Chapter 118: The Ravens
Xue Mu is certainly interested in the bank’s currency and would like to communicate with Pu Xiang, but after all, currency banking is not his specialty, and he is not even an expert in it. To put it bluntly, he only saw the primitive form of the bank and was interested in seeing it from the perspective of a “city lord”, in fact, he had no idea what role modern banking could play in this world, so the degree of importance was not very high.
If you look at the level of his interest, in the Yan Yang Sect, he would like to contact the patriarch Wen Hao, and at that time, he said to Pu Xiang that he would go to the Yan Yang Sect for a return visit, and the main purpose was to see Wen Hao.
Don’t look at this guy being beaten up and cried by Xue Qingqiu as if it was humiliating, but actually being beaten up and cried by Xue Qingqiu was not humiliating at all. He had an identity that Xue Mu valued: a musician.
Music is the natural art of mankind, something that can develop naturally regardless of any world system, even the rain beating on a banana is pure natural music, and it’s very easy to trigger the resonance of the human mind or auditory enjoyment without using any winks. Especially in this world, music can also be used as a martial arts discipline, so the level of development is very high, people for music masters are also quite respectful, so there is the rise of Meng Lan “zither fairy”.
The court officials and scholars who favored social humanities were not able to practice martial arts and were discriminated against in literature, so they preferred music. And love is still relatively pure music, inner Star and Moon Sect Acacia Sect kind of use of charm plus music to seduce people’s hearts utilitarian music is very disgusting.
After being beaten up by Xue Qingqiu, Wen Hao became disillusioned and sent his love to the mountains and water, obviously more spiritual than the original master of the Yan Yang Sect, and less utilitarian to seduce people’s hearts. The world’s martial arts practice can not be aspiring young people everywhere, they like is this feeling, coupled with Wen Hao’s musical attainments is indeed very high, so gradually also quite a bit of musical fame. Officials, scholars, elegant businessmen, and even martial artists who love this way, from time to time there are such exchanges of landscape music, which spontaneously formed a concept similar to the “society”, which can be called the “Lingzhou Music Association”? Wen Hao was almost the core leader of this “association”.
What interested Xue Mu the most was that the music exchanges between these people from time to time had led to the gradual sprouting of lyrics and songs, which had already begun to break away from the primitive form of mountain songs, and it was estimated that if they continued to develop, poetry and songwriting would have made great progress as well.
If Xue Mu didn’t show up, the literature of this world would most likely begin to slowly grow, and the peaceful era would be such a soil. Xue Mu was very interested in witnessing such a development, and it would be a very important boost to his Star Moon Sect’s big plan to create stars.
Speaking of which, this Yan Yang Sect was very fun, there were mercenary money makers, martial arts practitioners, and music players. Lacking the unity of the “Way”, a clan that should have a common form has turned into a diverse group of people, which is no longer a clan, but is closer to a jianghu club.
Xue Mu knew that Pu Xiang’s banquet couldn’t be just him. Feasting on the Star Moon Sect’s Grand Master and the Lord of Spirit State City, he could go behind his own sect leader’s back? Obviously impossible.
Sure enough, as soon as he stepped into the box, he saw that there was also an old man with the appearance of Qing Qu Wenxiu, who was currently leaning on the back of his chair with his eyes closed, his fingertips leisurely tapping on the tabletop, humming a tune.
Hearing the sound of Xue Mu entering, the old man stopped his tune and opened his eyes. Pu Xiang laughed and got up to welcome him: ”Is Chief Xue hungry? Come, come, eat some pastries first. What are you few still waiting for, quickly go and let Old Wu serve the food.”
Xue Mu arched his hand and said, “Temporarily there are some important matters ……”
“Eh, there’s no harm, Chief Xue is a busy man, unlike us who have nothing to do all day.” Pu Xiang pressed him on the first seat and took a plate of pastries and put it in front of him, “Koufu Lou is an old name in Spirit State, and the contraptions here are very good.”
Xue Mu wasn’t afraid of people poisoning him, and very casually ate a piece to confirm that it wasn’t poisonous, then he brought the plate to Zhuo Qingqing: “For everyone to eat.”
Zhuo Qingqing smiled and went to distribute the pastries, Pu Xiang’s eyes flashed with a different color.
He has seen more people, he can see that Xue Mu eat first is not a superior behavior, on the contrary, it is for the sisters to try the poison in the body. ……
This kind of inadvertent warm heart and cherish flowers performance, it is really easy to impress a woman’s heart, this Xue Mu can mix in the Star Moon Sect, really is not without reason.
“It is my Yan Yang Sect’s face that Chief Xue has come to visit.” Pu Xiang toasted a cup of wine and introduced the old man with a smile, “This is our Clan Master Wen.”
Xue Mu had expected this and raised his cup in salutation, “I am a 50th generation disciple of the Star Moon Sect, and Sect Master Wen is my senior uncle. Xue Mu toasts to Senior Uncle.”
Wen Hao sighed somewhat sadly, “I’m getting old, Mister Wen’s cultivation has been declining in recent years, so I can’t be called a senior uncle anymore.”
Xue Mu then laughed: “Cultivation can’t represent everything these days, Pu Xiang brother and Xue Mou’s cultivation are both of the unseen, but still not also some role?”
Wen Hao also laughed: “This is also true, the star and moon Yan Yang, are quite thanks to the two of you. In addition, it is said that recently there is a zither fairy, quite sought after, it can be seen that the music together is slowly also being valued by the world, my heart is very comforting.”
Xue Mu said, “Music is supposed to be an art that reflects human emotions, it can speak of will, it can be magnificent, it can be lyrical, Xue Mou has always felt that the play of wintry arts as an accompaniment to martial arts is really biased.”
Wen Hao’s eyes lit up, “A true confidant.”
Xue Mu added: “I heard that Uncle Wen is quite famous amongst the scholarly officials in Lingzhou?”
Wen Hao waved his hand and sighed, “They are just people who love wine and sex, how can they talk about reputation?”
“That’s not necessarily true.” Xue Mu smiled as if he had a deep meaning.
At the moment, he didn’t intend to talk about the music too deeply, at the moment, this person Wen Hao still needed to be observed – knowing that the circle that Wen Hao was now interacting with had a large number of officials, scholars, and merchants in it, was this person really in love with the mountains and the landscape, or was he just using this gesture to invite people’s hearts and minds, weaving a web in Lingzhou?
He didn’t go into detail, but instead turned to Pu Xiang: “The real person has a good sense of smell when it comes to money, and I, Xue Mu, admire it. The model of using silver estates to gather wealth and lend money, honestly, the average person wouldn’t think of it.”
This is to bring the topic to the explicit topic, Pu Xiang shook the wine cup, smiled: “At first just some foreign merchants friends think I Pu Xiang credible, moreover behind the force of a clan support, they are inconvenient to take away a large number of gold and silver will be temporarily deposited in my place. One day I went to the casino, see gamblers lose all the money everywhere looking for people to borrow money …… I looked at suddenly think, those friends a go to one or two years to come back, in my this money dry put is also put, why not take out to lending?”
Xue Mu laughed and sighed: “There are a lot of silver bank, but only to receive the custody fee profit, for the deposit of gold and silver do not dare to move, for fear of bad credit. The only person who can think of using money to generate money is a real person.”
Pu Xiang was complimented with a bit of complacency and laughed.
Xue Mu’s smile became a bit odd, glanced at Wen Hao, and then said to Pu Xiang: “I wonder if the real person is interested in rejoining the Star Moon Sect? The Star Moon Sect is in great need of such a talent.”
Wen Hao was nervous for a moment.
Pu Xiang’s small eyes flashed with an indistinct light, then made a look of righteousness: “I, Pu Xiang, was treated with great kindness by the Patriarch, and fully entrusted with the finances of my clan, how can I abandon it? The general manager of this proposal is not even mentioned!”
Not to mention Xue Mu, before Xue Mu reminded Zhuo Qingqing can see, this person is afraid to really have the meaning of re-entry into the Star Moon Sect …… now make such a gesture, but in order to show a little bit of loyalty and righteousness, to raise their own price. If Xue Mu really needs this kind of talent, he will naturally be responsible for convincing Wen Hao, and he Pu Xiang can not be suspected of “treason”, “unwillingly and reluctantly” return to the Star Moon Sect.
Zhuo Qingqing looked at Xue Mu with some anticipation. Since it was all in your son’s mind, she was curious to know what he would do.
Xue Mu just said with admiration, ”Truly a loyal and righteous man, Mister Xue is even more impressed. By the way, by the way, speaking of which, the real person is now rich in wealth, isn’t he? Thousands of dollars a year?”
“Where where!” Pu Xiang is very modestly waved his hand, “Most of them are clan funds, I Pu Xiang personal well, well, almost a thousand dollars a year, not much not much.”
Seemingly modest, in fact, self-satisfaction is thick overflowing. Individual annual income of a thousand gold, this world is really not much, even those super sects of the patriarch or the vertical and horizontal road of those treacherous businessmen, although the money is just a number of hands, but strictly speaking is really not their personal money. Individuals who dare to say that they have a higher income than Pu Xiang, I’m afraid that the world can’t count two palms, for the penniless Yan Yang Sect that started Pu Xiang, it’s definitely something to be proud of.
“Worthy of being a real person, money making efficiency is high, unlike a stupid person like me ……” Xue Mu sighed very admiringly, reached out and touched two wooden plates from his bosom: “In order to earn these two plates in the district, it took me ten days! .”
“Chief Xue has only just begun, there is no hurry not …… uh? Wait ……” Pu Xiang casually grabbed the sign and looked at it, and suddenly his eyes were bulging out, directly jumping three feet high: “You said you used more, how long?”
Zhuo Qingqing laughed.