Chapter 574: Conflict of Interest (5)
Zhou Papi took out a few pieces of jewelry from the safe, thought about it, added a few more silver tickets, put them in his arms, called a few cronies' domestic servants, and went to the city of Fujian Province. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the provincial capital, there is the palace of the Luofu faction.
Zhou Papi entered the provincial capital, although the provincial city is not a development zone, it is not as good as Hangzhou has all kinds of strange things in the scientific gate, but bicycles and hot air balloons also appear on the streets, and some teahouses also have tape recorders, in order to attract guests, a big speaker was put at the door, and it sang loudly: "Fahai, you don't understand love, Leifeng Tower will fall, we are together, never separated--"
If it was a normal time, even if Zhou Papi was reluctant to pay money, he would take a good look at the shops, and when he returned home, he could also brag to a few women in the room as a talking point, but today Zhou Papi was pressed in his heart, how to be in the mood to go shopping, calm his face, one hand unconsciously pressed into the arms of the money and jewelry, hurriedly passed through the market, and left the palace to the Louvre faction in the city center.
The Luofu Palace, just like the Tianyi Pavilion in Yinzhou, is the most splendid building in the whole city, and the idle people can't get close to it, and there are miscellaneous servants sent by the government around to clean up the streets, rectify public security, and drive away hawkers and beggars.
If there is any difference from the past, that is, the Yunxiao Hall in the center of the palace was the tallest building in the entire provincial capital, but since several officials and wealthy families invited engineers from the Science Gate, several reinforced concrete buildings were built, which had their own generators, tap water, complete bathroom facilities, and floor-to-ceiling glass mirrors.
However, there is one bad thing about such a building, that is, the floor is too high, and climbing the stairs between the top and bottom can exhaust people, and the engineers of the Science Gate originally suggested installing elevators, but those officials and rich people do not like the elevator room like a closed coffin, and wave their hands -- isn't it just the height of the floor? It doesn't matter, the master goes up and down the stairs and makes people carry sliding rods! Fujian lacks everything, so there is no shortage of poor ghosts who work hard.
If it was a flat-headed common people to build such a building that is higher than the palace, the palace master would have sent his subordinates to demolish it, but those who can build such a building are not rich and expensive in the provincial capital, and some have intersected with the palace master for many years, so the palace master has to pinch his nose and admit it.
During this period, there were also people who persuaded the palace master to invite a few engineers from the Science Gate to come and build a few buildings, the architectural styles of the Science Gate were varied, and the shape could be "the same style" as the original palace room of the Palace, and there was absolutely no "sense of disobedience".
The palace master of the palace refused with a smile in his face, turned around, and almost smashed the jade ruyi in his hand, I Luofu faction wants to build a palace room, where do I need the help of science gate engineers? The science gate is just a few strange tricks, and where can the reinforced concrete compare to the subtlety of the spell of turning mud into stone?
Zhou Papi privately heard the disdain of the palace master of the palace for the Science Gate, and it was with this idea that he hurried to the palace for help after provoking the Science Gate.
Zhou Papi and his party came to the side door of the palace, and a few big men who were guarding the door had already come up, with a fierce look on their faces to drive people away, Zhou Papi took out a jade pendant from his sleeve and shook it at the big man guarding the door.
The big man guarding the door recognized it on the spot, this is the brand of the disciples outside the palace, raised his hand, let Zhou Papi enter the door, but several other servants were still stopped outside, when Zhou Papi entered the door with a jade pendant, the eyes of the door god statues attached to the doors on both sides turned slightly, and the weapons in his hands were clenched, obviously, this god is actually a magic weapon, if it were not for Zhou Papi holding a jade pendant, whoever dared to break into the palace, this door god would have been hit down with a blow and died on the spot.
After Zhou Papi entered the palace, he didn't dare to look left and right, although he was an outer disciple, he was actually just a rural landlord, because he was in charge of the cultivation of kudzu grass in several places, out of convenience, he got the identity of this outer disciple. Zhou Papi stuck to the root of the wall, nodded and hunched when he saw people all the way, searched and touched, and came to a side room.
Zhou Papi was just about to raise his hand to knock on the door, the door was windless and automatic, and slowly opened, and on the couch in the side room, a scorched and yellow-skinned cultivator snorted: "Zhou Papi, I know that you are coming to me today with a finger, but why are you here?"
Zhou Papi smiled as if he had seen his father, and bowed to him: "Immortal Jia Chang, the disciple hasn't seen the immortal chief for a while, so he really remembered it tightly, so he specially came to see the immortal chief, and by the way, he offered some filial piety to the immortal chief." ”
Zhou Papi said, while taking out the jewelry and silver ticket in his arms, and put it on the small coffee table in front of the couch, Na Jia Xian's eyelids moved slightly, and sneered: "Zhou Papi, you know that I and other cultivators, what we seek is spiritual power, it is immortality, these things are not dirty in my eyes, take them back quickly." ”
Zhou took a bite of the skin, and took out a string of pearls from his arms, only to see that the beads were the size of a thumb, faintly shining, extremely rare, although Jia Xianchang had seen a lot of mortal jewelry, but he also raised his eyebrows, and he was a little moved.
Jia Xianchang shook his head: "Zhou Papi, Zhou Papi, what did you do this time? My Luofu faction has been based in Fujian for 7,000 years, and virtue has been praised by all over the world, and you are praised by all the people. If I know that you are doing illegal things outside, hmph, even if the government does not pursue it, I will use a decree to destroy your soul and not be reincarnated. ”
Zhou Papi was overjoyed when he heard this, knowing that although Jia Xianchang said harshly, he was actually already on his side, although he took out several coffins from his family collection this time, but it seemed that he had avoided a catastrophe, as long as his life was still kept, there would still be a chance to scavenge from the mud legs in the future.
Zhou Papi called Qu Lai, who hit the sky: "Jia Xianren, the disciple is a human being, he only knows how to grow kudzu grass for the immortals in the mountains, where do you dare to do anything wrong, this time, you are really being bullied." ”
Jia Xian snorted coldly: "Although this sect is generous, it can't be bullied by others, what is going on?" ”
Zhou Papi pressed his throat and said: "Jia Xianchang, you know, the villain led a few pieces of spiritual land of the Luofu faction, and used it exclusively to plant kudzu grass, although this kudzu grass uses drip irrigation and three-dimensional cultivation techniques, it still needs a large number of people to take care of it every day, and the villain is even more hands-on, do it yourself, you old man, look at it, my body has lost a lot of weight." The kudzu herb that the villain hands in every year is of excellent grade, and the villain has no merit, and there is hard work. ”
Jia Xianchang was a little impatient, such as a landlord like Zhou Papi, who helped the Luofu faction to plant low-level immortal grass and immortal trees, there are countless people in Fujian, how could he even bother him with this trivial matter? If it weren't for the fact that he was looking at the pile of property in front of him, he would have let Zhou Papi get out of here.
Zhou Paopi also saw the impatience on Jia Xianchang's face, and hurriedly put away his crying and said: "But recently, there has been a big trouble with the villain, many young and strong laborers have been seduced by outsiders, abandoned the fields and did not plant, and have gone to the city factory to become workers. The villain's field is no longer cultivated, and the matter of cultivation is small, but the kudzu grass of the immortals sent by Luofu is also unattended! In the past few days, even the little ones have coaxed their wives and children into the kudzu grass, working day and night, but they still haven't been able to finish the work. If this continues, this year's kudzu harvest will be completely destroyed. ”
Jia Xianchang sneered: "The surname is Zhou, the Luofu faction is not a good hall, if the harvest of Ge Caotian is not good this year, then it will be to blame you, when the time comes, even if you take out all your family wealth to atone for the crime, it will be useless, you know, all the immortals of the Luofu faction are waiting for the Ge Cao Dan Pharmaceutical Refining." ”
Jia Xian's words were a bit of a lie and intimidation, the kudzu grass pill produced in Zhou Papi's land was nothing more than a drop in the bucket for the entire Luofu faction, if it would affect the harvest of the entire sect? The reason why he scared Zhou Papi so much was just to take the opportunity to knock out more money.
Zhou Paopi was scared half to death, all his prestige in front of the village was given by the Luofu faction, the Luofu faction wanted him to live, and if he wanted to die, he would die - in fact, there was no need to alarm the immortal chief of the Luofu faction, only the people who left the palace made a move, and Zhou Paopi also had to obediently give the head.
It's just that Zhou Papi is also a little clever, he has already calculated on the way to the palace, if he only mentions his own affairs, it is too small, and he can't enter the eyes of Jia Xianchang who leaves the palace, and he has to implicate and expand the matter in order to attract the attention of the immortals.
Zhou Papi cried and said with a sad face: "The immortal wants to kill the villain, and the villain will never dare to complain, the villain is a person from the Luofu faction in life, and the ghost of the Luofu faction is dead in death." It's just that now the laborers in the villages are tempted and seduced, and there is not only one villain, the villain thinks, if the children of the outer doors outside the palace in Fujian encounter things like the disciples, and all the households that plant fairy grass and spiritual trees have run out, this, this is a big thing that stabs the sky!"
Jia Xianchang sneered, and was about to scold Zhou Papi for talking nonsense, in this Fujian, the Luofu faction is dominant, occupying the best psychic treasure land, and there are as many as seven people in the sect who have reached the realm of heavenly immortals, known as the Luofu Seven Immortals, and where are the cultivation sects that dare to come to the power of the Luofu faction to make trouble.
At this time, I heard Zhou Papi say: "The one who came to seduce people was the Science Gate." The Science Gate opened a lot of factories in Jiangsu and Zhejiang next to it, and there was a shortage of labor, so they came to our Fujian to tempt the young and strong young men, so that they could not farm at ease. Among them, there is a man named Liang Desheng, who is a farmer in the villain's village, who secretly abandoned the field and ran to Hangzhou, not to mention, but also slipped back, and made clever words, not only bewitching the strong laborers in the village to run to Hangzhou like him, but also shouting that the Science Gate did not take the Luofu faction in his eyes at all. The villain was a disciple of the Luofu faction outside the palace, and he couldn't bear to be humiliated by his master, so he taught Liang Desheng's father Liang Laohan a lesson. Unexpectedly, Science Gate deliberately took Liang Laohan to Hangcheng and implemented the skull replacement technique to humiliate my Luofumen. Thinking that Liang Laohan is just a pariah, his life is cheaper than a dog, but the Science Gate deliberately consumes spiritual power, casts spells, and replaces the head of a demon monkey with the head of a human to make it reborn. This, this is simply slapping my Luofu Gate in the face, secretly inciting the untouchables, and opposing my Luofu faction!"
Zhou Papi's words, in fact, are a bit reluctant, whether it is recruiting workers in the Science Gate, or saving Liang Laohan, it really has nothing to do with opposing the Luofu faction, but Zhou Papi is also anxious, he understands in his heart that if he does not drag the Luofu faction into the water, when Liang Desheng returns to the village in the future, he will definitely not have his own good.
Even if you don't drag the entire Luofu faction into the water and drag the Jia Immortal people in front of you into this circle of right and wrong, sometimes, as long as people enter the circle of right and wrong, it is not so easy to get out. Whether it is a human being or an immortal, they are all troubled by cause and effect. If you change to someone else, your nonsense may not be effective, but who makes it Jia Xianren in front of him? Jia Xianren loves mortal goods, but he is famous.
Zhou Papi is wrong, Jia Xianren loves money, but the small money that Zhou Papi sacrificed has not been put in his eyes, on weekdays, Zhou Papi, a disciple of the outer sect, a small landlord in a remote area, curries favor with Jia Xianren, Jia Xianren naturally smiles and gives a few good words, anyway, he doesn't need to pay much spiritual power himself.
But this time, Zhou Papi encountered a difficult matter, involving the harvest of fairy grass and spirit wood, but Jia Xianren was reluctant to intervene - no one wanted to touch this kind of unlucky thing, big deal, just assign all the land under Zhou Papi's name to another landlord who has the ability to operate.
However, just as Jia Xianren was about to coax Zhou Papi out of the side room, he suddenly heard the three words Science Gate, and Jia Xianren frowned - this Science Gate himself has not heard much in the past year. I heard that there are a few senior brothers who went to the development zone of the Science Gate, took on a few engineering projects, and exchanged for several good magic weapons, but their mana is low, and they are just an ordinary disciple who has left the palace.
But how did this science gate get on with our Luofu faction? Is it really as Zhou Papi said, the science gate is aimed at the Luofu faction?
Jia Xianren laughed a little, the rise of this Science Gate has only been a few years, and our Luofu Sect has thousands of years of foundation, how can the Science Gate take the initiative to provoke the Luofu Sect?
However, Jia Xianren didn't know why, he had some doubts in his heart, he took out a handful of copper coins for the first time, and threw it on the table, but it was a hexagram, it didn't matter, Jia Xianren was so shocked that his eyes almost jumped out - just in the past two or three months, nearly one-third of the labor in the villages under the Luofu sect has been lost!
How so?!
If it weren't for Zhou Papi to report, he wouldn't have known that the situation was so serious-- in fact, this was Jia Xianren's own negligence. As the person in charge of the management of the cultivation of immortal grass and spirit trees in the mortal world, he was supposed to keep an eye on the spiritual lands in various places and supervise the production.
But for more than 1,000 years, the villagers of Zhuanghu have been farming honestly, and they have never made trouble with demon moths, and Jia Xianren is naturally too lazy to go to the countryside, just like those so-called cadres in the village in the 21st century.
Jia Xianren just ate and drank in the palace to live a stable life, who knew that in the past few years, there have been changes that have not been seen in a thousand years -- the villagers have stopped farming!
Jia Xianren was really a little anxious now, and stomped his feet and scolded Zhou Papi: "You killing talent, such an important matter, how can you tell me at this time? You won't order a spiritual incense for me?!"
--The so-called point branch of spiritual incense, in fact, is to report to the immortals through the incense with its own spiritual power, and can also be used for communication in the army, Jia Xianren made some incense and handed it to the landlords who were under their own jurisdiction such as Zhou Papi, and ordered them to burn incense to report if they had something.
Jia Xianren was a little aggrieved: "The villain has already burned incense to inform the immortal about this before, but the immortal has never heard back to the little one, and the little one deliberately crossed the mountains and mountains to find the immortal in this provincial capital." ”
Jia Xianren was stunned: "Do you still have incense on you?"
Zhou Papi hurriedly said: "With it, the magic weapon given by the immortals, the small one is naturally carried." As he spoke, he took out a small jade box from his arms, which contained a short piece of incense that had been burned.
Jia Xianren picked up the incense, and tried it with spiritual power slightly, his face turned red, but he found that when he made these psychic incense, his spiritual power was a little insufficient, but this incense was useless, and the incense in the hands of other landlords was almost the same, no wonder he didn't receive a report from all over the world, until Zhou Papi personally came to the door, and he didn't know.
Jia Xianren was upset, and waved his hand at Zhou Papi: "I already know the matter, you go back to the village immediately, take care of those mud legs, and definitely don't let them miss the farm work of the fairy grass and spirit wood." ”
Zhou Papi said tentatively: "Then what if these mud legs are disobedient?"
Jia Xianren sneered: "This Fujian is the land of the Luofu faction! You should use all the means you should use! I want to see who dares to stop it!"
Zhou Papi was waiting for Jia Xianren's words, and he hurriedly responded with his waist, and withdrew from the wing room with a thousand thanks.
Not to mention what kind of murderous means Zhou Papi would use to deal with the villagers when he returned to the village, but said that after Zhou Papi left, Jia Xianren jumped off the bed at once, and packed up all the goods that Xiao Xiao Pi offered last week, and muttered in his mouth: "I have cultivated my spiritual power for two or three hundred years, but I haven't fished anything, and I can barely learn a few small spells, because my own spiritual power is insufficient, and I can't use it, so it's better to make some money and enjoy the glory and wealth in the world." ”
Jia Xianren stuffed the goods into a box that was already full, pasted a spirit rune, and finally this charm was enough for his mind, once an outsider touched this box, the spirit rune would turn into a sharp sword and hurt the enemy.
Jia Xianren patted the box, just showed a little smile, and immediately frowned again, this labor loss is not a joke, if this year's fairy grass and spirit wood harvest is affected, Zhou Papi will mainly eat the head of the rows, and he will not be able to please the people who manage the agricultural affairs in the palace. With his shallow spiritual cultivation, that is, he can take refuge under the Luofu sect, so that he can eat and drink together, if he is driven out of the door wall by the Luofu faction, how can he still have this good life now?