"But...but I..."
Blue in the face, Wu Qiujun already felt grieved to the brim with his loss of thousands of raw stones of the blood steel to Wandong.
Wandong's plot, nevertheless, incurred his loss of millions of kilos of gold.
Being a businessman, Wu Qiujun already got bled white.
However indignant he was, he, nevertheless, conceded that Duan Lengyan was right as far as it went. Compared to the Tiezhan Empire's lofty ambition — annexing the Qingyun Empire in the future, the loss of gold was no big deal at all.
Wu Qiujun, however, couldn't come to the terms with his loss to Wandong again.
On seeing Wandong's smiling face, his heart ached to no end.
He, actually, could have brought his martial capacity into full play and got Wandong put down once and for all.
If it went on like this, he would definitely get killed by his fury.
Duan Lengyan, at that moment, made a bold move to take charge of everything.
Standing in front of Wandong, she felt ambivalent.
Though deranged, she, at least, figured one thing out — she was not gonna stay his opponent anymore.
Since her childhood, she had never admired anyone except Wandong.
Fairly speaking, she even felt tempted to kneel at the feet of him.
The Qingyun Empire would have got crossed out on the Tiezhan Empire's annexation bucket list if there had been another guy as brilliant as him.
"Childe Xu, we and General Qiu all appreciate your magnanimity in handing over the raw stones. Well, we shall do as you say — you will get two thousand and four hundred kilos of gold per piece. We Tianbao people shall take care of eight hundred, and the rest goes to General Qiu himself. General Qiu, are you happy with that?"
Qiu Yunchong only focused on the raw stones of the blood steel; an addition of one million kilos of gold in total still measured up to his expectation.
He nodded in agreement, "Yup, I shall go for that."
"But I can't go for that!"
Tang Xinyi hastened to strike in before Wandong committed himself to the deal.
Wandong let out a wry smile and asked, "Great Commander Tang, what are you after? Is it anything about your business?"
"Xu Yaoting! How can you bite the fingers that feed you? You would have long died if I hadn't arrived in time with reinforcement! Bear that in mind!"
"You..."
Tang Xinyi's righteous statement rendered Wandong speechless.
He, as a matter of fact, felt pretty grateful for her to have come to his rescue with the Feng Xiang Armed Escort.
She dragged him aside and went on under her breath.
"Are you insane? Bet you know what you're doing now! You are literally investing our enemy by letting Qiu have the raw stones! Now we're already at a disadvantage! We'd better off committing suicide if they get the hold of the raw stones! You can't treat her royal highness or...or me like this! Yaoting, I'm fully aware of what the transaction shall bring you — ten million kilos of gold! Yup, I concede that one can hardly have the heart to let go of such a bulk sum of money. But, could you please keep the raw stones to yourself for the sake of her royal princess and the Qingyun Empire? I beg you not to give them to Qiu Yunchong!"
Tang Xinyi went agitated to her utmost limit. Otherwise, she wouldn't have pleaded Wandong, cap in hand.
She stared at Wandong, tears welling up in her pensive eyes. One can hardly bear such a beautiful damsel in distress pleading like that.
"What? Two thousand and four hundred kilos of gold still falls short of your expectation? Commander Tang, we can't be as greedy as that! Where's your integrity?"
Staring at her for a while, Wandong suddenly growled at the top of his lungs while she was expecting him to have a change of heart.
He even waved his hand at her, looking pretty displeased.
"Xu Yaoting, you..."
Tang Xinyi felt confused forthwith, failing to figure him out.
On hearing that, Qiu Yunchong soon went flustered and dashed up, glaring at her.
"Tang Xinyi, Childe Xu and I already reached an agreement! Get out of it! Otherwise, I might take a rude move!"
He hastened to draw out a bulk pile of banknotes and plugged them into Wandong's arms.
"Childe Xu, please count the banknotes! They are equivalent to six million kilos of gold. Now we're done with our transaction!"
"Xu Yaoting, you..."
Tang Xinyi shouted again.
Hardly had her moved on when Qiu Yunchong rushed to yell at Duan Lengyan to drone Tang's voice out.
"Miss Duan, come on and do your fair share!"