Qiu Liang paused for a moment, observing the people in the room who were looking at him with forced and suspicious smiles, and boldly speculated, "Could it be that you guys teamed up to sell me off to someone else and are now dividing the spoils?"
Wang Nianqing couldn't help but take off his mask and burst into laughter. Qiu Liang was next to Tang Chen. After hearing so many random words, he started to have wild thoughts. "Pfft, what are you thinking about, hahaha!"
Qiu Liang was slightly stunned. He had truly forgotten what he had just said. Thinking about it now, he felt a little embarrassed. Of course, this was not important: "Ahem, this is what my wife asked me to give to you. She went to see someone in the black market today with something she didn't know what it was, and when she came out, she exchanged it for this. She said I know how to use it."
After saying that, Tang Chen was afraid that Wang Yanzhou would be confused and not know how to use it, so he asked Qiu Liang to bring the notes he received from Shi Zairong and the black market. "This is the secret letter that Madam received before she left. They were all sent by Black Crow."
Wang Yanzhou flipped through the booklet casually, still unsure of its purpose. He took the two slips and glanced at them, instantly understanding. The situation was simple: Shi Zairong had learned that Tianshu Tower's Anzhou had collected a lot of private information about underworld figures to control them and force them to secretly work for Tianshu Tower. So, he wanted Tang Chen to seek help from the black market to see if he could find any useful clues.
Coincidentally, before Tang Chen could even find someone from the black market, someone came to meet Shi Zairong with the item she needed. After sorting out the whole story, Wang Yanzhou immediately handed the item to Zhong Qin: "...It's something that could be useful. Where are Master Zhang and my brother now?"
Zhong Qin's eyes flickered as she coughed lightly before answering, "Mr. Ouyang said he wanted to show Master Zhang around and would be here by dinner time. Calculating the time, it should be about time."
"Then wait here. Master Zhang has a certain status in the martial arts world. It won't be wrong to give this thing to her." After saying that, Wang Yanzhou turned his attention to Qiu Liang again: "You said, I don't know what Ah Chen took in exchange, right?"
Qiu Liang said that Tang Chen had prepared the things himself. He hadn't had a chance to check the bag along the way, but judging by the way Tang Chen took the bag, he could still make a rough guess: "Well, there are very few things and they are very light. It feels a bit like clothes or something."
Seeing that Wang Yanzhou was about to get to the bottom of the matter, Yan Shaoqing held his forehead and sighed, then suggested, "She just wanted to help. Although you are husband and wife, you should also give each other some privacy. As long as some things are not excessive, there is actually no need to pursue too much, right?"
Wang Yanzhou rolled his eyes at Yan Shaoqing and said, "You're a bachelor, but you have a lot to say. By the way, has Qiuliang eaten yet?"
After Qiu Liang closed the door to the dining room, he took off his mask and answered seriously, "Not yet. I just came here to eat for free."
Zhong Qin hurriedly said, "That's unfortunate. We've already eaten. You should go back to the palace. It's not convenient to prepare a special meal right now. We'll discuss business when Master Zhang and the others return."
Qiu Liang sighed softly, not knowing if it was for Zhong Qin and the others or for himself. They had clearly told him earlier that Qing and the others had gone out and would be back by dinner time, and now they were telling him they had already eaten. "...Butler Zhong Qin, do you think I'm a fool? You're trying to get rid of me with words like that? I can leave, but give me a convincing reason."
After saying that, Qiu Liang sat down on the table, looking at everyone present with a domineering look. Zhong Qin thought that she might not be able to eat the roast rabbit today, so she just went for it: "Well, it's not impossible to keep you for dinner."
Wang Yanzhou heard the surrender in Zhong Qin's words and hurriedly spoke out to stop him: "Zhong Qin, you!"
Zhong Qin glanced at Wang Yanzhou helplessly, then walked up to him and snatched the still warm roasted rabbit he had hidden behind him. "But, our main dish today is roasted rabbit."
Looking at the cute rabbit that should be running freely in the fields, now that it has lost its breath and turned into a dish, his eyes widened:
“……!”
As a fan of roast rabbit, Qiuliang's arrival meant that the roast rabbit he finally had the chance to eat was left with only a bare skeleton. Qiuliang smacked his lips with satisfaction and then burped loudly, as if to show off to everyone: "Ah, it's been ages since I've had such delicious roast rabbit. I'm so sorry, I couldn't hold it back, haha!"
Wang Nianqing looked at the bone on the table with a mixture of laughter and tears. She grabbed Zhong Qin by the collar and roared like a hungry ghost: "What are you laughing at? I finally caught this rabbit. Rabbits always run away this season. Do you know how long I have been secretly raising it just to eat it? I told you not to say it, can you still hold it back?"
After Zhong Qin signaled Wang Nianqing to calm down, she helplessly explained, "Master Shadow Master, I thought you were his superior. He wouldn't dare snatch food from the tiger's mouth. I thought you could calm him down."
Wang Nianqing said with a sad face, other things are fine, but Zhong Qin didn't know the rest: "What a joke, is this your first day here?"
Qinghe, who was listening to every move in the dining room from outside the door, glanced down at Ouyang Ming and quietly suggested, "Well, my dear, how about we go eat somewhere else? What do you think?"
Ouyang Ming looked at the spices in his arms and asked with a smile, "So, these spices..."
Qinghe said, "Well, I picked it with great difficulty. Let's take it to the kitchen to see if it can be used. If not, we can feed it to the horses."
Ouyang Ming nodded and said, "Well, let's do it quietly."
...Moving into the Qinghe County Government Office, the Insect Master Linghua, who made Huangfu Zhong feel extremely threatened, was originally thought to cooperate with Xiahou Qing in other actions after seeing the Shengxi Gu. However, who knew that this person just asked Xiahou Chun to help prepare a lot of books, and then he closed the door and basically immersed himself in books all day long and could not come out.
After seeing this innocent and cute little girl with a nerdy look, Huangfu Zhong said that she would not pose any threat to him for the time being. However, after all, she had only been there for a short time, so whether it was her true nature or just good acting skills, he needed to observe and understand her in depth before he could draw a conclusion.
As soon as Linghua closed the door, he focused his attention on the book, hoping to find the method that Xiahou Qing needed to distinguish the authenticity of the Shengxi Gu. He had no idea that outside the courtyard gate, his sudden appearance had brought all kinds of ideas and thoughts to everyone.
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