Free Web Novel“What do you think of these meager gifts for our first meeting?”
Sun Gui stood up straight, stroking his chin with a slight smile.
The Qingyuan Sect was considered a major Sect in one prefecture, but Yunzhou had three regions and twenty-seven prefectures, and each prefecture was no worse than Ziyang Prefecture. The accounts he handled each year were enough to build several Sects the size of the Qingyuan Sect.
He calculated very precisely.
The items displayed outside were exactly equivalent to the entire treasury of a medium-sized Sect.
But the main hall was very quiet.
Qian Bufan: “.....”
Ouyang: “.....”
He scratched his head, calculating how many sets of Li Shidi’s brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones those items outside could buy.
Xue Jing: “.....”
Thinking of Xiao Li pouring out Medicinal Pills in torrents, Lao Xue’s heart remained unmoved.
The scene was extremely quiet.
Uncomfortably quiet.
Sun Gui was baffled. Could it be that the Qingyuan Sect’s foundation was far richer than he had imagined?
Or perhaps they were experienced and did not show their emotions?
Li Mo was so young, he surely hadn’t seen such a scene before...
“Li Shaoxia, what do you think?”
“I always view money as dirt; I’ve never been interested in gold, silver, or treasures.”
Li Mo smiled politely.
He felt a gaze behind him.
As everyone knew, Xiao Li didn’t have eyes on the back of his head.
But the time he spent training with his beautiful Master was not in vain, was it?
It was coming in handy now!
“Shopkeeper Sun, please take these gifts back.”
Sun Gui’s expression changed. Being good at reading people, he saw no trace of greed or attachment in Li Mo’s expression.
Could he truly be a person of noble character, free from low-level desires?
But... everyone in life has something they seek.
It’s either fame and fortune, or personal strength and transcendence.
Sun Gui narrowed his eyes and chuckled:
“In that case, I was indeed presumptuous.”
“However, Li Shaoxia, do you know that my Hengtong Merchant House’s trade routes span the entire world? All kinds of rare treasures, Spirit Pills, Sharp Weapons, Supreme martial arts, and Secret Manuals are available. Even if we don’t have them temporarily, we can find them through our connections.”
“Divine weapons?”
“Uh...”
“Do you have any divine weapon-class swords?”
The smile on Sun Gui’s face abruptly froze.
Most divine weapons were in the hands of Heaven Ranking experts, and even Heaven Ranking experts wouldn’t use them lightly, usually placing them in important places like ancestral halls for worship.
“The Merchant House can find them, but this matter exceeds my authorization...”
“So it’s just an adjective? What about Supreme martial arts?”
“.....”
The Supreme martial art Sun Gui himself cultivated was only High Grade.
“Do you have Medicinal Pills similar to the Nine-窍 Dragon Tiger Golden Pill?”
Li Mo asked.
“Ah? What is that?”
Sun Gui had hit a blind spot in his knowledge.
His current situation... felt a bit like... his imagination was limited by poverty?
Tang Xiaobao scratched his head: “Li Shidi, it seems everything he just said was an adjective.”
Sun Gui suddenly felt a bit hot, sweat breaking out on his body.
He was silent for a moment, then, to ease the awkwardness, said:
“Let’s order first.”
“We can talk more while we eat... Waiter!”
Li Mo said: “The waiter is asleep in the woodshed.”
“Hmm?” Sun Gui was startled, then chuckled: “Actually, I’m very familiar with the owner here. I’ll just call him to join us.”
“You mean Shopkeeper Zhang? He should be... on his way back to his hometown by now,” Li Mo mused.
“He went back? Why so suddenly...?”
“Naturally, because he sold the restaurant for a good price.”
“Old Zhang once said this restaurant was his life’s work. How much money would it take for him to abandon this place and peacefully return home to retire...?”
Sun Gui picked up his tea and took a sip.
Li Mo said: “A box of silver notes, a box about this size.”
“A box... of silver notes? What kind of sucker...” Sun Gui looked around, then asked, puzzled:
“How does Li Shaoxia know so clearly?”
Li Mo pointed to himself expressionlessly:
“Because that sucker was me.”
“??”
Sun Gui suddenly understood why Li Mo wasn’t interested in money.
He cleared his throat, his voice much softer:
“Actually, my eldest daughter is extremely beautiful, well-educated, gentle, and quiet. She also greatly admires Li Shaoxia and should meet Li Shaoxia’s criteria for a spouse.”
“A rich and beautiful girl, Baby Disciple,” Shang Wu said with a smile, nudging Li Mo with her elbow.
Li Mo waved his hand emphatically: “I’m not interested in young ladies from prominent families.”
Sun Gui continued: “Then my second daughter, though a bit headstrong, is lively and playful, and she’s quite fond of acting as a hero...”
“A headstrong young lady is the same.”
“My third daughter works in the yamen and is now a constable. She hates evil as if it were her personal enemy and will not rest until criminals are dealt with.”
“.....Can she help me eradicate the Rain Listening Pavilion?”
Xiao Li’s forehead broke out in black lines.
By the way, where did Shopkeeper Sun get so many daughters?
It was quite a headache. He suspected that if he accepted everyone, Shopkeeper Sun probably wouldn’t mind him taking them all...
But he had already made his intentions very clear!
Why did he insist on him becoming his son-in-law... It was all Tian Miao’s fault. Whether or not ‘wife-attracting’ was real, was it necessary to write such an improper thing on the Qianlong Ranking?
“I have no plans to marry for now,” Li Mo said helplessly.
Sun Gui was silent for a moment, then asked: “Then how about... Li Shaoxia first gets to know my daughters one by one? What if you fall in love and develop feelings over time...?”
Li Mo’s eyes were clear and firm: “Impossible, absolutely impossible!”
After he finished speaking,
He felt someone sit beside him.
Ying Bing drank her tea as if no one else was there, her skin like ice and jade, her noble beauty beyond compare.
When her gaze swept over him, Sun Gui suddenly felt less hot.
But why was he sweating even more, flowing profusely and uncontrollably?
“I appreciate Shopkeeper Sun’s kindness, but please take these gifts back.”
Li Mo picked up his teacup and took a sip.
Sun Gui, however, was a man of the world and readily agreed:
“There’s no reason to take back a gift once it’s been given.”
“Being able to get acquainted with Li Shaoxia is enough to make this trip worthwhile for me.”
He clapped his hands again.
The servants who had accompanied him brought in another box. freewebnovel.cσ๓
Li Mo noticed that the box was particularly luxurious; the Materials used to make it alone were worth about as much as an equal weight of gold.
“This is?”
Li Mo asked.
Sun Gui walked to the box in the center of the main hall and patted it twice:
“Although it may not be anything precious to Li [N O V E L I G H T] Shaoxia, it is something useful.”
He was about to open the box.
However, he suddenly felt a jolt in his heart. Looking up, he saw that the Elders of the Qingyuan Sect opposite him also reacted similarly, as if something unexpected had suddenly occurred.
It wasn’t sudden.
The next moment, the box suddenly exploded.
The Inner Scenery domain descended in an instant.
Pitch-black like ink, the interior of the restaurant was instantly plunged into a thick darkness where one couldn’t see their hand in front of their face, as if all light had vanished in an instant.
Changing Heaven and Earth?
Isn’t that Evil King Ming’s signature martial art?
A name instantly flashed through everyone’s minds.
Evil King Ming’s Disciple, seventy-third on the Human Ranking, Myriad Horses Silent Blade — Peng Keshan
