Doomed from the Start: Cultivating in the Wasteland
Chapter 1993

Greed

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"Red Leaf Ridge's business..." Qu Jianlei thought for a moment before answering, "Our operations are quite varied. How about you look into them first?"

"Well... all right." Duan Bowen did not know whether to laugh or cry. Was that an attitude conducive to cooperation? But it depended on who said it. Coming from Red Leaf Ridge, it showed that their attitude was already fairly good.

At the very least, it involved the other party's business, and they had the right to choose. If he could not make a choice now, he could only blame himself for not knowing enough.

Moreover, Ridge Lord Qu was qualified to say that. Given his strength, it was not disrespectful.

In any case, Duan Bowen could not muster the slightest resentment. Instead, he smiled and nodded. "All right, then I'll have to think it over carefully."

After thinking for a moment, he asked again, "Then what about this business traveling between Dongsheng and Central Province...?"

"No way?" Qu Jianlei looked at him strangely. "You're still planning to help other people sneak across?"

"That's not what I mean." Duan Bowen shook his head. At a time like this, if he helped large numbers of people cross over illegally, no one could protect him.

He shamelessly continued, "I mean, when you travel back and forth, could you bring my family along for the ride?"

As Dongsheng's atmosphere grew increasingly wrong, he had already decided before returning that he would not go to Dongsheng again anytime soon.

But seeing that Ridge Lord Qu could travel frequently between Dongsheng and elsewhere, his thoughts became active again.

Previously, it was not that he did not want to go to Dongsheng. He had merely worried that traveling back and forth would be too inconvenient—last time, he had taken quite a few

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