Chapter 334 - 196: Imported Beef is Still Better! The Appearance of Little Ximo’s Biological Mother!
In principle, if you want to figure out someone’s motivation for doing certain things, it’s actually far less complicated than imagined. You just need to investigate the person, then deduce what they lack through clues, and basically, you can determine why they are doing something.
Like lacking money, so they go get money; lacking water, so they go find water; lacking meat, so they go find food; lacking love, so they cross-dress, etc.
Yuchi thought the same way.
The result of spending half an hour discussing with the City Lord was not just a waste of time, it was simply a waste of breath.
"I underestimated the capabilities of the Great Tang Prison, and I overestimated the capabilities of the Jiangzhou City Imperial Decree Department."
Yuchi was frustrated.
His lips were chapped from talking forward and backward, his smile was stiff, and what was the result?
He didn’t learn a thing. In the eyes of the City Lord, what is the Great Tang Prison anyway?
It’s something extremely high-level.
So the whole conversation ended up being various ways to boast about the Great Tang Prison, as if the Great Tang Prison was their main entity and they weren’t people of the Imperial Decree Department but of the Defense Department.
Yuchi still remembered a segment of the City Lord’s speech:
"The Great Tang Prison is an extremely profound and powerful existence of our Nine Provinces and a force I truly admire. Without our Great Tang Prison, we wouldn’t have the peaceful life we have now. It is the Great Tang Prison that gave us freedom, it’s the Great Tang Prison that gave us rebirth, it’s the Great Tang Prison that taught us how to live."
"We must deeply respect the Great Tang Prison. Without their support, we wouldn’t know how dire our lives would be. Thank the Great Tang Prison, be grateful to the Great Tang Prison, thank the Great Tang Prison, President Yuchi, let’s toast to the existence of the Great Tang Prison and be grateful to live in such an era filled with peace!"
"Cheers!"
This statement from the City Lord really baffled Yuchi. Seems like your flattery skills were quite strong, weren’t they, just trying to utilize my connections with the Great Tang Prison to gain some attention yourself?
Good heavens!
On this point, it turned out that both of us had the exact same idea.
So at that moment, Yuchi simply replied with one sentence:
"City Lord, this time you have told me that the Great Tang Prison actually has so many remarkable achievements. Otherwise, as the mere president of the Xufu Town United Commerce Association, how could I possibly know the Great Tang Prison is so powerful? Thank you, thank you for letting me know the greatness of the Great Tang Prison, and letting me realize my own insignificance."
"From today on, I will silently recite ’Great Tang Prison mighty and strong’ three times every night. Only then can I constantly remind myself, never to slack off, and when doing things, I must consider the Great Tang Prison in front, and I am nothing but a little brick under the Great Tang Prison’s effort in building, wherever the Great Tang Prison needs me, I’ll go there."
"Billy billy...cheers!"
Both spoke in turns, bragging so much that saliva was flying, various praises for the Great Tang Prison, saying it is truly the greatest honor of the Nine Provinces. Without the Great Tang Prison, the whole world would fall apart.
Both who were speaking acted like they found their "soulmates," resulting in making Xun Xian beside them feel embarrassed.
At that time, Xun Xian just wanted to find a hole to crawl into.
If these two scoundrels really presented themselves as mockingly, it would be one thing. But while speaking, their words were so sincere, their eyes were so determined, their posture was so upright, everything proved these two were not just playing; they were saying some serious stuff!
So even though Xun Xian does like hearing outsiders praise their Great Tang Prison, hearing these two guys throw out all sorts of flowery phrases, indeed, still made her feel embarrassed. Listening to it made her face flush as if she were being praised herself.
Simultaneously, she secretly thought: How delightful, this feeling of being praised is so pleasing!
Charmed warning.
And now, having left the Imperial Decree Department, essentially having left the City Lord’s Mansion, Yuchi’s throat was parched.
He bought two bowls of iced tea nearby and gulped them down, finally feeling a bit better.
"So even if the City Lord doesn’t understand Yuchi’s implication, doesn’t know my true purpose of this trip, he still revealed everything he knows." To Yuchi, the conclusion drawn from the City Lord was even more apparent. "Such a high-end Great Tang Prison, could it lack such things? That’s simply impossible."
This was Yuchi’s summary formulated from the City Lord’s words, not representing his own ideas, as he was not involved in discussing this matter.
Putting down the bowl of iced tea, together with Xun Xian holding a meat bun, they continued walking through the streets of Jiangzhou City.
And asked if Yuchi believed it, believing the Great Tang Prison truly lacks nothing?
He certainly didn’t believe it.
"Did the Great Tang Prison come to Xufu Town really for the people?"
Yuchi couldn’t convince himself to believe this.
After all, various signs currently indicate that this world isn’t entirely siding with the people.
Even the Demon-slaying Bureau could raise a demon to control the Defense Department just for profit, so imagine how severe and frightening the conflicts between them must be.