Ancestor Above

Chapter 116

116 Chapter 115 collecting rent

“You mean, these two foundation building pills were given to Ming Ling and Ting Chou in the end?”

“Yes, Xuanji mingpu still has 16 years. There will be opportunities later.” Lu chaoxi sighed as he replied to his father.

“That’s good too.” Lu Qing said, ” it’s a good thing that the two of them have succeeded. Now, there are five foundation building cultivators in the clan. Including you, Qiming, we are not much worse than the Zhao clan. You have to work hard on your own cultivation as well. When can you reach the second level?”

“It’ll probably take a few more years.”

“Yes.”

At that moment, Lu Qing was chatting with Lu chaoxi. The time for him to come out of seclusion had been set beforehand. Lu chaoxi had also arrived on time.

“Oh, right, father.” He brought up another matter. Wenen is here too. He said he wanted to kowtow to you. He was supposed to leave for the Qingfeng sect half a month ago, but he delayed it for half a month in order to wait for you to wake up from your closed-door cultivation and listen to your teachings.”

“This stinky brat!”

“Eh?” Lu chaoxi did not know why his father would say that. Logically speaking, his father should not be familiar with Wenen.

Oh, that’s right, during the war in the northern border the year before last, his father’s divine sense had visited Wenen and guided him out of his predicament.

Then why did his father call him a brat?

“Let him come.” Lu Qing’s voice rang out again.

“Alright,” he said. Lu chaoxi retracted his thoughts and walked out.

Wenen was waiting outside the deep passage of the chamber. Gongsun que was accompanying him.

This lady Gongsun had been a guest at the Lu family for a year. The Lu family treated her as a very important guest. They provided her with as many resources as possible-this was because they treated her as their daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law. She was from the Gongsun family, which was a thousand-year-old family. How could they not treat her well?

When the two of them first got along, they were a little shy and restrained, but they didn’t really want to marry each other. At most, they had a good impression of each other, which might have been developed by Gongsun Xia.

However, in this state, they spent a year together. Apart from their own cultivation time, the two of them basically spent all their time together. Whether it was going out for a walk, visiting towns, or visiting historical sites, the speed at which their feelings warmed up was quite fast.

The Lu family is already preparing to go to the Gongsun family to propose marriage, Yingluo.

“Let’s go in, the old ancestor has already woken up.”

“Yes.” Wenen cupped his hands at the clan leader and said a few words to Gongsun que. Then, he walked into the deep passage in the back mountain alone. At the door of the closed-door cultivation room, he put on a long robe and knelt down on both knees.

“Unfilial descendants, kowtow to your ancestors.”

“You may rise.” Lu Qing’s voice was heard.

When Wynn heard it, it was indeed the same voice he had heard on the battlefield two years ago.

Wenen wouldn’t dare. Lord great ancestor helped me escape from the battlefield back then, but I was suspicious and even criticized him in my heart. I can’t help but feel guilty when I think about such unfilial behavior.

Hehe.

Lu Qing was amused. He did not want to argue with him over this. “Get up. I didn’t know you were in the wrong. I didn’t blame you.”

Lu Wenen only dared to get up after hearing this.

Lu Qing asked him a few more questions and encouraged him before letting him go.

Then, Lu chaoxi entered again.

is it good that father urged Wenen to know that you’re awake? ”

“It’s fine.” Lu Qing replied, ” it’s not 17 years ago.

Lu chaoxi came to a realization.

17 years ago, when Lu Qing had just woken up, it was indeed inappropriate to publicize the fact that he was not dead, even though he was really dead.

At that time, the clan was at its weakest. Lu Qing had just received the system and could not use it yet. The clan only had three foundation building cultivators, and their strength was not enough. If an enemy-the Zhao clan, for example-was drawn over, the Lu clan would not be able to stand it even if Qiming or a few more foundation building cultivators came, and Zhao Zidan would not even need to make a move.

What was the saying again?

He beat you up because he suspected that your Jindan cultivator might not have died. I didn’t dare to beat you up because your golden core cultivator really didn’t die.

It was really different now. So what if Zhao Zidan came personally?

I, Lu Qing, have prepared a great treasure for you!

......

After that, Lu Qing told his son about a rather important matter.

It was about the establishment of the clan’s contribution system.

“In the future, we won’t give out spirit stones to our clansmen. Every year’s salary and cultivation allowance will be exchanged for contribution points.”

“Please elaborate, father.”

just like the merit points for the War in the North, the value of a little clan contribution is equivalent to a spiritual stone. You can also exchange it for a spiritual stone.

“Isn’t this Kasaya the same as before? In the past, when he gave out spirit stones to his clansmen, most of the things they wanted to buy were also bought from the family’s Treasury. Only a small number of people who really didn’t have any in the Treasury would go outside to buy Kasaya. I understand now. According to what father said, I can only spend contribution points to buy things from the family in the future? Contribution points can be used to exchange for spirit stones, but can spirit stones not be exchanged for contribution points?”

“Yes, I am.”

“This way, everyone won’t have too many spirit stones in their hands, and the funds left in the family will be much more. It won’t have much of an impact on the clansmen, but the clan will become richer, and it will be easier to mobilize funds for great things!”

“That’s it.” Lu Qing’s tone sounded as if he was a promising child.

This was something that he had come up with after thinking about the currency system in his previous life and the merit system implemented by the Allied forces on this trip to the northern border.

When it was implemented, it was a little like a credit currency.

The use of spirit stones as a form of currency was similar to the gold that Lu Qing remembered from his previous life. They had physical value and were even more valuable than gold. Spirit stones could be considered the lifeline of cultivators. They were not just a manifestation of wealth.

Clan contribution could be exchanged with spiritual stones, but its value was based on the Lu clan’s credibility.

To put it bluntly, if Lu chaoxi were to take things too hard in the future and run away with the money, the rest of the clan members would lose all their capital.

...

However, this would not happen. Firstly, Lu chaoxi would definitely not do it. He was not that kind of person. He would even die for the family. In addition, in terms of benefits, wasn’t it more comfortable to be the clan leader of the Lu clan than to be a rogue cultivator with some money?

Of course, on the other hand, there had to be a way to put an end to this kind of thing. For example, as the clan leader, Lu chaoxi was not in charge of the finances or the Treasury.

If they were to snatch it by force, there was no way to talk to Yingying. Outsiders could also snatch it.

In short, it wasn’t that easy for him to take the money and run away.

After hearing his father’s words, Lu chaoxi left to prepare for this matter.

Lu Qing’s consciousness body floated out. He planned to take a stroll around Yuyan mountain and its surroundings. If there was nothing else, he would go back and cultivate in seclusion again so that he could break through to the sixth-stage golden core realm as soon as possible.

Although it was useless for the time being, he was now very confident in his resurrection.

Who knows, he might even be in the original infant stage by the time he’s alive!

“That’s not good either. How many years would it take for Qianqian to be resurrected when she’s at the nascent Soul Stage? Moreover, if it’s the real kind of resurrection, I don’t know if there’s still free and sufficient spiritual energy provided by the system. Sigh, it’s really a troublesome matter.”

Lu Qing began to fantasize.

After thinking for a while, his consciousness floated back to the back mountain.

...

He retracted his thoughts and did not find anything special. He planned to return to his body and cultivate again.

However, just as he returned to his body and was about to enter seclusion, he received a message.

[one-star Achievement: heroic act]

[the family members, Lu mingsi, Lu Minghai, and Lu meiting, have done something heroic in order to fight for the family’s interests. They have also caused a certain impact.]

[reward: ten karma]

......

What was this?

Why did he act heroically again?

Or Lu mingsi?

Lu Qing recalled that this Lu mingsi seemed to be Lu Weiwen’s father. He should be a cultivator from the clan who was stationed in Pingyao County for a long time and was in charge of the clan’s interests in Pingyao.

Back then, he was also the one who sold horses in Pingyao County. He was also the one who was beaten up.

Why did something happen again?

Right now, Yuyan mountain definitely had not received the news. Lu Qing did not plan to wait for someone to report to him. He simply got up and flew to Pingyao County. He would arrive in less than half a day.

At the moment, Lu tinghua was the clan’s cultivator who was permanently stationed in Pingyao. He was the eldest of the ting generation. He was eighty-seven years old this year and was at the ninth level of the Qi refining stage. He was Lu mingsi’s father, Weiwen’s grandfather, and chaoheng’s eldest son.

In the past, tinghua was in charge of the energy stone mine. A year ago, Lu chaojun had been transferred back to Yuyan mountain from Pingyao County to take on the work of the family’s General Affairs. However, Pingyao definitely needed a reliable and experienced person to take charge. Thus, Lu tinghua was sent to do it.

On the way, Lu Qing even took the time to check on the current state of the three people who had triggered their heroic actions.

Mingsi was fine, but Lu Minghai, who was at Qi disciple Level 7, and Lu meiting, who was at Qi disciple level 9, were seriously injured.

When he arrived at Pingyao County, the first thing Lu Qing did was to go to the Lu clan residence to take a look. There was only one cultivator there.

There should be six cultivators from the Lu clan who were permanently stationed in Pingyao.

He was not in a hurry to do anything. From the conversations between the people in the mansion, Lu Qing learned that the matter was due to the steamed bun mountain outside the city.

That bun mountain was a level-one Spirit vein in Pingyao County. More than 20 unaffiliated cultivators had formed a small gang and cultivated there. Due to the barren land there, they had a deep connection with Pingyao County. They needed to exchange the resources they needed for cultivation more frequently.

Regardless of whether it was the rental of the bun mountain or the exchange of the resources needed for cultivation (which required a tax), these were all to provide income for Pingyao County.

The problem was the payment for renting the gourd mountain.

Last year, the Lu family and the Zhao family had a very unfriendly atmosphere. They had discussed and come to a conclusion-from now on, the Lu family would be the ones to collect rent.

The Lu clan already had 30% of the profits in Pingyao County.

In the past, it had always been the Zhao clan who collected the rent for the cave abode with the man-made spirit vein in Pingyao and the rent for the surrounding low-grade spirit veins first. Then, they would distribute the money to the Lu clan according to the ratio. The profits of the two clans in Pingyao County’s market would go to their respective clans.

There would be a lot of tricks in this. How much was the rental price? How much did he collect? Was there a Yin Yang account book? Are there any other transactions?

In the past, the Lu family had no choice but to check the accounts, but they could not find anything important. Occasionally, they would find something, but the others would just deal with it indifferently.

However, he couldn’t just let this situation continue.

After Lu tinghua came up, he started to talk about this matter.

The person in charge of Pingyao from the Zhao clan was still Zhao pingsong in name, but they had already sent a foundation building cultivator over.

However, the Lu clan was not afraid, especially since their clan leader had already been enlightened. He was on Yuyan mountain not far away. What was there to be afraid of?

Furthermore, there was news of Lu mingling and Lu tingchou building their foundations.

The Zhao family had to give in.

A month ago, the cultivators of the Lu clan started to get busy. They went around collecting debts and slowly took back the interests of the clan.

This process wasn’t smooth. There were many conflicts and fights, but it was relatively easy to maintain restraint. Although it was difficult, they still pushed forward bit by bit.

However, when he was collecting the rental fees for the Taotie mountain, he ran into a problem.

The group of wandering cultivators from the bun mountain said that they had already handed it over, and it was the Zhao clan who had come to collect it.

This matter was F * cked up.

According to the agreement, the Lu family’s interest lay in the bun mountain.

The group of itinerant cultivators on the mountain were not very rich. They had to pool their money to rent the steamed bun mountain a year, and they could only gather 150 spirit stones.

Last year, the Zhao family had said that they could give a discount and only charge 500 spirit stones for five years at a time. The 20 of them had squeezed their money together and thought that they wouldn’t have to worry about it for the next five years. They didn’t expect the Lu family to come again.

They could not afford to fork out so many spirit stones. At the same time, they were furious. They questioned how the Lu and Zhao clans managed Pingyao County.

They had rented this place for decades and had the name of the ‘dagger head gang’. They had taken root in Pingyao.

There was no need to offend them, and it was meaningless. The Lu family could only look for the Zhao family again, and the reply they got was, ”

“I told you that the Lu family will take it in the future. If you can’t take it, why are you looking for us? Who said that we can’t take in five years “worth of crops in advance last year?”

The cultivators of the Lu clan obviously could not take it lying down, let alone the fact that they were quarreling in the district headquarters. After their unsuccessful communication, they also came up with a not-so-clean idea-wasn’t the Zhao family collecting rent now? Then go Rob.

Lu meiting, who was at the ninth level of the Qi refining stage, led mingsi and Ming hai to work.

This was Lu meiting’s own idea. She did not discuss it with her brother, Lu tinghua.

The three Lu clan cultivators who went out of the city to attack did not kill anyone. They intercepted two groups of cultivators from the Zhao clan and got more than 340 spirit stones. He was not able to take back all of the profits from the five years of the steamed bun mountain. He was still lacking quite a bit. However, he had more or less vented his anger and made up for some of his losses.

However, on their way back to the city, they were still intercepted despite being more careful.

As they fought with all their might, the three of them activated that heroic act. In the end, two of them escaped, and one was caught.

The Zhao family didn’t kill him.

Fortunately, both sides were relatively restrained. Otherwise, this matter was likely to directly become the fuse for another war between the two families.

But even so, the situation was already very tense.

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The 2-in-1 chapter had more than 8000 words today.

He still owed 25 chapters.