Chapter 23: Control (Please Read On)

During this period, the doors of every household were closed, and no one dared to go out easily.

To the east, heart-shaking roaring sounds of fighting could be heard from time to time.

Qin Jiyue also stayed at home obediently, not daring to step out of the house, not even thinking of going out to collect intelligence information.

After all, the outside world is chaotic and complicated now, and any monk who is not one's own force will be considered an enemy.

In order to ensure their own safety, anyone will take the lead and would rather kill the wrong person than let go.

Li Guanxuan, on the other hand, was not that panicked. He ignored what was going on outside the window and ate on time every day and drew signs thoughtfully. His life was no different from before.

After about a month, the war finally ended.

According to what Li Guanxuan learned...

After Huanxi Mountain struggled to support itself for more than half a month, the ancestor, whose life span was running out, chose to sacrifice himself with blood to help the leader of Huanxi Mountain reach the peak of foundation building.

Even so, Huanxi Mountain could not withstand the invasion of the four major forces, and the leader finally broke out of the siege and fled the place.

Many elders and disciples who stayed behind either surrendered or died.

After a round of bloodbath and profit distribution, the area of ​​Huanxi Mountain was assigned to Luoyue Valley.

As for what the other three major forces got, Li Guanxuan didn't know.

"The destruction of Huanxi Mountain... No, it is not really destroyed. After all, the leader of the Peak Foundation Establishment has not yet died. After many years, maybe he will come back... Can this be considered thirty years of Hedong, thirty years When you are in Hexi, don’t bully the middle-aged and poor?”

Li Guanxuan fell into deep thought.

If they were thinking of escaping from the beginning, then both of them could leave together, why would they have to sacrifice themselves in the end?

Therefore, Li Guanxuan guessed that maybe the two of them had not found the Velvet Flower Spirit Tree and could not understand its secrets, so they left unwillingly.

The ancestor's life is coming to an end and there is no hope, but the middle-aged leader of Huanxi Mountain has a bright future.

Once the Velvet Flower Spirit Tree is recovered and its secrets are understood, there may be hope of resurrecting the ancestor...

This is Li Guanxuan's guess from the perspective of the two of them.

Of course, it's possible that this isn't the case.

No matter what the situation is, it doesn't matter to Li Guanxuan. As long as he stays at home, sooner or later he will be able to slap the threat of the leader of Huanxi Mountain to death.

After all, even if the other party does not fully know the secret of the Velvet Flower Spirit Tree, at least he knows a little bit about it.

When the other party reveals the secret, they will definitely start investigating...

Therefore, Li Guanxuan tried his best not to take action, and he didn't even bother to argue with others. If he lost some spiritual stones, he would lose some spiritual stones, and everything would be fine.

Today, someone just knocked on the door.

Qin Jiyue went to open the door and saw two middle-aged men in robes. She couldn't help but frown slightly and asked, "What's the matter?"

She recognized these two people. The other person was in charge of rent collection... a former outer disciple of Mount Huanxi.

Now he seems to be an outer disciple of Luoyue Valley.

One of them looked embarrassed and said, "Well, Mrs. Qin, it's like this. Luoyue Valley asked us to come over to collect rent..."

Qin Jiyue said displeasedly: "Didn't we just make it more than a month ago?"

"That's the rent paid to Huanxi Mountain, not Luoyue Valley."

The tone of the other person was not so good, and he said coldly and straightforwardly: "In order to find out whether there are any detailed works of Huanxi Mountain in Qing'an City, Luoyue Valley specially sent us to conduct a door-to-door investigation. As long as they are willing to pay Tenants who rent are then friends of Luoyue Valley, and vice versa..."

Hearing this, Qin Jiyue's face turned gloomy and ugly. This was obviously blackmail!

At this time, Li Guanxuan immediately came over, took out a spiritual stone bag and handed it to the other party, smiling: "This is our rent for this year. As for the extra forty spiritual stones, it can be regarded as the tea fee for the two Taoist friends. Thanks for your hard work."

The middle-aged man with a simple and round face took the bag of spirit stones and sighed: "Master Li Fu, we also obey orders. Life is not easy for anyone nowadays. Just take back the extra spirit stones."

As he said that, the honest middle-aged man was about to hand back the forty spiritual stones. The man next to him saw his eyelids twitching and cursed in his heart that Lao Hong was a fool.

Li Guanxuan stretched out his hand to block it, and said with a helpless smile: "Fellow Daoist Hong, as you said, life is difficult for everyone nowadays. If you don't collect the tea fee, others will come to collect it, or even more. I just want to help Peace, just continue to live here.”

Fellow Daoist Hong was startled, then nodded with a wry smile: "Qing'an City has not stabilized yet. If your family doesn't have enough food, I can help deliver some."

Li Guanxuan's eyes lit up and he said quickly: "Lingmi."

Fellow Daoist Hong silently wrote it down.

The person next to me asked: "Is there enough meat?"

"We're almost finished." Li Guanxuan's mouth was bitter.

"Put it at your door at midnight. Remember to take it away quickly."

The man said something, and then added: "About six spiritual stones."

Li Guanxuan was stunned for a moment, then took out his storage bag, counted ten pieces from the scattered spiritual stones, handed them to the other party, and said gratefully:

"Thanks."

Both of them also saw that there were more than a dozen low-grade spiritual stones left in Li Guanxuan's storage bag.

The man took out four spiritual stones and gave them back to Li Guanxuan, and said angrily: "We only have sixty kilograms of spiritual beef. Don't expect me to bring you more."

Seeing that Li Guanxuan wanted to say something else, Fellow Daoist Hong quickly stopped with his eyes and interrupted loudly:

"Okay, Master Li Fu, remember to open the door and take away the rice and meat at 11 pm. Don't let others take advantage of you. We are in a hurry to collect rent from the next house, so we won't bother you anymore."

"The money for the spiritual rice...Okay, thank you two Taoist friends, I will remember it in my heart."

Li Guanxuan bowed and thanked him repeatedly.

After the two left, Li Guanxuan closed the door. While he breathed a sigh of relief, he saw Qin Jiyue staring at him in amazement.

"What? Why are you looking at me with such admiring eyes?" Li Guanxuan laughed in a low voice.

"A treacherous man..."

Qin Jiyue was stunned just now.

If she remembered correctly, Li Guanxuan still had at least three or four thousand low-grade spiritual stones, a pile of talismans, and enough food for their family of three to eat for three years...

But just now, the embarrassment on Li Guanxuan's face didn't look like acting at all!

And the operation of counting the spiritual stones was simply jaw-dropping.

Qin Jiyue asked curiously, "No, why didn't you take out a bag of spirit stones earlier to count? Maybe you could save forty spirit stones."

Li Guanxuan put his arm around her shoulders and explained slowly and patiently:

"After the war, although Luoyue Valley got the spirit veins in this area, the price paid was definitely not small, otherwise they wouldn't have tried every means to get spirit stones and squeeze the lower-level casual cultivators.

Outer disciples of the former Huanxi Mountain, such as Hong Lang and Cui Zhi, were actually no less oppressed than us.

After all, the bloodbath had just ended, and the non-staff members who survived and kept their positions had basically lost everything.

Think about it carefully, Cui Zhi used to be a smiling and friendly person. If he hadn't suffered a beating from reality now, he wouldn't have become a different person.

Forty low-grade spirit stones are not much, but they are enough for them to support for a while, and remember my kindness to them... Why not?"

Qin Jiyue slowly digested these words and was filled with emotion.

She suddenly realized that Li Guanxuan actually knew how to manipulate people's hearts better than she did.