Ghost Fan Tower.

The woman in Tsing Yi had been kneeling outside Li Changgong's door for an hour.

Under the dim oil lamp, Li Changgong sat in a wheelchair and read with a lamp. He read slowly, pausing for thought at each page, as if this was the only way to appreciate the three flavors of the book, and finally he turned to the last page and slowly closed the book.

"Come in. ”

The woman in Tsing Yi got up and lowered her hand.

"Qingluan, how long have you been following me?"

The woman in Tsing Yi said, "Thirteen years." ”

Li Changgong coughed a few times and said slowly, "I told you, don't provoke Zhao Lanjiang." Why, after all these years of taking care of the business in the building, my wings have hardened, and my words are not good?

The woman in Tsing Yi's face changed drastically, and she knelt on the ground, "Master, Qingluan doesn't mean this. ”

"That is, you think I have lived too long and delayed your future?" Li Changgong untied the skull jade pendant on his waist and said, "Come, or you will do the position of the owner of the building?"

Qingluan fluttered and fell to the ground, arguing: "The subordinates came up with this plan purely out of justice!"

"Oh?" Li Changgong smiled, with a miserable white face, and his smile was a little gloomy. "You want to hear it?"

"In the past six months, Zhao Lanjiang has to make inches of progress, looking for us to ask for money, and the brothers in the building have been extremely dissatisfied with this, complaining, in the long run, the building will not be the building. Therefore, his subordinates and several brothers conspired to kidnap Zhao Tianci in order to negotiate with Zhao Lanjiang. ”

"Hehe, hehe. Li Changgong looked her up and down, "If you want to take it, you must first take it." Such a simple truth, but you don't understand, Qingluan, over the years, your ambition has grown, but your ability has stopped. ”

Qingluan still said: "Our Ghost Fan Tower is an underground country independent of the Hidden Sun, and shoulders the responsibility of guarding the Hidden Sun Great Array, they are under the sun, but we live in endless darkness, Qingluan is not reconciled, and is not convinced." ”

Li Changgong said lightly, "When the light always ends, only the darkness will live forever." I'm angry, it's not that you have to deal with Zhao Lanjiang, but that you don't use your brains. ”

"So what do we do?"

Li Changgong shook his head, "It's not us, it's you." Prepare for the wrath of the Hidden Sun. ”

With that, he picked up his pen and ink, opened the book, turned to a blank page, and slowly wrote two words: "Qingluan." ”

This book is the book of life and death of Guifan Lou.

Li Changgong holds the book of life and death in his hand, and every time a name is added to it, there will be one more corpse in the world. When Li Changgong wrote her name, Qingluan's face was very ugly.

She often lives in the Ghost Fan Tower, knows the power of the Ghost Fan Tower, and knows that under Li Changgong, there are four ghost kings of wine, wealth, and energy, and these four people are above him in martial arts except for the "Qi King". These four ghost kings, who directly obey him, are one of the two forces in the building that she cannot dispatch. The other is the Hidden Sun Array Slave.

The pen settles life and death.

A chill arose from her heart.

She has been subordinate to others for many years, so that one day, she can replace the position of Changgong and become the real master of Ghost Fan Tower and even Hidden Yang City, but today Li Changgong directly announced her death sentence.

Qingluan was not reconciled.

She decided to strike first, thinking of this, she suddenly struck, her hands were like electricity, and grabbed Li Changgong's throat.

As long as she kills Li Changgong in a wheelchair, the skull mark, she will be the new owner of the Ghost Fan Tower.

Qingluan pounced.

There was no one above the wheelchair.

Immediately afterwards, a dark aura shrouded her, Qingluan was cold behind her, and the acupoint had been restrained, and Li Changgong stood behind her, squinting at her.

Qingluan was stunned: "Your legs?"

Li Changgong said, "I don't have any problems with my legs. I'm in a wheelchair, not because I'm lame, but because I'm lazy. ”

There was a cacophony outside the door. Soon, I heard someone come to report: "Master, Zhao Lanjiang led Bai Ma Yi to surround the entrance of the Ghost Fan Tower, and named him to see the master." ”

"Please let them in!" Li Changgong smiled slightly and said to Qingluan: "I won't kill you, your life and death will be decided by Zhao Lanjiang." ”

Li Changgong sat in a wheelchair, and the three young people came out of the darkness, and Qingluan recognized them as the three ghost kings of wine and wealth.

The Qi King is not in the Ghost Fan Tower, two years ago, Li Changgong sent him into the rivers and lakes and let him join the Bright God Sect.

The four ghost kings, who are similar in age to Qingluan, are all trained by Li Changgong, the ghost king kills, and Qingluan is responsible for taking care of the business in the building.

The three of them looked at Qingluan's face, expressionless.

Li Changgong sat back in a wheelchair and was pushed out by the wine king. The other two also took Qingluan out of the house.

When they came to the living room, Zhao Lanjiang, Xiao Jinyan, and Li Chengcheng had been waiting for a long time. They came to ask for sin.

Li Changgong said in a long voice, "I have long heard of the prestige of the city lord of Zhao, I should have visited the door as soon as possible, but I made an oath, I have never been out of the building for thirty years, I only hate the lack of fate, I see it today, it is really a hero out of a young man!"

He glanced at Li Qingcheng again and asked, "You are Li Xiaohua's son, right? If you guess correctly, the Li Guangzu next to the Li family was also killed by you?"

Li Chengcheng looked at him and did not reply.

Zhao Lanjiang was also happy, took over the conversation, and said: "Last time I came to your building, I heard your subordinates say that when you go out to do business, you must have gone from a hole in the ground, right?"

Speaking of this, he glanced at Qingluan behind him.

Qingluan's expression was gloomy and lifeless.

Li Changgong snorted, "What? The old body doesn't know about this, it seems that the children are becoming more and more unscrupulous." ”

Zhao Lanjiang said, "The landlord is so sloppy, I don't beat around the bush, I came today to ask for an explanation." ”

Li Changgong said, "I would like to hear about it." ”

"The demon girl entered the city under the cover of your mansion and snatched my son, this is one of them. On his way back to the city today, my brother Xiao Jinyan was ambushed by the master of your building, which is the second. In the past six months, the cooperation between Yinyang City and Ghost Fan Lou has been quite pleasant. However, Zhao Lanjiang is a foolish person who will be revenged, if he doesn't give an explanation, he will have trouble sleeping and eating, and he thinks about revenge all the time, I am afraid that he will hurt his harmony. ”

Li Changgong said, "After I learned about the entry of the Oriental Holy Maiden into the city, I have sent those people to your mansion. As for the ambush of Xiao Daxia, Li really didn't know about it in advance. ”

Zhao Lanjiang saw that he was also a bachelor, and sneered, "If you don't know a word in advance, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to explain to my brother and subordinates." ”

"Give it to me!"

Li Changgong raised his voice, clapped his hands, and a subordinate brought up a box and opened it in front of them, and there were seven human heads inside.

He pointed at Qingluan, "This woman was raised by me with my own hands, and today's affairs are all caused by her, and I will also hand it over to you to deal with, can City Lord Zhao be satisfied?"

Zhao Lanjiang smiled, "My son was frightened and is still crying. He's a kid, he doesn't like anything else, he likes silver tickets, it's better to borrow three or five million taels from the landlord, I'll take it home to coax my son, and when he stops, I'll return it, how about it?"

Since they met, Li Changgong has endured everywhere, just because he doesn't want to argue with Zhao Lanjiang, but Zhao Lanjiang is aggressive everywhere, and finally can't help but be angry, he said angrily, "Are you coaxing me?"

Zhao Lanjiang shook his head and said, "I don't want such an old son." ”

"You don't want to get an inch. Li Changgong said, "I know that you are strong in martial arts, but the Hidden Yang Great Array is in my hands, if you really want to use force, I am afraid that even the city lord of Zhao will not be able to bargain for anything." ”

Zhao Lanjiang raised the golden knife, "Without the Hidden Yang Great Array, I can still protect the safety of the Hidden Sun, if I kill you, I only need a knife." ”

Li Changgong sneered, "The good sect city lord knows that the big array of the Ghost Fan Tower can protect the safety of the Hidden Yang side, and it can also make the Hidden Yang City disappear in an instant. ”

Zhao Lanjiang laughed, "The landlord really has a good means! Forget it, two million taels." ”

Li Changgong said: "500,000 taels." ”

"One and a half million. ”

"Eight hundred thousand taels. ”

Zhao Lanjiang was categorical, "One million taels, you can't let it anymore, otherwise, it's a big deal to be the city lord, and Lao Tzu won't sit down." ”

Li Changgong said loudly, "Someone!"

The King of Wealth took a few steps forward and came to Li Changgong.

"Hit the money!"

Zhao Lanjiang said: "It's really happy!"

He took two steps forward, lowered his body, leaned down in front of Li Changgong, and said in a low voice, "Landlord, cooperate more in the future, if you want a kickback, you just need to send someone to give you a sentence." With that, he came to Qingluan and said with a smile, "Girl, let's go." ”

The three of them took Qingluan and left the Ghost Fan Tower.

The Wine King said in a dark voice, "It's too much of a deception. ”

Li Changgong waved his hand, "Qingluan is gone, this building, you take care of it for the time being, remember, it's still the same sentence, don't easily provoke Zhao Lanjiang." ”

With that, he coughed violently.

The wine king pushes the cart and sends him back to the room.

The pen and ink are not dry.

He opened the book of life and death, wrote the name of "Zhao Lanjiang" on it with a pen, and muttered, "Let you be noisy for a while, and when the long night comes, everything will be wiped out." ”

He instructed the two ghost kings, "You two go out with me." Prepare a carriage and remember not to see the light. ”

The color king looked like a hanger, he was active by nature, he was bored in the ghost fan tower all day long, he was tired of it, he was quite excited when he heard this, and asked, "Where is the master going?"

Li Changgong said lightly, "Jiangnan, worship the ancestors." ”

......

City Lord's Mansion, Study.

Qingluan came to the City Lord's Mansion for the second time today, but his mood was completely different. Zhao Lanjiang's eyes were like lightning, staring at her all uncomfortable.

"Do you want to die, or do you want to live?"

Qingluan's assassination attempt on Li Changgong failed, even if Zhao Lanjiang didn't kill her, Ghost Fan Lou would not let her go, she already had the will to die, and between her words, she was quite arrogant.

"If you want to kill, you can kill, where is there so much nonsense. ”

Zhao Lanjiang said, "The skill is not big, and the temper is not small." I have a shopkeeper Xu under my hand, and you must know that he has a nickname, called 'Yama Luo Chou', and his methods of torturing people are full of tricks, even if he is the king of Yama, he does not want to fall into his hands. Before March, someone made trouble in Stone Town, and he was arrested, and now he is not dead!"

If you don't die, you live.

To live, life is better than death.

Qingluan listened to Zhao Lanjiang's tone, but did not have killing intent, she originally had the heart of death, but suddenly had the hope of living, and asked in surprise: "You don't kill me?"

"That's up to you. ”

"If you don't kill me, Ghost Fan Lou will kill me too. ”

"Again, it depends on your performance. Zhao Lanjiang said lightly, "At the beginning of the establishment of the city of Yinyang, this Yinyang Great Array was built by the Ghost Fan Tower, how much do you know?"

Qingluan is in his youth, and now he has a glimmer of life, how can he not grasp it, and said, "In the middle of the Ghost Fan Building, it is the Hidden Yang Array Hub, which is guarded by eighteen array slaves in turn, and these array slaves, passed down from generation to generation, obey the orders of the landlord." ”

"Take turns?"

"Three-person groups of three hours. ”

Zhao Lanjiang said, "This job is easy, but I, the city lord, do the work of ninety-nine-six, and I am as bleak as a dog." ”

Qingluan asked, "Do you want to take the ghost Fan Tower?"

Zhao Lanjiang smiled, obviously acquiescing.

The Ghost Fan Tower is independent of the outside of the Hidden Yang City, and it has become a force of its own, guarding the Hidden Yang Great Array of the Hidden Yang Peace, but it is not in the hands of the city lord.

Can you allow others to snore on the side of the couch?

If this problem cannot be solved, Zhao Lanjiang will never be down-to-earth in Yinyang City. So in the past six months, he has found all kinds of excuses, or infiltrated the Ghost Fan Building, or made trouble with the Ghost Fan Building, but he has never been able to find a way, if he can take Qingluan for his own use, it will be different.

In the entire Hidden Yang City, I am afraid that there is no one who is more familiar with the Ghost Fan Tower than her. Now, Qingluan has been abandoned by the ghost Fan Lou, and it is difficult to tolerate the world, only herself can let her survive.

Zhao Lanjiang said lightly, "I'll give you half a year to help me find a way to break through the Ghost Fan Tower." If you can succeed, you will be the owner of the Ghost Fan Building. ”

When Qingluan heard this, there was a rush of excitement in his heart.

Li Changgong is his master, over the years, she has done her best, carefully, fearfully, for fear of doing something wrong, after she made a mistake, she ruthlessly handed her over to buy time for herself, and now that she has the opportunity to take revenge, she will naturally not let go.

Thinking of this, Qingluan fell to his knees.

"Thank you for the city lord's grace of not killing, Qingluan is willing to go to the soup for the city lord. ”

Zhao Lanjiang smiled, "Don't thank me. Don't you want to rob the godsend? From this day on, you will be the handmaiden of God, keeping him safe. ”

Qingluan was stunned, "What?"

When she reconfirmed from Zhao Lanjiang's mouth, she said, "You're not afraid that I will take the opportunity to deal with him?"

Zhao Lanjiang said, "He has a hard life, and he can't die." ”

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Lanjiang said a word that made her completely succumb.

"From this day forward, you will be inseparable from God.

If the heavens weep for more than a moment, you die.

If you lose more than three hairs, you die.

If you are injured by a bumble and a bumble, you die.

If you break your arms and legs, you will die.

If heaven gives you death, you will be worse off than dead. ”

Zhao Lanjiang said again, "You can not agree, I will send you out of the house immediately." Think before you answer. ”

Qingluan looked at Zhao Lanjiang, in the past six months, he had been collecting information about Zhao Lanjiang, but at this moment, he didn't seem to be able to see through what this man was thinking.

It didn't take long for Qingluan to make a decision.

"I promise. ”

Zhao Lanjiang was very satisfied, nodded and said, "The name Qingluan is not good, from today onwards, if you change your name, it will be called Chunhong." ”

Qingluan was full of grievances and said, "Thank you for the city lord's name." ”

"Alright, you go out. ”

Xiao Jinyan looked at her and left, and said, "This woman seems to be a little unconvinced." ”

Zhao Lanjiang said, "This woman is very ambitious, but if she can be tamed, it will be of great use to me, now I have a lot of things, and it is inconvenient for a group of big men to protect me, and it is not convenient to find a maid in the realm of the image for Tianci." ”

After a while, Chai Gongwang rushed in with joy, "City Lord, Ghost Fan Lou has sent a million taels of silver, and I am waiting for a reply in the front hall." ”

Zhao Lanjiang and the others came to the front hall, saw a young man standing in it, saw him coming, and arched his hand, "In Xia Li Yucai, jade is the jade of Baoyu, and wealth is the wealth of the God of Wealth, responsible for taking care of the money in the building, we have just seen it." ”

Zhao Lanjiang laughed, "You are really the God of Wealth of our Hidden Yang City." ”

Li Yucai said: "I was ordered by my master to come to deliver the silver, and asked the city lord of Zhao to send someone to receive it, and I have to go back to restore my life." ”

Zhao Baojiang said, "The owner of your mansion is really trustworthy, he will do what he says, tell him, Zhao has thanked him, and I want to find him to drink when I have the opportunity." ”

After that, he came to a box, opened it and saw that it was full of gold and silver, which was enough to 30,000 taels, Zhao Lanjiang patted the shoulder of the King of Wealth, and said in a low voice, "I heard that my brother has a private house in Baihufang?"

Li Yucai was shocked, and said in his heart that he secretly bought a house in Baihufang, which was extremely secret, and his name was also hung in someone else's name, and even the landlord didn't know it, but he didn't know how Zhao Lanjiang knew about it.

Hearing this, Li Yucai hesitated, "This ......"

Zhao Lanjiang smiled, "It's okay." I know the rules, this box of silver, I will send someone to the house later, they are all in the same city, everyone is a neighbor, look up and don't look down, although each is its master, but I still respect you very much in private. Everyone has a chance, how close, how close!"

Li Yucai waved his hand again and again, and said, "The city lord is serious, this is absolutely unacceptable, absolutely unacceptable!"

"Between you and me, are you still polite?"

"It's better to send it in the middle of the night, when there is no one. ”

After Li Yucai left, Li Chengcheng looked disdainful and said: "Use other people's money to bribe other people's people, you really have you! This is not like Zhao Lanjiang I know!"

Zhao Lanjiang said, "It's all friends!"

Xiao Jinyan stood in front of a box and repeated, "It's all friends, it's all friends!"

Zhao Lanjiang slapped his thigh, "Yes, they are all friends." Friends are as light as water, I'll drink at noon!" and added, "No water!"

Zhao Lanjiang looked at Chai Gong and said, "With a million silver, can the distribution of bonds to the rich gentry and the gates of the rivers and lakes be suspended?"

Chai Gong said, "Never!"

Zhao Lanjiang Qi said, "Why?"

Chai Gongwang analyzed, "Finally, all the major sects and the surrounding rich gentry have come here, and I have planned the 970,000 taels, and I will take out 500,000 yuan as interest, and calculate it at an annual interest rate of 10%, which can be financed 5 million taels, and the interest will be paid first." So that people still don't flock to it?"

"What happens after it expires?"

"We will leave the interest for next year, and another 10 million taels will be raised!"

Li Chengcheng asked, "Won't the deficit get bigger and bigger? What should I do if I can't pay it when it expires?"

Chai Gongwang shook his head and said with a smile, "Li Gongzi is too worried, we are financing money, not for nothing, and we want to mortgage it to them with the land outside Stone City and Yinyang City." When the time comes, all you need to do is raise the price of the house. ”

"Housing prices are getting more and more expensive, won't the people be able to afford to live in them?"

Chai Gongwang shook his head and said, "Control the price, and then circulate in limited quantities, this is one of them." Build low-rent housing so that people have a place to live, and this is the second. We divide the north and south of Stone Town, the south city is the residence of the wealthy, and the north city is the residence of the common people. As long as house prices appreciate, they won't sell. What's more, as long as Stone Town is established as a trading city, there will inevitably be a large influx of people, the city will prosper, and the financial resources will also roll in, the only thing to do is not to fight, everything will fall into place. ”

Li Chengcheng pondered carefully and said, "It's not appropriate." When Stone Town was first built, there must be many loopholes, and there will also be benefits to be transferred, and some rich people will take advantage of the loopholes and make illegal gains, won't it cause public resentment to boil?"

Chai Gongwang laughed and said, "That's exactly what it is." ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"As long as the military power is in hand, these rich people have gathered wealth, and they are fattened pigs, and they are not waiting to be killed? Wouldn't it be nice to kill two birds with one stone?"

Li Chengcheng was impressed, "Chai Gong, how much is the monthly salary in the City Lord's Mansion?"

Chai Gong said, "The silver money is five taels and seven dollars." ”

Li Chengcheng said, "I'll give you fifty-seven taels a month, why don't you go to the Li family in Jinling and help us take care of the accounts?"

"This ......" Chai Gongwang glanced at Zhao Lanjiang, only to see that his face was full of murderous anger, staring at himself, Chai Gongwang said awe-inspiringly, "Chai is a big husband, a big husband stands between heaven and earth, when there is something to do and something not to do, Zhao City Lord treats me well, Chai someone does not want to be a treacherous person for the time being!"

Xiao Jinyan said with a smile, "The word temporary is used very well. ”

Zhao Lanjiang muttered, "For the time being, for the time being, for the time being, ......"

Chai Gongwang said, "City Lord Mingjian, the word temporary, and Chai Mou, is in his lifetime." ”

Zhao Lanjiang nodded, "Even if you can speak, from next month, the monthly salary will be ten taels!"

Chai Gongwang even took the pen and ink and wrote a note, "Please sign the money from the city lord." Zhao Lanjiang reluctantly wrote his name, Chai Gongwang dried the ink, carefully folded it, put it in his arms, and bowed to Li Tingcheng, "Thank you Gongzi Li." ”

......

For two days in a row, Zhao Lanjiang held a banquet on the street in front of the city lord's mansion, and the Jianghu sect, officials in the nineteenth city, and the rich gentry of the township party all came to congratulate, and they were happy, and almost drank all the wine in Yinyang City, and finally couldn't, Zhao Lanjiang had to mix water with the wine.

Chai Gongwang took the opportunity to launch the Stone Town debt, one thousand taels, set a threshold, excluding most of the people, as long as one is paid, you can sit on the interest of one hundred taels every year, of which the interest in the first year is advanced in advance, there is a number of land offset, and you can also enjoy the tax incentives of Stone Town.

This measure quickly spread throughout the surrounding counties and prefectures, and by the third day, it had already made up enough 4.5 million taels, and there was still a shortage of 500,000 taels from the target of 5 million.

Zhao Lanjiang casually handed over the IOU to Xiao Jinyan, "The 500,000 taels will be recovered to you, and if you can get it back, I will give you 10,000 taels." ”

Xiao Jinyan was dissatisfied, "I understand the rules, how can I give Li Yucai three out of a hundred, but give me two out of a hundred?"

Zhao Lanjiang said, "You have saved my life, and you have saved my God-given life, I will deduct 5,000 taels from you, and then give you 5,000 taels, make up 10,000 taels, and also give you a share, which is our thank you gift." ”

"This can't be Chai Gongwang's idea, right?"

Zhao Lanjiang said disdainfully, "He has this brain?"

Xiao Jinyan and Yu Wenshuang have been living in the City Lord's Mansion, together with Si Yun Jiangxue. Mother and daughter recognized each other, and at first there was some raw content, but after all, blood is thicker than water, and after only a few days, it has been very harmonious. When Xiao Jinyan found an opportunity to tell Yu Wenshuang about the Water Moon Cave Heaven, Yu Wenshuang was from a famous family, and he knew the general situation, but he couldn't help but tell him to be careful of that demon witch.

On the third day, when the thanksgiving was finished and the banquet was about to disperse, a team of red-clothed cavalry came to the city of Yinyang.

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