Chapter 47 The county king's family has no surplus food
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Prince Heng's expression was stagnant. It seemed that it was not easy to raise a disciple like Lici. In desperation, he changed the subject and said, "Yunyang, how much do you think a chicken is worth?"
"It depends on the place and how big the chicken is." Master Yunyang replied calmly, "If it is in an ordinary farmhouse, it will cost as little as sixty or seventy dimes, and as much as one or two large coppers. If it is in your Baiyun Tower,
The value immediately increased by more than a hundred times, and a small dish of 'Eight Treasures Braised Young Phoenix' cost as much as dozens of gold."
Having said this, Master Yunyang paused for a moment and glanced at Prince Heng quietly: "But if you were in that Jiujue land where no grass grows, without food or water for three months, that chicken would be priceless.
Your Highness, you must be grateful as a human being."
Thank you so much!
Prince Heng's face was trembling, and he was about to curse, regardless of his appearance, and said with a black face: "That being said, when we were on the holy land training mission together, you secretly hid a lot of chickens."
"It's my business to have more chickens. I'm just asking, have you eaten my chickens?" Master Yunyang rolled his eyes.
"have eaten!"
Prince Heng was helpless.
If he had known that Yunyang would write it down in his notebook for hundreds of years, he would never have eaten that chicken even if he was beaten to death.
"Tell me, I even gave you such a precious chicken to eat." Master Yunyang stroked his beard and said, "Now I am just taking my apprentice to live in your restaurant for a while, why do you
This, why is this~~~"
Staying?
Living for five years at a stretch is also called a short stay?
Prince Heng's heart was bleeding and he was filled with sadness.
If he hadn't worried that this old boy Yunyang was already at the peak of the Purple Mansion Realm and couldn't beat him, he would have cursed him a lot earlier.
And while the two big guys were muttering in the elegant room on the rooftop, the finals of the "Big Eater Competition for Young People Under Fifty Years Old" were also in full swing below.
As plate after plate of roasted spiritual beast meat disappeared into the mouths of Wang Lizi and the elephant, the cheers around them became louder and louder, almost overturning the entire Accord.
If it weren't for the fact that all the rooms in the Baiyun Tower have their own soundproofing array, once it's turned on, monks below the Zifu realm won't be able to hear the sounds in the room. I'm afraid other guests would have been unbearable by the noise and come to scold them.
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The baking sheets quickly piled up.
Gradually, the elephant couldn't bear it anymore, his face began to turn pale, and beads of sweat continued to drip from his forehead.
His digestive ability is indeed very strong, and he can even digest jade and iron sand. But no matter how good he is at digesting it, you still have to give him time to digest it!
A plate of roasted spirit beast meat weighed dozens of kilograms. Every time he ate an additional plate, he felt his stomach convulsing, as if he was enduring torture.
Miss Li Ci, on the other hand, eats in a leisurely and elegant manner, and her speed of destroying the barbecue is no slower than that of the elephant.
The most important thing is that she ate with relish and was obviously enjoying the food.
The capital is so fun, there are so many delicious foods~~ The more Wang Lizi eats, the happier she feels. Life is so beautiful.
Seeing this situation, the children of all the families who had bet on the big elephant all had some ominous premonitions and shouted one after another: "Big elephant, you can't even eat women, right?"
"I deposited four thousand gold on you!"
"I have saved all my private money for thirty years and bet on you to win! If you lose, I will skin you~!"
Amid repeated "encouragement", the elephant held on for another stick of incense and cooked five large plates of barbecue. Finally, he couldn't hold on any longer and ran to the corner to vomit.
The crowd suddenly burst into boos.
"Hey? Why doesn't this work?"
Wang Lizi licked her lips with some lingering thoughts.
She glanced at the big elephant, and then at the shopkeeper who was hosting the competition. She endured it for a while, but finally couldn't hold it back anymore. She pointed at the ten large plates of roasted spiritual meat that had just been brought up and looked at the shopkeeper weakly: "Shopkeeper, that... …Can I still eat the rest?”
After the words fell, the scene fell into silence.
Everyone looked at Wang Lizi with strange eyes, as if they had seen a ghost.
In this situation, not to mention them, even the two big guys who were peeking at the screen in the private room on the top floor of Baiyun Tower had stagnant expressions.
Especially Prince Heng, whose expression is even more complicated. He has been in such shock for the past five years. No matter how many times, it is still difficult to accept it!
After several breaths, he regained his composure and sighed: "This child Li Ci's devouring bloodline is truly remarkable. Senior brother Yunyang, you have really found a treasure."
"It's okay, it's okay~" Master Yunyang also had a look on his face, "Her bloodline has great potential, but it's too troublesome to raise. The sooner the bloodline needs to be improved, the stronger it will be. And most of the food she eats is transformed into It’s difficult, difficult, difficult to raise the essence and some bloodline~”
The Devouring bloodline is a relatively rare bloodline. However, there are still many records in the historical records of the Holy Land and various schools.
Although Prince Heng was sighing with emotion, he only thought that Wang Lici was a relatively rare devouring bloodline.
Only Master Yunyang knew that Li Yao's bloodline was not an ordinary devouring bloodline at all, but a Taotie bloodline that was only recorded in some very ancient documents.
The potential of this kind of bloodline is very huge. As long as it can be cultivated, it will be invincible in the later stage. However, it is too laborious to cultivate in the early stage. It needs to continuously consume heaven, earth, treasures and food to build the foundation.
"It is indeed difficult to raise disciples with Devouring bloodline, but once they are raised, they are still very powerful." Prince Heng nodded in agreement, but then changed the subject, "But what does this have to do with me? No matter how powerful, then He is also your apprentice."
After much thought, he decided to show off his face: "Brother Yunyang, we should have settled the 'favor' of that chicken back then. If you really can't afford to support Li Ci, why not send him to the Holy Land... …”
"Holy Land?" Master Yunyang's face changed slightly, "I won't go. It's good for me to stay in Longzuo Academy, lest Li Ci learn bad things in the Holy Land."
"Senior Brother Yunyang, how many years have passed since that incident and you still haven't come out?" Prince Heng frowned slightly, "Senior Sister Xiqing has been dead for so many years, not to mention, Senior Brother Langya...
"Shut up! I don't go to the Holy Land. It has nothing to do with that matter." Master Yunyang's face flashed with a hint of gloom, and then he snorted coldly, "Junior Brother Han Heng, you don't understand. I stay in Longzuo Academy, then
If one person is inferior to ten thousand people, why should he go to the Holy Land and suffer the insults of that guy?
"What's more, after old man Tianhe dies, I will be the dean. I, 'Master Yunyang', have the final say over the entire Longzuo Zifu Academy."
"Junior brother Han Heng, you have to take a long-term view in life. If you treat my master and apprentice to live and eat for a few more years, how can there be no reward when I take charge of the Longzuo Zifu Academy?"
For a moment, Prince Heng was dumbfounded: "Brother Yunyang, your vision is really far-sighted." Also, after you advance to the realm of supernatural powers, can you call yourself a real person again?
"That's...if I, Yunyang, hadn't seen far, how could you have eaten the chicken back then? You might have starved to death." Master Yunyang's immortal demeanor, coupled with his philistine dialogue, is truly unique.
"This is called long-term investment, do you understand?"
"Understood!" Prince Heng nodded solemnly, "However, I also have a saying here, which is called 'stop loss in time'. Brother Yunyang, don't look at me as a 'prefecture king', but after all
It’s just an empty frame~ The county prince’s family doesn’t have any food left~”
"Brother Yunyang, I am different from a single person like you." Prince Heng said depressedly, as if he was shouldering a huge burden, "I also have a princess, dozens of concubines, and hundreds of concubines.
There are hundreds of princes and princesses to support, and there are even more descendants than I can even recognize. These are all heavy responsibilities and heavy burdens."
"To be honest, sometimes I really envy Senior Brother Yunyang...the crane in the clouds, who can come and go freely without worries."
Master Yunyang felt as if he had been struck by lightning.
This Wu Hanheng... is too, too much.
It's just to drive people away, but do you need to use such a big move?
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Half an hour later.
At the entrance of Baiyun Tower, Master Yunyang and Wang Lici, an old man and a young man, looked up at the slowly rising restrictions in front of them, silently.
The night wind blew by, making their backs look particularly desolate.
After a long while, Master Yunyang sighed quietly: "Hey, it's not easy for Uncle Heng. It's been so many years, that is to say, the prince's family has a great business and a lot of assets passed down by the ancestors. If it had been anyone else, he would have been poor.
Countless times. Li Ci, remember your kindness to Uncle Heng, do you know that you will repay him in the future?"
"Master, don't worry, I understand."
Wang Lizi nodded seriously, then put a large bag of heavenly materials and earthly treasures that Prince Heng had given her before leaving into the storage ring. She turned to look at her master and said eagerly: "Master, where should we go next?
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"Don't be impatient, don't be impatient. I'll take a look before I can be my master. Your master and I had a lot of contacts back then, and at this critical moment, they finally showed their effectiveness."
Master Yunyang took out his notebook again and first put a cross behind Wu Hanheng's name.
Then, I thought about it carefully.
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Time flies, and months pass by.
On the 19th day of the first month of the 3167th year of the Longli period of the Great Qianchang period.
It’s early spring again.
The winter snow has not yet dissipated, but the turmoil between the Qian family and the Wang family has gradually calmed down. It is rarely mentioned in the streets and alleys.
The Qian family and the Wang family signed a formal contract at the end of last year after all the details of the agreement were negotiated and notarized jointly by the Zifu Academy and the County Sheriff's Office.
The Qian family has been in the world for thousands of years. How profound is the foundation? Whether it is money, talent reserves, business experience, or connections, they are far beyond what upstarts from aristocratic families like the Wang family can compare with.
With the addition of Qian, Shouda Trading Company quickly opened up the situation by burning money at a rapid speed several times.
Those fourth-order red-crested cranes that had not yet been sold in Zifu Academy were directly taken over by Shouda Trading Company in one go. This was also thanks to Wang Liyao's great reputation, otherwise the academy would not have been willing to sell them all.
As for the order for the flying chariot car, it was also taken over by the Longzuo branch of Tiangongfang, the largest refinery workshop in Longzuo County. They worked overtime for a full three months before the order was fully delivered.
Now, several months have passed, and the number of spiritual bird chariots flying over Longzuo County every day has soared to sixty-seven.
According to Qian Xuehan's report, they have sent elders of the Qian family to other counties to either purchase or rent spiritual bird chariots, striving to expand the number of flying chariots to 120 within one year.
It can be seen that purely in terms of background in the business field, the current Wang family cannot keep up with the Qian family.
The advantage of Wang's family lies more in Wang Shouzhe's unique ideas and unique thinking.
Early spring.
The cold wind is still biting.
Above the vast East China Sea, the howling wind was still bitingly cold.
As the waves surged, five large merchant ships lined up in a Z-shaped formation, fighting against the wind and waves while moving forward steadily.
The high-hanging sails were filled with sea breeze and swelled.
The huge merchant ships were like five mobile fortresses. No matter how rough the waves were, they did not deviate at all and moved towards their destination slowly but unswervingly.
At the top of the mast, Donggang Chen's flag was billowing in the wind.
At the bow of the flagship ship, on the high observation deck, an observer wearing a sailor uniform is holding a cylindrical "clairvoyance" and looking intently into the distance.
Suddenly.
The coastline near Donggang appeared dimly in the clairvoyant's field of vision.
The lookout immediately whistled excitedly and waved the flag to notify the helmsman.
Soon, the good news spread throughout the entire fleet like catkins in the sky in spring.
It has been nearly two months since this fleet set out from Donggang last winter, stopped at several major ports in Baidaowei, and then made a circle around Bingsha Floating Island.
It was originally expected to end the voyage and return to Donggang years ago, but unexpectedly, a rare winter storm descended on the East China Sea and blocked the sea route. As a result, the Donggang caravan had to be stranded in Baidaowei to celebrate the New Year.
Fortunately, the commander-in-chief of this fleet is Chen Fanghua, the young core elder of the Chen family. And the person serving as the flagship captain and deputy commander is Chen Xiuwu, the young patriarch of the Chen family in Donggang today.
With the two men in charge and boosting morale from time to time, the caravan was able to survive the difficulties steadily without any incidents of collective restlessness or even mutiny among the sailors.
Soon, Chen Fanghua, the elder of the Chen family, and Chen Xiuwu, the young clan leader, who received the news, came to the bow of the flagship surrounded by family generals.
When he received Wang Shouzhe, Chen Fanghua was just a young backbone of the straight line. Now he is forty-six or seventeen years old, but he has grown into a majestic middle-aged man.
He was lucky enough to catch up with the family's development trend. Because of his outstanding abilities and long-term stable and outstanding contributions to the family, he was increasingly valued by the ancestor of the Chen family.
Just last year, he relied on his family's long-term and abundant resource supply, plus a Heavenly Spirit Pill rewarded by his ancestor, to successfully break through the bottleneck of the Qi Refining Realm, enter the Lingtai Realm, and become the eighth Lingtai Realm of the Donggang Chen Family.
, among the ranks of elders.
This is how times change.
The young talents back then have now grown into the mainstay of the family. Even the young patriarch Chen Xiuwu needs to learn and hone behind him.
Looking at the long-awaited Donggang coastline, even though Chen Fanghua was as calm as Chen Fanghua, he breathed a long sigh of relief.
The young patriarch Chen Xiuwu was slightly behind him by half a body, and he became slightly excited when he saw this: "San Bo, I finally came back without any danger. While it is still within the Spring Festival, after I visit my mother, I can still
Go to Ping'an Town to visit your uncle and aunt and wish you well in your old age."
After months of exposure to wind and sun, his handsome and heroic face was slightly tanned, but he looked much more mature and steady.
Along the way, the fleet has faced dangers and difficulties several times. He has always behaved very well, took responsibility and worked hard with everyone, and would never rush back to the Chen family in a flying chariot. Therefore, he won the favor of the Chen family.
The respect of people, generals, and shipwrights and sailors.
"Xiu Wu, you have performed well this time, and your cultivation has already reached the ninth level of the Qi Refining Realm. You will be able to try to break through to the Lingtai Realm in three or four years. The Shouzhe Family Master will definitely be full of praise for you when he meets you."
While Chen Fanghua cared about his nephew, he was also filled with emotions.
The strength of the family is really important. I think back when Chen Fangjie and Wang Shouzhe were young, their cultivation at that age could be considered as the young talents of Changning Wei.
But now, Xiu Wu is only twenty years old and has already entered the ninth level of Qi Refining Realm!
But even so, he is not ranked high among the young people in the in-law alliance. There are many outstanding people in the younger generation such as the Liu family of Shanyin, Gongsun family of Shanyang, and Lu family of Yingxiu.
Of course, the most powerful ones are the young people of the Wang family. Especially Wang Liyao, the cousin who practices martial arts. It is said that she has entered the Lingtai realm a long time ago, and now she has become a disciple of the Imperial Palace. This is the real talent.
"I don't know if cousin Li Yao and cousin Zong An have come back from the academy this Chinese New Year." Chen Xiuwu said with emotion, "I heard that there are so many geniuses and masters in Zifu Academy. I don't think so.
I'm worried about Cousin Li Yao, but Cousin Zong An is too soft-tempered, so it's better not to be bullied in the academy."
"Don't worry about this. I heard that your Aunt Luo Jing and Aunt Luo Qiu were very successful in the academy, and they were passed down from the master's sect." Chen Fanghua was as proud as You Rong Yan and said, "You have
With them here, who would dare to bully Young Master Zong An? What's more, our in-law alliance is now very powerful, and it's not that easy to bully."
"That's true. When Patriarch Ru Hong achieves the Heavenly Realm, our Chen family will also be a seventh-grade family." Chen Xiuwu said excitedly, "By then, our Changning Guard, in addition to Kaicheng Guards, will have four Heavenly Realms.
A monk now."
When it was mentioned that Patriarch Ruhong was about to be promoted to the Heavenly Realm, Chen Fanghua's mature and majestic face also showed a smile.
There is a huge gap in status between the seventh-grade family and the eighth-grade family. The main reason is the existence of the ancestors of the Heavenly Realm.
That represents a class crossing.
Once Patriarch Ru Hong is successfully promoted this time, the Donggang Chen family will be considered to have accumulated a lot of experience. From then on, they will be out of the lower family hierarchy, able to occupy a place in Changning Guard, and even be qualified to have a name within Longzuo County.
Suddenly~
Chen Fanghua's expression changed slightly: "Those ships... Hey, they turned out to be the ships of the Jiaolong Gang. Why did they appear in our East Port?"