Red Heart Patrols the Sky - Chapter 267 - Compensation

Chapter 267 - Compensation

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Chapter 267 of "Red Heart Patrols the Sky" begins revealing surprises: Having acquired the eggs, Xiang Qian raced westward towards the town with the fastest speed... Read on to find out!

Having acquired the eggs, Xiang Qian raced westward towards the town with the fastest speed he could muster.The search for the eggs had consumed too much time; he didn’t know whether the little boy was already disappointed from the wait.

The world he saw was dreadful, driving him to despair, but it was enough that he despaired; little children shouldn’t be disappointed with this world.

Just like that pair of unnamed parents, adults were all finding their unique ways to prolong the beautiful world of their children.

This, in itself, was one of the world’s beauties.

Fortunately, when he arrived, the little boy was still there by the window.

From afar, he had been staring at him with bright eyes.

Xiang Qian stood downstairs, lifting the two eggs baked by Path Origin on the journey, and said, “Look!”

A smile quickly spread across the little boy’s sickly thin face: “Eggs!”

“I’ll bring them up to you,” Xiang Qian shouted.

“Don’t!” the little boy hurriedly objected.

“What’s wrong?” Xiang Qian asked, puzzled.

“My mom said I am poisonous and shouldn’t get too close to others, as it could infect them,” the boy said, seemingly saddened, his voice lowering, “Could you leave it at the door?

I can come out and get it after you leave.”

Xiang Qian suddenly felt a bit sour but instead smiled broadly: “No need for such trouble.”

Having said that, he leaped up to a position level with the little boy, one hand firmly gripping the windowsill and the other hand passing the two cooked eggs over.

The temperature of the eggs was just right.

“I’m not afraid of plague ghosts!” he said with a smile.

“Are you really a Bodhisattva?” the little boy asked, holding the two eggs in his hands and looking at Xiang Qian, suspended in the air with an unchanged expression, and somewhat surprised.

This time, Xiang Qian deliberately did not deny it, but instead urged, “Eat them quickly.

They’re boiled!”

“Oh.” With cravings winning over, the boy immediately cracked one open.

In a few moments, he shelled it, his little hands deftly working.

Then he put the egg to his mouth and took a content bite, and then another.

He finished off the entire egg in just a few bites, his little mouth puffing up.

Seeing him relish the food so much made Xiang Qian feel a warm sensation inside, and he asked aloud, “Do you want anything else to eat?”

The little boy shook his head vigorously, his mouth full of egg, saying indistinctly, “No more.”

After swallowing all the egg in his mouth and pausing for a moment, he said, “My mom said that being able to have food now is all thanks to Jiang Wang’s benevolence.

But we must control our appetite and not eat too much because others are waiting to eat too.”

“Your mother is truly a good person.”

Xiang Qian had grown up following his master and had never seen his parents.

But he imagined, a mother must be just as gentle and great as her.

“Of course!” The little boy’s pale face bloomed with a hint of color.

He smiled proudly as if being praised himself pleased him more.

He warmed the second egg in the palm of his hand and, in the end, couldn’t bring himself to eat it.

Addressing Xiang Qian, he said, “Bodhisattva, can you give this egg to my mom?”

Xiang Qian hadn’t laughed this much in a long time like he did today.

But if he didn’t smile, he couldn’t hide those inexplicable emotions.

He couldn’t really cry in front of a child, could he?

He smiled and asked, “What about your father’s share?”

“My dad hates eggs the most.

He never eats them whenever we have them at home.

It’s always my mom and I who eat them.”

Such great parents indeed.

Thinking to himself, Xiang Qian replied, “Alright, I’ll deliver it to her.”

“Then Bodhisattva, go help other children,” the boy said with a wave of his hand, full of vigor: “I’m already seven years old, I can take care of myself!”

Xiang Qian leaped down from the building, answering loudly, “Okay!”

If at first, his darting about to deliver aid was more out of a sense of obligation due to a promise made with Jiang Wang, why he grew so invested in it over time, he couldn’t tell.

Perhaps his temporary relief from the nightmares wasn’t just due to fatigue and hardship.

He didn’t ask for the little boy’s name, because he was a child of Green Sheep Town.

He wanted to help all the children of Green Sheep Town.

No matter their surname, their given name, whether a boy or a girl.

Walking on a street no longer in sight of pedestrians, Xiang Qian popped the entire egg into his mouth, chewing as he went.

It had been a long time since he had eaten such things.

But the feeling, it was really delicious!

When the Commerce Alliance Executive addressed him with stern words, Jiang Wang was momentarily lost in thought.

He could not have imagined that the Commerce Alliance’s warehouse in Qingyang town would be robbed.

Aside from him, were there other transcendent powers in the entire town that he had overlooked?

What he found even more baffling was the point of stealing such a small amount of supplies?

When he learned that the culprit behind the robbery was Xiang Qian, he was even more confounded.

It made no sense at all.

Even suggesting that Zhang Hai plundered those supplies in order to concoct a chaotic mess of pills for refinement, throwing together a big stew of ingredients, would have been far more logical by comparison.

With Xiang Qian’s such a world-weary disposition, he could hardly be prompted to budge even when whipped, let alone muster the energy to rob a warehouse.

However, regardless of the situation, since the Commerce Alliance had sent their people, he could by no means avoid meeting them.

This was the Commerce Alliance, after all!

After a preliminary understanding of the incident, Jiang Wang summoned Xiang Qian to the town hall to confront the people from the Commerce Alliance face to face.

“I only took two eggs.”

Facing the stern condemnation of the Commerce Alliance Executive, Xiang Qian said only this sentence and then kept silent.

“You ask yourself, one Transcendent Cultivator seriously injures another Transcendent Cultivator, then breaks down the warehouse door, and in the end, takes only two eggs!” The bald Guard commander was so passionately indignant that he might have convinced even himself, fully engrossed, “Do you believe it yourself?”

Jiang Wang glanced at Xiang Qian, and seeing that he did not intend to explain further, he directly turned to the Commerce Alliance Executive and asked, “What does the Executive think of this matter?”

Empowered by his backers, the bald Guard commander spoke out brazenly upon hearing this, “The facts are right before us, what else is there to think?”

Such people barked like dogs.

Jiang Wang ignored him, focusing only on the Commerce Alliance Executive, waiting for his response.

The Commerce Alliance’s Executive was a middle-aged man with a scholarly look about him.

He actually looked more like a scholar than a merchant.

Compared to his subordinate’s volatile urgency, he was much more composed and serene.

Even knowing that the man before him was an important guest of the Zhong Xuan Family, the emerging Zhongxuan Sheng, could not perturb him.

The authority of traversing the world’s commerce with the Commerce Alliance gave him the confidence to face various powers.

In response to Jiang Wang’s inquiry, he simply said in a calm voice, “Old Chen has been working in the Commerce Alliance for some years, and his words are trustworthy to me.”

With just this phrase, he said no more, but his stance was quite clear.

If my people are not mistaken, then the mistake must be with your people!

And Jiang Wang understood this very well.

Xiang Qian did not speak, not because he refused to explain, but because he had already explained.

To question further would be to doubt his word.

“Your total loss amounts to four thousand gold?” Jiang Wang directly inquired.

This was a clear stance, agreeing to compensation.

Regardless of the circumstances, Xiang Qian had indeed raided the warehouses of the Commerce Alliance and clashed with the warehouse guards.

The Zhong Xuan Family certainly did not fear the Commerce Alliance, and he, Jiang Wang, was not intimidated by the mere pawns before him.

However, there was no need for him to unnecessarily make enemies on behalf of Zhongxuan Sheng; precisely because they were friends, he had to consider Zhongxuan Sheng’s progress.

Zhongxuan Sheng trusted him, hoping to receive assistance from him, not for Jiang Wang to recklessly cause trouble and invite troubles everywhere.

Offending the Commerce Alliance was not out of the question, but only if the gains far outweighed the cost.

“I will not hide it from you,” the Commerce Alliance Executive said with a very candid manner, “The original loss was two thousand gold, but with my personal visit, it has naturally increased.”

Just two eggs short, and the bald Guard commander’s report climbed to one thousand gold.

After spinning through this Executive’s mouth, it turned into four thousand gold!

And there he was, trying to look upright before Jiang Wang, portraying himself as someone who spoke clearly and would never let you suffer a loss in silence!

How could Jiang Wang not see through the scam?

Yet, he simply nodded, “That’s only reasonable.”

“So, my man plundered two thousand gold worth from you, I shall compensate you with two hundred Prime Stones,” Jiang Wang proposed, “How’s that, fair enough?”

As the currency of the cultivation world, Prime Stones were generally circulated among Transcendent Cultivators, and were hard to come by.

Two hundred Prime Stones, let alone two eggs, would probably be more than enough to compensate even if the Guard commander were killed.

Therefore, the Commerce Alliance Executive was of course satisfied, more than satisfied indeed.

“That’s fairly reasonable,” his eyes lit up immediately, but he quickly restrained himself and nodded with a reserved gesture, “However…”

This is the insatiable nature of man; seeing Jiang Wang so amenable, he likely became greedy for more.

“However,” Jiang Wang interjected, “I just so happen to have a matter to consult the elders of the Commerce Alliance.

I recently killed Xi Munan, the City Lord of Jia City, and since your alliance is well-informed, I am not sure what the stance of Yang Court is as of now, whether they are willing to let bygones be bygones?”

The Commerce Alliance Executive, who had just arrived in Jia City, knew that the previous City Lord had been killed but did not know by whom.

At this moment, upon hearing this, he couldn’t help but feel startled.

Could a man who dared to kill even the City Lord, when pressed, truly not dare to kill a Commerce Alliance Executive?

“This man has obscured the truth and concealed the situation.

He has committed crimes against heaven and reason, a heinous villain who deserves death.

What wrong is there in killing him?”

The Commerce Alliance Executive declared indignantly, “This is something any man of justice would do.

Yang Court must also respect public sentiment.

Our Commerce Alliance will also mediate on behalf of the righteous man!”

“Mediation is unnecessary; since Yang Court has not found fault with me up to now, it seems that justice resides in the hearts of the people!” Jiang Wang concluded, then veered off, “Actually, I have a favor to ask.”

“Please state it, brave sir!”

“The people of Green Sheep Town are suffering in silence.

I can’t do much, but I only hope that they do not lack the daily necessities, some medicines, meat, fresh vegetables,” Jiang Wang stated, “I understand the current hardships make this request unreasonable, but I hope you can endeavor to fulfill it!”

Plainly speaking, the two hundred Prime Stones were not only a payment for peace but also for the dedicated service of the Commerce Alliance.

Jiang Wang was throwing money, expecting to see results!

“What a rare man, truly concerned for the people!”

Seeing that the request was so straightforward, the Commerce Alliance Executive pounded his chest resoundingly, “Leave it to me, Mr.

Qian!

Supplies of all sorts are guaranteed to be ample.

As long as I, Qian, have a mouthful to eat, I will never let the common folk of Green Sheep Town go hungry!”

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