The elderly man looked down on the Guo family, merely pretending to be above others to dissociate himself from merchants, detesting their money-grabbing smell and putting on a cautious and humble front in public, yet his ambition was sky-high, truly laughable.
Who had been supporting him in secret? Without the Silver from the Guo family to pave the way, could that old man have reached his current high position?
Moreover, that old man had even kept...
Guo Neng thought of this and dared not continue. He punched a pillar in the corridor, growing more enraged by the second, yet he had to suppress his anger and endure silently, truly stifling.
That old man had said that the Internal Guard Bureau had been strict in their inspections during these days, warning him not to seek him out without good cause.
He knew that if he were to go there openly now, his elder might not see him, and even if he did, he viewed his issue as trivial and might simply send him away without helping.
