Chapter 40: The Duanmu Family

Duanmu Chuxiong, victory! The sixty-first consecutive defense was successful!

The master of ceremonies shouted excitedly on the rostrum to announce the winner, and the audience in the arena also boiled, especially the female audience seemed to have forgotten the unhappiness and resentment brought by Mu Chuxiong's love for Lingyun at the front end of the fight, shouting and roaring, and all kinds of words of support and love came one after another.

Duanmu Chuxiong raised his head and looked at the guest seats on the rostrum, hoping to see Mu Lingyun's reaction, but he only saw the empty seats, and the representatives of the Martial Arts Alliance on the rostrum, the owner of the arena, and the owner of the largest gambling house in Chen Cheng were unhappy. In other words, if an ordinary person has such a winning streak, and can have the appearance of Duanmu Chuxiong, it must be built according to the martial arts idol, and the value of his surrounding industries is far more than the competitive odds, and he can also control his wins and losses. But Duanmu Chuxiong is a member of the Duanmu family, no matter how good the results are, they are also gilded on the Duanmu family, they are naturally uncomfortable as a dealer who can't get any oil and water, but they are afraid that the power of the Duanmu family can't make small moves.

The three masters and nephews in the audience also quickly left the scene, and they had to take advantage of the crowd to go to the registration office at the door to register. The old rule is that Xiang Jun Hao does not show his face, here is Helan Xuanji also used a light veil to cover half of his face to register for Jun Hao, and over there is Mo Qing holding the place where he bets and waiting for Helan Xuanji to finish reporting, and Xiang Jun Hao's pseudonym is on the battle list and bets blindly to win. Then the three of them left the arena quickly, and in order to prevent being followed, they deliberately spared several circles before finding a restaurant and starting to solve the problem of hungry protests.

As soon as the dish was served, Helan Xuanji, who was already hungry, didn't care about the image of a beautiful woman, took a piece of braised pork and swallowed it in two bites, and then said: "Uncle Shi, when the registrar at the registration office heard Mo Hao's name, guess what he said?"

Mo Qingzhi just stretched out his hand to pick up the vegetables and retracted it, and asked, "What's the matter?" were they surprised?

Helan Xuanji took a bite of rice with a large piece of meat, and said: The registered person said, "Another imitator, I don't know if the strength is strong enough." I asked what was going on, and it turned out that over the years, there have always been some people dressed up like the people in the painting, but they have all been beaten... Uncle Shi didn't expect you to have a fake, hahaha...

Mo Qing pretended to beat her with chopsticks, and said proudly: What kind of fake, obviously I am my fan, or was your uncle and I too dazzling, so many years have passed and are still imitated but have not been surpassed!

Xiang Junhao's side took advantage of the fact that they were poor, and they had already eaten a bowl of rice hungry and then asked for another bowl, and said while they were eating: Then let them see the strength of the follow-up version of authentic Mohao tomorrow... Senior sister, you leave me some fish, don't eat it all, don't grab it...

Mo Qing ate silently while eating, watching these two small daily food grabbing operations, but he quietly sweated in his heart, tomorrow is the time to really verify Xiang Junhao's experience for more than a year. He is confident in Xiang Junhao's strength, but he is still not at ease with his actual combat experience and on-the-spot response. He can only enter the center stadium tomorrow to challenge the champion by breaking through many unknown opponents, and only by winning the final victory can he be pushed to the next stage, so as not to live up to the expectations of those bigwigs and destroy the overall plan.

Tiansheng Empire, Chencheng, Duanmu Mansion

The Duanmu family is a merchant family of the natural empire, and made a fortune from business during the Thirteen Kingdoms of Middle Earth, and there are commercial and trading houses throughout the empire - Rongsheng Xing. After the establishment of the Tiansheng Empire, his ancestors were repeatedly rewarded by the empire for producing several high-ranking martial artists and scholars of the Hanlin Academy, and his power expanded rapidly due to several marriages with the big families of the empire. Nowadays, the leader of the family, Duanmu Wenhe, is good at doing business, but his business methods have always been criticized by his peers as insidious and despicable. But it does not prevent the current Duanmu family from becoming second to none in Yanzhou and one of the few wealthy businessmen in the Tiansheng Empire.

Now Duanmu Wenhe no longer cares about specific affairs because of his old age, and the eldest son Duanmu Dongcheng is responsible for the family's business. He was quite a business talent, when he was just an adult, his family sent him to Yizhou branch to experience, a few years later, under the care of Duanmu Dongcheng, the profit of Yizhou branch skyrocketed and became the highest income branch of Rong Shengxing. However, Duanmu Dongcheng still felt that the growth rate of wealth was slow, and the profits from selling were limited. So he used his evil thoughts, he was good at advocating bribing half of the profits of the semicolon that year to the local governor of Yizhou and the senior officials of the salt road, so that they could legally hand over more than eighty percent of the business of well salt to Rong Shengxing, and after Duanmu Dongcheng almost monopolized the well salt business, he raised the price, and he also used the remaining money to set up a loan bank to other merchants selling salt. Due to the support of the governor and senior officials of Yandao, the profit of Rongsheng Xingyizhou Branch in one year is more than double the principal he invested.

At this moment, in the private living room of the small building in the backyard of Duanmu Mansion, Duanmu Dongcheng, Yan Zhihao, Mu Lingyun and other cadres are located here. This parlor was built by Duanmu Dongcheng in a small building in the backyard, specially built to meet special people, and it has a secret entrance and exit from the house through the backyard under the rockery to the bamboo forest open space behind the Duanmu mansion. Although it is a private living room, the interior of the house is also full of luxury, hollow carved folding doors, hollow carved tables and chairs, thick log floors, colorful chandeliers and decorative shelves in very exquisite jade and antiques, everywhere revealing the rich and wealthy atmosphere of the merchants.

Mu Lingyun sat there with a displeased face since she came back from the arena, and she didn't want to talk, and Uri sat beside her and quietly sipped tea. A month ago, Mu Lingyun and Bolt left their home Xuancheng to go to the junction of Youzhou and Jizhou to pick up an item, and the information was transmitted to the clan master, that is, Mu Lingyun's mother, in exchange for a letter with sharp wording and severe scolding. Mu Lingyun, who has always been arrogant, was most afraid of her mother's disappointment and harsh criticism, and was directly angry and cried after seeing the letter, and then she was in a bad mood all the time. Today, I was supposed to go to the arena to show my face at the invitation of Taishou and the local magnates in order to deal with the things on the scene, but I didn't expect to be made so angry by the brainless Duanmu Chuxiong, and I was abused by the women in the arena for no reason, and I was extremely unhappy.

Originally, she didn't want to come to Duanmu Mansion to participate in the deliberations, and on weekdays, these things were handled by Master Uri and she didn't need to worry about it, but Uri persuaded her to give the Duanmu family a face as the young master first, and secondly, this deliberation was extremely important, and the clan lord would not be angry if it was completed. So Mu Lingyun had to come patiently, but as soon as she entered the mansion, she saw Duanmu Chuxiong's brainless and unknown paste, and she didn't fight anywhere, and she didn't have a good face until she entered this house.

Duanmu Dongcheng saw that Mu Lingyun's face was not good since he came in, and he didn't speak in a good tone, so he stepped forward and asked: Young Master Mu, why is this troublesome? If it is on the ground in Chen Cheng, Duan Mou should still have some way.

Hearing this, Uri thought to himself that Duanmu Dongcheng didn't know about the arena yet, and Mu Lingyun wanted to say that it was your idiot son who did it, but was stopped by Uri in front of him with words. He said: My young lady was reprimanded by our clan master some time ago, and the reprimand was heavier, and her mood has not been very good recently, so I forgive me.

Duanmu Dongcheng smiled embarrassedly when he heard this, we can't tell anything about other people's affairs, so I had to say along the way: The Mu clan master is really a strict family education, I see that the Mu young master is already very disciplined at a young age, but I didn't expect the Mu clan master to still be quite demanding, if my male has half of the Mu Shao Master's ability to do things, I will be pleased.

It's okay not to mention it, but I can't hold back when I mention it, Mu Lingyun doesn't care about anything, and directly said to Duanmu Dongcheng: Please ask Uncle Duanmu to discipline your young master Duanmu, I, Mu Lingyun, am not a frivolous woman outside, I don't want any future fiancée to be called in the future, I have the final say on who to marry or not, and in addition, please ask him to appear less in front of me in the future, I don't want him to ruin our cooperation.

Duanmu Dongcheng is even more embarrassed, it turns out that it is the rabbit cub who knows that it is smelly every day. But it was the first time that he was scolded by a little girl like this in front of the Yan family and other people in his own family, and his own face was a little unbearable. Even if you are the eldest lady of the Mu family who is second to none in the north and the best person we need to continue to work with, you can't say it so directly and nakedly, even if you complain, it's a low-key private statement with some strategy and emotional intelligence.

Uri hurriedly played a round game, and said to Duanmu Dongcheng: Don't mind, Duanmu Prince, the young master of my family sometimes just doesn't do more, please forgive me. There was some misunderstanding between the two children, which caused some estrangement, and they turned around and disciplined them privately and said that it would be okay to clear them. That's it, anyway, our clan lord has authorized me to talk about this discussion, why don't we let the young master go back to the inn to rest first, what do Duanmu Grand Princes, Yan Gongzi and you think?

As soon as everyone heard that they didn't have any opinions, they all knew that Mu Lingyun was now a mascot and was placed there to show you the sincerity of my Mu family, anyway, the specific matter had to be discussed with the old housekeeper. However, Duanmu Dongcheng, although he has no opinion on Uri as a representative, the sentence "turn around and discipline in private" clearly says that I have no way to teach my Duanmu family, and I have to protect the calf to preach in private.

Mu Lingyun was eager to leave when she heard this, and then she saluted you as a junior very politely, and then left the secret room with the maid waiting outside the door under the guidance of the Duanmu Mansion family. Duanmu Dongcheng was in a displeased, so many people watched, and he was scolded by a little girl and ridiculed by a housekeeper. Then he turned his head and instructed his subordinates: Come on, go and do two things. The first thing to do is to go to the best brocade shop, rouge shop, and jade shop in the city, and pick the best one and send it to Miss Mu's inn as an apology for my Duanmu Mansion. The second thing is to tie up Duanmu Chuxiong and serve the family law, fifty sticks, and then go to the ancestral hall to kneel and reflect, when I will let it out and come out again.