Immortal Road.

Chapter 207: So good at pretending
In the busy recruitment city, people are coming and going.

In front of the booth of Lin's Chamber of Commerce, a group of students were queuing up for an interview. The examiner Lu Xiuming was meticulous and rigorous in screening the resumes. He himself was a Confucian monk who was born and raised in the cultivation world of Lu State. Naturally, he also understood a set of interview standards that suited the general environment. This was also the trust that the Black Skull Demon Lord had in him.

Although Mr. Xiong Shan was envious of the generous conditions offered by the Chamber of Commerce, he did not dare to step forward and try it without authorization. He thought to himself that he should first see how others interviewed and secretly learn from their experience.

The on-site interview session is in progress.

"Examiner, I am Wu Hanqiao, a graduate of the White Deer Academy. I once represented the academy in the Lu Cultivation Competition and won the title of Top 100. At the same time, I have specialized in the art of talismans, and also studied formations, puppetry, and beast control."

This is a top student from a top university, a real all-rounder.

"Examiner, I am Jin Wenhao, a graduate of Shangyang Academy. I failed the Four Treasures of the Study Examination, but I have a Level 2 Certificate in Array Arithmetic and a Level 1 Certificate in Silver Tadpole Language."

This is a poor student from an ordinary school, nothing special about him.

"Examiner, I am Gong Shutang, a graduate of Hongze Lake and Green Clam Mountain College. I have extensive experience in aquaculture and conservation. When I was a teenager, I made a living by selling fish."

This is a weak student from a fake university, but he has internship experience.

……

After the interview, some were eliminated and some were kept. The three above are all candidates who passed the interview.

It is only natural that the first top student will be admitted directly without a doubt.

The experience of the second poor student resonated with the examiner Lu Xiuming and he was also accepted.

Although the third weak student had a very ugly background and Luhashan College was not one of the top ten academies in Lu State, it was more or less famous locally, and the young man himself had worked in a related industry, so he was also let off.

Others were not so lucky, as Lu Xiuming's supervision was more or less sufficient.

There was a gleam in Xiong Shanshen's eyes. As he was eliminated, he didn't even look at them. He just learned the rhetoric from the admitted candidates and prepared to package himself well.

It was precisely because he did not understand the system of the State of Lu, the endorsements of major academies, the value of various competition certificates, and the fact that the examiner Lu Xiuming would not deliberately verify the authenticity of the "academic qualifications", that Xiong Shanshang wanted to take advantage of the situation.

Seeing that it was his turn, Master Xiongshan went over his draft several times in his mind. Feeling that he had absorbed the strengths of various schools, he felt a little excited and sat down directly at the table.

Examiner Lu Xiuming frowned slightly. The man in front of him looked really rude!

The students around him all looked disgusted. This man was unkempt, rude, and had a bandit-like air about him. He did not have the temperament of a scholar at all.

The key point is that he didn't bring his resume to the interview, which simply shows that he doesn't take the examiner seriously. Is he really sincere in applying for the job?
"Where's your resume?"

Lu Xiuming asked impatiently.

"Uh that"

Xiong Shanshang was at a loss as to what to do. He had just been attending someone else's interview and had no time to prepare. Only then did he realize that he had forgotten this detail.

Seeing that he was embarrassed, Lu Xiuming did not dwell on it too much, but went straight to the point:

"Please introduce yourself, student!"

Master Xiong Shan heaved a sigh of relief, sat quietly on the bench, and began to recite his own "blending" of the strengths of the three schools word by word:

"Examiner, I am from Xiongshan."

"Um???"

"No, I am Xiong Shan, a graduate of Shangyang Academy. I once participated in the Lu Kingdom Cultivation Competition, but failed the Four Treasures of the Study Competition."

"Failed? How can I participate in the competition if I didn't pass???"

"Oh no, I have passed the battle test, I have passed it, I have a second-level certificate in formation arithmetic, and I have a first-class certificate in silver tadpole language."

Mr. Xiongshan stammered while trying to hold back the sweat on his temples, and he became more and more panicked.

"I have extensive experience in aquaculture and conservation, and I also made a living by selling fish when I was a teenager."

Examiner Lu Xiuming frowned upon hearing this, and the few people behind him who had been admitted also looked puzzled.

Why is this person’s experience so similar to ours?
The students around him also felt that his resume was a bit confusing and couldn't help but talk about it.

The examiner, Lv Xiuming, turned around and asked the poor student from Shangyang Academy who had just passed the interview: "Is this person a graduate of your academy this year?"

The poor student honestly answered that he didn’t know and had never heard of it.

However, this does not pose a problem for Lu Xiuming. As the general manager of the Chamber of Commerce, he naturally has the list of job-seeking students who graduated from major colleges this year released by the recruitment market.

After comparing, no one from Xiongshan was found among them.

Mr. Xiong Shan felt very uneasy, his old face turned red, for he was afraid that the examiner would expose him in public.

Lu Xiuming stared at him for a while, thinking for a long time, and finally decided to accept him considering that he had already reached the Foundation Establishment Stage.

After all, the academy is about endorsement, but cultivation is hard power. Although Lu Xiuming was born in a Confucian environment, he is not very pedantic.

In the past, he would definitely look for cheap labor in the Qi training stage, but the current situation of the Lin's Chamber of Commerce is a bit special. According to the "vice president" above, he wants to start a farm by himself, dig canals outside the city to raise a large number of seafood, and they are all spiritual aquatic products with cultivation.

Ordinary Qi-cultivating monks cannot really control so many spiritual creatures, let alone dig canals for breeding.

Now, isn't it just right for this big fool who is in the foundation-building stage to do hard labor for the Chamber of Commerce?

As for why the Lin Chamber of Commerce suddenly gave up the import channel and stopped doing the previous business that made a lot of money with no investment, and insisted on doing breeding on its own, it was naturally the instruction of the Black Skull Demon Lord.

You can't just sell the empty shell to the next buyer, and the supply channel in Donghai is not available, so you have to set up a temporary breeding farm yourself, and the next buyer can continue to take over and operate it, making it a sustainable business. Otherwise, it would be difficult to sell it.

Mr. Xiongshan received the invitation in a daze and was hired by the Lin Chamber of Commerce as the person in charge of the breeding farm. To put it more nicely, he could be called the "fish pond manager."

He almost died of laughter!

A fisherman’s dream job!
You can also fish!
It smells so good.

I just came to Lu State, and I didn't expect to get such a good job right away. The Lin Chamber of Commerce treats me very well!

But what he didn't notice was that just outside the job recruitment market, two Dai family monks were quietly watching this scene.

……

In the evening, in a cave in the north of the city.

The Dai family gathered together and listened to one of them reporting.

"The Lin's Chamber of Commerce has not changed hands yet, but today when I was recruiting in the busy market, I found another middle-aged man with a beard who called himself Master Xiongshan."

"what?"

"Are you sure you heard correctly?"

"There's another person from Bear Mountain?"

……

Everyone was puzzled. Is it so easy to have the same nickname as Mr. Xiongshan?

"That big, stupid guy who called himself the Master of Xiongshan was actually accepted by the Lin's Chamber of Commerce in the end."

"???"

Everyone felt that this was a bit unusual, and Dai Budong even asked, "And then?"

"Then." The Dai family disciple had confusion in his eyes: "Then Master Xiongshan was appointed as the fish pond manager of the Lin's Chamber of Commerce. It is said that he will go outside the city to take up the post tomorrow."

"Fishpond manager?"

Dai Budong immediately realized a problem. How could a new applicant joining the Chamber of Commerce be assigned to the position of general manager right from the start?

"What kind of cultivation is he?"

The Dai family disciple quickly replied: "I have secretly measured it with the spirit-detecting disk, and it is the late stage of foundation building."

"hiss!--"

Now everyone understood and realized why he was entrusted with such an important task right from the start. It turned out that he was a cultivator in the late foundation building stage.

They all instantly thought of this bearded Master Xiong Shan and the white-clothed young man from the Lin Chamber of Commerce, Master Xiong Shan, who both seemed to be in the late stage of foundation building. Could there be any connection between them?

After spending a long time together, everyone developed a habit of asking Zhu Duiyou when they were in doubt.

Zhu Duiyou paced in the room for a long time at this time, and suddenly waved his fan.

"I understand!"

"This bearded man, Xiong Shan Shangren, and the young man in white, Xiong Shan Shangren, look different in appearance, but they are actually the same person!" "Today's performance is just an opportunity for Xiong Shan Shangren to change his appearance and vest in an unexpected way. He changed his surname from Lin to Xiong, escaped from the city and left everyone's sight."

"What a good move! Repairing the plank road in the open while secretly crossing Chencang!"

"After today, you thought he was still in the city preparing to resell the Lin's Chamber of Commerce, waiting around the city gates for opportunities, but in fact he had already planned to change his identity and leave. I didn't expect that he was so good at surviving by cutting off his tail!"

"But compared to selling the Dai family's assets in Wangyue City, it's no big deal if the Lin's Chamber of Commerce abandons them."

"He is indeed a tough opponent. It's a pity that he doesn't know that we have already exposed the identity of Master Xiong Shan, and now he has revealed his flaws!"

……

Everyone was shocked when they heard this. They didn't expect that Mr. Xiongshan could be so insidious. They almost got fooled by him.

If Master Xiongshan escapes from the city, no one except Jindan stage cultivators can catch up with him. They will have no chance to turn the tables and let him go unpunished. Even if the Dai family sends a new Jindan real person to Wangyue City, it will be a wasted trip.

At that time, the angry Dai family will definitely look for someone to take the blame, and this person may not be the one Dai can take over!

"Damn, this guy on Bear Mountain is a piece of shit!"

"Too treacherous, there is such a plan"

"There's something special about this trick of hiding the truth from the world~"

"Fortunately, fortunately, nothing escapes Brother Zhu's discerning eyes."

……

Everyone exclaimed in amazement at Zhu Duiyou's ability to see through things.

Dai Budong hurriedly asked for advice: "Brother Zhu, what do you think we should do now?"

Zhu Duiyou waved his feather fan lightly, looking elegant and confident. "Don't panic. Since the man from Xiongshan wants to escape, he must put on a full show. We will just wait for him at the breeding farm outside the city of Lin's Chamber of Commerce."

Everyone followed the plan, left the city that night, found the designated location, and ambushed secretly.

……

On the second day, Mr. Xiongshan's face was beaming with joy. He threw the small card in his hand into the corner, put on the uniform of the Lin's Chamber of Commerce, and walked out of the city leisurely.

We arrived at a large courtyard one mile outside the city, with the four big words "Lin's Fish Pond" written on it.

Master Xiong Shan nodded and strode in. After passing through the gate and the front yard, a group of servants, who had already received a message from the Chamber of Commerce in the city, came up to greet him with smiles on their faces.

"Is the person coming here Xiongshan's chief steward?"

"Exactly."

"Please come in, we will show you around."

"Well, lead the way!"

Mr. Xiongshan took on the responsibility and inspected the entire compound in a leadership manner, making a "professional subdivision" of the farm.

You know what, what he did is not really a waste of talent, he really has something.

Back when he was in the Haixiong Sea area of ​​the East China Sea, he was a well-known pirate. He would rob whenever he could, and if he couldn't, he would just make a living from the sea. He also used to do aquaculture, and now he is returning to his old business.

Now, when he first arrived in Lu State, he met a "mentor" like Lu Xiuming on the first day and received such good welfare benefits, which made him very interested in Lin's Chamber of Commerce. He planned to do his best to use his expertise and work hard for the Chamber of Commerce to repay the kindness of his mentor.

So as soon as I took office this morning, I inspected the situation and got a clear idea of ​​what was going on. Then I rolled up my sleeves and trouser legs and began to dig the fish pond diligently.

Of course, if he knew that the "fish pond" was just a cover and that even the boss was about to run away, I wonder how he would feel.
……

The sun is high in the sky, and frogs are croaking and cicadas are chirping.

Mr. Xiongshan in the yard was still working hard, but the people from the Dai family who had been watching from the big tree outside the yard for a long time could no longer sit still.

"What's going on? Why didn't the people on Bear Mountain run away? Instead, they actually dug a fish pond?"

"Yeah, it's really weird!"

"Could it be that the fake play has become real and you are addicted to it?"

"Hey, don't tell me, I feel like you're quite professional."

……

Everyone was talking among themselves. Dai Budong was getting anxious and couldn't help asking Zhu Duiyou next to him:
"Brother Zhu, what should we do now? The people from Xiongshan are staying in the fish pond compound and won't come out. The traps we set up on the road behind us are useless. We wasted a whole night's efforts."

"Brother Dai, please be patient. The man on Xiong Mountain is full of tricks. We must not panic. Since he won't run away, we might as well wait and see what happens."

"Brother Zhu, you are wrong. The man on Xiongshan seems to be digging a fish pond, but how do you know he is not secretly setting up a formation? If he sets up another master-level formation, how can we capture him?"

"That does make sense, but time is on our hands. As long as we keep a close eye on him now and wait for the new Jindan Patriarch of the Dai family to arrive in a few days, he will be in trouble by then. We will still have accomplished a great deed, so why rush?"

Zhu Duiyou was clear-headed at this time and knew how to advance and retreat. He did his best to assist Dai Budong and persuaded him to take the safest option.

But Dai Budong had a premonition that he could not wait any longer. As the saying goes, the longer the night, the more dreams there are. If he did not act now, what if the man on Xiongshan took the opportunity to escape?
"I've made up my mind. Since he won't come out, let's go meet him in person!"

No one among the Dai family members behind him had any objection, so naturally they all followed Dai's lead at the critical moment, and Zhu Duiyou had no choice but to follow.

……

Master Xiongshan wiped the mud off his ankles and just as he looked up, he saw two young Confucian scholars walking into the courtyard, followed by more than twenty followers.

"You are"

"I am not Dai Budong, I am a student of Yunchuan Academy."

"My name is Zhu Duiyou, and I am a student of Jingyang Academy."

"Haha, we are from the Dai family. We are sorry for coming to visit you today. I hope you will forgive us!"

Dai Budong, with an expression of forced smile, revealed his identity directly, telling him that the victim had come to his doorstep, intending to see the panic-stricken look on Xiong Shan's face the next second.

But what he didn't expect was that Master Xiongshan didn't know the Dai family, a family of cultivators, at all. He had only been in Lu for a few days and was completely unfamiliar with the place. At this moment, he thought that the Dai family was an upstream and downstream partner of the Lin Chamber of Commerce!
"Oh, no problem, no problem. It's no problem. It's a great honor for everyone from the Dai family to visit Lin's Fish Pond. Come on, come on, take a seat!"

Master Xiong Shan warmly invited everyone to sit down, thinking in his heart that he must not neglect customers and must perform well so as not to embarrass the Lin Chamber of Commerce.

Everyone in the Dai family looked at him in a daze as he busied himself with carving more than twenty stone benches and placing them in front of the guests as if nothing had happened. It took them a while to come back to their senses.

Then they couldn't help but sneer.

Pack!
You are such a pretentious boy!
You are still acting here after all this!
Dai Budong said with a teasing tone: "Should I call you Taoist fellow Master Xiong Shan? Or Wan Liu Academy, Bu Peiying!"

Master Xiong Shan looked bewildered, feeling somewhat puzzled: "Wan Liu Academy? Bu Peiying? I have never heard of it. A certain family never changes its name, and it is Master Xiong Shan."

Everyone was secretly complaining in their hearts, cursing the boy for not crying until he saw the coffin.

It’s already this late, and you’re still pretending!
Zhu Duiyou stepped forward and glanced at the fish pond casually, comparing the sizes, and asked in a suggestive tone:

"What kind of fish pond is this? It can hold so much?"

The Hermit of Xiongshan puffed out his chest, looking very pleased with himself:
"Bear-style nine-square grid professional fish pond, of course it can be installed!"

"You see, it is long from east to west and wide from north to south. The length-to-width ratio is five to three."

"The light hours are long, the shelter is small, and the breeding nets are done by hand."

"The bottom is made into a turtle-back shape, so there is no trouble with the water flowing out at an angle."

"With blue and white stones piled up around it, no seafood can escape!"

……

Everyone in the Dai family just stood there stupidly, listening to his professional explanation of the fish pond. For a moment they almost forgot why they came here.

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And in Wangyue City, in a private room of a five-story restaurant.

Lin Shan was shaking hands cordially with a wealthy businessman. The two parties had finally reached a transfer agreement and would conduct a full handover under the notarization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in two days.

"Haha, if you have time in the future, don't forget to come back to the Lin's Chamber of Commerce."

"No, no, Brother Qian, you are joking. There is no such thing as Lin's Chamber of Commerce now. It should be called Qian's Chamber of Commerce!"

"Ha ha ha ha!".
(End of this chapter)