"Old woman, you are giving my apprentice a problem by mentioning such a competition, not to mention Taijie's business talent, although he has been away for a few years, but the connections he has accumulated in San Francisco in the past few years are still there, just in this aspect, it is not comparable to my apprentice, such a competition is not fair at all." After listening to Guo Yulan's words, the old man first raised objections.

"Hehe, fair, old fellow, you have lived for more than eighty years, let me ask you, has there ever been anything absolutely fair in this world?" Guo Yulan asked with a sneer.

"I admit that there is no such thing as absolute fairness in this world, but within the limits of our control, why can't we try to create a fair rule?" The old man said, "And the rules you just said are obviously deliberately inclined to Taijie and deliberately embarrassing my disciples, which is really unreasonable. ”

"Since you think this rule is unfair, then, you can make a new rule, if it is reasonable, I will listen to you." Guo Yulan sneered and said.

"There's no time to prepare, how can you let me come up with the right rules, I think this matter needs to be discussed again, or what I just said, although there is no absolute fairness in this world, but within my control, I will try my best to reduce the existence of factors that affect fairness." The old man said.

"You are afraid of wolves and tigers, in my opinion, I still have little confidence in your apprentice, and I am worried that he will fail, I think you should ask your apprentice for advice and see what he thinks of this matter." Guo Yulan did not argue with the old man, but tried to transfer the right to speak from the old man to Xiao Yuan.

"He doesn't know about Long Taijie, how can he get an idea?" The old man said coldly.

"Xiao Yuan, what do you think about this matter?" Guo Yulan didn't ask the old man's opinion again, but asked Xiao Yuan directly.

Long Taijie this person Xiao Yuan heard for the first time, from the conversation between the old man and Guo Yulan, he should be able to judge that this person must be very good, in terms of force, he believes in the old man's vision, he may really not be this person's opponent, but to compete with the company to start a business, and it is only a short three months, but he has his own ideas, even if the other party is a business genius and has the ability to accumulate a lot of wealth in three months, he may not lose in this competition, but some things must be realized and asked clearly.

"Is there any restriction on the company's business scope, and what are the main criteria for future evaluation?" Xiao Yuan asked.

"The scope of business is not limited, you can do whatever you want, the evaluation criteria include the company's current situation and future development potential, this can be handed over to a special agency for evaluation, you don't have to worry about fairness." Guo Yulan said.

"Whoever pays the million dollars, I can't get that much money right now." Xiao Yuan said again.

"The problem of money is naturally solved by Hongmen, and the company registration is also solved by Hongmen for you, you only need to provide the name and business scope of the company, and the three-month period starts from the day when the company is successfully registered and handed over to the two of you, from then on, Hongmen will not interfere in anything in your company, the development of the company is all up to you, and even you will sell it immediately after you take over, we will evaluate the company after three months, no matter who it is." Guo Yulan said.

"In that case, I agreed to this competition." Xiao Yuan said.

"Apprentice, you can't be impulsive, Long Taijie, this kid is a business genius, and he has a very wide network in San Francisco, you compare with him, you lose more and win less, no, in the master's opinion, the probability of you winning is almost zero, so you have to think twice." The old man saw that Xiao Yuan agreed without asking for his opinion, and hurriedly persuaded him.

"It doesn't matter, since everyone thinks this is a game that I must lose, then if I win, wouldn't I have earned it, and if I lose, it would be nothing, it would have been reasonable." Xiao Yuan said with a slight smile.

"If you lose, your outer gate elder will be gone." The old man said again.

"I'm lucky, but I'm sorry to lose my life, if I don't even dare to take this little challenge, even if I become an outer elder, how can I afford the responsibility of an outer elder?" Xiao Yuan said.

"Well said, old fellow, you can have such a mind, look down on success or failure, it's really rare, compared to you, it's too strong, if you weren't too heavy on success or failure back then......" Xiao Yuan said something, the old man didn't answer, but Guo Yulan slapped the table and shouted loudly, but when he said the back, he suddenly stopped talking, as if he remembered something sad, sighed lightly, and stopped talking.

"Apprentice, let me ask you again, have you really decided to do this competition with Long Taijie, regardless of success or failure?" The old man's expression became serious, and he asked Xiao Yuandao again.

"Yes, I decided, master, although I don't care about winning or losing, but I promise you that I will do my best to complete this competition, you must know that too many business legends in this world are not created by so-called business geniuses, maybe your apprentice can also create a miracle in these three months." Xiao Yuan said.

"Okay, since you have this heart, I believe in you once, and I hope that as you wish, in three months, I can see a miracle for you." The old man said with a slight expression when he heard this, turned his head to look at Guo Yulan after speaking, and said, "Old woman, since my apprentice has agreed to compete with Long Taijie, I have nothing to say, but I have something to say to you, if my apprentice wins, if you still want to make another extraneous branch, don't blame me for not remembering our decades of love!" ”

"You are too worried, as long as your apprentice wins, I will work with you as an introducer to jointly recommend him as the elder of the outer gate of Hongmen, this sentence The other brothers can testify together, if there is a violation, the old man is willing to be punished by the gang rules, are you satisfied with this?" Guo Yulan said with a slight smile.

"In that case, we swear by a high-five." The old man said very seriously, and raised his right palm as he spoke.

"Okay, high-five." Guo Yulan also raised her right palm and high-fived the old man three times, and this matter was finalized and no longer changed.

It was agreed that in the next time, the twelve elders would discuss some other things, and these things would not matter to Xiao Yuan and Tang Sa, they were invited to a lounge next to the council hall, drank tea and waited for the meeting hall to end, and then went with Guo Yulan to get another phoenix-shaped pendant.

During the break, Tang Sa asked Xiao Yuan what he thought about the next three-month competition.

"Naturally, I want to use what I do best, the name of the company is feonix, since Xuan Ne can't enter the United States for the time being, I will help him work hard here." Xiao Yuan said.

"What technology does the company focus on at the beginning, how to operate, do you have specific ideas, you must only have three months, you must make the company develop rapidly in three months, otherwise it will be difficult to win." Tang Sa asked.

"It's just a preliminary idea, it's not specific, give me two days, I'll make a plan, and I'll show it to you when the time comes, and you can refer to it." Xiao Yuan said.

"Okay." Tang Sa said with a smile on his face.

The two didn't talk for long in the lounge, and the meeting on the other side of the conference hall was over, and Guo Yulan sent someone to call the two of them, and left the Hongmen chief rudder together, and went to her house to get another pendant.

Guo Yulan's home is one street away from the Hongmen chief rudder, and on another street, there is an ordinary-looking blue brick courtyard, if it weren't for Guo Yulan, Xiao Yuan couldn't believe that this ordinary courtyard would be the residence of the second elder of the Hongmen Elders' Church.

Entering the courtyard, Xiao Yuan found that although the courtyard was small, the layout was exquisite and elegant, giving people a very comfortable feeling, a big black dog lying at the door of the room saw Guo Yulan leading people in, stood up and ran to Guo Yulan's feet, wagged his tail vigorously and rubbed it on her legs, and then barked at Xiao Yuan and Tang Sa twice.

"Aunt Guo, you're back." The sound of the dog barking alarmed the people in the room, a young man in light-colored home casual clothes, with an apron on his chest, walked out of the room, this man is about 1.8 meters tall, with a long body, a square face, a straight nose, sword eyebrows, a square mouth, and the most eye-catching thing is a pair of slightly narrow eyes on his face.

"Xiaotong, how can this girl let you cook by yourself." Guo Yulan asked with a doting smile on her face.

"She was a little unwell, so I asked her to go back to her room to rest." The young man said, and after speaking, his gaze turned to Xiao Yuan and Tang Sa beside her again, and said, "Who are these two?" ”

"Oh, let me introduce you to you, this is Xiao Yuan, your Uncle Sima's new disciple, and the other is his red-faced Tang Sa, this red-faced has another name you should know, she is the recently famous queen of the red light district." Guo Yulan introduced Xiao Yuan and Tang Sa to the young man, and then said to Xiao Yuan and Tang Sa, "Xiao Yuan, he is the Long Taijie who wants to compete with you in the future." ”

"You're Xiao Yuan?" Long Taijie's eyes flashed again, but this time he didn't hide it at all, looking directly at Xiao Yuan and stretching out his hand to him, "I hope you can be an interesting opponent." ”

"I believe it won't disappoint you." Xiao Yuanhe and Long Taijie's hands were shaken together, and said with a slight smile.

"I hope so." Long Taijie said with a slight smile, let go of Xiao Yuan's hand as he spoke, then turned his gaze to Tang Sa, and said, "I have admired the name of the queen of the red light district for a long time, and it is really extraordinary when I see it today, but I don't know if Taijie has the opportunity to be the queen's guest of the curtain?" ”

As soon as Long Taijie said this, Xiao Yuan and Tang Sa's brows furrowed in unison, while Guo Yulan stood aside with her hands in her hands, smiling, and didn't seem to be angry because of Long Taijie's abrupt words, and the atmosphere in the courtyard became a little tense.