Qin Wen sat in the main hall for half an hour, and then Lu Mo walked in and said to Qin Wen: "Master Qin Dan, I have already counted the number of monks in our house, there are too many monks brought out from the Zhou family this time, among which there are hundreds of monks in alchemy and refining, if they are assigned to the alchemy group and refining group now, not only is the local courtyard too small, but even it is inconvenient to manage." ”

Qin Wen frowned slightly, what Lu Mo said was also the truth, he originally had less than a thousand monks, but now he has accepted nearly five thousand monks from the Zhou family, except for those who stayed in the Zhou family's manor, there are about a thousand people, and now it would be good to find a place to live, if they are assigned to work, it is estimated that even if there are ten people in the alchemy group, it is not enough to have one of them.

Qin Wen slowly walked in front of the map of the Expulsion City, examined it carefully, and pointed to an open space near the market and said, "Is this place suitable for building another manor? If it really doesn't work, let's build another manor, move the alchemy group over there, and let Han Duan manage it in a unified manner." ”

Lu Mo shook his head and said: "I think something is wrong, that side is already very close to the military camp, the last time we built the market, there were some people who criticized it in front of the three deacons in Dongcheng, if we build a manor again, even if no one on Zhao Wu's side will say it, those families in the city will not let us occupy land like this." ”

Qin Wen thought for a while and said, "Then do you have a suitable way?"

Lu Mo hesitated for a moment and said: "I think it's better for us to buy a mansion in the city, I have already sent someone to the city to find out if there is a larger courtyard, especially if there is a ground fire, if the earth fire is too small, move the refining group over, and then transform the current courtyard of the refining group into a small room that can refine pills, but in this case, the cost is a bit large." ”

Qin Wen nodded and said, "It doesn't matter what the expenses are. As long as we can find a suitable place, anyway, we have also obtained a large number of spirit stones in the Zhou family, and it just so happens that we are using this batch of spirit stones to expand the strength of our family now, you can do this with confidence, and when you need spirit stones, you can directly ask me for it. ”

After Lu Mo reported the matter, he sat on the chair under Qin Wen. The two discussed the specific details of the manor again, and when it was time for dinner, the monk who went out of the city to find the courtyard turned back and reported to Qin Wen and Lu Moyu: "Now there is a big manor in the city that is just going to be sold, and the price is not too expensive. ”

Qin Wen opened his mouth and asked, "Where is the manor, how large is the area, how many spirit stones do you need?"

After listening to Qin Wen's series of questions, the monk hesitated for a moment and said, "The courtyard is located in the west of the East City, and the manor should be half the size of our here, and the price is eight thousand high-grade spirit stones." ”

Qin Wen and Lu Mo hurriedly finished their meal and returned to the main hall with the monk. Walking in front of the map of the Expulsion City, Lu Mo spoke: "Where is the specific location of the manor?

After searching on the map for a long time, the monk finally dropped his finger on a place and said: "It should be this place, I went to take a look, the former head of this manor was a Dan master, and after he died, the mouth of the earth fire was deserted." However, I think there are quite a few of their Dan rooms, there should be more than a dozen. ”

Qin Wen nodded at this time and said, "Just have a fire mouth." There should be a fire vein under a dozen earth fire vents, and we can rebuild the house. ”

As soon as he said this, he suddenly saw Lu Mo's brows frowning, and asked, "Do you have something?"

Lu Mo stretched out his hand and pressed it to the place that the monk pointed out on the map and said, "If my impression is not mistaken, this is the Fang family next door, if we are neighbors with him." Isn't there something wrong?"

Qin Wen was also stunned for a moment, he looked at the manor on the map carefully, it was indeed a little close to the location of the Fang Mansion, and he couldn't help but ask the monk who came back to report: "Have you seen the neighbors nearby? ”

The monk shook his head and said, "I only went inside the mansion to take a look, and I didn't ask about the neighbors outside. Otherwise, I'll go back and ask again. ”

Lu Mo nodded and said: "You go, this time I will inquire about the situation of the neighbors on all sides, and ask if there are any other conflicts with the neighborhood, although the place we want to buy is in the city, but the safety precautions must be done." ”

The monk nodded and agreed, and then left the main hall in a hurry, Qin Wen said with a slight mutter: "I have been in contact with the people of the Fang Mansion, their family master is more cautious, even if he knows that we have bought the nearby courtyard, at most he is suspicious, as long as we don't move, he shouldn't attack us openly, just be careful of his small actions in the future." ”

After more than an hour, the monk who inquired about the news hurriedly walked in from the outside and said to Qin Wen: "Master Qin, that courtyard is on both sides of the road, and the west side is indeed the Fang Mansion, I went in to take a look just now, and there is a steward in their mansion who asked me which monk wants to buy this courtyard?"

Qin Wen nodded and asked, "Then how did you answer him?"

The monk shook his head and said, "I didn't report the name of our house, but I just told him that I was also helping others to see the situation, and it was not certain whether to buy it or not." ”

At this time, Lu Mo waved his hand to let the monk go back to rest, and then asked Qin Wen, "Qin Danshi, what do you think of this place?"

Qin Wen pondered for a moment and said: "Tomorrow, you take someone to take a look, if it is suitable, buy it, if the people of the alchemy group can move in, they will all move in, if the courtyard inside is not big, just move those monks from the Zhou Mansion in, and find someone else to be in charge." ”

"Now that the affairs of the Zhou Mansion have basically been dealt with, I am also ready to return to the Xicheng Mansion to retreat for a period of time, during this time, you gradually transfer the affairs of the Mansion out of the palace, find a safe monk to take care of it, and Han Duan's side will also be handed over, we have now gained a firm foothold in the City of Expulsion, and the next step is to improve our strength." ”

Lu Mo nodded and agreed, and the two went back to their rooms to rest, and when they got up early the next day, Qin Wen left the spirit stone that he bought from the manor to Lu Mo, and then left the Dongcheng Manor, and returned to the mansion in Xicheng with Ao Yu, and arranged for the monks on duty outside to say a few words, and he and Ao Yu went into retreat and practiced.

After another half a year, Qin Wen walked out of the room, he had reached the bottleneck of the middle level of the Xuanshi in this retreat, and now he was just a little short of a chance to break through, of course, it was okay to use the pill to forcibly break through, but that would be detrimental to his future cultivation, so Qin Wen was ready to go with the flow, and did not require himself to reach a certain level within a certain period of time.

After seeing the monk on duty outside, Qin Wen opened his mouth and asked, "Has Ao Yu been out of the customs during this time, has anyone sent any message from outside?"

The monk on duty replied: "Monk Ao went out of the customs two months ago, and then retreated, this time I don't know when the Dao will be able to get out, a month ago Steward Lu sent someone to find Qin Ye once, but I heard that Qin Ye was still in retreat, so he went back, and he hasn't come again since that time." ”

Qin Wen nodded, thinking that there was nothing to do during this time, so he was going to go to Dongcheng Manor to take a look, first, to see what Lu Mo had to report, and secondly, to go to the ancient soul to take a look, the ancient soul's body was so injured that Qin Wen also felt a little tricky, he was afraid that if something happened like last time.

Thinking of this, Qin Wen told the monk on duty: "Okay, I know the Tao, now I'll go to Dongcheng to take a look, if Ao Yu is out of the customs, you can let him go directly to Dongcheng Manor to find me." ”

The monk on duty nodded and agreed, Qin Wen walked out of the mansion from the main entrance, and flew all the way towards the manor, and it was just noon when he entered the Dongcheng Manor, after Qin Wen saw Lu Mo in the main hall, he asked: "Lu Mo, what did you do with me last time?"

Lu Mo hesitated for a moment and shook his head and said: "I haven't dealt with it yet, it's about the matter of the Fang family, after the Dan Master retreated last time, I bought that courtyard, and if the room inside him lived in the entire alchemy group, it would be a little crowded, so I gathered the alchemy monks of the Zhou family in that courtyard and named them Alchemy Group B." ”

"At the beginning, it was not bad, we and the Fang family were still safe, plus the monks of our alchemy group basically didn't come out, and I asked the monks to send the elixir from outside, and there was no intersection with the neighbors nearby, but after three months, something happened. ”

Qin Wen couldn't help but ask strangely at this time, "What's wrong?"

Lu Mo frowned slightly and said: "The pill sent from the second group of alchemy was suddenly robbed, it is normal to be robbed in the city of expulsion, I sent a monk from the lower level of the Xuan Master, he came back with an injury, and the storage bag on his body has been snatched away, according to him, it was a mid-level monk of the Xuan Master who robbed him, and the second time I sent a monk of the upper level of the Xuan Master to escort the pill." ”

"But three days later, he was also robbed, this time it was a spirit-level monk, our Xuanshi upper-level monk was lying on the street, then I became vigilant, and asked Gao Meng to bring a team of magic circle monks to escort the pill, but there was no accident for a few days, I think the other party should have seen that the number of people was relatively large, so he relented. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Mo took a sip of tea and said: "In order to find out who attacked our monks, I made two preparations, one way or let a monk from the lower level of the Xuan Master escort the pill, and then the second way sent Gao Meng to take the magic circle monks to secretly escort the monks in front of and behind the road." (To be continued......)