CHAPTER 276: CHAPTER 186 3 LANG, LISTEN TO ME! _6

At the time, it was just required to make them look real enough, each jade pendant was worth only ten taels of silver.

I asked Third Brother back then what he needed these fake jade pendants for, and he simply said it was to trick some young girls...

I almost believed him right then.

Turns out he used them as props and claimed they were bought from Jiangzhou City, costing a thousand taels of silver?!

Damn, that’s unbelievable!

This guy’s way of thinking is terrifying!

Wei Zhe had been pondering this matter for the past couple of days, originally unable to see through the thick fog.

But after Changsun Hao’s big mouth spilled everything, he finally saw the light.

It turns out that his Third Brother ensured that the conclusion wasn’t a lie and "slightly" changed the process.

This led to an explosion of sleeper agents!

He’s an old hand at fishing; this wasn’t a straight hook, this was an eighteen-layer concealed chain hook! The fishing master Wei Honest?!

What else could Wei Zhe say?

He could only secretly shout, "Third Brother’s plan, how terrifying it is!"

In other words, did Changsun Hao just scold for half a day and end up scolding himself?

"He who scolds others often ends up being scolded."

Wei Zhe now felt a bit sorry, wondering what his Third Brother did to push this old man to such a state.

Moreover, how should he speak up?

If he really revealed the truth, would this old man, complaining his father couldn’t handle it, just say it was him and pass away on the spot?

"..."

Wei Zhe had a look of difficulty on his face, yet he also seemed like he wanted to laugh.

This Third Brother, truly frightening.

He had already taken care of everything and left Wei Zhe to clean up.

Now, other families in the Xufu Town Commerce Association had been completely cleared out, leaving no outsiders in the association.

"When the commerce association was first being built, we needed to use them to weed out the real small families from Jiangzhou City."

"When the association began to enter Jiangzhou City, we needed to weed out even more families."

"So Third Brother came up with this method to get rid of those who do not trust the association and have ulterior motives."

Wei Zhe sighed.

"This move was truly decisive!"

"If it were me, I certainly wouldn’t have been able to do this, nor would I have even thought of it."

"If the same crisis appeared in my life, I would probably choose to give in, retreat to advance."

"I would try to maintain the peace of Xufu Town Commerce Association, not knowing that I still couldn’t see as clearly as Third Brother."

"Since the Xufu Town Commerce Association is inherently unstable, why not just remove the rot and cut off the ill limb?"

"Now with so many new big families and the support of families behind the Cloud Mountain Sect, they are no longer needed."

Wei Zhe thought of a phrase, "Tool Families."

A metaphor for families unaware of their impending doom, still arrogant even when on the precipice of destruction.

"Eh."

Wei Zhe sighed, how should he broach the topic?

At this moment, Changsun Hao finally noticed Wei Zhe’s difficulty.

Upon seeing clearly, he also came over to Wei Zhe.

He patted his shoulder, stood next to him, and turned his head to the scholar, saying:

"Give up, no matter what you say, we won’t be able to rejoin the Xufu Town United Commerce Association, a broken mirror cannot be joined again."

Wei Zhe: "..."

What a ’broken mirror cannot be joined again,’ I start to understand why Third Brother left this place.

As the one who sees most clearly on site, he has to suppress his inner thoughts.

But the old man in front of him continuously insults his intelligence, eventually driving him away in frustration.

Thinking of his Third Brother, such a smart person, being harshly scolded by Changsun Hao, Wei Zhe’s expression was quite painful...

Moreover, he somehow felt like laughing.

"The old man is really something."

"Even Third Brother couldn’t take it."

Wei Zhe sighed, echoing Changsun Hao’s words:

"Yes, just like you said, there’s no longer any place for you in the commerce association now."

"And to be honest..."

"You should have believed in my Third Brother!!!"

"After all, I’m not the one controlling the commerce association, it’s my Third Brother, Wei Third Brother!!!"

After saying this powerfully,

the brows of the five people in the room immediately tightened, and as Changsun Hao was puzzled, Wei Zhe suddenly laughed.

Leisurely, he said:

"How about this."

"I’ll take Patriarch Changsun to the room next door to meet some guests?"

...What’s going on?

Why do I feel that something seems off?

Changsun Hao fell into a long confusion and uncertainty, inexplicably asking, "Guests? What guests?"

"Oh, sorry, I almost forgot about this."

"The guests are just the patriarchs of four towns."

"They can’t compare with the Changsun family, nor can they compare with your new commerce association."

"They are merely the families that originally cooperated with the Cloud Mountain Sect!"

"Sigh."

"These families have been settled by Third Brother, choosing to join the association’s operations."

"This time they came to Xufu Town intending to give you a surprise, but you ended up giving us a surprise."