Chapter 2296: Bridges

Huge's merchant ship sailed through the wind and waves. Every part of the ship's body was in its own place and order.

The merchant team was fast and orderly, but no one knew about the waves in the lower cabin.

In this dimly lit cabin room, filled with stacked goods, the silence only amplified the tension.

Su She could certainly not forget the name he heard. When Ju Bao Chamber of Commerce was brought down, forcing him into a corner, Chong Xuan Sheng was still just a challenger in front of Chong Xuan Zun, someone everyone considered a joke.

No one believed that the unremarkable fat man could win the position of family head and bear the title of "Bo Wang".

Just as he, Su She, never thought for a moment that Ju Bao Chamber of Commerce, which connected a vast network of interests, would be completely crushed by that fat finger.

He was such a harmless little fat man back then.

Now he was already a top-tier powerful figure standing at the peak of the Eastern Country, a colossus in various senses.

Because he always hid behind the scenes, because he broke apart and then reorganized the Chamber of Commerce, establishing a complex power structure, wasn't he just afraid of Chong Xuan Sheng?

But he and his He Chang Business Alliance had always been in Chong Xuan Sheng's grasp.

His plans and schemes were like a joke.

His painstaking management was just making wedding dresses for others!

Fortunately, evil people have their own counterparts.

It didn't matter who was grinding down whom, it was all good.

He was overly kind; Qin Guang Wang might not be.

He looked at Yin Guan, waiting for his leader's decision.

The fierce and evil Qin Guang Wang was silent for a moment, then lightly said to Ma Zong Ru: "Calculate the value of these goods and give me the cash equivalent."

Su She's eyes widened. He hadn't expected Qin Guang Wang's appetite to be so small.

Why don't you hate him more!

Go ahead and fight, have a life-and-death battle with Bo Wang Hou!

How much money had He Chang Business Alliance earned over the years? Did you know how well it had developed? Now you just wanted this one ship of goods, wasn't that a huge loss?

Bring out the momentum you had when you killed nobles like chickens.

Go on and fight!

Yin Guan turned his head to look over: "Yan Luo Wang, what do you think?"

Su She humbly bowed his head: "Your subordinate was just calculating the value of these goods. We cannot let anyone shortchange you by even half a point; not a single penny can be missing."

Yin Guan looked back at Ma Zong Ru.

Ma Zong Ru said: "I need to ask Hou Ye."

Yin Guan said lightly: "I will only wait a quarter of an hour."

Not needing a quarter of an hour, Ma Zong Ru returned soon after leaving the lower cabin and said to Yin Guan: "Hou Ye wants to speak with you personally."

Yin Guan sat down in that chair again, leisurely saying: "Let him come then."

Ma Zong Ru took out a round mirror with ancient wood inlaid with mountain patterns on its surface. The mirror hovered in the air, emitting a clear light. As Yin Guan looked over, the clear light dispersed, and in the center of the mirror's surface, Chong Xuan Sheng was already quietly waiting, sitting in a specially made large chair.

His body was overly large, giving a feeling of being bloated and about to burst out of the mirror, as if the mirror couldn't contain him.

"First time meeting, Qin Guang Wang is much more refined than I imagined." The current Bo Wang Hou smiled warmly, appearing very kind.

Yin Guan's hands were clasped together, and he smiled slightly: "First time meeting, you just robbed my subordinate's family property. You officials and marquises are really something."

Chong Xuan Sheng laughed: "One is killing the chicken to take the egg, and the other is taking the entire chicken. For Su She, it's hard to say who is more excessive. But for this chicken, the choice is very simple."

"The chicken has no right to choose," Yin Guan said.

"So we are here to make the decision for it," Chong Xuan Sheng said. "This only involves who is faster and who is slower, the problem of who came first and who came later."

Yin Guan looked at this dead fat man: "He acted as an assassin outside, risking life and death to supplement the Chamber of Commerce. How many times did his head hang on the tip of a knife, and he was still thinking about the future of the Business Alliance, remotely controlling its direction... Is it not a bit excessive to just swallow such a huge family fortune that was so hard to save up, leaving no bone dregs?"

"A pig is raised for a year, fed well, and never starved for a meal. By the end of the year, it's fat and strong, just for slaughtering time. Share a bit with the neighbors, send a bit to relatives and friends, this is called a 'year-end pig'." Chong Xuan Sheng spread out his large hands: "But to be honest, my patience is quite sufficient. If you hadn't been so rough with the knife when dividing the meat, this pig could have been raised for a few more years."

Yin Guan raised his hand, signaling Su She to leave: "Don't listen, he's scolding very dirtily."

Su She and Ma Zong Ru both left the lower cabin, like two honorable door gods guarding the door outside.

All sounds inside the cabin room were cut off, and the waves of the long river were still chasing the sailing ship.

"When did this happen?" Su She looked at the vast river surface, feeling some decay and death that he knew he shouldn't have.

How high-spirited he once was — although Qing Xi was a dry bone in his tomb, the officials were all holding positions without doing anything, and the trash in the uncle's mansion was just pigs and dogs that he had spent money to raise. Xu Fang dared to scold him and was forced by him to have his family broken and people dead. He even dared to interfere horizontally in the clan struggle within the Chong Xuan family, openly taking sides.

Now that he had achieved fame in Lin Zi, easily establishing another Business Alliance, he seemed to have become weak, easily held in someone's palm.

Clearly, outside Lin Zi city, he had even almost killed Jiang Wang!

The more he strived, the more he progressed... the more distant he became.

He once thought for a while that he could summon the wind and rain, nothing was impossible, but in reality, it was just because of the special nature of the business path, clinging to a branch of a powerful system, enjoying the residual prestige. Essentially, his vision was too low, and he didn't know what wind and clouds were.

Only after truly "liking Lin Zi" did he know how vast the sky and the earth were, and that even gods were small.

And Ma Zong Ru, the nominal alliance master of He Chang Business Alliance, leaned against the cabin wall, his face hidden in the shadow of the cabin eaves, silent.

Su She said again: "I trust you the most. You are different from someone like Zhang Cheng Hui, you are someone who understands gratitude. For so many years, I never thought—"

"Boss Su!" Ma Zong Ru interrupted him: "Saying these things is meaningless. You should be clear about who Bo Wang Hou is, you should understand that when he finds me and stands in front of me, I will absolutely not have the possibility to resist him. You chose the wrong opponent, and He Chang Business Alliance was destined to end from the time it was established. This has nothing to do with the agent. Ma Zong Ru and Li Zong Ru or Zhang Zong Ru, there is no difference."

"It doesn't even have anything to do with you." Ma Zong Ru's voice was very calm, and also very cruel: "Su She or Qing Xi, what difference can there be in front of Bo Wang Hou?"

Su She said no more.

He resented Ma Zong Ru, resenting his betrayal and disappointment.

But he was very clear that what Ma Zong Ru said now was an undeniable fact.

He also had a moment's thought of killing Ma Zong Ru to vent his anger, but he admitted that he didn't dare to do so.

Bo Wang Hou might not care about Ma Zong Ru, but he would certainly be very unwilling to have his plan disrupted.

Bo Wang Hou's "unwillingness" was now a weight that was too heavy.

"Who would have thought? The two best-developing Chamber of Commerce in Qi Country in recent years are both yours." Inside the cabin room, Yin Guan sat down leisurely, in a rarely seen peaceful posture.

Chong Xuan Sheng smiled even more harmlessly: "He Chang Business Alliance is Ma Zong Ru's, and the boss behind Ma Zong Ru is Su She. I only own De Sheng Business Line. We two families compete very fiercely."

"De Sheng Business Line..." Yin Guan thought of the merchant team he had blended into when escaping Qi. He had never thought that that branch merchant team could develop to this extent; it was truly a fat sheep. He couldn't help but laugh: "If I remember correctly, Jiang Ge Yuan of Tai Xu Pavilion had a stake in it?"

"That was before," Chong Xuan Sheng said. "He withdrew when he left Qi, withdrew cleanly."

Yin Guan said 'ah': "Bo Wang Hou is truly cautious."

Chong Xuan Sheng slowly said: "This year, everyone has chess to play, everyone has a big picture. People who are fat and strong always need to be careful. He Chang Business Alliance is my year-end pig, how do I know I'm not someone else's year-end pig?"

Yin Guan raised his eyebrows: "You, Bo Wang Hou, are like the sun at midday in Qi Country. With your current operations, are you still worried about this?"

Chong Xuan Sheng said: "When you are prepared, some things may not happen. But when you are not prepared, some things will certainly happen."

"That sounds quite reasonable..." Yin Guan said, then suddenly asked: "Didn't I ask you earlier if you wanted this ship of goods?"

Chong Xuan Sheng's response was very ample: "It seems so."

Yin Guan said: "If He Chang Business Alliance is not yours. Then this price is not suitable. What do you think, Hou Ye?"

Chong Xuan Sheng smiled: "That's exactly what I wanted to talk to you about — you want too little! We are all our own people, how can I, this Hou, treat you poorly?"

Yin Guan lifted his eyes, saying with great interest: "How are we our own people?"

Chong Xuan Sheng said: "Between us, there is a solid bridge."

"Oh?" Yin Guan looked at him.

"You guessed right, it's Su She," Chong Xuan Sheng smiled and said. "He is both the boss behind He Chang Business Alliance and the Yan Luo Wang of Hell No Door. He connects the four seas and links the two banks, allowing us to have the opportunity to become intimate and inseparable partners."

"Ha! Indeed." Yin Guan said: "He is very important. He is also very firm!"

"If it weren't for him, we probably wouldn't have known," Chong Xuan Sheng said.

"Even if we knew, there wouldn't have been an opportunity to be so peaceful," Yin Guan said.

Chong Xuan Sheng said: "It seems you are not a person who loves peace."

Yin Guan smiled slightly: "Honestly, when I hear someone wants to snatch the meat from my mouth, my first thought is - kill him."

Chong Xuan Sheng also smiled: "I am also a person who protects my food, which is why you see me so fat. Under normal circumstances, I wouldn't even share a single penny."

Yin Guan looked at him, his eyes faintly glowing with a dim light: "I also don't know if he is protecting you, or protecting me?"

Chong Xuan Sheng laughed: "I think this problem doesn't need to be explored!"

Yin Guan curled his fingers, making a gesture of raising a cup: "Looking at Su She's face, let's meet and smile to end the enmity."

Chong Xuan Sheng said: "Su She is certainly very important to me. But specific matters still need to be dealt with specifically."

"Of course, business is business." Yin Guan lifted his eyes: "Since you also feel that one ship of goods is too little, what do you plan to share with me?"

"I think this depends on our next conversation—" Chong Xuan Sheng pressed his forehead with his fat finger: "Ma Zong Ru mentioned your name to me, and then said that you originally wanted to devour everything, but now you only want one ship of goods... I think you might have something to find me for."

Yin Guan spread his hands, showing an expression of admiration: "It's true that nothing can be hidden from you, no wonder he says you are a person of top intelligence!"

"He?"

"The bridge between us."

Chong Xuan Sheng grinned: "I didn't expect Su She to understand me so well."

Yin Guan said: "How does that saying go—the person who hates you the most understands you the most."

"Before we formally communicate, I still have one question I want to ask you." Chong Xuan Sheng blinked his eyes very subtly: "Your organization has a Bian Cheng Wang, of course, I'm not too familiar with him, I've just heard of him. How is he doing now?"

"Which one are you asking about?"

"How many are there?"

"Two," Yin Guan said regretfully. "Both unfortunately died in battle."

Chong Xuan Sheng was quite satisfied: "I really appreciate your caution."

Yin Guan smiled slightly: "I think this is the premise of our dialogue."

Chong Xuan Sheng laughed, a harmless smile: "I think so too."

Qin Guang Wang summoned his old subordinates again, searching extensively for Yan Luo.

Equality Wang's body was soaking in a blood vat, quietly waiting for rebirth.

Bian Cheng Wang temporarily didn't know the news of his death in battle. He was currently participating in a tense and exciting adventure journey under the guidance of his sister, Jiang An An.

Ancient ground fissures, rolling rocks in the mountains, ghosts in the deep mountains, lava eruptions, inner mansion-level evil beasts...

It was truly... very tense.

He was afraid that if he wasn't careful, he would scare all the dangers away.

Adventure vanguard Stupid Gray manifested his true form, one zhang high and three zhang long, his four feet treading fire, his body shrouded in black smoke, like an evil beast walking out of the underworld, running through the mountain forest.

If he didn't occasionally stick out his tongue and drool, and his eyes weren't sometimes overly dull, he would truly be very imposing.

Adventure captain Jiang An An held her Zhao Xue Jing Hong Sword, her movement elegant, following closely behind Stupid Gray, vigilantly looking around, often giving instructions to guide the team's direction, very responsible.

Adventure vice-captain Ye Qing Yu held an exquisite Tian Xing Yun Luo Pan in his hand, quickly building a replica of the surrounding thousand li, detailed to every bark of every old tree, all clearly displayed. Then he put the Tian Xing Yun Luo Pan back into his hand and nervously asked: "Captain, the fog is so thick here, I can't see anything clearly. How do we go next?"

"Follow." Captain Jiang An An glanced at the map in her hand, brief and to the point.

Adventure member Jiang Wang, because his strength was super-class, affecting the fun of the adventure, was deprived of the right to speak and was not allowed to make a move. He could only silently follow at the tail of the team.

This time's adventure destination was chosen in Wu Meng Du Mountain Range.

The members of this adventure were Captain Jiang An An, Vice-Captain Ye Qing Yu, Vanguard and Mount Stupid Gray, and Member Jiang Wang.

If Jiang An An went on adventures with her senior brothers and sisters, A Chou would usually follow, and there would basically be no danger. However, they would not leave Yun Country too far, always traveling in the surrounding areas.

This time, with the participation of the fiercest brother in the world, Jiang An An was also much bolder, decisively pointing the target to this place she had always dared not come to before.

It is said that there are ancient demon caves here, and it is also very close to Feng Hou Secret Forest.

Traces of ancient demons, and the legend of Feng Hou's super detachment... all deeply attracted adventurers from various places. It was the dream adventure ground for countless chivalrous young men and women.