"Lord Lu, what do you mean by this? We agreed it would be Ding Shen. How did it turn into a strongman?"
A Li had never been especially shrewd. When things went awry, his face immediately darkened like a lump of charcoal, and he shouted angrily.
Official appointment certificates came in different colors depending on rank. Lu Mingxuan had only just pulled the certificate out, and A Li could already tell something was wrong.
Lu Mingxuan sighed. "Little Xu, it's not that easy. Director Fang said the positions are tight right now, and it's hard to pull strings. We'll fill a strongman vacancy first. When another vacancy opens, you'll be the first to get it. Either way, I won't let your Fire Repelling Pearl go to waste."
A Li was furious. It was his first time taking the initiative to handle something for his young master, and he had ended up making a mess of it. His face burned with shame, and he was about to explode. He pointed at Lu Mingxuan, too choked with anger to know what to say.
Lu Mingxuan raised his brows. "What, Little Xu, you're not satisfied? If you're not, that's fine. Go take it up with Director Fang. I went out of my way to help, and now I'm the one getting treated like an enemy? What you gave me was a Fire Repelling Pearl, not a Profound Yellow Pill. Even if I wanted to grease a few palms, I couldn't. What do you think I'd get out of it? A strongman's appointment certificate. Take it or leave it. If you don't want it, you won't even get this certificate."
Xu Yi gently patted A Li on the back and smiled. "Lord Lu, thanks for your effort. My younger brother was handling this on