Chapter 91 The Principle of Corruption

Honey, I'm glad you thought of this. Sun Zecheng smiled and replied, "I guess so. I need you to understand me better."

Nie Ying nodded, "I understand. Even if you are corrupt, you can still speak with confidence and reason."

Sun Zecheng said with a playful smile: "The key is that I really do make sense."

Seeing Nie Ying looking at him and wanting to speak, Sun Zecheng raised his palm to signal Nie Ying to stop talking. He hadn't finished what he was saying.

Sun Zecheng changed his playful smile and said solemnly: "In fact, it's not just about construction contracting. There are ways to make some money from all kinds of miscellaneous work. As the saying goes, every snake has its own way, and every rat has its own way!"

"Someone who is in charge of the herb garden has some spiritual herbs that have been ripened using secret methods. Apart from those that are handed in according to regulations, all those that have been ripened privately have been kept for themselves."

"Look at those who raise spirit beasts, rent them out privately, or secretly extract the blood of low-level monsters and sell it to make talisman ink and cinnabar to make money."

"Those who work in the market place make transactions at the internal price, and then resell them to make a profit from the difference."

"Everyone is doing this. If you don't do it, you will suffer. You are just stupid. Besides, if you don't get some spirit stones, the sect will only give two or three spirit stones to the Qi Refining disciples every month. How long will it take to save up enough to buy a bottle of elixir and a set of top-level magic tools?"

"Your master knows that you are not greedy, but he still gives the task to me. Why?"

Nie Ying looked at Sun Zecheng in confusion.

"Because he knows I can get things done! He calculates it based on the market price, and it's probably about this. As for whether I take a cut of it, as long as I can get things done, he doesn't care."

Nie Ying was silent for a while, then nodded and said, "I've also heard of these snake paths and rat paths you mentioned."

"You are afraid that I don't understand the ways of the world and the principles of corruption, so you deliberately let me watch you take the spirit stones. You took the opportunity to tell me these." Nie Ying looked at Sun Zecheng with clear eyes.

Sun Zecheng smiled and said nothing.

"What you said is different from what I knew before. I was shocked and didn't really understand it. But now that you put it this way, it seems to make sense."

“I never thought that there is a reason for corruption,” Nie Ying laughed.

"Before I was selected to join the Yellow Maple Valley and set off, my mother told me that a woman should be faithful to one man, and my father told me that a loyal minister should not serve two masters. After joining the Yellow Maple Valley, I must be loyal to the sect." Nie Ying changed the topic and talked about her parents' advice before she entered the Yellow Maple Valley.

"You are my husband, no matter good or bad, you are my only husband. Yellow Maple Valley is my sect, no matter prosperity or decline, it is my only sect."

It would be great if only the first half of this sentence was included! But being loyal to your sect is not wrong.

Sun Zecheng changed the subject: "Beside Yuanjiazhuang is Jinghu Lake. I heard that the scenery is beautiful. I haven't seen it yet. Let's go for a walk together?"

"Okay!" Nie Ying took Sun Zecheng's arm.

……

Sun Zecheng and Nie Ying lived a fairy-like life.

Sun Zecheng told Nie Ying not to worry about the construction and leave it to him. He told Nie Ying to just go back to the cave to take pills and practice during the day, and come over to practice dual cultivation together at night.

In fact, Sun Zecheng didn't need to supervise the construction work at all. The brothers of the Yuan family took the lead personally, and everyone in Yuanjiazhuang worked together with full enthusiasm. Sun Zecheng also sincerely proposed to exchange two palace grids in Yuanjiazhuang for two square grids in the market, so that as long as the market was there, there would be a long-term source of income.

The whole Yuan family was delighted, and the head of the Yuan family asked if the three palaces could be exchanged so that one of the squares could be given to Sun Zecheng.

Sun Zecheng agreed and accepted it with a smile. At the same time, he allocated three palaces for the Yuan family to live in for the Qi Refining disciples within the scope of the expansion. In this way, the Yuan family had a foundation-building palace and three Qi Refining palaces in Yuanjiazhuang, and three market palaces in the market that were second only to the central intersection. Of course, one of them belonged to Sun Zecheng.

The gratitude of the Yuan family to Sun Zecheng was beyond words. If Sun Zecheng had not stopped them, the Yuan family would have painted Sun Zecheng's portrait.

In this way, an evil thing that was originally intended to steal someone's foundation was finally helped by the Nine Nations Alliance. The Yellow Maple Valley was able to settle down without bloodshed, and the Liu family whose foundation was stolen was left behind. They also undertook the construction of the expanded monk residence and the market. They were originally worried about losing the Golden Core Patriarch, but suddenly they were protected by the powerful figures of the Yuanying Sect, which was like a dream. As a result, all parties were happy, and this matter was like a small ripple, and soon returned to calm.

While Nie Ying was back in his cave taking pills and practicing, Sun Zecheng finally had the opportunity to set up a formation and release the Taotie treasure chest to receive the benefits that had been devoured for a long time.
After receiving it, Sun Zecheng made a small progress and is now at the peak of the middle stage of foundation building. The treasure chest is still at the fake pill level.

When she saw Nie Ying again, she was very surprised. Her husband had obviously not practiced much, but his cultivation level increased so fast. She was still in the early stage of foundation building, while her husband had reached the peak of the middle stage of foundation building.

Sun Zecheng suggested that it might be because of the previous battle with Yuan Wu. His master Li Huayuan once said that he might be born to grow up in fighting.

He also advised Nie Ying not to save the pills. In order to fully absorb the medicinal effects, Nie Ying took one pill every five days. Sun Zecheng asked her to take one pill a day to improve her cultivation level first, and then think of a solution after she finished taking the pills.

Stimulated, Nie Ying finally decided to take one pill a day, and even greatly reduced the frequency of dual cultivation, only coming to practice dual cultivation with Sun Zecheng once every few days.

Finally, after taking four bottles of He Qi Dan, Nie Ying also broke through two small levels in succession and reached the peak of the initial stage of foundation building.

Not long after Nie Ying broke through, Elder Lei also came back, bringing back dozens of foundation-building practitioners and a large amount of formation materials, and began to set up a large mountain protection formation.

Lei Wanhe presided over it personally, and now even Sun Zecheng and Nie Ying were going to help.

The arrangement of a large formation of this level cannot be completed in a short period of time. It took more than a year to finally set up the mountain protection formation.

Lei Wanhe needed to stay behind to guard the place, so he sent Sun Zecheng back to Huangfeng Valley to report to Patriarch Linghu and see what Patriarch Linghu's next arrangements would be.

This was exactly what Sun Zecheng wanted, as the time was almost right for 29-year-old Han Li to go out with Dong Xuaner to the Yan family's Yanling Fort. This time he finally didn't miss it.

Nie Ying originally wanted to go back to Huangfeng Valley together, but Sun Zecheng knew that the next thing would be the invasion of the demons. If they went back, they would inevitably have to go to the front line where their life and death would be unpredictable, so he asked her to stay here with her master and practice well.

Lei Wanhe brought Nie Ying south originally because he wanted to prevent Nie Ying from being involved in the chaos of the invasion of the demonic sect and to prevent his beloved disciple from dying early in the melee. Naturally, he did not agree to let her go back.

The master disagreed, and Nie Ying had to give up because she was reluctant to leave.

Before leaving, thinking that he might not be back for several years, Sun Zecheng called the head of the Yuan family, paid him all the wages in advance, and asked him for information. Then he bought twenty bottles of Heqi Dan for Nie Ying in Yu State. Nie Ying insisted on taking only ten bottles and leaving ten for Sun Zecheng.

The day before they parted, Nie Ying even gave up practicing during the day. From day to night, they were inseparable, clinging to each other and unwilling to let go. Sun Zecheng knew that this separation might last for several years, but he was also very happy. The two of them were almost melted into one.

……

With the help of his Prison Tripod Magical Skill and his invincible spear, Sun Zecheng finally made Nie Ying fall into a deep sleep just as the day was about to brighten.

While Nie Ying was asleep, Sun Zecheng left the other ten bottles of Qi-He Dan and quietly left.

　I didn't notice that this "贪WU" is a clear feeling word, it was blocked, I only found out after reading the text message
　　
　
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