Chapter 10: The Danger of the Linghu Family
On this day, it was the earliest day for Luo Yu to leave the Linghu Family Library Pavilion, and the janitor, who had long been accustomed to Luo Yu leaving when the Library was closed at night, came out of it not long after seeing Luo Yu enter, and almost got used to locking the door. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Xiao Luo, did you leave quite early today?" The doorman of the library greeted Luo Yu with a smile, he took the initiative to come to the library to watch the door because he loved to read, seeing that this was only the most inferior third-class family member of the fox family actually had the qualifications to enter the library to read books, and he came in to read books every day when he was free, so he was naturally full of good feelings for Luo Yu, and after talking to Luo Yu several times, the uncle felt more and more that the young man in front of him was not simple.
Especially when the two were chatting once, he still remembered what Luo Yu said: The black hair does not know how to study early, and the white head will regret studying late.
At that time, the janitor was like meeting a bosom friend, and regarded Luo Yu, a little family member with a big gap between his identity, age and status, as a year-old friend, which made too much sense, in this era when people only knew martial arts, he could meet such a young man who loved to read, if he didn't love books, how could he say such a philosophical sentence? Even he, a bad old man who had read books for most of his life, couldn't say it. He himself didn't like to read when he was a child, and when he heard Luo Yu's words, he instantly felt empathy, Bai Shoufang regretted that he was late in studying, but unfortunately those young people in the family didn't understand.
In order to let more people from the Linghu family come to study, the gatekeeper of the library pavilion also specially wrote the sentence that Luo Yu told him neatly with a brush, and pasted it at the door of the library like a couplet.
As a result, Luo Yu saw these two lines of words stumbling under his feet when he entered the library pavilion, and almost fell and ate, this famous sentence of Yan Zhenqing in his previous life could even be blurted out by a child who could just speak, and he just changed a word and quoted it casually, but he didn't expect it to be regarded as a wise quote by the gatekeeper.
Has the 100,000-year development history of this continent all focused on cultivation? Isn't there any writer who has said something similar to this before?
"Well, after all, there aren't many books on the first floor, and I've read almost enough. Luo Yu saw the uncle of the library pavilion asking, and nodded with a smile.
"This is also, the better the books, the more on them, there are really not many meaningful books on this floor. Although he was responsible for taking care of the Linghu family's library, he had no right to let a person who was not qualified to go up to the second floor make an exception, and seeing that the person in front of him who he admired very much could not read just because of his identity, this uncle was also a little indignant in his heart.
Can't you read if you have a low status? Can't you study? What right do you have to deprive a good boy who loves books of the right to thirst for knowledge? Do you guys with well-developed limbs and simple minds know that people who read regularly have the same disease, that is, the disease that will die if you suddenly don't have a book to read?!
Well, this strong style of complaining was also learned by the uncle from Luo Yu recently.
Just as Luo Yu left the door of the Library Pavilion.
In the meeting of the Linghu family, Linghu Hanyan was sitting on the chief with his brows furrowed, banging on the table.
Recently, the chambers of commerce of the other two major families in Shangyang City, where the Linghu family is located, the Hong family and the Liu family, have actually united, and have also pulled an outside chamber of commerce in to form a business alliance, sharing resources and intelligence, and the cost of commodities has also dropped a lot, which has dropped along with the price of commodities.
This alliance caused the Fox Chamber of Commerce to lose more than half of its market share in an instant, and even suffered a loss.
Now the unfavorable situation for the Linghu family has lasted for almost half a year, if it continues like this, I am afraid that the Linghu family's chamber of commerce will be dissolved, which is also the biggest crisis of the Linghu family now.
The reason why the Linghu family has always been the head of the three major families in Shangyang City is that on the one hand, the eldest lady of their family is also the current head of the family, and the legendary awakened one, and on the other hand, the average strength of the Linghu family's martial artists is stronger than the other two.
It's just that the cultivation of martial artists in any family needs funds, especially when everyone's internal strength level is about the same, what fights is the pill, and the martial artists in Shangyang City are basically acquired, and the pills they need are also mainland goods, to put it bluntly, there is only one fight - money!
Now that the Linghu family's finances are in danger, the martial arts strength of the other two families has a faint tendency to be on par with the Linghu family.
In the recent private conflict between the Linghu family warriors and the Hong family and the Liu family warriors in the recent January market, the Linghu family warriors who were originally bound to win now fought with them and the result was a victory or defeat.
This is also a phenomenon that the Hong family and the Liu family are very willing to see.
"The price of our goods is close to the cost price to sell, and the selling price is still far higher than theirs, eldest miss, or we will agree to the conditions of the Hong family and the Liu family and merge the Chamber of Commerce into their joint Chamber of Commerce, right?" the three elders of the Linghu family proposed.
"No, absolutely not! The conditions of the Hong family and the Liu family are simply bullying people, and we can only take one percent of the income after the merger, in this case, the gap between our Linghu family and the two of them will only get bigger and bigger, even if the Chamber of Commerce is dissolved, it will definitely not be merged into the two of them!" Hearing the third elder say this, Linghu Kaiyuan, the great elder of the Linghu family, immediately jumped out to object:" Now they want our Chamber of Commerce to merge, and when we are weaker, it may be like merging our entire Linghu family into the two of them, this is obviously a wolf ambition, we can't agree!
Linghu Kaiyuan's real name is Hu Kaiyuan, and he was later exterminated by the enemy, rescued by Linghu Hanyan's father, came to Linghu's family, and changed his surname to Linghu, although he is actually a foreign surname, but his feelings for Linghu's family are far deeper than those of several other elders, especially Linghu Hanyan's parents were killed in the battle with the Hong family and the Liu family, and his hatred for the other two families in Shangyang City can be said to be deep in the bone marrow.
If it weren't for the fear that after he died in battle, the power of the Linghu family would be in the hands of a few guys with ulterior motives in the Council of Elders, the great elder Linghu Kaiyuan really wanted to kill the Hong family and the Liu family alone to avenge Linghu Hanyan's parents.
Pity...... Linghu Kaiyuan glanced at Linghu Hanyan, who had not yet grown up, and then looked at a few guys in the elder seat who were obviously dissenting, and sighed secretly.
"In just half a year of backwardness in terms of funds, we have made the Fox Family's martial artists catch up with the other two in terms of cultivation, this has to be said to be a matter of vigilance, once our Chamber of Commerce merges into them, then we will make the Fox Family not far from real decline. The Seventh Elder also agreed with the Great Elder's words.
"But although our Linghu family is still the head of the three major families in Shangyang City on the surface, since the death of the previous family master, the strongest person of our Linghu family is not the opponent of their two families at all, the heads of the Hong family and the Liu family are both in the realm of the Great Perfection of the Congenital Realm, and the strongest person of our Linghu family is only the strength of the late stage of the Innate Realm, if they join forces to conquer us by force, it is absolutely possible, if they do not merge the Chamber of Commerce, I am afraid they will really find an excuse to use force against us." The Fifth Elder expressed his worries with a sad face at this time.
"What are you afraid of, when did we make the Fox family really afraid of them? Although the eldest lady's cultivation is not as good as that of the Hong family and the head of the Liu family, she is also an awakened person, so I don't believe that the head of the Hong family and the Liu family can take advantage of the eldest lady. The Great Elder Ling Hu Kaiyuan slapped the table and stood up: "If they deceive people too much, we will find an excuse to destroy them first! As long as the speed is fast, they will not have time to unite." ”
"Alright, don't argue. Ling Hu Hanyan saw that the atmosphere at the conference table had already smelled of gunpowder, and hurriedly stopped the seven elders from arguing again: "Regarding the issue of the Chamber of Commerce, you should go out first, and let me think about it alone." Ling Hu Hanyan's beautiful face was sad at the moment, and she sighed softly, she forgot that this was the first time in the past six months that the seven elders had quarreled over this matter, in order to reduce the cost of goods, they even sent caravans to go out to purchase cheaper raw materials, but this was just a drop in the bucket.
Quietly watching the seven elders leave the conference room, Ling Hu Hanyan leaned back in his chair, silently closed his eyes, and muttered to himself: "Could it be that the Ling Hu family really wants to be destroyed in my hands? Father, mother, how good it would be if you were still alive, I just want to be a carefree eldest lady, not the current head of the family." ”