Mo Hua thought for a moment, nodded, and said, “Okay!”
Mo Hua took the bracelet and wore it on his delicate wrist.
Boss Jiang felt relieved, looking at Mo Hua as one would look at a lamb.
“Let’s go…”
Boss Jiang took the lead, and with a sinister chuckle, the rest followed.
Mo Hua walked behind, silently observing them, as though he were looking at a bunch of dead men.
…
Afterward, Mo Hua behaved perfectly well along the way.
Boss Jiang found it odd, but considering that the iron bracelet was put on, he figured this small cultivator couldn’t cause any trouble and didn’t pay much attention to it.
After traveling another hundred miles or so, they arrived at an eatery as dusk fell.
This place was only a few dozen miles from Qingzhou City.
The eatery, with its thatched roof and wooden eaves, was quite spacious, yet there were no diners.
The eatery had a chubby proprietor and a thin waiter, who, upon seeing Boss Jiang and his group, focused their gaze and asked with a smile:
“Gentlemen, what would you like to eat?”
Boss Jiang spoke in a deep voice, “Nothing.”
The proprietor asked, “Then how about lodging?”
Boss Jiang replied, “Can people even stay here?”
The proprietor breathed a sigh of relief, smiled, and said:
“Important people can’t, but minor ones can.”
Boss Jiang nodded, “Then we won’t stay, just serve some wine and meat.”
The proprietor responded, “Alright!”
The exchange between the two was somewhat strange.
Mo Hua thought for a moment and realized these people were part of the same group.
The proprietor was also a human trafficker, disguised and lying in wait here to liaise with cultivators like Boss Jiang, selling small cultivators like himself.
The group took their seats at the eatery.
The proprietor served them wine and dishes, and then, toasting to Boss Jiang, asked in a low voice:
“Did you succeed?”
Boss Jiang nodded.
The proprietor glanced at Mo Hua, frowning, “Is that him? He doesn’t seem to be the right age…”
Boss Jiang shook his head, “No, that’s just an extra catch we found along the way. The important ‘merchandise’ wouldn’t possibly be brought here with us…”
“…rest assured, everything is in order…”
The proprietor then felt relieved, “That’s good…”
Boss Jiang then asked, “When will the people arrive?”
“In two hours…”
“And the people from the Gu Family?”
“They’ve left the city…”
“The Taoist Court Officials…”
“Someone’s keeping an eye out; within a ten to twenty miles radius, there are none of those dogs…”
Boss Jiang sighed in relief and nodded, “Good!”
The others also relaxed considerably.
After a journey of eating in the wind and sleeping outdoors, always fearful and anxious, this business deal was finally about to be concluded. They would earn plenty of Spirit Stones and live a good life for a few years, or maybe even more than a decade.