After binding the investment system, I began to cultivate the empress

"what?"

Li Mo scratched his head and fell into deep thought.

Once upon a time, when relatives came to the house, Lao Li would pat him on the back of the head and ask him to call for help while they were having dinner together.

This is a rare time when Li Mo suffers from social anxiety.

Whenever it is lively, Little Bingtuozi hides in the room, making her presence completely invisible, like a vigilant cat.

Now she actually went with the flow and followed her parents to meet relatives and friends?

If I remember correctly, I seem to be the biological child, and Bingtuozi hasn't married yet...

"Xiao Mo." Shang Qinqing suddenly spoke.

"what?"

"It's quite heartwarming when that family of three goes out. I hope you can join them soon."

"Okay... huh?"

Xiao Li, who had become an outsider, twitched his lips slightly, thinking that Bingtuozi might have discovered something, such as a certain childish kid who was becoming more and more courageous and even dared to transform into a werewolf to bully his sister, and was becoming increasingly difficult to control.

So Bingtuozi had an idea and took over the entire Li family, making him lose his foundation and forcing him to listen to his sister?

Damn it, it’s really hard to guard against bad ice cubes!

"Meeting friends and family? Where?"

Shang Wu sat down, and her sleepy eyes suddenly became alert.

Don't get me wrong, Shang Wu just likes to join in the fun. During festivals and holidays, relatives and friends would feel embarrassed to come over without bringing some gifts, such as some fine wine.

"Next time, next time."

How could Li Mo dare?

By then, everyone will probably be lying on the ground. Shang Wu was drunk, and the others were beaten.

"It's not time to eat yet."

The little kid Shang Li looked at the sky, then carefully wiped the glitter from the corner of his mouth.

"Almost forgot."

"Hey, it seems that our daily four dishes and one soup are all thanks to Xiao Bing'er."

Shang Qinqing said jokingly.

But the actual situation is not like this. Chef Li simply is not focused on this today.

The sect is being promoted... an engagement is imminent... Will the cold and aloof Bingtuozi feel uncomfortable meeting his warm family and friends... And how much money does he have in his pocket now... the worry of how to spend the countless money...

You see, childish people have a lot to consider!

While thinking, he prepared a few dishes and boiled a pot of Qinghe clam soup.

"Hey, why is this flower beetle just a shell?"

Shang Qinqing knocked a few times and found something was wrong.

"Yes." Li Mo pursed his lips.

At first glance, Xiao Shangli casually scooped up the meat with a spoon, and found it was all clam meat. The shells had fallen off by themselves, as if they had taken the initiative to give the meat to him to eat.

"Big sister, you eat." Shang Li put all the meat into other people's bowls.

"How sweet! If only Shang Wu had half the humanity of this child..."

Shang Qinqing muttered to herself.

"I've never heard that the Wheel of Life and Death can change one's temperament?" Qin Yuzhi also felt strange.

"Eh? How are you two talking?"

Shang Wu, who had just returned with a bottle of wine, raised his eyebrows.

"Uh, it's nothing. You understand human nature the best, you understand the best." Qin Yuzhi waved her hand.

"Uncle, where is Auntie?"

"She went to steal... er, to meet some relatives and friends she wasn't very close to."

As Li Mo spoke, he seemed to recall the way Little Bingtuozi had been hiding cautiously during the New Year.

"Don't be fooled by your aunt's cold temperament. She's so smart that she seems to know everything.

In fact, she doesn't know how to interact with people. When someone comes to the house, she hides and stays in her room, waiting for me to bring her food."

"In this respect, my sister is better." Shang Li nodded his head.

"Family members always support each other."

Shang Wu’s efforts to rescue her brother were not in vain, but her joy was too early.

"I remember one Chinese New Year, my sister and my grandfather were competing in drinking. She even grabbed my grandfather's neck and poured him water. She was so enthusiastic that he kept calling me 'auntie'."

Shang Li’s memories made everyone fall into silence.

Shang Wu frowned: "Who told Lao Deng to say that he has eaten more salt than I have eaten rice, and drank more wine than I have drunk water?"

“…”

He glanced at Shang Qinqing and Qin Yuzhi who were still chatting while eating, then glanced at Shang Wu, who seemed to understand human nature, and the half-grown little kid.

Li Mo suddenly felt that the demise of the Shang Dynasty might have nothing to do with luck.

Not long after, Lao Qian also came to eat for free.

The engagement banquet and the Qingyuan Sect's promotion meeting will probably be held on the same day. It sounds fantastic that a major event for the sect's advancement is being held at the same time as the engagement of two disciples.

But in the minds of many people, including many elders of Qingyuan Sect, the latter is indeed more important.

After all, Qingyuan Sect’s current reputation is ‘the sect that produced Li Mo and Ying Bing’.

Most of the forces that handed in visiting cards and expressed their intention to pay a visit were targeting the latter.

From the big ones like Tianshan Sword Manor and Hengtong Commercial Bank in the imperial capital to the nearby Red Whale Gang and Fen Yulin in Ziyang Prefecture, the Qingyuan Sect will probably be overcrowded by then, and even the capital of the Great Shang Kingdom will not be able to compare to its bustle.

but.

Bingtuozi went to Lao Li's house to maintain order, and it seemed that Qingyuan Sect was having trouble controlling the situation.

Putting aside Liqun Swordsman and Han Fairy, the Qingyuan Sect is indeed just a prefecture-level force, and was almost replaced by the Red Whale Gang before.

The sect's foundation is really not enough, but at a time like this, we can't lose sight of the grandeur.

"I've counted and found that there are still 77 black crystals, 63,000 taels of gold, and silver in the warehouse... It's exactly three million... No."

Elder Qian took off his boots and took out another silver note from them.

And two pieces of silver.

"305 taels and 2 cents."

There are both zeros and whole numbers.

"Our sect..." Li Mo gasped in shock: "Is it so poor?"

It sounds like a lot, but as the head of a state, he can't even pretend to be rich.

Elder Qian said nothing and looked at Shang Wu who was in the thick of things.

Shang Wu whistled, her eyes drifting up to the sky, as if she didn't understand what Lao Qian was talking about.

Li Mo: “…”

Suddenly, things started to make sense.

The master's squandering was not mainly on eating and drinking, but on getting into trouble. After becoming the peak master, he has become a little more humane. Before, he was like a mad dog, and people had to avoid him when they saw him.

Bitten... Uh, what to do if you get into trouble? Pay compensation. According to Dayu law, medical expenses, lost wages, mental damages...

"There are benefits too. Isn't that how Lao Xue's medical skills and Lao Qian's lawyer credentials came about? It's a blessing in disguise."

Shang Wu was neither justified nor confident.

"Let me fill in the gap." Li Mo sighed slightly.

“How can this be good…”

"It not only helps me solve my troubles, but it is also my marriage after all."

"Well, if we calculate carefully, it shouldn't cost much."

It's late afternoon.

Qiu Shui Pavilion had not been quiet for long when Gu Xueqin, Li Dalong, and Bing Tuozi, who they had taken out to show off for the whole day, returned.

Ying Bing saw him coming out after practicing martial arts and raised her chin slightly, as if the Empress Huangtian had returned to her own Gui Palace.

It seemed as if he had the aura that a mere childish ghost could be suppressed with just a slight move.