XLIV. Chores
Ji Tiandu has survived the current difficulties, and Huang Chang is also very happy - it is definitely a good deal to use a peach to make up for the rift that Su Tiecheng may have caused between the Xi family and the Huang family before, and to solve his own worries by the way.
Just like on Kunlun Mountain, he also has a large number of relatives and friends to visit here - his grandfather Chen's family, his in-laws Xue's family, his quasi-in-laws Xu's family, and some other close people's homes.
And what is more troublesome than being on the Kunlun Mountains is that he can't go alone. Although Huang Chang knows that the core is to show up on his own. But when I go to different people's homes, I still have to have different people, and I can only go as an escort - I have to accompany my mother to Chen's house, I have to follow my brother and sister-in-law to Xue's house, and I have to go to Xu's house...... Well, it was with my mother, saying that I was leading my younger brother Huang Mi to go to the door to play.
It is also very complicated in terms of etiquette, although if he flies the shuttle, he can run back and forth between these houses in one day, but in practice, each family must send a servant to make an appointment several days in advance, and he can only visit one family a day, and he cannot come in a row, so as not to cause a difference in priority, which is really troublesome.
With the vision and thoughts of his immortal cultivators, it is definitely impossible to say that he has a common language with these mortals in Baonan City who have long been accustomed to a comfortable life. However, since he promised his family to come forward, Huang Chang was also patient and patiently communicated with him, which can be regarded as experiencing the tempering of Hongchen.
Huang Chang has always been very comfortable with the merchant atmosphere in his grandfather's family; the Xue family, as a martial arts family, can also talk to him; even the Xu family, although it is declining, is still a strong family, which makes him scratch his head a little, but with the experience gained from reading Jinjiang in his previous life, he can also chat with him a few words.
Only for those women in the back house who are used to the shortness of the family, Huang Chang is not sensitive, but he is most interested in this group of old ladies. And when it comes to his mother, sister-in-law's elders and friends, and he came here for goodwill, and it is not easy to avoid it, so he can only pinch his nose and perfunctory with him.
The only thing that made him feel relieved was that after knowing that the Ji family had learned the inside information, his mother quietly took the initiative to release the news of his engagement to Princess Da Zhou, so now there are finally no little girls with bright eyes scratching their heads in front of him. Even if there is, it's all done in private, the kind that doesn't care about the name, and without the support of the elders, he doesn't have to care at all.
After running around for several days, he finally fulfilled the etiquette one by one, and at the same time negotiated with several relatives and friends about the next step of cooperation - Huang Chang previously took his younger siblings and the Chen family and the children of the Xue family to the capital to open the way, and they would naturally write their own letters home. It is impossible to hide the news of Huang Chang's cooperation with the Prince's Mansion in the capital of Ho, of course, he didn't plan to hide it, the more people know about the good situation over there, the better, why hide it!
So in the past few days, he has worked hard to accompany his mother around, on the one hand, he is to take favors, and on the other hand, he really needs to talk to people about business. My grandfather's family had already agreed, and the third uncle Chen Yan was already on the side of Haojing, and this time the second uncle Chen Hu also rushed back from other places to talk to him in detail.
Chen Hu's status in the Chen family is that he is an expatriate, responsible for overseeing the Chen family's business in other places - the old man of the Chen family is still very far-sighted, and he has long seen that the pond in Baoguo is too small to raise big fish. Besides, there is still a dragon coiled for a long time - the retainers and relatives of the Ji family will definitely occupy the best position, and the Chen family will never be able to open the situation here.
So although it is customary to let the eldest son stay at home and keep his business, he sent the second son out to create, even if he lost money, he has always insisted on it, and although he has not created a big situation until now, he needs to make up for it every year, but at least he has trained a team.
And this time, Chen Hu planned to take over the branches in other places, and all those petty mortal transactions were abandoned, and the focus was shifted to the pickaxe capital, and from then on, he changed to the business of immortal spirits. The pickaxe capital city is full of dragons and tigers, and the water is very deep, but since he has a nephew from the Kunlun faction as a backing, and there is still a prince of the Ji family in the transaction, then Chen Hu also has the courage to fight.
The rest of the Xue family, the Xu family, is also one of the shareholding members. The Xue family had already made up their minds, and their eldest son Xue Yong had followed, but the Xu family had always hesitated before, and it was not until this time that they finally made up their minds. Even though the second grandmother of the Xu family is strong and decisive, she can't manage foreign affairs. Her daughter's marriage can still be said to be her own mother's decision, and it is too arrogant to meddle in the family's external business - she is not Wang Xifeng after all.
If it weren't for the news of Huang Chang's engagement to Princess Ji in Hojing, the Xu family would still be hesitant to this day. But after the news spread, they were in a hurry. It's just that the men of the Xu family are really useless, and in this case, they are embarrassed to speak in person, so when Huang Chang's mother and son go to the Xu family as guests, Xu Er's grandmother came forward and said a lot of side knocks, in short, the core still wants to join in.
Huang Chang has nothing to do with this, anyway, the Xu family has a limited background and the investment is not large, so he will just be a small shareholder when he comes in. So Huang's mother was in charge, and in the name of her daughter-in-law Xu Wenjing, she also took a share of the newly opened shop.
Even Ji Tiandu, when he was drinking with Huang Chang before, revealed the idea of wanting to cooperate with him - although the Ji family monopolized Baoyun Mountain, the demand for spiritual objects could never be satisfied, and from the perspective of immortal cultivators, this spiritual land was really barren.
However, Huang Chang advised him to be quiet and not move at this time, and his attention should be focused on the most critical things for him, and there was no need to rush to start another stove. When the general trend has been decided, are you afraid that there will be no chance in the future?
Ji Tiandu understood it as soon as he heard it, and it did make sense to think about it. If the father thinks that he is too ambitious and does not care about the affairs of the country, maybe the son will have extraneous branches. So he dispelled this idea and only said that it would be later.
In this way, after staying in Baonan City for more than half a month, and after dealing with these miscellaneous matters, Huang Chang was finally able to take time to see how the "Senior Brother Yao" who had been buried by himself in the mass grave outside the city was doing, and whether he had made some progress in his own cultivation?
Previously, when Yao Xiu was breaking through from the second layer of qi refining to the third layer, Huang Chang briefly felt a thought emanating from that body, as if he wanted to cultivate alone. That thought only lasted for a short moment before disappearing, and Huang Chang wasn't even sure if it was his hallucination, but he still found a suitable place and placed Senior Brother Yao there.
This time, when he went over to check, when he walked near the Yin Fu Land, Huang Chang's face moved slightly—the protective formation he had set up around had traces of being touched!