novelraw Chapter 1041 - 569: Mutual Gameplay
Chapter 1041 - 569: Mutual Gameplay
After hearing these words, Steward Wu’s eyes turned slightly red, and he clenched his fists tightly: "A plan to kill two birds with one stone, what a plan to kill two birds with one stone! Juan Niang, you intend to deal with the Hidden Stream, yet you want to drag me down, burn my hidden warehouse, and take my life! Very well, very well, since you are unkind, don’t blame me for being unrighteous!"
He was indeed a man with eight faces, and his Qi Cultivation Skill was not bad. After figuring out this knot, he wasn’t as angry. The Elder Ning in front of him wouldn’t save him out of nowhere; she must have her own agenda. He was a smart man and thought it through to roughly understand.
Steward Wu took a deep breath, suppressing the anger in his heart, and when he opened his eyes again, his expression had calmed down: "Elder Ning, you helped me with this big favor, but do you want to retrieve those hundred thousand pounds of Spiritual Tea? Juan Niang indeed has a few hidden warehouses, but even if I can find out the whereabouts of the Spiritual Tea, how will it be extracted to you? Do you also plan on robbing it back?"
Ning Xiaoxian said frankly: "That’s right. Juan Niang took away my Spiritual Tea, and unless people from Heavenly Residence help, I can’t find it in such a big Central Capital. I’m not going to be polite with you; just relying on this person’s confession, you can’t possibly topple Juan Niang and those behind her. This matter can’t be resolved through normal routes."
Steward Wu frowned and said: "Do we really have to resort to robbery? How did the people she sent transport this batch under the patrols’ noses of Central Capital last night without alerting anyone? A hundred thousand pounds of tea leaves would fill any hidden warehouse, and I have never understood it."
Ning Xiaoxian smiled: "I have guessed about seventy or eighty percent of her methods. But the place where she hides the tea leaves is beyond my reach, so I have to think of a way from somewhere else."
Steward Wu was immediately interested and said: "What way?"
"Since she doesn’t want me to find it, I simply don’t need to look for it." Ning Xiaoxian’s lips curved slowly, and a cold light flashed in her eyes, "Mr. Wu, you’ve been a steward for so long, do you know what ’forced buy and sell’ means?"
"We have always been fair and just in business..." Seeing the smile in her eyes, Steward Wu found his words ridiculous and couldn’t help but cough lightly to change his tone, "Please instruct me, Elder Ning."
"I heard that all the seals of Heavenly Residence have to be handed over at night?"
She even knew this? Steward Wu was surprised in his heart, but still replied: "Yes, every day before 7 p.m., everyone’s seals have to be submitted to the seal supervision room for safekeeping, to prevent any steward or official from taking it out of Heavenly Residence for personal gain. If there are urgent matters, a note must first be sent to the elder council to have the authority to borrow a seal, but it must be returned immediately after use."
She stroked her chin and said, "So, tonight, her seal is also in the seal supervision room, isn’t it?"
"Yes."
"Could someone behind you retrieve the seal from the seal supervision room?"
Steward Wu’s face changed, "Elder Ning, you mustn’t speak carelessly..."
Ning Xiaoxian interrupted him: "This is an important link in the plan, you just need to tell me whether it can be done or not, I don’t care about the rest."
Steward Wu was silent, only coughing lightly.
She understood: "Hmm, the final delivery date of the agreement between Ningyuan Hall and Heavenly Residence is tomorrow morning. Steward Wu, can you help me delay it for a while?"
He was a bit troubled, but after thinking about it, he still said: "I can, I can persuade the person above me to first use the Spiritual Tea stored in Heavenly Residence. There is still some stock in the Chamber of Commerce, but once the Bai Yujing sales event is held, it can only last for three days at most."
"Three days are enough, I can even temporarily allocate some other Spiritual Tea for urgent use." Ning Xiaoxian said calmly, "This matter probably requires the person behind you to exert force too if he wants to topple his arch-enemy, and you want to topple Juan Niang."
It was then that Steward Wu broke into a vicious smile and said: "I’m all ears." He came to this meeting at the risk of being discovered by Heavenly Residence, and without enough benefits, how would he help Ning Xiaoxian? He suffered greatly at the hands of Juan Niang this time, and if he doesn’t remedy the situation, he might be discarded as trash. A cornered rabbit will bite, let alone him, a proper cultivator? If he must go to hell, he would drag Juan Niang down with him; otherwise, how could he be at peace?
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Steward Wu did not dare to stay too long with her. After negotiating for another hour, he cast his Divine Skills again, covering his face, and then got up to leave.