Chapter 1408: 1408: Call from Foreign Lands
Liang Siyu had the most shocking day of her life, while compared to her, Wang Haifeng's wife and Xu Leigang's mother and daughter were relatively more normal—all being family members, they already knew many inside stories.
Then the three made a simple division of labor; Zhao Hui mainly handled the manor's internal affairs, managing the workers and logistics supply.
Madame Wang Liu Yuting mainly managed external receptions; she came from an official family, adept at grasping propriety, and also helped Li Shishi manage the Cancer Care Center, while also being responsible for the manor's finances.
Liang Siyu mainly managed the large commodities and the construction of the manor, which was equivalent to taking over most of Yang Yuxin's work, as well as some program design ideas.
Zhang Caixin originally wanted her to help organize the records, but Feng Jun said that this must be done by you—a dignified number two figure, if not familiar with the records, how can that be okay?
Actually, Feng Jun heard about the situation on the day of the voting, both Feng Jing and Gazi told him, he naturally knew Xiao Caixin was a bit anxious—this reaction was very normal, after all, she had an obvious trend of being isolated, even with the addition of Sister Hong, she could hardly bear it.
So he understood Xiao Caixin's selfishness, hence, he didn't intend to point out her fault—after all, she was still young, how could she possibly grow without experiencing some things?
As long as it's not too excessive, he won't actively intervene, and he doesn't think that such phenomena occurring in the manor is necessarily a bad thing. Director Yang was very right—"No party outside the party, imperial thoughts; no faction within the party, unimaginable variety."
A mature group cannot expect to have no factions inside. Rather than suppressing everyone into obediently following his words, it's better to let everyone express more of their personalities, so they can fully exert each individual's strengths.
After adapting for two days, Liang Siyu finally understood how fierce Luohua's existence was—not only Elder Yu in the manor, but also the niece of Eldest Gu was cultivating here.
As for the disparity where Zhao Hui and Xu Xiaowei only contributed twenty thousand each while she had to give fifty thousand, initially, she had some complaints—after all, she was merely a girl in her early twenties.
But Zhang Caixin asked her with a crying-laughing expression—others are direct relatives, but what about you?
So, the complaints were gone, but Liang Siyu also made up her mind: In the future, she must firmly cling to the strong backing of Xiao Caixin.
There was no choice, if she didn't band together, she herself felt three parts inferior to Zhao Hui and Liu Yuting.
On the third day she arrived, she saw the legendary large commodities—Gu Jiahui went out once, then put down stacks of wooden boxes in the warehouse, and told her, these were two billion worth of communication devices, telling her to check and register them.
However, this time, Liang Siyu noticed, no big vehicle drove in, the things just suddenly appeared in the warehouse—that is to say, the cosmetics Zhang Caixin gave her… weren't really magic?
Anyway, she really understood, gradually observing is the right way.
Moreover, the small acne disappeared, even feeling the liver heat vividly reduced a lot… the specific symptoms need not be stated.
Just as the old hands in the manor were guiding the newcomers, Feng Jun was silently waiting for the fragrance of the Heavenly Fragrance Fruit to dissipate.
Now he had advanced for seven or eight days, but the fragrance of the Heavenly Fragrance Fruit was just too intense, lingering for a long time. Supposedly, he could still stay in the Golden Core Cultivation Cave for seven or eight days after going back, and the fragrance could almost dissipate.
But the fragrance on him could dissipate, while the fragrance in the Golden Core Cave Mansion was not so easy to dissipate.
Moreover, his actions in the mobile phone interface were somewhat excessive, some people were hesitating whether to win him over or eliminate him, revealing such a treasure at this time, wouldn't that be pushing others into the enemy camp?
We must make our enemies fewer and fewer.
On this day, while he was meditating, Yang Yuxin came over, "Jia Hui plans to break through to the ninth level of Transcendence, when do you have time to help her deduce?"
"Either earlier or later," Feng Jun smiled, "Her emergence poses no problem, but you, need to seize the time to cultivate, otherwise you might not keep up with the main forces."
Strictly speaking, Director Yang was the one with the lowest cultivation level in Luohua, only at the mere second level of Transcendence, but many times, people didn't consider her as part of Luohua's core group, hence the thought that Li Shishi and Yu Qingzhu's third level of Transcendence was Luohua's lowest.
"Me?" Yang Yuxin pointed at herself in shock, "Am I not somewhat old?"
"I don't find you old," Feng Jun smiled, "I still have lifespan-extending pills with me… just know this yourself, don't tell others, not even Gu Jiahui."
"Lifespan-extending pills?" Yang Yuxin widened her eyes in shock, her body involuntarily trembled, she immediately put her mobile phone into the Storage Talisman, "Really? Then have you given them to Elder Yu?"
Beauty Lin and her team's surveillance of the manor was not all-day, all-encompassing—to do that would be too costly, usually it was random checks or keyword searches.
When Zhang Caixin received Liang Siyu, it was monitored throughout, but such means of surveillance through mobile phone backdoors were too resource-consuming, it was only because newcomers were arriving in the manor, and they were part of the management, that Beauty Lin specially applied for it.
Upon hearing Feng Jun actually having such heaven-defying pills, Yang Yuxin immediately put away her mobile phone, to prevent others from eavesdropping.
"Elder Yu," Feng Jun frowned, "why did you give it to him?"
"Why?" Yang Yuxin was a bit speechless. In her mind, Elder Yu was a person worthy of respect, "He's already a hundred years old. If he doesn't take it, he'll be gone soon."
"So be it," Feng Jun spread his hands, straightforwardly stating, "Birth, aging, illness, and death, who can avoid it? If he wants to cultivate, it's too late. Living another twenty or thirty years… what does it matter?"
"Of course it matters," Yang Yuxin was about to say that he was a pillar of Huaxia, but then reconsidered, "But you're right, he should just enjoy his retirement in peace. However, you could give it to my brother-in-law."
"Why give it to them?" Feng Jun answered without hesitation, "They don't have enough time to cultivate now anyway. They'd only live a little longer, isn't that a waste? Unlike you, who could advance to Qi Refinement and even to the Out-of-Dust stage."
No matter what Yang Yuxin's aptitude was, Feng Jun could push her to the Qi Refinement Realm, no doubt about it. But in the Earth Realm, the Qi Refinement Realm had frail vitality, living at most to a hundred and fifty years, and with small illnesses or disasters, maybe only a hundred and ten or twenty.
However, the Out-of-Dust stage was different. At the very least, one could live for two hundred years, right?
From Feng Jun's perspective, he saw no point in giving old people a lifespan extension. If you live twenty or thirty more years, so what? The future of the country lies with the young people.
In seriousness, he felt that if Yang Yuxin could live for another twenty or thirty years, cultivating from the Qi Refinement Realm to the Out-of-Dust stage, it could indeed greatly enhance Luohua's strength—although by that time, Luohua's Out-of-Dust stage cultivators might have reached the double digits.
But as for high-level combat strength, the more, the better.
Yang Yuxin was touched, "You think… I'm more useful than the two of them?"
She had already accepted this notion in her heart, but being born into an official family, both Elder Yu and Eldest Gu were figures she looked up to. The Southwest Yang Family wasn't bad, but at this level, a small gap became a chasm.
The peak of the Out-of-Dust stage and the Initial Golden Core Stage—are they the same? It's just one Golden Core Tribulation apart, but fundamentally, they're two different concepts.
So she felt Feng Jun's words were truly shattering her worldview.
Of course, simultaneously, she also felt an overwhelming sense of emotion—am I even more important than the two of them?
Don't laugh; her feelings are truly understandable. It's like a cultivator in the Qi Refinement Realm seizing an opportunity meant for the Golden Core Stage; even if she also had a Golden Core Stage boss behind her, now, she was taking the opportunity meant for those two Golden Core cultivators!
"Of course that's the case," Feng Jun replied casually. He wasn't part of the system, and he himself was detached from the Mortal World, so he didn't care about these implicit feelings; he simply stated the fact, "Giving you the Lifespan Extension Pill is more useful."
However, while his perspective was different, the other party's understanding was also different. Yang Yuxin's eyes sparkled as she spoke tenderly, "No, you are more useful to me, Coach. I want to practice yoga…"
It wasn't that she intended to use her beauty to seduce him—there were many young girls in the manor who could match her looks. Even the newly arrived Liang Siyu was quite beautiful and youthful. But honestly, apart from that, she had no other way to repay him.
"Well, focus on cultivation first," Feng Jun said seriously, "You, you, you need to focus your mind on the right path…"
The sky had unknowingly clouded over, and a fine drizzle began to fall.
After finishing a yoga session, Feng Jun walked out of the tent. Yang Yuxin lay sprawled on the camp bed, her face flushed with a lingering red, her mind lazily spinning. This guy, he's indeed becoming more formidable. Am I no match for Zhang Caixin?
Feng Jun hurried out of the tent for a reason. He loved listening to the sound of raindrops pattering against the tent, but unfortunately, at this moment, he sensed someone approaching, disturbing the mood.
Not far from the tent, he saw Wang Haifeng standing in the rain.
He dispersed his Inner Qi outside his body, and the rain striking him looked like he was wearing a transparent raincoat.
Seeing Feng Jun come out, he said in a deep voice, "Boss, Sofia called. She said there's a lead on the thing you wanted, and she needs you to go over; she's worried she might mess things up."
After Sofia returned, she also cleared up the situation on Feng Jun's side. So this time, she called Wang Haifeng and spoke vaguely, ensuring any eavesdroppers wouldn't understand what they were talking about.
Feng Jun nodded slightly, "Just called?"
Seeing Wang Haifeng nod, he was a bit surprised. It was late night in the Mai Nation; was there some emergency?
So after settling Yang Yuxin, he took out his mobile phone and went straight to "My Footprints."
Feng Jun had set two footprints in the Mai Nation—one in a forest within Bai Rui Pharmaceuticals' headquarters, and the other in a forest not far from Jansen's residence.
Now, of course, he chose the area near the Jansen family. After clicking over, he was slightly stunned: it was raining there too?