Chapter 4498 — Two Tenths in Dry Shares
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That said, none of this stopped Wei Zhao from becoming the star of the celebration banquet. That the Qingtian Escort Agency could stand where it did today was, one could say, entirely thanks to Wei Zhao.
When he came to attend this South Continent Escort Assembly, apart from dealing with Wu Baoliang, Wei Zhao had originally meant only to serve as outside support, lending a small hand when necessary. Who would have thought he would end up being the undisputed main force—more than eighty percent of the points the agency had earned were directly or indirectly connected to him.
To use a battlefield as an analogy, Wei Zhao had simply raised his blade and cut down the enemy in one sweep, cutting a full circle through both their commanders and their rank and file—single-handedly carving his way straight through the enemy army...
As the greatest contributor, Wei Zhao was naturally the one and only focus of the celebration banquet. Everyone in the Qingtian Escort Agency, high and low, came up one after another to toast him in turn. And the father and son Qi Mingyuan and Qi Wenmo, besides expressing their boundless gratitude, went further and announced a momentous matter before the crowd—a matter momentous enough to change the fate of the entire Qingtian Escort Agency.
The father and son had decided to gift Wei Zhao, unconditionally and in the form of dry shares, two tenths of the entire Qingtian Escort Agency's assets!
When they heard these words from Qi Mingyuan's mouth, even the celebration banquet, whose atmosphere had been so feverishly lively, could not help but fall silent for a moment. After a long stretch of stunned silence, the crowd finally reacted one after another, exchanging glances, their gazes toward Wei Zhao filled with envy and awe.
Before this, Wei Zhao had been the benefactor of the Qingtian Escort Agency, its permanent honorary head escort. The crowd had held him in awe then too, but they had never felt any sense of pressure from him—because, when all was said and done, an honorary head escort was still an outsider.
But now things were different. With two tenths of the Qingtian Escort Agency's dry shares, Wei Zhao was no longer purely an outsider in the eyes of the crowd—he had become the third owner of the agency, after Qi Mingyuan and Qi Wenmo!
Not only was the crowd shocked into silence; even Wei Zhao himself could not help but be somewhat stunned at these words. He looked at Qi Mingyuan and Qi Wenmo with a baffled expression—what had suddenly made them think of giving him two tenths in dry shares?
"How could I possibly accept this!" Wei Zhao snapped back to his senses and hastily declined. If it were only spirit jade, he could accept it even if they gave him several hundred thousand—he had already made up his mind to refine a batch of elixirs for the Qingtian Escort Agency, so they would not come out the worse for it. But two tenths in dry shares—that meant something else entirely.
Never mind that they had won the position of the new reigning escort overlord and that the Qingtian Escort Agency was bound to soar to the heavens from now on; even before this, two tenths of the Qingtian Escort Agency's dry shares had been an astronomical figure. After all, this was one of the genuine Five Great Escort Agencies—converted into present value, two tenths in dry shares came to at least a million spirit jade, and given time, that figure would only double and soar ever higher!
"Brother Ling, don't be so quick to refuse. This is a decision my father, Uncle Song, and I reached after discussing it together—the result of careful deliberation, not a momentary impulse. Doing this is good for you and good for us." Qi Wenmo smiled and slung an arm around Wei Zhao's shoulder. R1152