Chapter 308
"In that case, you can do what you want." Qiao Mu stopped admonishing him and opened his pockets to let Luo Cheng and others stuff money.
When he walked out of the ancestral hall, he had another three thousand taels of silver notes in his arms.
"The life of making money is boring." Qiao Mu walked out of the ancestral hall and saw a woman wearing a bamboo hat at the entrance of the alley again.
This time, what Qing Li held in his hand was no longer a bamboo stick, but a metal iron gun.
"Master Qiao, are you still doing the Taotie gold loan business? I would like to lend you another hundred taels." Qing Li's voice came from the bamboo hat.
Her voice was cold, and she had no intention of getting close to Qiao Mudao. It was exactly the same as when they first met, and she just raised the gun in her hand.
"I changed my iron gun today, and I came here to test your skills."
....
It was like this for several days.
The appearance of Demon Spear Qingli is also very regular, but she is obviously short of money.
The first time I was given one thousand taels, the second time I was given one hundred taels, and later I was given directly twelve taels.
Sometimes it appears once a day, sometimes three or four times a day, making Qiao Mu almost think that he is engaged in some special profession...
The third day.
Qiao Mu sat quietly in the inn, recalling his experience of fighting Qing Li several times.
During the fifty years in the dream, Qiao Mu also carefully studied the "Hundred Birds Chao Phoenix Spear" and the martial arts experience left by the Spear Saint.
"According to Spear Saint's understanding of martial arts skills, martial arts skills can actually be subdivided into two types of skills."
"The first is the technique of exerting physical force, and the second is the technique of using internal energy."
"The former is about exerting force, and the latter is about exerting strength."
Before the publication of the "Human Dao Jing", although ancient martial arts were divided into internal and external schools, the top martial arts basically focused on strength.
After all, the physical body is old and the energy and blood are prone to decline. No matter how good the martial arts is, it will not be as good as the half-demon or pure-blood demons who are born with strong blood.
And the same goes for arbors.
The main move he relies on so far is the ripples and waves to disintegrate the demon.
Ripple and wave strength is an extremely difficult energy-generating technique, and the disintegration of the demon requires the sacrifice of one's own energy and blood in exchange for a several-fold increase in internal energy.
Qiao Mu also practiced Dialang Jin to the Wu Dialang realm, and the disintegration of the demon was already complete.
If we talk about the skills of using inner energy, looking at the entire Kyushu, he is also one of the top ones.
As a half-demon, Qing Li took a different route, specializing in physical exertion.
If we think of the four paths of a martial artist's force, strength, and skill as the four boards of a barrel.
Most of the top martial artists at the top of the list have their own strengths and weaknesses.
But Qing Li is special, she just doesn't have the inner strength.
But perhaps thanks to this, she has carefully studied the technique of exerting physical force over the years, and her achievements in this aspect are really very high.
At the top of the West Mountain, there was a Qingli soul that was obviously weaker than Wu Qiankun, but it was able to entangle with the opponent for a long time. This was obviously a reflection of her superb spear skills and skill in exerting force.
"There must be a teacher from me among the three of us. If we can learn Qing Li's physical force exertion skills, it will be like making up for another shortcoming."
Qiao Mu opened his eyes and glanced out the window.
Fat Mao Wu Chang jumped in from the window at this moment. In the past few days, Fat Mao had gone out early and returned late, following Qiao Mu's instructions to search for other people in Taotie City who had come into contact with the monsters in Golden Township. It was not without gain.
At this time, the sky was still bright and the white fish belly had just appeared in the east. The entire Taotie City was still shrouded in morning mist, and there were not many pedestrians.
"It's almost time, it's time to run away."
Qiao Mu counted his money. In these days, he had earned a total of tens of thousands of taels of silver from the Luo family members and Demon Spear Qingli.
For a clan in a small mountain city, this is a quite huge number... It also shows how rich the Luo family is.
Taking advantage of the dawn, Qiao Mu jumped up and turned into a puff of smoke, disappearing into the alley.
When he walked out of the alley again, his face had changed into an unfamiliar one.
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On the first day after Qiao Mu left, the mountain residents of Taotie City didn't take it too seriously, but they were just not used to being in Taotie City without Master Qiao.
Only someone as smart as Luo Cheng sent someone to the inn where Qiao Mu rented to ask about Master Qiao's whereabouts, only to find that he had quietly disappeared.
The next day, Lao Yang and others were still lucky and comforted themselves by saying that Master Qiao had to leave in an emergency and argued with others on the way.
The third day and the fourth day....
The news that Master Qiao absconded with money has completely exploded, sweeping the city and becoming the most discussed news in the entire Taotie City.
"Qiao Rong, I curse you to have a bad death! You will die violently within three days, leaving no intact body!"
"I curse you to expose your body in the wilderness, and your body will be eaten by monsters after death! How dare you take away my money! Are you worthy of us?"
The gambler Lao Yang broke pots and pans in his own home, blowing his beard and staring, and was very angry.
On the other hand, Lao Yang's son, who works as a helper at Shanzhen House, is much calmer than his gambling father:
"Dad, please calm down. I'll do the math for you. In the past few days since Qiao Long came to Taotie City, didn't you earn twenty taels of silver by picking up stones, and how many taels of Taotie gold are you left with?"
"It would take me half a lifetime to earn this money by working as a helper in the largest restaurant in the city. You won't lose, right?"
"Why don't you lose money?" Lao Yang was still beating his chest and stamping his feet:
"I lent a total of three taels of Taotie gold to the man named Qiao. This is gold! It's still Taotie gold!"
"I was supposed to make a lot of money, but I didn't expect that he ran away midway, leaving me with only this little profit. Can't I scold him to death?"
Lao Yang's son was a little speechless. He dared to love his own father because he felt that he was making less money, so he was scolding others...
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The news of Qiao Mu's escape naturally reached the ears of the head of the Luo family, who had always been concerned about the matter.
Patriarch Luo is in a good mood today.
"The troublesome Qiao family finally ran away, and his reputation was completely ruined in this city."
The head of the Luo family didn't have a good way to deal with Qiao Mu. After all, even the city lord advised them not to provoke him, so what else could he do?
"The Qiao family has run away, and the entire Taotie City has been harmed by him. It is estimated that it will be difficult for us to do this gold business in the future." Thinking of this, the head of the Luo family wanted to curse again.
Qiao Mu's deception was like burning a bridge across a river. After running away, he also blocked the way for those who came after him.
In the next few years at least, all the mountain people in Taotie City will talk about "gold", let alone the Luo family, who will be involved in the gold business.
"Forget it, it won't help matters at this point anyway." The head of the Luo family thought:
"How our Luo family's business will be run in the future and where it should go is really worth thinking about."
"Hold a meeting in the ancestral hall and let the clan members brainstorm and discuss together."
Half a day later.
The Wuyang Wuyang clan members gathered in the Luo family's ancestral hall.
But including the businessman Luo Cheng, many Luo family members looked like their father had just died, and their faces turned green.
"Don't be stunned." The patriarch tapped the ground with his cane, making a clear beeping sound:
"Both the Philosopher's Stone and the gold have been snatched away by the man named Qiao. There will be no gold business in the next few years... What kind of business will our Luo family do next? This is a big problem."
"Luo Cheng, you are a businessman and have a lot of experience. You speak first," the clan leader said.
But at this moment Luo Cheng's face turned greener and greener. He hesitated for a long time, and finally shook his head and said:
"Patriarch, don't worry about the family business... Where do we have any spare money now?"
"Yeah..." Luo Cheng raised his head, and the rest of the Luo family also spoke one after another:
"It's all because of that demon gun Qing Li, who actually colluded with that damn Qiao Lun!"
"I regret trusting that Qing Li, who knew the two of them were colluding!"
"Who would have thought that Qiao Long would run away so early, before I had time to develop and advance to the Liangyi level."
The head of the Luo family was confused:
"What Liangyi level? What Qingli?"
Just listening, he gradually guessed something, and suddenly had a bad premonition.
"You all hid it from me and were secretly defrauded of money by that man named Qiao?"
"How can you say you're cheating money..." Luo Cheng, a businessman, looked a little confused:
"That's business, it's just a loss. In business, how can you never lose money?"
"According to common sense, Qiao Long's business has just started, and it is obviously very profitable. I don't know why others ran away just after it started?"
"What business? What on earth did you discuss with that person named Qiao?" The patriarch frowned.
After Luo Cheng finished talking about Qiao Mu's business details, the patriarch's eyes widened slightly unconsciously, and he covered his heart with one hand, feeling a little out of breath:
"You have been hunting geese all day long, and today you got pecked in the eye by a goose."
"I got greedy for a moment and thought I was a smart person who could get out in time, but I fell into such an obvious scam..."
"Clan leader, please calm down, we know this is a scam." Luo Cheng smiled bitterly: "I just didn't expect Qiao Long to run so fast."
"You know shit!" The patriarch's chest kept rising and falling, his eyes widened, and he said sternly:
"This scam is not to harvest those stupid people at all. It is originally designed to deal with our Luo family. This is a gangster attack! It uses more sophisticated deception techniques to specifically target our Luo family to deceive."
"During these days, the mountain people in the city got more or less some silver and gold from Qiao Long. In fact, they were just deceived into picking up stones and wasted a few days. Only insiders like us, the Luo family, were Qiao Long specially made an appointment to discuss cooperation..."
"Why do you think he is looking for you, because of your shamelessness?"
The authorities were confused and the onlookers could see clearly, but the patriarch stayed out of the matter and solved the mystery of the Luo family with one word.
"That's all, the matter has come to this, it's useless to talk about this." The patriarch sighed:
"How much did you lose? How much do you still have on hand? Did you lose ten thousand taels?"
The clan leader was speechless for a moment. Ten thousand taels of silver almost lost all the money the clan had earned through the gold business over the years...
He was suddenly out of breath and couldn't help but recall the day when Qiao Mu first entered the mountain city and met him in the ancestral hall.
At that time, the head of the Luo family had firm beliefs and firmly believed in the legend of the Golden Land.
The patriarch said at that time that belief is a powerful force.... He really believed it.
But now it seems that among the entire Luo family, he is the only one who really has such a strong trust in the gold of Golden Village. The rest are just speculators, so they were deceived by Qiao Mu.
As a result, Qiao Mu faked money under his nose and created the so-called gluttonous gold. He used this fake product to sweep the whole city, creating a huge storm in a few days...
This is deliberately using fake means in front of him to give him eye drops...
"A bunch of idiots... greedy and greedy!" The head of the Luo family threw away his cane and stumbled away for two steps. He spit out a mouthful of blood and suddenly felt the world spinning.
...
When the head of the Luo family woke up again, he was already in his own home.
What only made his heart pounding was that there were no other clan members in his home, only a familiar figure who had left and returned, standing in front of his bed, looking at him expressionlessly.
Chapter 303 The Origin of Golden Land (9k)
"Qiao...Qiao Rong?"
The head of the Luo family's heart was beating so fast that he almost couldn't carry it in one breath, and a cold sweat broke out on his back.
During these days, Qiao Rong had almost become his nightmare. He had managed to build the Luo family into the local wealthy family it is today, but because of Qiao Rong, he suddenly returned to the same poverty-stricken situation as before.
"Don't get excited yet, it's not good for your heart." Qiao Mu thoughtfully put his hand on the Luo family patriarch's back, sending a warm energy that made the old patriarch feel warm all over.
Patriarch:
Is this Qiao Rong afraid that he would be angered to death on the spot, so he thoughtfully gave him a breath of internal energy? He really made me cry to death...
"You defrauded my clansmen of ten thousand taels, and you actually dare to come back?" After the initial fear, the clan leader's face turned completely dark.
The clan members' money is indeed not his money.
But the Luo clan is a family that works together to do business. The other clan members are completely destitute and even in debt. He can't support himself alone and will never be able to regain his previous glory.