Evening.
Lin Bai naturally slipped into an old man's manner of speaking, peppering every sentence with remarks like, "I've crossed more bridges than you've walked roads," "I've eaten more salt than you've eaten rice," and "I'm not dead yet."
After playing a little child and a woman, imitating an old man came easily to him...
The people around him had grown used to it. Compared with his coquettish imitation of a woman, pretending to speak like an old man was far easier to accept, and it did not interfere with communication.
After returning to her original appearance, Xu Longyun had become much livelier than she had been as City Lord.
Unlike Jiang Qingqin, however, Xu Longyun was ultimately a career-minded woman. On her very first day, she noticed that the loose management of Lin Bai's Righteous Alliance was detrimental to its long-term development.
With Lin Bai's permission, she took charge of all the Righteous Alliance's miscellaneous affairs.
She made sweeping changes to the management of the sects' personnel and supplies, the development of the Beggar Gang's various businesses, their finances, and other matters.
She coordinated the secret manuals, pill formulas, and other materials collected under the Patent Law, and found Heaven-Sent Ones skilled in calculations to draw up preliminary plans for licensing fees. She wanted everything supported by sound reasoning and evidence, so that when the Alliance Army went out to collect patent fees in the future, it would not lose its bearings;
She transferred players from the Beggar Gang and Alliance Army to form an Intelligence Division dedicated to gathering information from everywhere. She also transferred Golden Core True Persons from the various sects to form an Inspection Division responsible for monitoring and policing misconduct among the Heaven-Sent Ones...
The series of reforms left the players, who were