Yan Baiwei said: "I have more than a thousand shadow guards, all of whom can be used by you."
She said directly: "That won't work."
He looked up in surprise: "Why?"
"No way."
"Why? You don't believe them?"
"No, but it feels different. Whether it's the Tao family's personal guard or your shadow guard, it's not mine and I don't want to use it."
Yan Baiwei said: "But I am willing to share it with you. Generally speaking, it will not happen. They must choose one between you and me. So what's the difference?"
"No way."
So what is this anyway?
Yan Baiwei was silent for a long time: "I will pick a hundred and give them to you directly. From now on, I will accept you as my master and have nothing to do with me. Is that okay?"
She said: "I don't want it."
He said: "You should explain it to me."
"It doesn't make sense!" she said, "I told you, I'm unreasonable!"
Yan Baiwei let out a long sigh, held his forehead, and said, "Then you go around and select orphans, and take them away at infancy. You don't know their parents and family, and you train them slowly since childhood, using the method of training shadow guards. More than ten years later
There will be a private guard, and whether it is useful or not depends on the ability of the people who train it."
She said: "That's too slow."
He said: "If you want speed, you can either go to various places to carefully select people, or you can go everywhere to find people who are at the end of their rope, or you can go all the way and lure them with Kung Fu pills..."
Tang Shijin looked up at him. He was doing two things at once, writing and answering her questions.
She was very insecure in this aspect, and she had to hold everything in her own hands to feel at ease... Even she herself felt that what she just said was very pretentious, but he answered it very calmly.
She couldn't help but put down her pen, went over and hugged his neck: "Yan Baiwei."
He raised his eyes: "Huh?"
She said, "Why aren't you angry?"
He smiled, put down his pen and leaned back: "I won't be angry about this little thing, but I still recommend that you use my shadow guard directly. After all, other methods are not as good as shadow guard. But you must also understand that even if the shadow guard
From childhood training, it is impossible to be absolutely loyal. As long as the price of betrayal is high enough and the benefits of loyalty are sufficient, generally speaking there will be no problem."
He touched her hair: "My shadow guards range from dozens to a hundred people for each word of 'Li'. I will give you all the eighty or so people who have the word 'Li'. The leader is Li who makes bamboo paper for you."
Yuan. I will take you to meet him tomorrow."
Tang Shijin nodded: "Okay." She kissed him: "Thank you for the most beautiful brother Wei in the world!"
Yan Baiwei smiled.
Tang Shijin asked: "But where do so many people live?"
Yan Baiwei said: "The Shadow Guards are good at hiding, they can live anywhere."
"But it's not comfortable to live in!" She said: "When we built the bamboo and paper mill, we built it bigger and then built some houses next to it so they could live there."
Yan Baiwei nodded: "I'll give it to you. It's up to you. I won't interfere."
She said: "Why are you so generous?"
Yan Baiwei smiled and said: "Forget it about others, don't be stingy with my little Jin'er."
She was a little surprised: "How come you suddenly become so good at talking?"
He raised his eyebrows: "Is this called being able to talk? It's just telling the truth..." He pinched her sullen face and said, "After all, we have different relationships now."
Tang Shijin understood.
Therefore, when he has no status, he must observe etiquette and rules, and cannot say ambiguous words.
But once you have a reputation, you can say some things directly, or you can say them a little more ambiguously.
It's just that strict.
The ancients are really interesting.
Tang Shijin tasted the product, returned to the table with a smile, and continued writing.
The next day, he took her to the back to meet those people.
There are a total of eighty-seven people with the prefix "Li", including Li Yuan, there are exactly eighty-eight people.
These shadow guards have been trained strictly since childhood, and are trained in both civil and military skills. Most of them are proficient in medicine and poison, and quite a few of them have special skills, such as disguise, copying, etc.
Yan Baiwei said directly: "From today on, you are Jin'er's people. You must be loyal to Jin'er just like you are loyal to me."
Li Yuan was surprised.
But he still said: "Yes, Master."
Tang Shijin said: "You don't have to think too much. We do many things together. It's just that sometimes it's inconvenient for me, so I asked Brother Wei for you. Usually, you still have to listen to Brother Wei's orders. Unless something happens,
I said it specifically, otherwise there is no need to hide it from him. If there is an emergency, or a dangerous situation like that, you must save him, not me... In short, it is the same as before, the only difference is
From now on, you must listen to what I say. That’s it.”
Yan Baiwei smiled and didn't stop him.
Li Yuan and others said in unison: "Yes."
Then they pulled down their masks, revealed their faces, and saluted her.
Tang Shijin took out a huge teapot from the space and said: "From today on, you are my people, and I will give you a meeting gift."