“CEO, do you really have to go back now? The contacts here have already been arranged, if you leave now, the other party may say we break our word and the cooperation could fall through...”
Zhang Assistant was very worried and also a bit conflicted.
On one side was his wife, on the other side the company.
These two things were the most important to CEO Huo.
Huo Shao Ting loosened his tie and his deep set eyes were extremely cold and piercing.
He had only been out for a few days when some shameless people had targeted his wife.
If he couldn't even protect his own wife, what was the point of him running a company!
To earn money and bury himself? Or to eat?
"I'm going to book the next available flight right now!"
When Zhang Assistant came into contact with his icy gaze, he shivered all over and hurried to arrange the return flight.
After he left, Huo Shao Ting clenched his fists tightly, killing intent bursting out of his eyes, extremely creepy!
A few seconds later he made a phone call, speaking fluent French to the other party.
He had to protect his wife and also his company!
If the Huo family wanted an all out war, then it would depend whether he agreed or not!
Half an hour later, Huo Shao Ting boarded the flight back home.
On Rong Dai’s side, the Blind Old Woman still only gave her two meals a day, breakfast and dinner. At lunchtime the Blind Old Woman would go out with her basket as usual.
Whenever she came back, the basket would contain some game.
This game was their dinner.
After thinking things over for two days here, Rong Dai had behaved very well, seeming a bit resigned to her fate.
That morning the Blind Old Woman had prepared her usual breakfast of rice porridge and a corn cake.
After the Blind Old Woman went out, she ate some foraged herbs as usual to relieve the symptoms of her overall weakness.
It had already been three days.
Rong Dai looked at the midday sun in the sky.
The day after tomorrow would be the TK fashion show, if she couldn’t make it there in time, it would be a real shame.
She had actually already figured out the way down the mountain over the past three days.
She could get out, but at the foot of the mountain there was a three way fork in the road and she didn’t know which way to go.
In her past life, her father and brothers had all been generals, marching and fighting wars was grueling work.
When she was little she liked to sneak into army camps and over time she also picked up some knowledge of military strategy.
Being trapped here in the mountains wouldn’t hold her.
But that fork in the road with three paths and no end in sight had really stumped her.
No wonder that Blind Old Woman was so certain that no matter what she did, she wouldn’t be able to escape from here, people unfamiliar with the area simply had no way to find their way out.
Otherwise the Blind Old Woman wouldn’t have left her alone here with such confidence, she obviously had complete faith.
But today the Blind Old Woman still hadn’t returned even though the sky was completely dark, there was still no sign of her.
Rong Dai couldn’t help feeling a little worried.
She didn’t care whether the Blind Old Woman lived or died, from her words it was clear this wasn’t the first time she had done something like this.
A person like this deserved to die.
But if the Blind Old Woman didn’t come back, there was no communication here, she couldn’t get out, and she had no way to contact the outside world either.
So before she could leave this place, she had to pay attention to whether the Blind Old Woman lived or died.
She waited a long time, there were no clocks in the house, she could only estimate the time.
As time went by she felt more and more that something was wrong, the mountain was deathly still, making people feel chilled to the bone.
She stood waiting anxiously in front of the door until she heard what sounded like a wild beast roar from the woods, mixed with what seemed to be screams from the Blind Old Woman.
Rong Dai’s expression froze, had she run into wild beasts in the mountain?
She grabbed the wood chopping knife and also took a lit torch from the pantry before rushing into the woods.
After running probably five hundred meters she saw the Blind Old Woman with a bloody calf and a lone wolf behind her!
When the Blind Old Woman saw Rong Dai appear, the one eye she had left shone with hope.
In her past life, Rong Dai had at least been a fierce daughter of a powerful military family, she had rubbed shoulders in army camps so she knew a little bit of fist and foot martial arts.
Plus wild beasts feared fire, and this was an injured lone wolf.
Seeing Rong Dai rush in aggressively brandishing a torch, the lone wolf seemed to hesitate for a few seconds before disappearing into the woods.
Only then did Rong Dai help the Blind Old Woman up and the two of them went back to the house.
“Your leg wound has to be treated, otherwise it could get infected.”
Rong Dai knitted her brows and said. She didn’t want the woman to die first before she had a chance to get away from here.
“There’s a medicine box over there, bring it to me.”
The Blind Old Woman still spoke very coldly, but her complexion had softened a lot.
Rong Dai didn’t follow where she was pointing but instead carried over a wooden box which contained things like bandages, iodine, etc.
The Blind Old Woman bit down on a wooden stick then tore open her mangled pant leg herself.
“Here, let me.”
Rong Dai had a thought and took the initiative to help dress her injury.
After she was done she helped the woman onto the kang bed. As she washed her hands in the basin, she casually asked, “How much can you make from doing this once? Is it worth gambling your life away?”
Even with the terribly tragic ending she had suffered in her last life because of the Emperor, she had never thought of seeking death.
There was a saying that it’s better to live by any means than to die a good death.
The Blind Old Woman stared at her back for a long time without answering. After a while she mumbled, “One hundred thousand per time.”
Rong Dai suddenly understood. One hundred thousand per time.
For a poor family that was already an astronomical figure.
No wonder the Blind Old Woman dared take such risks.
Guarding someone once earned one hundred thousand, plus this was a good location up in the mountains.
If it was some delicate pampered city girl thrown in here, she really would be entirely at the mercy of fate.
“I can give you two million.”
She turned to face the Blind Old Woman, her charming cheeks extremely calm.
“You’re doing this for money in the end. Two million is already a lifetime’s worth of earnings for you in one go. On top of that, I won’t pursue your culpability, you just need to show me the way out. I leave, that won’t count as your failing your duty either.”
“The one hundred thousand the other side gave you, you can still keep. If you’re willing to tell me who the other person is, I can give you another two million.”
“Four million total.”
She stared at the Blind Old Woman, an enticing temptation.
There was a common saying that people are willing to die for money just like birds will risk their lives for food. Indeed, money can move even ghosts to toil.
These common sayings were right on point.
The Blind Old Woman was only in it for the money.
“With four million, can you imagine the kind of life you could live? Anywhere in this huge country that suits your fancy, a small county town. That money would be enough to comfortably spend the rest of your life.”
She continued persuading.
She noticed the Blind Old Woman didn’t seem satisfied with the amount she had named, her expression didn’t change.
“Think it’s too little? Then tell me, how much were you hoping to get?”
Rong Dai looked at her and asked again.
Anything that could be resolved with money wasn’t a problem. She just wanted to hurry up and get away from this ghost place.
She had disappeared for three days, Lu Nianzhi and the others must be worried sick, not to mention Shao Ting.
Who knew if he had rushed back because of her again, delaying his work once more.
