C30 (1/2)

As if to comply with what she had just said, the moment Luo Yi finished speaking, a cold wind blew in, bringing a few snowflakes with it. The snowflakes landed on their faces and caused goose bumps to rise all over their bodies.

A new customer came in, shaking the snow from his shoulders and muttering to himself about the sudden snow.

Embarrassed, she took a peek around and noticed that the people who came and went didn't look in their direction. Only then did she relax, pretending as if nothing had happened, and withdraw her hand.

Then he was stared at again.

He chuckled, turned his head to the right when he looked down, and his gaze naturally fell on the other person.

As if he did not expect there to be someone else, Yi Qiannan's eyes widened when he saw that person's face, and squeezed Luo Yi out while saying ”How are you free today”.

Caught off guard, Luo Yi was almost pushed down to the ground. Luckily, Tang Yuan was behind her back and held her arm in time, and even patted her back a few times to comfort her.

Luo Yi smiled up at him.

Although Yi Qiannan's actions didn't look friendly, they were completely out of the two's sight. His flawless words made it so that people couldn't even wait for an opportunity to look for trouble.

The man smiled and pretended not to see through his inner thoughts. His tone didn't change much as he nodded in return and said, ”Boss Yi, you're too courteous.”

”What are you talking about?” A waiter happened to be passing by, so Yi Qiannan stopped him. He instructed him to bring a pot of the best tea in the building to the guest before continuing, ”We didn't manage to make you stand here for so long …”

As he spoke, he turned the man around and asked, ”The room is being cleaned every day as per your orders, do you want me to bring you up there?”

”Then I'll be troubling you.” The man did not refuse and extended his hand in a ”please” gesture.

To be honest, the Li City was a big place, and there were many rich and powerful families here. The guests that came to and fro in the rich and powerful building like him were all ordinary people, but to be personally entertained by his boss, it was really just this one.

Yi Qiannan took a sip of his tea. ”How did you provoke him?”

He had just come out of that man's room, thinking that he had done something great. As soon as he swallowed the tea, he looked up at Tang Yuan with a pleading look for praise.

Tang Yuan tilted his head as if he did not see it, causing Luo Yi to learn how to dress herself and turn blind.

”How was it provoked by me …” She felt wronged, ”He clearly posted it himself.”

”But who is this person?”

Luo Yi originally had a very familiar feeling towards that person, but after hearing what he said, her curiosity was even more, so he shook his arm and urged him to continue.

Yi Qiannan had originally been unwilling to speak of this because he felt it was a guest's privacy. Who would have thought that Tang Yuan would also reveal a curious expression to him? His heartstrings vibrated and he immediately ripped apart his moral integrity, ”This person came to visit you in the palace.”

He unconsciously lowered his voice. Before he spoke, he carefully looked around to make sure that there was no one else around. ”It's His Majesty's red person.”

”Your Majesty?” Luo Yi was startled, and quickly realised that the person who the other party mentioned was the same person she had met before, so she asked: ”Didn't you say to represent the imperial court?”

”It doesn't make a difference anyway.”

Yi Qiannan waved his hand, indicating that she was in deep water. ”I'm just trying to gain a good reputation.”

”No,” he said.

The empress of the palace had a strong body while the crown prince was in good health. Chen Jinyan could only use the title of ”acting as the ruler of the imperial court” to coax the citizens, but in reality, the royal authority was all in the prince's hands. Many of the commoners and officials had also gradually changed their name to ”Your Majesty”.

He had now completed more than half of the last step.

Yi Qiannan lowered his voice and returned the question to the person before him: ”He is called Mu Yizhou, because he does not have a position in the imperial court, there are not many people who know of him, his family does not have any background, he is just an ordinary merchant, but …”

Yi Qiannan tried to keep them in suspense. ”He's the head of His Majesty's think tank.”

It was said that before Thirteenth Prince had even entered the palace, he had been accompanied by a group of brains that specialized in managing various matters within the feudal fiefdom. This think tank had a total of ten people, all of them had the skills to rule the country, and one of them was a man surnamed Mu, who was considered the most important by Chen Jinyan.

However, this person did not show his true face. It was said that because of the injuries on his face and his terrifying appearance, he would enter and leave the palace wearing a silver mask that covered half of his face. Thus, there were very few people in this world who had seen his face and connected it with their identity as the leader of a ”think tank”.

”Then how do you know his identity?”

”He came here with His Majesty the first time.”

Yi Qiannan roughly recalled the time. ”Two months ago, His Majesty sent a decree to the palace on a whim, saying that he wanted to come and take a look at the place that was rumored to be occupied by nobles. He scared me so much that I choked in my throat and almost lost control.”

It was late in the night when they had arrived, and there were not many accompanying them. Other than Mu Yizhou, there was only one other eunuch who had delivered the message to them earlier.

Yi Qiannan was kneeling on the ground, looking at his surroundings. He didn't utter a single word other than a salute.

Chen Jinyan slowly walked in, his gaze sweeping around the empty great hall, and praised: ”You're pretty smart.”

He took two steps forward and waved his hand, signaling the eunuch to help Yi Qiannan up. ”Stand up.”

Yi Qiannan used the momentum to get up.

The rest of the people in the building had long since been sent out for various reasons, thus the service naturally fell on his head. Yi Qiannan refilled the teacups of the two men in front of him and retreated three steps back, waiting to hear what the monarch of the nation had come to see him in the dead of the night.

”There's nothing else …” Chen Jinyan shook the teacup in his hand and laughed: ”No matter what, this is a name personally bestowed by this king.

As he spoke, he nudged the person beside him with his shoulder and said intimately, ”Am I right?”

Mu Yizhou bowed and replied respectfully, ”Yes.”