Chapter 263: The Heist | Red Heart Survey [Translation]
Red Heart Survey [Translation] - Updated on April 10, 2025
Inside the town hall, facing Xiang Qian’s sudden questioning, Xiao Xiao helplessly said, “We are resolving it, and it will be resolved soon.”
“The Yang Kingdom’s court has already begun mobilizing national resources. Furthermore, the Four Seas Commerce Guild has also joined, directly reaching an agreement with Yang Ting, using the guild’s power to ensure sufficient supplies in the three counties within the Yang Kingdom.”
“Moreover, our Qingyang Town was the first to take the plague seriously, and we have the most abundant reserves of supplies. I can’t guarantee anything else, but at least no one in the town will starve to death. Do you know how rare that is in the current situation?”
The meaning behind her words was simply that the “master” had spent a lot of money and effort, and Xiang Qian was not qualified to criticize.
Xiang Qian didn’t seem to hear her, asking directly, “Where are the eggs?”
“Eggs?” Xiao Xiao wasn’t just confused, but almost going crazy.
You came here aggressively to question me, and in the end, you’re asking me where the eggs are?
Are you, a transcendent cultivator, so greedy? Have you never eaten an egg before?
“I need two eggs now, where can I get them?”
“There’s a warehouse set up by the Four Seas Commerce Guild in the east of the town, they should have plenty of supplies there.” Xiao Xiao said blankly, only to realize that Xiang Qian was already gone.
The Four Seas Commerce Guild’s headquarters are in Qi Kingdom, one of the largest chambers of commerce in Qi, often mentioned alongside the Jùbǎo Commerce Guild. They also have branches in the Yang Kingdom and are a behemoth-like existence.
It can be said that in terms of resource allocation, the Four Seas Commerce Guild’s operational capabilities can even surpass small countries like the Yang Kingdom in a short period.
With the addition of the Four Seas Commerce Guild, Yang Ting can devote more energy to blocking the plague and eliminating the infectious toxins. It should be a good thing.
But the Four Seas is a commerce guild, not a charitable organization, and unlike Yang Ting, it has no obligation to help the people of the Yang Kingdom.
They are participating in disaster relief in the Yang Kingdom because it is profitable.
In fact, all of the Yang Kingdom’s external procurement is now handled by the Four Seas Commerce Guild, and they are also responsible for the allocation of supplies in most areas.
Besides the necessary food, the Qingyang Town government has no other material reserves.
So even if Xiang Qian is a high-ranking official in Qingyang Town, he needs to go to the Four Seas Commerce Guild’s warehouse to get two eggs.
Xiang Qian hurried to the Four Seas Commerce Guild’s warehouse in the east of Qingyang Town.
“I want two eggs.”
By this time, the sun in June had risen high, and the entire street was beginning to burn.
Several of the guild’s guards in front of the warehouse were hiding under the awning, gambling, shaking dice and betting on big or small. They turned a deaf ear to Xiang Qian’s voice.
“I want two eggs!” Xiang Qian repeated.
“Who are you?” the guard leader who was the dealer asked without turning his head, while shaking the dice.
Daring to come to the Yang Kingdom to work at this time, he had naturally already manifested his dao meridian and was a transcendent cultivator.
He was too lazy to take a second look at a mere native of Qingyang Town.
Xiang Qian knew the significance of the Four Seas Commerce Guild for disaster relief. He had worked hard for this place for many days and didn’t want to affect the entire Qingyang Town because of himself. Therefore, he restrained himself and said, “I am Xiang Qian. Two egg…”
“No matter who you are, if you want something, either bring real money or a stamped official document from the town hall.” The guard leader directly interrupted him, slammed the dice cup down, and shouted, “Place your bets, no take-backs!”
Only then did he take the time to glance at Xiang Qian: “Understood?”
Seeing that the other party was also a transcendent cultivator, his tone softened slightly: “This is the rule.”
“I only need two eggs.”
“This friend,” the guard leader couldn’t help but emphasize his tone again, “Eggs are a small matter, rules are a big matter! If you take an egg today, and he takes an egg tomorrow, will we still be able to manage the warehouse? What will the people in the disaster area eat?”
If Xiao Xiao were here, she could accurately point out the allocation quotas for each region, could “tell” this guard leader that the materials in the warehouse were not allowed to be bought and sold privately, and that the child who had contracted the plague was entitled to an egg, and that the Yang Kingdom and Qingyang Town had both paid for it.
And that child did not receive the egg.
That child contracted the plague and was about to die, and on his birthday, he wanted to eat two eggs and could only ask for help from the “Bodhisattva” in his eyes.
This is the dereliction of duty of the Four Seas Commerce Guild!
But here is Xiang Qian, and he doesn’t know the details.
He could only repeatedly endure and said: “The official document will be made up later. Now there is a child who must eat eggs immediately!”
The guard leader became impatient: “The eggs will be given to you later, okay?”
He shouted to the others again: “Hurry up and place your bets, no regrets after leaving!”
“I buy!”
“I’m not selling!” The guard leader, repeatedly interrupted, said angrily: “Do I care about the money for a few eggs? Go, go, go!”
The guild guards who were gambling together all laughed.
Perhaps because people are bullied when they are kind, the more he backed down, the more they thought he was easy to bully.
That’s right, what kind of rural place is Qingyang Town, what kind of ruined small country is the Yang Kingdom?
The Four Seas Commerce Guild is a huge organization spanning the Eastern Region, with businesses extending to the Central Region!
It also has some say in the Qi Kingdom, and countless people rely on it.
Who would dare to offend them here?
They laughed happily, with a sense of superiority arising spontaneously.
Xiang Qian released his hand that was about to reach for the Dao Yuan Stone.
He was silent.
He realized that these people could not be reasoned with.
If they were sincerely doing disaster relief, how much could a transcendent cultivator do now…
If they were sincerely doing disaster relief, they wouldn’t be in the mood to gamble at this time, and they wouldn’t have such arrogance.
Even he, who was so discouraged and desperate about life, found it unbearable.
He simply turned around, took a few steps forward, and kicked the warehouse door open!
“You son of a bitch!” the guard leader shouted angrily, overturning the table, and was about to grab his weapon and go forward.
But Xiang Qian just pointed back, and a cold light flashed!
The guard leader didn’t even have time to see what it was before he felt a lightness on his head, followed by a coolness, and strands of hair fell one after another.
He reached out and touched it, and the texture was smooth.
His head of long hair had been shaved clean.
He froze on the spot, not daring to move.
If the other party could easily shave his hair, he could easily chop off his head!
“Good, good sir!” he said tremblingly very sensibly: “The valuables are in the innermost part, please take whatever you want!”
Xiang Qian ignored them. In the warehouse full of materials, he quickly found the place where the eggs were piled up and took two.
Then he went out directly and headed west of the town.
After Xiang Qian left, after a long time, a guild guard asked in a low voice: “Boss, shall we continue?”
“Continue your mother’s leg!” The guard leader slapped him on the head.
“Report to the guild, saying someone robbed the warehouse!”
“It’s just two eggs?” another guard asked: “Do we need to report this?”
“Are you blind?” the newly bald guard leader roared: “We lost materials worth a thousand gold! I, a transcendent cultivator, almost had my head chopped off after a hard fight! Isn’t this dangerous, isn’t it scary, shouldn’t it be reported to the guild?”