Chapter 349: A Helping Hand (1/2)
Chapter 349: A Helping Hand
Translator: Pika
Qiu Honglei had grown dead serious Zu An was confused “Why? Isn’t Chen Xuan already dead? At this point, what can the Blackwind Stockade even do?”
Qiu Honglei shook her head “It’s not the Blackwind Stockade that you should be worried about There is another organization that you cannot afford to provoke”
Zu An grew h the Chu clan was in a sticky situation, a starving caer than a horse They still had a private arof the acadelei still feel like this poas one that they couldn’t handle? Just what kind of organization were they?
“Honglei, could you at least give anization?” Zu An probed
Qiu Honglei sighed “I cannot tell you anything else This is already all that I can reveal The rest is up to you”
A sudden thought struck Zu An “Is this the organization that is backing you?”
Qiu Honglei’s background had always been a irl could remain untouched for so many years in a place like the I her
She had even been able to provide him with information not even the Chu clan could obtain This had set alar quietly in the back of Zu An’s lei’s expression clouded over “Don’t ask any et it then, I won’tyou further However, thisthe salt permits is serious, so I can’t drop it just like that I will transfer more men to track them down, and I won’t stop until I find where they are”
With that, he got up and bid his farewell
Qiu Honglei staitation “Why won’t you listen?!”
She hesitated some more, before she finally said, “Whatever! I’ll tell youstupid”
Zu An turned around to look at her “Honglei, you really are too good to lei s see “Did you only realize this now?”
“To be honest, I’ve always been slightly wary of you since you first approached ured that you surely had soize for that”
Qiu Honglei’s face went red She was hed “I indeed had ulterior ize”
Zu An couldn’t hide his disappointment “Ah so you didn’t really want to becolei stared at hiuy actually an idiot?
But she knew that this was just his nature Wasn’t this precisely the reason why she felt like he was different from other er, then Qiu Honglei’s smile slowly faded “There will be a blackwhich, the Blackwind Stockade will auction off the salt perhest bidder If you want to take back those salt permits, you’ll have to purchase them with money”
“Black market? Auction?” Zu An suddenly remembered the ki stones he’d received from the academy when he first arrived in this world His cultivation method was different, so he couldn’t absorb the ki inside them Wei Suo had mentioned that he could sell them on the black market
However, he’d ot about this se That hy he never went to the black market
The black ht, whichof a forlei to be a part of this sae in his expression, Qiu Honglei quickly said, “You absolutely must not try to steal thereed to auction these items, they will take responsibility for the head-on with them If that happens, I fear that you”
She trailed off, but the implication was clear
“Don’t worry, I won’t be that reckless” Zu An could sense herIf he tried to steal theht just throay his life too