Protect Our Chief

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After the auction.

Wang Shouzhe politely declined the invitation from the Tuoba and Tantai families to stay briefly, using the excuse of sending his daughter to the Academy to quickly retreat and avoid being drawn into the whirlpool of conflict between the two sides.

Of course, this reason was genuine.

His eldest daughter Wang Liyao is already nineteen years old this year, and his eldest son Wang Zong’an is also sixteen, both at the age where they can attend the Academy.

Among them, eldest daughter Wang Liyao is exceptionally talented, with unlimited potential in the future. The Wang Family platform is too small for her, and she will definitely pursue the Academy route in the future.

Years ago, he had already asked his wife Liua Ruolan to write a letter to her master’s master, the Ascendant Celestial Essence of the Purple Mansion Academy’s Primordial Water Celestial Lake lineage, informing him of Liyao’s basic situation and preliminarily reached an agreement to accept her as a disciple.

This trip, Wang Shouzhe plans to send her to the Academy.

As for Zong’an, although he couldn’t obtain the Marriage Robe Blood Gu King, he hasn’t lacked purchasing talent enhancement elixir for him over the years, including Spirit Awakening Pill, Blood Tempering Pill, and Bone Marrow Purify Pill, all of which he has consumed.

Last year, Zong’an passed the second stage of the Divine Martial Dynasty’s Trial Dungeon and obtained the Basic Bloodline Talent Improvement Liquid. Now, his bloodline has awakened to the Second Layer, making him a "Celestial Pride" in the Academy.

However, since Zong’an is the eldest legitimate son, he is not suitable for the Academy route, and Wang Shouzhe does not intend to let him fully join the Academy.

This time sending him over is just to let him be an ordinary disciple in the Academy, mingle for a few years, broaden his horizons, and expand his perspectives, so he won’t grow up sheltered by the Wang Family and become a frog in a well in the future.

It’s important to know that the world is vast; Changning Guard is just a corner of it.

The saying "Born in hardship, die in comfort" holds true; only by witnessing the vastness of the world can one realize one’s smallness. Only in this way can one always harbor fears and not make some low-level mistakes due to overestimating oneself.

For example, Yin Yuzhe from the Yin Fiend Sect is a typical example.

If he hadn’t been too full of himself, not taking Huangfu Huaye and Huangfu Jinhuan seriously, how would he have been killed so easily with his skills as a direct disciple of the Yin Fiend Sect?

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Half a month later, the Wang Family’s convoy arrived at Longzuo County Town.

This was Wang Shouzhe’s second visit to Longzuo County Town. The last time was when he sent Luqiu and Luojing to the Academy.

Eleven years later, the city walls of the County Town still stand tall and majestic as before.

The walls are marked with traces of time, yet remain heavy and solid, carrying an oppressive weight, as if they could stand unchanged for a thousand, ten thousand years.

However, the Wang Family is no longer what it used to be.

Looking at this scene, Wang Shouzhe felt quite emotional.

Last time he came, the Wang Family was just an Eighth-Grade Noble Family. This time, they have become a noble Seventh-Grade Family.

The Daqian Family is established, with a grade difference akin to heaven and earth, resulting in vastly different status and treatment.

Back then, when the Wang Family came to the County Town, they needed the main family to greet them. Now, with their current status, even without the lead of the main family, they can directly enter the city through the VIP passage, enjoying the respectful demeanor and admiring gazes of the guards.

Handing over the name card, the guards indeed immediately changed to enthusiastic smiles, leading the Wang Family’s convoy to the VIP passage.

Accompanied by the sound of rolling wheels, the convoy slowly entered the city.

After entering the city, Wang Shouzhe and his group did not immediately visit the Longzuo Wang Family but went to a storefront in the South Market first.

This storefront has three street-facing entrances and seven or eight courtyards inside for people to reside in, which is quite well-located. Of course, the price is also quite good.

Even with the Wang Family’s financial strength to acquire it, it took considerable effort and a large amount of Qian Gold.

The Commandery is just the Commandery. The price for prime real estate of the same area is surprisingly ten times that of Changning Guard. Three storefronts plus some courtyards cost the Wang Family nearly 150,000 Qian Gold.

Fortunately, the wares sold in the storefront nowadays are all Wang Family products: mirrors, finely crafted glassware, and luxury skincare products. Even though the operation time has been short, and the market hasn’t fully opened yet, there is still a yearly profit of several thousand Qian Gold.

Such an expensive storefront, if used to sell preserved fish or goods from north to south, might not break even in a hundred years.

Wang Shouzhe spent a considerable sum to establish a foothold in the County Town, for the Wang Family’s future development. As the Wang Family grows stronger, there will undoubtedly be more trips to the County Town, and they can’t always rely on staying in Longzuo Wang Family’s residences, can they?

No matter how good the relationship between the two families, they have already split into separate branches. Over time, there will inevitably be inconveniences.

"Fourth brother, sister-in-law, you’re here."

Seeing the convoy stop at the entrance, the forty-something Wang Shounuo immediately came out from the storefront to greet them.

After exchanging greetings with Wang Shouzhe and others accompanying him, he immediately directed the servants to lead the carriages straight into the inner courtyard.

Exactly.

The storefront foothold in the County Town is managed by the Wang Family’s third son of the "Shou" generation, Wang Shounuo.

Although the Wang Family is gradually thriving, the growth of clan members takes time, and there are still few capable people who can handle things independently. Moreover, with the Wang Family’s increasing assets, personnel are becoming extremely scarce.

Wang Shounuo is in his prime, and with the family’s support, he has advanced to become a Spirit Platform Realm Cultivator, making him the perfect choice to handle the development of the County Town industry.