"Grandpa Liu, I'm sorry, I don't think I can promise you." Zhao Qi said lightly.

"Hey...... Actually, I knew you would say no. Liu Yuanlong sighed and said after a while.

"Grandpa Liu, I still say the same thing, if the country uses me, I will not shirk, after all, I am still a Chinese, you can rest assured." Zhao Qi glanced at Liu Yuanlong and said.

"Well, it's not bad to have you, at least I found a coolie who doesn't need a salary on this trip, haha." Liu Yuanlong said with a laugh, but there was still a lot of worry in that smile.

"Grandpa Liu, you haven't been to Jin County for several years, why don't you just play here for a few days, it just so happens that I also have a holiday, so I can accompany you." Zhao Qi could hear that Liu Yuanlong deliberately diverted the embarrassing scene just now, so he stopped discussing the topic just now.

"It's not going to work now, it's almost the end of the year in the past few days, and a lot of things haven't been dealt with yet." Liu Yuanlong said.

In the time that followed, the two didn't talk about the previous things anymore, just talked about the past, and after more than an hour, Liu Yuanlong also left.

……

Zhao Mu's speed was very fast, and after going to Feihe City in the afternoon, he had already returned in the evening.

"Why are you so fast?" Zhao Qi was eating with Song Xia, and they saw Zhao Mu rushing back.

"Well, let me eat first, I'm starving." At noon, Zhao Mu went out without eating, thinking that he should be very hungry at this time.

After Zhao Mu devoured two bowls of rice, he put down the chopsticks in his hand with satisfaction.

"I went to your Uncle Hu in the afternoon." Zhao Mu's words did not make Zhao Qi feel strange, as Zhao Mu's best buddy in his life, he would basically discuss some major matters with Uncle Hu.

"Oh, what did Uncle Hu say?" Zhao Qi put down the chopsticks in his hand and asked.

"Your Uncle Hu agrees with this idea very much, he said that there are more and more rich people in Feihe City, and some people even charter a small vegetable garden in the countryside in order to eat pollution-free vegetables. Every day, it is sent to the city of Feihe. So your idea of a healthy and pollution-free hanging pot is very promising, and the hanging pot tastes good, it should be welcomed. Zhao Mu said with a smile on his face.

"Wouldn't that be great, when are you going to start doing it?" Zhao Qi asked.

"I'll plan for the Chinese New Year first, and the specific things can only wait until the New Year."

"What about the Jiangdian side? Do you run at both ends? Zhao Qi asked.

"I'll leave it to your uncle here, your uncle is steady, and there won't be any problems with handing it over to him."

"Well, you just let your uncle resign, our business is getting bigger and bigger, it's better for you to find someone to help."

"I talked to him once. He doesn't seem to want to quit his job, so let's ask again during the Chinese New Year this year. ”

……

Zhao Qi has been busy in the past few days, either helping the four Dao Masters refine magic weapons, or giving advice to his father, and he has never met Lei Xi. Tomorrow Lei Xi will go back to her hometown for the New Year, this morning Zhao Qi was going to take Lei Xi out to have a good time, but who would have thought that when he was just about to go out, a phone call came.

"Grandpa Liu?" The call was from Liu Yuanlong. This made Zhao Qi wonder, is there something wrong?

"Xiao Qi, I'm bothering you again." Liu Yuanlong's tone on the phone was a little embarrassed, after all, he had already looked for Zhao Qi many times in just a few days.

"It's fine. Is there anything going on with Grandpa Liu? Of course, Zhao Qi didn't show any impatience and asked lightly.

"Xiao Qi, I'...... There's a chief on my side who wants to meet you. Liu Yuanlong said with some hesitation.

"Chief? What is it about? Zhao Qi asked suspiciously.

"I don't mean anything else, I just want to meet you. Are you convenient now? ”

"That'...... All right. I'm the only one in my family now, and you know where my home is, Grandpa Liu. Zhao Qi frowned, he was going to see Lei Xi today. After all, they haven't seen each other since the last Yingzheng incident. But Liu Yuanlong is his elder after all, although he doesn't know who the chief is, Zhao Qi still reluctantly agreed.

Fifteen minutes later, there was a knock at the door.

……

"Xiao Qi, this is my leader, you can call him Grandpa Gu." Liu Yuanlong pointed to an old man in his fifties beside him and said. While Liu Yuanlong was speaking, Zhao Qi was also carefully observing the old man.

What did this old man surnamed Gu say? The first impression on Zhao Qi was not too good.

The old man looked like he was in his fifties, wearing a well-fitting tunic suit, although he looked a little thin in a tunic this weather, but the old man's body was very straight, and he didn't seem to feel a trace of cold. And from the old man's body, Zhao Qi faintly felt that there was a lot of energy fluctuations, and he thought that he should also be a person from the same organization as Liu Yuanlong, and judging from Liu Yuanlong's title, this person's status should be above Liu Yuanlong.

Although the old man surnamed Gu had been looking at Zhao Qi with a smile, Zhao Qi always felt that this smiling face was pretended, and it faintly revealed a sense of arrogance, which was also the reason why Zhao Qi did not have a good impression of him at first.

"Hello Chief Gu." Lukewarmly, Zhao Qi sat on the sofa.

"Hehe, hello, let me introduce myself first, my name is Gu Changming, and I can be regarded as Liu Yuanlong's boss." Gu Changming didn't feel any unhappiness with Zhao Qi's tone.

"Hello Chief Gu." Zhao Qi said it again. And both sat down.

"Xiao Qi, can I call you that?" Gu Changming asked with a smile.

"Whatever you want."

"Xiao Qi, the purpose of my coming here this time is to invite you to join my team." Gu Changming said.

"Chief Gu, Grandpa Liu has already told me before, I'm really sorry, I can't join." Zhao Qi immediately became annoyed when he heard it, he forgot it once, he counted it twice, this is already the third time, is it still over?

"Xiao Qi, I don't know why you don't want to join? If there's anything you want, just say it and we'll consider it. Gu Changming was not surprised by Zhao Qi's answer, and continued to ask. As for Liu Yuanlong, he was completely just a spectator at this time, sitting on the side and not saying a word.

"The reason I have already said before, cultivators like us must not have any restraints, otherwise, the Taoism of this life will end here, which should be the reason why Daoist Zhang and they are not willing to join."

"I can't say that, in fact, I have also come into contact with a lot of cultivators, except for the shackles of the nation, isn't the family and relatives not shackled?" Gu Changming said lightly, this sentence really made Zhao Qi speechless, after all, the constraints of this nation-state and the like are indeed there at best, and at the worst, it is a reason that Zhao Qi is not a reason, but he didn't expect this matter to be taken out by Gu Changming to talk about it, and he also pulled in family and friendship.

"Hehe, Chief Gu is really good at talking, but it's a pity that I'm still in school now, and my parents and relatives are in Jin County, so it's not suitable." Zhao Qi's eyes rolled, and another reason came out.

"It's very simple, although joining us, it doesn't mean that you have to go to Jingbei City, and there is nothing to do all year round, so you don't have to worry."

"I'm only fifteen years old, so I'm going out to work so early? Doesn't seem to be in line with the law, does it? Or does your department have the privilege of employing child labor? Zhao Qi said with a frown.

"Special affairs, like Xiao Qi, you can appropriately relax the restrictions, the country is very enlightened." Gu Changming kept talking to Zhao Qi with a smile, but Zhao Qi gradually became a little impatient, after all, the meaning of his words was quite clear, but this person was like he couldn't understand.

"What Chief Gu said is very reasonable." Zhao Qi smiled faintly.

"But what if I still don't want to join?" As soon as Zhao Qi said this, Gu Changming's smiling face suddenly froze. And Liu Yuanlong's heart on the side was also entangled, he was worried that there would be this scene before.

"Xiao Qi, do you have something unspeakable? If so, just say it, if the state can do it, I will definitely do it. Gu Changming said with that smiling face again.

"I don't have anything to hide, I just don't want to join." Zhao Qi's face turned cold, and he looked at Gu Changming and said.

At this time, Gu Changming's face finally changed, and his face changed instantly. I want him to invite a teenage hairy boy so quietly as a figure who covers the sky in the country, but the other party is so faceless.

In Liu Yuanlong's report, although Zhao Qi's cultivation was truthfully reported, Gu Changming didn't care too much, he only felt that it should be stronger than Zhang Yikun and them, but this was enough to surprise him. He knew about the cultivators, and he had always hoped to recruit a powerful Taoist priest, but after so many years, he had only recruited a Heavenly Master Wang Jinxi, and Wang Jinxi's Taoism was still so low.

Although China's Four Great Dao Sects have declined, they still have secular power, and Zhang Yikun and Lin Yunshan have always been in a group, and Gu Changming has no way to force them to join. But Zhao Qi is different, although his cultivation is profound, but after all, he is still just a hairy boy, the most important thing is that he is a lonely person, there is no teacher, and even Zhang Yikun and they have only just met. thought that it would be very easy to fool this immature person in, but he didn't expect that Zhao Qi would reject him so clearly, and he didn't have a trace of face at all for the current Gu Changming.

The smell of gunpowder gradually appeared between Zhao Qi and Gu Changming...... (To be continued......)