Chapter 264: Compensation | Red Heart Survey [Translation]
Red Heart Survey [Translation] - Updated on April 10, 2025
Having gotten the eggs, he rushed towards the west of the town as fast as he could.
The process of finding the eggs had taken too much time. He wondered if the little boy had been waiting in disappointment.
The world he saw was terrible, leaving him in despair, but it was enough for him to be in despair. Children should not be disappointed in this world.
Just like those unknown parents, adults were using their own unique ways to make their children’s beautiful world last longer.
This in itself was one of the beauties of the world.
Fortunately, when he arrived, the little boy was still at the window. He had been staring at him from afar, his eyes bright.
Xiang Qian stood downstairs, holding up the two eggs he had cooked on the way using Dao Yuan, and said, “Look!”
The little boy’s sickly face immediately broke into a smile: “Eggs!”
“I’ll bring them up to you,” Xiang Qian shouted.
“Don’t!” the little boy hurriedly stopped him.
“What’s wrong?” Xiang Qian wondered.
“My mother said I have a poison on me and can’t get too close to others, or it will infect them.” As he said this, the little boy seemed a little sad, and his voice lowered: “Can you help me put them at the door? I’ll come out and get them after you leave.”
Xiang Qian suddenly felt a little bitter, but he smiled instead: “No need to be so troublesome.”
With that, he shot up into the air, directly leaping to a position parallel to the little boy. He held onto the window ledge with one hand, gripping it firmly, and handed over the two cooked eggs with the other.
The temperature of the eggs was just right.
“I’m not afraid of the plague!” he said with a smile.
“Are you really a Bodhisattva?” The little boy held the two eggs in his hands, looked at Xiang Qian hanging in the air with a normal expression, and said in surprise.
This time, Xiang Qian deliberately did not deny it, and only urged: “Eat them quickly. They’re cooked!”
“Okay.” The little boy was hungry after all, and immediately cracked one open. He peeled the shell off quickly, his little hands very nimble.
Then he put the egg in his mouth, took a satisfying bite, and then another.
He ate the whole egg in a few bites, his little mouth bulging.
Seeing him eating so happily, Xiang Qian also felt warm in his heart, and asked, “Do you want to eat anything else?”
The little boy shook his head vigorously, eating the egg, and said vaguely, “No more.”
He swallowed all the egg in his mouth, paused for a moment, and then said, “My mother said that we can still have food to eat now because of the kindness of Bodhisattva Jiang. But we must restrain our appetite and not eat too much, because others are also waiting to eat.”
“Your mother is a really good person.”
Xiang Qian grew up with his master and had never seen his parents. But he imagined that a mother should be such a gentle and great figure.
“Of course!” The little boy’s pale face had a trace of blood, and he smiled proudly, as if he was happier than being praised.
He warmed the second egg in his hands for a long time, but he finally couldn’t bear to eat it. He said to Xiang Qian, “Bodhisattva, can you… give this egg to my mother?”
It had been a long time since Xiang Qian had smiled so much as he had today. But if he didn’t smile, he couldn’t hide those inexplicable emotions.
He couldn’t… shed tears in front of a child, could he?
He asked with a smile, “Isn’t there a share for your father?”
“My father hates eating eggs the most. Every time we cook eggs at home, he doesn’t eat them. My mother and I eat them.”
What a great pair of parents.
Xiang Qian thought, and replied, “Okay, I’ll help you send it over.”
“Then Bodhisattva, go help other children.” The boy waved his hand, and said with great spirit: “I’m already seven years old, I can take care of myself!”
Xiang Qian jumped off the building and replied loudly, “Okay!”
If, at first, running around to provide aid with his extraordinary body was mostly because of an agreement with Jiang Wang, something he had to do.
Later on, he didn’t know why he became so invested in it.
Or perhaps the reason he temporarily got rid of the nightmare was not just because of his hard work.
He didn’t ask the little boy’s name, because this was a child of Qingyang Town.
He wanted to help all the children of Qingyang Town.
No matter what their surname or name was, boy or girl.
Walking on the streets where he could no longer see any pedestrians, Xiang Qian put the whole egg in his mouth and chewed as he walked.
It had been a long time since he had eaten these things.
But it felt really delicious!
When he received a stern inquiry from the Four Seas Commerce League, Jiang Wang was momentarily at a loss.
He never thought that the Four Seas Commerce League’s warehouse in Qingyang Town would be robbed.
Was there another extraordinary force in Qingyang Town besides him? And he had overlooked it?
What he couldn’t understand the most was, what was the point of robbing such a small amount of supplies?
Even if Zhang Hai robbed those supplies to refine some messy pills, making a big stew, it would be more logical in comparison.
Xiang Qian, with his world-weary and ghostly disposition, wouldn’t even move if you whipped him, where did he get the energy to rob a warehouse?
But in any case, since the Four Seas Commerce League had sent people, it was impossible for him to avoid them.
This was the Four Seas Commerce League!
After preliminarily understanding the matter, Jiang Wang called Xiang Qian to the town hall to confront the people from the Four Seas Commerce League.
“I only took two eggs.”
Faced with the stern accusations of the Four Seas Commerce League’s deacon, Xiang Qian only said this sentence and then remained silent.
“Ask yourself, an extraordinary cultivator seriously injured another extraordinary cultivator, then broke down the warehouse door, and in the end only took two eggs!” The bald-headed guard captain looked indignant, possibly convincing himself, and was very invested: “Can you believe it yourself?”
Jiang Wang glanced at Xiang Qian, and seeing that he didn’t mean to explain further, he directly looked at the Four Seas Commerce League’s deacon and asked, “What does the deacon think of this matter?”
Because someone was backing him up, the bald-headed guard captain had a lot of confidence. Hearing this, he couldn’t help but shout: “The facts are right in front of us, what else is there to see?”
Jiang Wang ignored such a person, whose voice was like a dog’s bark. He only looked at the Four Seas Commerce League’s deacon, waiting for his response.
This deacon of the Four Seas Commerce League was a refined middle-aged man. Compared to a businessman, he looked more like a scholar.
Compared to the impatience shown by his subordinates, he was much more calm and composed.
Even knowing that the person in front of him was an important retainer of Chongxuan Sheng, the rising star of the Chongxuan family, could not move him.
The Four Seas Commerce League, which traded throughout the world, gave him the confidence to face all parties.
To Jiang Wang’s inquiry, he simply said: “Lao Chen has been with the Four Seas for some years. I trust what he says.”
He didn’t say much, but his attitude was already very clear.
Since there was no problem with my people, then there was a problem with your people!
And Jiang Wang understood very well.
Xiang Qian didn’t speak anymore, not because he didn’t want to explain, but because he had already explained. Asking again meant not trusting him.
“Your total loss is four thousand gold?” Jiang Wang asked directly.
This was to show his attitude, agreeing to compensate.
In any case, Xiang Qian did rob the Four Seas Commerce League’s warehouse and fought with the warehouse guards.
Of course, the Chongxuan family didn’t fear the Four Seas Commerce League, and Jiang Wang was even less afraid of the shrimp soldiers and crab generals in front of him.
But he didn’t need to make enemies for Chongxuan Sheng for no reason. Precisely because they were friends, he had to be more considerate of Chongxuan Sheng’s development.
Chongxuan Sheng gave him trust, hoping to get help from him, not to cause trouble everywhere.
Offending the Four Seas Commerce League was not impossible, provided that the gains far outweighed the costs.
“I won’t hide it from you,” the deacon of the Four Seas Commerce League said with a very frank look: “Originally, the loss was only two thousand gold, but I came here myself, so naturally it’s more than that.”
Only two eggs were missing, and the bald-headed guard captain reported it as a thousand gold. After going around in this deacon’s mouth, it became four thousand gold!
He also wanted to be obedient in front of Jiang Wang, showing a look of making things clear and never letting you suffer in silence!
How could Jiang Wang not know the tricks in it?
But he just nodded: “This is what it should be.”
“That’s right, my people robbed you of two thousand gold, and I will compensate you with two hundred Dao Yuan Stones!” Jiang Wang asked, “Is that fair?”
As the currency of the cultivation world, Dao Yuan Stones generally only circulate among extraordinary cultivators, and a thousand gold is not easy to get.
Two hundred Dao Yuan Stones, not to mention two eggs, would probably be enough to pay for killing this guard captain.
Therefore, this deacon of the Four Seas Commerce League was of course satisfied, and could not be more satisfied.
“It’s reasonable.” His eyes lit up, but he quickly restrained himself and nodded reservedly: “However…”
This was human greed. Seeing that Jiang Wang was so easy to talk to, he probably wanted more after getting what he wanted.
“However,” Jiang Wang interjected: “I happen to have something to ask the seniors of the Commerce League. Some time ago, I just killed Jia City’s City Lord Xi Munan. Your league has better news. I wonder what the attitude of Yang Ting is now, whether they are willing to let it go?”
This Commerce League deacon had only been in Jia City for a short time. He knew that the former City Lord had been killed, but he didn’t know who did it.
Hearing this at this time, he couldn’t help but be shocked.
A person who dared to kill even the City Lord, if pushed into a corner, wouldn’t he really dare to kill him, a deacon of the Four Seas Commerce League?
“This person covered up the truth and concealed the situation. He was unconscionable and heinous. Everyone should punish him. What’s wrong with you killing him?”
The Commerce League deacon said indignantly: “This is what every righteous person would do. Yang Ting should also respect public opinion. Our Four Seas Commerce League will also intercede for the hero!”
“There’s no need to intercede. No one from Yang Ting has questioned me so far. I think justice is in people’s hearts!” Jiang Wang said, and then changed the subject: “I actually have a request.”
“Please speak, hero!”
“The people of Qingyang Town are suffering unspeakable hardships. I can’t do much, I only hope that they won’t be short of daily necessities, some medicines, meat, and fresh vegetables,” Jiang Wang said: “I know the environment is difficult now, this request is not reasonable, I only hope that you can do your best!”
To put it bluntly, two hundred Dao Yuan Stones were both to buy peace and to buy the Four Seas Commerce League to work hard.
Jiang Wang spent the money to get results!
“Hero, you are truly a rare person who cares about the people!”
Seeing that it was such a simple request, the Commerce League deacon patted his chest loudly: “Leave this matter to me, Qian! All kinds of supplies are guaranteed to be complete. As long as I, Qian, have something to eat, I will never let the people of Qingyang Town go hungry!”