Chapter 4825 — Picking Up a Bargain
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"If not for Vice President Hong's insistence, the matter would probably have ended right there. I, the ousted former steward of the Waihu Branch, would have been left in the cold ever after—I couldn't even have kept my original post as branch vice president. But Vice President Hong argued his case forcefully, holding that I was a man of merit and that even if I were transferred away from the Waihu Branch, I absolutely could not be dealt with so carelessly, or it would chill everyone's hearts." Here Chai Laoshi grinned, and said with relief: "As luck would have it, the steward of the Morning Star Branch here happened to reach the end of his term and be reassigned right then, and the position fell vacant."
"So you just went along with the tide and got transferred here? It couldn't have been that easy, could it?" Wei Zhao asked doubtfully.
"Of course it wasn't that easy. Every post has its claimant, and this steward's position at the Morning Star Branch had actually long since been eyed by another headquarters higher-up—Vice President Ren, Wei Zhaotong's backer," Chai Laoshi said.
"Hmph. After the whole Wei Zhaotong affair, he still has the face to keep fixating on this place?" Wei Zhao curled his lip in disdain at the news.
"Vice President Hong raised that very objection on the spot. After all, because of Wei Zhaotong, the Morning Star Branch here had already fallen out with Morning Star Academy. You know how things are in Morning Star City—from top to bottom, Morning Star Academy calls the shots. Fall out with them and can you really expect easy days? Heh, the previous steward applied for a transfer on his own initiative once his term ended precisely because business here had simply become untenable. Otherwise, who would lightly give up such a fat post?" Chai Laoshi shook his head.
"So then, although this place is on the East Continent, it can no longer be counted a fat post. Once Morning Star Academy blockades you, it can't even compare with the Waihu Branch by a long shot. No wonder it landed on you," Wei Zhao said with a laugh.
"That's indeed the case. But that Vice President Ren still wasn't about to give up the position. It was only because Vice President Hong said that I had been promoted by you personally, and that you have ties with the higher-ups of Morning Star Academy—especially since your junior sister is the direct disciple of the East Sea Divine Nun—and that after I came here it would be convenient to develop the business. Put that way, the other headquarters higher-ups had no objections left; after all, it didn't touch their own interests. And that Vice President Ren, because of Wei Zhaotong's prior stain, was left speechless and unable to argue. So that was how it was decided, carried along by the current," Chai Laoshi recounted faithfully, point by point.
"I see," Wei Zhao said, glancing at Chai Laoshi with a touch of apology. Seen this way, he had been wrong to blame the man; even his becoming steward of the Morning Star Branch here had been full of twists and turns.
"Vice President Hong told me all this in his letters. In fact, even after your name was invoked, that Vice President Ren still wouldn't let go. But the higher-up who had first proposed transferring me away took the initiative to lock horns with him instead. He had his hands full and had no choice but to accept his fate," Chai Laoshi said with a smile.
"Oh? That fellow was probably afraid that if he didn't settle you properly, the steward's position at the Waihu Branch under him wouldn't be secure, eh? Well then, let them bite each other like dogs—it just happens to let you pick up a bargain," Wei Zhao couldn't help laughing too.