Chapter 232
Chapter 232: Wife Spends Money On Another Guy, He Can Only Rage And Pick Fights
Chong Ming’s voice was low and cold, without any emotion at all: “The money will probably arrive in about half a month. If you are in a hurry and need it sooner, you can use my account.”
Jiang Tea Tea thought for a moment, then said: “That works too. Share your account with me. Whatever I spend, count it as me borrowing from you. I’ll definitely pay you back later.”
He had shared his account with her once before. She had turned the sharing off right away and never spent even a single cent of his money. Now, for the male she liked, she was the one taking the initiative to spend his money.
Chong Ming lifted the wrist that wore his light-brain wrist terminal, opened it, tapped on account sharing, then looked at Jiang Tea Tea with his golden eyes: “It’s done.”
“Thanks!” Jiang Tea Tea flashed him a bright smile: “I’ll first take three days off and bring him around to get familiar with this place, settle him down, then I’ll come find you to arrange other tasks for me.”
Stabbed by that bright smile, Chong Ming narrowed his eyes a little. He spoke in a strictly official tone: “I can’t approve three days. I can only approve one. The Living Dead you brought back from your last mission still haven’t been dealt with.”
“Fine, one day then. I’ll report to you the day after tomorrow.” Jiang Tea Tea finished speaking, took out her flying device, pulled open the driver’s door and sat inside. She leaned out and called toward Jin Lin: “Jin Lin, let’s go.”
Although Jin Lin, this emergency-rations tonic dragon raised by a Great Demon Stage demon, was almost frozen to death, he still understood a demon’s manners. Before leaving, he waved once and gave a small smile.
As the commander in chief’s deputy officer, Deputy Ai did not dare say a single word. He even felt that Jin Lin’s smile and wave were naked provocation toward the commander in chief.
Chong Ming stood where he was, watching the flying device rise into the sky and vanish into the clouds, then said in an icy voice: “Secretary Wen, send word down. Within three months, we must sweep clean everything that is still connected to the former Supernatural Abilities Research Institute director, Li Ao.”
“If something like the Huang Dragon Clan case happens again, where he was involved and we failed to fully investigate, all relevant authorities and all leaders will demote themselves, cut their own pay, and take their punishment.”
Secretary Wen answered: “Yes, commander in chief.”
Chong Ming left the Huang Dragon Clan and boarded the battleship.
The moon rose. The night wind was gentle.
It was not very late, only a little after seven.
Jiang Tea Tea was a woman of action. She set the flying device to autopilot, then started searching on her light-brain wrist terminal for where, on the Zhenlin Empire’s capital planet, she could buy a mountain.
Jin Lin sat in the passenger seat, turned sideways to look at her: “Fellow countryman senior, you have saved me twice and helped me three times. I am already full of gratitude, and I will never forget it. Now you still want to buy a mountain estate for me. That gift is too big. I can’t accept it.”
Jiang Tea Tea kept her eyes on the light-brain wrist terminal and did not even look up: “We are out here away from home. In this broken place, it’s just the two of us. I am a Great Demon Stage demon, and you are a little demon who was imprisoned for three hundred years. If I don’t take care of you, who will?”
“It’s fine, don’t feel any burden. You’re a rogue demon cultivating outside, so you don’t know that in our Demon Realm, we have a mutual help pact.”
“Any demon from the Demon Realm, when they meet another demon outside, as long as the other party is not some very evil, cruel demon who harms people, they will help them as much as they can.”
Jin Lin sighed when he heard that: “Thinking back then, I was in the Human Realm when I first developed spiritual consciousness. I went into deep mountains to cultivate. After five hundred years of cultivation, I took on human form and met another demon like me. It said it came from the Demon Realm.”
“I was curious about the Demon Realm, so I asked it about that place. I didn’t expect it to say the Demon Realm was not a good place, that the weak are prey for the strong. Little demons like me, if we went to the Demon Realm, would just be supplements for Great Demon Stage demons.”
“I got scared and gave up the idea of going to the Demon Realm. I kept cultivating by myself. I cultivated for a thousand years, then got struck by lightning and was blasted to this world.”
“Now that I hear you, it seems like the demon I met back then misled me. If I had gone to the Demon Realm, maybe I wouldn’t have had these three hundred years of suffering.”
As a demon snake, what did this bit of experience even count as?
She did not even dare tell him that she came out so that everyone in the Demon Realm, all her clan members, could drink things like green tea girl drinks and fizzy drinks.
Great Demon Stage demons had to save face.
Jiang Tea Tea cleared her throat on purpose and pretended to be deep, keeping the bearing of a Great Demon Stage demon as she comforted Jin Lin: “Since you’re already here, just go with it. Everything we have gone through is part of our fortune before we ascend.”
Jin Lin clasped his hands to her in a demon clan salute: “Thank you, senior, for your comfort. I will follow your teachings and treat your words as truth and wisdom.”
Jiang Tea Tea nodded in a serious act: “As long as you understand. After you take your revenge and collect what you are owed, just live well. One day, you and I will return to the Demon Realm and find our clan members, or ascend to the Heaven Realm and become immortals who bless one side of the world and enjoy incense and karmic merit offerings.”
Jin Lin was moved to the point of a mess. If they weren’t sitting in the flying device, he would already be kneeling on the ground to kowtow to her.
She was like a bright lamp on his road of cultivation. After suffering three hundred years of torment and abuse, now that he had met her, he suddenly felt he was lucky.
Jiang Tea Tea chose a few mountain estates that were currently for sale, then contacted the middlemen handling the deals. She turned to Jin Lin and said: “Okay, I found a few mountain estates. I’ll bring you to look at them now. Once you pick one, I’ll buy it and give it to you.”
Jin Lin nodded hard: “Thank you, senior.”
Jiang Tea Tea piloted the flying device and took him straight to the foot of a nearby mountain, where they met the broker in charge of selling the mountain.
The broker, when he saw it was her, became hot and eager at once. He started talking nonstop, introducing every advantage this mountain had.
“Hey, hey, didn’t I say so, Kong Que, Kong Que, I knew it. That old dragon Chong Ming left me at the hotel and didn’t care, didn’t even check on me. He must have had some urgent problem fall into his hands. Sure enough, something happened.”
In the hotel, Zhong Li He was sharing a room with Kong Que. After seeing what Jiang Tea Tea posted online and combining it with the feedback from the Western Kingdom, he immediately understood that with Chong Ming’s huge family and business, of course he would have a lot of parasites.
Especially since, in the Zhenlin Empire, there were countless Dragon Clan members. Their own Golden Dragon clan had the smallest numbers, so there were tons of dragons eyeing their position.
Kong Que had also seen the post Jiang Tea Tea made on StarNet. He thought for a moment and said: “Executive commander, don’t be so quick to gloat and mock commander in chief Chong Ming.”
“Miss Jiang Tea Tea doesn’t seem like someone who likes to meddle. Today her post on StarNet looked like she was condemning the illegal Research Institute and giving people who took the potion pills a way to ease their pain. But in my opinion, she was actually helping that person whose blood, flesh, and scales were cut off to get justice.”
“In other words, the victim in this case is someone under Miss Jiang Tea Tea’s protection.”
“Look at the comments from all the StarNet friends. The potion pills they took have been around for two or three hundred years. That means the victim is over three hundred years old.”
“For Miss Jiang Tea Tea to meddle this much for a three-hundred-and-something-year-old victim, then next, Chong…”
Before Kong Que could finish, there was a knock on the door of their room, cutting off his words and his analysis.
He walked quickly to the door, pulled it open, and saw commander in chief Chong Ming standing there. He froze for a second, then saluted: “Commander in chief Chong Ming, good evening.”
Chong Ming nodded slightly: “Good evening. I’m looking for your executive commander.”
Zhong Li He rushed over and instantly sensed something off in the other man’s aura and expression. He opened his mouth and went straight for the softest spot in his heart: “It’s late at night and you’re not at home hugging your partner and touching your youngling. What are you doing coming to me?”
Chong Ming coldly spat out two words: “Fight.”