Eternal Beast Taming Family

Chen Zhengchang readily agreed, then brought up what he had said at the beginning, "Mayor, would you like to move to the office first?"

Tang Cheng waved his hand, "No need, I want to go in and take a look first."

He pointed to the seven-story commercial building in front of him, with its upturned eaves and simple yet grand appearance.

Chen Zhengchang didn't want to stop them, and was about to offer to accompany them when a deep voice came from the sky.

"Why didn't you inform this old man of the mayor's arrival? I could have extended my hospitality and given him a detailed explanation."

Chu Jingyu slowly descended from mid-air. When the host arrived, Chen Zhengchang tactfully retreated back into the villagers.

Tang Cheng was not surprised by Chu Jingyu's arrival. "Then I'll have to trouble Patriarch Chu."

The two walked side by side across the flat plaza outside the seven-story building and entered the building through the entrance.

At first glance, the view is extremely expansive. In the center of this first-floor area, there are no buildings or decorations, only the "bright stones" overhead emitting a gentle light, illuminating the interior as if it were daytime.

Looking outwards, however, they saw rows of shops with their doors wide open.

Only a small portion of the shop was open, with items and people moving around inside.

"This floor mainly consists of shops selling daily necessities for the villagers. However, the village has a small population, so only these shops are open," Chu Jingyu explained to Tang Cheng.

Although there are few shops open, they offer most daily necessities, including rice shops, tailor shops, ironware shops, wine shops, tofu mills, and restaurants, covering all the villagers' daily needs.

It's just that not many are open, and the first floor is too big, so it feels a bit empty and deserted.

Tang Cheng walked into the nearest jewelry store, where several young women were holding up the jewels on the counter, comparing which ones looked best.

Such a situation would never occur in the previous village. Even the children of villagers in the upper village would not allow their daughters to go to jewelry stores.

Such a scene is only commonly seen in towns or county seats. Without disturbing the shopkeepers' business, Tang Cheng withdrew from the shop.

"Did the villagers open this shop themselves?" Tang Cheng was a little curious. How could the villagers of Qixia Village have the capital to open such a shop?

Chu Jingyu shook his head slightly, "No, these shops currently belong to our Chu family. The villagers who look after the shops are all hired by us. The profits and losses belong to our Chu family, and they receive their wages monthly."

Tang Cheng nodded slightly, offering no opinion.

After looking at a few more shops and confirming that they were indeed all shops selling everyday necessities, the two stopped browsing and prepared to go to the second floor.

The commercial building is built in a circular shape, so there are six curved staircases leading to the second floor at intervals, which is quite convenient for all guests.

As they climbed the stairs, Chu Jingyu said again, "We've only used the first two floors of this building. The problem remains the same: we don't have enough people. I wonder where the mayor bought the previous residents? What channels did he use?"

Upon hearing this, Tang Cheng smiled, but did not give a direct answer, saying, "Let's take a look first, and then we'll talk about it."

Upon entering the second floor, the layout wasn't much different from the first floor.

The interior space of the shops on the first floor is about 100 square meters, but on the second floor, the interior space of each shop is about 300 square meters, which is three times the size of the shops on the first floor.

However, the items sold on the second floor are not ordinary items, but rather items related to contract masters.

For example, near the stairs is a medicine and animal shop, next to which is a spirit material shop, next to which is a spirit weapon shop, and there is also a source beast spirit food shop.

Only these four shops were open on the entire second floor; the rest of the shops were empty.

In fact, after these four shops opened, many villagers came to visit and inspect them, but all the transactions inside were conducted using Source Stones, and no villager could afford to buy anything there.

Only a few families owned "Yellow Oxen Herding", and the servants and maids of the Chu family, who were contract masters, had visited a few times.

Moreover, it's really not suitable to sell Source Beasts in such a store. Not only are they troublesome to raise, but it's also not good for their mental state or their overall condition.

Therefore, after discussing it, the Chu father and son decided to open only one medicine and beast shop here, and to do all the business of obtaining source beasts directly in the grassland.

These shops selling source beasts were naturally incredibly novel to the villagers who had never seen many source beasts or spiritual materials.

However, for Tang Cheng, the town mayor from a prominent family, there was nothing new about it, and most of what was being sold were ordinary medicinal herbs.

Only in the medicine and veterinary shop could he get a slight glance at the "Medicinal Fragrance Powder Ear Rabbit," which was the shop's prized possession.

He didn't linger there long before following Chu Jingyu to the firm that Chen Zhengchang had been mentioning.

Despite being called an office, Tang Cheng observed that the office was comparable to his own town mayor's mansion in terms of building area, facilities, and even some aspects. The only difference was the materials used.

"I think it wouldn't make much difference if you just renamed your office the Mayor's Office."

Hearing Tang Cheng's somewhat teasing words, Chu Jingyu calmed down a bit. The fact that Tang Cheng could speak like that showed that he didn't care much about the Chu family's actions in his territory.

"Mayor, you flatter us. Our Chu family has little experience in building houses for the villagers. We always thought we should build them as complete as possible so that we wouldn't have to make frequent changes. Who would have thought that the construction would turn out like this?"

"It's also our fault for not explaining things clearly, so the people below built as large as possible."

Tang Cheng remained noncommittal to Chu Jingyu's polite words. It would be strange if this so-called "Qixia Village" could have been built in such a short time without the full help of his spirit-level source beast.

However, Tang Cheng did not intend to expose him, but was considering a deeper issue.

What attitude should he take towards the Chu family now?

It's either pretending not to see it, allowing their family to carry out large-scale construction or other activities right under your nose.

If we continue to strongly support it, then we'll need to go through some procedures and provide some official policy support, but this also carries some risks.

The Chu family's current actions are clearly irregular. When the higher-ups punish them, the town mayor they supported will obviously be punished as well. If they pretend not to see it, at most it will be a crime of negligence, which is nothing to them.

Or should we stop it now, so that everything goes back to the way it was before, with no merit or demerit?

Such actions clearly offend the Chu family. Although the Chu family is currently not prominent, their burgeoning momentum suggests that they are capable of reaching great heights.

So Tang Cheng didn't show it on his face, but he was extremely conflicted inside. With such complicated feelings, the two of them, along with the members of the security team behind them, went into the office.