Chapter 3142 — The Panicked Five Luminaries Sect
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"This Wei Zhao—isn't he a lone cultivator? And Guan Doctor Pharmaceuticals, if I remember rightly, isn't that a company from the mundane world? Back then, the company belonging to Elder Kang Jingming's family was driven into bankruptcy by this very company, wasn't it?" Ouyang Legend had also thought of something. His expression turned solemn, and he demanded sternly of Ouyang Nong: "Ouyang Nong, Wei Zhao and Kang Jingming are enemies—don't let yourself be used as someone else's weapon! Kang Jingming sends over all these first-grade pills, and right on his heels you bring out a first-grade automatic pill cauldron. Doesn't that make it plain as day that you don't want Kang Jingming to have an easy time of it?"
If anyone else had said such a thing, President Shen would surely have wondered whether Ouyang Legend and Ouyang Nong had conspired beforehand. But coming from Ouyang Legend, it was different. If this matter really had anything to do with Ouyang Legend, how could he possibly have said these things? Had he not spoken, President Shen would hardly have thought of any of it; only after he spoke did President Shen grasp the implications. And so, precisely because of this, President Shen ruled out the possibility that Ouyang Legend had known in advance.
"President Ouyang, how could Little Nong have known Kang Jingming was coming today, and how could he have calculated it so exactly—Kang Jingming had barely arrived before he showed up right behind him?" Here President Shen turned to look at Little Kong and asked, "Little Kong, on your way here, did you come straight in to see me?"
"Ah, yes!" Little Kong was fiddling with the first-grade automatic pill cauldron in his hands, and at President Shen's question he answered hastily.
Little Kong was an ordinary disciple, and his fondness for the first-grade automatic pill cauldron was written all over his face. With a man whose emotions showed so plainly, President Shen could tell at a glance that he was not lying, which only confirmed his own conjecture. Even so, he asked further: "Little Nong, do you know that Wei Zhao and Kang Jingming are enemies?"
"I know." Ouyang Nong nodded briskly.
"You know?" President Shen's expression shifted slightly, and he frowned. "If you knew, why didn't you say so earlier?"
At that moment, Ouyang Legend's expression shifted as well; he could not tell what play Ouyang Nong was putting on.
"Ah?" Ouyang Nong blinked, then said, "Previously, the pills in our market were all supplied by Mr. Wei Zhao. Last time, Mr. Wei Zhao brought me some first-grade and second-grade pills to sell, but our Cultivators' Commerce Association had already adopted the pills sent by Elder Kang of the Mystic Pill Sect as its exclusive supply. So I had no choice but to refuse Mr. Wei Zhao, and I explained the situation to him. Mr. Wei Zhao was quite angry at the time—he seemed to hate this Elder Kang bitterly."
"Is that all?" After hearing this, President Shen asked with a strange look on his face.
"Yes—isn't that enough to count as a grudge?" Ouyang Nong said with a bitter smile. "Still, it wasn't anything major. I didn't think much of it at the time. Later, when Mr. Wei Zhao brought me the first-grade automatic pill cauldron, I finished handling matters at the market and hurried over to meet President Shen and President Ouyang in person to explain this matter."
"Oh—then why didn't you make a phone call beforehand?" President Shen asked.
"With something like this, if you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, would you have believed me if I'd called you or President Ouyang?" Ouyang Nong spread his hands and said with some helplessness.
"That's true enough." President Shen nodded. "Ouyang Nong, you and this Wei Zhao—you're on good terms?"