At noon the next day, in the farmhouse at the foot of Laoshan, Huo Zhizhang walked aimlessly in the yard with his hands behind his back, sometimes stopping and looking up at the sky, sometimes approaching the pots of small flowers in the yard to play with, sometimes shaking his head, sometimes sighing. Although he didn't say a word, he could see at a glance that he was troubled by his complex mood.

For this ambitious president, it is really difficult to explain to his subordinates to a piece of Yanagizumi Yagi in Laoshan for four consecutive times. Including the gains and losses of the championship prizes in the Eternal Night Competition, they have suffered consecutive failures over the past few months. Even if they have great ambitions, they are more or less unsustainable.

To a certain extent, humans actually have many things in common with group monkeys. In a group of monkeys, if the monkey king is strong and has good leadership, he can often pick some fruits and distribute them to his subordinates, and he will naturally be supported by ordinary monkeys for a long time. But if one day the monkey king becomes weak and the spoils become increasingly rare, even if he can temporarily suppress the monkey group by relying on his identity, the undercurrents in the hearts of each monkey are inevitable.

Huo Zhizhang was a monkey king who was looking down at this time. However, what was even more miserable than the Monkey King was that all actions of the monkey group did not require financial guarantees, but humans could not do it.

Just as Huo Zhizhang stopped and looked up at the sky again, Hu Gu came to him quietly with a list in his hand and said, "President, my association's funding situation has been sorted out. I'll report it to you."

Huo Zhichang was stunned for a moment, turned around and looked at Hu Gu, and asked, "How is it?"

"Not optimistic." Hu Gu handed the order to Huo Zhizhang and said with a serious expression, "The six hundred and thirty taels of silver we carried when we set out from Guangxi are now only fifty-seven taels left. This is not counting the four taels of silver we have to give to the landlord. If we continue to waste here, the funds will only be even more difficult. Before we think about the method of open source, we can only save as much as possible."

Huo Zhizhang looked at the bill with a frown and said nothing. After a while, he sighed and said, "I don't know if I don't look at it. I didn't expect that this trip to Shandong would cost more than 170 taels of silver!"

Hu Gu said with a look of distress: "Yes, the wooden barrel is fine, but the price of gunpowder has soared over the years due to war. We bought strong gunpowder again. One pound is worth about four or five taels of silver. After thirty pounds, it costs 146 taels."

"One hundred and forty-six taels..." Huo Zhizhang handed the bill back to Hu Gu, took a deep breath, and said in a self-blame tone, "The key is that after spending so much money, I didn't even see anything..."

Hu Gu squeezed out a smile and comforted him: "President, this is not your fault. You have already deployed well, but I didn't expect that Pu Zixuan and my sister came out without anyone noticing. I didn't expect that another guy came and made everything go yellow."

The "that guy" in Hu Gu's mouth refers to Ouyang Zhiguo. At that time, after the six of them escaped into the mountain through the sand dune walker, they did not leave immediately. Instead, they stopped in the mountain below the cliff on the east side of Taihe Canyon. Xiao Jue watched for a moment, hoping to find an opportunity to attack. Therefore, he not only witnessed the demonization of Ouyang Zhiguo, but also heard the shouts of Pu Zixuan and others, and knew that the person was the examiner "Caiyunzi" in the Eternal Night Competition, and his real name Ouyang Zhiguo.

However, after the purple light appeared on Ouyang Zhiguo, Xiao Jue immediately realized that this guy was changing, and he also suddenly thought of Qin Yong whom he saw under the Liushaping. He felt that the danger had increased greatly, so he immediately left Laoshan without knowing what happened later.

At this moment, when hearing Hu Gu's comfort, Huo Zhizhang smiled disapprovingly and sighed: "It seems that Ouyang Zhiguo and Pu Zixuan are incompatible. This is interesting now. Now we, Pu Zixuan and Ouyang Zhiguo are enemies of each other, constantly surrounding Liuquan Yagi, Yongye Forest, Taixu Crystal, and each side has their own victory and defeat... Pu Zixuan got three Liuquan Yagi, Ouyang Zhiguo got Taixu Crystal, one Liuquan Yagi and half Yongye Forest, and we got two Liuquan Yagi and the other half Yongye Forest, which can be said to be a three-part world and evenly matched. I am just curious, Ouyang Zhiguo must have a great background, and the funding guarantee is worry-free, but Pu Zixuan and others are just a group of children with no hair. Why can they run around the country but never see them lacking money?"

Hu Gu was asked, of course he didn't know what role Pu Zixuan's father was, but this question was indeed worth thinking about, so he guessed: "There is a child in their team who seems to be a Balaizi. What kind of injury, when he gets to him, he will be cured. I think, are they treating others along the way, so they have earned a lot of quick money..."

"Well..." Huo Zhizhang said without hesitation, "What a pity, no one in our association has such ability. If there is one, it would not be so difficult..."

Hu Gu smiled and said, "It's okay, President, as long as you give your order, even if we comrades go out to rob the house, it's not difficult to get some funds. However, we need to make decisions at present. Where should we go next? Should we try our luck north of the Great Wall to see if we can get that piece of Yanquan Yagi, or something?"

"North of the Great Wall?" Huo Zhichang said in a daze, "I never thought about this floor. Not to mention everything there is a mystery. And even if it takes a lot of trouble, I can only get a piece of Liuquan Yagi at most, and a large number of treasures are still in the hands of the two gangs, especially Pu Zixuan and his party, who have not left Shandong yet, and I really can't bear to let them go like this."

Hu Gu analyzed: "They are currently heading west. I wonder if they are interested in the Willow Spring Yagi, the Hanba. It is extremely difficult to deal with. It is better to wait until they wiped the Hanba and then rob them. The reason why I proposed to go to the north of the Great Wall to try my luck is that I hope the enemies there will be weaker. After all, we need a success to boost morale. Otherwise, even if the comrades don't say anything, who knows what they will think in their hearts?"

Huo Zhizhang was stunned. The thing he was most worried about was not the lack of funds, but the unstable morale mentioned by Hu Gu. He was already upset about this. When he heard Hu Gu say this, he asked casually: "So, from what you see, those comrades can see any changes in their mentality at present?"

Hu Gu sighed and said, "Yes, they are inconvenient to show it in front of you, President, but in my opinion, Lu Lianhua is fine, and Song Yezhi has no idea, but He Tianao and Xiao Jue have some noises."

"Is that?" Huo Zhizhang's heart tightened. He knew that He Tianao had been in a state of being forced to be together since he joined the team. The arrogant old leader had his own thoughts, which was not surprising at all. However, Xiao Jue, an important "transporter", worked diligently. Huo Zhizhang always believed that even if some of the people had some ideological deviation, it would not be his turn for a while, so he asked quickly, "What did he say?"

Hu Gu didn't want to make the atmosphere too serious, so he pretended to be relaxed: "It's no big deal. He just felt that he spent so much money and put in so much effort, but he didn't get any benefits. He was inevitably emotional. Early this morning, he half-jokingly said: 'Why do we have to do such a thing as overthrowing the Qing Dynasty and the demon world? Why do we have to learn from Ouyang Zhiguo, become a rebel, and gain super strength. In this way, what can't be done well?"

"Haha..." Huo Zhizhang couldn't help but immediately refute Xiao Jue, but instead smiled self-deprecatingly, "It seems that the president, I, a little cowardly recently, has made my comrades a little depressed..."

This scheming man understood that although Hu Gu said it lightly, in fact, Xiao Jue's words would probably be more serious than this, and no one would have been echoed. Hu Gu deliberately conveyed this statement and pointed it out, and was also reminding himself in a tactful way. At this critical moment of difficulty, any comrade's complaints were normal. Instead of pursuing their remarks to make it betrayal to everyone, it would be better to let them vent their feelings and make up for it with practical actions.

The so-called "hiding one's strength and keeping one's low profile is not only directed at the enemy, but also at the same time when facing comrades.

So, Huo Zhizhang just responded lightly: "Where is others?"

"He said he wanted to go out to relax, so he went out. It's noon, so he should be back soon, right? If the president is worried, I'll come and inquire." After that, Hu Gu began to concentrate. As soon as he closed his eyes, he immediately opened his eyes and said, "Oh, I really can't say that his breath is not far away."
Chapter completed!