"It's over, I'm in trouble. Seeing that even Elder Haijing had a submissive attitude towards this man, even if he didn't know the true identity of this man, Steward Zhu could guess a rough idea, this time he really provoked a master who couldn't be messed with.

"Sir, please have tea!" Steward Zhu hurriedly cleaned up the messy hall, put out a soft chair and invited him to take a seat, nodding and flattering.

It is false to say that the other party does not blame him for his previous behavior, but this can't blame himself for all the blame, and now he doesn't ask the other party for forgiveness and exposing the matter, I just hope that he doesn't hate himself for being killed.

Liu Xian was also not polite, sat down and picked up the tea and tasted it carefully.

"Good tea, seven hundred years of green iron, tea fragrance overflowing, refreshing, sweet and slightly astringent, is of great benefit to cultivation. ”

"My lord is so knowledgeable!" Steward Zhu saw him praise again and again, and his inner uneasiness eased a lot, although this green iron is precious, it is also a friend who gave him such a small jar, and he is reluctant to make a pot on weekdays, but as long as he can please the adult, it is worth it!

In the main room of Xiao Ran Pavilion in the inner courtyard of Dan Pavilion,

The clothes are scattered on the ground, full of spring, and there is a big difference to the newlywed.

"How's it going, sir?"

After a storm, Xiao Ran and Tang Wan hugged each other side by side, clinging closely, and they were happy.

"You're such a little goblin, and you're a lot rusty after not seeing each other for a few days, but don't worry, I'll definitely train you well. Holding the beauty, Xiao Ran added,

"By the way, that guy from Steward Zhu hasn't come to bully you recently, has he?"

"I hate adults, the slave family belongs to you alone, don't you feel at ease with others?" Tang Wan also gave full play to her charm skills, whispering coquettishly, crispy human bones, intoxicating, and slightly reproachful.

"How can I rest assured that you are so charming. Don't be angry, baby. Xiao Ran kissed her lightly on the forehead.

Just when the two were flirting and enjoying themselves, there was a quick knock on the door, which did not stop for a long time.

"Pavilion Master, it's me Haijing, are you there?"

"Knock Knock"

Seeing that no one answered, Elder Haijing continued to knock on the door.

"Who is it?Don't you know that the pavilion master is refining pills?What's the big deal to disturb me?" I was on the rise but was disturbed, Xiao Ran's original mood was all gone, and he was angry and scolded.

"What's the matter, say!"

"Okay, someone from above has come down, and someone said that his name is Liu Xian and he is waiting for you in the hall. ”

"Liu Xian!"

Originally, I thought it was something else and thought it would be enough to scold him, but now Xiao Ran immediately came to his senses when he heard this name, and his anger was suppressed, and he was replaced by fear, didn't he say that it would only come in a few days, why did he come so quickly, or did he come at this time?

"You wait a minute, I'll pack my things and come!" After a few simple words, Xiao Ran quickly got up from the bed and picked up the clothes on the ground and put them on.

"Baby, I'll go do something first, and I'll accompany you later!" I can't help it, Xiao Ran kissed Tang Wan, who was still lying on the bed, and trotted to the hall with Elder Haijing.

In the hall,

When Xiao Ran and Elder Haijing arrived, Liu Xian was still sipping the tea in the teacup, and Steward Zhu was half-bent down to accompany him.

"Senior brother hasn't seen you for a long time, why didn't you inform me before you came, so that I could pick you up in person? Xiao Ran greeted him with a smile, like old friends who had been reunited for a long time and reunited again, enthusiastic and nostalgic.

Liu Xian took a sip of tea and didn't stand up, carefully looked at Xiao Ran's whole body, his clothes were messy, his expression was flustered, he couldn't guess what he was doing, and he secretly slandered in his heart, just like this, his virtue really doesn't change anywhere!

"Senior brother is serious, but junior brother, I didn't inform you so abruptly, but it caused you a lot of trouble, please forgive me, junior brother, I can't give you a goodbye. ”

"Senior brother, what are you talking about, don't you see the outside? By the way, how is the old man?"

"Everything was fine. ”

After a few simple greetings, Liu Xian got up and followed Xiao Ran and the others to the inner hall, but their few words of conversation surprised the onlookers.

I heard that the current Dan Pavilion Master Xiao Ran was born in a huge force, and that man was his junior brother, I didn't expect the identity of the person who came to be so strong, and looking at this person's attitude, I am afraid that the person who came is not good, and I am afraid that something big will happen in this Dan Pavilion.

There was no shortage of people from the Wang family in the crowd, and when they saw this, they hurriedly ran back to report.

Inner hall,

During the time when Liu Xian walked into the inner hall, the elders in the Dan Pavilion, the stewards, and even the main person in charge of the branch shop gathered here.

Liu Xian entered it and sat down on the main seat,

"I don't like to beat around the bush, so I said it directly, the above is extremely dissatisfied with the situation here with you, my Dan Pavilion has been in this Source Crystal City for a long time, and I won't say anything about the previous situation, but in the past half a year, the difference in results is outrageous!"

Half a year, isn't it the day when Xiao Ran came here to serve as the pavilion master. Although Liu Xian didn't break it directly, the meaning of these words was obvious enough, and it was obvious that he was coming at Xiao Er.

"I suspect that someone is eating inside and out, colluding with outsiders to harm my Dange interests, so I was sent down to investigate this matter. Now I will give you a chance to turn yourself in and confess with leniency. ”

Hearing this, the people in the inner hall couldn't help but bury their heads deeply, for fear that the other party would notice that they had taken the blame on themselves.

"Senior brother, I can't escape the blame for Dange's poor performance, but I'm sure it's just the result of pure business competition, and no one will dare to betray Dange. ”

Business competition?In the case of the strength of the alchemist, the Danfang, the capital and other aspects can almost crush the other party, they are still suppressed by the other party to such a point, if it is not said that some of them are corrupt, then it seems that the strength of this Wang family is really terrifying, if he is allowed to get out of the Source Crystal City, then what is the matter with the Danta?

Asked someone to bring the account book, Liu Xian finished the account book after a while, the flow of the huge Dan Pavilion in the past few months is really thin, and the account book is very clean.

"Who are you in charge of the elixir acquisition?"

"It's me, my lord!" Steward Zhu stood up and replied, the highest power in the Dan Pavilion was the pavilion master and the elders and other alchemists, but when it came to specific operations such as purchasing spiritual herb treasures, they were the minds, and they played the role of both hands.

"Okay, then I'm going to ask you a good question, what is the purchase price of this spirit grass that you usually have?"

"Three spirit grasses and one low-grade spirit stone. ”

"What is the general price in the market, and what is the price offered by the Wang family?"

"Three spirit grasses are about one and a half grade true yuan stones, and the price offered by the Wang family is higher, usually in two true yuan stones. ”

"Then you explain, you set the price so low because you obviously don't want to do other people's business, don't you?" Liu Xian said, and the sarcasm was even heavier.

As an important part of the elixir business, the purchase of spiritual grass is also the most important step at the beginning, judging from the situation on the ledger, on the day of the harvest of spiritual grass, you offer such a low price, it is not clear that you will give the business to others, without spiritual grass, there will be no alchemy materials, that is, no matter how good your alchemist kung fu is, what can you do, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice.

"This is also a momentary mistake, originally I wanted to lower the price of the purchase of spirit grass to reduce the cost of our Dange, but I didn't expect such a tragic situation to appear later, we reacted a little late, missed the good time, just want to raise the purchase price, just evaluate the price, and find that in this way our profit margin will be reduced a lot, and we also miss the good time, if we want to make up for it, we can't recover the decline, and the gains outweigh the losses..."

Sure enough, people cannot be disguised, and the sea cannot be measured!

What is profit? It's nothing more than a two-way profit, lowering raw materials, reducing costs, raising prices, and making one's share of the cake as big as possible.

Steward Zhu's rhetoric seems to be nothing on the surface, it is purely a personal misjudgment and the ineffectiveness of the rescue in the later stage, but there is a question here, what kind of confidence was used to set this price at the beginning?

Is it to increase the profit margin? In the case of opening up a market, in the case of a deep-rooted rival competition, normal people will sacrifice the profit margin to occupy the market share, but instead operate against the wind.

"Okay, then the next question, the pricing of your elixir, is this going to rob or don't want to do it and push the business directly to the Wang family, which is a lot more than the Wang family. Stop fooling me with the cost-profit set, think of other reasons!"

“...”

Steward Zhu was directly speechless, I did this out of cost control and profit margin, since you don't believe it, it's useless for me to say anything.

In terms of the cost of alchemy, the price of raw materials is one thing, and it is a really effective method to increase the success rate of alchemy, in this regard, will the alchemists of their own Dan Pavilion be unable to compare with those alchemists from the Wang family? Alchemy is a process of burning money, the two tigers compete, if you want to control the cost of alchemy, you have to compete whose success rate is higher, this is the big head, once you catch the other, it is relatively insignificant, but under such a huge advantage, it has not brought any reversal to the Dan Pavilion?

Is this insatiable greed or something else?

"Moreover, one thing that I particularly can't tolerate is that you sell drugs and sell medicines, and they are shoddy, isn't this a fraud to consumers? Do you still want to mix here, what does the development of Dange rely on, it is reputation, but what about you, for the sake of temporary petty profits, you will destroy the reputation of Dange for many years, do you plan to mix here or what do you want?" The same sentence, Liu Xian repeated twice, which shows his anger.

"Senior brother, you dissipate your anger first, in fact, this can't be completely blamed on Steward Zhu, take the chicken blood vine in the hemostatic dispersion as an example, the businessman is more important than faith, so shoddy, fake and shoddy, greedy for a small profit but ignore the interests of my Dange, do you know the guilt?"

Liu Xian became emotional as he spoke, obviously angry, frightened Steward Zhu's heart jumped, buried his head lower, and didn't dare to reply, now he is replying, the left one is not another bad, admit it, I have to admit my guilt and admit it, don't admit it, look at this Lord Liu's posture where he is willing to let himself go easily.

Just when Steward Zhu was struggling in his heart, the master of Xiao Ran Pavilion stood up and said a fair word for him, originally when Liu Xian took out the account book to confront Steward Zhu, he thought that this Steward Zhu would not even say a word, but he didn't expect that after repeated conversations, he answered clearly, comprehensively, and without leakage, which made him very satisfied, and it was worth saying a good word for him.

"Senior brother, you are too embarrassed to manage Zhu, I also read the hemostatic powder just now, the proportion of chicken blood vines that are less than one year is really not high, maybe it was the alchemist who was negligent when configuring, or confused when the pill was stored, it was also an unintentional mistake, there is no need to say it so seriously. ”

"Besides, even if you really deliberately use the chicken blood vine of less than one year to pass it off, who knows what to blame without affecting the efficacy of the medicine, is it true that we are the only one in the world's huge pill shop who does this, not to mention, let's take our current opponent Wang family as an example, isn't there a little suspicion of water doping in the medicinal materials they use? Senior brother, your request is too idealistic and not suitable for reality!"

Hearing that the pavilion master exonerated himself, Steward Zhu felt at ease, and listening to Xiao Ran's words was very reasonable and in line with reality, on the other hand, this high-ranking adult, to borrow the words of Xiao Ran's pavilion master, is too idealistic, he should just be an alchemist in a top force, Chen Linxi is in the pill all day long, neglecting to communicate, and he only knows the slightest bit of alchemy in his mind, that is, he is just an alchemy madman.

It seems that Pavilion Master Xiao has not been completely fascinated by Tang Wan's cheap woman, he is still useful to him, and nothing should happen for a while.

Xiao Ran's words directly made Liu Xian angry, a lot of crooked reasoning, what is reality, what is ideal, do you have to bend yourself and the dirt of society to be in the same stream is reality, adhere to your heart, abide by your duty but it is just an ideal?

What's wrong with the world, where duty is considered a virtue and virtue is a joke?

This is probably where Liu Xian and his senior brother do not deal with each other!

"Okay, then junior brother, I want to ask you what reality is? Could it be that this series of mistakes is not the result of some people's ideals, isn't this reality?"

"Senior brother, you said this, but it really chilled the hearts of all of us here, don't judge heroes by success or failure, you can't completely negate everyone's efforts just because of our poor grades, right? There are a lot of mistakes in this, but everyone's efforts and sweat for Dange are all in vain because of your words? This is really sad. ”

"Don't judge heroes by success or failure? It's a good sentence not to judge heroes by success or failure, are you worthy? It's not a shame to come up with such achievements, and tell me how much you have paid for Dange? What kind of credit are you talking about for such achievements? Don't cry to me about how much you have paid, I don't know anything, the only thing I know is what achievements you can get, the achievements are outstanding, you are the heroes of Dange, but the results are miserable, you are a sinner. Success or failure, it's a joke!"

"Liu Xian!" Xiao Ran didn't care about any superficial feelings, and directly called out his name, was he ready to turn his face?

"What, what advice does senior brother have?"

"No, no!" I originally wanted to have a seizure, but considering his Liu Xian's transcendent status, Xiao Ran held back the anger in his heart and didn't say anything, what did Liu Xian mean by this, didn't he just want to forcibly erase his own credit and give himself the blame for the defeat of Dange, this kind of trick can fool a three-year-old child, and it can be used on himself Is it impossible to be an idiot?

"That's good, now I'll announce the results of the disposition, come here, put Steward Zhu in prison for me, and then deal with it after I find out, no one is allowed to check and visit during the period, and when it is verified that someone has betrayed the Dan Pavilion, there will be no forgiveness! This applies to everyone present!" Liu Xian said, his majesty exposed, and his murderous intent soaring, "Do you understand?"

"Liu Xian, don't go too far, it depends on the owner to beat the dog, even if you have a noble status and a status higher than me, but when you come to my territory, you will dispose of my people at will, do you have to ask me a word before?"

Xiao Ran is not reluctant to let Steward Zhu be an outcast, but he wants to use this to make him completely disappear from the world, in public and private, firstly, to repay Tang Wan's hatred, and secondly, to let him take those secrets into the ground, only the dead will never leak half a point, and doing this himself is also a ploy to stabilize Steward Zhu;

But no matter how you can't just let Liu Xian in front of you, you can kill your subordinates if you cross yourself, not to mention, Xiao Ran himself is still the master of the Dan Pavilion now, if he is allowed to succeed casually, then how will he manage this Dan Pavilion in the future, even his own subordinates can't keep it for others, who will believe that you can be the pillar in everyone's hearts in the future, and he will not be the next Zhu Steward?

"Then what do you want?" Liu Xian still looked ruthless and asked rhetorically.

"Presumptuous, I'm also your senior brother anyway, is this how you talk to me with this attitude!" Xiao Ran couldn't bear it, he repeatedly humbly forbeared, nothing more than taking into account the feelings of his fellow disciples, but in exchange for his inch, pressing step by step, bullying people too much!

"It's not your junior brother who is in front of you now, but Liu Xian, the captain of the Dange Nanbu Law Enforcement Hall, is it okay?" As he spoke, Liu Xian took out the token he had shown to Elder Haijing from his arms.

The token is wooden, the size is no more than a palm, the card depicts not only the Danta logo five-petal cyan lotus, in which the stamen of a golden pill sits in it, and there is an extremely huge sword through the entire green lotus, symbolizing the law enforcement hall.

As the highest and most powerful organization of the alchemist, Danta is deep-rooted and powerful, but it will not be dedicated to the affairs of any place, so what he came up with is to send personnel down to develop the Danta power, and then form a development branch in the large region, and in the long run, two major schools have been developed, the lineage and the branch, the lineage is naturally the Danta character with strong roots, whether it is in the Danta headquarters or the distribution has a very high status, it is generally the leader position, such as Xiao Ran, which can be regarded as the third-level descendant of Danta in the Xuan Domain, and they are developing their own forces。

In order to prevent some of these assigned people from betraying Danta and doing anything unfavorable to Danta, the people who are absolutely loyal to Danta were selected from the assigned descendants to form a law enforcement hall to supervise the assigned personnel, and give them the power of life and death, as long as they are verified, and Liu Xian is the law enforcement hall personnel in charge of Xiao Ran's area.

"Yes, obey the orders of the adults!" Xiao Ran was not convinced, but had to relent, and accepted it.