It was getting dusk, and just as the guys in the warehouse were packing their things and were about to close the door, they saw a Taoist walking in with big sleeves floating in.

Zhang Liu was also taking a few people to the door panel. When he saw Zhou Tunan coming, he was stunned: "Master Dao, why are you here in Shuikou Town?"

There are foreign churches in Shuikou Town. Generally speaking, Zhou Tunan will not come here.

It seems that Zhou Tunan has been to Taiping Yizhuang for so long, and it seems that it is the second time he has come to Shuikou Town.

The first time was to go to Heihu Mountain and take a boat on the pier in Shuikou Town!

Zhou Tunan said lightly: "It might as well, I'm here soon after dark. No one should see me. Prepare a quiet room on the third floor!"

When Zhang Liu heard this, he immediately responded and ordered someone to hurriedly put the door panel and arrange a residence for Zhou Tunan.

Soon, the shopkeeper who had originally counted goods in the warehouse also came!

Zhou Tunan asked with a smile: "How is the business of the warehouse?"

The shopkeeper said respectfully: "The business is pretty good, but it's not as good as the time when the shopkeeper Qi used to be..."

Few people know about Qi Songren's death.

After Qi Songren and his most capable confidants died in Heihu Mountain, the business of this warehouse shrank most of the time.

Although it is very profitable to rely on the warehouse to stock, it is not as good as caravans to transport goods, smuggle them, and stolen goods in the ground.

It’s not that Zhou Tunan has a moral obsession with cleanliness and refuses to do these businesses. Instead, these business channels are important. With Qi Songren’s death, these channels have almost been cut off.

Zhou Tunan knew these things very well, and when he asked them about them at this moment, he just expressed concern.

Even if the boss pretends to look at the situation, it will be a great encouragement and supervision to the people below.

Even though Zhang Liu is in this warehouse, it is equivalent to the eyeliner supervisor placed by Zhou Tunan here!

Zhou Tunan asked casually, commented and encouraged, refused the banquet prepared by the shopkeeper, and went directly to the room on the third floor of the storehouse that had been prepared.

Through the window, although there are buildings to cover it, you can vaguely see the church of the Goddess of the Earth in the distance.

Although this church is on the banks of the river, it is quite far from other buildings in the town and the pier, and it has a feeling of being out of place with the entire Shuikou Town!

In Zhou Tunan's eyes, the inside and outside of the church were covered with a kind of light, as if it was integrated with the entire earth. However, it seemed to be a world of its own!

These two contradictory feelings are integrated together, revealing an indescribable mystery.

There was a knock on the door outside, and Zhang Liu's voice came in: "Master Dao, as you told me, I'll call Shen Yuan!"

"Come in!" Zhou Tunandao.

The door opened and Shen Yuan entered carefully.

Although Zhou Tunan's expression was normal, Shen Yuan always felt an unspeakable depression if he didn't know what was going on.

"Master Dao, what are your instructions?"

"I want to go to the foreign church tomorrow. What can you do?"

When Shen Yuan heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This is simple? If Master Dao doesn't mind, he will disguise himself as usual tomorrow and follow some believers in the church!"

Zhou Tunan asked, "Are there many religious people and believers here? Will they not be exposed?"

Shen Yuan said without hesitation: "Our local people are conservative, except for some rogues who believe in religion and become religious people, they do not believe in them much!

But our Shuikou Town is located at the wharf. Among the merchants from all over the country, in order to facilitate business with foreigners, many believe in this foreign religion."

Zhou Tunan said oh and asked again: "This church of the Goddess of the Earth has been built in Shuikou Town for seven or eight years, right? Why is it that a little bit of teaching the people?"

What is conservative in folk customs is definitely not the main reason.

As long as you give enough benefits, after seven or eight years of operation, the number of people in the teaching industry will definitely not be small!

Shen Yuan thought for a while and said, "The one who ruled this church has always been the priest Uri. He is not keen on preaching good things!"

Zhou Tunan nodded, and this made sense.

Even employees sent to work in Africa in their previous life would be compensated with various subsidies for several times the high salary...

As mentioned before, in this era, those who are arranged to come to this backward and chaotic Middle Earth will definitely have no backstage or are excluded. Subsidies and compensation will definitely not be available, which means that they are all distributed.

When it comes to such a remote place, everyone probably only has two ideas. One is to work hard to make contributions in order to leave early and go home.

Another type is to give up on oneself and live a muddle-by-one life, and get more money in your small vault.

Most people will only be the latter. And the priest Uri is obviously the latter too!

"Okay, just do what you said! Thank you for your hard work!" Zhou Tunan patted Shen Yuan on the shoulder. He just gave a simple order, but Shen Yuan had to make arrangements overnight!

Shen Yuan smiled and said, "It's just a small matter. Don't worry, Master Dao, I will definitely do it properly!"

As he said that, he said goodbye and went out to be busy.

But Zhou Tunan looked at the direction of the Goddess of Earth again.

In his heart lake lotus pond, there was another heart talisman above the nine-colored clear lotus - "Dingpo".

This heart talisman belongs to the Qinglian heart talisman, and also belongs to a heart talisman in the Xiaoyang escape method.

At this moment, with the condensation of the soul-stabilizing heart talisman, Xiaoyang's twelve heart talismans, Zhou Tunan had already condensed seven of them.

During this period, Zhou Tunan has not been idle...

"With the five heart talismans, I can cultivate the Xiaoyang escape technique!"

Zhou Tunan murmured to himself as he looked at the church far outside the window: "Xiaoyang escape technique, another name is called invisibility.

If I practice Xiaoyang Escape at this time and directly penetrate the wall into the church, why would I be so troublesome?"

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Early the next morning, Zhou Tunan had already disguised himself as a Taoist robe, put on a long robe and a mandarin jacket, and wore a melon-shaped hat, like a rich man, and flocked into the church to worship with a group of religious people.

As Shen Yuan said, there are not many local religious people, most of them are merchants passing by.

According to Zhou Tunan's observation, these religious and businessmen have special connections and are more in groups, so they can better conduct business transactions.

Even because of their religious beliefs, they can better establish relationships with foreigners and do business better, or avoid being troubled by the government.

Not to mention anything else, the most troublesome thing about doing business is the tax cards set up by the government.

Although in the eyes of modern people in previous lives, it is natural to pay taxes when doing business.

However, in this era, there are many levies and taxes.

All kinds of pass-through taxes... Let's put it this way, if you are not lucky, you can pass more than a dozen tax cards if you walk a hundred miles.

The money you earn is not enough to pay taxes!

When Qi Songren was a shopkeeper, the warehouse could make so much money because he ran a caravan and could smuggle and avoid a large number of tax cards.

However, as long as you believe in foreign religions, whether it is the goddess of earth, the master of storm, or even the lord of hosts, you will have foreigners to support you and ignore those tax cards at all, let alone pay taxes!

In this case, it is not surprising that profit-seeking businessmen have largely believed in foreign religions.
Chapter completed!