"Alas...... Do you think my luck is good, or is it bad?"

In Yuzhang City, Xu Chenzheng, who was holding the news sent back by Song Qingfei's pigeon in his hand, smiled helplessly.

Lu Hao beside him smiled and asked, "What to do with this Chen Yu?"

Xu Chen shook his head and said, "Since we have been a big brother for a few months, we have to look like a big brother! Not to mention that since that Chenjia Village is really so extraordinary, we can do even less!"

"Forget it, let's just act as if nothing happened!" Xu Chen decided.

Lu Hao glanced at Xu Chen in surprise, somewhat surprised by Xu Chen's decision.

For some reason, the eldest brother always likes to use people who are less implicated, such as orphans, such as people who come from civilian families with a smaller population.

In the past, Lu Hao felt that the eldest brother did this to facilitate control or out of the need to keep secrets, but later, Lu Hao found that it was gradually not the case.

The reason why the eldest brother chose these people is probably just to facilitate the transfer, or rather...... To facilitate the escape.

Lu Hao didn't know what the eldest brother was hiding from and what he was going to face, about these, Lu Hao asked many times, but the eldest brother didn't miss anything at all. Lu Hao understood that this was because the eldest brother thought that they would not be able to play the slightest role in the enemies he was about to face, so the eldest brother did not want to implicate them.

But...... How can there be such a person in this world?

Lu Hao is very confident, and there is no way not to be confident, although there are not many of them now, whether it is force or financial resources, it is impossible for any group of forces in the world to even have no room to fight back, to put it mildly, even if it is a rebellion, they can do a certain climate.

Just, why? Why does Big Brother think that they are useless, and what kind of enemy is Big Brother going to face?

Regarding these, Lu Hao was puzzled.

Xu Chen didn't pay attention to Lu Hao's thoughts, and after letting go of Chen Yu's thoughts, he made a decision again: "Time is not enough!

"Big brother, do you want to ......?" Lu Hao, who was in deep thought, was awakened by Xu Chen's words.

"Let's go to the grocery store!" Xu Chen didn't say anything more, and strode towards the door with resolute strides.

Lu Hao hurriedly followed.

After going out, after going around a few squares, the two came to a square market in the center of the city, Xu Chen's grocery store head office is located in a large residential area in the southeast of this square city, the houses in this residential area are low, and they are naturally not high-end.

Walking into the grocery store, Mei Yun, who was in charge of the shop, was looking down and fiddling with the abacus.

"Mei Da shopkeeper, has business been good lately?" Xu Chen said loudly as soon as he entered the door.

Mei Yun raised his head, glanced at Xu Chen, and said angrily: "What do you mean by 'recently' in the past few days, or in the past few months?"

Xu Chen looked at Mei Yun's playful expression and smiled stupidly. In recent months, he has been busy buying and selling land, and he really hasn't paid much attention to the grocery business.

However, Xu Chen would not be squeezed by such an understatement, so he took the opportunity to look around, and after some inspection, he returned to Mei Yun with satisfaction.

Xu Chen no longer beat around the bush, looked at Mei Yun directly, and said straight to the point: "I'm ready to sell the land in my hand." ”

Mei Yun's hand fiddling with the abacus stiffened slightly, and then asked casually, "What land?

Xu Chen laughed "hehe", and then said: "Of course, the merchants mortgaged the land here at the last auction. ”

Mei Yun raised his head, looked at Xu Chen, and said after a while: "Didn't the owner promise to return those lands to them in five years?"

"That's right, I signed the deed!" Xu Chen nodded and replied, then smiled slyly: "But that doesn't prevent me from selling them now? I can buy them back next year!"

Mei Yun didn't show a look of surprise, but just smiled faintly, as if she had expected the other party to answer like this.

Mei Yun looked at Xu Chen quietly, he knew that Xu Chen must have a plan to come today, and Mei Yun had already lost the slightest contempt for this young man. Just as Mei Yun knew that the other party had already noticed that he had been watching him and waiting for an opportunity, Mei Yun also knew that the other party had also been paying attention to him, so he did not deny that he had been secretly following the movements of Yangzhou and Yuzhang in the past few months.

Therefore, at this moment, he didn't say anything, just looked at Xu Chen quietly, waiting for his next words.

Xu Chen chuckled lightly and said straightforwardly: "Please go back and talk to the second prince of Lu, and ask him if he intends to speed up the pace, I only have so much land left in my hands now, if the second prince has nothing to ask for Yu Zhang, then I will have to cash out these hole cards!"

Mei Yun didn't show a look of shock on his face until this moment, and his years of experience made him come back to his senses in the shortest possible time, staring at Xu Chen with straight eyes, and only after a long time did he sigh: "Xu Dongjia is really extraordinary!"

"Shopkeeper Mei is polite!" Xu Chen smiled reservedly.

Mei Yun shook his head and replied: "Xu Dongjia's words will be brought to the second son, but what decision the second son will make, it is not up to me, as a subordinate, to influence." ”

"It's okay! Shopkeeper Mei just needs to bring the words. Xu Chen said.

The short negotiation between the two ended here, Xu Chen's goal was achieved, and he did not stay in the grocery store, and turned around and left after a while.

On the way home, Lu Hao, who had been silent, couldn't help but ask, "Big brother, is there going to be a decisive battle now?"

Xu Chen glanced at him, and said with some amusement: "The decisive battle? Who will we fight against? We are just here to make money, okay? If we want to fight, it is also a matter for the two of them, and we are just spectators at best!"

Lu Hao glanced at his eldest brother's slightly smug smile, and said speechlessly: "Big brother, you are at least a director, okay!"

"Yo, yes, I've learned to pat on the back! But even if you say that, I won't admit it. Xu Chen said a little shamelessly.

Lu Hao found that he still underestimated the thickness of his eldest brother's face, and shook his head helplessly.

In the evening, at nightfall, Mei Yuntong entered the courtyard of the Lu family, found Lu Zongbao, and relayed Xu Chen's words as they were.

There was not only Lu Zongbao in the room, but also Lu Zongtai and Yang Fan.

After listening to Mei Yun's relay, Yang Fan asked out loud, "Zong Bao, this Xu Chen is the little beggar you said?"

Lu Zongbao nodded silently.

"Then what is he doing here?" Yang Fan then asked.

Lu Zongbao shook his head and said frankly: "I don't know, to be honest, I haven't understood this little beggar all along, I once thought it was nothing more than that, but then I found that I was unconsciously slammed by the other party." ”

Yang Fan had vaguely heard Lu Zongbao mention it before, but after listening to the other party's blunt words at this moment, he didn't know what to say for a while.

"I think it's not that complicated. Since the incident of Cui Jianyu, Lu Zongtai, who has rarely expressed his opinions in front of his younger brother, said carefully at this moment.

"Oh?" Lu Zongbao looked at his eldest brother suspiciously.

Yang Fan also looked at it, but he didn't have much expectation in his heart for this somewhat silent and even wooden eldest son of the Lu family.

Lu Zongtai is naturally not a mediocre person, but the recent events they have participated in require extremely keen insight and bold decision. And Lu Zongtai is good at long-term planning, and his ability to accept new things is not as fast as his younger brother's, so in the past few months, their plans, Lu Zongtai has only been a listener, until this moment, Lu Zongtai feels that his younger brother has considered Xu Chen's motives too much, but has forgotten this original motive.

So, Lu Zongtai spoke: "Since Xu Chen appeared in Yuzhang more than half a year ago, what he has done seems complicated and disorganized, but in fact, I think he has only one purpose!"

"What purpose?" Lu Zongbao knew his eldest brother's ability, so he naturally wouldn't ignore the other party's opinion.

"Make money!" Lu Zongtai said plainly but surely.

"Make money?" Lu Zongbao's face climbed with a trace of doubt, and then he realized a more important question, and said loudly: "Why make money?"

"Hehe, you're right! Everyone should have a purpose for doing things, but now I don't know Xu Chen's purpose. Lu Zongtai replied with a smile, and then recounted his guess from the beginning: "Whether Xu Chen is from the beginning of the fish market, the restaurant to the later Changshan Island, and then to the current land business, step by step is just to make more money, even if he plays a bitter trick to worship Xu Fan as a teacher, it is just to use Xu Fan's power to catch more lines, so as to make more money." ”

Lu Zongbao recalled an article along the eldest brother's train of thought, and found that it was indeed as the eldest brother said, everything Xu Chen has done in the past half a year is to make money, but he still can't figure it out, although no one will dislike the money, but Lu Zongbao feels that Xu Chen, an extraordinary little beggar, is not just a businessman who makes money for the sake of making money, this person must have an ultimate purpose when he does so many things, but what is this purpose?

"Why?" Lu Zongbao still guessed Xu Chen's purpose.

Seeing this, Lu Zongtai shook his head and said loudly, "Why should we care about his purpose?"

Lu Zongtai's voice was not loud, but Lu Zongbao was stunned, and only after half a sound did he hesitate: "But...... He ......"

"He's powerful, he's smart, it's hard to see, right?" Lu asked rhetorically.

Lu Zongbao nodded silently.

"So you have to know his purpose to be at ease, right?" Lu Zongtai asked again.

Lu Zongbao still nodded silently.

"Why do we have to know? He has his purpose, and we have our purpose, and since our two goals coincide now, why can't we cooperate? Is it because he put us together before, so we have to be angry and not cooperate with him? Or because we may become enemies in the future, so we refuse to cooperate with him now? So what did we do a few days ago?" Lu Zongtai said sentence by sentence, not giving Lu Zongbao a chance to refute at all.

After hearing this, Lu Zongbao was silent for a long time, then he got up and bowed to Lu Zongtai, and said with a smile: "It's me who is too persistent, thank you for reminding me." ”

Lu Zongtai smiled and said, "Little brother, you just haven't come out of the matter of being used by Xu Chen, you have a contest in your heart, so you will naturally go to find out his purpose." In fact, if you lose, you lose, victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, and the next time you win back, if you let yourself lose your former calmness, then there is no hope of winning at all. ”

"Thank you, big brother, little brother has been taught!" Lu Zongbao said respectfully.

"Okay, you can decide the rest yourself!" After Lu Zongtai ordered his younger brother, he handed over the power of decision to his younger brother.

Yang Fan, who was quietly listening to the conversation between the two brothers of the Lu family, couldn't calm down for a long time at the moment.

It's just a Lu Zongbao who is more intelligent and close to a demon, and Lu Zongtai, who originally thought that Mu Ne, was also a hidden character! Lu Zongbao reacted quickly and had many ideas, which was already extraordinary enough, but he didn't expect that his eldest brother was a real helmsman, and his calm heart was far better than others, no wonder no matter what plans they had in the past month, Lu Zongbao would never hide it in front of him, it turned out that he wanted his eldest brother to check it.

It's just that Lu Zongbao has been doing well in the past few months, and it was not until he encountered a difficult opponent that he showed his edge, and almost made Yang Fan miss the eldest son of the Lu family.

"Alas, these two outcasts of the Lu family are really extraordinary! But it's okay, the Lu family doesn't want you, and I, Yang Fan, will never miss it!"

The two brothers of the Lu family naturally didn't know that Yang Fan had their idea in his heart, and after listening to the eldest brother's order, Lu Zongbao pondered for a moment and made a decision.

"Now that we're ready to cooperate, it's time for the last battle!"

Since Lu Zongbao realized that he was being used as a gun, he never underestimated Xu Chen. Since Xu Chen asked people to say this, it means that he will go all out, and in order to cooperate with it, his side must also need to go all out, so this is naturally the final battle!

"Although the time is a little tight, we have not made preparations in this area in Yuzhang in the past few years, and now it is just a little ahead of schedule. ”

"First of all, continue to consume as much of the strength of the local family as possible in the land transaction according to the original plan, and after Wendou, you can only fight. ”

Lu Zongbao said slowly.

"Brother Yang, when will the family's assistance arrive?" Lu Zongbao asked at Yang Fan.

"Soon, the news from yesterday said that the convoy had arrived on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and it was going to arrive in the next two days. Yang Fan replied.

Then, as if thinking of something, Yang Fan said again: "It's strange to say, originally I thought that this group of masters who don't see rabbits and don't scatter eagles will not make any more efforts this time, but I didn't expect the news to come back, saying that they were going to deal with Yuzhang Wanjia, and the old people in the family actually cared more about this plan than we did, and each family took out four million copper coins, and there was also a master of the Grandmaster Realm accompanying them, it was really weird!"

"Hehe, there's nothing incomprehensible about that. Everyone in the world thinks that our seven sects and five surnames think too highly of ourselves and look down on these southern barbarians in the south, but in fact that is just the judgment of the emerging families of Guan Long's gang with the blood of the Hu people! With regard to these wealthy families in the south, which have also been inherited for thousands of years, our family has always maintained sufficient vigilance. ”

"Not to mention anything else, just the group of Grandmaster Realm masters in the family know a lot about these Grandmaster Realm masters in the south, since we plan to destroy the family and destroy the clan this time, how can we not go all out?"

Lu Zongbao knew that although their seven clans and five surnames seemed to be conservative and unwilling to open up new forces, it was only because of tradition and the fact that there were many restrictions between the seven families, so they had not invested too much power in the south, which was also the deep reason why Wang Xian had not done much in Yuzhang for a few years.

Conservatism is only superficial, but the most important thing is that the strength of the wealthy family of Yuzhang is not bad, and it is impossible to eat it by relying on the Taiyuan Wang family alone, and the rest of the families are facing the Yuzhang giants whose strength is not much different.

It's just that now because of the plan proposed by Wang Xian and the Lu family brothers, after the initial success in Yangzhou, people from all over the world have been induced to come to the south, so it will naturally save a lot of trouble to deal with the wealthy families of Yuzhang now, after all, they are not fighting alone, and in the same way, if they miss this opportunity, I am afraid it will be difficult to find such an opportunity again.

Therefore, it is rare for the seven sects and five surnames to be decisive once, and send such a powerful lineup, in order to hit it with one blow and completely defeat the Yuzhang giants.

"Now that we have the financial resources and the armed forces, let's go to the uncle of the Wang family and ask him to contact the local families who have taken refuge in our side in the past few years, and let them start selling the land in their hands according to the original plan, and finish the first step first. ”

"Besides, how is Zhou Bin's contact?" Lu Zongbao asked again.

"Don't mention it! This surnamed Zhou's oil and salt don't enter, my mouth is about to wear out, and he refuses to let go, and makes up his mind to watch from the wall. Yang Fan said angrily.

Lu Zongbao frowned, and said impatiently: "Go again, reveal to him our current strength, if he doesn't want to fall to our side, then sue him, we will deal with him first!"

Yang Fan raised his head in surprise and looked at Lu Zongbao with a murderous face, and was a little stunned for a while.

"Hehe, Brother Yang doesn't have to look at me like this, at this time, there is no room for people at both ends of the first rat! You always have to choose a position in the game in everything!" Lu Zongbao said faintly after laughing.

"Okay, I'll go find him again!" Yang Fan nodded and said.

After arranging the specific steps, Lu Zongbao was silent for a moment before he spoke up: "Let's discuss it with Uncle Wang tomorrow when we go to him." ”

"What to discuss?" Yang Fan was a little puzzled, since all the steps had been arranged, what other important things needed to be discussed?

Lu Zongbao replied: "I think we should concentrate all our forces this time, only deal with the ten thousand families, and once the ten thousand families are destroyed, the Yuzhang wealthy family will be leaderless, or destroyed, or dependent, it is just a matter of time!"

Yang Fan understood what Lu Zongbao meant, but he was still puzzled: "Is the power of the Wanjia family so strong?"

Lu Zongbao nodded heavily and replied, "Absolutely!"