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Chapter 98 Dark Gold Entry: "Master Strategist" Xu Maogong!

Wu Qing really didn't understand why Qin Shubao was dark gold while Cheng Yaojin was bright gold.

In his view, no matter what, at least these two people should be the same.

Shan Xiongxin then introduced Dou Xianniang and Wu Qing to Qin Shubao.

As for the young woman in white who came with them, he didn't know her background and didn't introduce her.

Qin Qiong was also happy that Shan Xiongxin's family was safe and sound.

Although the incident was caused by You Junda and Cheng Yaojin, Shan Xiongxin was in such a hurry to save them that he didn't have time to save his own family.

Qin Qiong was known for his generosity and loyalty, and was called "Little Mengchang" by the people of the martial arts world.

Knowing that Wu Qing was a sworn brother of You Junda and Cheng Yaojin, he valued him even more.

But then a loud laugh rang out: "So this is Miss Dou, and the advisor from Wuji Village who won against overwhelming odds? At such a young age, you're already—"

A burly man carrying two enormous hammers swaggered over, exuding an air of arrogance, like a master.

Before he could finish speaking, he saw Dou Xianniang and Wu Qing and froze for a moment.

Dou Xianniang and Wu Qing glanced sideways at his two hammers—they were huge hammers.

Shan Xiongxin introduced, "This is Qi Guoyuan, the second-in-command of Shaohua Mountain."

Dou Xianniang laughed, "So you're the second-in-command of Shaohua Mountain. Your hammer is so big, it must be very heavy!"

"It's alright—it's alright!" Qi Guoyuan stood there, frozen.

Qin Qiong asked in surprise, "Do you two know each other?"

Wu Qing smiled and waved his fan, "We didn't meet at the time. It was just that we had two friends who were blocked by this Master Qi with a hammer for a while."

"It's a good thing he ran fast; one of our friends almost wanted to stab him a few times with a spear. Speaking of which, this Brother Qi's hammer was clearly broken at the time, but I didn't expect him to make a new one so quickly?"

Qi Guoyuan hurriedly placed the two large hammers on the ground, cupped his hands, and said, "Forgive me! Forgive me! I truly didn't know we were all family at that time."

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Wu Qing looked at Qi Guoyuan, whose name was displayed in blue.

—"Qi Guoyuan (Ninth Realm Martial Artist)."

Qin Qiong asked about it and learned about the "pearl-grabbing" incident that day.

Qi Guoyuan said, "That night, my cousin Luo Cheng happened to be passing by. Because Li Rugui and I had offended him before, he snatched the bead from us."

"At that time, Luo Cheng thought that Miss Dou and Master Wu were on our side, but then they started fighting again. Li Rugui and I saw that neither side was easy to deal with, so we ran away first."

"But then—um."

He looked behind Dou Xianniang at the girl in the pink and white flowing dress who had been avoiding Qin Qiong.

Qin Qiong noticed the strange look in his eyes, took a step to the side, and upon seeing the girl clearly, exclaimed in surprise, "Cousin, what are you doing here?"

Luo Zhuluan had no choice but to bite the bullet and step forward, saying, "Cousin! My brother and I were originally going to Jinan together to celebrate Aunt's birthday."

"On the way, I saw that my brother and Sister Dou Xianniang had a misunderstanding, so I secretly took the pearl to return to Sister Dou and Young Master Wu. I didn't expect my brother to be angry and feel that I had lost face, so he kicked me out."

Qin Qiong stamped his foot: "Alas! How could he have driven you out alone?"

Luo Zhuluan said, "That's right, he really went too far."

Only then did Shan Xiongxin realize that the girl in the pink and white flowing dress who came with Miss Dou was actually Qin Qiong's cousin and the sister of "Cold Noodles and Cold Spear" Luo Cheng.

Because the other party had helped save his family, he went forward again to express his gratitude.

Qin Qiong then led his cousin to see his mother.

Luo Zhuluan glanced at Wu Qing, then decided to go and meet his aunt first.

Shan Xiongxin first had his wife and children settled in, and then took Dou Xianniang and Wu Qing to meet with the others.

Wu Qing whispered to him, "Uncle Shan, please forgive my bluntness."

"I know that You and Cheng were arrested that day. It happened suddenly, and there was no other way but to rebel. But why didn't you send someone ahead of time to notify everyone to take refuge?"

"As long as you do it, no matter how fast the government issues orders, they won't have time to arrest you. Yet the whole Shan family was arrested?"

Shan Xiongxin gritted his teeth: "That bastard Xu Maogong, I handed over the men I brought with me and the others to him to give orders, while Wang Bodang and I went alone to rescue Shubao."

"As a result, he saved everyone's family members, but not mine. It was because I had said beforehand that friends are like limbs and wives are like clothes, so he used that to shut me up and even sent You Junda and Cheng Yaojin to stop me from retaliating."

Dou Xianniang listened in horror: "He saved the families of all thirty or forty heroes who rebelled together, but not the Shan family?"

Wu Qing lightly patted his chest with his feather fan: "I see!"

He remained puzzled: if everyone rebelled together but didn't go to save their own families first, how could they work together in the future?

Unexpectedly, it was only Shan Xiongxin's family who did not go to rescue him.

Immediately following this, a storm of emotions surged within him: "Could it be that Xu Maogong was prescient, knowing in advance that the Li Tang dynasty would surely gain the world, and that Shan Xiongxin had absolutely no chance of joining the Li Tang?"

"So, they took precautions and preemptively sidelined Shan Xiongxin?"

"Is the Xu Maogong of this world really like the one in 'The Story of the Tang Dynasty,' who could foresee five hundred years into the past and five hundred years into the future?"

Looking back now, the reason why Shan Xiongxin was later locked into Wang Shichong's camp was because he married Wang Shichong's daughter.

The reason he married Wang Shichong's daughter was because his wife and children had all died.

When the heroes and warriors of Wang Shichong's camp abandoned him one after another, only Shan Xiongxin could not leave.

It was because he had become Wang Shichong's son-in-law.

This chain of events led to Shan Xiongxin being left alone in Wang Shichong's camp, where he ultimately met a violent end.

If he hadn't married Wang Shichong's daughter, even if he couldn't join the Li Tang dynasty, he could have joined Dou Jiande or Liu Wuzhou.

Normally, Liu Heita stayed in Wang Shichong's camp for a period of time, but then looked down on Wang Shichong and switched sides to Dou Jiande.

Could Xu Maogong really have foreseen something like this? His scalp tingled.

As they were speaking, a Taoist priest dressed in a robe embroidered with yin and yang stepped out from the main tent, surrounded by many people who spontaneously gathered around him.

Wu Qing used the license plate verification function and looked closely.

Dark gold text entry.

—"Xu Maogong (Master Calculator)".

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Like Qin Qiong, Luo Cheng, and Pei Yuanqing, their names are displayed directly in dark gold.

The moment Wu Qing saw Xu Maogong, he suddenly seemed to understand something and began to vaguely comprehend the difference between dark gold and bright gold.

Shiny gold is malleable.

Platinum, which looks more upscale, doesn't work.

For him, famous generals and heroes with bright gold attributes are all people he can win over, and at the very least, he can still exert some influence over them.

These dark gold entries, whether due to fate or other reasons, are destined not to be on your side.

He breathed a sigh of relief after understanding this.

At the same time, Xu Maogong spotted the young man who had come with Shan Xiongxin, and, with his hand hidden in his sleeve, he calculated with his fingers—