The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Looking in the direction of Yang Lu's finger, Xi Ziang realized that his attitude was very inappropriate.

Yang Lu once sternly warned everyone that what happened on the battlefield outside the territory must not be spread, otherwise everyone will die without a place to bury him. When Yang Lu appeared, a conditioned reflex was born instinctively.

Although Xi Ziang has already realized that he just said the wrong thing, but the strong coercion formed by Yang Lu on the battlefield outside the territory in the past made him even more panicked, and he quickly explained: "Consultant Yang, I know I was wrong, I—— "

"Ahem!" In order to prevent Xi Ziang from continuing to talk nonsense, Yang Lu quickly interrupted him with a cough, "I have known each other for many years, so there is no need to introduce each other. Fellow Daoist Xi, the two next to me are Luan Shicheng Ren Master Ren Yi from the family, and Master Su Cheng from the Su family in Haiya City, they also really want to get to know you!"

After receiving the highest instruction, Xi Ziang hurriedly cupped his hands and saluted, "So it's Young Master Ren and Young Master Su, what a pleasure to meet you!"

Seeing the other party salute to them suddenly, Ren Yi and Su Cheng returned the salute in confusion, but Yang Lu was still dissatisfied, and raised his brows: "And what about the Supervisor Han next to me?"

"Yes, and Director Han! We haven't seen each other for a long time. I think you were the one who brought me to join the Haiya faction!"

Although Xi Ziang said polite words, Han Fulai had a strange feeling that the other party didn't seem to be really being polite to him, but was implementing the instruction that Yang Lu just gave.

Seeing Xi Ziang's obedience to Yang Luyan, everyone looked at Yang Lu with suspicion.

Although the doubts in their hearts are about to break through the sky, everyone is here to make friends with Xi Ziang. No matter how weird Ren Yi and Su Cheng feel, it is not easy to show it in public. They can only smile and express that they can know a young man like Daoyou Xi Junjie is also our honor, and Han Fulai also noticed that the atmosphere at the scene was rather strange, so he quickly greeted everyone to take their seats.

But even this kind of ordinary procedural affairs has caused some big and small problems.

Since the great power of the cultivators of Kyushu belongs to themselves, their power status is highly linked to their cultivation realm. In terms of strict hierarchy, it is even worse than that on Earth. When holding a banquet, they also need to arrange seats in order according to their status.

Before Xi Ziang's arrival, Ren Yi, who had the highest status, always sat at the top of the banquet, while Yang Lu could only accompany him at the bottom. But as the protagonist of Xi Ziang's banquet, even if he did not sit in front of Ren Yi, at least Also sit in front of Yang Lu.

As a result, when Xi Ziang heard that he was going to sit on top of Consultant Yang, his buttocks jumped up like a charcoal fire. After all, when he was on the battlefield outside the territory, he had to take the initiative to walk half a body behind Consultant Yang to show Respect, let him sit at the head of Yang Lu now, he probably won't be able to eat a single bite of this meal.

So he repeatedly said that he, He Dehe, could sit in the main seat, and that he could just sit under Consultant Yang, but the problem was that Yang Lu was supposed to accompany Yang Lu in the last seat. The person with the lowest status?
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Even if Xi Ziang stretched out his face, everyone can't go up and hit him!

So Su Cheng and Han Fulai immediately said that it is our honor to have fellow Daoist Xi come to Haiya City, and we must sit next to Fellow Daoist Ren Yi, and even Ren Yi expressed that he would give up the first seat to the other party.

But no matter what they tried to persuade, Xi Ziang just tried his best to find a reason to shirk and insisted on sitting behind Yang Lu. In the end, Yang Lu felt that it was too shameful, so he gave Xi Ziang a hard look, and Xi Ziang reluctantly sat down. First up, that expression is so awkward no matter how you look at it, it looks like an underground party member sitting on a reactionary tiger stool...

Xi Ziang's feeling of being on pins and needles is naturally seen by others, but Yang Lu is not too worried that the secret between the two will be exposed. After all, reasoning in the real world has never been the kind of "Conan-style reasoning". .

The so-called Conan-style reasoning is the kind of after-the-fact reasoning that guesses the answer directly from the open-ended question, and then goes back and sorts out the logic to find evidence.

Although this kind of reasoning seems to be interlocking and logical, since there are countless possibilities in the open world itself, you can never be sure that the reasoning route you are taking is the correct one until you rule out other possibilities. The reasoning direction chosen is precisely the biggest difficulty in reasoning, and the specific reasoning process is secondary.

Take the simplest example:

At a certain murder scene, someone noticed a hole in the wooden floor. Normal detectives would not care about these details, and would only think that it might be a hole accidentally knocked out by someone.

But Detective Conan is different. At this time, he will have a flash of inspiration in his mind, and then realize that this pit is likely to be the trace left by an extremely complicated murder trap, and then the audience friends will see Conan classmate Following this line of reasoning, I finally discovered the murder mechanism hidden by the murderer, as well as other more evidence.

Then everyone will also find that this killing mechanism is so ingeniously designed. Not only are the links interlocking, but the murderer can destroy the evidence by himself and provide the murderer with a perfect alibi. The only flaw is The hole left on the floor at the scene of the murder.If it weren't for Conan's classmate, who is wise and martial, everyone might have been deceived by the murderer's alibi.

Then the people who eat melons were shocked by the super high IQ of Conan and the criminals, and exclaimed "Old Iron 666".

This is the bridge that once appeared in "Detective Conan", and the same kind of bridge has been repeatedly used by Aoyama Gangchang.

Although this kind of plot is very enjoyable to watch and makes readers feel that their IQ has been crushed, but after in-depth thinking, you will find that the entire reasoning process cannot withstand scrutiny at all, and it cannot be applied to real life at all. .

The most obvious problems are:
In case the pit on the wooden floor is not a trace left by the killing mechanism, but an ordinary pit, what should Conan do?
Then you may find that Mr. Conan wasted several days in vain, and then just proved that "this pit is indeed an ordinary pit", and maybe there are several similar pits on the wooden floor, and even on the door frame. There may also be many pits.

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Can't student Conan suspect that every time he sees a pit, the clue is left by the murder mechanism!
As we all know, the world we live in is highly open, and there are countless possibilities for everything. The most powerful thing about Conan is that he chooses in-depth clues, which are always the ones that are really useful, and can automatically eliminate those useless clues. Even if Conan was exhausted, he couldn't draw the correct conclusion.

Just as "Conan's reasoning" is useless in the real world, unless there is an inner ghost betraying it, it is equally difficult for outsiders to discover the secrets of Yang Lu's gang.

No matter how close the relationship between Yang Lu and Xi Ziang is, Su Cheng and Han Fulai will not follow the clue that "Yang Lu and Xi Ziang may have just known each other for more than ten days in the battlefield outside the territory", because in all possible explanations , this thread is arguably one of the most outrageous.

If they wanted to, they could casually come up with dozens of explanations infinitely more plausible than this:

For example, Xi Ziang is probably also a dark chess game left by Li Qingyang.

Considering that Li Qingyang's great-granddaughter opened a chamber of commerce in Haiya City several years ago, and he had secretly arranged for Yang Lu to assist her (in fact, he didn't, but everyone thought so), why couldn't Li Qingyang arrange another Xi Ziang, how about cooperating with Yang Lu one by one?
If both of them were the dark sons planted by Li Qingyang during his lifetime, and Yang Lu's status in the "Li Xingchang Clan" was higher than that of Xi Ziang, Xi Ziang's respectful attitude towards Yang Lu would make perfect sense, even Mat Ziang There is also a very reasonable explanation for why Ang was able to kill two meritorious golden wheels on the battlefield outside the territory.

After all, the person who can be selected by Li Qingyang as a chess piece is definitely not an ordinary person. Before Yang Lu joined the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, he was in a state of being indifferent, but when the Qingning Chamber of Commerce encountered a crisis, did he still reveal it to everyone? First hand?

Another example, maybe Xi Ziang got some ulterior motives from Yang Lu?
After all, Xi Ziang was in a state of obscurity before, and suddenly shined in the battlefield outside the territory. This is very similar to the protagonist in a novel who suddenly obtains a special adventure, and if there is any ulterior motive behind this adventure, then Just happened to be noticed by Yang Lu, and it became Yang Lu's excuse to threaten Xi Ziang, so Xi Ziang's respectful attitude towards Yang Lu also made sense.

If the guess is even more outrageous, it is not impossible that Xi Ziang and Yang Lu are a gay couple?
Unless Su Cheng and Han Fulai can figure it out, there is no way for Yang Lu and Xi Ziang to associate Yang Lu and Xi Ziang in the direction of the "mysterious masked guy" who suddenly appeared in this extraterritorial battlefield trial.

Even until now, they didn't know that there was such a legend in the foreign battlefield.

After all, there are millions of testers participating in each extraterritorial battlefield. There are countless unexpected situations in the extraterritorial battlefield, and there are even more bizarre urban legends. Rumors like "the mysterious masked gang in the extraterritorial battlefield" are not It doesn't make the list, that is, the elders of the Nascent Soul Stage who sent their disciples to hunt down and kill Li Qingning took this matter seriously, and even if others heard about it, they would just ignore it and even continue to spread the news. Gossip-like motivation is nonexistent.

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If he was not convinced that Han Fulai and Su Cheng would not be able to figure out the secret between them, Yang Lu might have to find a way to escape immediately, and would never meet Xi Ziang openly.

Seeing that Yang Lu did not shy away from his special relationship with Xi Ziang, the other three guests were even more confused about the details of the two of them. The bigger problem was that if the banquet remained in such a weird state, it might not be possible. The method proceeded normally.

Finding that Xi Ziang never looked at the other guests at all, but glanced at Yang Lu from the corner of his eye when he found an opportunity, Han Fulai, the host of the banquet, couldn't hold back any longer, so he took the initiative to bite the bullet and asked: "Consultant Yang, Fellow Daoist Xi, The relationship between the two of you seems to be quite good! I don’t know when you met?"

Although this question was asked to Xi Ziang, Xi Ziang didn't dare to answer such a sensitive question, so he subconsciously turned his attention to Yang Lu for consultation.

But Yang Lu just smiled very naturally, and then said nonsense: "I invented a small game called backgammon, and Daoist Xi is my chess friend. We have been friends by chess for a long time."

Xi Ziang had indeed seen Yang Lu play backgammon with Li Qingning when he was on the foreign battlefield, and Han Fulai had also heard about this game.

Hearing that Yang Lu had given clear instructions, Xi Ziang immediately echoed: "That's exactly what happened! The backgammon invented by Consultant Yang is very mysterious. Although it is only black and white, it contains unfathomable philosophy of life. After the game, the thoughts are clear, and even the cultivation base is much faster!"

In fact, Xi Ziang doesn't know how to play backgammon at all.

But it is written in many cool novels in the world of Kyushu that the protagonist comprehends the power of law after watching a game of chess from an immortal, and comprehends the meaning of a sword after seeing a sword mark from an immortal, so he is talking nonsense.

But whether Xi Ziang is talking nonsense, other people don't know, even if he is indeed talking nonsense, the three of them can't beat him up to make him tell the truth, so they can only believe it tentatively, but Xi Ziang is right Everyone has seen Yang Luyan's obedience.

Although I don't know why Xi Ziang is so "modest and polite" to Yang Lu, the message behind this attitude has attracted everyone's attention.

After Li Qingyang's death, everyone thought that the Qingning Chamber of Commerce was about to go downhill, but with a look from Yang Lu, Xi Ziang was able to obey what he said, which made everyone re-evaluate the background of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, especially when they were a little contemptuous before. Su Cheng of Yang Lu had a serious smile on his face.

No matter what method Yang Lu used to do it, he could command the representatives of the "Cultivation of Finance Weekly" at will, and he could make this influential figure in the Xi family in Yunlai City not dare to breathe, Qingning Chamber of Commerce does not look like it It looks like it's going downhill!
Because everyone had different thoughts, the scene became a little cold in an instant.

After all, the tone and method of speaking in this kind of social occasion depends entirely on the identity of the speaker, but since Xi Ziang came, the order of identity on the scene has been a little messed up.

The most obvious question is, if there is a toast, who should start the toast?

If Xi Ziang was respected first, what if Xi Ziang said that he must respect Yang Lu first?But if Yang Lu is respected first, where is Ren Yi's face going?
The spirit wine that can be served in this high-end banquet is all high-end goods that can significantly restore mana, and is most suitable for foreign monks like Xi Ziang and Ren Yi who have just come from afar, but Su Cheng just took it like this The exquisite jug overflowing with aura, his face turned red from holding back, but he didn't know in what order to speak.

In the end, it was Han Fulai, who had a very high EQ, who came up with a way to break the situation. He patted his hands outside the door and said, "Where is Shopkeeper Su?"

Hearing Han Fulai's order, shopkeeper Su of Haiya Pavilion who was always on standby outside the private room immediately opened the door and entered.

Observing the atmosphere in the private room calmly, he saw Han Fulai nodded slightly to him, so shopkeeper Su immediately turned his head and said: "Bring them all in!"

The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis