They had fish for dinner.
Having collected bodies from a sewage pond during the day, which left many feeling unwell, they could only manage to eat aquatic creatures that evening, such as coral trout, grouper, mantis shrimp, crabs, squat lobster, and deco pod squilloids from the Decapod Squilla Family. This meal was on Jiang Yuan's tab, and not expensed to the Zhengguang Bureau, to lift the spirits of Tao Lu and the others a bit.
Tao Lu seized the chance and heartily chatted with Huang Qiangmin, arms linked and faces flushed, for a good fifteen minutes.
The case had to progress no matter what, such that even if Huang Qiangmin's demands were a bit more stringent, Tao Lu might have agreed to them. So, when the final terms were agreed upon, Tao Lu even felt that Huang Qiangmin's demands were not so outrageously excessive.
