Baihualou, Tianzi No. 1 private room.

Miss Qin got up and walked to the windowsill with lotus steps, stretched out her hand to push open the window, the wind outside blew in, disturbing a few strands of green silk, the jade hand fingers gently twisted the few strands of green silk and circled, and the sound of the door opening came behind her, and Miss Qin did not look back.

"Aunt Fei, what happened outside just now?"

"Miss, it's those three Qingyun Sect disciples who have a quarrel with the Lin family!"

"Well, you can take care of such trivial matters, don't cause any trouble. ”

"Yes, miss. ”

"Miss, there's a guest outside who wants to see you!"

When Miss Qin heard that someone wanted to see her, an impatient expression appeared on her face, "Which of our sons is it, right?" ”

Seeing that Fei Niang was a little hesitant, Miss Qin asked, "What, is it very difficult?"

"Miss, I'm afraid you have to see this person!"

"Oh?"

Fei Niang trotted over and whispered in her ear. Miss Qin put down the finger that wrapped around the green silk and frowned lightly.

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Mengze Commercial Bank is not the top commercial bank, neither financial resources nor commercial bank coverage can be compared with those top-ranked commercial banks, but in this Chu country, those top commercial banks are unwilling to easily provoke Mengze Commercial Bank, even if there is any entanglement of interests in the business, they will leave three points of leeway, and the right should be to give the owner of Mengze Commercial Bank a few thin faces.

Mengze Commercial Bank Xianren City Branch is located in the southeast corner of Xianren City, surrounded by topography, with a pattern of wealth from all directions. There are two stone statues of Pixiu in front of the door, carved lifelike, several eyes of the stone Pixiu are embedded in the ruby, if you stare at it for a long time, you will feel that the whole person is sucked into the abyss.

Lin Luo and the two servants went back to the branch of the Immortal City, went straight to the backyard, and when they arrived at the courtyard door of the backyard, they asked the two servants to guard here, and they walked to the door of the study alone and knocked on the door twice. After a while, a majestic voice came from inside: "Come in." ”

The man in the study held a jade brush in his hand, splashed ink, flowing water, and when he was almost finished, he soaked the brush and put it on the pen holder on the table, looked up at the figure who came in, picked up the hot towel on the plate held by the maid standing next to him, rubbed his hands, put the towel back and said to the maid, "Go down." ”

The maid bowed her knees, "Yes." He walked around the forest with a plate and retreated.

There were only Lin Luo and the middle-aged man left in the study, and Lin Luo stepped forward and said, "Father, do you know about Baihualou?"

"What?"

"Father, Fei Niang, the steward of Baihua Building, is a major repairer!"

The middle-aged man turned out to be Lin Luo's father, Lin Xie, the head of the Immortal City branch of Mengze Commercial Bank.

Lin Xie didn't show any surprise, just looked at his own ink on the table, and said lightly: "I know." ”

Lin Luo saw his father's expression, and guessed in his heart that his father was afraid that he already knew, so he opened his mouth to confirm, "Father already knew?"

"Hmm. ”

Lin Luo continued to ask, "Then why did you never mention it to the child?"

"There are some things, when the time comes, you will know. ”

Lin Luo was silent, since his father said so, it means that he is not qualified to participate in this matter, at least not now.

The atmosphere in the room was dull, Lin Xie withdrew his gaze from looking at the desktop, looked up at Lin Luo, sighed, and said: "You are also so old, don't just care about pleasure, you also have to cultivate well, and when you have nothing to do, you can contact the business of the business house more often, and help me as a father." Look at who you've been with all day long, and if you don't learn every day, you know how to fight fiercely. Luo'er, you are different from them, the Lin family needs you to be in charge in the future, and you must not delay yourself because of some trivial matters. ”

Lin Luo pursed his lips, and could only say because of his father's majesty: "Yes." ”

Lin Xie shook his head, he naturally knew that Lin Luo didn't listen to his words, for so many years, he was busy with the business of the commercial house, and he neglected to discipline Lin Luo, and now he doesn't know where to start even if he wants to manage it. He had heard everything Lin Luo did on weekdays, and as long as he didn't cross the line too much, he ignored it. Fortunately, the firm still has some strength, which is enough to toss around.

"How did you know that Fei Niang of Baihualou was overhauled?"

Lin Luo was about to say what happened today, and suddenly remembered the words that his father had asked him to remember: Immortals don't mess with Qingyun Sect, and the old city doesn't enter Liujiadian. Shadow puppet play in the corner of the street and alley, and the wooden wedge is contemptuous of the old man.

These four sentences are limericks circulated among the forces of the Immortal City, and each sentence in the poem represents a taboo in the Immortal City, which is also a secret that is not a secret in the Immortal City.

Thinking of this, Lin Luo's mind was lively, thinking about how to explain it to his father.

"Hmm~"

Lin Luo didn't reply for a long time, Lin Xie stretched out his finger and asked sternly, "Did you go out to make trouble again?"

Lin Luo took half a step back and said stiffly: "No, they ridiculed me first!"

"Who is it?"

"Qingyun ......"

"How do I usually teach you, is this Immortal City a place where you can be presumptuous at will? Even the people of Qingyun Sect dare to provoke, do you think that my Mengze Firm has stayed enough in this Immortal City?

"It's just a few outer disciples of the Qingyun Sect, what are you afraid of!"

"Shut up, let me go back to the wall, I'm not allowed to go out of this house without my permission!"

Lin Xie was so angry that his raised hand kept trembling, and he was angry.

Lin Luo was also yelled at with a temper, "If you don't come out, you won't come out!"

Lin Luo pushed open the door of the study, went back to his room angrily, and took two servants with him when he passed by the court door.

Lin Xie in the study was lying on a chair, rubbing his temples with his index finger and thumb, his cheeks on both sides were slightly agitated, and he commanded behind him: "Go, find out who the young master provoked today?"

"Yes. ”

A respectful answer came from the darkness behind him, low and hoarse. The fire in the house swayed from side to side, and it was calm again.

After a long time, Lin Xie got up, walked to the fifth grid of the bookshelf, and moved one of the books called "Chu Gezhi" three inches to the left, not more than an inch, not too much in an inch. The bookshelves shook, there was a rumbling sound in the room, and the wall behind the sandalwood table turned backwards, revealing a dark passage. After Lin Xie entered it, the wall rotated against the clock, exactly one circumference.

The furnishings in the house have not changed at all, only the three-inch "Zug Zhi" that has been moved can be seen to be different.

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In the evening, the old city street is still full of people, not affected by the sky at all, there is a shop in the antique alley, no one sets up a stall in front of the store, obviously the door of the store is wide open, but the pedestrians passing by are all rushing by with their heads bowed, not daring to stop. There was a woman in front of the door, dressed in a bright red jacket, and hung an apron with a bag in front of the apron, which was bulging. From time to time, the woman reached in and grabbed a handful of things, put them in her mouth and bit them "click, click", and then spit them out with a "bang".

The chair was a few years old, and the woman sat and swayed, making a creaking sound.

Different from the bustle of the old city street, there is a civilian street called Puppet in the northwest corner of the fairy city, and there are fewer pedestrians on the street, and the houses in the street are lit with a little spark.

"The little old man is playing!"

I don't know who shouted on the street, and the originally quiet street suddenly became lively, and two or three people from each house rushed out with chairs and shouted......

There was an old man at the end of the street, holding a cigarette stick, listening to the shouts of the street, knocking on the front steps of the door with his bucket head, shaking out a few cigarettes, and then pouring the cigarette from the cigarette pouch into the pipe, lighting it with a fire box, taking a few puffs, spitting out the smoke, showing a mouthful of yellow teeth and snorting disdainfully.

The twilight of dusk shrouds this immortal city, adding a bit of mystery. In the distance is Qingyun Mountain, and the shadow of the peak of the Twelve Peaks of Qingyun happens to fall on the sky above this immortal city, as if looking down......