Wei Rulai narrowed his eyes at that. "Zhao Longfei, you're deliberately making things difficult for me! We're supposed to be cooperating on friendly terms right now. Do you really want to sour things between us?!"
Zhao Longfei refused to budge. "Wei Rulai, don't use our cooperation to pressure me! I know exactly what you're thinking!"
Wei Rulai turned to Zhao Longteng. "Zhao Da, what do you say?"
"I think my younger brother has a point." Zhao Longteng slowly exhaled a cloud of smoke. "Commander Wei, we can discuss future cooperation another time. For this operation, we'd be better off each doing our own job and staying out of each other's way."
"You're going to join Zhao Longfei in nitpicking too?"
Zhao Longteng smiled. "Commander Wei, if I don't back my younger brother, am I supposed to back you? He's already exposed your little scheme, so stop wasting your effort. Get going. Don't miss our window and leave us all walking away empty-handed."
"Hmph, you two brothers are utterly unreasonable! I'm taking all my troops to the front. You two can handle keeping Yan Xiaowen's troops under control! I'm done dealing with you!"
Zhao Longfei snorted. "No problem!"
Yan Xiaojie and Yan Ran exchanged a glance, then followed the now-silent Wei Rulai away.
Once they had left, Zhao Fengjun turned a cold gaze on Zhao Longteng. "Elder Brother, you realized, just as Longfei did, that Wei Rulai wanted to take Xiao Qin away so he could harm him, didn't you?"
Zhao Longteng nodded. "That's right. I saw it too."
Zhao Sifang asked in surprise, "Dad, then why didn't you stop Wei Rulai earlier? Why did you wait until Second Uncle spoke up?"
Zhao Fengjun's voice grew even colder. "Zhao Longteng, you're far too coldhearted."
Zhao Longteng looked at Zhao Sifang and