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Qu Ling acutely sensed his emotions, and her eyeballs turned.

His head suddenly tilted as he leaned on his arm and whispered, "But none of them are as pretty as you."

Hearing this, General Xiao's face immediately turned gloomy.

Qu Ling secretly glanced at him and sighed.

Having a jealous husband made life difficult.

After being busy for an entire day, on the next day, the South Wind House on the east street opened as scheduled.

Qu Ling changed into a man's outfit and put on a hat. Wearing the human skin mask that Murong Yan gave him, he walked happily through the hall on the first floor.

Xiao Yi, who had almost gone to Qu Ling's side, was also wearing a human skin mask. He changed into a set of ordinary servant clothes and followed behind Qu Ling, busying himself.

On the first day of business, both male and female guests would be received. The tea and snacks in the restaurant were free of charge, but special services were not provided. In other words, all the guests could only sit in the hall and watch the performance of the children.

To put it bluntly, just looking at it wasn't something that could be touched.

If anyone else was interested, they would have to come back tomorrow.

But since the second day of the store, he had paid for it.

But even so, South Wind House only accepts female customers.

Those men with special hobbies were not allowed to enter the library.

At this moment, unlike the bustling atmosphere on the first floor, the third floor's office was quiet.

Xiao Jingyue sat behind the table with a stack of bills in his left hand and a pen in his right hand.

Xiao San stood at the side with a gloomy expression, his thoughts unknown.

After an unknown amount of time, Xiao Jingyue put down the brush, raised his eyes and looked at Xiao San, and asked indifferently: "Are you ready?"

Xiao San nodded his head and bowed, "Master's words, everything is ready."

Xiao Jingyue responded softly. He checked what he had written and no longer spoke.

However, Xiao San could not help but ask, "Master, then Miss Murong …"

Xiao Jingyue did not raise his head, nor did he berate Xiao San for being excessive in his actions.

Hearing that, Xiao San raised his head, his eyes opened wide, "But Miss Murong came to find you, Master, she …"

Xiao Jingyue interrupted him: "Xiao San!"

"…"

Xiao San's face turned white and he knelt down.

In the accounting office, the atmosphere suddenly became extremely stiff.

Xiao Jingyue lowered his eyes, his face was terrifyingly dark.

As for Xiao San, after being yelled at like this by Xiao Jingyue, he also slowly calmed down, and silently regretted overdoing it.

After being in a deadlock for a while, Xiao Jingyue put down the book in his hands and slowly stood up.

"This general has already married his wife, and this is the only wife he will ever have in his life."

With these words, his figure disappeared from the door of the office.

Xiao San was still kneeling on the ground, his face slightly pale white.

The hand by his side clenched, and finally dropped powerlessly.

Xiao Jingyue did not go downstairs. Instead, he walked to another room.

From the window of this room, he could see the entire hall on the first floor.

He stood behind the window in the vast crowd, and with a single glance, he was able to see that petite figure. Leng Ning's complexion immediately eased up.

In the next moment, walked over to Qu Ling's side, and the two of them started laughing at each other.

He narrowed his eyes in displeasure and let out a heavy snort.

The more he looked at the young master from the Murong Villa, the more he disliked him.

When the people in the capital, who had business dealings with or wanted to build relations with Murong Villa, heard that Murong Yan had opened a home in the Eastern Street with South Wind House, they all sent over their congratulatory gifts.

Because there were too many people in the front hall, the people who sent the gifts had all gone through the back door and were currently in the backyard.

Murong Yan came over to find Qu Ling precisely to discuss this matter with her.

Hearing that, Qu Ling's eyes lit up as he said happily: "Go and entertain those people who are foolish enough to have a lot of money. Xiao Yi and I will go and receive the gift."

With that, he happily led Xiao Yi to receive the gift.

Murong Yan stood at his original spot and pondered for a moment, then called Ye Qi over, "You should also go and help."

Ye Qi nodded, "Yes."

There were quite a lot of people who were stupid and rich. Xiao Yi and Ye Qi ran a few times and finally moved the gifts to the storage room on the third floor, which was used to store valuable things.

When Xiao Jingyue went to look for it, the three people were surrounding the largest box and peeking their heads in.

He walked closer and saw a porcelain bottle that was about half the height of a person lying inside.

At first glance, it looked rather normal. But upon closer inspection, one could see that the bottle had been painted with a variety of colors, depicting one unsightly scene after another.

This sort of thing was extremely common in brothels.

However, these three people …

What was with that look of shame and not wanting to look away?

Xiao Jingyue's face darkened, he could no longer endure anymore and bellowed: "What are you doing?"

The three of them were shocked at the same time.

Ye Qi was still alright, but Qu Ling and Xiao Yi were so scared that they fell on their butts.

Xiao Jingyue, "..."

When Qu Ling saw that it was Xiao Jingyue, he lightly patted his chest and complained: "You're scaring me to death!"

Her heart began to ache again.

Xiao Yi did not dare to say anything. His face immediately turned red and white. He silently stood up, retreated a few steps, and leaned against the wall in an attempt to reduce the feeling of existence.

But Xiao Jingyue did not care about them, and said indifferently: "Go."

Xiao Yi and Ye Qi looked at each other, the two of them had a tacit understanding and left Qu Ling behind, rushing down without even looking back.

As the caring Dark Guard of the mistress and Madam, Xiao Yi did not forget to help the two of them close the door to the warehouse.

"Traitor!" Qu Ling cursed in anger and held onto the box as he stood up.

Out of the corner of his eyes, he caught a glimpse of Xiao Jingyue staring at the porcelain vase and could not help but curse, "Pervert!"

"Colourful embryo?" Xiao Jingyue repeated himself as he raised his eyebrows and smiled at the lady in front of him.

Qu Ling's face was red as she looked around, she kicked the lid of the box, after closing the box, she pretended to be calm and replied, "You heard wrong, I did not say anything."

Xiao Jingyue chuckled, and started to size up the warehouse.

The warehouse was currently filled with congratulatory gifts. Many of the boxes were open, revealing all of their contents.

With a single glance … Hardly anything serious.

These items were originally properly stored in the box, but now that the lid of the box was all opened, it was likely that these people had been rummaging through these items.

If not for his arrival, he might have continued flipping through the book.

Xiao Jingyue touched his forehead and took a deep breath. He extended his hand towards Qu Ling and said warmly: "Madam has worked hard for half a day, why don't you follow me back to your room to rest."

After wandering around below for so long, Qu Ling was indeed feeling a little uncomfortable.

His chest was bound, and walking for too long was tiring, so the wound in his heart began to ache.

Moreover, she didn't really want to be here with him. Facing these eye piercing items, she didn't hesitate and extended her hand out.

When the two of them returned to the room, Xiao Jingyue suddenly said: "In three days, follow me out."

"What for?"

"Looking for Chun Long."

Qu Ling realized what that thing was, and acknowledged it with an 'oh'.

Pausing for a moment, he continued: "Tomorrow, I want to make a trip to the Minister of War Palace."