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This... this is a bit difficult.
Shang Huan smiled and held up three fingers: "Three white jade coins!"
Chen Mu immediately glanced at Shang Huan.
I think you are going crazy!
I'm offering you white jade worth tens of thousands now, and you're just trying to get rid of me with three white jade coins?
"We are really not hungry!" Ai Ji shouted in horror.
If I really eat this meal, will my mental strength be drained away to death?
"Three for each person!" Shang Huan gritted his teeth.
Chen Mu turned his head and looked at Ai Ji expressionlessly.
"No, you're hungry!"
Ai Ji: “…”
"You go hunting, slaughtering and cleaning, I'll only be responsible for grilling." Chen Mu turned his head and looked at Shang Huan.
It's not for that little bit of white jade money, it's mainly because today's Soul Nurturing Spell has been completed and I must have a good meal to celebrate!
"okay!"
……
night.
Next to the campfire, Chen Mu was holding a roasted deer leg and slicing an entire wooden plate full of barbecue slices for himself.
While eating slowly, he reached out to take the gray cloth bag handed to him by Shang Huan.
"Three are missing." Chen Mu said lightly.
"Eight people, twenty-four coins, that's right." Shang Huan was puzzled.
"Nine people." Chen Mu said lightly.
"You count yourself as one too?" Shang Huan couldn't believe it.
"What do you think?"
Shang Huan had no choice but to take out three more white jade coins with a painful look on his face.
Three years ago, his entire net worth was less than 27 coins. Now, a meal has ruined him. It hurts.
Chen Mu put it away with satisfaction.
No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat.
Last year, he only earned 60 white jade coins a month from selling tranquilizing pills. He earned almost half a month's income from a meal, which is not a small amount.
Moreover, he had just lent out 15,000 or 16,000 white jade coins recently, so he was a little nervous.
I don’t know if Song Wuji will default on his debt…
……
The six Wushan brothers and sisters buried their heads in eating meat and did not dare to look up.
After a long while, Wu Ruo finally spoke, telling the news she had collected, just like she had done in the past few days.
"The snowstorm on Pengyue Mountain has passed Lengyuefang and started to spread down the mountain."
"There is still no news about Fu Duyuan. Some say he has been trapped, while others say he escaped early."
"Song Jianyuan's disciple Liang Yi still hasn't come out."
"possible……"
Chen Mu looked unhappy.
The two of you are so good at concentrating...
Isn’t this Qingliu Snow Demon a little too powerful?
He looked up again and saw the camp of a hundred people nowhere to be seen, and sighed.
The lower branch of Pengyue Mountain is finished, and no one knows whether it will be disbanded.
"There are rumors that Supervisor Song intends to dissolve the lower house."
"The reason he is still here is just to save his apprentice." Wu Ruo said in a low voice.
Chen Mu couldn't help but frown.
What if Song Wuji really just quit and left?
It would be difficult for more than a hundred of them to get out of this deep forest safely!
"Store more supplies and prepare for the worst."
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 293 Secret Technique
three days later.
Liang Yi finally arrived at the low mountain.
He also led a team of seventy or eighty people.
The members are the chief managers and team leaders of various departments of the Lower House, the inspectors of the Inspection Office, and the clerks of the General Affairs Office.
It is equivalent to bringing out half of the core members of the House of Commons.
"Now there is no need to disband the House of Commons." Chen Mushong breathed a sigh of relief.
Ordinary disciples below the jade level can be abandoned at any time.
However, these disciples who are above the jade level, with spiritual light and the ability to break through delusion, are all excellent human resources.
As long as we find a piece of land and have these people around, we can rebuild the House of Commons at any time.
Naturally, they will not be disbanded or abandoned at will.
……
For the next three days, Song Wuji went to Pengyue Mountain every day to try, but each time he failed. No one came to the short mountain anymore.
Chen Mu raised the five ghosts and looked at the snow-white Pengyue Mountain from afar.
There were thousands of lower house disciples, but less than 300 of them came out. The rest would be turned into snow puppets, which was worse than death.
Chen Mu couldn't help but think of the time in Daliang.
In order to collect the Thousand Machine Orders, the Daliang high-ranking officials allowed wars to break out, and massacres occurred from time to time, resulting in countless deaths.
"The world is not safe anywhere!" Chen Mu sighed.
“You have to keep practicing.”
Only by becoming stronger can you save your life in this turbulent world.
Suddenly, a pair of huge red crystal-like eyes appeared in the wind and snow.
Chen Mu's mind was shaken, his scalp suddenly numb, and he immediately took back the five ghosts.
The snow demon Qingliu has become even stronger!
Chen Mu didn't dare to look any further, and immediately began to gather supplies, ready to run away at any time.
After another two days, the temperature near the low mountain camp began to drop.
After being rescued, the joyful and cheerful crowd suddenly became quiet, with fear and anxiety in everyone's eyes.
Obviously, the influence of the snow demon Qingliu has expanded.
On that day, after Song Wuji returned empty-handed again, he finally decided to take his men away.
……
Night, edge of camp.
Chen Mu sat by the campfire in silence.
Mo Wuzhou came to visit suddenly.
"Junior Brother Gongsun, you hid it very well." Mo Wuzhou's stiff face was expressionless, but his voice was full of amusement.
Chen Mu's expression did not change.
When he meets Song Wuji, he can no longer hide his cultivation.
Looking at the six Wushan brothers and sisters and others around him, Mo Wuzhou could immediately guess that he was Gongsun Sheng.
"It's just some little tricks to save lives." Chen Mu admitted frankly, pointed his hand across and asked Mo Wuzhou to sit down.
"Brother Mo, are you here..."
"I'm here on behalf of Senior Brother Liang." Mo Wuzhou sat opposite Chen Mu and said, "Senior Brother Liang knows that you don't like to be public. If I come to you in person, it will attract everyone's attention."
"Brother Liang, you are very thoughtful." Chen Mu thanked him.
He really doesn't want to be the center of attention.
"My senior brother said, thank you for your help, you have helped the dean a lot. Let me thank you." As he said that, he threw a mustard seed talisman to Chen Mu.
"I am also a disciple of the lower academy. It is only natural for me to help the dean." Chen Mu took the mustard seed talisman and put it directly into his sleeve without checking it.
Although at the beginning they shouted that nine out of thirteen would return.
But it was just a joke after all. No matter how much Supervisor Song gave him, he had to accept it.
"There is something I want to ask you, brother, I wonder..." Chen Mu said after hesitating for a moment.
"But you want to ask about our destination tomorrow?" Mo Wuzhou said with a clear look on his face: "There's nothing that can't be said."
"It's Tianhe Water Palace."
"We may have to stay in Tianhe Water Palace for a while in the future." Mo Wuzhou said happily.
"If we go to Tianhe Water Palace, our whereabouts will be exposed. Chongshan Road..." Chen Mu couldn't help but worry.