Journey to the head

Chapter 88 In the Jade Green Mountain
"Stop! Don't run!" Jiang Baitao shouted after a little civet cat and ran out of an uninhabited yard.

Although the civet cat is small, it is flexible and can run very fast. It also specializes in getting into the gaps in various courtyards, houses, tables, chairs and benches. There is no way Baitao can catch up.She could only yell angrily, and her voice could be heard all over the top of Lotus Peak.

During the chase, one man and one cat had already left the building complex on the top of the mountain. Baitao saw a faint mist floating in front of him. He was startled and shouted: "Stop! There is a mountain protection formation in front of you. You don't want your life!"

But the civet cat couldn't understand human words, it just rushed forward.

Seeing that the kitten was about to touch the boundary of the formation, Baitao suddenly covered her eyes and screamed loudly.

Suddenly, there was a sound of water flowing, and a blue water whip rolled up, tying up the cat and sending it to Baitao.

"Sister!" Baitao cheered happily, holding the struggling kitten in her arms.

Jiang Qingfeng shook her head helplessly: "You are a monk, even if you want to chase a cat, you can still use talismans. Didn't I give you a lot of talismans with wooden and earth elements? You can catch the cat with wooden vines."

Baitao stuck out her tongue: "I forgot."

Qing Feng said angrily: "I've been messing around all day, and I can't even use the talisman well. As a punishment, you are not allowed to go out to play. When you use the talisman well, we will talk about it later."

"Oh, sister, please don't, you are the best..." Jiang Baitao became anxious upon hearing this and quickly came over to act coquettishly.But Jiang Qingfeng ignored her with a straight face, and after pestering her for a long time to no avail, Baitao stamped her feet angrily, hugged the cat and ran away.

Qing Feng sighed helplessly, the little girl Baitao was getting more and more naughty.Fortunately, he didn't give her the access token to the formation, otherwise, she would have sneaked out of the peak and went down the mountain to play all day long.

Previously, Baitao was really bored, so Jiang Qingfeng gave her an hour every day to go out and play.The monks with a surname other than the Zhou family on the mountainside all knew Baitao, and knew that she was the most favored disciple of the Yunshan Sect on the top of the mountain. They did not dare to neglect her, and often coaxed her to play. I don’t know who caught this cat and gave it to her. For her.

Speaking of which, more than half a month has passed.

Ever since his junior brother left the mountain, he had been guarding the door. Except for going to Zhou's house and personally handing Lu Gan's letter to Zhou Chao, he had never left the mountain gate again.

I wonder what happened to my junior brother’s visit to the Danxia Sect?Has everything been safe along the way?

While in trance, I suddenly heard a cough behind me: "What trouble did Taotao get into again?"

"Mr. Zhou, why are you out?" Jiang Qingfeng saw clearly that the person coming was Xuan Jizi who had fully woken up.He is now taking the elixir according to the prescription every day. His face is still a little pale and he walks a little wobbly, but he no longer needs to stay in bed all day.

Next, you just need to follow the instructions of that guest, don't use your consciousness rashly, and you can recover after a year of rest.But after suffering this disaster, Jiang Qingfeng could clearly feel that Xuanjizi looked older and the wrinkles on his face became deeper.

"If you don't take a walk, these old bones will get rusty." Xuanjizi stared at the mountain-protecting formation in front of him with emotion. Even without using his spiritual sense, relying on his rich experience, he could roughly identify the elements in this formation. The domineering power contained in it, "Brother Lu is really amazing. He has been able to lay out this foundation-building formation on his own. I really saw the right person..."

Both of them were silent.As soon as Lu Qian left, everyone suddenly lost their backbone and had no direction in everything. When they thought about the faintly changing situation of the Zhou family, they felt uneasy.

Lu Gan, Lu Gan, when can you come back?
With the same idea, there was Zhou Chao who was guarding his father's bedside.

He came here again, screened out the servants, put up silencers around the place, and rambled on about what had happened recently to Zhou Bing, who had no response.

After receiving Lu Qian's letter, he followed the strategy in the letter, loosening up the outside and tightening inside, making it clear and slow but really urgent.On the surface, he regained his rapport with the elders of each branch, invited them to a banquet, apologized sincerely during the banquet, and allocated some resources to each branch.

During the dinner, he also proposed that as compensation, all the cultivation seeds of each branch could be gathered at the master's spiritual vein on the top of the mountain for intensive cultivation.But the four elders each had their own excuses and refused.

Sure enough, just as Lu Qian expected, now the various branches have different intentions. If not, how could they refuse?It is nothing more than fear that these cultivation seeds will be controlled and blackmailed by the master, and used as protons.

He also followed what Lu Gan said, pretending to be drunk and crying bitterly, saying that his father's condition was terrible and he might not survive for more than a month.

"When the elders of each branch heard the news, they would be delighted and relax their vigilance. They would be more inclined to wait for your father to pass away and would not force the palace into trouble in advance."

In the next few days, Zhou Chao clearly felt that the elders' attitude toward him had become much gentler.The elder even proposed to visit his father, and Zhou Chao agreed.

"If they want to visit your father, please agree to it so as not to show your cowardice. I just don't know what your father's condition is and whether he needs to make some decorations to hide his face."

What Lu Gan didn't know was that even without the decoration, his father was already out of shape and lifeless.If this continues, Zhou Chao himself is actually not sure whether his father can really survive a month?
Make these arrangements superficially to buy yourself some time.Secretly, Zhou Chao carefully screened and selected a dozen absolutely reliable people among the monks of the main family based on blood relations, past experiences, character and conduct, etc., and began to carefully examine the family account books over the years.

On the surface, there are no problems with the public accounts and the entries are clear.Fortunately, Lu Gan also provided corresponding methods.

Lu Gan's original idea was to secretly send people to control some of the branches' mortal servants who were responsible for serving those in power.Get information from those servants.

But Lu Qian didn't understand that the Zhou family was a cultivating family, and the people who served the Zhou family monks were all ordinary clansmen with Zhou family blood.The servants of each branch are all members of each branch's own tribe, which makes it difficult to control.

Fortunately, after Zhou Chao's investigation, he found another method.

He has arranged for his confidants to get started, and he thinks he will be able to respond in a few days.

After such a series of events, Zhou Chao felt extremely tired and clearly felt beyond his capabilities.Without Lu Gan's letter guidance, he would never have been able to do it.With his ability and personality, he would only check accounts, collect evidence, and directly point out conflicts openly. If so, I'm afraid the Zhou family would have been in chaos.

Zhou Chao let out a long sigh and asked him to go to the battlefield and charge into battle. He felt happy to work hard for the business.But it is really difficult to deal with internal conflicts, resolve conspiracies, stabilize people's hearts, and stabilize the overall situation.

Do I really not have the talent to be the head of the family?Can the Zhou family really flourish in my hands?

He stared at his unconscious father in confusion.

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