"If we let them keep investigating, the sky might really fall down."
"It's the foreigner's sky that will be falling, not ours... But we still need to pay attention to the Shen Family."
"The Shen Family? I've had people identify them, and over half of these people are the Yang Family's lackeys."
"If they keep raising the price and challenging us, it is indeed the Yang Family's doing."
"But given the current situation, it doesn't seem like the Shen Family's style. Where do they get the courage to make such a big commotion?"
"I think they're quite daring... Old Man Shen is almost at the point of coercing the emperor to command the princes."
"What about us?"
"Now is not the time; wait for the foreign traders to be out of the picture before we make a move."
"Alright."
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Outside the Gem Company's main gates, the gathering crowd had already reached over three thousand.
"Madam, the police station won't respond to our call." The secretary walked in, looking pale.