A visitor from the Xianpin Bureau
When the steward came to report to Tang Biao, a beautiful maid was being held in Tang Biao's arms. The maid's dress was untied, and Tang Biao also exposed his chest.
Seeing the steward coming in, the maid shyly hid in Tang Biao's arms, and Tang Biao waved his hand to let her go. When doing this, the steward stood below without looking away, obviously accustomed to the scene.
"What did the spy say?" Another servant began to pour wine for Tang Biao from a narrow-necked wine pot.
The steward replied, "The spy has been killed. His limbs were cut by the blade, and even his throat was injured by the sharp weapon. He can't speak. The strange thing is that with such a serious injury to his throat, he should have died soon, but he was lying alive at the doorstep of the Tang family. It was as if... someone specially fed him a life-saving elixir and deliberately threw him at the doorstep."
Tang Biao held the wine cup and narrowed his eyes. "You mean, that group of people discovered our spy but spared his life and deliberately threw him at the doorstep of the Tang family as a provocation?" Hearing
this cold tone, the steward clenched his hands in his long sleeves and said solemnly, "I'm afraid so."
"Humph!" The silver wine cup was thrown hard to the ground, bounced far away from the steward's feet and out the door. The servant boy beside him was so scared that he paralyzed and fell on the table. He was picked up by Tang Biao and pulled into his arms.
Seeing this scene that was immoral and corrupt, the steward laughed in his heart. This vulgar man who was not particular about sex and sex was actually a famous genius weapon maker in the outside world? Who knew which unlucky person he borrowed his talent from.
As Tang Biao's steward and confidant, he naturally knew more than outsiders. This master spent most of the year in a life of debauchery, and the rest of the time was spent on fighting for fame and wealth and beating and scolding servants. Only the last half of the time was used to fool the clan leader, and to participate in some weapon refining competitions to fool outsiders in order to maintain his talent and reputation.
After flirting with the servant for a while, Tang Biao, who was at the head, said lightly, "Since he is dead, he has brought shame to our Tang clan, so there is no need to keep him."
After deciding on one person's life, he said lightly, "Send two more spies with higher cultivation..."
The steward hesitated, but still carefully interrupted the conversation, "Second Master, the spy sent before had already reached the sixth level of Qi training, but was still easily destroyed. This shows that there are high-level Qi training cultivators in that mysterious family, and maybe there are foundation building cultivators. In this case, sending a spy with higher cultivation will be useless!"
Could it be that they sent a foundation building cultivator as a spy to investigate the situation? Even for a silver-grade family, foundation building is the top level, and this master himself is still stuck at the ninth level of Qi training.
Tang Biao was silent. The quiet atmosphere made the steward feel a little scared. He wondered if he would be the next one to be dragged out.
Not long after, Tang Biao began to curse the Yang family. He cursed the black iron egg in the Yang family for practicing Tai Chi with him and for not wanting to tell him where the vitality pill came from. He also cursed that useless family that came from nowhere for not choosing the Tang family but the Yang family that was about to go bankrupt. He thought his family must be useless.
The steward closed his ears and listened. He thought that he had drunk too much fake wine and was going crazy for no reason.
Before he finished cursing, someone came to report that the clan leader wanted to invite him. Tang Biao instantly stopped talking, stood up after calming down, and finally turned from a lunatic into a normal person.
Tang Biao pushed the servant away and said coldly to the steward: "You keep an eye on the Yang family and the auction house, and you'd better find out where the Yang family's vitality pills come from!"
After the steward said yes, Tang Biao cleaned the smell of alcohol on his body, strode out of the door with his sleeves flicked.
The patriarch of the Tang family saw Tang Biao coming and waved. And Tang Biao's appearance at this time looked different from his previous crazy look.
His face was extremely pale, and his facial features were relatively regular. In Xiling, where most monks are strong and burly, he was a rare gentle and handsome look. If he didn't go crazy and his acting skills were better, it would be easy to deceive the favor of the monks of Xiling.
Tang Chen, the patriarch of the Tang family, has always felt that his second brother is a quiet person who is devoted to studying the Dao of weapons.
Tang Chen said, "I've asked someone to study the Vitality Pill you brought back. It's indeed extraordinary and very suitable for use by Xiling monks. But the Tang family is not proficient in alchemy, so we may not be able to crack the recipe of this pill. The key is to find out the person who provided the Vitality Pill to the Yang family. Did you get any information when you came back from the Yang family auction that day?"
Tang Biao shook his head and said respectfully, "The Yang family's elder was vague and refused to reveal any substantive content. It seemed that he was quite wary of the person behind the Vitality Pill in his words."
Tang Chen said "oh" and was puzzled, "but the person cooperating with the Yang family is quite extraordinary. The Yang family's elder is afraid of offending him, so he dare not speak?"
Tang Biao's mouth curled slightly, which meant disdain. He said respectfully, "It's possible, or it's possible that the Yang family is behind this. After all, their family has been in decline for a long time, and it's not impossible for them to fabricate a backer out of thin air."
Indeed. Tang Chen nodded, "You were in charge of this matter from the beginning, and you should continue to follow up on the follow-up. And I called you here today for another matter."
Tang Biao pretended to listen attentively.
"The Xianpin Bureau has finally decided to break the closure of Xiling, and has issued a notice to recruit noble families to cooperate with the Xianpin Bureau to open up the Broken Vein Mountain!" The Tang clan leader was slightly excited, "This is a huge project. If the Tang family can take it, not only will the clan not have to worry about the performance of the next few years, but they can also climb up to the Xianpin Bureau. So, from now on, I and other elders in the clan will be fully responsible for this matter. I'm afraid I can't spare the attention to take care of other things. You need to pay more attention to the clan."
Tang Biao frowned immediately. The Xianpin Bureau was determined to recruit noble families to open up the Broken Vein Mountain? The whole Xiling would be shaken a few times if this news got out. In other words, this is no longer just a matter of Xiling, the entire Southern Region will be shaken.
Putting aside the impact, these noble families cannot influence the decision of the Immortal Product Bureau. The key point is, this lucrative job is so obvious, and it concerns the important matters of the whole family for the next ten or twenty years. This old fool actually wants to leave him out?
Tang Biao wanted to say something immediately, but Tang Chen slowly said the second thing. Tang Biao stopped talking.
"Opening up the Broken Vein Mountain is only one of the reasons. It is not easy to open the mountain. It requires heavy-duty spiritual tools, and there is a great risk of alarming high-level monsters in the mountain. So the Immortal Product Bureau is taking a two-pronged approach. If they can't open the mountain, they will go from the sky and summon the master of refining to work together to build a giant spaceship that can cross the Broken Vein Mountain."
Summon the master of refining to work together to build a spaceship that can cross the Broken Vein Mountain? Tang Biao's heart skipped a beat, and he finally understood why Tang Chen came to see him today.
He asked, "How do we recruit people?"
The airship that can cross the Broken Vein Mountain must be a huge thing, and it is definitely not something that ordinary weapon refiners can participate in.
Tang Chen said, "The Immortal Product Bureau has decided to hold a weapon refining competition to select high-level weapon refiners from Xiling and even the outside world to participate in this project. Those who are selected to participate in the core team will be rewarded by the Immortal Product Bureau. If they can play a key role in the construction of the airship, I heard that the Immortal Product Bureau has a chance to reward them with artifact drawings!"
Tang Chen clicked his tongue twice. Artifact blueprints, even though having the blueprints doesn't mean you can make an artifact, it's still a long way off, but artifact-related things are the lifelong dream of many weapon masters. If this news is true, I'm afraid that weapon masters from outside the realm will try their best to find a way to get in.
Tang Chenchang thought for a while, then turned to look at Tang Chen with shining eyes, "The bidding project is one, and the selection of weapon masters is the second. No matter which of the two is selected, it is equivalent to getting in touch with the Immortal Product Bureau and the Immortal Product Family. That is a great opportunity!"
"You have such talent, why don't you try the weapon refining competition?"
Tang Chen was excited in this room, and looking at his expression, he felt that there must be a seat for him in the weapon refining team, but Tang Biao felt aggrieved when he heard it.
He naturally knew how much weight he had and whether he could be selected to participate in such a project. Even when he heard the artifact drawings just now, Tang Biao was not very moved. It was like seeing others ascend to become immortals, at most he would envy them in his heart, but he would not think that it had anything to do with himself. That level is something that he could never achieve even if he tried his best in his life.
Tang Biao wanted to refuse, of course, but such a high-level weapon refining conference would represent the reputation of the entire family. The Tang family was the only silver-quality family in Xiling, so he had to go this time. He
immediately clenched his fist, showing his willingness to go through fire and water for the Tang family, and said in a loud voice: "Tang Biao will definitely do it!"
Tang Chen was very pleased and said three good words in a row.
When Tang Chen spoke to him next, Tang Biao was distracted and no longer listened carefully. Anyway, in Tang Chen's mind, his character was that he was quiet and not good at socializing, so it didn't matter if he didn't say a word.
After Tang Biao came out of the clan leader's place, he returned to his own courtyard with a gloomy face like a gust of wind, found the head, grabbed the head's collar, and squeezed out a sentence from his teeth, "Find all those weapon refining masters for me. From today on, lock them up and make them design and discuss the blueprints for me overnight. They must come up with a spiritual weapon of this level that can shock the whole Xiling!"
Shock the whole Xiling... The manager said yes, but in his heart he felt that the second master's brain was wrong again and started to go crazy.
Generally, Tang Biao's peak period of madness is before and after various weapon refining competitions in Xiling. It would be fine if he got a good ranking, but if he was laughed at, at least a few people would be dragged down when he came back, and he would have to summon three pairs of dragon and phoenix furnaces like today to serve him.
Seeing him rolling back from the clan leader's courtyard with red eyes today, the steward felt that he was still very stimulated and was about to go crazy, so he had to restrain himself during this period of time.
The decree issued by the Immortal Product Bureau has begun to circulate quietly among the top families in Xiling, and the Lin family, which is now developing rapidly, has naturally also received the news.
"The drawings of the artifacts!" The iron-blooded clan leader of the Lin family was very excited to hear this news, because she is not only the clan leader of the Lin family, but also a master of refining artifacts with extremely high level. The development of the Lin family today is inseparable from her.
"I've thought about the order, it shouldn't be a direct reward of drawings, but something related to the drawings of the artifact, maybe a clue or something like that." Seeing their patriarch about to jump up with excitement, the elder of the Lin family couldn't help but remind him.
"That's also quite amazing." The Lin clan patriarch walked around in the conference room with his hands behind his back, and finally suppressed his excitement and sat down.
"By the way, what did the spy sent to the Yang family auction house say?"
The elder of the Lin family shook his head, "I can't say."
"Huh?" The Lin clan patriarch turned around and saw a very beautiful face.
"The spy was badly burned, his mouth was also burned, and he was thrown at the front door of the house. We asked him to write down the intelligence, but he couldn't write anything."
Lin Yan sighed, "Since we can't find out any information, forget it, just send someone to keep an eye on him. I see that the Yang family has finally found a way to get such vitality pills, they won't just auction off three sets of pills and be done with it."
"Tell someone to give the spy good treatment."
The first elder said, and the third elder who was in charge of the auction that day said, "I asked the black-faced guy from the Yang family, and he boasted to me, and even had the intention of linking the source of the vitality pills to the immortal family. I thought what he said was pure nonsense, so I didn't ask any more questions afterwards."
"Oh?" Lin Yan's eyes were somewhat interesting. "Immortal Product Family? Most of the Yang family members are just big idiots who can only think hard, how can they say such exaggerated words?" It doesn't match the style of his family. "
Just send someone to keep an eye on them. I will start preparing for the bidding of the Xianpin Bureau's opening project in the next few days, and I will also prepare to participate in the weapon refining competition. I'll ask the third elder to pay more attention to the Yang family."
After a few days, the Yang family got the news half a beat late. At that time, basically all the upper-class families in Xiling knew about it.
These big guys had to gather together for a small meeting to get excited.
"It's a pity that no one in my Yang family knows how to refine weapons, so we can forget about the rewards of the weapon refining competition." The person who spoke was the patriarch of the Yang family, the eldest brother of the three brothers in the Yang family.
The second brother said, "It's a relief that we can't participate. Even if our family has a weapon, we will just be runners-up in the competition. It's better to focus on preparing for the mountain-opening project. This is good, it sounds like it will be used for physical training, and those heavy-duty spiritual weapons are not something that skinny people can control."
Yang Wenxu has always been a gentle person in the Yang family. At this time, he didn't say a word, just listened quietly to what the clan members said.
After a while, when the discussion about the bidding was over, the eldest brother of the Yang family turned his eyes and looked directly at Yang Wenxu, "After the auction that day, did you talk to Miss Qin about the follow-up cooperation matters?"
Yang Wenxu shook his head and said directly: "She didn't want the money we gave her later, and only took the commission she deserved. This makes it difficult for me to say some things."
The eldest brother of the Yang family frowned, "Could it be that she is picking on others? Does she look down on our Yang family again?"
Yang Wenxu thought about it, but said no. "I think she still wants to cooperate with our Yang family, but she seems to have some concerns and has not made up her mind, or she has some other plans."
After listening to the three brothers for a while, the black-faced elder of the Yang family spoke: "Don't worry, the young lady of the Qin family has a plan in mind. She is so young, but she carries two identity cards when she goes out, which means she can fully represent the Qin family. Her considerations must not be for herself, but for the whole family."
"Besides, no matter how poor the Yang family is, they are still a noble family. She is in Xiling, and we know her inside out. Aren't they afraid that we will do something to her? She is so smart, she will definitely not do such a stupid thing."
"Then let's wait for a while. It happens that the Xianpin Bureau is going to hold a recruitment meeting during this period. The family should focus on preparing for this matter. As for the Qin family, let Wen Xu pay more attention to it and entertain them politely and attentively. When Miss Qin thinks the time is right, it won't be too late to discuss cooperation."
So everyone nodded.
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Qin Ruqing and others are now in a teahouse near the Xiling wrestling street arena, and Qirong is fighting below.
He was originally quite interested in what Tang Zifeng had said before, the specific baking method of Xiling body cultivation, and had planned to meditate in Huoyan Mountain for a few days, and even thought about shaving his hair.
But Qin Ruqing stopped him immediately. In other words, there are many ways to cultivate, and this method may not be suitable for Qirong, so why bother to make himself look like a monk first.
Qirong listened and thought so too, so he went to Huoyan Mountain to try it for two days. As a result, he didn't see any results from the cultivation, but his buttocks and feet were covered with blisters.
He seemed to be very uncomfortable with this Xiling body cultivation baking method.
Qin Ruqing said, see, it's a good thing that you didn't shave your head before, right? If you really want to try it, don't worry, go to the wrestling street and knock down the eighteen arenas first. When the independent cultivators on the streets of Xiling are no longer your opponents, you can try to fight in Huoyan Mountain. The results may be different.
Qirong agreed and is now challenging in the wrestling street. He has already defeated the first ten arenas.
Qin Ruqing was standing by the window. After watching for a while, he frowned and shook his head: "Hiss, it's not right!"
Lu Wei held a book of pill recipes in her hand and turned a page idly. "What's wrong? Did Qirong lose?"
Tang Zifeng leaned against another window with his arms crossed and looked over when he heard the sound.
Qin Ruqing seemed to be immersed in her own world, answering the question irrelevantly: "It's a bit strange that you've been so quiet these two days!"
"In my original plan, although I didn't directly agree to cooperate with the Yang family for the second time, I also teased them. With the benefits in front, they should be more anxious to promote this matter. Why is it that although Yang Wenxu comes every day, he is only considerate and polite, but not enthusiastic?"
Lu Wei was silent. She felt that the "enthusiasm" mentioned by Xiaowu might be a little different from normal.
"Also, there seems to be no follow-up to the spies we placed in the Tang and Lin families that day..." Qin Ruqing turned around and muttered, "I have already provoked them so much, they will not say that they are so angry that they come to kill me, but they will at least investigate, right? This is not right! It feels like something big has caught their minds."
Qin Ruqing turned to look at Tang Zifeng, "Xiao Tang, do you have any ideas?"
Tang Zifeng shook his head, "I have been away from Xiling for a long time."
Qin Ruqing clicked his tongue and said, "You look pale, and you don't look like you have been in Xiling for a long time."
As usual, he returned to the inn after Qirong finished the fight. Qin Ruqing was still analyzing in her mind what went wrong with her strategy, but after thinking it over, she still felt that everything was under control. Why was the result different from what she had predicted?
As a result, when they just reached the door of the inn, Qin Ruqing was still distracted, but Lu Wei seemed to see something and tugged at Qin Ruqing's sleeve. Qirong had already blocked them.
Qin Ruqing looked up and saw a man in a green robe suddenly appeared in front of them, blocking their way.
Seeing their alert expressions, the man in the green robe smiled and said:
"My surname is Diwu. I wonder if you would be so kind as to come to the private room of the teahouse next door and sit down to have a sip of tea and chat for a while?"
Lu Wei and the others were still stunned. Qin Ruqing was the first to react. She took two small steps forward, performed a neat evening salute, and said in a clear and loud voice:
"It's an honor!"
Her strategy was flawless. Look, the long-awaited big fish was finally caught.