Qian Qing smiled gently, his face as warm and refined as jade. He offered a few more words of concern and advice before taking his leave.
Gu Dong watched Qian Qing disappear from the teleportation array before turning back into the courtyard, where he saw Bei Yan already standing there, stretching lazily in the sunlight.
"I didn't realize, Xiao Yan'er, that your acting is so good!" Gu Dong poured himself a cup of tea and praised her.
"That's right, don't you know who my disciple is?" Bei Yan sat down on the stone bench opposite the antique without any hesitation.
He picked up the teapot and poured himself a cup of tea. He took a small sip, his dark eyes narrowing slightly. This tea was truly fragrant.
"By the way, Xiao San'er is back, but why haven't my senior brothers returned yet?"
"Who knows? Maybe he was too lazy recently and his skills in controlling his natal beast became rusty. He might have been left behind by the snow wolf and couldn't come back."
When it comes to criticizing their own apprentices, antique dealers show absolutely no mercy.
"I heard someone talking badly about us behind our backs again. Sigh, the elderly are so disrespectful, and the world is going to the dogs!"
A familiar, loud male voice rang out, and Shangguan Shu and Shangguan Mu walked into the courtyard one after the other.
"What did you say, you little brat! Are you itching for a beating again?!" The antique-looking man blew on his beard, put down his teacup, and glared at Shangguan Shu.
"Oh my, Master, you look even younger than before! So dashing and handsome!"
Seeing Gu Dong glare at him, Shangguan Shu immediately backed down and took out a large pile of Gu Dong's favorite delicacies from his storage ring, which finally softened Gu Dong's expression.
Shangguan Mu sat quietly next to Bei Yan and poured himself a cup of tea with practiced ease.
Bei Yan nudged Shangguan Mu with her elbow, her exquisite and beautiful face sparkling with gossip, and said teasingly...
"How was it, Second Brother? Did any of the ladies find me a wife at this banquet?"
Shangguan Mu slapped Bei Yan on the back of the head without any politeness. "Are you gloating?"
I even shielded her from a bad romance, what a heartless little rascal.
Shangguan Mu is a typical straight man; those delicate young ladies from noble families at the banquet were, in fact, completely beneath his notice.
They're too busy worrying about their own dim-witted older brother to have any extra thoughts about these things.
"No, they're just concerned about your and your senior brother's marriage. Sigh, a beautiful, kind, and caring junior sister like me..."
"You'd be hard-pressed to find someone like this even with a lantern! Second Brother, you and Eldest Brother should cherish each other, okay?"
Bei Yan patted Shangguan Mu on the shoulder and said earnestly.
"Junior Sister, people need face and trees need bark. I advise you to be a decent human being." Shangguan Shu, who had just declared a truce with the antique, sat to the side, cracking sunflower seeds and making disdainful remarks.
Shangguan Mu nodded in deep agreement, "Big brother is right, junior sister, second senior brother also advises you to be a decent human being."
Beiyan "..."
"Master, don't stop me! Where's my forty-meter-long broadsword?" Bei Yan stood up, rolled up his sleeves, and looked menacing.
The antique sipped his tea, not even lifting his eyelids, and casually uttered a sentence.
"I won't stop you. Go for it! I believe you can kill those two little brats."
Beiyan "..."
Are people no longer playing by the rules these days?
Antique Master put down his teacup and casually added, "Little Yan'er, a forty-meter-long broadsword isn't very effective. I suggest you..."
Burn their clothes with phoenix fire, then kick them off Qingyun Peak, leaving them running naked.
Shangguan Shu and Shangguan Mu: "???!!!!!!!!!"
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