On the top floor of the Hanging Pavilion building, in Li Chengkong's office.

Li Chengkong sat at his desk, with the large bright floor-to-ceiling windows behind him. In front of his desk, there were two people, one was Rong Qian, who had been sent to deliberately stimulate Qi Wanli, and the other was a withered old man in a wheelchair, with long white eyebrows covering his eyes.

"Rong Qian, the third child, I want to explain something to you. Li Chengkong still had that faint smile and said softly.

"Please ask the master to command. The two bowed their heads slightly.

Li Chengkong didn't give a direct order, but asked, "Rong Qian, you saw Qi Wanli last time, how do you feel?"

Rong Qian clasped her hands to her chest and said, "This person is meticulous in observation and quick in thinking, but he is extremely confident and even a little conceited. ”

"Hmm. Li Chengrong was noncommittal, turned to the old man, and asked, "Third child, how have you been studying during this time?"

The old man coughed twice and said, "Master, Qi Wanli is out of fate, and all the talisman arrays can't capture his landing point in the river of fate, so I tried the stupidest way, that is, to exhaust the future from the past, not to fate as the standard, but to use numbers as a rope to calculate his possible future." ”

"Your talent in computing power is no worse than that of a teacher, just pay attention to your body. Li Chengkong laughed and said: "Exhaustive future is indeed a method, but the future has infinite possibilities, it is impossible for us to know the exact position and momentum of each atom in the universe, the Laplace demon theory is only a theory after all, even the fate river seen by the teacher also has a bifurcation, so don't force yourself too much, as long as you can feel the general direction." ”

The old man nodded, indicating understanding.

Afterwards, Li Chengkong turned to Rong Qian and asked, "Now, how is the cooperation between our Hanging Pavilion and Xiaoyao Academy?"

Rong Qian said: "This matter is mainly careful and responsible, she focused on the Southern Continent in the past few months, with Linxue City as the core, radiating to the few remaining cities in the Southern Continent, and has established Xiaoyao Shuge in every big city in the Southern Continent, purely to sell books as a business; Now, the income on the Southern Continent is very stable, and the monthly net profit is about two thousand gold ingots. ”

"On the Western Continent, Xiaoyao Academy is rapidly expanding its power with the help of the long-term order of the First Corps of the Naval Division of Xichuan Province, and they have not expanded outside Xichuan Province for the time being, but everyone in Xichuan Province already knows Xiaoyao Academy, and many gentry in small places are also trying to send their children to Xiaoyao Academy. In addition, in several major cities across the country, careful care is already helping to prepare for Xiaoyao Library, and it is estimated that five Xiaoyao Librarys will open within this month. ”

"The input-output here in the Western Continent is not yet balanced, and the input is much larger than the benefit, but the market of our Shuo Dynasty is also much broader than that of the Southern Continent, and there is no problem with future growth. ”

"Our Hanging Pavilion has obtained the exclusive agent sales qualification of Xiaoyao Academy, except for the cheats they sell to the Martial God Temple and the Life God Temple, we can get at least thirty percent of the profits from all other cheats, and I estimate that in the next two years, the business of Xiaoyao Academy will become one of the largest sources of income for our Hanging Pavilion. ”

Li Chengkong nodded frequently when he heard this, and said with a smile: "You are very attentive, yes, it is obviously a careful business, but you have put in a lot of effort, this is very good, you have to help carefully, the business of the entire Hanging Pavilion in the future will be the two of you." ”

Rong Qian smiled, knowing that what the master didn't like the most was fighting with the same family.

After speaking, he stretched out his finger, tapped it lightly on the table, and said, "You all know that I have a fourth disciple whom none of you have ever met, and he was sent by me to perform an extremely difficult task very early, and I will not give him any help, but now, it has reached a critical moment, and you must be ready to help him." ”

Rong Qian and the old man in the wheelchair glanced at each other and did not speak, but there was a trace of surprise and expectation in their eyes.

Just like Li Chengkong said, they had a fourth junior brother who had never met, which they only learned about when Li was careful to get started. At that time, they all thought that Li Chengxin was Li Chengkong's fourth disciple, but Li Chengkong showed that Li Chengxin's ranking was fifth, and the fourth place already had someone.

They had never seen this senior brother of their own, they only knew that he was sent by Li Chengkong to do a very difficult task, and only reported to Li Chengkong regularly, but no one knew who this person was and what this task was.

Li Chengkong's fingers continued to knock on the table, and said: "Rong Qian, next, you go and talk to Caution, let her give more profits to Qi Wanli, don't say it's my order, just say it's your own attitude, and the reason is your own thought." ”

Then, he looked at the old man in the wheelchair and said, "Third brother, you immediately go to the palace for me and go to the queen." Tell her the part of your calculation about her, but don't mention Qi Wanli, and let her judge for the rest. ”

"Okay. ”

When the old man in the wheelchair heard this, he didn't hesitate at all, and no matter what Li Chengkong might say next, he immediately turned the wheels of the wheelchair, turned around and left.

And Rong Qian's face showed a puzzled look.

"Master, you ...... Why?"

"Why do you want to do these things that seem to be unfavorable to Qi Wanli, right?" Li Chengkong smiled and said: "First of all, what I do may not be unfavorable to him, because there will be countless changes between cause and effect, I can't see his fate, and naturally I don't know what kind of fruit the cause planted will bear; ”

"Qi Wanli is very confident, so at the beginning, I was just shocked a few times casually and let him have the upper hand in the conversation, and he believed that he really convinced me, so I want you to continue to concede profits, let his self-confidence continue to expand, which can be a good thing or a bad thing for him, and in the end it depends on him. ”

"As for the Queen, I only promised to help him go to the Queen, at least how well he talked to the Queen, that was not within the scope of my promise. In addition, the emperor and the queen already have far-reaching plans for me, and my alliance with Qi Wanli does not mean that I have turned my back on the royal family. ”

"So, Rong Qian, you don't have a psychological burden, you should continue to be friends with the queen, you just do it the original way, don't have to worry about anything. If there's something you're really sure about, ask me again. ”

Rong Qian listened carefully, and a look of clarity gradually appeared on her face.

"Disciple, I seem to understand a little. She saluted Li Chengkong and turned to leave.

The office returned to quiet, and Li Chengkong leaned back on his sofa chair with half-squinted eyes, stretched out his fingers, and tapped lightly in the air.

The bottles and glasses on his wine cabinet flew in on their own, opening and pouring their own wine, and even a beautiful ice hockey ball appeared out of thin air and fell into the glass.

"Alas...... Qi Wanli, what are you? Why was it that half a year ago, I could still vaguely capture your figure in the river of fate, but now I can't see it at all?"

Li Chengkong drank wine and sighed to himself.

"Hopefully you're going for the good ending I see, not the bad ending. ”

......

"Dean Bai, go this way. ”

In the palace, Yan Kai pulled Qi Wanli and asked him to keep up with his footsteps.

"Hey, okay, okay, it's the first time I've entered the palace, and I think it's a little novel. Qi Wanli smiled and hurriedly followed.

Leading the way was an old eunuch, sweating profusely in the sun, but he did not dare to have a trace of dissatisfaction with the extremely slow walking of the two men he led.

After all, one is the uncle of the dynasty, and the other is the queen's own guest who has just been crowned earl, and they are not people who can be provoked by an ordinary eunuch.

"By the way, Uncle Xiaoguo, the holy decree issued by the emperor in the morning sealed me a kind of uncle, doesn't it mean that the titles are all fiefs or related names?

Yan Kai shook his head and smiled, and said: "Dean Bai doesn't know, in our Shuo Dynasty, all those who have a fief name before the title are all ancestors who follow Taizu to fight the world together, and only the land that Taizu personally seals can have a fief name and can be hereditary." Dean Bai, the title you took is probably not named after you, but your Xiaoyao Academy, but well, it's actually the same, haha. ”

"Originally, I thought that you could only get a viscount at most, but I didn't expect the emperor to give you an earl, it seems that I am very satisfied with your performance in the hunting competition!"

Qi Wanli suddenly realized, laughed with Yan Kai all the way, and followed the old eunuch to Kunning Palace.

"Don't be too restrained for a while, I won't go in with you, from today on, you are almost one of the most powerful talents in our Yan family, the third sister will definitely tell you a lot about how to strengthen the family in the future, I am not very interested in this kind of thing, so I will not talk to you." Yan Kai said with a smile.

Qi Wanli smiled, but sighed in his heart.

After Yan Xuan died, Yan Yi went directly to the Southern Continent impulsively and irritablely, Yan Kai is a guy who is not interested in managing things at all, and there is only one Yan family left, and only a woman who has become a foreign marriage is left to support her in the palace, and it is almost impossible to develop and grow again.

"Okay, I'll just go in myself. He blinked at Yan Kai, and after waiting for the report, he walked into a tea-scented room with the palace maids of Kunning Palace.

Exquisite and gorgeous room, there are two people.

One is the queen who Qi Wanli once glanced at from afar on the top of the mountain of the hunting competition, and the other is a withered old man, sitting in a wheelchair, sitting opposite the queen.