Chapter 253

Chapter 253

Chapter 253

Liu Meizhen had already anticipated this.

Then he said:
"Patriarch Tang, I can only tell you the exact location of the mineral source after you agree to it. But don't worry, the mineral source is in your fiefdom."

"Since Patriarch Tang is reluctant to give up that big shop, let's both take a step back. You give up the one on West Street in Yunlongfang City, and in addition, 10% of the revenue from the mine will be used as a witness fee for Lord Cao. How about that?"

The one on West Street.

Tang's was used to sell groceries.

Poor management.

The income in recent years is not as much as the money earned from leasing out.

Patriarch Tang was immediately moved.

Cao Xianger raised her eyebrows and glanced at Liu Meizhen. Giving up 10% of the profits from the mine surprised her a little. Seeing that Patriarch Tang was still a little hesitant, she immediately added fuel to the fire and said:
"Patriarch Tang, I can guarantee the Fu family, you can rest assured."

Finished.

A wave of sleeves.

The contract that had been prepared long ago was suspended in front of the two of them.

Patriarch Tang glanced at the contract.

Obviously, Cao Xianger's name was also signed, so he felt relieved and the two of them signed and sealed the contract immediately.

According to the contract.

The Tang family needs to first recruit the Yu family to build their foundation and leave the clan territory.

After the Fu family moved the people from the third branch of the Yu family out, Liu Meizhen informed them of the specific location of the mine, and the Tang family gave up the right to transfer the shop contract.

Patriarch Tang is a man of swift and decisive actions.

I am afraid that the night will be long and full of dreams.

After signing the contract, he issued the conscription order in front of Liu Meizhen.

It was sunset.

The Yu family's foundation has been transferred away from the Yu family's fiefdom.

On the other side, Yun Bozi also received Liu Meizhen's message, and he and Fu Yongyi drove the treasure ship to the garrison of the fifth, seventh and ninth houses who were exiled to Qiyang County in advance.

Wait for the treasure ship to arrive in Qiyang County.

The top brass of the Yu family, who had received Yun Bozi's message three years ago, had already secretly gathered all the important belongings. In fact, the Yu family of Qiyang County, which had been in decline for many years, no longer had much belongings, and all the valuables had long been pawned to make a living.

these years.

They all live a life of having one meal to eat and no one to eat next.

After receiving Yun Bozi’s message.

When they learned that they could become a ninth-rank family by moving to Jingzhou, the old guys were so excited that they couldn't sleep for several nights.

They are looking forward to it to the fullest.

Just waiting for this day to come.

After the treasure ship landed.

The old man from the fifth branch of the Yu family looked at Yun Bozi standing in front of him and couldn't help but burst into tears:
"woohoo"

"Young Patriarch, I didn't expect the old man to be alive to see you."

The other elderly people also started crying.

It is really.

This has been going on for nearly a hundred years.

The people in Qiyang County have been living a very hard life.

The spiritual energy in Qiyang County is thin.

People from the fifth, seventh and ninth rooms can only live in a first-grade, inferior spiritual vein.

To add insult to injury.

Ever since the second branch came to power, they directly withheld the clan salaries of the third branch.

Also.

A lot of tribute had to be paid every year.

Their lives are worse than those of ordinary vassal Qi-refining families.

Such hard days.

Thanks to the belief that Yun Bozi, the eldest son of the family, would return to Jingzhou sooner or later, the hard times are finally over:
"Woo woo woo, young clan leader, if the old clan master knew that you have such a promising future, he would surely rest in peace."

The elders of the clan excitedly stepped forward and were about to salute Yun Bozi.

in those days.

Their three branches are the most prosperous in the clan.

After being exiled to Qiyang County.

Life became harder and harder, and many young men in the tribe had to go out to make a living. Some worked as apprentices in shops in the market town, and some followed hunters to live on the edge of a knife. It was a bitter experience for them to talk about it.

Yun Bozi also choked up and said:
"Elders, I am late and have caused you to suffer!"

these years.

No matter how difficult life is for the people of these three families in Qiyang County.

He had never thought of changing his ways and joining the second branch of the family. This alone moved Yun Bozi deeply.

Fu Yongyi stood aside for a while and couldn't help but remind him:
"Uncle Yu, we shouldn't stay here for long."

after all.

There are still so many people who need to be resettled.

Yun Bozi nodded repeatedly and immediately organized the tribesmen to board the ship together with the elders.

This day was the Yu family gathering in Qiyang County.

Everyone in the clan.

Even men, women, old and young gathered at the sacrificial venue. The crowd was so huge that it numbered as many as hundreds of thousands.

Fortunately, they borrowed the largest treasure ship from the Shangguan family.

If not.

There's simply not enough space for so many people.

despite this.

There are so many people.

It took half a day to move all the people onto the treasure ship.

Waiting for the treasure ship to start.

However, Yu Feihong, who had never appeared in public before, suddenly appeared in the cabin of the treasure ship on the ninth floor.

Yu Feihong is considered the golden phoenix that flew out of the chicken coop of the Yu family in Qiyang County.

Given the predicament of Qiyang County's lineage, very few of the clan members can cultivate to the late stage of Qi Refining.

Yu Feihong has reached this point with her amazing perseverance.

Yun Bozi introduced Fu Yongyi with some pride:
"Yongyi, this is the fifth sister I mentioned to you, the one who did not use the foundation-building pill to build her foundation."

No pill to build the foundation.

This is a case of either success or death!

Moreover, the success rate of foundation building is frighteningly low, which can be said to be one in ten thousand. This is why so many cultivators at the peak of Qi Refining would rather survive than take that step of rushing into a flame without the foundation building pill.

Fu Yongyi showed respect from the bottom of his heart, stepped forward and bowed:
"Meet Daoyou Yu"

In order to conceal their strength, this lineage in Qiyang County had kept Yu Feihong secret since their spiritual roots were detected, and only two people knew that she had successfully established her foundation.

Yu Feihong's gaze fell on the north side of the treasure ship.

His eyes narrowed slightly.

To Yun Bozi:
"Young Clan Leader, the Second Branch of the Yu Family has been mistreating us so much over the years. Now that there is no one guarding their clan land, this is a great opportunity for us to fight back!"

Forbearance for a hundred years.

Obviously.

Yu Feihong had no intention of letting the people from the second house go.

Yun Bozi was also somewhat tempted.

Seeing this, Fu Yongyi said quickly:
"Uncle Yu, Fellow Daoist Yu, our top priority right now is to leave Jingzhou safely."

It has been seven years since the Fu family left Jingzhou. They must not let their efforts go to waste because of the impulsiveness of these two people.

The excitement in Yun Bozi's eyes faded away.

Then he promised Yu Feihong:
"Fifth sister, don't worry. Once we have established a firm foothold in Jingzhou, there will be plenty of opportunities to settle accounts with the Second Branch in the future."

Although Yu Feihong was unwilling.

but.

In the end, he nodded.

After escaping from the sea of ​​suffering.

There was a hint of anticipation for Jingzhou, but more of a sense of uneasiness. After all, Huainan had just experienced a wave of beasts, and Jingzhou was a place notoriously lacking in spiritual energy.

It is also adjacent to the Donghuang tribe.

It is still unclear whether the Yu family can take root in Huainan.

What’s happening in Qiyang County.

The news soon reached the ears of the second branch of the Yu family.

The head of the Yu family was transferred away from the clan land, and the young clan leader was temporarily in charge of the general affairs. After hearing the news, he couldn't believe it and asked three times in a row:
"Are you saying that the remnants of the eldest branch of the family used a treasure ship that could only be purchased by an eighth-rank family to take away all the people from the fifth, seventh, and ninth branches of Qiyang County?"

"That's right, Young Patriarch. That treasure ship has twelve floors in total. It is custom-made to specifications and can only be purchased by an eighth-rank family. I saw it with my own eyes. Moreover, the treasure ship is extremely fast and does not stop all the way. I estimate that it has already left our fiefdom. Young Patriarch, do you think we should notify the head of the family to turn back?"

The young patriarch of the Yu family walked back and forth quickly.

He had long ago persuaded his father to throw all the people from Qiyang County into the mining area, torture them for ten or eight years, and then use some tricks. Now there are no people from the three branches left.

But my father is soft-hearted.

I also hope that the people from the other three families can change their ways.

How stupid!
The young patriarch of the Yu family thought for a while and immediately said:
"Xiao Liu, go release the crane. I need to go to the Tang family right away."

Which eighth-rank family did the remnants of the eldest branch of the family climb up to?

Only by going to the Tang family can I find out something. By the time my father comes back, the opportunity will be gone.

The young patriarch of the Yu family was riding a crane.

After arriving at Tang’s house.

They waited in the living room until the tea had cooled down before being told that their two younger sisters who had married into the Yu family were not at home.

He finally met his second brother-in-law.

But he was almost furious at what the other party said:
"Brother, the people from the fifth, seventh, and ninth branches of the Yu family don't care about your second branch. If they leave, they leave. Why are you so nervous? As far as I know, there are only a few of them who have cultivated to the late stage of Qi Refining. They are just a few cats and dogs. If they leave, it won't cause trouble for you."

You can't say that.

these years.

They treated the people of Qiyang County as slaves.

Each one of them is a tough nut to crack.

And there are a lot of them.

The remnants of the eldest branch of the family now have an eighth-rank family as their backer, and I'm afraid they'll be able to make a comeback in another twenty or thirty years.

By the time.

The remnants of the eldest son's family have come back to fight back.

Then they will have no place to cry.

The young patriarch of the Yu family took out the white box with gold patterns that he had prepared long ago from his sleeve and handed it to his second brother-in-law:
"Brother-in-law, a single spark can start a prairie fire!"

"and"

"This is not a private matter of our Yu family. Our clan members have reported that what appeared in Qiyang County was a twelve-story treasure ship that only an eighth-rank family could own. This clearly shows that other eighth-rank families are involved."

“I’m just afraid”

"The person behind this seems to be targeting our Yu family, but in fact he is coming for your Tang family, my brother-in-law!" Obviously.

The young patriarch of the Yu family wanted to drag the Tang family into this trouble no matter what.

Young Master Tang sighed inwardly. If his father had not told him the inside story in advance, he might have been persuaded by his brother-in-law by now.

Cough slightly.

Young Master Tang said:
"Brother-in-law, you are absolutely right. If that is the case, I will send someone to intercept the treasure ship. Please wait for good news here."

talking.

Young Master Tang left the waiting room in a flash.

The young patriarch of the Yu family hurriedly caught up, wanting to go together, but was stopped by the guards of the Tang family.

After returning to the waiting room and sitting down.

The young patriarch of the Yu family thought more and more that something was wrong.

Just when the Tang family issued the conscription order, the treasure ship appeared in Qiyang County. It happened that his two sisters who married into the Tang family also left the courtyard.

Between the electric light and flint.

The young patriarch of the Yu family thought of a possibility:
"Could it be that the eighth-rank family that the remnants of the eldest branch found is the Tang family?!"

but.

Why would the Tang family help the remnants of the eldest branch? !
After waiting in the waiting room for about an hour or two without receiving any news, the young patriarch of the Yu family's face changed.

In all likelihood, it was the Tang family that came to help.

Once the Tang family takes action.

Even if they jump around a lot, they can't do anything. Can they go to the Zhenshi Division to sue the Tang family for interfering in their clan's affairs?

But there was a coup that year.

The second branch was in the wrong in the first place.

I'm afraid that when they come before the Zhenshi Division, it will be their second branch that will fall in the end.
The young patriarch of the Yu family regretted deeply:
"If father had listened to my advice, this wouldn't have happened!"

But the wood has become a boat.

It's too late to save the situation.

Butterfly Valley.

Patriarch Tang, Liu Meizhen and Cao Xiang'er were now deep underground in the valley. Patriarch Tang was looking at the ore in his hand with a smile in his eyes.

These mineral sources.

The quality is almost always top-notch.

Better than he expected.

He didn't waste any time at this moment. He waved his sleeves and took out the store deed of the grocery store on West Street in Yunlongfang City. With Cao Xiang'er as a witness, the deed was transferred to the name of the Fu family.

Liu Meizhen took the deed and said with a smile:
"Patriarch Tang, I hope we can have other cooperation in the future."

"Haha, okay, okay, Madam Fu, if you have a good job in the future, please don't forget about it for our Tang family."

Patriarch Tang was very satisfied.

Also.

He said:
"Madam Fu, I have already notified the clansmen to close down the shop on West Street. You can take over at sunset."

So good.

After Liu Meizhen and Cao Xiang'er came out of Butterfly Valley, Cao Xiang'er paused and said, thinking about the 10% of the mineral source income she had obtained:
"Mrs. Fu, if you encounter any difficulties when you run a store in Yunlong Market in the future, you can take this token to the Zhenshi Division to find me."

talking.

A wave of sleeves.

A token with Cao Xianger's name printed on it floated towards Liu Meizhen.

"Thank you sir"

Liu Meizhen bowed with some excitement.

With this token.

Next, she opened a shop in Yunlongfang City, and that was secure.

The four people who came to Jingzhou this time, Fu Yongyi, Yun Bozi and Yu Zongshi, returned to Jingzhou, but Liu Meizhen chose to stay.

One of.

Now that the shop is in hand, it is just the right time to get it up and running while I am squeezing out the monster materials.

Two.

Store revenue is more important.

but.

For the Fu family, from now on, they have a stronghold in Jingzhou. In the future, the children of the family can also come to Jingzhou for training. After all, the resources in Jingzhou are richer than those in Jingzhou.

Liu Meizhen arrived at Yunlong Market and went to West Street as if she was familiar with the place. Naturally, the owner of Tang's grocery store did not have a good face when he saw Liu Meizhen.

after all.

No matter how bad the business of this shop is, he is still the shopkeeper of this shop and has been in charge of it for decades. He has some feelings for it. Secondly and most importantly, the shop has changed hands, and I am afraid it will be difficult for him to find such a lucrative job again.

Shopkeeper Tang had a frown on his face.

After checking the store title deed presented by Liu Meizhen again and again and giving up completely, he waved his sleeves, and with a flash of light, a token floated towards Liu Meizhen:
"This is the store formation entry and exit token. Goodbye!"

Shopkeeper Tang refused to say anything more.

He just shook his body and disappeared without a trace.

Liu Meizhen didn't care about it. She looked up at the shop that had taken down its signboard and was still quite excited.

This was the Fu family’s first shop in Jingzhou.

This is also the first step for the Fu family to move out of Jingzhou, so she must lay the foundation.

These few years.

She had done relevant research whenever she entered and exited the Yunlong Market. The goods sold in the shops in the market were all-encompassing, and the specialties that the Fu family had been proud of before were not worth mentioning here.

If you want to revitalize this store, you have to find another way.

fortunately.

She had already planned this before.

Liu Meizhen looked at the store again.

The entire store is built of second-grade top-grade Qingyan, and the main entrance is two thick doors of Hualing pear wood. The foundation, walls and doors of the entire store are engraved with various complex runes. These runes are integrated with the mountain protection formation of Yunlongfang City to form a protective formation for the store.

and so.

The protective power of these shops is already very strong, and they can also block spiritual prying eyes.

Generally speaking, the shop owner does not need to set up more magic arrays. Of course, if he is not sure, that is another matter.

When you enter the store, the first thing you see is a spacious and bright front hall. There are rows of exquisite shelves in the hall, which are made of second-grade high-quality Qiansang wood and emit bursts of fragrance:

"The Tang family didn't even move the shelf away."

Liu Meizhen was stunned for a moment.

Take a closer look.

It was discovered that the array pattern engraved on the shelf was actually integrated with the foundation. Once the shelf was moved, the protective array of the entire store would be destroyed:
"I see"

Passing through a moon-shaped archway on one side of the front hall, one arrives at the backyard. The backyard is quite spacious, surrounded by a spiritual barrier that can prevent outsiders from prying in and allow the spiritual plants in the backyard to be well nourished.

On the left side of the yard is a spiritual plant garden.

However, all the spiritual flowers and herbs planted there have been uprooted, and only the fertile spiritual fields can be seen.

Liu Meizhen’s spiritual consciousness swept across the spiritual land.

A hint of joy flashed in his eyes:
"Second-level top-grade spiritual soil!"

This is extremely rare.

Their Fu family currently only possesses a second-grade superior spiritual field.

There are three or four single rooms on the right side of the yard, and all the items inside have been moved out.

In the center of the yard, there is a small spiritual spring.

The water of the spiritual spring is crystal clear, and bubbles are constantly coming out of it, releasing rich spiritual energy when the bubbles burst. The spiritual spring is surrounded by a fence carved out of round spiritual stones, and the stone carvings are engraved with spirit gathering array patterns.

Liu Meizhen was still very satisfied with this courtyard.

Just as she was looking around, she heard a sound coming from the front yard. Liu Meizhen was quite surprised. The plaque had been taken down, but she didn't know who was coming to the door at this time.

Exit from the Moon Arch.

What caught my eye was an old lady dressed in black, with a kind smile on her face.

"Fellow Daoist Luo, how are you!"

Liu Meizhen bowed first, and she recognized the other person at a glance.

Old Mrs. Luo is a household name not only in Yunlongfang City, but also in the entire Jingzhou.

In her early years, Mrs. Luo was hurt by a heartless man and her child died in her womb. Since then, Mrs. Luo has completely given up on men and used the spiritual stones she had saved to buy a large garden in the suburbs, specifically to adopt abandoned baby girls.

At the beginning.

She just felt that those abandoned babies were really pitiful, but as the baby girls grew up and some of them were found to have spiritual roots, Old Lady Luo knew that she could not provide good resources for these children by herself.

and so.

She began to rent spiritual fields and plant spiritual mulberry trees. She trained these girls to help plant mulberry trees, raise silkworms and weave robes. Over time, they formed an industrial chain.

Decades pass.

Old Lady Luo adopted countless baby girls, and she did not interfere much with the girls' ambitions when they grew up. If one wanted to get married, she would prepare a generous dowry for him. If one wanted to marry into a wealthy family, she would help him to build relationships.

to this end.

The local Zhenshisi reported her experience to the imperial court. After the imperial court sent people to investigate and confirmed that it was true, they specially gave Mrs. Luo a ninth-rank imperial decree and granted her a fiefdom.

Old Mrs. Luo and her adopted daughters worked together to open a shop in Yunlong Market, which was next to the Fu family's house, specifically for selling finished robes.

After the two met each other.

When Old Lady Luo learned that Liu Meizhen had come all the way from Jingzhou, and saw that she was all alone, she immediately thought of her own experience and could not help but feel a liking for her. She smiled and said:

"Mrs. Fu, you're new here, if there's anything you need my help with, just let me know."

Finished.

Without waiting for Liu Meizhen to speak, Old Lady Luo hurried back to her shop. After a while, she brought seven or eight girls over and said with a smile:
"Madam Fu, if your shop needs redecorating or buying anything these days, just tell these girls to do it."

Liu Meizhen needed help right away, so she didn't refuse and thanked the man generously.

After Mrs. Luo left.

His eyes fell on the brows of one of the girls, he was stunned for a moment, and waved:

"Cuizhi, follow me to the backyard."

Cuizhi had just come from the garden in the suburbs a few days ago. After hearing this, she followed Liu Meizhen to the backyard with some restraint. However, she saw that after Liu Meizhen closed the protective magic circle in the backyard, her eyes fell on the small mark on the other's forehead that looked like a peony again:

"Cuizhi, what is this peony mark on your forehead?"

Cuizhi was a little nervous at first, but she heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this and said with a smile:
"Reporting to Madam Fu, Grandma Luo said that this mark was there when she picked me up. Grandma Luo said that my eyes were not even open at the time, and I must have been born not long ago, so this peony mark is a birthmark, but it was this big when I was young, and it is still this small when I grow up."

Liu Meizhen looked at Cuizhi's eyes carefully again, suppressed her inner surprise, and blurted out:
"Did Grandma Luo pick you up from Yunxue Mountain?"

Cuizhi was stunned for a moment.

Because Old Lady Luo never tells others where she picked up the abandoned babies. She will only tell the girls when they grow up and become sensible. This is because she is afraid that someone will take the opportunity to come to her house and claim to be their relative.

Therefore.

Cuizhi was extremely shocked that Liu Meizhen could accurately name the place Yunxue Mountain, and her whole body was shaking slightly:

"Mrs. Fu, do you know who my biological parents are?"

Seeing that Cuizhi did not deny it, Liu Meizhen quickly lowered her head to calm down the huge waves in her heart. She waved her sleeves and poured a cup of tea for Cuizhi:

"Cuizhi, drink this tea to calm your nerves, and I'll tell you in detail."

Cuizhi heard from Grandma Luo that there was a half-piece of jade pendant stained with blood placed next to her, so her parents were probably being hunted by their enemies and they abandoned her in order to save her life.

these years.

She had always fantasized that her parents would appear in front of her one day. Now that the answer was about to be revealed, how could she not be excited? She took the tea handed to her by Liu Meizhen without thinking and drank it all in one gulp.

(End of this chapter)