hotmtlnovel Chapter 47 More Money Required
Chapter 47 More Money Required
Two days later, Kunshan.
Deep inside a restaurant.
The cubicle door was pushed open, and Cheng Shuangfan squeezed in carrying a stack of documents.
"Awesome." He shook his head and said to Lu Mingfei at the dining table.
Lu Mingfei looked at him and suddenly felt that he looked very familiar, just like the way his classmates shook their heads at him when he didn't do his homework.
Cheng Shuangfan sat down next to him, slamming the documents in her hand on the table, her face grave. "Dude, do you know how big of a mess you've made?"
"............"
Lu Mingfei didn't mean to ignore him; it was just that his mouth was too full to speak.
On the round table of deep red lacquered wood, Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs are piled up like small mountains, Wan San's pork hock is oily and tender, Zhou Shi braised duck is tempting with its red sauce, and Jinxi braised meat is rich and fragrant... The top flavors of Kunshan and even the Yangtze River Delta region are almost all gathered here.
Zhou Minhao had obviously seen his performance on the pleasure boat and figured out that he hadn't tasted anything good.
This entire private room was specially set up for him as a gourmet meal.
Although he figured it out, to say that he would resist eating it is wishful thinking.
Lu Mingfei sat at the dining table, trying to resist eating the food spread all over the table.
That kind of behavior would make the food and the chef cry.
Okay, actually he just wanted to eat it.
After all, his favorite food when he was at his aunt's house was steamed pork with rice flour, even if it was leftover from the previous day.
"We're eating."
Lu Mingfei swallowed the food in his mouth, ignoring Cheng Shuangfan's reaction. He glanced at the documents slapped on the table, then at the latter, whose face was tense.
"So what? What heinous thing did I do? Was it because I fed all the fish, shrimp, and crabs in Yangcheng Lake with dragon meat?"
As Lu Mingfei spoke, his mouth never stopped, and his stomach felt like a bottomless pit.
"You look as serious as if I dumped nuclear wastewater into a lake."
"Will dragon blood genes cause them to mutate? Can crabs grow 16 legs? Or will they grow into monsters with fish heads and human bodies, like in the Cthulhu Mythos?"
Despite Lu Mingfei's rubbish, Cheng Shuangfan maintained a straight face.
Lu Mingfei could tell from the corner of his mouth that he really wanted to laugh, but he was clearly well-trained and held it in, not letting out a laugh.
As for why the other party changed their behavior, he had already noticed the reason when he came in.
The entire private room had 16 surveillance cameras on the ceiling, and recording devices were placed on the railings and walls, so everyone's words and actions were being monitored.
As a member of the opposing organization, Cheng Shuangfan certainly couldn't laugh out loud.
Cheng Shuangfan just stared at him, staring at him intently.
Lu Mingfei pouted, at a loss for words: "Alright, alright, then tell me what I did?"
Upon hearing this, Lu Mingfei could clearly sense that Cheng Shuangfan's eyes narrowed and twitched, as if to say, "You should have done this earlier, kid."
"Ahem." After two symbolic coughs, Cheng Shuangfan picked up the document and began to read it aloud.
"For unknown reasons, according to reports from concerned citizens today, a large amount of debris has been found in Yangcheng Lake in our city. Relevant departments are investigating. At the same time, other concerned citizens have also reported that there are abnormal phenomena on the entire surface of Yangcheng Lake."
"So?" Lu Mingfei asked, his tone sounding like a news broadcast. "I've already sunk a dragon into the lake for you, so it's normal for something to go wrong, right?"
"This kind of anomaly is normal, but the anomalies appearing on the entire lake surface are quite different."
How different are they?
"The entire lake level has sunk almost half a meter. Do you know what that means?"
"I don't know, I'm not good at geography." Lu Mingfei shook his head. "Would that mean we could just go into the water and catch the crabs?"
"The larger crabs aren't affected much because they're in deeper waters, but it's a huge problem for the juvenile crabs. Wait! That's not the point!"
Cheng Shuangfan was about to explain to Lu Mingfei, but she realized what was happening the next second and shook her head.
"Was that the problem with the hairy crabs? You're the one who caused the water level of Yangcheng Lake to drop by half a meter! You're the one who killed that dragon's attack!"
"Oh, this?" Lu Mingfei understood. So, the person was complaining that the consequences of his attack were too great and the impact too widespread?
"That's nothing, only half a meter..."
Lu Mingfei was somewhat dismissive, after all, he had already held back his strength at that time.
If he hadn't held back a bit, he probably would have punched a bottomless hole through the bottom of the lake.
As for the water level drop that Cheng Shuangfan mentioned, according to his estimation, the sword formation before it stopped firing had leaked out and directly hit the bottom of the lake, blasting a hole in it... probably.
"Only half a meter?" a woman's voice came from outside the door. "Do you know how much it would cost to make up for just half a meter of damage?"
"What does that have to do with me?"
Lu Mingfei didn't move an inch, his hands still busy picking up food. "Do you think the Zhou family would make me pay? We don't have any money. You can try to fish out the pieces of meat that's sunk to the bottom of the lake as compensation."
"Hmph, that's certainly enough."
The door was pushed open, and Zhou Minhao walked in. He then bowed to let her pass, and a particularly exquisite little girl 'slid' in. She was wearing a very gorgeous Tang dress with a long train, and her hair was loose and fell over her shoulders, making her look just like a little fairy from an animated film.
Well, she really is a fairy; she doesn't have legs, but a tail with blue scales.
"I didn't expect you to come here by yourself."
Lu Mingfei looked at Nuwa, who had "swimmed" to his side and sat cross-legged on a chair, and said with some surprise, "I thought that a great person like you would have to come in a sedan chair carried by eight people."
The girl rolled her eyes and retorted, "This is indoors. Do you expect me to ask them to bring me a table? How come you think like the elders in your family?"
"What? Is it the tradition of needing a sedan chair carried by eight men everywhere?"
"That's parental etiquette. I am the head of the Zhou family."
"I don't see what kind of family head she is." Lu Mingfei shook his head. "She's more like an internet addict."
.................
While the two were talking, Zhou Minhao and Cheng Shuangfan, who were originally in the private room, quietly left, leaving the two of them with space to talk.
Lu Mingfei put down his chopsticks and placed them neatly on the bowl.
"Tell me, what do you want to talk about?"
Lu Mingfei also turned his head and looked around, scanning all the hidden machines in the private room—when Nuwa entered the private room, all the hidden machines had stopped operating and returned to silence.
"It's just to confirm your attitude towards mixed-race people in China."
Nuwa, on the other hand, seemed quite frank. She took out a card from her person and handed it to Lu Mingfei. "But the fact that you're still here already shows your stance. Here, take this."
"What is this?"
"The Zhou family's friend card. Anyone who holds this card is a friend of the Zhou family." The girl said, then pointed to the location of the camera on the ceiling. "It was the work of the elders in the family. It wasn't my intention. Please forgive me."
"I understand, so you're trying to build relationships now."
Lu Mingfei nodded, his gaze fixed on the card, but his hand remained motionless.
"But you used my brother to threaten me and force me to take on this mission. Is this all the sincerity you have?"
Lu Mingfei wasn't stupid; he understood this kind of thing perfectly well.
"So what do you think we should do?"
Nuwa lowered her voice slightly, adopting a tone that suggested things were open to discussion, and handed the initiative over to the young man before her.
"That's not enough, you need to pay more."
Lu Mingfei's meaning was simple: he wanted to win him over.
Sure, but that price isn't enough.