Chapter 3396 — Wei Zhao's Terms
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"What real business?" Tang Taizhong started, supposing Wei Zhao wanted further payment—after all, the reward just now had been for this one intervention. If Wei Zhao was to keep watch here, there would surely be a price for that too. Otherwise, why should Wei Zhao go on helping him?
"Let's find somewhere to stay first. We'll talk then." Wei Zhao waved a hand, offered no details, and walked outside.
"Very well." Though his heart was pounding, Tang Taizhong dared not say more, and hurriedly ushered Wei Zhao and the others into the car.
Not far from here stood a hotel, one of the Tang family's holdings as well—only the hotel business was not what it had been. The front desk no longer kept large sums of cash; modern people paid mostly by card, and deposits were taken as pre-authorizations on bank cards. Even if robbers came, there was not much cash to be had.
Tang Yuyi drove along behind, while Tang Taizhong himself chauffeured Wei Zhao and the others to the hotel. All the way there, Tang Yuyi could not get a word in with Wei Zhao, what with Tang Taizhong present.
At the hotel, they all got out, checked into their rooms, and then, at Wei Zhao's suggestion, Tang Taizhong opened up a conference room. The Tang family people and Wei Zhao's group all sat around the round table.
Wei Zhao naturally took the seat of honor, Qiu Lingshan sat beside him, and Old Master Tang, Tang Taizhong, sat across from Wei Zhao.
"Young Hero Lin, if you have anything to say, say it. Whatever the hidden Tang family can do, we will do," Tang Taizhong said, a little uneasy. He did not know what Wei Zhao had called them here to discuss, or why it had to be so formal.
"Old Master Tang, let's not beat around the bush. What I'm about to say may look like good news to the Tang family, or it may look like bad news—but you don't have much room to choose," Wei Zhao said evenly.
Wei Zhao's words made everyone present tense. Qiu Lingshan, too, understood now what he meant to say, and grew nervous at once. This was a matter of great consequence for the future of the Bureau of Mysterious Investigations; whether it succeeded would be decided today.
If things went well with the Tang family, the other hidden families could be handled the same way. Otherwise, if the Tang family got off on the wrong foot, then whatever they tried to do afterward would be hampered at every turn.
"Pray speak, Young Hero Lin." Tang Taizhong drew a deep breath and gestured for him to go on.
"I believe Old Master Tang knows the Bureau of Mysterious Investigations' former function: it was charged with overseeing cultivators in the mundane world and keeping the mundane families in check," Wei Zhao said. "The hidden families, by rights, do not fall under the Bureau's authority. But since the Bureau has stepped in this time, naturally there must be some adjustment to that mandate as well. I wonder—would the hidden families be willing, from now on, to accept the Bureau's oversight and mediation?" (To be continued.)