Chapter 272: Receiving Gifts Only ......
Chihu Mountain Oasis.
After the "Liuyunfang" was completed and put into use, Zhou Yang returned to Chihu Mountain and dealt with various family affairs.
Because it was only a few months before his Purple Mansion Celebration was held, many scattered cultivators and small family monks who heard the news had rushed over to join in the fun, and the arrival of these people had brought popularity to the Chihu Mountain Oasis at the same time, but also caused a lot of trouble.
For example, after two vengeful immortal cultivators meet here, they are likely to start a fight on the spot.
However, according to the public security regulations compiled by Zhou Yang, it is strictly forbidden for immortal cultivators to fight and kill in the Chihu Mountain Oasis, because this will not only make other immortal cultivators who come here feel insecure, but also easily damage the oasis environment.
Therefore, after this kind of public security incident, the Zhou family's public security hall monks must go over to maintain law and order, and persuade or expel both sides of the fight.
After some immortal cultivators came to the Chihu Mountain Oasis, they saw that the land here was vast and sparsely populated, and there were not many people sitting in the Lingshan Mountains, so it was inevitable that they would have some thoughts of chickens and dogs.
Once this kind of person is discovered, it is more troublesome to deal with, and it cannot be killed directly.
Of course, these are all trivial matters, as long as the arrested people are not involved in other immortal cultivation families, the Public Security Hall and the Torture Hall can deal with it, and at most report the results of the disposal to Zhou Yang, the patriarch, to know.
But some things still have to be handled by Zhou Yang himself.
For example, after the completion of Fang City, some Zhuji families within 10,000 miles nearby who heard about the situation had already sent Zhuji monks to visit him to discuss the purchase of shops, and some scattered Zhuji monks came over and heard about the treatment of Ma Shaoyang and others, and also wanted to visit him and ask to rely on the Zhou family to establish a family.
These things can only be decided by him, the patriarch, even Zhou Guangxiang, who was selected by him as the successor, cannot be replaced.
It is also simple for him to deal with these things, and the people who buy the store all prevaricate that they are currently only renting and not selling, and they can rent the store for free, but the ownership of the store still belongs to the Zhou family.
He is not stupid, at this time, the market has just been established, even if the store can be sold, how much money can it be sold?
If you really want to sell the store, of course, it is more cost-effective to sell it after the market becomes popular.
As for those foundation-building monks who wanted to attach themselves to the Zhou family, Zhou Yang also declined with kind words.
Although the Zhou family is not small now, they will still hold on if they eat too much.
The more vassal foundation building monks the better, after all, the obligations of vassals are mutual, and if they accept too many foundation building monks at once, the Zhou family may not be able to take care of it.
After a few months of such a busy schedule, the day of the Zhouyang Purple Mansion celebration finally came as scheduled.
On this day, the sky was clear and cloudless.
On the entire Chihu Mountain, including the Yuquan Peak where the Zhou family started, there are lanterns everywhere and red silk representing festivity.
Originally, there were no visible figures on the Spirit Mountain, but at this time, it was also crowded with people, gathering as many as two or three thousand people.
These people are all immortal cultivators, including immortal cultivators in the Purple Mansion period, as well as immortal cultivators in the foundation building period and qi cultivation period.
There are the Zhou family's own immortal cultivators, and there are also immortal cultivators who came to congratulate.
"On behalf of Huangshamen, the head of Huangshamen and his wife presented a congratulatory gift, a fourth-order elixir [thousand-year-old blood ginseng]!"
"The Chen family of White Camel Ridge gave a congratulatory gift, a fourth-order spiritual object [Taiyi Essence Gold]!"
"The Nie family of Jinyang Mountain gave a congratulatory gift, a fourth-order spiritual object [Yan Jing Stone]!"
"Huangshamen monk Ma Jingtao presented a congratulatory gift, a third-order high-grade thunder talisman!"
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The voice of the singing people resounded through most of the Red Tiger Mountain.
Every time the name of the treasure is said from the mouth of the singer, it will cause a wave of exclamation in the crowd.
The monks of the Purple Mansion period gave fourth-order spiritual objects, and the monks of the foundation building period gave third-order spiritual objects, which were all standard congratulatory gifts.
However, it is also a fourth-order spiritual object and a third-order spiritual object, and there is a big difference in value, and through the value of the gifts given by the visitor, many people can judge their relationship with the Zhou family through this matter.
Those who are close to the Zhou family, or who want to curry favor with Zhou Yang, will of course try to choose gifts of the same level with higher value when giving gifts.
On the contrary, those who have an average relationship with the Zhou family will try to choose some things of mediocre value when giving gifts.
However, regardless of whether he is close to the Zhou family or not, there is definitely no foundation building monk who will give a second-order spiritual object when giving a gift, because it is better not to give it then.
Of course, there will also be people who show their loyalty and give heavy gifts that exceed their own cultivation.
"The Ma family of Yangquanling presents a congratulatory gift, a fourth-order elixir [Earth Fire Lingzhi]!"
Hiss!
As the voice of the singer fell, the audience couldn't help but hear the sound of inhalation.
Everyone's eyes looked at the monk who offered the gift, that is, Ma Shaoyang, a monk who had just taken refuge in the Zhou family.
No one expected that this seventh-layer foundation building monk would be able to come up with such a rare elixir as "Earth Fire Lingzhi".
You must know that the "Earth Fire Reishi" is not ordinary, this thing can only grow in the crater where magma and earth fire flow, or on the edge of the underground fire abyss.
Because of the special growth environment, it is extremely difficult to grow artificially, so the value is particularly high.
The general hundred-year-old "Earth Fire Lingzhi" is only a third-order elixir, and only a "Earthfire Lingzhi" with more than five hundred years of "Earth Fire Lingzhi" can be counted as a fourth-order elixir.
"Ma Daoyou has a heart, please take a seat. ”
Zhou Yang was stunned for a moment, then immediately nodded with a smile and said hello, letting Ma Shaoyang sit at a table closer to the main table.
Originally, of course, Ma Shaoyang was not qualified to sit at such a high table, but a "Earth Fire Lingzhi" gave him this qualification.
However, people like Ma Shaoyang who are willing to use fourth-order elixir to open the way are definitely only a minority.
Even if the fourth-order spiritual object can't be used, it can be sold for a very lucrative price, and now it is used as a gift to give to others, or it is given in the case of a celebration, which is likely to end up losing money and making money.
There were many monks present, but there were really few people who had this kind of courage.
After all, the meaning of giving a gift is very different from that of giving it in private and giving it in public.
Because there were too many people invited to the Purple Mansion Celebration this time, and some monks who did not receive the invitation but rushed to congratulate them with their own gifts after hearing the news, the gift offering session lasted for most of the day before it ended.
Fortunately, immortal cultivators are a group of people with excellent patience, and in this gift session, you can witness all kinds of spiritual objects in the immortal cultivation world, but no immortal cultivator will be bored with this, on the contrary, most people are watching it with relish, and they can't wait to last longer.
Many people even watched while secretly estimating the value of the congratulatory gift that Zhou Yang received this time.
As a result, many people are smacked for a while.
According to their estimates, even if they take a low value, the total value of the congratulatory gifts received by Zhou Yang for this Purple Mansion Celebration is more than 150,000 spirit stones!
150,000 spirit stones!
That's not a small amount!
Many Zhuji families can't make up so many spirit stones even if they include the value of fixed assets such as the family's spiritual mountain.
And Zhou Yang now just received so many spirit stones just by receiving gifts.
There is a saying: a glimpse of the whole leopard.
What is the influence of the Zhou family now, which can be seen from this gift.
Hearing is false, seeing is believing.
Some of the scattered cultivators who had only heard about how powerful Zhou Yang was and how the Zhou family flourished before, this time they could be regarded as truly seeing Zhou Yang's influence.
After these casual cultivators saw this, some people secretly decided to stay in the Chihu Mountain Oasis for a period of time to see if this place was worth staying in.
In this way, Zhou Yang's purpose of holding the Purple Mansion Celebration was undoubtedly successfully achieved.
Therefore, after the end of the gift session, he also stood up with a smile on his face, arched his hand to the thousands of guests below, and said loudly: "No, Zhou Yang, thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to attend Zhou's Purple Mansion Celebration, and thank you for the gifts just now. ”
How can a celebration be without food and drink?
It is impossible for the gift-giver to return the cost through a meal and drink, but those guests who did not give a gift but came from afar are counting on a good meal to earn a return ticket money.
This is the Purple Mansion Festival, and the food and wine prepared will definitely not be bad, right?
And that's exactly what happened.
In order to make this Purple Mansion celebration a success, the Zhou family stopped selling "Golden Bead Rice" to the outside world a few years ago, and instead transported Linggu to the Chihu Mountain Oasis for storage for this celebration.
At the same time, the various spirit wines brewed by the Zhou family stopped being sold to the outside world and drunk within the clan as early as after Zhou Yang successfully opened up the Purple Mansion, so as to make up enough for such a spiritual wine that could be drunk by thousands of immortal cultivators.
In terms of dishes, in addition to the meat of spirit beasts such as red turkey and velvet rabbit domesticated by the Zhou family, most of the demon beasts killed by the monks of the Zhou family when they cleaned up the oasis of Chihu Mountain over the years were also retained and stored for this celebration.
But that's not enough.
In order to enrich the dishes, the foundation building monks of the Zhou family also personally went to several families that domesticated other kinds of edible spirit beasts to buy a batch of goods, and also bought a lot of edible and medicinal low-level elixirs to use as green vegetables.
There is wine, food and rice, and of course, there is no lack of spiritual fruit.
However, there are not many types of spiritual fruit trees in the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Immortal Realm, and the output is not large, and many of the spiritual fruits produced by the Zhou family have been taken to make wine.
Therefore, in the end, with Zhou Yang's consent, the Zhou family took out another 5,000 low-grade spirit stones for the purchase of various spirit fruits, so as to ensure that each monk on the celebration could get at least one spirit fruit.
In this way, just to prepare the food, wine, and spirit fruit used in the celebration, the Zhou family spent at least more than 70,000 spirit stones!
On average, the amount of spirit stones spent on each monk attending the banquet reached twenty or thirty spirit stones.
With such a sumptuous meal, it is not surprising why some casual cultivators have to travel thousands of miles to eat and drink.
Not only can you eat and drink, but you can also listen to the sermons and teachings of high-level monks after eating and drinking, which can be said to be eating, drinking, and taking.
How can this not attract people?