Chapter 7: Accumulate grain and build a high wall
At this moment, in the patriarch's mansion, Belle has been carried back to her room, guarding the guard at the door, and the maid who serves her.
At the head of the hall of the Patriarch's Mansion sat the tired Qi Zhen, the left and right Qi Wei, the solemn Enemy Breaker, and two or three elders with higher status.
"Patriarch, let's talk about it tomorrow, let's do it today," said one of the elders.
The old man said: "Today my mental wear is really serious, I want to recuperate for two days, but now the situation is not optimistic, three days later will be the blood moon, now you listen to my arrangement."
"Qi Cha, how have the other families observed in the past few days?" the old man finished. A middle-aged man sitting on the right who was not tall but lean and capable, said: "Patriarch Hui, the Yao family has been observing us closely recently, and they have secretly contacted the other two families, probably trying to unite against us."
"Those little families"
"The Yao family doesn't pay much attention to the small family, but it seems that the suppression of the small family in business has weakened recently, and it should be a disguised bribe," Qi Cha replied.
The old man shook his head and said: "This Yao Ao is still so conceited, his eyesight is only strong, reduce suppression, jokes, our Qi family has always been fair and cooperative, the small family doesn't have to worry, as long as our four major families don't have a tendency to be one-sided, nothing will happen."
After listening to Qi Cha's simple report, the old man breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at Qi Wei sideways, and said with a solemn face: "Although there is not much pressure on the side of the three major families, Belle is indeed a high-level physique, which will be the biggest hidden danger for them in the future, and they have concluded that I am in poor health, and the blood moon will definitely attack my Qi family in the past few days."
Listening to the patriarch's analysis of the general situation, Qi Wei and the elders also fell into deep thought, and they didn't know what to do for a while.
Qi Cha said: "Patriarch I think we can cooperate with one of the families, so that we can basically stabilize the general trend of Wangxiang Town, and we can also survive this crisis."
"Speaking of which, which family can we cooperate with, our physique is the biggest threat to them, and cooperation is tantamount to leaving the back to a person who doesn't trust," Qi Podi denied.
"It's better for us to hurry up and train a wave of soldiers now, and then take back the clansmen who are more fortunate to defend the town, I know their strength best", Po Nu said with a little confidence.
"No, first of all, the recruits have not experienced the battle, so that they can resist the enemy is equivalent to sending them to death, and there are people outside the guardian clan who can't retreat, Wangxiang Township is already remote, how did you get injured when you looked at Shoulin", probably because of his daughter's injury, Qi Wei replied with some anger.
For a while, the hall fell into silence again, looking at the people who were silent, the patriarch shook his head as if he had made some decision, and then turned sideways to the elder who had not spoken and said, "Shoucai, how is the family's business recently?" ”
Hearing the patriarch ask him, a middle-aged man with a slightly fat figure and rich clothes said: "Hui Patriarch, this year's harvest in the Wind and Rain Clan is quite abundant, and some of the middle-aged men in the clan have been sent to the instrument capital to work and rest, and the instrument capital provides a very high reward, but..."
Hearing that it was difficult to keep money, the patriarch said: "If you have anything, just say it, the problem still needs to be solved."
"Patriarch, the fish-people we cooperated with in the East, they underpaid our labor fees, and also kidnapped two women from the clan, and when they were found, they were already dead, and now we have discussed to no avail, so now the cooperation is suspended." Qi Shoucai said angrily.
Hearing these words, Qi Ponu on the side couldn't hold back any longer, and said: "The patriarch is incompetent in this matter, please give me two days, I will definitely exterminate them."
The patriarch shook his head, clenched his fists and said, "The Qi family is not easy to bully, and the people of the Qi family cannot die in vain, but the main problem we have now is how to deal with this crisis."
The patriarch sighed and said, "Give some money and food to the families of the deceased, and give them a stable job."
Before Qi Shoucai could answer, the patriarch asked again, "How much liquid money can the family mobilize now?" ”。
Qi Shoucai replied in an orderly manner: "The Hui patriarch still has three million heavenly meteorites to mobilize money, and I have already done a good job of consoling the family."
The patriarch nodded a little pleasantly and said, "You take out two million and go to the medicine to buy some healing medicine, remember to make a big splash."
Qi Shoucai said with some confusion: "But even if the patriarch needs healing medicine, even if the clansmen are equipped with armed personnel, they don't need so much money."
"Haha, how much does that take"
"500,000 is enough"
"Then give you 700,000, and the rest of the money to buy some raw materials, remember that there must be more, and you must be aggressive."
Qi Shoucai took the order with a puzzled expression. Hearing the patriarch's arrangement, everyone was also confused, and finally Qi Po couldn't help but ask: "Patriarch, you are sure that we will lose before the fight starts, and even if you take precautions, it is useless to just buy some medicines."
"So, my arrangement is not over yet" After saying that, he called Qi Cha to him and whispered something, Qi Cha was shocked at first, and then nodded helplessly, at this time only he knew in his heart, I don't know if there will be a problem with the loyal wolf entering the room.
Then the patriarch said in a normal tone: "Qi Ponu, you take some people to go with Qi Cha for a physical barbarian, to rent 300 laborers, I want to rebuild the family outer wall and the awakening platform."
Qi Shoucai, who received the task, said suspiciously: "Patriarch, we have stopped cooperating with the Fish-Man Clan, why don't we use the free manpower now?" ”
"The people of the family have to face the blood moon, and the people of the Qi family also need to be rectified and trained", although what the patriarch said has no big reason at all, but first of all, everyone has no better way, and secondly, the patriarch is the patriarch after all, and some things are not easy to refute.
After that, as if he remembered something again, the patriarch took out a token from the Na Ling ring on his finger that looked like a fake, because the token was carved from wood, and the workmanship was rough, and there was a big Gu character on it, and a blood-colored red dot was no longer anything. The patriarch handed it to Qi Cha and said: "Go to the Gu family when you get to the body, the owner of the token is an old friend of mine, although he is not a big man, but his strength has also reached ~Sixth Transformation Martial King~, you tell him what I said, and he will send you a group of people."
In the Heavenly Fall Continent, there is a small stone ring full of spiritual power, they exude a strange brilliance, and they are born like rings, they only need to be slightly transformed to use, each stone ring has different spiritual power, and people divide them into low, medium, high and top ranks, which are distributed by (1~99%) attributes. Moreover, I heard that the stone ring that has reached the top attribute has simple wisdom and can identify the person who uses it, and it can also store living things in the space. The space of the stone ring grows in this way, for example, the storage space of the stone ring with 1% spiritual power is (1+1 square), the space of the stone ring with 2% spiritual power is (2+2 square), and by analogy, the height of the storage space of the stone ring is directly related to its attributes, the height of the storage space of 1% of the stone ring is 1 meter, 2% is 2 meters, and so on. And people call this kind of stone ring with spiritual power the Na Ling Ring, and legend has it that the person who discovered the spatial law of the Na Ling Ring is an ordinary person who came to the Alchemy City.
When holding this child's play version of the token, Qi Cha was embarrassed but didn't know what to say, so he had to take the order like a reply. The patriarch said no more, but everyone in the hall was still waiting for something, and the patriarch said with a little playfulness: "Don't wait any longer, the order and countermeasures have been said, everyone go and get busy, I will also retreat for three days to recover my strength, and in the past few days, all the big and small things in the clan have been handed over to Qi Wei." With that, the patriarch went into the cultivation room and retreated.
The situation was already like this, and everyone dispersed without any means, and at this time, the major families also started to discuss.