Bibi Dong: We're Making Too Little Money. Elder Mubai, Do You Have Any Good Ideas?

However.

What he hadn't expected was this.

Bibi Dong actually showed him such respect that she even demanded Hu Liena apologize to him.

At that moment.

Looking at the tears welling up in Hu Liena's eyes.

Li Mubai was at a loss.

Comforting women had never been his strong suit.

Even with Xiao Qian, who was closest to him, he would sometimes accidentally offend her.

The trouble was, he didn't know how to comfort her, either.

Fortunately, Xiao Qian was understanding and never really angry with him. She was only putting on an act.

Seeing Hu Liena apologize to Li Mubai.

Bibi Dong's expression finally improved, and the chill on her face lessened at once.

Hu Liena, the young girl beside her.

Looked deeply aggrieved at that moment.

Her thoughts at the time were:

Why was Teacher making her apologize to a scumbag who toyed with women?

Didn't Teacher herself hate people like that too?

Did she have to apologize just because he was an elder of Spirit Hall?

If I become the Pope of Spirit Hall someday, I'll make sure to change things!

"Your Holiness, Your Highness, please come inside."

Li Mubai greeted them and invited the two inside to talk.

Bibi Dong knew the way.

She had been there yesterday.

But Hu Liena, the young girl following behind her, looked thoroughly unwilling.

She didn't want to set foot in a scumbag's house at all.

Entering a place like this would simply pollute her eyes and body!

At that moment.

She could already imagine what the house would be like.

It was sure to be full of wives and concubines, women dressed in revealing clothes that exposed great swaths of skin.

She looked down on women like that too!

Of all the things they could do, why did they have to be wanton ** who made a living off their bodies?

Hu Liena abhorred such behavior.

With a powerful sense of discomfort and disgust in her heart.

She nevertheless followed Bibi Dong into the room.

She merely raised her head and looked around.

And Hu Liena froze on the spot.

Before her eyes.

There were no magnificent, gilded decorations.

On the contrary.

The room's style was quite unusual.

A few simple colors paired with some simple furniture gave the whole room a cozy feel.

This kind of decor.

Was something she had fallen deeply in love with at first sight for the first time in all these years.

The simple, cozy, refreshing style.

Made it hard for her to pull herself away.

And the house wasn't particularly large inside.

It could only be called fairly spacious.

It didn't look at all as though it could accommodate many women.

It stood in stark contrast to the other elders' spacious, magnificent residences.

Although the other elders' residences were large, there was always a strange, lingering smell inside.

That smell made Hu Liena very uncomfortable; she couldn't stand it.

But.

There was no such smell in the room before her.

On the contrary.

The air here was much the same as outside.

There was, however, a faint, unusual fragrance in the air that she liked very much.

"It's quite pretty!"

Just then.

Xiao Qian emerged from the kitchen in a long jade-green dress, carrying a pot of freshly brewed, piping-hot tea with white steam rising from it.

In her other hand, she held several cups stacked together.

The cups were all made of bamboo, and a special treatment had brought out their beautiful, natural emerald-green color.

Soon.

Xiao Qian poured tea for them, her face radiant with a smile.

Only then.

Did Hu Liena come back to her senses from taking in the room's decor.

She then followed Bibi Dong into the living room.

The living room contained only one long sofa and two other chairs with kawaii designs.

Li Mubai had made them all himself.

For the sake of a clean, attractive look, he hadn't made a second sofa.

And the women.

In revealing clothes whom Hu Liena had imagined were nowhere to be seen.

There was only a beautiful, graceful woman with a slender figure, dressed in a modest and elegant manner.

The woman's skin was also very delicate, fair with a rosy tint that showed off her healthy beauty.

Something's not right!

Looking at the happy smile on Xiao Qian's face, Hu Liena was full of suspicion.

She had seen the expressions of the wives and concubines in the other elders' homes.

Their looks and bearing could not compare at all to the poised, gracious woman before her.

One was in heaven, the other on earth.

Those women were pretty too.

But Hu Liena always felt that something very important was missing from their eyes.

And now.

The woman standing before her was different.

In those dark eyes was something Hu Liena couldn't quite put into words.

From this alone, she could be almost certain.

The treatment this woman received was surely beyond anything the wives and concubines in the other elders' homes could compare with.

At least.

She surely hadn't become a tool for venting desire.

Everything in the house at that moment was completely different from the picture in her head.

She couldn't even find a single point of resemblance.

How strange.

Had I wrongly accused Elder Mubai just now?

Was he not the kind of person I imagined?

But.

Why did this woman call Elder Mubai "master" just now?

Could it really be as Elder Mubai explained, that she called him that of her own free will?

Hu Liena couldn't help but question her own thoughts.

So.

She decided to test them!

"Big Sister, you're so pretty!"

She looked at Xiao Qian and praised her.

"Thank you for the compliment. You're very beautiful too, little sister."

Xiao Qian responded graciously.

Meanwhile.

Bibi Dong, seated on the sofa, had already begun questioning Li Mubai.

"Elder Mubai, I've run into some difficulties recently. I wonder if you have any suggestions."

Bibi Dong looked at Li Mubai and went straight to the point.

"Please tell me about them, Your Holiness. But my abilities are limited, and I'm afraid I may not be able to help you with your troubles."

A "sincere" smile appeared on Li Mubai's face.

But inside, it was a different story.

Why does this woman have another problem?!

She had one yesterday, and now she has another today. If someone as powerful as you can't solve it, what's the use of asking me?

I'm no Zhuge Liang, and I don't deserve to be called resourceful...

Hearing the thoughts by her ear, Bibi Dong's face lit up with an undisguised smile.

"Elder Mubai, I'll get straight to the point.

Spirit Hall's income has been rather meager lately. After expenses, there's never much left over.

But we'll need a great deal of money in the future.

Do you have any good ideas about that?"

Hearing Bibi Dong's words, Li Mubai couldn't help but twitch an eyebrow.

He then pretended to ponder.

But his thoughts began racing.

I knew this woman hadn't given up!

She's already thinking about increasing Spirit Hall's income. Isn't that just preparation for dominating the world someday?

But...

She's come to the right person to ask about making money.

How hard could making money be?

Just set up a dedicated tax administration department and shut down all the gangs of every stripe in the city.

Then have the people of Spirit Hall personally manage this vast Spirit City.

And start collecting taxes from the major merchants in Spirit City.

That one measure alone.

Would bring Spirit Hall who knows how much wealth.

However.

There's one difficulty with that.

Every one of those shady characters has an elder backing them.

Shutting them down would indirectly affect those elders' interests.

After all, those gangs are able to collect management fees because the elders turn a blind eye.

If new rules were introduced.

Those elders would surely step forward to block them, making them difficult to enforce.

But...