Eventually, even Xu Xuan’s grandfather found out. Xu Xuan naturally wouldn’t hide it from his own grandfather. The old man was very interested in Li Xiang and wanted to set a time to meet him.

In fact, Xu Xuan had originally planned to keep that last one to give to his grandfather as a birthday present. However, the price offered was simply too high, so Xu Xuan sold it. After all, it wasn’t his to begin with, and he didn’t have that much cash on hand.

Li Xiang was quite moved when he heard this. ’This is an honest man,’ he thought, ’the kind of person worth knowing.’

"If—and I’m just saying if—you have any more of this Spiritual Medicine, could you sell one to me? But I only have fifty million," Xu Xuan said.

"No problem. I actually found some other good things on the mountain last time, no less potent than that Golden Fat Spirit. It was a fortunate coincidence. My family ate a few, and there’s only one left," Li Xiang said with a slight smile.

"Really? That’s great!" Xu Xuan was quite surprised. He had only been asking on a whim, just to try his luck, and didn’t expect Li Xiang to actually have more.

As for whether Li Xiang truly only had one left, he didn’t ask. If the man said so, then it was so. There was no point in doubting him and prying further; it would be in poor taste. You could lose a friend that way.

"Then see when your grandfather is free. I’ll bring it over as a meeting gift."

"No, no, that won’t do. I still have to pay you." Although Xu Xuan’s cash flow wasn’t great at the moment, he felt he couldn’t just take something so valuable from Li Xiang for free. The fact that Li Xiang was willing to sell it to him for fifty million was already more than generous.

"Also, don’t worry, I’ll keep this confidential." Aside from his own grandfather, Xu Xuan had never told anyone the source of the Spiritual Medicine. However, he figured he couldn’t hide it from certain interested parties. After all, with the flow of funds and Lei Jiaming’s previous delivery, anyone who really wanted to investigate could surely find out.

Before long, Li Xiang’s tourism development company received several large transfers. There were four in total: 20 million from the sale to the National Martial Arts Master, 66 million from the auction, 200 million from the Xiangjiang tycoon, and 50 million from Xu Xuan himself, for a grand total of 336 million.

The funds were transferred from one of Xu Xuan’s auction houses, a corporate-to-corporate transaction. It was all pre-tax, so Li Xiang would have to file the taxes himself.

Zhao Xueqing’s cousin-in-law, who worked part-time as an accountant for both of Li Xiang’s companies, was absolutely stunned when she saw these massive deposits. ’Holy crap, what kind of connections does he have?’ she thought. ’This accounting is going to be a real piece of work.’ This was because Li Xiang had instructed her to minimize the tax burden as much as was legally and reasonably possible.

Li Xiang also notified the people at his company—mainly the accountant and Zhao Xueqing—to maintain confidentiality.

As for Yao Yao and Lei Xiaohui, Li Xiang hadn’t let them know at all.

Because Zhao Xueqing was related to the accountant, it was inevitable that she would find out.

Zhao Xueqing was also completely astonished. Her cousin-in-law urged her, "Your boss is single and unmarried. You need to make a move now! An opportunity like this won’t come again."

A hidden billionaire from a poor, remote mountain village—who could have imagined? 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

If it weren’t for the fact that the auction house that made the transfer was well-known in the provincial capital and was even said to have official backing, the cousin-in-law would have suspected Li Xiang of being involved in some kind of money laundering scheme.

’Sigh, I wish I could,’ Zhao Xueqing thought. ’But it’s useless if the feelings are one-sided. Besides me, Yao Yao and Lei Xiaohui are also eyeing him... and it seems there’s Jiang Cai’Er, too. The pressure is intense!’

However, she felt a strange sense of superiority, thinking she knew more than Yao Yao and the others. ’See? I know Brother Xiang’s true power, while all of you are being kept in the dark.’