Huh?
The smile vanished from Xiao Qingxiu's face. He turned and stared at He Chang Geng in disbelief.
The four chairmen looked equally stunned when they heard those words.
What was going on?!
Had He Chang Geng's slap on the table just now... not been directed at Jiang Xiaobai?
Of course, he was not the only one. The Liquor House owner beside Xiao Qingxiu and the fat man from the Fragrant Tea House were also dumbstruck.
Something felt... wrong!
The managers of the Eight Great Trading Houses stopped their discussions and glanced around, their expressions turning astonished and strange.
Hadn't Xiao Qingxiu specifically invited this man from the First Rank Hall?
Why did it now look as though he had come to help Jiang Xiaobai instead?!
"Old He, you..."
Xiao Qingxiu opened his mouth, but before he could say anything more, He Chang Geng cut him off.
"Hmph, weren't the things Heir Jiang just mentioned perfectly ordinary little matters?"
He Chang Geng frowned and stared at Xiao Qingxiu. "Besides, in my eyes, all the conditions Heir Jiang just raised were utterly insignificant!"
At that, He Chang Geng raised a hand and pointed at Jiang Xiaobai. "And you call that... arrogance?"
Huh?
No!
Jiang Xiaobai's demands were clearly a case of stepping on someone's nose to climb onto their face.
And that... still wasn't arrogant enough?!
For a moment, Xiao Qingxiu sat there, completely bewildered.
His mind refused to catch up.
Could He Chang Geng have been so furious that he was speaking sarcastically?
Yet no sooner had that thought crossed Xiao Qingxiu's mind than He Chang Geng turned back to Jiang Xiaobai, his expression visibly softening.
"Rest assured, Heir Jiang!"
As he spoke, He Chang Geng even took the initiative to salute Jiang Xiaobai with clasped hands. "Once I return