Chapter 804: The Oppressed
The next day, when Mu Yu walked out of the door, he bumped into Xuan Sitong in the courtyard.
Xuan Sitong is wearing a pink dress today, looking mature and charming. She is several years older than Mu Yu, and she is also a member of the Extreme Immortal List, but she is very low in the ranking, and Xuan Zhengtang does not want her to fight with other Extreme Immortals.
"Childe, you're awake. Xuan Sitong had just come out of her mother's room, and Mu Yu's expression on her face was a little weird, looking very restrained.
"Is your mother okay?" Mu Yu asked casually.
Xuan Sitong nodded: "Thank you Gongzi for your concern, my mother is much better, thanks to Gongzi's Returning Spirit Pill, otherwise we probably don't know when we will be able to save enough money to buy Taishi Zitian Pill." ”
One elixir is already 20,000, and it costs 20,000 in two days, and if it doesn't have Mu Yu's help, five million doesn't know when it will be the end.
Mu Yu smiled, didn't say anything, sat on the stone chair, his eyes stared at a weeping willow on the side, the weeping willow had just bloomed its young leaves, full of life, there was still morning dew on the leaves, and there was a spider building a web, and there was a small fly struggling on the spider web.
These were originally thriving lives, but now they seem to have changed their flavor in Mu Yu's eyes.
What does life really mean?
He thought about it all night last night and didn't figure it out.
Xuan Sitong secretly looked at Mu Yu, she was also at the scene when Mu Yu killed yesterday, and she still remembers Mu Yu's terrifying killing machine vividly. She had never seen anyone with such a strong killing intent on their bodies, like a demon bathed in blood, which made people avoid it.
But she didn't think that this "feather" boy didn't look like a murderous person.
"Big sister, why are you peeking at my brother?" Xiao Shuai rubbed his eyes and walked out of the room, yawning.
Xuan Sitong's face turned red, and he hurriedly covered it up: "No, no, I didn't peek." ”
"Are you wondering what kind of person I am?"
Mu Yu saw Xuan Sitong's thoughts, no matter who saw that terrifying killing intent, they would doubt his nature, and Xuan Sitong was no exception.
Xuan Sitong hesitated for a moment and said, "Childe, although I don't know what your past is, what I want to say is that you killed that one-eyed snake yesterday. The one-eyed snake does all kinds of evil, relying on his cooperative relationship with the beast control of the Dihuang Gate, and always makes things difficult for other demon hunters in every way, and if you kill him, it can be regarded as eliminating harm for the people. ”
"Hmm. Mu Yu said nonchalantly.
He knew that this was a comforting word, and he had to figure out for himself about the killing: what kind of person did he really want to be?
Xuan Sitong continued: "No matter what, Childe is our savior, and if Childe has anything to order, we will definitely do it for Childe." ”
Mu Yu glanced around and asked, "What about Uncle Xuan?"
"My dad was dealing with the demon beasts hunted by Childe overnight yesterday, and he hasn't finished it yet. Childe didn't know, because the sixth-order and seventh-order demon beasts were very precious, and the functions of each part of the demon beast's body were different, so they needed to be carefully sold separately, so it would take at least a day to deal with a sixth-order demon beast. I'm afraid it will take more than ten days to deal with those demon beasts of Childe. Xuan Sitong said.
When they hunted the demon beast in the forest that day, they only did a little simple processing, and after bringing the demon beast back, they had to do further processing, dismemberment, fur, bones, and blood all had different functions, so the process was very complicated.
"Ten days, plus contacting the seller, it's too long. I can't scrape together enough money to buy Taishi Zitian Dan. Why don't you recruit a few more guys from the Xuan Beast Workshop? You are from the Burning Sea Sect, and there should be many disciples. Mu Yu asked curiously.
The Xuanbeast Workshop only has a family of three plus an apprentice, which is too few. Although the Burning Sea Sect is not as good as the Eight Sects, it is also considered an upper-average sect with cultivators in the Merge Period, and it should not be so short of manpower.
Xuan Sitong said distressedly: "It's not a secret, in fact, because my father is too upright, he was excluded by the other elders of the sect, and a few years ago, my father couldn't stand the intrigue between those elders all day long, so he applied for an industry from the head of the sect and brought us here." ”
It is impossible for an upright person to be alone in the sect of deceitful people, and he will definitely be excluded by others, which is understandable to Mu Yu.
It is difficult for honest people to live smoothly in the cultivation realm, because their character will offend the interests of many people, and it is normal to be excluded, but it is also the integrity of Xuanzhengtang that happens to win the respect of Mu Yu.
Today's cultivation realm is controlled by the Triple Palace, and the cultivators blindly believe that the Triple Palace will lead them to defeat the Yumeng Demon Clan, but they don't know that they are just tools of the Triple Palace, Mu Yu feels that the cultivation realm is like being covered in mud, and it is muddy.
However, Xuanzhengtang, a rare upright cultivator, made Mu Yu see the beauty of the cultivation world, and he would not be too disappointed in the cultivator, so he chose to try his best to help Xuanzhengtang.
"Since it is your sect's inheritance, how much do you have to pay to the sect every month?" Mu Yu continued to ask.
"Our sect is special, anyone who cultivates during the out-of-body period can apply for an amount of money from the sect, and then buy a piece of land in a certain city, open a store to make money, generally only need to hand over 30% of the income to the sect every month. Xuan Sitong said.
"So the Xuan Beast Workshop is also handed over to Sancheng?" Mu Yu thought about it, Sancheng was not too much.
Xuan Sitong shook his head: "Our Xuan Beast Workshop has to hand over ninety percent." ”
Mu Yu frowned: "Ninety percent, it's too much, isn't it?, why is your Xuan Beast Workshop different from the others?"
If there are many sects in the Xuan Beast Workshop, and the funds for the acquisition of demon beasts are all funded by the sect, it will be enough to take away ninety percent of the income. Here is the Xuanzhengtang family, no one in the sect has contributed, and even Xuanzhengtang personally went to hunt demon beasts and deal with demon beasts, everything was done by Xuanzhengtang himself, and the sect got ninety percent of the income, and the sect made this money really good.
Xuan Sitong said helplessly: "Before my mother's accident, the original Xuan Beast Workshop, like the industry of other sects, only needed to pay three achievements. But my father has borrowed two million spirit stones from the head of the house for my mother's business. Those elders of the sect took the opportunity to find trouble and persecuted my father, asking my father to promise that in the future, he would hand over ninety percent of the income of the Xuan Beast Workshop every month, and if ninety percent of the income was less than 10,000, he would make up to 10,000. ”
"This means that if your Xuan Beast Workshop only earns five thousand spirit stones every month, you have to pay ten thousand, why don't they rob it?" Mu Yu raised his eyebrows, this was obviously those elders of the Burning Sea Sect who were deliberately making things difficult for Xuanzheng Hall, an honest man.
Xuan Sitong said: "There is no way, those elders of the sect said that if they did not agree to this condition, they would put pressure on the head of the sect and not lend us two million spirit stones." Not only that, but these two million will be paid back slowly in the future, and it has nothing to do with the offering. ”
Then Xuan Sitong seemed to remember something again, his face showed an angry look, and said: "Actually, this matter is all caused by the Great Elder, and the worship of our Xuan Beast Workshop will come to check it every three months and take it away in person." And in the past few years, the offerings that were originally handed over to the sect will be deducted by the great elders, and there are very few of them handed over to the sect. ”
Mu Yu asked, "How did you know about the fact that the offering was detained?"
Xuan Sitong clenched his fists: "After my mother was attacked by Huo Youmeng a month ago, my father went back to the sect to ask the head of the sect for help, and the head of the master inadvertently mentioned that our Xuan Beast Workshop only pays two thousand offerings every month, and now we borrow two million with one mouth, which is too much." But before my mother's accident, we would hand over at least 8,000 spirit stones every month, and even tens of thousands in good times, and my father knew that every month's offerings were secretly taken away by the Great Elder, leaving only 2,000 for the sect!"
Mu Yu was annoyed when he heard this, this great elder was full of his own pockets, and he actually deducted so much, what a vampire.
"Didn't your father expose the Great Elder?" asked Mu Yu.
A gloomy look appeared on Xuan Sitong's face, and he shook his head: "With my father's upright character, he wants to do this, and he feels that it is necessary to protect the interests of the sect." But at that time, my mother had an accident, and my father wanted to borrow money from the sect, and then the Great Elder threatened my father not to think about borrowing two million if he told me about it. ”
If it weren't for the purpose of borrowing two million, I'm afraid that Xuanzheng Hall would not have agreed to the Great Elder's request, but would have chosen to denounce the Great Elder and protect the interests of the sect from loss.
It's a pity that Mrs. Xuan was attacked by Huo Youmeng, so Xuan Zhengtang could only choose to swallow his anger, after all, the Great Elder was greedy for his money, but at least he paid two thousand to the sect every month, and he was not all greedy. If you want to talk about losses, it's not the sect, but the fact that Xuanzhengtang itself will leave a bad reputation for the people of the same sect as "having no ability to make money for the sect and borrowing money from the sect".
Xuan Sitong sighed slightly and continued: "Two million is not a small amount, it must be agreed by all the elders and the head, especially the great elder, so my father can only agree." Later, the Great Elder intensified his efforts and proposed that in addition to the specific offerings every month, ninety percent of the operating income should be handed over to the sect, and two million spirit stones would be returned in the future. ”
"Your Great Elder is so lawless, the head doesn't care if he doesn't ask?" Mu Yu really felt worthless about Xuanzheng Hall.
"The head master is old, and he has been practicing in retreat a lot in the past few years, so he can't manage so much. My father had no choice but to endure it, and he didn't have to think about it to know that ninety percent of the operating income of the Xuan Beast Workshop was also deducted by the Great Elder. My father said that he would rather have a reputation for being incompetent than deceive his conscience by making false accounts, so it doesn't matter. Xuan Sitong was helpless about this.
A cultivator in the distraction period, even if he is oppressed by the forces of the beast control Zhai, even his own people oppress Xuanzhengtang like this, and they don't give Xuanzhengtang a way to live at all.
Xuanzhengtang had to raise money everywhere to buy Taishi Zitian Pill for his wife, in this case, when he met Mu Yu in the woods, he could still keep his bottom line, there was no demon beast that coveted Mu Yu, and he also let his daughter leave the one million spirit stones that were scavenged from the people of the Star Elephant Mansion, and paid Mu Yu only 120,000 as the price for the purchase of the Shocking Leopard, which was already quite rare.
Mu Yu felt the need to meddle in this matter.