Finding a Shop

After listening, Liu Yunan stroked the teacup in his hand and fell into deep thought.

Qin Jianghe didn't say anything more, but took out the account book and began to prepare, waiting for the royal family to receive the request forms from various sects in a couple of days before registering them one by one.

This is the sect's second stable business deal after the transaction with the Many Treasures Pavilion, so he has to handle it carefully.

After a long while, Liu Yunan carefully considered and pondered Lin Xiao's thoughts as described by Qin Jianghe. After thoroughly understanding them, he suddenly felt that his thoughts had become much clearer.

He looked up at Qin Jianghe across from him, his eyes seemingly clearer than ever before.

Seeing him planning the accounts, I asked:

"Should we still open a store in the capital?"

Then Qin Jianghe nodded and said:

"Of course we need it. With a shop, we'll have a place to conduct transactions with the royal family discreetly. Otherwise, it would be too conspicuous for our people to have to come to the capital for every transaction. Besides, this shop will have many other uses in the future."

With that previous conversation as a foundation, Liu Yunan felt that he understood the meaning behind Qin Jianghe's words better when he listened to him speak again.

A sense of accomplishment welled up inside him, and he spoke with more confidence.

"Then let's hurry up and find a shop to finalize this matter. After that, we need to get back to the sect as soon as possible; there's a lot of work to do there."

Qin Jianghe also wanted to finalize this matter as soon as possible so that he could go back and move his team over to start operating the business.

"Good."

So, in the next few days, the two began searching for a suitable place throughout the capital.

They figured that since they were opening a shop, it couldn't be too deserted. Although their original intention wasn't to do business on the main street of the capital, they still had to maintain a certain facade. Besides, a bustling shop would appear more normal to others.

However, it can't be too crowded either; if the flow of visitors is too large and it attracts too much attention, that would also be a problem.

Therefore, this location still needs to be carefully considered.

Fortunately, Mo Yuanjiao had taken Qin Jianghe around the streets and alleys to familiarize them with the place beforehand, so the two of them now had a general idea of every place in the capital, saving a lot of time.

Now all they need to do is find shops that meet their needs and are currently selling well.

As for the sect's headquarters, Lin Xiao had discussed this issue with them before.

Given the current size of the Lingxian Sect, they all agreed that there was no need to establish a sect headquarters in the capital for the time being.

The task of relaying news from the capital was temporarily taken over by Mo Yuanjiao.

Mo Yuanjiao had already set up an intelligence department in his own home, and had Baojian select some capable and reliable people to organize his own intelligence team.

He had also discussed this matter with his father and his two older brothers, instructing them to inform their intelligence department if they had any information about the court that might be relevant to them.

Therefore, Mo Yuanjiao's courtyard and study in the Mo Household were temporarily considered as the headquarters of the Lingxian Sect.

Now that there are no women in their household, it's much more convenient for the intelligence department to come and go.

Li Zhouxuan also knew about this.

After all, if he needs to contact Lingxian Sect in the future, he will have to do so through them on the surface.

As for business and other unrelated matters, Qin Jianghe and the others said they would tell him after they confirmed the location.

Two days later, Qin Jianghe and Liu Yunan bought a shop in a location that was neither too busy nor too quiet.

The shop front is neither too big nor too small; it's a fairly standard size for opening a shop and selling things.

The main advantage is that it has a backyard.

The backyard was quite large, with two smaller courtyards in addition to a particularly large storeroom. There were quite a few rooms, making it especially suitable for the Lingxian Sect, which had a bunch of disciples who were eager to get out and broaden their horizons.

So, after some serious bargaining with the seller, Qin Jianghe and his group reached a deal at a price that was acceptable to both parties.

A total of nine thousand six hundred taels.

After all, this is the capital city.

Moreover, it's a shop that can still operate.

Although the location is not particularly desirable, it's still land in the capital city, so the price can't be low.

This price has almost emptied the Lingxian Sect's current coffers, referring, of course, to their current silver reserves.

A large part of this was thanks to the supplies stored in the storage bag of the Nascent Soul cultivator, Wei Hai.

He probably put it in his Storage Bag for convenience when traveling in the Mortal Realm.

That saved Qin Jianghe and the others the trouble of changing it.

Throughout the entire process of finding and buying the shop, both of them wore disguise masks and concealed their identities.

In addition, with the Peach Leaf Pendant they carried and the use of Concealment Technique, the household registration that Qin Jianghe purchased was Gu Yuxiao. Some time ago, Qin Jianghe registered her as a female household in Songyang County, so she is now a self-employed individual.

Therefore, no one in the capital noticed their actions at all.

Not two days after the shop was found, the imperial court and the three major sects finalized their plans for the campaign against Huanyou Nation, Liu Yunan and Qin Jianghe were summoned to the palace once again.

The meeting still took place in the emperor's study.

Besides Li Zhouxuan, there was no one else in the study this time.

As soon as Qin Jianghe and Liu Yunan entered, the tall, heavy door was closed from the outside. Liu Yunan scanned the room with his Divine Sense and found that there was no one else around.

Because Qin Jianghe had been staying in Songyang County and rarely had the chance to return to the sect to cultivate properly, Liu Yunan, who was cultivating with him, had already Foundation Establishment. Although he diligently cultivated whenever he had free time and would always squeeze into the cultivation room whenever he returned to the sect.

However, the Spiritual Qi outside is far less abundant than inside the Lingxian Sect. Even with the assistance of the Peach Blossom Spirit Gathering Formation, the cultivation environment is still much more difficult than inside the sect.

Therefore, his cultivation level is currently only at the Qi Refinement Seventh Layer.

Therefore, he is not yet able to project his Divine Sense outwards.

After Liu Yunan checked the surrounding environment, he nodded slightly to him.

So the two of them went inside and sat down.

Li Zhouxuan greeted the two politely.

This time, he did not sit on his own dragon throne at the head of the table, but instead sat opposite the two of them.

After they were seated and had a sip of tea, Li Zhouxuan exchanged a few pleasantries, then picked up three thick memorials and one memorial that was much thinner than the other three from the table beside him, and said:

"These four lists are the requests from the Qinghe, Cloud Mist, and Shangyang clans and our Li Clan. Some of these items are not on your clan's list. Please take a look and see if we can purchase them."

As he was speaking, he was about to get up and walk over to show them the folded documents when he saw Liu Yunan immediately and skillfully raise his right index finger and slightly hook the four folded documents in Li Zhouxuan's hand. The four folded documents seemed to be lifted by an invisible force and taken away from Li Zhouxuan's hand, flying towards Liu Yunan.