Chapter 212: The President's Wife
The Yu family's house is the largest one in the Peach Blossom Garden.
The original owner of this house should be Xu Zhixun of the long house, if everything goes according to order, this should be Xu Yongzhi's home.
The house was home to many great wizards, who did all sorts of research on life, pharmacology, exotic animals, and rare birds.
But today's house is full of fresh fruits, delicacies, fine wines, and women in scattered clothes.
A group of guests laughed insolently, these people were the helpers around Yu Zhirang.
Helpers are an ancient profession, and any big boss and rich person today has a group of helpers around him.
No matter how powerful the big man is, he is afraid of helpers, for example, in "Water Margin", Gao Yu is a helper, Su Dongpo was taken aback when he saw him coming to take refuge, he was very scared, he felt that his money was too little, and he couldn't stand the help of this kind of person, so he hurriedly wrote a letter of recommendation and sent it out.
There is something cute about the helpers, and they are often full of charm.
They help their master to have fun, eat him, drink him, and spend money for him.
Yu Zhirang made an appointment with seven or eight such idle brothers today, and they happened to sit at a table.
"Young President, when will the marriage between the eldest princess and you take place?" The catfish is eating the vegetables with its mouth clicking, and it is still talking with food stuffed in its mouth.
"Hehe," Yu Zhirang smiled, "How can it be so fast, she is a royal family, how can she have the emperor's nod." ”
"Ahem, we also understand," Ga Yuting shook his fan, "What eldest princess, what royal family, how can she compare with the young chief?" What kind of family is the Shangguan family? The deacon of the Huo family, who was really counted as a wizard in the previous generation, is she a daughter-in-law of the Shangguan family, can she still turn the sky upside down? ”
That's too bold to say.
In the past, if someone dared to say that Li Forsythia was not good, Yu Zhirang would glare at him, and he would turn his face in a seizure.
But the situation has changed a little lately.
In the past, Yu Zhirang had a banquet with these guys, and he would not get close to women, even slaves, according to his words, he was afraid that his fiancée would be unhappy.
But since Xu Jin and them made a big fuss in a gladiatorial match, Yu Zhirang has become self-indulgent, and no one cares.
Drunk strong wine and put the most beautiful chick.
Fortunately, he caught the eldest young master of the Chen family, and he could arrange any best scene.
There seems to be something mustard between the young chief and the eldest princess.
A few Qingke began to mention the matter of Li Forsythia as little as possible, and then they decided to try it in the opposite direction.
The catfish mouth opened its head and tested the relationship between the two of them.
Ga fish bones immediately began to climb down the pole, belittling Li Forsythia.
Yu Zhirang didn't have much disgust, in fact, he also had a breath in his heart.
What exactly is Forsythia Lee doing?
Two years ago, Li Forsythia found himself and said that he wanted to destroy Linquan Town.
"I want Xu Zhixun's family of three, and you will get his top-level necromancy."
This is an opportunity for himself and his father to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, Yu Zhirang hurriedly ran to persuade his father, Yu Sanjiang also hit it off with him, Xu Zhixun's son is growing up, and I heard that the relationship with Longhushan is good, if he is an enemy of his son in the future, this is also a troublesome matter.
They teamed up to destroy Lin Quan, but they didn't get what they wanted, they didn't find a spell, and they didn't get anything useful from the mouth of the three members of the Xu family, although in the end the three members of the Xu family were killed by Li Lian Qiao, but within the wizarding world, everyone knew what was going on.
Last winter's Wizarding Conference, although it was still successfully concluded, there were still notes and letters circulating at the meeting, and there were even more discussions circulating below:
"Does Yu Sanjiang remember the fact that the chairman retired at the age of seventy?"
"At next year's general meeting, we will elect the next president."
"You must have promoted your own son, and then controlled it yourself behind your back."
"Remote control? His son was ruthless, and he was afraid that he would die at the hands of his son in two days. ”
"Don't worry, maybe people will just change the rules of the Wizards' Guild and allow yourself to retire at the age of eighty."
The Wizards Guild is not the emperor, even if Yu Sanjiang can't casually put a wizard in prison and sanction any wizard, there must be a clear charge, and it must pass a set of procedures in the guild, so most of the Jiangnan affairs, the Yu family will cooperate with Li Lian Qiao, if it is the magistrate of the Southern Tang Dynasty who sentences Xu Zhixun to death, then it is not the responsibility of the Wizards Guild.
In this way, they circumvent the restrictive provisions.
But I didn't expect that the tragic death of Xu Zhixun and his wife really angered many people, and many irrelevant people even secretly hoped that Xu Yongzhi would come back for revenge.
At that time, Yu Sanjiang and Yu Zhirang also discussed the situation, Yu Sanjiang's opinion was that Xu Yongzhi was not a good person, there was no need to deal with it deliberately, it was best to do his best to ensure the wizarding conference in the winter of the seventy years old (that is, the second year of Jianlong), now it seems that the matter of Linquan Town has cast a shadow on Yu Zhirang's succession, and there is only one best way, that is, he continues to be the president, he actively contacts various families, hoping to continue to work for ten years, if everyone disagrees, then five years can also be.
This kind of activity is actually for the sake of his son, so that he can avoid the limelight and take over more smoothly in the future, and the rule is changed to "the president can retire at the age of eighty", which means that Yu Zhi can work until the age of eighty in the future, which is "lost in the east, gained in the mulberry".
But Yu Sanjiang can't bear this matter, he is Chinese New Year's Eve six today, if he waits another ten years, it will be forty-six, although the life span of a wizard is very long, but the years in his life when he is most eager for power, money and women, if he will always be his father's follower, I am afraid it will not be interesting.
"If you don't let me take over, the eldest princess is old!" Yu Zhirang even complained like this.
"No, she won't, she has the blessing of the mountain ghost mother, and when she is fifty years old, she will still look similar to today." Yu Sanjiang said.
Complaining is complaining, Yu Zhirang still started some ways to let his father continue to be the president, and some of the wizards who opposed Yu Sanjiang disappeared inexplicably when they went out.
Zhang Sanbi was attacked by a griffin beast when he was collecting Cordyceps in Tibet, but this divine beast that has been declared extinct has always liked a warm environment, how could it suddenly appear in Tibet?
There is a wizard who likes to participate in the wizard conference the most, and has been holding the "Wizard's Oath", called Pi Tianshe, who has a high reputation, went to the northeast mountains and forests to collect ginseng, died in the tiger's mouth, and the body was split into seven or eight pieces, his son went to Liaodong to collect the body, but found that every piece of meat on the body attacked by the tiger was there, and the tiger was not hungry at all, but it was very like he was sent to do this work.
Also, Huo Yizun, who had the right to participate in the wizarding conference, was also surrounded by the Yu family's father and son with necromancy, and Huo Yizun used a martyrdom at the last moment to destroy all the necromancy.
This greatly reduced the strength of the Yu family. Necromancy is difficult to make, and without necromancy, Yu Zhirang is forced to use more divine beasts, inhumans, and even gladiators to do his dirty work.
After so many sacrifices, but no gains, Yu Sanjiang will also complain that Yu Zhirang and Li Lianqiao formed an alliance.
If it was really his daughter-in-law, it would be fine, who would make up for the loss of helping Li Lianqiao so much?
Yu Sanjiang put pressure on Yu Zhirang, but Yu Zhirang didn't dare to attack Li Lianqiao, he was just secretly angry, and many disasters actually came from all kinds of "dare not say".
Yu Sanjiang's complaint is understandable, because the opponents in the wizard will not only put pressure on him in public opinion, but also give him actual losses.
Here we have to talk about the operation mode of Peach Blossom Spring.
The land is narrow, and it is not suitable for farming, and if you want to survive by farming or handwork, you will die within two generations.
But the wizards, with their spells and minds, have done a lot of business outside of the Peach Blossom Spring.
Some people are in business, some people open monasteries (yes, this one makes money), and some people run ticket number money banks, these people try not to reveal their wizard identity, but they make money, and they have to share it with the wizards' guild.
The Wizards' Guild said well, the mountain ghost lady covers you, and you have to worship the guild she approves.
One-tenth of all wizards' income is given to the guild.
That's a very large number.
However, those who run away will no longer pay the offerings, Xu Zhixun is in Linquan Town, Tian Dabang is in Yuzhou, and they will not give money to the Yu family, although Chen Model's father and grandfather went to live in Dali, they still arranged for their grandson to pay the offerings, which is to recognize the authority of the Yu family.
After receiving other people's money, you have to let people speak and express their attitudes, and the bad situation and too radical methods will only make more wizards move out of the Peach Blossom Land and become this kind of lonely ghost who does not pay taxes - after a long time, the wizards' guild will be in trouble.
Wizards also need money, and there are a lot of them, training the army requires money, arming domestic servants requires money, and building houses also requires money, only the poorest and most frustrated wizards will use illusions to arrange fake furniture in small houses.
Just like today, small white-collar workers will buy a sweeping robot, and large families really have servants and housekeepers.
Yu Sanjiang's income is less, and his mood is a little worse, Yu Zhirang has also mentioned it to Li Lianqiao several times, but Li Lianqiao's attitude is also very ambiguous, she feels that the Yu family and herself are partners, so they naturally have to share the risk together, rather than only losing money forever.
The autumn rain fell for a day, and winter was not far away, so Yu Zhirang looked at the fox friends on the table and looked at the full wine glasses.
"Why did you get drunk like this so early?" Li Lianqiao walked out of the door.
"Nonsense, it's not because of you!" Yu Zhi thought to himself.
"Where have you been?" Yu Zhirang asked.
"Lin Quan, Xu Jin is looking for necromancy there, I met Chen Xiaohuan, and I almost didn't come back." Li Lianqiao walked over, and those helpers left in fear.
Li Forsythia took a new cup, poured a glass of wine, and drank it all.
"It can't be decadent anymore, Xu Jin should find a way to use mass graves, he may attack next fall."
Yu Zhirang didn't know how to spend this winter at all.
My father died, and what I used to appear in public was always an image of a swarm of bees, which was okay at a distance, but it was easy to be seen from a close distance, and this kind of setup couldn't pass the wizarding convention.
"What about the Wizards' Conference?"
"There are only two options, one is to mobilize all the forces of the wizards' conference, kill all our opponents, and use their wealth to fill the hole in our finances;" Li Lianqiao once told him so.
"What about the other one?" Yu Zhirang was afraid to do such a big thing.
"Open the Doors of Chaos on the day of the convention." Li Lianqiao said.
"It's crazy! You won't be able to suppress it! Yu Zhirang said.
"If it were me, I would be able to suppress it, I would be a witch blessed by the mountain ghost Niangniang, just like her daughter, the door of chaos is open, not to mention the Peach Blossom Spring, even if it is Bianliang City, it will bow to us!" Li Lianqiao said.
"Then what should I do, you will become the president of the wizards' guild! I lost so much for this position that I even killed my father...... You've got to make it up to me! Yu Zhirang's face suddenly turned hideous.
"I'm a woman, this kind of big thing, you men have to do it...... The president is yours, and always will be. Li Lianqiao looked at him and laughed.
"You have to be mine, don't mix with the surname Zhao, you have to be the president's wife!" Yu Zhirang roared.
"Ah, you're so capable, dare to talk to me like that!"