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Chapter 98 The Fourth Miss of the Ning Family
Miss Ning Si said, "Whether I am right or not, you can ask it at any time, so you can tell." She tapped the jade slip in front of her with her slender fingers, "Our Ning family started in Guanzhong. Slowly entering the hinterland of the Central Plains, Grandpa Zeng was the most ambitious, opening up the Western Region and opening up the blueprint for the entire northwest, making our Ning family one of the four major chambers of commerce in the world. "
Miss Ning Si took a sip of tea and continued, "However, business in the northwest, Guanzhong and even the Central Plains has stagnated in recent years. The family discussed several times and finally decided on two expansion directions, one is Sichuan, and the other is our Zhongshan The country of Zhongshan is particularly important. Once we have established a foothold, we can then reach the east of the sea by incorporating the country of Yan into the blueprint. "
"My great grandfather said eight words, defend to the north and expand to the east. I think all the supervisors have heard of it. Therefore, although the business of Zhongshan Kingdom is not big, its location is extremely important. Otherwise, why would the family send Lu A mature and steady veteran like the Pavilion Master will take charge of the situation."
"However, Xuanling Pavilion has been in Zhongshan Kingdom for fifty years. I won't mention the crystal stones we spent on making friends with local gangs in Zhongshan Kingdom in the early stage. I only want to talk about your current accounts. After fifty years, you are still losing money. Annual losses, but Wanbaozhai started to make profits ten years ago, shouldn’t we reflect on it?”
Lu Yinyao said sadly, "That's true. It's all due to the incompetence of my subordinates. Lu has nothing to say. Please punish the fourth lady."
Miss Ning Si said, "Mr. Lu, you don't have to be like this. I know your temperament and your heart. You are a first-class good person and a refined person. You are even more loyal to the Ning family. Although grandpa was kind to you back then, But over the years, you have given back a lot to our Ning family. My niece has no intention of punishing you. It’s just that since we are doing business, we have to talk about costs and profits. We can’t just talk about good intentions. We are not opening a Tzu Chi church. ”
Everyone in the hall was frightened when they saw that Lu Yinyao, who was much older and a veteran of the Ning family, was being scolded by a young woman and was embarrassed. In terms of qualifications, he could not catch up with the master of the pavilion. If he committed any crime in the future, he would be punished immediately. After packing up and leaving, this Miss Ning Si is indeed worthy of the title of "Four Chili Peppers".
These supervisors used to have their heads held high and their bellies high, hoping that Miss Ning would see them. But now they all drooped their heads and shrank back into their chairs, praying silently in their hearts: Don't see me, don't ask me.
Lu Yinyao said, "Yes, yes, Miss Fourth is right to blame." Miss Ning said, "I just looked at the account books. Although your profits are increasing year by year, they are still not fast enough. The main reason is that you are too conservative. There is also news You are also not sensitive. There were five auctions in Zhongshan last year, and you all received the news later than Wanbaozhai. Among them, you only found out about the one in August in June. However, when you started to prepare, the goods were seriously insufficient. "
"As for the cost, the expenses of renting Xifeng Ridge and collecting secret books cannot be reduced. Wanbaozhai has attacked us seven times in the past ten years. Twenty-four monks were killed in the battle. It is unforeseen that these people will have to pay pensions. Expenses are inevitable, but there are still some redundancies that can be saved. For example, the procurement accounts of each city can be combined in one place..." Miss Ning Si kept talking, pointing out the things she didn't like.
Finally, he added, "There is also the recruitment of monks. We are in the business, and we cannot raise waste that cannot make money in vain. For example, this weapon refiner named Qin Huo signed a ten-year contract, and it has been nine years now. One piece I haven’t refined the spiritual weapon yet, what’s going on?”
Lu Yinyao said, "This fellow Taoist Qin is a prodigy in refining weapons. He has a lot of knowledge." Miss Ning Si sneered, "If he has a lot of knowledge, he is good at boasting. Have you ever seen him refining weapons?" Lu Yinyao said. Yinyao couldn't hold it any longer, "There is no way for people to watch the refining of weapons. Although I have not seen his refining process with my own eyes, I have seen a spiritual weapon he refined. Although it is only a low-grade spiritual weapon, Very clever.”
Miss Ning Si said with a straight face, "This person is just a Qi refining monk. He just knows how to refine weapons. What can he refine? Four hundred low-grade spiritual weapons, it only takes ten years. He has to refine at least forty pieces every year. Now the remaining How will he complete it in the next year? Also, in the past nine years, he has rented the cave, borrowed classics, and even bought things. He spent a total of 93,000 crystal stones, all of which were recorded in his books. What's going on? "
Lu Yinyao said, "Anyway, the two parties signed the contract of heaven, and ten years haven't come yet. Maybe he can do something about it in the remaining year."
Miss Ning Si sneered and said, "How? Humph, I have never met this person, but I can see his origin and scheming at a glance. Your information is very detailed. This person came from Yan State nine years ago." When he escaped, what was Yan State doing? A war between good and evil was breaking out. This person was clearly escaping from the war; he was at the ninth level of Qi Refining, so why did he come to us? He obviously wanted to use our territory to build a foundation;"
"As for the contract with heaven, hehe, he is not trying to make money at all. If he randomly refines some of the four hundred low-grade spiritual weapons and gives them to us, it will not be considered a breach of contract. As for whether these spiritual weapons can be sold, he will never No matter, there are still these owed spiritual stones, huh, which monk who escaped privately took away a large amount of spiritual stones from the sect, which is less than 100,000 crystal stones, and bought ten years of peace, and maybe even built a foundation for it. This is a very good deal.”
Her words had basically revealed all of Shi Feng's intentions. Lu Yinyao also regretted his generosity towards Shi Feng and said, "I will pay you a share of the crystals I owe you as punishment for me."
Miss Ning Si shook her head and said, "This is not about the spar. Besides, the debt belongs to Qin. He can't miss a piece of the 93,000 spar. ! At that time, he was randomly refining some spiritual weapons, not selling them to occupy the space, but selling them and destroying our brand. Our Xuanling Pavilion has always been famous for its quality, and we cannot afford to lose this face. "
Lu Yinyao said, "Then, what Miss Yi Si means..." Miss Ning Si said, "We don't want him to refine the magic weapon anymore. Let him hand over the 93,000 crystals and leave immediately. Get lost." Lu Yinyao said, "I'm afraid it's inappropriate. We have broken the contract by expelling people for no reason before ten years. Besides, this fellow Daoist Qin has helped our Xuanling Pavilion once."
Miss Ning Si said, "One thing comes to another, and we can't just live here for free after helping us." She paused and said, "Forget it, he only needs to pay back half of the spar, and the other half is our reward for our help. We also If you don’t break the contract, just find him, make it clear, and both parties can agree to terminate the contract.”
Lu Yinyao hesitated, and Miss Ning Si sneered, "Mr. Lu is still such a good-tempered person that he can't express his anger, right? Forget it, I have nothing to do recently, so I will personally tell him to ask him to come in."
Lu Yinyao said, "This person is currently in the Xifeng Ridge Cave Mansion and has not left seclusion."
Miss Ning Si was about to speak when footsteps suddenly sounded outside the house, and someone shouted loudly at the door, "To report to Miss Fourth and all the stewards, the celestial phenomena in Xishan have changed!"
The discussion was interrupted, "What happened?" Miss Ning Si asked.
The guard said, "I don't know."
Miss Ning Si said "Oh" and walked out of the house. Everyone followed closely and rushed to the courtyard patio. Miss Ning Si was also a foundation-building cultivator. With her feet a little lower, she jumped onto the roof and looked westward, but she was too far away and saw nothing.
Miss Ning Si fell to the ground and asked again, "What's going on?" The guard leaned over and said, "The villain is a monk stationed in the weapon refining hall. Seeing the direction of the West Mountain, a strong wind suddenly blew up on a clear sunny day, and the sound was terrifying. , and it continues, but everything is normal in other directions, which is extremely strange. Therefore, the master of the pavilion has ordered that if there are distinguished guests today, any strange things must be reported as soon as possible, so the villain hurriedly came to report. "
Miss Ning Si glanced around and found that the old man in blue was not in the pavilion in the courtyard, and asked, "Where is Mr. Gu?" The guard said, "When the villain came in, Senior Gu asked me what was going on. I told him and he rushed over immediately. "Yes." Miss Ning Si said, "In that case, let's go."
At that moment, Lu Yinyao sacrificed a flat boat and loaded everyone into it. The boat floated in the air and headed towards the west mountain.
As soon as we left Wuyi City, there was no obstacle in front of us. Sure enough, we saw a hurricane in the western sky, circling down like a whirlpool, with its tail hanging down to Xifeng Ridge.
Lu Yinyao's heart moved and he activated the Dharma Boat. When he was still ten miles away from Xifeng Ridge, he saw the mountain was half empty. One person stood quietly with his hands behind his back. It was the old man named Gu in green clothes.
At this time, Lu Yinyao could clearly see the position where the hurricane was hanging down, and said in surprise, "Such a spiritual force of wind is exactly the celestial phenomenon of foundation building. Is that Taoist Qin really going to build a foundation?"
Miss Ning Si asked, "Is his cave down below?" Lu Yinyao nodded, and Miss Ning sneered, "As expected, the weapon refining hall of your Xuanling Pavilion is used as a blessed place for cultivation!"
Lu Yinyao was very embarrassed and said, "Now that the matter has come to this, we can only let him go."
Shi Feng has not yet terminated the contract, and is still a monk of Xuanling Pavilion. The contract between the two parties states that Xuanling Pavilion will not interfere with the personal affairs of the monks such as their practice. Similarly, the monks who signed the contract are not allowed to interfere with the official affairs of Xuanling Pavilion.
Miss Ning Si has also experienced foundation building and is someone who has experienced it. She looked at the hurricane carefully and said with a little surprise, "Generally, when building a foundation, the hurricane spiritual vortex formed is only four to five feet in diameter. How can this vortex be as wide as ten feet? Could it be that this person is not building a foundation, but has something else to do?"
In addition to building foundations, refining weapons, elixirs, or cultivating some powerful supernatural powers also requires a lot of spiritual power. The monks will arrange magic circles to trigger spiritual hurricanes.
The old man surnamed Gu, who had been standing silently, suddenly opened his mouth and said, "Of course it is foundation building, there is no other possibility."
Lu Yinyao said, "With such a shocking phenomenon, this fellow Daoist Qin is probably going to build the Nine Bases Spirit Tower!"
The foundations built by monks are also divided into different levels. If you can build a spiritual platform with four foundations or above, it is considered good. Although the spiritual platform with three foundations or less can be successfully built, it is basically hopeless to form an elixir in this life. The nine-base spiritual platform is the highest level. The hope of waiting for someone to form an elixir can be increased by 10%, but don't underestimate this 10% probability. Many elixirs and elixirs only increase the probability of forming an elixir by half, which has already caused the monks to fight and risk their lives to fight for it.
The old man surnamed Gu snorted, "How can the Nine-Base Spiritual Platform be that simple? Even the Nine-Base Spiritual Tower cannot create such an astonishing celestial phenomenon."
Miss Ning Si asked, "Then how to explain this celestial phenomenon?"
The old man surnamed Gu said, "There are only two possibilities. One is that this person used a powerful auxiliary magic weapon or magic circle to attract the vitality of the surrounding world; the other is that this person was afraid that he would not be able to build the foundation, so he swallowed a large amount of pills before the impact. Medicine. If it's the former, that's fine. If it's the latter, hey, I don't know the depth. After all, the magic power of pills is different from that of self-cultivation. It doesn't matter if you swallow pills during normal practice. As long as you spend some time and transform it yourself, that's fine. own mana. However, you must not swallow the elixirs that increase your mana when you are advancing. The mana produced by these elixirs has not been refined for a long time, and there are many impurities in it. Once mixed into the base, it cannot be refined at all in the future. In this way, it will cause the base platform to appear to be of high grade, but the quality is very low, and the Nine-Based Spirit Platform is only equivalent to the Five-Based Spirit Platform.”
He said, shaking his head in disdain.
Miss Ning Si had originally seen the sky shaking, and she had some expectations for this fellow Taoist Qin. When the old man surnamed Gu said this, she suddenly lost interest and said, "It seems that this person may not be able to advance in a moment." Pointing one finger. The refining hall at the foot of the mountain said, "Let's continue to discuss things there. When the sky clears up, no matter whether this person has built a foundation or not, I will personally drive him away. After that, Pavilion Master Lu, you will write this matter down in the palace." Report and send it to all the monks who have signed contracts in Xuanling Pavilion."
Lu Yinyao secretly smiled bitterly, he was trying to kill the chicken to show the monkey! He said, "Yes, yes!"
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