Feng Yao followed along, tidied up the meeting notes, and when he entered Cai Qidong's office again, the moment he walked in, he could hear Cai Qidong bragging—he didn't even need to ask, he knew Cai Qidong must be calling Wen Yan...

"See, I always keep my word. You called me names and I didn't even say anything.

Next time, I'll sweeten the deal even more, you'll be satisfied for sure.

We've already discussed the preliminary details here, I'll have Feng Yao send them to you in a minute.

You can take a look, and if there's anything you're not happy with, just say it, we can always talk it over.

Sigh, it's not that I didn't want to tell you earlier, it's just the rules, I obviously couldn't tell you directly.

But if Feng Yao leaks it to you, then that's Feng Yao's problem.

Who'd have thought Feng Yao's such a stickler, he really didn't say a word.

Good thing things worked out well in the end.

Remember to come by Yu State when you get a chance, and pick something out from the warehouse.

Don't think picking any three items is too little.

The fact it's all up to you, that's a huge reward in itself.

Normally, we pick out three items according to your contribution, and let you choose one.

Now you can go in and pick for yourself—that's a different story.

Yeah, even if you somehow find the Imperial Jade Seal in there, you can take it away.

I'm saying it, record it if you want, take the audio, it's me who's saying it."

Cai Qidong went on bragging, stringing Wen Yan along.

But the benefits were indeed the real deal, and even better than the previous terms.

Meanwhile, Wen Yan didn't know what kind of trap Cai Qidong was setting for him this time, but the benefits were all real—he couldn't exactly refuse them, could he?

This time, as for why Grand Uncle Master insisted on watching Qin Kun smack Minister Cai in his stead, Wen Yanxin knew perfectly well.

It's only right to do something that would make Grand Uncle Master happy.

"About what you asked me to look into, I've found some leads.

The boss of Changfeng Group really is trying to resurrect He Changfeng.

She gave some data to Wu Tingsheng, most likely trying to smooth things over between them.

I just got my hands on the specific information, haven't had time to look at it yet.

Seems like she's trying to free up her hands to deal with that newly revived Dragon God upstream of West River.

Minister, have you confirmed what the Dragon God's background is?"

Cai Qidong was a bit taken aback.

"Wait, she has some kind of issue with the Dragon God over there?"

"Eh, Minister, you didn't read the report? You don't care about the new filings?

The Jade Pendant sealing He Changfeng got stolen by some little thief, got tossed into the river.

So of course, this is all out of our hands now."

Cai Qidong didn't respond right away; he turned on his computer and took a look.

The more he looked, the more his brows furrowed, leaning back with a tactical sigh.

"Don't tell me some dumb student managed to steal something from right under you..."

"Not from me, from Old Xi Zhang's place. Sigh, one of those things—who would've seen that coming."

Cai Qidong waved Feng Yao over to investigate.

Soon, Feng Yao pulled up a surveillance video.

That teenager stood on the bridge over the river, tossing something down.

The image was cut out, enlarged, and enhanced repeatedly. The moment Cai Qidong saw it, his eyes went dark.

Good god, Wen Yan is getting blacker and blacker.

This whole 'lead the trouble elsewhere' move—even if others saw through it, they wouldn't be able to do a thing.

At the very least, Changfeng Group folks definitely wouldn't bother wasting their energy on him now.

"As for the Dragon God, still not clear who that is. The West River water system's always been a mess.

From ancient times till now, several have had Dragon King Temples built for them.

No one knows which one it actually is, but from the looks of it, this guy isn't all that well-behaved.

Based on ancient records, things in the West River system have never been particularly well-behaved, period.

Because this region, unlike the Central Plains, never had a huge, stable population.

Most of the time, the seat of power and the economic center were both over there.

Even after things later moved south, it was still over by the Yangtze River.

So with this one now, best to keep it in line if possible—fighting is the absolute last resort.

If this guy really wants to go down fighting, the damage would be catastrophic.

Best guess for now, it's probably a Water God on a branch of the West River, right in Luoyue County."

After hanging up, Cai Qidong let out a long sigh.

"They say it's hard to learn to be good, but pick up bad habits and it's all downhill—who knows where Wen Yan learned this from."

Feng Yao glanced up at Cai Qidong, saying nothing.

"What are you looking at me for? The little bastard was always this black-hearted, just used to hide it. I could see through him from the start."

Feng Yao looked at Cai Qidong again, wanted to say something, but held back.

He's not like Wen Yan—doesn't dare to call out the boss in public, with the boss still grinning back.

Still, got to admit, their Minister really is pretty shameless, and kind of black-hearted too.

Elsewhere, Wen Yan hung up the phone.

Seeing the file Feng Yao sent over, he was a bit surprised—it was a meeting transcript.

After he looked through it, he spat on the floor.

"Cai Qidong is shameless as hell!"

See? Even Feng Yao can't take it anymore—didn't even bother to tidy up the file, just sent the raw meeting notes over.

Looking through it, setting aside how shameless Cai Qidong was being, the benefits really were significant—way better than before.

This time it's already been officially confirmed in the meeting; all that's left now is to start carrying things out.

He took out his phone and called Grand Uncle Master.

"Grand Uncle Master, I've got a few things I need to tell you about, and I'll need some people from Fuyu Mountain to coordinate."

"Someone bullying you?" Grand Uncle Master got right to the point.

"No, nope, this is just about my talks with the Nanwu County Scorching Sun Department before—since we put in the work, we can't just get nothing, right? I mean, we're not charity."

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