Chapter 2008 — So It Was Them?
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"Brother Biaohan, yesterday Lazi and I were at the antique market and ran into two people who looked like family scions—cultivators, most likely, though we couldn't tell which family they were from. Unfamiliar faces. Lazi and I asked around but came up with nothing, so I thought I'd report it to you?" The caller was one of Li Biaohan's underlings, a man called Aozi—one of the two small-time thugs who had blocked Wei Zhao and Liu Jinghan's way at the antique market.
"Oh? Did you offend them?" Li Biaohan knew at once that Aozi and Lazi had crossed those two suspected family-scion cultivators and, having come up empty in their investigation, were now turning to him for help. "You could hardly call it offending them. It happened like this..." And so Aozi recounted the whole situation to Li Biaohan in detail.
"So that's how it was. In that case, send me the photos of the two of them and let me have a look. Though from what you've said, I'd guess those two won't be coming after you again—no need for you to be afraid!" Li Biaohan said reassuringly.
The antique market was under the protection of Li Biaohan's people and was one of his regular sources of income. Take a man's money, spare him his trouble—since the stall owner had asked it of them, Aozi and Lazi could hardly be said to have done wrong.
It was only that afterward, unable to discover where those two had come from, they had grown fearful and phoned him for help.
"Understood, Brother Biaohan, I'll send them over right away!" Aozi said hurriedly.
After hanging up, Li Biaohan explained to An Liwen, "An antique market under our Fire Wolf Gang's protection—two of my boys seem to have crossed two men yesterday who look like family scions, cultivators most likely. They couldn't work out where the men came from and were afraid of retaliation, so they came to me for help..."
And with that, Li Biaohan recounted the matter to An Liwen.
"Your two boys are careful enough, I'll say that. But the matter's settled already—the stall owner even gave them two medicinal cauldrons, so I'd say there's nothing to worry about." An Liwen said.
"Medicinal cauldrons?" You Panhu was slightly startled. Alchemists were few enough to begin with; these two were cultivators, and they had gone to buy medicinal cauldrons—could they be alchemists too? But what family's alchemist lacked a cauldron of his own and would go to a street stall to buy a shoddy imitation?
Shaking his head, You Panhu said, "Most likely just a pair of family scions wanting to dabble in alchemy for fun. Even the lowest-grade alchemist wouldn't go to a place like that to buy a cauldron."
"Haha, true enough—I'd forgotten, Brother You is the expert in such matters!" Li Biaohan laughed and nodded. Just as he was speaking, his phone chimed twice—plainly a text message had arrived.
Li Biaohan opened the message, and one glance was enough to tell him who one of the people in it was!
"My God, isn't this Wei Zhao?" Li Biaohan said, pointing at the phone screen.
"Wei Zhao?" Zhuang Niaodao was unmoved, but at the name You Panhu immediately leaned in, glanced at the phone screen, and at once recognized both men in it. "These two are our classmates! One is Wei Zhao, and the other is called Han Jingyi—the two of them seem to be on rather good terms..."