Chapter 273: Chapter 273

"Elder Huo, you’ve misunderstood, please take a seat!" Cheng Tianxue said.

"Humph! Mr. Cheng, don’t cover for the other party! Whoever dares to slander me, if they don’t give me an explanation today, they can forget about taking a single step out of this door!" Elder Huo said with a dark face.

"It really is a misunderstanding, Elder Huo..."

"Shut your mouth!" Cheng Tianxue had not finished speaking when Zhang Xiaohao forcibly interrupted.

"Someone is sabotaging your company, pushing you into the fire pit! With people like that, there’s no need to reason, just use the harshest method to deal with them!" Zhang Xiaohao said indifferently.

If these people had targeted him.

Perhaps, Zhang Xiaohao wouldn’t be this angry!

But their greatest fault lay not in targeting Cheng Tianxue, nor in using such despicable methods to trap the company she had painstakingly built.

"You’ve got some guts, kid! Trying to make a name for yourself by even targeting me!" Elder Huo said with a cold laugh.

"Old man, I’m truly embarrassed for you!" Zhang Xiaohao said dispassionately.

"What do you mean?" Elder Huo asked, puzzled.

"At your age, taking millions in salary from the company every year, using what the company provides, yet you collaborate with outsiders to harm it! I ask you, can’t you have a little shame?" Zhang Xiaohao cursed.

"Humph! You’re talking complete nonsense! I lead an upright life and sit at my desk with dignity. Even in the national association of traditional Chinese medicine, I hold the title of honorary vice-president, and my medical expertise is at the level of a national master. Do you think, a greenhorn like you, can slander me? Do you believe that with one call, I can make sure you spend the rest of your life behind bars?" Elder Huo said with a cold laugh.

"Haha..." Hearing his words, Zhang Xiaohao immediately burst into laughter.

"What are you laughing at, you brat?" Elder Huo asked with a dark face.

"I laugh at your overestimation of yourself, I laugh at your self-deception! I laugh at you for burying your head in the sand! With your pathetic medical skills, you dare to call yourself a national master? An honorary vice-president of the association of traditional Chinese medicine? Pah! Even beggars on the street are better than you! At least they earn their keep with their own ability. But you, you’re engaged in filthy deeds unworthy even of a pig or a dog!" Zhang Xiaohao cursed.

"You’re talking nonsense!" Elder Huo shouted angrily.

"Am I? Well then, I ask you, what’s the deal with the mercury in this set of cosmetics?" Zhang Xiaohao said with a cold laugh.

"Humph! You know nothing, yet have the audacity to slander me! Listen up, kid, I will give you a lesson today, let me tell you what mercury is!" Elder Huo said with a cold laugh.

"Mercury is indeed highly toxic by itself but when neutralized with nectar, it can play a role in whitening and protecting the skin! Using it has absolutely no side effects." Elder Huo boasted.

"Yes! Mercury when neutralized with nectar has absolutely no side effects when used! But how much mercury did you put in there? A single set of cosmetics contains a whole tael of mercury, and you’ve even added the extremely cold medicinal herb Snow Lotus. Are you trying to kill people?" Zhang Xiaohao cursed angrily.

"Nonsense! The ingredients I added were completely proportional! There are no side effects at all!" Elder Huo shouted angrily.

"Go to hell with your ’proportional’!" Zhang Xiaohao cursed angrily.

His fist, without any warning, smashed into his face, knocking him to the ground.

"Ah! Elder Huo, are you alright?"

Seeing this scene, four disciples immediately rushed up and helped him up from the ground.

"Mr. Zhang!" Cheng Tianxue said through gritted teeth.

"Shut up! You have nothing to do with this." Zhang Xiaohao snapped coldly.

Gazing coldly at Elder Huo lying on the ground, blood flowing from his nose.

"Old fellow, didn’t you claim time and again that this cosmetics set was non-toxic and didn’t have any side effects? I won’t make it difficult for you. The one million sets of ’Light of Hope’ cosmetics produced by the company, consider them a gift to you," Zhang Xiaohao said indifferently.

"You little brat, how dare you hit me! I’m telling you, you’re dead today, no one can save you, no matter who comes!" Elder Huo roared fiercely.

"Old guy, cut the crap with me! The one million sets of ’Light of Hope’ cosmetics produced by the company, I won’t make it hard for you either! Just give them all to your family to use, anyone related to you, from your eighty-year-old mother to the newborn baby. Starting now, they must use this cosmetics set immediately! And keep using it until they finish it all!" Zhang Xiaohao said coldly.

"You—you’re going too far!" Elder Huo bellowed.

"Who’s the one going too far, you or me? Take a good look at yourself in the mirror. You take a massive salary from the company, yet secretly you do things that betray us, pushing the company into the fire! Did a dog eat your conscience?" Zhang Xiaohao cursed angrily.

As he spoke, his anger grew. He rushed up and started beating him with a flurry of punches and kicks.

"Ah! Stop it right now!" Cheng Tianxue shouted coldly.

Hearing this, Zhang Xiaohao stopped.

"Old man, you only get one chance. I’m asking you one last time, who exactly put you up to poisoning the ’Light of Hope’?" Zhang Xiaohao demanded coldly.

"You really want to take this to the extreme, you little brat?" Elder Huo said darkly.

"Don’t talk to me about that nonsense. You’ve only got two options in front of you. First, confess who the mastermind is and compensate the company for all its losses! If the money’s not enough, no worries, just take your family and go sell yourselves, steal, rob, just make sure you compensate for every loss the company has suffered!"

"Second, you and your entire family, including your little ones, spend the rest of your lives in jail! Don’t worry, I’ll have a word with the guys inside. They’ll make sure you’re all floating on cloud nine," Zhang Xiaohao said coldly.

Elder Huo gave Zhang Xiaohao a long, hard look, then struggled to stand up from the ground.

He walked quietly to the window.

"Mr. Cheng, I’m sorry. I betrayed the company! I pushed both the company and you into the pit of fire! I know it’s too late to say this now, but please, for the sake of all the years of hard work I’ve put into the company, spare my family!" Elder Huo said in despair. Tʜe sourcᴇ of thɪs content ɪs 𝔫𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔩⁂𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔢⁂𝔫𝔢𝔱

"What? It was really you? Why would you do such a thing?" Cheng Tianxue demanded furiously.

"I beg your pardon, but I can’t tell you the real reason. In Jianghu, we’re not in control of our own fate!" Elder Huo said.

After that, before anyone could react, he jumped out of the window.

The people present screamed in shock and immediately rushed to the window.

Looking down at Elder Huo, who had fallen and lay splattered on the ground, everyone there felt their emotions grow complicated.

"Did I say you could leave?" Zhang Xiaohao’s indifferent voice rang out.

The four disciples of Elder Huo, who had already made it to the door, stopped trembling when they heard Zhang Xiaohao.

"Th-that’s got nothing to do with us! It was all that old guy’s doing."