Dragon's Origin

Chapter 523: Entanglement (Part 1)

Even if Wang Sheng really didn't care and was willing to be ranked third, the Shi family and the Gan family would still have to be ranked first, which is a contradiction that the two families still cannot resolve.

The two grand elders looked at each other, but neither spoke. As the two grand elders met eyes, the experts from both families suddenly realized that the object of their vigilance had become the other party, not Wang Sheng.

The atmosphere became more and more subtle. Wang Sheng didn't speak, but watched the two grand elders' gazes clash with great interest. He wanted to see how the two grand elders would make a decision in this situation. There weren't many opportunities for this kind of test of humanity in the face of extreme temptation.

After a stalemate for a while, the Gan family's grand elder seemed to have finally made a decision. The expression on his face was one of letting go of everything, which startled the Shi family's grand elder. Just as he thought the Gan family's grand elder was going to decide to take a hard line, he suddenly heard the other side's voice: "The Shi family can go first, but we want to take one more share of the gold."

Huff, all the Shi family members breathed a long sigh of relief. So they were still negotiating terms, not turning hostile, that's great!

"Deal!" While the other members of the Shi family were still immersed in relaxation, the Shi family's grand elder had already made a decisive decision. What's the big deal about taking less gold? It's worth it to fight for a chance to get things first!

"Duke, can you tell us your method now?" The Gan family's grand elder was waiting for the Shi family's words. Hearing the command, he turned to Wang Sheng without saying a word and asked Wang Sheng.

"The old Lord Temple(老君观: Taoist temple) sends people to sort out all the scrolls, with the names facing up, and divide them into two hundred copies." Wang Sheng admired the Gan family's grand elder's decisive approach of giving up some benefits and then fighting for other benefits. He didn't hide anything and explained the method: "Your two families take turns. The Shi family picks one copy first, and the Gan family picks one copy. After each picks seventy-five copies in turn, the remaining fifty copies all belong to me, which is consistent with the division we agreed upon before. What do you think?"

As soon as Wang Sheng finished speaking, the two families began to ponder the rationality of this method.

Obviously, the old Lord Temple must have mixed the good and the bad together into one copy, and it is even very likely that when the distribution is uneven, the quantity may not be consistent. At this time, it depends on the eyesight of the person who chooses. If they have good eyesight, they can pick good things. If they have poor eyesight, they may only pick a few scrolls with good names but general content.

Of course, the people from the old Lord Temple must also have the ability to distinguish, and try to mix the good and the bad together as much as possible, otherwise, the last remaining ones will definitely be the worst.

In this way, it is actually a test of everyone's eyesight. This is true strength, and everyone is proactive, which is a fairly fair way.

"The people from the old Lord Temple look first?" The Shi family's grand elder looked at Lingxu old Taoist and the ten old Taoists over there, seeming a little unwilling, and didn't know what kind of mentality he had to be like this.

"The Shi family can also look first." Wang Sheng smiled: "Anyway, whoever divides the things and whoever takes the rest in the end, I don't care. Elder Gan, what about you?"

"I have no objection either." Gan Changlao had already figured out the beauty of it, and nodded without even thinking about it: "The one who divides the things cannot pick the things, and the one who picks the things cannot divide the things. It's very fair."

"I was just saying it." The Shi family's grand elder hurriedly smiled and smoothed things over. He had finally fought for the first pick, how could he push it out? Elder Gan also understood after saying that, it was indeed very fair. At least he couldn't think of any fairer way than this.

Each copy must have good things in it, which means that even if you pick first, you may not be able to take all the good things. The last ones to pick may not be useless. Very fair!

Since an agreement has been reached, then follow this method. The experts from both families can't even bother to divide the previous gold jewelry and the like. One family stands at the edge of the area where the scrolls are placed, staring at the people and things inside.

Lingxu old Taoist took ten old Taoists and began to clean up the decayed wood and scrolls inside. Under the close attention of so many legendary experts, even Lingxu old Taoist could not cheat.

The first thing to be cleaned up was the decayed wood, which was the residue of the wooden frames after hundreds of years of decay. It was concentrated and cleaned up to an area, and then no one paid any attention to it. Who would have the mind to move a pile of hundreds of years old wood slag?

Next, all the scrolls were gathered together, and then twenty by ten grids were drawn on the original ground, a total of two hundred. Among them, Wang Sheng, that is, the old Lord Temple, was going to take the last remaining fifty grids, and the Shi family and the Gan family would pick seventy-five grids each first.

The work of dividing the scrolls was naturally handed over to Lingxu old Taoist. The old Taoist used to re-copy the classics of the old Lord Temple every fifty years. He had a deep impression of various records, and even if he hadn't heard of them, he could probably deduce the effect based on the name.

Anyway, Wang Sheng told the old Taoist to try to divide them as evenly as possible. It doesn't matter if they can't be divided evenly. From the perspective of the old Lord Temple, these things are free, and how much they get is a profit, and there is no time to lose.

What's more, even if the old Taoist is not sure about dividing them, can the people from the Shi family and the Gan family know? They are still guessing each other. Even if you put a pile of scrolls that are all common goods, they will probably guess whether this is a superficial disguise to cover up the sharpness of the content?

In short, in Wang Sheng's words, divide them casually, and you will always get good things in the end. On the contrary, this is the least psychologically stressful. The people from the Shi family and the Gan family who are responsible for picking are the ones who are really uncomfortable now.

If they put good things in front of them and let them pick them first and they miss, then what can people say about them? The saliva of their own family members can drown them. Picking possibly never-before-heard of techniques under this huge pressure, the inner torment can be imagined.

Lingxu old Taoist is really a person who can take it and let it go. After Wang Sheng's hint, he moved quickly, picked up a scroll and only glanced at the name, then quickly threw it into a certain grid. Of course, Lingxu old Taoist would not cheat, and he could not do anything under the attention of so many people.

The faster the old Taoist's speed, the more unsure the experts from the two families became. They simply didn't know what standard the old Taoist was using to divide them, and their heads hurt from thinking about it.

"By the way, you can't waste time picking things." When Lingxu old Taoist was dividing the scrolls, Wang Sheng didn't forget to tell the two grand elders: "There must be a time limit, and if it exceeds, you will change people. Any objections?"

"It should be." The Gan family's grand elder immediately interjected: "We don't have much time, so let's calculate it with half a stick of incense at a time?" The last one was obviously looking at the Shi family's grand elder, because Wang Sheng didn't pick.

"Okay!" The Shi family's grand elder also knew that this was reasonable and nodded: "Let's calculate it with half a stick of incense."