Chapter 0041 – Complex and Scary – Absolute Returns

“What?”

“Happy Birthday, it’s your birthday, isn’t it?”

“Is it my birthday?”

The Blood Heavenly Blade Demon’s voice actually trembled a little, it seemed that he had truly forgotten his birthday.

“You don’t know?”

“I haven’t had a birthday in a long time. How did you know about my birthday?”

“I’m the Pavilion Master of the Yellow Springs Pavilion, there’s nothing in this world that I don’t know. Even how many pairs of underwear your old man has I know exactly.”

“How many pairs of underwear do I have?”

“Just kidding, anyway, happy birthday.”

I purposely acted close, hoping to use this opportunity to really pull him in.

I bowed deeply to him and turned to go.

“You made a special trip just to give me a gift?”

“Of course, it’s just a simple birthday present, you don’t have to take it to heart.”

“You’re just going to leave?”

“I still have a lot of things to do. How about this, let’s have a drink at the Wind and Moon Restaurant tonight, my treat. By the way, don’t you dare smash anything today.”

I left behind the still unresponsive Blood Heavenly Blade Demon and walked out of the study.

Before closing the door, I glanced back and found that the Blood Heavenly Blade Demon was looking down at the bottle of highly poisonous wine, with an expression on his face that I had never seen before. It was then that I realized that he would also reveal a touched expression.

“Then again, is what you say true?”

Walking down the corridor, Xu Dalong asked me with an incredulous face.

“What really?”

“Did you really give the knife demon a birthday present?”

“How do you know?”

“My God, it’s true!”

“How did you know about this?”

“Is that even a question? Of course I was told about it. I originally thought it was a rumor, but I didn’t expect it to be true.”

I couldn’t help but laugh. I had obviously given the gift in private, but it would have reached Xu Dalong’s ears, so it seems that the Blade Demon had told the other Dao Demons about it. This guy, who clearly had an unsmiling appearance, didn’t realize that he was quite the braggart.

“Why did you give him a gift?”

“I’m giving him a present because it’s his birthday.”

“I still don’t understand what the relationship is between you and the Blade Demon.”

It’s no wonder he’s puzzled. So many things have happened between me and Blade Demon, any one of them would be enough to turn us against each other, and yet we’ve grown closer to each other.

“Saying nice things about each other doesn’t make for a good relationship.”

I led Xu Da Long into the hall at the end of the corridor.

At this moment, the investigating officers and law enforcement members of the Yellow Springs Pavilion were gathering together.

“It’s been a long time since we’ve gotten together like this.”

“Yeah.”

The crowd responded in unison. After this period of training, the morale of the law enforcement officers was high. The investigating officers also had their confidence boosted by the successful detection of the White Way Ghost case.

“I’ve come to cheer you up today.”

The crowd showed their curiosity.

I handed the pre-prepared envelopes to Xu Dalong. The number of envelopes matched the number of people in the Yellow Springs Pavilion.

Xu Dalong opened the envelope and glanced at it, and was shocked.

“What kind of money is this?”

The envelope contained a silver ticket with a face value of one thousand taels.

“One for each person, hand them out.”

“Yes.”

Xu Dalong distributed the silver tickets in the envelope to the crowd.

“This is my special gift to you.”

When they heard the word “gift”, the crowd cheered.

“Thank you, Pavilion Master!”

I raised my volume and addressed the crowd:

“Our Yellow Springs Pavilion will never tolerate the interference of any outside forces, and this money is meant for you to resist temptation. In other words, you are not allowed to accept bribes. If you need money urgently, come to me and I can advance your salaries. If the salary is not enough, I can also lend you money privately.”

“Yes!”

Receiving this windfall brought smiles of joy to the faces of all.

Preaching while everyone is in a good mood will only backfire.

“All right, break it up.”

I was about to leave the hall when Xu Dalong chased after me.

“Pavilion Master, how did you know?”

“Know what?”

“Yihao needs to use money for something ah. His brother is getting married and he’s been raising money all over the place lately. He spent all his savings again when his parents celebrated their birthday earlier. In order to take care of his younger siblings, there’s hardly a day when he’s not short of money.”

“I don’t know.”

“You just don’t hide it from me.”

Actually, I already knew that. Originally, I only wanted to secretly give Yik Ho a hand, but on second thought, I might as well take this opportunity to hand out benefits to everyone.

“There’s nothing to fuss about, it’s all for myself.”

“For yourself?”

“Think about it, if word gets out about me being generous, will people have expectations of me? They will think that when I become a Heavenly Demon, I will definitely give them more benefits. In this way, they would embrace me even more to become a Heavenly Demon. That’s how shallow I am as a person.”

“Do you really think that far ahead?”

“No, I’m just saying it off the top of my head. But other people might think the same thing.”

“You really did know about Yiho a long time ago.”

“I’m just helping him out in passing. Everyone’s been working hard this whole time, so a little welfare is in order, isn’t it?”

“Of course we should, it would increase everyone’s loyalty to you quite a bit.”

“You don’t want to be fooled by such small favors!”

Xu Dalong stared straight at me and said:

“In this world, who is willing to sincerely work for you without a little trickery?”

After that, he bowed deeply toward me and turned to leave.

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