Lin Mu was not expecting for there to be something behind the visit of Wu Teng. This turned out to be a much bigger thing than people knew of. The commoners only knew that lieutenant Wu Teng was coming to meet his father.
"What truly? But isn’t it a bit suddenly? Aren’t affairs such as these rather high profile... at least in case of High officials like Wu Teng and the Mayor?" Lin Mu questioned further.
Another sigh escaped Hei Wen’s lips as she rubbed her head.
"We were completely in the dark about it and only found out about it because the lord attended the banquet where it was decided. It was rather abrupt too and the people there were all shocked." Hei Wen answered in a tired tone.
"So then... what does this mean for us? Like to me, it doesn’t seem important." Lin Mu stated.
Till now Lin Mu was suspicious that something serious was happening, but now that he heard that it was as a relatively simple affair such as this, he didn’t care about it much.
"Of course, there isn’t anything for you to do. But for us, we have a lot of things that now need to be changed, plans that need to be modified." Hei Wen replied.
Lin Mu took a breath of relief after hearing that he had no need to get involved in it and that it was an internal matter of the Hei Corps.
"I’ll take my leave then. That’s all I needed to ask pretty much." Lin Mu said and was about to stand up when Hei Wen spoke.
Lin Mu stopped and sat back down on the chair and waited for her to say what she wanted to say.
"Although you are not involved right now, you may need to in the future." Hei Wen stated.
"Oh? How so?" Lin Mu asked.
Even if Lin Mu was reluctant to get involved in the matter right now, it didn’t mean that he would do it if he was asked by Hei Corps. He was still grateful to them and didn’t mind helping them out.
"Actually, the lord wanted to invite you to the very banquet that happened a month ago. But the circumstances changed, and then there was no need. Still, I’m sure the lord would probably be inviting you in the future. He also wanted to meet you in person." Hei Wen explained.
Lin Mu was now curious too. He too had been wanting to meet the ’Lord’ for a while now, and even Senior Xukong had praised him before. He was one of the few people that Xukong had praised, including Jing Wei.
"Sure, it shouldn’t be a problem as long as you inform me beforehand." Lin Mu answered.
"Alright. We should know a bit more of what’s going to happen in the upcoming days, thus I will inform you according to that." Hei Wen replied.
Lin Mu nodded his head, and then a thought appeared in his mind.
"Umm, what does the lord want with me exactly? Except for of course meeting me formally?" Lin Mu asked curiously.
"The lord... will want you to fight. Or more accurately demonstrate your strength." Hei Wen answered hesitatingly.
Lin Mu’s brows furrowed upon hearing this. While he was not afraid of fighting, he was no fool to rush into a fight randomly. If there was no proper reason for it, he would never accept something .
"And why would I need to fight?" Lin Mu questioned in a serious tone.
"When the before the marriage, certain ceremonies are held. One of these involves the demonstration of each attending party’s strength. Since the lord is one of the influential persons attending it, he needs someone to represent him.
Although he has us the Hei Corps with him, we cannot fight for him. Most of our members are not strong enough to qualify for a competition of that level, and the ones that are cannot be revealed. The lord cannot recruit a mercenary either as that would lead to a loss of face for him.
This leaves him with one choice, you." Hei Wen answered in detail.
Lin Mu did not speak anything after Hei Wen was done and simply thought it over. Hei Wen too did not interrupt him as she knew that this decision was in his hands and if he really wanted to reject it, there wasn’t anything she could do.
The lord and she were already a bit apprehensive about Lin Mu’s master and were careful about him. The lord had done an investigation of his own and all of them had come back empty. This only made them more and more scared about the master behind Lin Mu.
As they did not want to offend the master behind Lin Mu, they could not force him to do anything that he did not want to.
Hei Wen was getting nervous as five minutes had passed by and Lin Mu had still not responded.
"Alright, I accept!" Lin Mu answered in a determined tone.
Hei Wen silently let out a breath of relief. Although her lord had not yet asked her to tell Lin Mu this, she had taken the risk to preemptively ask him. She had been apprehensive about being rejected but now that Lin Mu had said yes she was happy with it.
"Though I have some conditions," Lin Mu added at the end.
Hei Wen calmed down upon hearing his words and did not mind them. She did not think the lord would ask Lin Mu to do this for free either. Having some kind of reward or payment was fine, though the question stood what is it that he wanted.
"Please go ahead and state it." Hei Wen said.
"I need beast meat... lots of it. Enough for a person to last for an entire year and I want it fresh." Lin Mu said in a straight tone.
Hei Wen was completely thrown off by this.