Fairy cage

While Yu Lie was talking with Taoist Master Wei, the Taoist boys nearby were smart. As soon as they heard what the two were talking about, they quickly sent someone to notify the stewards in the elixir shop.

Soon, three Taoist disciples in different colors of robes hurriedly walked out of the shop.

The one on the left is wearing a red robe, the one in the middle is wearing a white robe, and the one on the right is wearing a green robe. They are also of different ages and appearances, two men and one woman.

The only thing in common is that these three Taoist disciples all have a strong aroma of medicine, and most of them are alchemy disciples with good skills.

The three Taoist disciples' eyes fell on Yu Lie's extremely young face, and they were stunned in unison. However, when they saw the paper crane beside them, they recognized that it was the paper crane unique to the Taoist palace, and they quickly bowed and saluted. :

"Servant, I have seen the envoy from the Taoist Palace and this fellow Taoist."

Taoist priest Wei in the paper crane looked at the three of them and said, "Okay, let's not talk nonsense. I am here today to send the store manager to you."

Buzz!

A talisman jumped out of the storage bag around Zhihe's neck, and Daochang Wei continued: "This is the dispatch talisman of Daogong Lao Yuan. You all have to look over it and sign it."

The three Taoist disciples in the elixir shop quickly raised their heads to look at the talismans. After looking at each other, they shouted respectfully:

"It is undoubtedly a Taoist palace talisman."

The three of them stepped forward one after another and poured their own Qi into it.

Then Yu Lie saw that the situation was similar to the one when he received the courtyard before. The talisman was ignited by Taoist Master Wei on the spot and turned into a spiritual light. It fell on him instantly, echoing the Taoist talisman in Yu Lie's mind.

Yu Lie's heart relaxed, and his spiritual light disappeared into his Daolu, and he signed a line of text: "T-level pharmacy, number 109, inspected every five years."

Yu Lie's attention fell on this line of text, which also derived more detailed information, indicating the specific day he arrived at the alchemy room, the size of the alchemy room, and the number of people present.

Before he could take a closer look at these things, Yu Lie came back to his senses and quickly raised his hands towards Daoist Wei:

"Thank you, Taoist Master."

"Hahaha!" The other party's voice came from the paper crane: "Since Yu Daoyou has resigned, Pindao will return to the palace first."

Yu Lie naturally agreed immediately. He also walked quickly and took the initiative to walk to the front and send Wei Daozhang out of the shop. The three Taoist disciples from the elixir shop also wanted to follow them out and give them a gift, but Yu Lie stretched out his hand to stop them.

After avoiding the eyes and ears of others, Yu Lie took out another pile of spirit stones from his sleeves.

The spiritual stones this time doubled compared to the previous time, directly amounting to two hundred stones. Daoist priest Wei laughed heartily when he saw Yu Lie acting like this.

The other party said: "If you have any questions afterwards, fellow Taoist monks can come to me when the time comes. Every ten days when the Taoist palace is giving lectures, Pindao will also help guard it. You can also look for me then."

Although Yu Lie was employed as a shopkeeper in a workshop in Daocheng, it did not mean that this shop was his main livelihood. As a disciple of the Taoist Palace, he still had lectures and other important matters waiting for him in the palace.

The so-called ten-day lectures that Daochang Wei calls them are one of them.

Yu Lie quickly handed over his hand: "Thank you, Master Wei!"

After saying that, the paper crane possessed by the other party held the bulging storage bag in its mouth, flew up gracefully, left the sky above the workshop, and flew to the location of the Daogong Mountain Gate.

Yu Lie stood in front of the elixir shop, keeping his hands bowed until the other person's figure completely disappeared, then he looked away, with a thoughtful look on his face.

"Does this Chief Wei know about my relationship with the big-headed doll of the Wa family?"

But Yu Lie still had some doubts in his heart: "Even so, the Wa family doll and I only have a little relationship, and we are not worthy of the other party's kindness."

He always felt that there was something else that he had overlooked or didn't know about.

After thinking about it for a while, I didn't have a clue for the time being, so Yu Lie simply stopped thinking about it. Anyway, if there is something that he has overlooked, it is probably a good thing, and you will naturally know it by then.

Yu Lie suppressed his distracting thoughts, cheered up, turned around and walked towards the elixir shop, preparing to face the three Taoist disciples in the elixir shop.

Two or three cups of tea passed by.

After some pleasantries in the elixir shop, everyone dispersed on their own.

In the deepest part of the elixir shop, in a room that was both an elixir room and a bedroom, Yu Lie was sitting on an imperial chair, his eyes slightly closed, thinking about something.

He was thinking about the situation in the Chinese elixir shop, and his brows furrowed slightly from time to time.

What Yu Lie was mainly thinking about was the three Taoist disciples in his shop.

He discovered that these three Taoist disciples were not left by the previous shop owner, but also had their names in the Taoist palace.

Although the three of them are not disciples of the Tao Palace, they either have followed the path of capable people in the palace, or their elders are from the Tao Palace, but they just couldn't get into the Dao Palace themselves.

Even if Yu Lie is the store manager, he cannot fire these "related households" at will. Otherwise, the other party can go to the Taoist Palace and file a complaint against him.

In fact, filing a complaint is not the most important thing. After all, Yu Lie is a serious Taoist disciple, and the complaint will only affect his evaluation five years later.

Even if he kicked all three Taoist disciples away in one fell swoop and all three of them filed a lawsuit against him, it would only be possible for Yu Lie to resign five years later.

The key thing is that Yu Lie had a personal discussion with the three Taoist disciples, and then looked through the documents in the elixir shop, and found that the actual operation of the entire elixir shop was in the hands of these three Taoist disciples.

Roughly speaking, among them, the female Taoist disciples in red robes are responsible for the exchanges between the shop and other shops in the workshop, and are responsible for the reception and management.

The Taoist disciples in green robes are responsible for taking care of the medicinal materials and finished elixirs in the shop, and have the responsibility of looking after the shop and the warehouse.

The last Taoist disciple in white robe is responsible for recording the bills of the entire store. The other party has been working in the shop for almost 30 years. He has taken away two Dao Palace disciples, and Yu Lie is the third one. Looking at the other party's age, he can probably take away Yu Lie too.

Normally, these three people take care of the entire store. Even without the store manager, the store can still operate on its own. It's just that the store's income is neither profitable nor losing money.

And you must know that the elixir shop that Yu Lie obtained belongs to the Tao Palace's property.

First of all, there is no rent for the shop, and secondly, for purchasing a lot of herbal medicine, the corresponding chamber of commerce will provide it at a low price, and the price is also guaranteed. No one dares to offend the Taoist palace.

As long as the quality of the elixir produced is acceptable, there is basically no need to worry about it falling into your hands.

And in fact, the operation of the elixir shop has always been to take work from other chambers of commerce, collect a deposit, and then start refining the elixir. It is not that after refining the elixir, wait for individual customers or Businessmen come to visit.

With such huge and favorable conditions, judging from Yu Lie's knowledge, he would never have imagined that this shop would not make money.

Especially the three Taoist disciples themselves, they indeed have some skills in alchemy.

The only explanation for this is that when there was no shop owner, all the profits generated by the shop were divided up by these three guys.

In the room, Yu Lie narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking back and thinking about the expressions of the three Taoist disciples.

He found that after Chief Wei left, the eyes and behavior of these three people would unconsciously keep a distance from him, and there was no tendency to come up to please him. Moreover, the three of them had a tacit understanding, which made it very clear that Yu Lie, the shop owner, was an outsider.

Fortunately, the three Taoist disciples were all wary of Yu Lie. They were unsure of Yu Lie's background and did not dare to offend him by neglecting him.

Whatever Yu Lie asked, the other party could answer it.

When asked about the store's current accounts, the other three responded that there was still a balance to support the next start of construction. At least it didn't leave a shortfall for Yu Lie. The first thing he did after he took over was to fill the hole or pass the blame.

But.

This level is not what Yu Lie wants or can satisfy...

At this time, it was on the other side.

In a corner beyond the reach of Yu Lie, three Taoist disciples from the elixir shop gathered together.

"Old Bai, didn't you say that everything is in order this year and the palace won't send anyone here again? You shouldn't even swallow this money, right?!"

A depressed voice sounded:

"Are you joking? Why should I swallow that money? I got what I paid for, and I got what I promised. And the gift was given by fellow Taoist Mei Hong in person. Just ask her."

The charming and mature female Taoist disciple among them frowned and nodded.

The green-robed Taoist disciple who raised the question had to sigh: "The people in the palace are more ruthless than us, how can we accept money and not do anything? It's only been two and a half years."

It turns out that there has been a gap of two and a half years since the last shop owner left. During these two and a half years, three Taoist disciples have been sharing authority.

Lamenting in vain, the three people immediately began to discuss in low voices again:

"Fellow Daoist Mei Hong, go to the palace to find someone to inquire about the background of this fellow Daoist Yu."

"While the shopkeeper has just arrived, Lao Bai, you have to prepare the accounts more neatly, and squeeze out some oil and water, so that the shopkeeper will find out and give it to him."

"The medicinal materials in the shop must also be well prepared, and they cannot be passed off as good ones."

They talked to each other, gritting their teeth, and struggled to shake out a little of the good things that the three of them had swallowed, so that they could share it with the rest.

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At this time in the shopkeeper's room.

Yu Lie lowered his gaze and looked at the red and black account book on the table. He felt more and more that the three thousand spiritual stones in the balance of the account were quite unpleasant.

For such an elixir shop, the store's food inventory is actually not as much as he alone.

When he looked at the payments one after another in the book, Yu Lie narrowed his eyes slightly and thought to himself:

"These must all be the poor man's money!"

The new official has three things to do when he takes office, and there is no money in the shop, so he can only squeeze some money from these three "connected households".

……………………

One day passed.

After Yu Lie got into the shopkeeper's room, he never left.

He was striking while the iron was hot. He looked through the store's accounts over the years and matched them one by one, making it easier to squeeze out the oil later.

When night fell, Yu Lie opened the door and walked out of the room with a tired look on his face.

After looking at the complicated accounts all day long, he could not sort out the complicated accounts. On the contrary, it made him dizzy, and he did not know whether the number he had calculated was right or wrong.

He simply put all the accounts in his bag and planned to take them back and check them again.

"Or simply ask someone in the city to help sort it out?" Yu Lie thought to himself as he walked.

Suddenly, there was a voice beside him:

"Thank you, shopkeeper!"

The three Taoist disciples were still in the shop. When they saw Yu Lie coming out, they quickly came out to say hello.

Yu Lie saw that the three of them were there, and with a glance from the corner of his eye, he found that among the twenty or thirty Taoist boys working in the entire shop, not a single one was left behind.

Only then did Yu Lie suddenly realize that he was now the owner of a store, and it was the first day he took office. If he didn't leave, no one else would dare to leave at all.

Yu Lie bowed his hands to the people around him kindly: "Thank you for your hard work, everyone, just go back to work as usual."

Seeing Yu Lie's kind attitude, Lao Bai and the other three Taoist disciples breathed a sigh of relief and said to themselves: "This new shop owner doesn't seem to be a domineering person."

They talked and suggested that they go to a wine shop in the city to get together, but Yu Lie declined.

After a few more words, Yu Lie decisively left the elixir shop. He had to rush back to practice!

Under the watch of everyone, Yu Lie's figure completely disappeared.

Yu Lie was mixed among the sparse Taoist priests, walking along the corridor in the workshop, looking ordinary.

He also subconsciously took the same route he used to take after work.

Suddenly, just as Yu Lie was about to step out of the workshop door, a voice sounded behind him:

"Fellow Daoist Yu?"

Yu Lie turned around and saw a familiar face.

When the other party saw Yu Lie turning his head, a smile appeared on his face: "It's really Fellow Daoist Yu!"

The person who came was wearing a green shirt, and it was Song Danqing who was from the same hometown as him. They had joined the Qianlin Chamber of Commerce together, and they were quite high-spirited.

But when they met by chance today, Yu Lie couldn't recognize each other.

Because Song Danqing, who originally had an elegant complexion, now has messy buns, pale cheeks, and dark circles around his eyes, looking like he has been overdone by a witch.

Song Danqing walked to Yu Lie's side and sighed: "It's only an hour before the curfew. Brother Yu looks tired. It seems that he has worked hard until now."

Yu Lie nodded, no, he was dizzy after checking the accounts. If the accounts were not related to Lingshi, he would have burned the accounts.

Two people walking together.

Song Danqing took the initiative to say a few words of relief:

"It's not easy to work in the workshop. If you and I work hard a little longer, we will have our salary again at the end of the month. When we see the spirit stone, we won't feel the hardship."

After leaving the workshop, the cold air from the bottom of the Taoist city hit their faces, making the Taoist disciples feel biting.

Song Danqing sighed, rubbed his hands, and immediately apologized and held his hands toward Yu Lie:

"Pindao found a night job in a hotel and had to rush there to change his shift. He could only go back with Brother Yu when he had free time another day."

This man's bluish-white cheeks don't seem to be caused by him wandering around the flowers and being picked up by the enchantress, but because he wears many hats and works a lot to get this look.

Yu Lie stopped for a moment before he could say anything.

After Song Danqing finished speaking, he turned around and left in a hurry.