The two had already drunk quite a bit and were in a semi-conscious state.

Jun Jianchou then mistook Wen Qihe for the enemy who had attacked him.

So he swung his fist and hit Wen Qihe on the left cheek.

Wen Qihe was now intoxicated and didn't even know who the other person was. He didn't hold back when hitting Jun Jianchou, and almost every punch landed squarely.

The two fought back and forth without any strategy for an hour. In the end, both of them were disheveled and exhausted. They lay down on the ground and fell asleep with even breathing.

When Wen Qixi was summoned by Qiaoying, she saw two people lying unconscious, their faces bruised and swollen, their clothes disheveled.

Qiaoying's eyebrows twitched involuntarily as she looked at her young mistress's indescribable expression.

Wen Qi's eyes were like a raging storm.

His tone was filled with barely suppressed anger:

"Someone, quietly take the young lady back."

"yes."

As soon as he finished speaking, a bodyguard appeared out of nowhere, carried Miss Wen away from Zuixianlou.

Where is the son-in-law?

After the guards carried Wen Qihe away, Wen Qixi asked about the whereabouts of Qiaoying and Cenxi.

“Young master… the young master has disappeared, and this servant does not know where he went.”

Qiaoying felt that her son-in-law was even less reliable than her young lady, so she disappeared without saying a word.

If she were reliable, she would never have let Miss and Young Master Jun end up like this.

"Keep the news under wraps. Not a single word about what happened at Zuixianlou today can be revealed."

Wen Qi took a closer look at the shopkeeper, then stepped out.

"Yes! Young Master Jun, what should we do about him?"

The shopkeeper bowed and cupped his hands in greeting, then asked, "What should be done with Jun Jianchou?"

"Let him stay in this room. After he sobers up, tell him everything that happened between him and Wen Qihe, whether he remembers it or not."

Wen Qi glanced at the shopkeeper, composed herself, and said.

"yes!"

After the shopkeeper responded, Wen Qixi led Qiaoying, who looked pale and sickly, downstairs.

...

After returning to Feifeng Mountain, Cen Xi handed over the training plan she had prepared and several secret manuals to Liu Ji.

She also passed on to her the method of setting up the Star Shift Formation that her master had taught her.

She wanted them to become her trump cards, just like those powerful and influential families, to become her secret guards.

After arranging everything, she remembered the two concubines that Wen Qixi had sent her.

After ignoring them for so long, she wanted to see how much of their initial reluctance had been worn away.

Cen Xi entered her courtyard and looked around. She saw the two women hiding in a corner, neither daring to approach her.

So he sat on a stone bench in the courtyard and waved to them.

When Cen Xi called them, the two hesitated for a moment, but eventually stood in front of Cen Xi and bowed.

"This servant greets Your Majesty!"

"You've been here for almost a month now, how have you been?"

Cen Xi tapped her fingers lightly on the table and asked.

"We were wrong, Master. Please assign us some tasks. We've been ignored and given the cold shoulder these past few days. We don't know what we did wrong, Master. Everyone else has been given tasks, why not us?"

After Cen Xi finished asking her question, a girl in green clothes on her left looked up at Cen Xi and told her about her distress over the past month.

"Stand aside and don't say anything. I'll ask her."

Cen Xi glanced at the woman who had spoken and nodded.

"Yes, Ziyuan is good too. I hope Master can trust us."

The woman in green nodded to Cen Xi, said a kind word on behalf of the woman who had remained silent, and then stepped aside.

"You think so too?"

Cen Xi looked at her feigned respect but actually deep resentment and raised an eyebrow to ask.

“Of course, since you have asked me to serve you, I can only be your servant from now on.”

Seeing that Cen Xi was staring at her, she couldn't bear the pressure and finally spoke up.

"Judging from your tone, you're saying you just do whatever Wen Qixi tells you to do?"

Cen Xi found her words very interesting. It seemed that despite her cold treatment over the past month, the other party still only recognized her former master.

She only listened to her because Wen Qixi had given her to her.

"Yes! That's what the old lady told me before. She said that I would belong to the young master from now on, and that whatever I do or say should be based on him. Since he has given me to you and asked me to serve you, I will naturally serve you."

The woman named Ziyuan proudly raised her neck and said stubbornly.

"So you're actually quite devoted? Are you suggesting I should send you back to Wen Qixi?"

Cen Xi tapped her fingers on the table, appearing deep in thought.

"No! Young master won't want me anymore, I..."

Recalling the young master's heartless act of sending them away, the woman's face instantly turned ashen.

“I only keep people who are willing to stay by my side. I can see that you still can’t see the situation clearly. So tell me, what should I do with you? How about I sell you to a brothel to get some money? With your delicate and frail appearance, you’ll definitely fetch a good price.”

Cen Xi looked her over carefully, then asked with a mischievous grin.

"you."

The girl in purple was instantly speechless.

"So what are you thinking? Tell me the truth. I don't like hypocrisy. I hate it when people say one thing to your face and another behind your back. If master and servants can't be of one mind, I have no use for you. That's why I've been leaving you hanging for a month."

After finishing this, Cen Xi asked about the person who had knelt down and pledged loyalty earlier.

"I... Master, rest assured, this servant will be loyal to you from now on."

When she heard Cen Xi say that Zi Yuan was going to be sold to a brothel, her body trembled as she walked over.

"You're scared already? Before you came, did Wen Qixi tell you how I was going to deal with the former leader of Feifeng Mountain?"

Cen Xi looked at the two women, one indignant and the other trembling like a leaf, and felt extremely disappointed.

I thought that if I left them to their own devices, they would realize their mistake, but this is how it turned out.

"This servant...this servant..."

The woman, who was so frightened that she could not control herself, collapsed to the ground in front of Cen Xi.

"Sigh! It seems I'm not destined to be served either. Out of consideration for our shared womanhood, I'll allow you to leave the mountain. You're free now; your life or death is none of my concern."

After saying these words, Cen Xi got up, went back to her room, took their indentures, threw them to them, and went back to her room to sleep.

She needs to rest and recuperate before returning to the Hidden Sect. She still has many questions about that Yan Taizu and needs to confirm them with her grandmaster in person.

She slept from late afternoon until the early morning of the next day.

She got dressed and went outside, just in time to see Liu Ji hesitatingly knocking on the door of her courtyard.

"Come in! What do you want?"

Cen Xi stretched and asked.

"Master, this morning those two girls in your courtyard tried to go down the mountain with their indentures. The brothers at the mountain gate didn't dare to let them go, so they came to me. What do you think we should do?"

After Liu Ji entered, he cupped his hands in greeting to Cen Xi and then recounted what had happened that morning.