Unreasonable Desires
For a while, Chaka's cousin became a hot commodity. His subordinates, colleagues, and superior officers took turns stopping by to chat him up, clearly hoping to mooch some liquor—and some were even planning to walk off with a bottle or two.
Even a hero couldn't stand up to that many people, and it wasn't even fully light out yet!
Aside from the bottles set aside as approval gifts for the additional nighttime artillery drills, the remaining case and a half of Red Star Niulanshan had already found new owners. Major Kamo Osaka couldn't afford to offend any of them, and he was left in a miserable predicament.
Those damned people! He'd only had two bottles himself, and the rest were gone in the blink of an eye.
So annoying!
As far as Chaka Abuluta was concerned, one bottle was as good as two or three. Since Li Bai could produce three cases of liquor, he surely had a fourth or fifth case too. In fact, that wasn't wrong. Forget four or five cases—even a hundred cases would be no problem.
Custom liquor for major clients started at ten thousand cases. When faced with a wealthy client, the distillery could only grovel.
What Li Bai would really have preferred was to buy out the state-run Maotai Distillery, take the entire year's production for himself, and tell everyone else to go drink piss!
At that point, the whole nation would probably rise up to denounce him as a great demon.
After listening to Chaka's perfectly self-consistent sob story, Li Bai could tell the whole thing was just a ploy.
In the end, he raised both hands and crossed his index fingers into an X. "Ten cases. Ten at most. I don't have any more!"
He had no desire to become