Chapter 135 The Family

Late at night, Zhang Botao, who gave the ring that day, appeared quietly in the side hall of the city lord's mansion.

His feelings were almost exactly the same as those of the day Yingyi. It would be fine if he was surrounded by beautiful little fairies serving tea and water. Xue Mu was also full of the fragrance of a woman. I don’t know which fairy I just rolled the sheets with.

If he had let him know that the demon in his heart was Xue Qingqiu, he would not know what he would feel.

But his ideas are different from Yingyi. He is not at all rejecting this kind of life, but on the contrary, he is very accustomed to it.

The Zhang family bets on both the Xinyi Sect and the Zongheng Road. The unscrupulous merchants in the Zongheng Road will not mention it. Just talking about the Xinyi Sect, looking at the podium of Pan Kouzhi's Six Swordsman, you will know that from the Xinyi Sect and the swordsmanship of Mu Jianli, you will know that the swordsmanship of Xinyi Sect is different from that of Mu Jianli, it has a bit of glitz.

And Zhang Botao himself is not the kind of person who is good at studying martial arts.

As a local clan in Lingzhou, there are many talents in various directions. Zhang Botao's research direction is formation, and he also has another identity: he is a scholar.

The world concepts of scholars in this era and Xue Mu are different. The imperial court's selection of scholars is not an imperial examination system, but a system similar to the examination system, and is evaluated and recommended by local officials.

The basis for recommendation is also to ignore poetry and literature. In addition to morality, it is mainly based on people's livelihood talents, and encourages agriculture, mulberry and water conservancy and relief, etc.

As a Shishi family, it is obviously more focused on this aspect, which is directly consistent with the attributes of the court.

In other words, in addition to the layout in the world, these families naturally correspond to the job of Xue Mu City Lord. Zhang Botao is the kind who can be elected as an official in Xue Mu's hands. So Xue Qingqiu once said that if Xue Mu was a qualified city lord, he should have met these aristocratic families on the first day he arrived in Lingzhou.

Unfortunately, our irresponsible City Lord Xue has been to Lingzhou for so long, and it is the first time we have met a family member. The city lord has not even asked about the responsibility of the city lord, and even throws the seal to the officials to play with.

Zhang Botao took off his cloak and thanked the girl who was in tea with a very graceful manner. He smiled at Xue Mu and said: The city lord is living in a quiet place and does not see any foreign guests, but it turns out that he is living such a fairy life. If it were Zhang, he would be too lazy to go out to meet people.

Xue Mu sipped tea and laughed: "Mr. Xue is the first to come, but he is as rich as the Zhang family for eight hundred years."

This sounds like flattery, but Zhang Botao has a bit of a thorny sound. He answered cautiously: The Zhang family still needs the Lord Xue to take care of.

He was also very frustrated. The city lord in the past was not talking about currying favor with these aristocratic families, but at least he was very dependent on them.

But the person in front of him is really unique. He just takes the responsibility of the city lord, and the power of the city lord doesn't care at all, and he treats himself as a gangster.

And if you look at him from the perspective of the world, it would be even more overwhelming. He is the chief manager of Xingyue Sect. No matter which backend you move out, he will not timid you...

In the past, all kinds of ways of treating previous city lords had to be thrown into the stinky ditch, and they could not be attached to this strange city lord, so that he had to read the conversation with Xue Mu first in his mind.

He was pretty good because he unexpectedly got involved with Xue Mu because of a trade fair.The other families are almost broken, and they have never seen this city lord yet.

I dare not take it.Xue Mu answered very kindly: Xue is still unfamiliar with Lingzhou and needs the help of local snakes like Mr. Zhang.

Zhang Botao hurriedly said: If you have any City Lord Xue, please give me some instructions.

Just talk about business affairs with Mr. Zhang.Xue Mu smiled and said: The fate of Xue and Mr. Zhang's first meeting still vividly still remembers it. Thanks to Mr. Zhang's ring, Xue likes it very much.

The city lord likes it.

Zhang Botao felt a little relieved and said with a smile: In fact, when the test that day, everyone seemed to be not interested in the storage ring. Zhang was a little disappointed. Since the city lord liked it, it was considered to have found someone with destiny.

Xue Muqi said: Don’t you plan to do your ring industry in Mr. Zhang?

Zhang Botao shook his head and said: To be honest, the city lord has said that our Zhang family has been operating various special accessories for generations, such as the Heart Pendant and the Jade Chai.If you promote this ring, it is just to expand a small product and it is not particularly important.Since everyone is not interested, this business is mostly unstoppable, and it makes no sense. If you don’t do it, you won’t do it.

Xue Mu thought about it: Because people in the world are not used to wearing ornaments on their hands, which will affect the battle?

Yes, even though you know that this ring does not affect the battle, people do not have the habit of wearing things on their hands, so they naturally cannot replace the Qiankun bag, and it may not be beneficial to hard-working promotion.

Xue Mu gently tapped the armrest of the chair and pondered.

Zhang Botao tentatively said: Did the city lord mean it?

I thought to myself that if you are really interested, we will do the loss business as well.

Xue Mu woke up and said with a smile: I have a story, I wonder if Mr. Zhang wants to hear it?

Zhang Botao smiled and said: The city lord’s little story is spread throughout the world. How could Botao not want to hear it?

This is not that kind of story.

Xue Mu smiled self-deprecatingly and said: Two shoe merchants went to a new land and there were also humans living together. The two shoe merchants inspected their business.As a result, they found that locals did not wear shoes. The first shoe dealer thought that since this was the case, the shoes had no sales here, so they went back.The second shoe dealer spent a lot of time and tried his best to let the locals discover the comfort of wearing shoes. From then on, they were popular and wealthy.

Zhang Botao was silent for a while and said with a wry smile: It's reasonable, but it's difficult.After all, wearing shoes is indeed more beneficial than not wearing them, but wearing a ring may not necessarily have any advantages than using a Qiankun bag, and the cost is much higher.

Of course there are advantages, isn’t it an advantage to bring less bags that are easy to fall off?Although this advantage is not great... Xue Mu smiled slightly: The key is that sometimes there is no need to have any advantages in the formation of a trend.

Zhang Botao said solemnly: Please give me some advice.

If Mr. Zhang really intends to cooperate with Mr. Xue, then Mr. Zhang will get the answer to the Yanyang Returning Zong tomorrow.Xue Mu said lightly: Mr. Zhang has figured it out clearly?

Xue Mu's words were obviously interesting, and Zhang Botao felt a stern: What does the city lord mean?

Xue Mu's voice was cold: I will make special arrangements for my partners, otherwise there would be no need to cause trouble.What Mr. Zhang needs to determine is whether the Zhang family is my Xue Mu collaborator, or is it a splash in some undercurrents.

Zhang Botao's pupils shrank slightly, and he didn't say anything for a while.

Xue Mu didn't urge him, but just leaned on the back of the chair and tasted tea leisurely.

After a long time, Zhang Botao suddenly laughed and sighed: To be honest... The Zhang family never cared about the surname Lingzhou, or even the surname Dazhou.If the city lord's arrangements can indeed benefit the Zhang family, will the Zhang family care about those people's affairs?

Xue Mu also laughed. This is very erotic, this is very heart-willing, this is very...arist family.

The first time he heard the concept of aristocratic family, Xue Mu met the aristocratic family in his own understanding. To some extent, the two worlds still have some common ground.

Why didn’t the head of the Zhang family come to meet the city lord, but just a young master?And Xue Mu was not surprised, and did not feel despised at all?

Because everyone was tacit, Xue Mu was just one of these aristocratic families betting on multiple sides.

If you expand further, Zhang Botao represents not only the Zhang family, but the common mentality of many similar families in Lingzhou. They will only stand on the side of the winner and only pay attention to the interests and inheritance of their own family. As for anything else, it never matters.