Chapter Forty-Seven: The Unlucky Ding Member
Lin Jun nodded and said, "This is natural, the Great Elder has already explained when I came. Steward Xu, go out in the future, outside, it is obviously inappropriate for me to call you a steward, it will expose our identity, so in the future, in front of outsiders, I will call you Boss Xu. ”
Xu Daochuan shook his head again and again, and said: "Elder Lin, the identities of the two of us to the outside world, Elder Xie also explained, externally, you are the master here, I am your housekeeper, you can call me Steward Xu." ”
Lin Jun nodded and said: "It's okay to call it that way to the outside world, but don't worry, my development direction is still in the Zizhu Gate, and I won't fight with you for power here, you still have the final say on the big and small affairs here, if you can help me complete this errand beautifully, I will definitely praise you from the Great Elder, so that you can sit in your current position." ”
Lin Jun's words dispelled Xu Daochuan's concerns.
The stone hanging in Xu Daochuan's heart finally fell to the ground. He said with a smile, "I will definitely go all out to assist Elder Lin in completing this errand." Elder Li, I have ordered someone to clean up the best room here, and when Elder Xie came here, he lived there. Please go there and take a break. In the evening, the humble duty will take you to Yuzhou City to have a good dashing and chic. To tell the truth, the Mianyue Tower in Yuzhou City is a famous place, where the red girls are all like flowers and jade, and they seem to be able to pinch out the water with a gentle pinch. Let's go there tonight, let the humble duty do some filial piety, and you can enjoy the fun of enjoying the red dust. ”
Lin Jun shook his head and said: "The place you said, I have longed for a long time, but the old man asked me to practice a peculiar exercise, and repeatedly instructed me that I must not lose the body of a child before this kind of exercise is practiced, otherwise all the previous efforts will be wasted." I have to listen to the teachings of the master, otherwise, he will blame the old man, and I can't afford to bear the guilt. ”
When Xu Daochuan heard that this was the reason, he hurriedly said: "I see, then we won't go there." I heard that the food in the Divine Medicine Valley is relatively simple, just those few dishes, just eat enough, compared with several major restaurants in Yuzhou City, it is far behind, several major restaurants in Yuzhou City have their own characteristics, the dishes there are not only delicious, but also pay attention to the color, flavor and taste, and the appearance of the dishes is also very good. In Yuzhou City these days, the humble duty will take you to the famous restaurants here to him to eat, tonight let's go to the drunken immortal residence, the food there is not only good, but also their own wine is decades or even hundreds of years of sealing, strong and mellow, long aftertaste, drink a sip, live like a fairy. ”
Lin Jun nodded and said, "Okay, let's go to the Drunken Immortal Residence tonight." However, I don't have to go to see where I live, and I am relieved that you have arranged it. I don't need to rest, I want to visit two friends in Yuzhou City, you can go with me. ”
Xu Daochuan saw that the other party asked him to accompany him to meet his friends, and he felt that this young elder was approachable, and happily accompanied Lin Jun out of the store.
When passing by the front hall again, looking at the dazzling array of jade artifacts in the store, Lin Jun couldn't help asking, "Where did so many precious jade come from?
Xu Daochuan shook his head, leaned into Lin Jun's ear and whispered: "Elder Lin doesn't know, these jade artifacts are all from the hands of the Great Elder, and they are made by several of the Great Elder's maids who refine different grades of spirit stones into jade through special methods, and then transport them to us, which are carefully carved by the craftsmen here. These jades are not naturally formed, but our refining method is unique, and no one can see it. The Great Elder has a lot of food and clothing every year, and he only relies on the little money he gives in the door every month, and he can barely solve the problem of food and clothing and fill his stomach. If you want to do something else, it's not enough. So the Great Elder came up with such a way to earn a little extra money to support his family. ”
Lin Jun asked: "The Alchemy Hall has mastered the most core alchemy technique, what kind of pill can't be refined? Get some pills out and sell them, won't you make more money." ”
Xu Daochuan said: "This humble position has also persuaded the Great Elder, but there are strict rules in the Zizhu Gate, and it is strictly forbidden to sell pills to the outside world, so as not to encourage other gang forces and pose a threat to the Zizhu Gate, so although the Great Elder Xie has a large number of pills in his hands, he has always been very cautious at this point, and he does not dare to cross the Thunder Pond by half a step. ”
Lin Jun thought to himself: It seems that Xie Yukun still has some responsibilities as a great elder, and he is not a man who is obsessed with money.
Coming out of the jade shop, walking about one or two hundred steps along the street, Lin Jun suddenly stopped, and a magnificent building came into his eyes.
This is not another place, it is the Ding Mansion where he pretended to be Deacon Liu half a year ago, the home outside Ding Yuan. However, looking at it now, there seems to be some dilapidation in front of the gate of Ding Yuanwai's house, and the two family members standing in front of the gate are gone.
Xu Daochuan saw Lin Jun staring at the gate of the Ding Mansion in a daze, and asked, "Has Elder Lin been here?"
Lin Jun shook his head and said, "It's the first time I've come to Yuzhou City today, I just think that this family must be a big family built in front of this family." ”
Xu Daochuan said: "This is Ding Yuanwai's home, if you want to say that it is a big family, it used to be counted, but now the family is in the middle of the road, and it is no longer good." If you want to say the reason for the defeat of their family, it has some relationship with our Zizhumen. I heard that in order to let his son go to our Zizhumen to practice the exercises and become an inner disciple, Ding Yuanwai tried his best to tie up a steward of the inner gate. The steward and one of his deacons extorted a large sum of money from the outside of the ding, and then both of them flew away. Hearing about this incident, it also caused a lot of waves in the entire inner door. After Ding Yuanwai took his son to the mountain gate for the first time, the steward at that time asked Ding Yuanwai to come back after half a month, but after half a month passed, Ding Yuanwai did not know that the steward had fled, he took his son to Zizhumen again, and when he swaggered inside, he was beaten severely by the disciples on duty there, not only he was beaten, but even his son and all the servants of his family were beaten. After being beaten, the arresters of Yuzhou City quickly rushed there and tied them up to the government again. As we all know, Zizhumen is half of the master of Yuzhou City, and some people dare to go to the gate of the master's house to mess around, and the prefect of Yuzhou City will naturally not give up with him, and after their father and son were convicted of disturbing the Holy Land of Xuanmen, they each hit fifty boards. After the board was finished, they were asked to pay a ransom of 30,000 taels before their servants used a wooden cart to push the dying Ding Yuan and his son back home.
After returning home, Ding Yuanwai was covered in injuries and was in a hurry, and he couldn't afford to get sick, and their family's business was gradually abandoned because no one took care of it. The servants and servants of the family watched their family fall in the middle of the road, and the day was worse than the day, and they left one after another. Even the loyal Steward Li swept away most of the money in the Ding family's treasury when he left. Today's Ding family is only an empty shell of this big yard, and if there is no more income, they can only sell this yard to make a living. ”
Xu Daochuan sighed and said: "It's really unpredictable, people have good fortune and misfortune, I think that Ding Yuanwai's fame in this area was quite big, and it was difficult to match how many people did business, who knew that such a big family would be defeated." ”
After listening to Xu Daochuan's words, Lin Jun thought to himself: I didn't expect that some small actions he made would cause such a big wave. Play dead, Steward Zhao and Deacon Liu. The play fell to the master of the Du Gate, and the many stewards and deacons of the inner door of the Zizhu Gate who played were frightened one by one, and even the homes outside the Ding Yuan were all played by him. Ding Yuanwai's family looked quite pitiful, but after thinking about it, they were not pitiful at all. It was this group of people who were extremely good at drilling camps, going through the back door, looking for connections, and sending money, that broke the rules and made it profitable for people such as Steward Zhao in Zizhu Sect, thus harming their disciples who worked hard to cultivate and wanted to improve through their own abilities. Therefore, in addition to Ding Yuan, there is Zhao in charge of them, no matter how miserable the end is, they all deserve it. Lin Jun's heart, except for the joy of eliminating harm for the people, has no sense of guilt.