Tian Yuan Xian Ji

Chapter 305
Tangning was a little disappointed. Among the more than fifty egg shells, there were only three female ants with wings.

The rest are worker ants and soldier ants, that is, guard ants and army ants.

This means that only these three female ants can breed, and hopefully they will mate, lay eggs and become queens.

He prayed in his heart, and sprinkled the golden particles into the spirit beast bag, which immediately attracted the ants to compete for food.

An ant colony without a queen is like scattered sand, completely disordered.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door. Tangning put away the storage bag and said, "Come in."

An old man with a handsome head pushed open the door and entered. Tangning was slightly taken aback. This person was none other than Du Yuankai.

He stood up to greet him and said, "Senior Brother Du, why are you here? Please sit down."

"I came here specially today, and I want to talk to you about something."

Tangning probably knew why he came here. It was nothing more than the fact that he had been ignoring affairs for more than a year, which caused some sources of information from the intelligence department to be inexplicable.

"What's the matter? Why don't Senior Brother Laodu come here in person?"

"I heard that you are now the shopkeeper, you don't care about everything, Junior Brother Tang, I can understand your emotions, but you can't play your temper like this!" Du Yuankai sighed
"Zheng Daoyou, Xu Daoyou and their management are quite good. I'm not completely sitting on the sidelines. It's just that I don't do it myself as before. Isn't I submitting the monthly intelligence news to the sect as scheduled?"

"But as far as I know, you haven't contacted those confidential and important insider disciples for more than a year, and you haven't sent any intelligence clues about them to the sect. Brother Tang, with all due respect, it's a bit frank if you do this. No, it’s one thing for the higher authorities to reject your application for Lingshi subsidy. It’s another thing for you to work as the director of the intelligence station but ignore the work. As the saying goes, public is public, private is private, you have always been calm, How can you be so impulsive?"

Tang Ning's face was slightly displeased, "I want the horse to run, but I don't want to feed the horse. Senior Brother Du, do you think there is such a thing in the world? I always distinguish between public and private in dealing with people. Is it true that the intelligence station is applying for Lingshi subsidy?" Is it my own personal matter? How can there be a distinction between public and private? The intelligence station has no funds, so how can it be used to develop insiders?"

"Dare to love that I run back and forth all year round, wasting my own practice time, all making wedding dresses for others. If I have meritorious rewards, they belong to others, and if I make a mistake, I will carry them back. Even if a ten-year-old child does this kind of thing, he won't do it." Let's do it, not to mention you and me as monks, now accuse me of being ignorant of right and wrong, not distinguishing between public and private, isn't it too much?"

Du Yuankai remained silent, and said for a long time: "Junior Brother Tang, just listen to my advice, since you are the head of the intelligence station, you have to take charge of the affairs of the intelligence station. Who are Zheng Wei and Xu Qingwan? Outsiders, how can the affairs of the intelligence station be decided by them?"

"As for the Lingshi subsidy, let's wait patiently for a year or two. Senior Brother Lu was just a momentary mood. A little thinner."

Tangning sneered in her heart, this is a cake on paper, how old is she to treat herself like a child!It must be Lu Xingxian's intention for Du Yuankai to come here, if he really wanted to let go, he wouldn't say that.

"Thank you, Brother Du, for your kindness. I know how to deal with the intelligence station."

Du Yuankai nodded and didn't get entangled in this matter. The two chatted for a while before he left.

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The night light was bright, the moon was bright and the stars were shining. In Fenglian County, Jiangdong, in the Taoist temple two hundred miles east of the city, a ray of light fell, revealing a handsome man, it was Tangning.

A man with a leopard head and ape arms in the hall heard a strange noise, and hurried out to greet him: "Disciple Wang Xuquan pays his respects to Master Tang."

Tangning nodded, "I heard that you have clues about Huang Xuanfan and Lvmanganese liquid? Are you sure?"

"Yes, this disciple has been asking people since he received the letter from the intelligence station, and finally found a piece of information. I am afraid that it may not be accurate, so I went to visit in person, and the person admitted that he did have these two materials."

Tangning happily said, "Well done, where is that person now?"

"This person is Huang Tingjian, the head of the Huang family. He should be in the Huang family's mansion now, but..."

"It's okay to speak up."

"The disciple explained to him the purpose of coming here, saying that this is what the uncle needs, and asked him if he would sell it, and the price would not treat him badly. Who would have thought that Huang Tingjian had a bad temper and was well-known for his bad temper. Disciple fear…"

Tangning smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about this, just take me there."

"Yes." Wang Xuquan replied, and the Yufei sword rose into the air.

Tang Ning followed him for a while, thinking that his evasion technique was too slow, so she wrapped her spiritual power and flew away.

After traveling for about two hours, I arrived at the southeast boundary of Jiangdong, but I saw a place shrouded in clouds and mist below.

Wang Xuquan pointed to the place shrouded in clouds and mist: "Master, the Huang family's house is just below here."

Tang Ning went straight down through the clouds and fog, and arrived in front of the mansion.

Huang's mansion is located in this deep mountain, covering a large area, with houses row upon row, and the gate of the mansion is majestic and majestic, with the word "Huangfu" written on it.

As soon as the two of them landed in front of the gate of the mansion, a man and a woman came to meet them.

The two of them looked at Tangning warily, "I don't know who is senior, why are you here at my house?"

Wang Xuquan said: "We are cultivators from the Yizong Intelligence Department. This is Master Tangning from the Headquarters Department. Last time I visited Senior Huang Tingjian, please tell me that we will come to visit."

"Please wait a moment, both of you." The man said, and walked in.After a short while, he turned back and said, "The Patriarch invites you two inside."

The two followed him to the main hall. The man made a gesture of invitation, and Tangning strode in.

Sitting on the main seat in the hall was a burly man with piercing eyes. He had cultivated in the middle stage of foundation establishment, and his sideburns were white. He looked about fifty years old. He had a serious face and a serious smile. Deep wrinkles.

At first glance, he is not a good talker. No wonder Wang Xuquan said he has a bad temper. Tangning thought to herself, and stepped forward to check, "I am a disciple of the Yizong, Tangning. Please forgive me for disturbing you."

"Please sit down." Huang Tingjian said while sitting on the main seat, neither rose to greet him, nor bowed his head to return the salute.

Tangning was still seated, with Wang Xuquan standing behind him.

"This time I came here uninvited to bother you. I really want to ask for something. I heard that there are Huangxuan powder and green manganese liquid materials in the Taoist house. I don't know if I can give it up? I am very grateful. The price is only based on Taoism. Friends make a decision."

Huang Tingjian said: "There are indeed some unusual materials from Xingang in the family. They were brought from those big islands when my ancestors traveled around in the early years, but the quantity is not large. It has been passed down to my generation for three generations. This is reserved for the descendants of the Huang family."

"The disciples of the former noble sect came here. I have made it clear that these materials are not worth a lot of money, but they are quite rare. They are rare things. Now my Huang family is in decline, and I have no chance to leave Xingang again. These things are only reserved for For younger generations to use, not for sale.”

Hearing what he said, Tangning was very disappointed, but she still tried her best to fight for it, "I'm willing to pay three times the market price to buy it. If you can give up my love, I would be very grateful."

Huang Ting insisted: "Although the Huang family is not rich, they are not so distressed. I ask fellow Taoists to find another way."

"Since you have made up your mind, Daoist Huang, I won't say any more. Let me take my leave." Tangning got up and said
"Sorry for delivery."

The two of them left the main hall, turned into light and went straight.

"Master, this old guy doesn't know how to compliment, and has a bad temper. If you want to get those things from him, you have to use some tricks." Wang Xuquan said angrily, looking a little more excited than Tangning, As if he was the buyer.

The reason for this is of course not because I feel ashamed of being rejected, but because it is related to my own vital interests.

Tang Ning once said that those who can provide clues will be rewarded. He managed to find out this information, but now being rejected means that his source of information has no value. He is worried that he will not be able to fulfill the contract, so he is angry.

Tangning glanced at him, "What's your plan?"

"This...disciple hasn't thought of it yet."

"You don't have to worry about this matter."

"Yes." Wang Xuquan replied, hesitating in his heart whether he should ask for a reward or not, and how to do so.

Tangning had already taken out her storage bag, took out dozens of spirit stones and threw them to him, "You did a good job in this matter, this is your reward, you just keep the three thousand spirit stones."

Wang Xuquan hurriedly took the spirit stones and said happily, "Thank you, Uncle."

"I have other things to do, you go back first, and I will call you when there is something else."

"Yes." Wang Xuquan felt the spiritual power surrounding his body suddenly dissipate without a trace, flipped his left hand, took out the flying sword, and stepped on the sword.

Tang Ning arrived at the contact point of Jiangdongnan Intelligence Station. It was already late at night and the attic store was closed.

With a flash of his figure, he entered the pavilion and went upstairs, the sound of his footsteps startled the people in the building.

"Who?" There was a loud shout from inside the room, and then the room opened wide, and a short and fat man came out. When he saw Tangning, his expression changed, "Why are you here, senior?"

Tangning handed him the token, "Where's Sun Jiayi?"

The man took the token, bowed and said: "It turns out that it is the senior Tang Zong, and the envoy Sun Xian is not here."

"Go and call him, I have something to find him."

"Yes." The short and fat man replied, went down to the attic, picked up the magic weapon and left.

Around dawn, a man with thick eyebrows hurried over and saluted, "Disciple Sun Jiayi has met Master Tang."

"You are the head of the Jiangdongnan Intelligence Station, how much do you know about the Huang family?"

"The Huang family is a rich local family, so the disciple naturally understands a little bit. I don't know what the uncle is referring to?"

"How about Huang Tingjian?"

"This man has a strong nature and a stubborn temper."

"What weakness does he have?"

"This…"

"Or, what has he regretted?"

"A regrettable thing?" Sun Jiayi lowered his head and thought for a while: "He has a grandson named Huang Yaozu, whom he loves the most. Huang Yaozu is very talented, but he doesn't practice cultivation. He took over as the Patriarch of the Huang family, but this son has always been a dude, he has practiced for more than twenty years and only reached the sixth level of qi refining, and he has never broken through that threshold. Huang Tingjian often makes it a pity."

(End of this chapter)