May 30, 2017

"So, you mean, that little guy with great talent and a deeper foundation than me... is my little niece!?"

In the tea room of the Li family compound, Li Jinglun looked at his old friend in disbelief, and unconsciously dripped the syrup from the sugar oil cake onto his crotch.

It was not until a moment later that the heat between his legs was transferred over, and he woke up suddenly.

"Damn it! Why is it so hot!"

Lu Xin said helplessly, shook his head and said, "I went to the association to check last night. The person who took over your copying task was Qingming, and she returned the silver note I borrowed you to me yesterday."

Li Jinglun looked at the silver notes displayed by Lu Xin, nodded and said, "It's indeed the one I handed over to that dwarf."

Lu Xin stood up and gestured roughly near his forehead: "Are the dwarf you mentioned so tall, so fat and thin?"

Li Jinglun said: "It's indeed about the same height as you... But if I had realized this earlier, I wouldn't have used the word dwarf."

Lu Xin curled his lips: "It doesn't matter. I know I just can't grow up, and I'm married anyway. Fengyun loves me very much, so I don't need to care what others say. In short, it seems that the mathematics expert who surprised you is indeed Qingming."

"But when did she learn such a profound math?! Although she had outstanding grades in inner education courses before, math was only a first-class, right?"

Lu Xin said: "Yes, so I thought about it for half a night last night. I feel that the only possibility is that the poverty in the past two years made her become proficient in calculating."

Li Jinglun frowned and thought for a while and said, "The interesting theory, although it sounds ridiculous at first glance, may explain why a best-selling writer, such as me, can only plot against a 14-year-old girl - because she is poorer than me."

"Yes, neither you nor me have ever experienced the taste of poverty. Perhaps poverty does contain incredible power, what do you think?" Lu Xin assumed seriously.

"Um..." Li Jinglun did not respond, but his brows became tighter and tighter.

"What's wrong, Thirteen?"

"I mean, if poverty does contain incredible power, then... maybe Qingming has lost this power?"

Lu Xin gently raised his delicate eyebrows: "What do you mean? She just got a few down payments from you, and it was all spent soon-I asked someone to check her order record last night."

Li Jinglun said with some difficulty: "But just before coming to you, I just paid her the second batch of contract payments..."

"The second batch?!How come there will be a second batch?"

"Because yesterday after she borrowed money, she helped me proofread a batch of manuscripts, and then I sent it to the editor that night and received the manuscript fee - as a rare reward for submitting manuscripts in advance in many years of my creative career."

Lu Xin was silent for a moment and opened his mouth gently: "How many are there?"

"…Five thousand spirit stones, that's a big contract."

"Five thousand spirit stones!" Lu Xin stood up, "That means that Qingming can get five hundred spirit stones? Do you know what five hundred spirit stones mean for a child!? Before I was 14 years old, I only had fifty spirit stones per month!"

Li Jinglun was stunned for a moment: "I only have two spirit stones..."

"How come it's so few? Two spirit stones are not enough to buy toys."

Li Jinglun pursed his lips: "That's why I have to leave Lingshan City no matter what, and go to Qingyun to join our family... In short, Qingming has already made a fortune."

Lu Xin said: "No, she can't just control a lot of wealth. She is still young and will only suffer a lot. Moreover, she has been going too smoothly recently, which may be unfavorable for future development. I must find a way to get the money in her hands back."

Li Jinglun said in surprise: "Do you want to steal your daughter's money?"

"I'm not robbing... By the way, I can charge her rent! Five thousand taels per month is still too cheap. Since she feels so sorry for the yard Chen Yue'e left for her, she will accept it no matter how high I offer it! For example, 500 spirit stones per month."

"You, you're robbing!"

Lu Xin said again: "Thirteen, I am also doing this for her own good. I must let her realize the difficulty of making money."

Li Jinglun looked at the daughter of a wealthy and wealthy lady who had never known the taste of poverty for the rest of her life, and said for a while: "...I can understand."

As the two were talking, a man came to the door of the tea room. He was tall but covered in wind and frost. He was Li Fengyun, the head of the Li family.

"Oh, Xin'er, Thirteen, you're all here."

Lu Xin smiled, got up and took his husband's favorite tea and soaked it for him.

"Thank you." Li Fengyun nodded, "What are you talking about? It seems that you heard you mention the difficulty of making money. Why? Have you been short of money recently?"

Lu Xin was both angry and funny: "Will we two lack money?"

Li Fengyun said: "That's it, I also said that if you are short of money, I can lend it to you."

Li Jinglun was surprised: "Brother?"

Lu Xin was also surprised: "How come you have money?"

Li Jinglun quickly turned to look at Lu Xin, and Lu Xin's face turned red: "I will give him pocket money every month..."

Li Fengyun said: "I just started a business and earned three hundred spirit stones."

"Ah?" Lu Xin almost poured the tea on his feet.

This dull man who is dedicated to practicing actually knows how to make money? And he is also making money in business? Oh my God, he really knows what is going on in business?

"It's very simple. Buy at a low price, sell at a high price, buy at a 200 spirit stones, and now sell at a 500 spirit stones. Isn't that a profit of 300?"

It sounds like nothing wrong, Lu Xin smiled and took a sip of tea: "I want to congratulate you, but what did you sell? How could you make more than twice as much? But not because people deliberately buy rags at a high price for your sake, it is equivalent to giving you money."

Li Fengyun said: "I sold Shenyuan."

"puff!"

Lu Xin almost spurted out blood.

"You sold Shenyuan?! 500 spirit stones? Are you crazy? With the current housing prices in Qingyun City, 5,000 spirit stones are for free! 200 spirit stones are the housing prices of your ancestors during the period of land reclamation... Wait, who did you sell them to? It was not Li Qingming, right?"

"It's her." Li Fengyun said strangely, "Otherwise, you can't sell your family property to outsiders."

"How can you sell it to her?" Lu Xin was about to jump, "Don't you find it strange to sell the yard to his daughter?"!"

Li Fengyun stood up and said, "I feel very strange now. Why can't I sell it to Qingming? She paid for it, but it was obviously because she had a demand for Chenyuan. The price she gave was very reasonable, which made me profitable. Selling it to her was the best of both worlds. What's strange about it?"

"..." Lu Xin was speechless and didn't know how to refute it.

After a long time of confusion in thinking, Lu Xin sat down as if he was angry: "Okay, congratulations on the best of both worlds."

"So, do you need to borrow money?" Li Fengyun looked at his wife with some expectations.

"unnecessary!"

——

On the other side, in the garden east of the city, Li Qingming held a piece of land deed that was as light as a cicada's wings, feeling lost.

"Ah, the five hundred spirit stones disappeared like this, and I didn't have time to take a look. It turned out that this was the feeling of going bankrupt overnight."

Wang Jiu objectively commented: "From your financial situation, you have been in bankruptcy for the past two years, so I really don't understand what you have to sigh about."

Li Qingming's full of literary fire was extinguished by the head, and he immediately said angrily: "I have low IQ, so I'm prone to sigh about small things, okay!"

Wang Jiu said: "Yes."

"..." Li Qingming gritted her teeth for a long time. If she hadn't considered that this white-board long sword might have been a constitution that never worn out after thousands of disasters, she would definitely try to break it!

Wang Jiuze no longer paid attention to Li Qingming's inexplicable feelings and turned his attention back to the encyclopedia in front of him.

Although Li Qingming only bought it from the old bookstore with 2 taels of silver, it was indeed worth the money as she said.

Although the Xiangzhou Encyclopedia, published in 2001, cannot really tolerate the world, it at least covers some historical views recognized by the Xiangzhou academic community.

For example, the history of Xiangzhou can be traced back to five thousand years ago. At that time, the world was in turmoil and the people were living in poverty. In a critical moment, the Holy Sect and the Three Academy Alliance of the Seven Immortal Cultivation Family Alliance swept the world and established a ruling pattern that has been maintained to this day.

What’s interesting is that the so-called seven major families are without exception, a huge family that had great influence during the war between the Immortals and Demons of Jiuzhou.

The Li family where Li Jiulong is located, the Shen family in Chenkaishan, the Zhao family in Zhao Yueming, the Lu family in Lu Jintong, the merchant of Shang Lanfei, the Fengyou Feng family, and the Luoyu Luo family... are all descendants of the Nine Immortal Lord.

Among the Nine Immortals, Jinghong was born in the wild fox Zen, without any worries or descendants. Zhu Junshen had no fate with a woman in his life. The skills of a boy for hundreds of years were earth-shaking, so it was natural that he could not escape the queen.

In other words, the ruling class in Xiangzhou today is actually a descendant of the Holy Sect and the Nine Immortals of that time - the three courtyards are subordinates of the Holy Sect and belong to branches.

However, there are two problems here.

First, what is the origin of the Holy Sect? At that time, the highest authority in Jiuzhou was the Wanxian Alliance, but the structure was loose. The essential rulers were still large families and sects represented by Jiuxianzun. Never had such a so-called Holy Sect above a transcendent family.

Second, according to the encyclopedia, the ancestors of the seven major families... Wang Jiu could not recognize any of them. Li Feiliu, the ancestor of the Li family, and Chen Lifeng, the ancestor of the Shen family. I have never heard of them!

From Jiuzhou to Xiangzhou, many things have become plausible during the years I have been sleeping, and even the concept of cultivating immortals is very different from before.

During the Jiuzhou period, monks were seeking immortality, and their life was to be eternal. My life was not as good as me. At that time, a cultivator in the Heavenly Beng Realm had a life of more than a thousand years. If there was an adventure, it could be several times more. It was not rare for a turtle monk to be aged 5,000. But now, the lifespan of the Xiangzhou monks at the same level was more than half lower! The lifespan of the masters in the Offshore Realm was only three or five hundred, while the cultivators at the peak of the Paishan Realm were generally only more than two hundred years old.

Cultivating immortality cannot lead to immortality. Such strange changes have also created the unique cultivation ecology of Xiangzhou today. Cultivators rarely go to the deep mountains and forests to go to seclusion and practice. They are more likely to live together and develop and reproduce a highly prosperous cultivation culture...

After closing the book, Wang Jiu sighed: "I've really gained something."

Li Qingming snorted: "I told you a long time ago that it's great value for money."

"Then there is a very strange question. You can buy knowledge for 2 taels of silver. Why can't you even explain it clearly when I asked you before?"

Li Qingming was speechless. Wang Jiu had asked her many questions about the general trend of Xiangzhou before, but at most she could only talk about it in general - at the beginning, the inner culture course was only taught to this extent, what could a 14-year-old girl say?

After a moment of silence, Li Qingming said, "I concentrate on my practice, so I don't have time to learn these miscellaneous studies."

"Do not break the wind barrier until you are 14 years old?"

"Okay, I have poor qualifications and low IQ, that's OK!"

"Can."
Chapter completed!