Chapter 4365 — A Lesson
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"Ruined a good thing of his? What good thing?" Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao were instantly more curious than ever.
"Xiaotao, do you remember when we were escorting cargo and four pirates waylaid us? I told you then that something about it seemed fishy. Well, the fishy part is that those pirates were hired by none other than Wei Zhaotong himself!" Wei Zhao sneered. "He had his own goods swallowed up by men he'd hired, and at the same time extorted a huge sum of spirit jade from the Qingtian Escort Agency—three hundred thousand, paid in full as compensation!"
"What? The man is that black-hearted?" Huang Xiaotao was left somewhat speechless. Unlike Wang Xinyan, because she had known beforehand that Wei Zhaotong was an old friend of Hong Zhong's, she had once taken it for granted that he was a good man.
"That's the truth of it. If I hadn't happened to catch those four pirates, I wouldn't have believed Wei Zhaotong capable of such a thing either. What you don't know is that the shipment he had swallowed was life-saving supplies for the several hundred souls of the Fang family manor on Xianpeng Island. Thank goodness I intervened—otherwise they would have faced utter ruin this time," Wei Zhao said with a sigh.
"And after that? Once you caught the pirates, you had both the men and the goods—surely he couldn't deny it?" Wang Xinyan asked.
"I had the men and the goods, yes, but the old fox is cunning and slippery, impervious to reason. Even when we brought the witnesses to his door to confront him, he insisted it was all fabricated evidence. He's a branch shopkeeper of the Hong Merchant Guild, after all—we couldn't very well use force, so there was simply no way to touch him," Wei Zhao said, shaking his head.
"So you're saying the Qingtian Escort Agency was cheated out of three hundred thousand spirit jade, and he still gets to walk free?" Wang Xinyan said in astonishment.
"Everyone at the agency was furious and helpless, but that's the way it was. All I can say is that people change—this time even Hong Zhong misjudged him," Wei Zhao said with a shrug.
"This Wei Zhaotong is truly rotten to the core! He has no conscience at all—ignoring hundreds of lives, framing the Qingtian Escort Agency, and now coming after you. We can't just let him get away with it!" Even someone as gentle as Huang Xiaotao was seething with righteous indignation after hearing all this. She turned to Wang Xinyan. "Sister Xinyan, why don't we ask Master to help and teach him a lesson?"
She knew Wei Zhao would be staying in the Weihu Sea for some time yet. If she left without first dealing with the threat that was Wei Zhaotong, she would never feel at ease. Besides, Morning Star Academy held a transcendent status—if the East Sea Divine Nun herself were to step in, then no matter how fox-cunning Wei Zhaotong might be, he would never dare quibble in the presence of an Opening Mountain tier titan.
"That..." Wang Xinyan hesitated. Having spent over a year at Morning Star Academy, she understood many things better than Huang Xiaotao did. Shaking her head slightly, she said, "Little sister Xiaotao, the Academy may be transcendent in status, but it still cannot afford to abruptly sour relations with a top-tier merchant guild like the Hong Merchant Guild—otherwise we'd be in a very passive position later on. And besides, there's no connection between the two to begin with. Even a titan of the Opening Mountain tier like our Master cannot simply dispose of a member of the Hong Merchant Guild—that would be a grave taboo. Didn't you see how Director Ling was plainly furious just now, yet still let Wei Zhaotong off in the end?" (To be continued) R466