Chapter 19: Temptation
Lawson, the mayor of Taiping Town, has a lot of money and power.
Since the locust tree outside the town was renamed 'Jinbao Sangong' a hundred years ago, Taiping Town has been included in the sphere of influence of the demon tree Jinbao, and the Luo family has been attached to Jinbao in that generation and has become a powerful figure in the town, so it has been passed down from generation to generation, and the current mayor of Lawson is already the third generation of the town's mayor.
After hundreds of years of operation, the Luo family has become a real rich man, and he is under a demon and above 10,000 people in Taiping Town. Others do whatever they do to make money, but he already makes money whatever he does.
However, in the past few days, Mayor Lawson has been a little unhappy, because his family's shop has not made money for several days, and it is all because of the two outsiders who came down from the mountains outside the town. After the two men came, they made a lot of money with the magical items in their hands in just one day, and the next day they bought a few shops and settled in the town.
It stands to reason that if an outsider settles in this town, he must first visit the mayor and send filial piety, but the two outsiders don't know whether they really don't understand or fake they don't know the rules, and they haven't entered the door of the mayor's house until now.
However, what displeased Rosen the most was that the Luo family had been dealing in salt and iron for hundreds of years, and these two transactions had brought huge income to the Luo family.
The two outsiders didn't know where to buy the goods, and the salt was as white as snow and as fine as frost, and the color was excellent. And the iron tools are even more sophisticated, and some people have done experiments to use a pointed shovel bought from the 'department store' to cut it with a large sword and a long sword, and the steel mouth is not broken or jumping, and the material of a shovel has reached the level of 100 steel, which is really evil.
If it weren't for the rumors that those two people were cultivators of the secret sect and possessed supernatural powers, Rosen would have taken his subordinate Hao Nu Protector to demolish the shops of those two people and take those good things for himself.
However, since the two of them don't seem to be easy to mess with, then according to Rosen's plan, they must be safe and sound with each other first, and then slowly figure each other out later, but at this moment, an inconspicuous small detail caught his attention.
At the end of the month, when Lawson was counting taxes, he unexpectedly found that although the two had only been open for ten days, they had paid a tax of 1,000 taels of silver.
The fact that there are so many taxes shows that the two of them are doing well, which is not surprising to Rosen, and what surprises Rosen is that the two of them actually paid the taxes honestly, which is incredible.
You must know that cultivators, whether they are human sects or demon clans' cottage caves, do not have to pay taxes for all operations, which is the privilege of all regular cultivators. It seems that the one who went down to collect taxes this time was an ignorant person, if he met other cultivators, he would die in vain if he was killed directly, but the most surprising thing was that the two people did not turn their faces on the spot, but paid the taxes.
What does this mean?
Rosen touched his chin in thought, hesitated for a moment. In the end, it was decided to send two people who were not afraid of death to test it.
The next day, two ruffians came to Wang Zhao's store to make trouble and demanded protection money. As a result, he was kicked out by Lilac alone.
Although the operation was unsuccessful, the two ruffians did not die, not even seriously injured, and after being kicked, they got up on their own after a while, and limped back.
Wang Zhao didn't take it seriously, and continued to go back to the modern world to buy goods, completely unaware that some people had begun to suspect that they were not immortal masters.
In fact, Wang Zhao didn't think about it so much at all, he just wanted to make more money, and then left here to find an opportunity to cultivate immortals. As for the reason why he honestly paid his taxes instead of choosing to make huge profits and resist taxes, it was entirely because the modern legal consciousness was deeply ingrained in his mind.
Wang Zhao returned to modern times this time and increased the variety of goods. For example: laundry detergent, soap, shampoo, braised pork, grilled chicken, vacuum-packed various cooked foods, etc., and finally when he was about to leave, it was just in time for Saturday morning, and Wang Shuwen happened to be on vacation for two days, so he came over with Wang Zhao.
After all, cultivating in the other world is much faster than in modern society, and even the white cat Xiaoke is now active in the other world for a long time.
Wang Zhao took Wang Shuwen and Xiao Ke to the store in the morning, Wang Shuwen went to the backyard to absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, the aura of heaven and earth, and Wang Zhao put the goods brought this time on the shelves, and ordered the guys in the store to take care of it, but he went down to the kitchen to prepare lunch, because the seasoning in this world is not complete, and the cooking techniques are relatively simple, and the dishes called by the restaurant are not appetizing, so Wang Zhao began to cook by himself.
At this time, two more people who deliberately found fault came to the door of the 'department store'.
The two people who came this time were not ordinary gangsters, but real apprentices of the Immortal Cultivation Sect, that is, registered disciples. Although he is only a registered disciple, after all, he knows a little magic, which is already very magical in the eyes of ordinary people. After the two came to Wang Zhao's shop, they first reported to themselves at the mountain gate, both of them were disciples of a small family under the Li family in Luomu City, and they passed by here to borrow some money from Wang Zhao.
Originally, Wang Zhao saw the cultivators, and he was a little excited, and asked them how much they needed with a smile, and the two of them saw that Wang Zhao was not only not angry at their behavior, but also looked at each other with a pleasant face, and directly asked for five thousand taels of gold.
Wang Zhao knew that these two people were here to find fault, and his face immediately sank, and he was about to consider whether to beat them out with a random fist. Who knew that one of the two people on the other side stomped his foot, and with a 'boom', a large crack of more than five or six meters was cracked on the ground, and the widest part of the gap was enough to fit a fist.
Wang Zhao looked at the crack in the ground, and he and his girlfriend were shocked.
When the man saw the performance of Wang Zhao and the others, he showed a mocking and smug expression on his face: Haha, what a hermit master, it is really pretended, now it is dumbfounded. I'll teach you a lesson today, and tomorrow you will be eaten by Master Luo, and there will be no scum left. Not only can Wanguan's family wealth not be saved, but even his own life may not be able to stay, maybe he will be sold to the Six Beasts Alliance in a few days, I heard that King Lin of Hungry Tiger Village needs a lot of slaves to dig pits, and I don't know if I can survive three months if I sell it there.
Wang Zhao's face was cloudy, and he was thinking about how sure he and Lilac could put down the other party when he shot at the same time. When the two saw that Wang Zhao did not answer for a long time, the other person smiled and stretched out his hand, and the light on his hand flashed, and his whole arm turned golden, and then the man shouted, "Look at the great power of my vajra blessings." ”
A punch smashed the counter of the store to pieces.
Wang Zhao's face is even more ugly, he has been practicing the boxing method diligently these days, and his physical strength has increased greatly because of eating the meat of demon beasts, but he can't do this, it seems that he is going to plant it today. I don't know if the store that I have worked so hard to run these days can still be saved, so I will give up the store and flee the world with Lilac and go away.
Wang Zhao was about to give up the shop, beckoning Lilac to run away to the back of the store, so that Wang Shuwen could be taken away by the way, when he heard someone behind him: "What kind of voice is ping, what are you doing?" Wang Shuwen walked out.
Wang Shuwen came over to take a look, her uncle Wang Zhao and Ding Xiang were facing the two people opposite, Wang Zhao Ding Xiang looked nervous, and the two people opposite were arrogant, one of them had a metallic arm shiny, standing next to the broken counter, thinking that he broke the counter.
When the two saw a handsome, young girl coming out of the backyard, they couldn't help laughing and said, "Yo, there are still such goods in the backyard, it seems that our brothers are blessed a lot today." Little girl, you will serve us well, and if we have a good time, it is also your luck to keep you with us. ”
Wang Zhao was furious, pulled the clove with one hand, dodged in front of Wang Shuwen, and quietly grabbed the gourd tied to his waist with the other hand, and made up his mind, as long as there was danger, he would activate the ability of the baby gourd and take the three of them back to modern times. As long as they use the gourd's ability to travel through the spatial plane to leave, no one can help them.
Just as Wang Zhao was about to run away, Wang Shuwen, who was furious because of a few words, had already made a brazen move, and the fast Wang Zhao couldn't react at all, even the two named disciples of the cultivation family didn't react. But seeing countless vines surging out, rattans and branches and leaves instantly covered the entire room, not only on the ground, but also on the roof and in the corners, the rattans were like a giant python turning over, waving countless branches and leaves, and the sky was full of flying rattans and branches and leaves, and the two of them were surrounded at once.
The two were shocked, one used the power of King Kong to tear apart the vines, while the other wanted to use the power of gravel to rush out, but when they passed, they found that there was nowhere to escape around, and the vines in the sky were also impenetrable.
But seeing where the vines rolled, the two people only had time to let out two screams, and there was no sound, and when Wang Shuwen took back the vines, there were no more of those two people in the same place, leaving only a fragment of rags and a few traces of blood.
Terror! Astound!
Wang Zhao and Lilac looked at Wang Shuwen and were speechless.