Under One Person: The Taoist Priest Descends the Mountain

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Dou Mei and the other two exchanged glances and stopped pretending.

Shen Chong's smile turned cold.

Gao Ning's compassion turned into indifference.

Dou Mei's gentleness turned into calm.

Dou Mei looked at Xia He in the crowd, her gaze complex: "Xia He, you're clearly one of us. Why do you insist on standing on the opposite side?"

Xia He stood in the sunlight, with Na Du Tong behind her and the Three Madmen in front of her.

Her face was calm as she spoke, word by word: "I am different from you. I am in charge of my own abilities, and I will not follow in your abyss in my life."

Dou Mei looked at her, her eyes filled with regret and something else she couldn't quite put her finger on.

Shen Chong sneered, "That sounds nice. When you figure things out, you'll naturally come looking for us."

"Stop talking nonsense, get going!"

Someone shouted, and the people from Na Du Tong rushed forward.

The three madmen turned and ran upstairs.

"Stop chasing!" Zhou Mingyuan raised his hand to stop his subordinates, and the employees stopped and looked at him.

Zhou Mingyuan stood at the entrance of the construction site and lit a cigarette: "I'll keep watch down here and see how long they can hold out."

He exhaled a smoke ring: "It can't fly, can it?"

The employees looked at each other and agreed that the decision was sound, as it would wear down the other side.

They were guarding downstairs, with supplies and shifts being rotated.

The three madmen can only hide upstairs. The longer they stay, the weaker they become. When they finally charge up, the casualties will be minimized.

ten minutes.

twenty minutes.

half an hour.

Xia He looked up at the rooftop and saw three figures appear at the edge, each carrying a large bag in their backpack.

Xia He squinted: What is that?

Shen Chong turned around, waved, and shouted down, "Bye-bye!"

next second.

Swah——

Three paragliders opened from the rooftop, and three people leaped into the air, tracing three graceful arcs in the sunlight.

The paraglider rose into the air, rising higher and higher, and drifting farther and farther.

Xia He: "..."

The cigarette in Zhou Mingyuan's hand fell to the ground.

The employees of NaDuTong looked up, watching the three paragliders fly further and further away, their mouths agape.

A long silence.

An employee whispered, "Director Zhou... they really flew away."

Zhou Mingyuan bent down to pick up the cigarette butt, flicked it into the nearby trash can, and coughed lightly: "It's okay, they can't escape. Our people can still track the paragliders without any problem."

He picked up the walkie-talkie: "Tracking team, keep up with them, don't lose them!"

A response came through the walkie-talkie: "Roger!"

Xia He stomped her feet in anger.

What a great opportunity, and it just slipped away like that.

……

The tracking lasted for half an afternoon.

The people from NaDuTong followed the paragliders' trajectory and finally found the three paragliders in a mountain valley.

The umbrella hung on the hillside, fluttering in the wind, but the person was nowhere to be seen.

The walkie-talkie crackled to life again: "Boss, we've lost them... They went straight into the mountains after landing, and the signal's bad there..."

Zhou Mingyuan: "..."

Xia He stood on the hillside, looking at the three empty paragliders, when her phone rang.

She took it out and saw it was Dou Mei's number.

After the call connected, Dou Mei's voice came through the receiver, gentle like a neighbor's aunt: "Don't worry, Xia He, we will be reunited eventually."

The phone hangs up.

Xia He stared at her phone screen for three seconds before putting it back in her pocket.

He turned around and walked back, not even glancing at those good-for-nothings.

……

Chunfeng Residential Area.

Xia He pushed open the door, took out the Devouring Pouch from the wardrobe, released her mother, and gently channeled her Qi into her mother's body, gradually clearing away the lingering traces of Dou Mei's aura.

A moment later, Xia He's mother, Liu Yuping, rubbed her eyes, looked around, and asked blankly, "Huh, what happened to me?"

She looked at Xia He: "Where's your Aunt Dou?"

Xia He sat down next to her, her tone calm: "She committed a crime and is being investigated by Uncle Hat. She just ran away with her accomplice."

Liu Yuping's eyes widened: "What? How could this happen?"

She quickly pulled out her phone and called Xia He's father, Xia Weidong: "Old Xia! Aunt Dou has been arrested!"

Liu Yuping's eyes gradually cleared.

On the other end of the phone, Xia Weidong was enthusiastically discussing future cooperation with a distributor when he heard this, and he froze for a long time: "Huh? No... what's going on?"

Xia He leaned closer and shouted into the phone, "It's not that he's been arrested, it's that he's wanted."

Liu Yuping panicked: "What's the difference? You should ask the distributors right away, make sure there aren't any problems!"

After hanging up the phone, Liu Yuping took out the contracts and looked at them one by one.

Xia He leaned over and watched along with her.

The dealer contract is fine; the terms are clear, the price is reasonable, and all signatures and seals are complete.

Liu Yuping breathed a sigh of relief.

The phone rang again.

She answered the phone, and her husband's voice came through: "Honey, several distributors have backed out; they don't want the deposit anymore, and they don't want the shoes either!"

Liu Yuping's hand trembled slightly, but she remained relatively calm: "It's okay, at least we still made money from the deposit. We can keep the shoes and sell them slowly."

Xia Weidong's voice trembled slightly: "I just reviewed the previous company's purchase contract. Two thousand pairs of leather shoes must be delivered on time. If it's late by even one day, the penalty is... three times the contract amount."

Liu Yuping's legs went weak, and she had to hold onto the table to avoid falling.

At that moment, two uninvited guests arrived at the factory.

The leader handed over a business card: "Boss Xia, right? We're from the company that ordered two thousand pairs of leather shoes before. We're here to ask how the goods are being prepared."

Xia Weidong was stunned when he saw the two people: "You...didn't you say you didn't want them anymore?"

The man smiled and handed over a document: "Boss Xia, we still need the shoes. This money is for you to earn."

He pointed to the terms and conditions: "The goods should be delivered before the deadline, right?"

Xia Weidong looked at him, wanting to cry but unable to.

Tomorrow is the trading deadline.

Most of the shoes in the factory have already been modified. Even if we change them all back now, how can we possibly finish in time?

Xia Weidong swallowed hard. "I...I'll cancel the deposit. Is that alright?"

The smile on the other party's face vanished instantly: "If you can't deliver according to the contract, then we'll have no choice but to sue you according to the contract."

He patted Xia Weidong on the shoulder and turned to leave.

Another man nodded to him and followed.

The door closed.

Xia Weidong stood there, looking at the contract in his hand, his face ashen.

After a long pause, he took a deep breath and pulled out his phone: "Hey, Lao Zhang, stop work, stop all the lines, revert all those shoes back to their original state, urgently, they must be finished tonight."

He hung up the phone and dialed another number: "Hey, Xiao Li, find me as many temporary workers as possible, high pay, to work all night tonight."

When Xia He and her mother arrived at the factory, the workers were working hard to finish their tasks.

Those shoes that already had their own brand logo were taken off one by one and re-attached with that big company's logo.

Xia Weidong stood by the production line, staring at each step of the process, his eyes bloodshot from exhaustion.

Liu Yuping stared blankly at the shoes that had just been altered and were now being reverted back: "How much...how much did this cost?"

Xia Weidong didn't say anything.

Xia He panicked and took out her phone to dial Dou Mei's number.

connected.

"Dou Mei! Are you trying to drive my parents to their deaths?"

"I didn't mean to pressure your parents at all." Dou Mei's voice was still so gentle on the other end of the phone.

"When their products weren't selling well, wasn't it me who helped contact the distributors? Even if those distributors backed out, your parents still received a deposit, didn't they?"

Xia He gritted her teeth: "Bullshit! Wasn't that batch of shoes arranged by you?"

Dou Mei said innocently, "We're just a few ordinary superhumans, how could we possibly control such a large company? You overestimate us."

Xia He didn't believe a word of it: "You just wait!"

Click, the call ended.

……

In a room somewhere.

Shen Chong leaned back on the sofa, laughing smugly: "Still trying to bully us. We need to let that girl know who can really help her. Do you think those good-for-nothings from the All-Tong Bureau can save her dad's factory?"

Gao Ning glanced at him: "Shen Chong, your emotions are fluctuating a bit too much right now. Try to control yourself."

Shen Chong waved his hand: "I absorbed too much Qi, I'll be fine after a few days of rest."

Dou Mei sat by the window, looking at the night outside, without saying a word.