sword sentient beings

Chapter 540 Reconciliation
open?Is it for nothing?
That's right, father is dead, so the banquet should indeed be held.

But shouldn't the opening ceremony be on the mountain?No matter what, we have to decorate the mourning hall for people to express their condolences, and let's talk about setting up the banquet, right?
Do you want to hold one at the foot of the mountain first?
This is not unreasonable, after all, the two mountains have a special environment, the transportation of the manors is not easy, and there will not be too many people at the banquet.It is customary to be simple, but the young master does not want to be simple, and it can be explained by taking advantage of the fact that everyone at the bottom of the mountain is here.

Xing Cang said: "Yes, if you hold a banquet, even if you invite old and new acquaintances together, and use the best wine and delicacies, 2 taels may be enough..."

The young master said again: "Where is one game enough? I want to do a few more games, for a few days... let's do it for more than ten days." It needs money. Open source and reduce expenditure. When it comes to reducing expenditure, I found that the money here is used to buy useless things. For example, those ordinary sword slaves, a few tens of taels, a dozen taels are not much, but the accumulation of a small amount makes a lot. It’s not small. You can count how many little slaves there are in the backlog in the yard? How can it work when you start hoarding goods and people at this time? Not to mention wasting money, isn’t it embarrassing at the Deep Shadow Meeting? "

Xing Cang didn't expect him to ask this question. The matter of ordinary sword slaves is indeed a trivial matter, so small that he makes a rough decision. He only mentioned a general direction, and now he doesn't think about it when he brings it up. Ineffective. The matter of washing materials should have been done on the mountain long ago. The old master passed away suddenly, and I lost my position. There are other manors around me. The old slaves have to desperately guard the property. ..."

The young master let out a groan, and said, "If those deacons hadn't been cleaned up, and there were more people working, wouldn't they be able to take care of them?"

Xing Cang gave a dry laugh, and the Eldest Young Master didn't wait for him to explain, and said: "This is not allowed. You made a wrong step. The first thing that delayed Ping Ning's timing to accept ordinary sword slaves was already wrong, and then it was inappropriate for you to spend a lot of money in a hurry Receive the goods. It is clearly telling others that you are in a hurry, and you are cramming. This tells them that there is a wrongdoer coming to slaughter them. Even if you add [-]% to one, how much more money will you spend?"

Xing Cang thought in his heart: You are so immature that you wish that all the chamber pots are made of pure gold. Do you still care about these small coins?

But what he said was not bad, Xing Cang bowed his head and said: "Yes. The old slave has not thought carefully. We should cancel the purchase of ordinary sword slaves from outside, and only buy goods at the price from familiar merchants."

The eldest young master shook his head and said, "What else are you buying? According to me, stop immediately! You must know that sword slaves are expensive or not. Since you are preparing for the Deep Shadow Society, you should know that the real valuables are rare sword slaves. One hundred Even an ordinary sword slave can't keep up with a treasure. But I found that there are only three treasures in my hand, but I have collected a large number of useless ordinary sword slaves. When I buy them, people eat horses to feed them, and consume food every day. Isn't this more wasteful?"

Xing Cang thought that he really hadn't been idle all afternoon, and Xing Wu went out to make a turn, asked the women around him to check the accounts, and even sent someone to touch the sword slave's bottom. It’s not a problem, so just follow him, he explained a little: “Young master, ordinary sword slaves are not for selling, but for washing materials. Then they are handed over to dealers, and they can return blood…”

The young master said: "Except for those good-looking slaves who have no inspiration, how much is a slave? Buy ten taels and sell one tael. This is called blood recovery? And how slow and inefficient is it to use sword slaves to clean materials? It takes half a day to wash a material, causing ghosts to cry and wolves to howl, full of resentment. It takes several days to buy and sell slaves, and you have to take care of food, food, drink and Lazard, and be careful not to catch the epidemic and die a lot. How troublesome is it to deal with it? How stupid is it to bring trouble at home?"

Xing Cang became angrier the more he listened, and really wanted to ask: "You're going to find fault, so what do you say?"

But he couldn't say that, at least not yet.

So he bowed his head and said: "Young master please give me instructions."

The young master said: "I don't want these sword slaves anymore, all the money is used to collect treasures. If you can't buy them, you can add more money, and buy as many as you can. One more is good."

Xing Cang said: "Yes, then we will be at the conference, only receive goods, not sell goods, seven rare sword slaves are barely enough."

The young master said: "Materials can also be sold, there may be no other way without using sword slaves, you can use technology..."

Xing Cang's face suddenly changed greatly, and he lost his voice: "Young master, no!"

The young master frowned and said, "What?"

Xing Cang suddenly took a few steps in, plopped down on his knees, and said, "Young master, don't make mistakes! We have always used sword slaves to wash materials up and down the two mountains, every generation, every manor Yes! Everyone is like this, this is an iron-clad rule. You can not sell materials, but you can’t change this rule. Once you change it, you will become everyone’s enemy! Long Hair Manor will also be mobilized and attacked, and it will never be seen again. existing!"

The young master looked at him thoughtfully.Xing Cang saw that he had listened, he breathed a sigh of relief, and continued: "Master, it doesn't matter what happens to Shenying. It is held every three years, and there is nothing special about this session except that there are more people coming and the things are better. .It’s okay if we don’t show off, we’ll save for a few years, maybe the next one will be even better? As long as you don’t expose the sky, everything is easy to talk about.”

"Now your first priority is to go up the mountain as soon as possible. One is to mourn the old master, and the other is to prepare for the sacrifice after the Deep Shadow Meeting. That is the foundation of our manor."

The young master said: "Sacrifice..."

Xing Cang said calmly: "The sacrificial offering to Master Wang. Our Changfa Manor has managed to secure a firm position on the third ladder, and we have a place with Master Wang. If we are a little slack, we may have to downgrade again. , The painstaking efforts of three generations in 20 years have been in vain. We are not the iron ranks of Changgun and Changyi Manor, so we must not be negligent. Think back when Changfa Manor had no ranks. Anyone can bully us."

The eldest young master said: "Think back then? When was it? I remember I participated in the sacrifice when I was young. Do you remember what happened 20 years ago?"

Xing Cang was at a loss for words for a while, and said: "Back then... this old slave is old and can't remember clearly. I'd better invite the young master... please go up the mountain as soon as possible, everyone can feel at ease."

The young master waved his hand and said: "I see. Those sword slaves are useless to keep, and I will naturally dismiss them. When I finish the banquet, and the matters down the mountain are almost settled, I will go up the mountain. You must come up the mountain with me." , I can’t take care of this place all the time. I’ll keep someone, and you’ll keep your confidant, lucky five or twelve, or both of you can stay. Manage this shop together, and continue to collect rare sword slaves. It doesn’t matter if you say Deep Shadow Society, but You can't be careless, you can't embarrass Ben Shao with the first big event after returning to the mountain."

Xing Cang heard that Xing Wu was fine, but when he heard Xing Twelve's heart skipped a beat, he thought: Why, one Xing Wu is not enough, so he wants Twelve?Do you have such a big appetite?But when he heard "up the mountain", his whole body relaxed, and he stood up and said, "Yes. This old servant must have made arrangements properly."

When Xing Cang left, the Eldest Young Master leaned back, the lights in the room seemed to be a little bit brighter, and the hut was illuminated brightly, as if it was a different world from the window, he said slowly: "What do you think?"

At this time, a handsome man came out from behind the screen, dressed in blue clothes and dressed as a child servant, it was Jiang Ba...Jiang Shenyi.

Although Jiang Shenyi came out, he was not in a hurry to speak. It was Bai Zhi who was standing beside him and said first: "I checked the account, and it is true that there is not much money in the account. But there is a history and whereabouts of each pen, so there is nothing wrong with the account."

Jiang Shenyi raised his eyebrows and said: "Oh, is the old guy really clean, or is his technique brilliant?"

Bai Zhi faded away from her previous coquettish demeanor, and naturally developed a sense of competence. She raised her head slightly and said, "Since my inspection is all right, then it can be said that he is all right. There are not many people in the world who have lied to me, but there are not many."

Jiang Shenyi didn't chase after her, but gave her a thumbs up and said, "Amazing."

Bai Zhi smiled and said: "If I have to say that there are, it is that I have bought a lot of sword slaves. It is not cheap to buy, and then sold at a very low price. It is very profitable to enter and exit. I have to suspect that he did it on purpose. It's gone."

Jiang Shenyi said: "When I went to the sword slaves before, I heard a saying. It said that the old guy actually had a sense of benevolence. He bought and sold people at the foot of the mountain. In fact, he wanted some slaves to get rid of the fate of sword slaves earlier and become slaves. Normal...slave. Do you think it's possible?"

Bai Zhi pondered and said: "It's not necessarily impossible. Even if a person is heinous, he may show kindness in a small place, and he doesn't know where he is. He is willing to help. However, we never speculate on the enemy with goodwill. After identifying the enemy and ourselves , don’t take the initiative to find excuses for the other party, on the one hand, you are afraid that your heart will soften and let yourself fall into a trap, and on the other hand, you will not make yourself unhappy.”

The us she is talking about is her work unit—Jing'an Division.Jing'an Division's behavior style is different from that of the District Inspection Division.

Jiang Shenyi said: "That's right, don't say it's just a little bit of kindness that you can't see clearly even with a lantern, that is, he raised ten orphans, was the savior of a hundred people, and went out to give money to a thousand beggars. The position is the enemy and must be moved."

At this time, the young master suddenly said: "It is indeed possible for him to be clean on this. This person's plan is not about money, and he will not embezzle, because it is just a left hand and a right hand."

Jiang Shenyi's heart moved, and he said, "How should I say it?"

The young master paused for a moment and said, "We'll talk about it later when he comes."

Just as he was talking, someone tapped lightly outside.

The golden light in the room dimmed for a moment, the feeling of an independent world was immediately destroyed, and the door opened silently.

Someone walked in, it was a white-haired man, it was Tang Zhao who had been pretending to be Xing Qi.When Tang Zhao entered the room, the lights turned on naturally, and the world under the light returned.

The transition happened so naturally that no one lifted a finger.

After Tang Zhao came in, he wanted to say something, but was startled suddenly, and bowed to the young master sitting on the seat, saying: "Your Highness!"

(End of this chapter)