Just as his thoughts were racing, the water beside the boat suddenly surged, and a head popped out from the water. Then a tender hand grabbed the boat handle, and with a sudden force, a thin, bald man flipped out of the water and into the boat.
He had more than a dozen circles of dark green water grass wrapped around his waist. Each root was seven or eight feet long, as thick as a finger, and had dots of blue light on the surface.
Zhao Tai saw the newcomer board the boat and was furious. "Zhao Xiaoqi, why are you here again? Can you handle the consequences of dirtying the boat?"
"Brother Xiaotai, please don't be angry. Next time, I will pay more attention."
The thin Zhao Xiaoqi smiled and kowtowed repeatedly to beg for mercy, not at all afraid that Zhao Tai would make trouble for the young master.
Zhao Sheng was awakened by their conversation. He looked up and saw the blue grass on Zhao Xiaoqi's body. His eyes lit up and he waved, "Xiaoqi, come here."
Zhao Xiaoqi heard the young master calling out and rushed to Zhao Sheng's side. While untying the spiritual herbs, he asked for credit: "Hey, Grandpa, look at these blue grasses. They are quite old."
Zhao Sheng pinched the sticky skin of the blue grass, then sniffed it closely. He nodded with satisfaction and praised, "Not bad, it's been matured for hundreds of years. Xiaoqi, you did a great job. You are worthy of being the Zhao family's modern-day White Dragon."
"Oh, I don't deserve your praise, Grandpa. Xiaoqi feels ashamed and doesn't deserve it." Zhao Xiaoqi looked flattered, but his teeth were showing when he smiled.
Unlike the strength of immortal cultivation sects, some immortal cultivation families with insufficient strength often make full use of the power of secular relatives.
Just like the Zhao family of Longli Lake, there are only about thirty cultivators in the family, but the total population of the family exceeds 50,000.
There are many mortals like Zhao Xiaoqi in the Zhao family who serve the cultivators. They do what they can and try to reduce the trivial matters of the family's cultivators.
For example, going into the water to collect herbs, sailing a boat and pulling a net to catch spiritual fish, simply preparing some herbs, making raw materials for talisman paper, etc.
Seeing Zhao Xiaoqi being praised, Zhao Tai hurriedly held up a two-foot-long, slender and powerful red carp with scales as translucent as blood and eyes as beautiful as jade beads and presented it to Zhao Sheng.
"Master, what do you think of this red carp?"
Zhao Sheng took one look and shook his head, saying, "It's less than three feet long. It's not old enough. Let it go!"
Upon hearing this, Zhao Tai walked to the side of the boat unhappily, let go of the red carp and released it back into the lake.
He didn't understand why he had to let go of the spiritual fish that he had caught with great difficulty, nor did he understand why his ancestors set such a strange rule.
Even if it's less than three feet long, it's still a spiritual fish! A pound of meat can be sold for one spiritual stone.
Zhao Tai didn't know what sustainable development meant, so he naturally didn't understand why Zhao Sheng had set this rule.
Seeing that Zhao Tai was being bored, Zhao Xiaoqi chuckled twice and said attentively, "Grandpa, do you think these few strands of blue grass are enough? If not, I'll go down again."
Zhao Sheng put the blue grass into his storage bag and shook his head, saying, "No need. These are enough for a while. Go back to the Good Merit Hall to claim your merits."
Zhao Xiaoqi was overjoyed when he heard this. The good deeds of the Good Deeds Hall were valuable things that could not be bought with gold or silver. They could be exchanged for many extremely precious treasures in the world, such as talismans, elixirs, advanced martial arts, etc.
"Grandpa, please wait a moment. Xiaoqi will bring you a few more."
As he said this, he turned around and dived into the water, quickly disappearing from the surface.
Zhao Sheng had no time to stop it.
Seeing this, Zhao Sheng shook his head helplessly.
Maybe this is the aftereffect of becoming the head of the Zhao family!
Since being promoted to the position of head of the family, Zhao Sheng has no real power and has no say or control over family affairs.
However, the head of a family still has some privileges. For example, he can designate good deeds, have the power to manage his mortal relatives, and most importantly, one of the twelve water vein training rooms must be used exclusively by the head of the family.
Especially the exclusive right to the water vein training room.
The reason why he came to Longli Lake to fish for spiritual carp was to avoid the "harassment" of some immortal elders.
no way,
The number of training rooms on the spiritual vein is limited, while the number of family cultivators far exceeds the number. The demand is completely outstripping the supply.
Especially after the two elders, Zhao Jinding and Zhao Jingang, occupied two rooms, the training rooms became even more stretched.
Every training room is packed for twelve hours a day.
Therefore, the training room in Zhao Sheng's hands became a very popular commodity.
When Zhao Chongwei successfully borrowed the training room, the immortal cultivators from the eldest family came one after another, vying to ask to "borrow the training room."
But in this matter, Zhao Sheng was very persistent and adhered to the principles of justice and fairness.
He won't sit with his butt crooked, and the first and second wives must be treated equally.
Apart from the six hours for personal use, the remaining six hours are used by each of the two rooms in rotation for one day.
Because of this, he was repeatedly blamed and criticized by his roommates, but Zhao Sheng remained unmoved.
If the Zhao family wants to grow and develop, unity comes first.
The collapse of any huge force often begins with internal strife.
That is to say, Zhao Sheng was reincarnated in time, if it was ten or twenty years later.
The Zhao family would probably have fallen apart long ago.
From the day he became the head of the family, Zhao Sheng tried to gradually resolve the estrangement and conflicts between the two families.
The first thing he did was to propose to re-pay the spiritual stipends of his clansmen for the past two years.
In the storage bag left by Zhao Jinfu, in addition to the Foundation Establishment Pill and the Yuxu Talisman Sutra, there were also some mid- and low-grade spirit stones, talismans, magic tools, pills and other treasures.
All in all, there are more than 40,000 spirit stones.
The total annual spiritual salary of the Zhao family's thirty-one immortal cultivators was only more than 8,700 spirit stones.
Apart from the 17,000 spirit stones, the remaining treasures such as magical instruments that were difficult to sell were placed in the warehouse as family reserves.
Zhao Sheng's proposal was brilliant, and both branches of the Zhao family nodded in agreement, without even one objecting.
The re-issuance of the spiritual allowance greatly eased the conflict between the two branches of the Zhao family.
In addition, two elders of the clan entered the training room and began a three-month retreat for recuperation.
Without a leader, the tense atmosphere in the Zhao family became much more relaxed thanks to Zhao Sheng's superb language skills.
When they meet occasionally, the two families will greet each other.
Zhao Sheng saw it very clearly. To put it bluntly, the reason why the Zhao family became like this was all because of poverty.
so,
We have to find ways to increase revenue and reduce expenditure!
Zhao Sheng sighed inwardly and couldn't help but think of the magical medicine garden on the shady side of Tianzhu Mountain.
It's not the right time yet.
Zhao Sheng will not try to enter there until he reaches the middle stage of Qi Refining.
He still remembers the profound lessons of his previous life and will never underestimate the dangers of the Land of Death.
Three days later, the Zhao clan land,
In a talisman-making room in Heheyuan, Zhao Sheng stood in front of a water-curved wooden table with a serious expression, holding a first-grade mid-grade brocade fox talisman in his hand, and drawing the Spring Breeze and Rain Talisman with smooth strokes.
Sudden,
He frowned and saw a wisp of blue vapor coming out of the talisman paper on the table, and the entire talisman paper became blurred in an instant.
A clear mist suddenly condensed in the air and soon filled the entire room.