Ye Lan saw Lu Jun's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, there was a look of pain and indignation on his face, and he couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart, but he didn't ask, and waited for Lu Jun to speak, only to hear Lu Jun sigh lightly, raised his head and asked, "Young Master, have you heard of the name of the Tianxing Sect?"

Ye Lan heard him mention the Heavenly Movement Sect, his heart sank, and he nodded slowly. Lu Jun continued: "This Tianxing Sect is ranked among the twelve major sects of the righteous path in Northern Xinjiang, and it is also the first major sect of Tianning Kingdom to cultivate the truth, and the Tianxing Sect has a large number of sects, but it does not rely on accepting disciples to carry forward the sect like the rest of the sects, but widely accepts monks from all over the world who have no sect and no sect to join the sect. Therefore, there is a mixture of fish and dragons in the teaching, and it is inevitable that there will be some good and bad......"

Ye Lan remembered what happened in that unknown town yesterday, and interjected and asked, "I met two Tianxing Sect people in a small shop yesterday to collect cash, I wonder if we Ye Xiangju also have to pay money to them Tianxing Sect?"

Lu Jun was stunned and didn't know how to answer for a while. Du Changxian said: "Lao Lu's business has been suppressed over the years, the tea is not sold far, I don't know the situation outside, Tianxing Sect only dares to sit on the ground in some small towns to collect money, in a slightly larger city, it is afraid of the majesty of the saint, dare not be so blatant, and in Ningdu City at the foot of the Son of Heaven, he does not dare to do anything wrong." ”

Ye Lan nodded, and said secretly: "No wonder! Yongji City is a big city in the southwest, although it is far away from the Jingshi, the Tianxing Sect does not dare to do evil there, and the local traders are not oppressed by the Tianxing Sect, so the shoe seller is not afraid of the monks at all." Although the small town was only 40,000 miles away from Ningdu yesterday, because the town was too small and lacked royal control, it was only the Tianxing Sect that was there to exert its authority. ”

Seeing that Ye Lan no longer asked, Lu Jun coughed and said: "Our Ye Xiangju's wine and spices are firmly in the first place in the capital, and they have been listed as tributes as early as more than sixty years ago. Afterward...... About 30 years ago, not long after the master returned to Liuye Island, the son of a small tea merchant in Beijing learned a few hands of Taoism from somewhere, and entered the Tianxing Sect. ”

Ye Lan frowned and said, "Is this person using the power of the Heavenly Sect to suppress other tea houses and disrupt other people's business?"

Lu Jun shook his head and said: "That's not true, the tea merchant saw that his son was successful in cultivation, so he asked for the permission of the Tianxing Sect and renamed the tea house Tianxing Tea House." This tea house can be regarded as having a share of the Tianxing Sect, and it gives a large share of the Tianxing Sect every year. Tianxingjiao can't sit on the ground in the capital to collect money, and is worried about the lack of income, so the two hit it off, and they spend a lot of effort to support this Tianxing Tea House. ”

Ye Lan said: "I have drunk the tea leaves of our Ye Xiangju, and the clear sky and snow are very good! If this Tianxing Tea House comes to compete fairly, we will not be afraid of it." ”

Qiu Siyu listened, snorted, with a look of disdain, and said indignantly: "If they know what fairness is, it is not Tianxing Sect!"

Lu Tao also said: "This Tianxing Sect is named after the four words 'for Tianxingdao', which was originally a fair and upright sect, but I don't know that everyone has been accepted over the years, and its actions have become more and more unspeakable, and it is not as good as some sects in the mortal martial arts......"

Ye Lan listened to Lu Tao's words, and began to know the origin of the name Tianxing Sect, and secretly said in his heart: "This Tianxing Sect acts in a way that has nothing to do with the four words "Doing the Way for Heaven!" Yes, the third uncle once said that there are many hypocrites in this world who say one thing and do another, and it is not unusual......

I only heard Lu Jun say again: "Our Ye Xiangju's tea is not a little old man's boast, it must not be inferior to others, but the people of Tianxing Sect are true cultivators after all, and their hands and eyes are up to the sky, which is not comparable to us mortals." Less than a year after the renaming of Tianxing Tea House, we received a decree from the court to remove the tea leaves of our Ye Xiangju from the list of tributes, and instead listed the inferior goods of Tianxing Tea House as tribute tea. The princes and ministers in the city took the royal horse as their heads, and they all went to Tianxing Tea House to buy tea for a while. I could only watch and be anxious, and I couldn't think of anything I could do. Over the years, our good tea can't be sold at a price, and we can't afford it, so naturally there is not much surplus. Hey, the little old man is incompetent, and he is ashamed of his master's trust!"

Ye Lan saw that Lu Jun's face was full of frustration, and hurriedly said comfort. Lu Jun only sighed and stopped talking. Ye Lan thought for a moment and asked Qiu Haizhengdao: "Where is the helm of the Heavenly Xing Sect, can it be in this Ningdu City?"

Qiu Haizheng shook his head and said, "No." The head rudder of the Heavenly Movement Sect was far away in Hongzhou, which was 600,000 miles to the south. Refuse to say that hundreds of years ago, the chief helmsman of the Tianxing Sect was in Ningdu, and there were many masters in their sect, and a few of them had already reached the realm of bastards......"

"It's the ...... of the Chaos Realm"

"Oh, there are a few monks from the Chaos Realm, who are very powerful, and their skills are much higher than those of the saints. These Chaos Realm cultivators relied on their supernatural powers and did not respect the Holy Lord, so that the cultivators in Ningdu City only knew that there was a Heavenly Sect, but they did not know that there was an emperor. ”

Ye Lan smiled: "Then this emperor has done a lot of grievances." ”

Qiu Haizheng nodded and said, "Isn't it! The Holy Lord is very talented, how can he stand such a? Finally, he had a big quarrel with the Tianxing Sect. Later, it was said that an old immortal came from the outer heavens and came forward to let all the people in the Tianxing Sect who had cultivated higher than the saints to withdraw from the Jingshi, so that the dispute was stopped. The Tianxing Sect was unable to do so, so it had to move the head rudder south to Hongzhou City. ”

Hearing this, Ye Lan was curious and asked, "Since the Tianxing Sect has offended the emperor, how can we still have such the ability to easily remove our Ye Xiangju's tea from the list of tributes?"

Qiu Haizheng said: "After all, the Tianxing Sect is one of the twelve sects of the righteous path, and its power is huge, and the Holy One has the help of Heaven and Heaven to take the lead, but it is not easy to persecute too much, so it is always necessary to save three points of face for them." Therefore, although the power of the Tianxing Sect in Ningdu is far inferior to that of the past, it can still be said to be deep-rooted, with tentacles and control all walks of life. Fortunately, they haven't been in the wine and spice business for the time being, otherwise, Lao Du's good days with me would have come to an end......"

Lu Jun sighed, arched his hand to Ye Lan, and said: "Young master, the little old man really has no good plan for this matter, he has been waiting for the master to return to make a decision, and now that the young master is here, please give me an idea." ”

Ye Lan's face flushed, and he said with a dry smile: "I'm young, I don't know anything, what ideas can I come up with? Tianxing Sect, I think it's useless for us to be in a hurry, so we have to take one step at a time and slowly see if there is a turnaround. ”

The three masters all said they didn't dare, and chatted with Ye Lan for a while, and then they all got up and said goodbye. After that, Ye Lan stayed in Ye Xiangju, followed Qiu Haizheng and others to learn the way of management, ushered in the send-off all day long, and made friends with dignitaries and wealthy businessmen. He doesn't have much interest and talent in business, Qiu Haizheng and others let him show up just to live up to Ye Lun's trust and teach him to run a business, seeing that he is not here, he doesn't ask for anything, and he doesn't expect him to take care of any daily affairs. In this way, a year and a half has passed by in a snap of his fingers, although Ye Lan is still not good at business, but for more than a year, he has made great progress in social accidents, and he is no longer the hairy boy in the past.

In the past year and a half, Lu Jun borrowed Ye Lan's help to open up the tea situation with all his might, wanting to make Ye Xiangju's tea return to the list of tributes. Unexpectedly, the price of silver was about to go out, and even the Longevity Pill and Zhuyan Pill in Ye Lan's hands were also sent out, but they still couldn't break the deadlock.

Seeing that things were not progressing, Lu Jun couldn't help but be discouraged and frown all day. Ye Lan didn't care much about this, and repeatedly persuaded Lu Jun, but Lu Jun still rarely smiled.

In the past year and a half, when Ye Lan was not socializing, he often messed with Qiu Siyu, Lu Tao and Du Yuanfeng, three young people, fighting cocks and lackeys, drinking and guessing boxing, and all kinds of squishy behaviors, but he didn't molest women from good families on the street.

Qiu Siyu and the others were still afraid of Ye Lan at first, but after mixing together for a long time, they all found that Ye Lan was easy-going by nature, that is, he did not have the shelf of a young master, nor did he have a trace of the unfathomable profundity of a master of cultivation, so they all went to life with him, in addition to calling him the young master in his mouth, he had no respect for him in his words and deeds on weekdays. If it weren't for the fact that there were three old men in charge of his head, I am afraid that he would have bowed to Ye Lan a long time ago.

The three of them are all at the age of strong blood, although Lu Tao and Du Yuanfeng have become married, they still mess with flowers and grass from time to time, Qiu Siyu has not yet married, but he is also a frequent visitor in the kiln. When the three of them went to play in the hook fence, they inevitably had to pull Ye Lan. It's just that Ye Lan remembered a bitter battle in the Yicui Building in Yuhong City back then, so he deduced that he had to practice and practice every night, and he had never been with the three of them. The three of them couldn't take this young master to look for flowers and willows together, and they have always regretted it.

Among the three, Qiu Siyu and Du Yuanfeng are both martial arts by nature, especially Qiu Siyu, whose swordsmanship is quite high. The three of them were familiar with Ye Lan, so they inevitably begged him to teach some Taoism. Ye Lan was not good at prevarication, so he taught the two of them some tips for entering Liuye Island. If the two of them have obtained the treasure, they can practice penance for several months, but they have not made half a point of progress, and they can't help but be very annoyed.

Ye Lan knew that cultivation was the most important qualification, and among mortals, there was no one in ten thousand who could cultivate. Most of the children of monks can cultivate the Tao, but if a monk marries a mortal, half of the children born to him cannot be cultivated. This is also one of the reasons why most of the world's cultivators prohibit intermarriage.

Among the mortals Ye Lan knows, only the treasure bead has embarked on the true path of cultivation from mortals, and the root bones of the treasure bead are already excellent, but they still need to be counted back to improve their qualifications with the elixir before they can cultivate. Ye Lan paid Ji Hui a thousand crystal coins for that elixir, and secretly scolded Ji Hui for his black heart at the beginning, but now that he thinks about it, Ji Hui that pill is really sold a little cheaply.

Ye Lan saw that Qiu Siyu and Du Yuanfeng had failed in cultivating, so he truthfully told the two that they should no longer forcibly cultivate, otherwise it would be harmful and useless. The children of Liuye Island have practiced mundane martial arts since childhood, Ye Lan's martial arts are high, and when he saw that the two of them could not cultivate the Tao, he passed on the two of them a few ways of boxing and swordsmanship. Qiu Siyu got Ye Lan to teach the wind blowing willow sword, and the swordsmanship made great progress, and he was very proud in his heart, so he no longer thought that he could not cultivate.