Chapter 1 Lantern Festival
On February 17th, the Lantern Festival, it is advisable to travel, priests, and avoid digging wells and lawsuits.
According to the usual practice, all the high-level leaders of Jingxi will come to the Shen family headquarters to gather today. According to the management theory of modern enterprises, it is an annual work deployment. According to the rules of the rivers and lakes used by the Shen family, it is a pledge meeting for the proprietor to cultivate the loyalty of his partners.
I've been here for half a year, and I've never seen Jingxi's high-level executives. The most contact is the black-clothed person next to Miss Sheng, coupled with her age, I intuitively thought that her subordinates might be young people who are easy to control. But Nanxing told me that the Shen family and Jingxi are two systems, with overlaps in terms of personnel and business, but they are independent, thanks to the overall deployment of Miss Sheng.
At ten o'clock in the morning, all kinds of luxury cars that I can't name all kinds of cars meander from the intersection to the lake, the gate of the Shen family is fully open, and seven or eight executives are surrounded by dozens of uniformly dressed people in black.
Shen Qiming stood at the door in a decent suit to greet him, Jingxi's people had a much better attitude than Shen Erye's buddy, although they were not respectful, at least polite. Some of them were really old, and they looked at least the same as the Shen family's uncle. Among them, there was only one woman with short hair, who was not conspicuous at all and dressed masculinely, despite the gender difference. She walked at the end and chatted with Shen Qiming for a while, which seemed to be very familiar.
I actually waited outside the door in the morning, just like looking at Jingxi's lineup, and Nanxing conveniently assigned me outside to arrange the fireworks at night on the lake. I had to carry boxes of fireworks onto the ice with my buddies, plug the leads into sockets, and wait until dinner time to close.
When these tasks were done, several large basins were brought out, full of large pieces of fragrant mutton. I stepped forward to help them by the hand and carried these things to the side of the mountain.
I asked what they were for, and they pointed me behind me, and the snowy jasmine came running up with her calf.
Over the years, it gained a lot of weight. The hair on the mouth was licked down, and it was obvious that I had tasted it early in the morning.
The snow was still thick in the mountains and forests, and Jasmine walked inside, and after standing still, she shook her hair and put on a sky-looking posture, and began to howl in a long voice. The word howl doesn't seem like a good word, after all, it's small and the sound it makes is crisp. In the middle of each call, the tone is reversed, similar to "Wang~~Woo Wow~Wang, Wang~~Woo Wow~......"
I was attracted by its sound, listened to it for a while, and then looked back, and found that the guys who were still around just now had all stepped back a long way in unison.
Soon, Jasmine was back at my feet, looked up at me, and began to walk back as well.
The same long howls came faintly from all directions in the mountain forest, and gradually approached. I grabbed the jasmine and ran to the lake with it in my arms. As soon as I got on the ice and turned around, two black figures emerged from the woods.
"It's ...... Howling dogs? ”
I blurted out in a moment of excitement, causing the guys to burst into laughter.
"Brother Zhangzi, this is Dubin, it's all in the mountains, and it's rare to see it."
I was a little nervous just now, but now I see that it is indeed a Doberman Pinscher with cut ears, but it is two laps larger than that raised in the average community. They all wore the same leather collars around their necks and wore their numbered plates.
These dogs have their heads held high, and their fur is shiny in the sun. The muscles on my front legs, I quietly pinched my arm, tsk, there is no comparison. But underneath the formidable exterior, they have a certain elegance. was summoned out, and he was not in a hurry to scramble around the meat basin, but looked at Jasmine calmly. Until Jasmine jumped out of my arms, sat down on the spot, and screamed crisply. It took about thirty dogs to start eating the large pieces of mutton in the bowl.
Among all the dogs, I found a fat guy who was gray and not slippery, and on closer inspection, it turned out to be a wolf green. It doesn't seem to get along very well with the Dobermans, and it doesn't dare to come forward to fight.
I asked the guys around me, who is in charge of these dogs? The guy told me that there was the third master of the Shen family living in the col, and although he was crazy, he unexpectedly had no self-training skills. Most of these dogs are raised to take care of the family, and a small half is to relieve his boredom. Usually they roam around the mountains, and only during the Lantern Festival every year, they are called to feed them intensively. The person in charge of these things is mainly Shen Qiming, and he will come out later.
The guy and the subordinate have walked a lot during this time, and the manpower is very tight. When they saw me, they hurried back to prepare the dinner. I handed Shen Qiming a pair of rubber gloves and couldn't help teasing him: "Actually, you also have guys under you, not more than thirty." ”
He wanted to refute again, but in fact, he also thought it was interesting, and his subordinates kept calling, calling one by one to check, and said: "Raise a dog for a thousand days, use a dog for a while." ”
We were busy with work outside for most of the day, but we didn't expect such an important meeting to be unexpectedly short. When I went back, people outside the living room were talking about something.
I finally found Niangniang in the crowd, and he was talking to a white-eyebrow steward. Seeing me in the past, he gave me a brief introduction, it turned out that Mr. Baimei's surname was Gu, and he was the Gu family in Xicheng that Miss Sheng mentioned before.
Mr. Gu's eyebrows furrowed when he heard my name, and he said, "Old and clumsy, the little brother of the roe deer turned out to be an expert." ”
I was embarrassed for a while, and hurriedly said: "Where, where, it's just that my surname is relatively rare, and it's definitely my real name." ”
"Haha." He smiled, stopped looking at me, and said to the mother: "You have been in the master's house recently, how is the old man?" ”
"Look at it like this today...... Niangniang shook her head and said in a low voice: "Old Gu is proficient, don't ask me." ”
Someone next to him leaned over and interjected: "It's not necessarily, the old man's body and bones can last until today is purely made of money." That aunt is holding two big warehouses, and she may not be able to hold on if she exhausts her methods. He looked around and said mysteriously, "Have you heard?" My aunt is about to start searching for real medicine again. ”
The only thing I know about the real medicine is a Xuanzhu Heart Mirror, and at this time, I was completely aroused, and I looked at Niangniang and Mr. Gu with a look of concern. The man hung his appetite before he said: "It's Feng Yuan Poria, a thousand people can become adults in the coming year." ”
Mr. Gu's brows furrowed even tighter, and he sighed deeply: "She cut nearly two-thirds of our budget, and she was going to spend it on this?" ”
He didn't have much dissatisfaction, but he didn't seem to have much hope between his words, and he might not be able to gain anything from throwing the money out.
I whispered to Niangniang, what is the Fengyuan Poria.
He smiled: "Have you heard of ginseng dolls?" More advanced than that. As the name suggests, it comes out of the sealed stone, under the abyss. After thousands of years of growth, it broke through the ground in Shuori, and the cry was extremely fierce, and the cry shocked hundreds of miles. Using its flesh and blood to nourish people's souls is called rebirth. ”
Oh my God, it's more advanced than clones? I instinctively wanted to deny it, but looking around, it was the mainstay of the leather door. In these people's concepts, there is no absolute boundary between life and death.
"After all, it hasn't been announced yet, not necessarily." Mr. Gu shook his head and walked away with his hands behind his back.
Niangniang looked at his back, and an inexplicable smile appeared on her face. I'm familiar with this smile, and it means his brain is racing.
"Actually, don't be so troublesome, there is a ready-made one in front of you, it depends on whether Miss Sheng is willing to let go."
The back of my neck was chilled by his sharp gaze, and I scratched my head and said with a sneer, "You don't think you're going to stew me, do you?" ”