Xiong De did not meet the old man for a long time, almost a year now. After most of his shares in the Xiong Empire was taken away, he made various excuses to visit the old man and handed out his 'gifts' personally.
His gifts were naturally accepted as all of the relatives who visited here personally would normally gift the old man a box of expensive herbal tea, ginseng, some tea seat, antiques, or his favorite incense. They usually would secretly watch out to not clash with each other's gifts and avoided gifting redundantly.
Thus, in the past two years, he took the job to be the old man's supplier of his incense. Others thought he was simply trying to get back the old man's grace.
Even when he finally refrained from visiting too much and simply sent the gifts over, he had never received rejection from the main house.
