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Chapter 219: Not a penny less (please subscribe and vote)
"It's Master Haitang."

"Grandmaster Ku He's disciple, how could she come here with her status?"

"What's wrong with coming here? Baihua Tower is also very famous in Shangjing City."

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The guests in the restaurant all stretched their necks to look towards the stairs, wanting to catch a glimpse of the Holy Lady of Northern Qi.

Haitang Duoduo sighed softly. This was why she liked rural life.

As a disciple of a grandmaster and the Holy Maiden of Northern Qi, she attracts attention wherever she goes.

This time she came to Baihua Tower at the invitation of Zhan Jiaojiao, the granddaughter of Prince Jing'an.

Prince Jing'an was the most senior member of the Northern Qi royal family. He was the uncle of the founding emperor of Northern Qi, Zhan Qingfeng, and had a lot of say in the royal family.

Haitang Duoduo knew very well the purpose of Zhan Jiaojiao's invitation, which was nothing more than introducing her to some young men in Prince Jing'an's Mansion.

She could even guess Zhan Jiaojiao's routine, which was nothing more than bringing a few brothers from the palace to the appointment, and then leaving first on the pretext of having something to do.

This wasn't even Zhan Jiaojiao's idea, but the instruction of Prince Jing'an.

The purpose is naturally self-evident, which is to win over her master, Grandmaster Ku He.

It's impossible that he was attracted by her looks. She is quite self-aware in this regard.

"Master Haitang, please come this way."

"The princess has already prepared a crabapple blossom banquet for you in the private room on the top floor. The chefs of Baihualou started preparing for this banquet more than ten days ago."

The accompanying maid kept telling Haitang Duoduo about the deep intentions of her princess.

"Oh? Where is your princess?" Haitang Duoduo suddenly thought of something.

On previous occasions, Zhan Jiaojiao would come to pick her up in person, but this time she only sent a few maids.

There is a question!
"Princess, the princess suddenly caught a cold yesterday and cannot attend the banquet," the maid explained guiltily.

"But my princess specifically begged my eldest son to come."

Haitang Duoduo rolled her eyes and didn't want to listen to the maid's nonsense anymore.

When did the spring wind become so cold? Is it a late spring cold snap?

"This Zhan Jiaojiao's excuses are becoming more and more perfunctory."

"And she herself didn't come. That's right, which princess would like this kind of pimping job?"

Haitang Duoduo decided to go up and show her face later, just to show her intention. It was just an excuse, and she could find one.

Just as she was about to go upstairs, she glanced across the floor and spotted a very special person.

This person was wearing a dark suit, without any pattern or decoration, but it didn't look monotonous at all.

In other words, this person's temperament and appearance are the best accessories.

If that were all, Haitang Duoduo wouldn't think he was special. At most, he would just be a more conspicuous one among the crowd.

"It's so warm," Haitang Duoduo murmured softly.

Although the other person was more than ten feet away from her, she could still feel a warmth like the rising sun.

And as she looked, the warmth grew hotter and hotter, soon turning from the rising sun into the scorching midday sun.

In just a few breaths, Haitang Duoduo even felt sweat starting to appear on her forehead.

At this moment, the other party seemed to have noticed her gaze, smiled slightly, and raised the teacup in his hand to signal her.

The sun that was above her head disappeared in an instant, and Haitang Duoduo's body shook involuntarily.

It’s like walking from the scorching sun of the dog days of summer into an icy river in the cold winter.

"What a terrifying martial arts! This person is at least a ninth-rank master, or even a master of the highest rank."

"No, it's impossible. The threshold of becoming a Grandmaster is not so easy to cross."

Haitang Duoduo was frightened by the thought that appeared in her mind and quickly denied it.

The four great masters in the world today all appeared more than ten years ago, and it seems that all the martial luck in the world has been sucked dry by these people.

Since then, no new grandmaster has been born.

"Lord Haitang? Lord Haitang," the maid said in surprise as she looked at Haitang Duoduo who suddenly stood still.

Awakened by the maid's shouting, Haitang Duoduo looked at the mysterious man who was still smiling at her.

After a slight hesitation, he strode over.

"Lady Haitang, you've gone to the wrong place. The banquet is upstairs." Seeing Haitang Duoduo suddenly walk to another place, the maid hurriedly trotted after her.

"Oh, there's a banquet." Haitang Duoduo paused, looked back at the maid and said:

"I suddenly have something urgent to do, and your princess is not here either, so let's make an appointment next time!"

After saying that, he continued to walk towards the mysterious man, leaving the princess's maid who was a little at a loss, standing there not knowing what to do.

Under the surprised and inquiring gazes of the restaurant guests, Haitang Duoduo sat down opposite Mu Sheng without any hesitation.

After carefully examining the mysterious man and failing to find any information about him from his memory, he spoke directly:

"Tianyi Dao, Haitang Duoduo, I wonder where you come from?"

"Where do you come from?" Mu Sheng looked at the heroic and free-spirited woman in front of him and put down the teacup in his hand.

He rubbed his brows with the joints of his index fingers, seeming to be troubled: "This is really a difficult question to answer?"

"It's hard to answer. Is it because the other party has a hostile relationship with Northern Qi?"

Haitang Duoduo’s thoughts raced.

'Nanqing? Xihu? Or Dongyi?'

"I have worked as a lumberjack in the frigid northeast, and also as a businessman in the southern coastal cities."

"I have wielded swords and knives in the martial arts world, served as the leader of a religion, governed a country with myriad affairs, and even founded a religious organization by pretending to be a god."

"So when you ask me about my origins, I really don't know how to answer you!"

Mu Sheng blinked his innocent eyes and looked at Haitang Duoduo, as if asking, why did you ask such a difficult question.

At this time, Haitang Duoduo was also speechless.

When she first heard the word Northeast, she thought the person was from Dongyi City and wondered if he was one of Si Gu Jian's disciples.

I heard about the coastal cities in the south again, and thought that they were spies sent by Dongyi to Nanqing.

Then after hearing the following words, Haitang Duoduo knew that the other party just didn't want to tell her and was talking nonsense in a serious manner.

"You don't want to tell me your origin, but you can at least tell me your name, right?" Haitang Duoduo rolled her eyes.

Fortunately, she took it seriously at first and tried to figure out who the other person was!
"Well, this is why I don't want to say it." Mu Sheng spread his hands and said, "You don't believe me when I tell the truth, so I can't tell lies, right?"

“Not my style!”

"Then, this honest man who never tells lies, how should I address you?" Haitang Duoduo imitated Mu Sheng's tone and said:

"I can't call you an honest man who doesn't lie, can I?"

"That won't work!" Mu Sheng sternly refused: "You can't be an honest person at anything!"

Society is too malicious towards honest people.

Let them eat the most unpalatable cakes, bear the darkest blame, do the most tiring work, and earn the least money.

They gave them their most experienced wife and their most obscure child. Where the hell is this going to make sense?

So even a dog can’t be an honest person!
At least the dog can lick it, but an honest person will lose hundreds of thousands of dollars without even pulling a finger, and may even have to stay in jail for a few years.

Mu Sheng clasped his fists and said, "Mu Sheng, the Mu who guards the world, the Sheng who wins every battle!"

"Guard the world and win every battle." Haitang Duoduo felt a kind of heroic spirit that was overwhelming and invincible from these two words.

"Mr. Mu has great ambitions!"

Haitang Duoduo became more and more interested in the person in front of her, whether it was his amazing martial arts or his lofty ambitions.

All of these indicate that this person has an extraordinary background.

"Are they descendants of the royal family of the previous dynasty?"

"If this is the case, then it can explain why the other party is unwilling to reveal his origins."

'And it can also explain the origin of the other party's martial arts and ambitions.'

Haitang Duoduo felt that she was about to discover the other party's hidden secret.

Just when she was feeling proud of her own wit, she saw Mu Sheng suddenly lean forward and look at her with a strange look.

"You don't think I'm a descendant of the royal family of the previous dynasty?" Mu Sheng said with a sly smile.

Looking at Haitang Duoduo's frozen expression, he suddenly burst into laughter.

"Ahahahaha. You Earthlings are really interesting."

"Especially people like you, the top leaders of a certain force, always like to secretly analyze the intentions of others."

"Isn't it tiring to live like this?" Mu Sheng found it hard to understand this kind of life.

He didn't understand it before he traveled through time, and he no longer needed it after he traveled through time.

Earthlings?
Haitang Duoduo keenly caught a word, but having learned from the previous experience, she just memorized it secretly.

"Did you do that on purpose?" Haitang Duoduo immediately said with a dissatisfied look: "You said you never tell lies, how can you be called an honest person?"

"I'm not lying!" Mu Sheng stretched out his index finger and shook it.

"You are the one who doesn't believe it and is just speculating. I just guessed what you were thinking."

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Just when Haitang Duoduo was about to say something, the waiter from the restaurant came over with his plate.

"Sir, your meal is ready."

"This is peach blossom mandarin fish, this is pigeon stewed with lilac flowers, hibiscus flower soup, and your hundred flowers wine."

"Eight dishes and a pot of wine are all here. Please enjoy. If you need anything, please let me know."

After serving the dishes, the waiter left quickly.

"It really is all related to flowers! How much the owner of this restaurant loves flowers," Mu Sheng sighed, then picked up his chopsticks and started eating.

He called out to Haitang Duoduo, "You eat too, don't be polite to me!"

Seeing this, Haitang Duoduo no longer worried about Mu Sheng making fun of her. She picked up her chopsticks and ate while briefly introducing the origin of this restaurant to Mu Sheng.

Then we continued chatting about this topic.

One of them was a disciple of a great master, the Saintess of Northern Qi, who knew many secrets that ordinary people had never been exposed to. The other was a walker of the heavens who had traveled through many worlds and had rich experience.

For a while, they were chatting and laughing, talking about everything under the sun, the past and the present. In short, they were having a great time.

And when all the dishes were eaten and there was no wine left in the jug, the way they interacted became much more casual.

"Musheng, is there something outside that attracts you so much? You have been looking out the window from a while ago."

Haitang Duoduo couldn't help but ask when she saw Mu Sheng looking outside again.

"I'm waiting!"

"What are you waiting for?"

"Wait for an honest man."

"An honest man?" Haitang Duoduo became even more curious.

"That's right, an honest man." Mu Sheng pretended to be mysterious and said, "An honest man who can bring us a good show."

"For this wonderful show, I specially picked this seat for the best viewing experience."

"So mysterious," Haitang Duoduo muttered.

Then he stood up and walked to Mu Sheng's seat and sat down, squeezing together with him by the window, looking at the street below the restaurant.

Yan Bingyun, dressed in a gray and white robe with a sword hanging from his waist, no longer had the cold and noble temperament of the past, and walked on the street with a feeling of annoyance.

As the chief of Nanqing's secret agents in Qi State, he has received too much bad news in recent days.

A mysterious man who appeared out of nowhere is clearing out Nanqing's spies in Beiqi at an astonishing speed.

There are dozens of people who have been reported to him so far. If we include those who have died but have not yet been confirmed, the number will at least double.

You have to know that these are secret agents, not the kind of army that can be assembled at random.

Each of them was cultivated by them with a lot of resources and time, not to mention those who successfully lurked in Northern Qi.

The loss of nearly a hundred people, although most of them were low-level spies, also brought their espionage work in Northern Qi to a basic standstill.

And they didn't even know who this mysterious man was or how he found them.

But at this critical moment, he had to accompany Shen Wan'er out shopping. No wonder he was a little annoyed.

"Brother Yan, do you think this hairpin looks good on me?" Shen Wan'er, who was wearing a light pink long dress with narrow sleeves, shook her head slightly and asked Yan Bingyun with a smile.

Yan Bingyun quickly adjusted his mentality, revealing a faint smile, and looked at Shen Wan'er with eyes full of love and doting: "It looks good, Wan'er, you look good in anything you wear."

"Brother Yan, you only know how to coax me." Shen Wan'er blushed when she heard Yan Bingyun's words.

This hairpin is just an ordinary wooden hairpin. Normally, she would not even look at it twice.

The reason I asked this is to hear my lover's sweet words.

"I'm not kidding you. I'm speaking the truth. Although this wooden hairpin is crudely made, but..." Yan Bingyun explained seriously.

"coming!"

In the Baihua Tower beside the street, Mu Sheng poked his head out and suddenly uttered two words.

coming?

The honest man is here?
Is the fun about to begin?
"Where is it? Where is it?" Haitang Duoduo, who was looking around, suddenly became alert and looked in the direction of Mu Sheng's gaze.

A man wearing dark samurai clothes and a conical hat appeared on the street with an undisguised murderous intent.

Judging from the direction it was heading, its target was Yan Bingyun and Shen Wan'er who were still flirting.

This murderous intent that could make one's hair stand on end also frightened the two of them.

Yan Bingyun protected Shen Wan'er behind him and looked at the approaching enemy with a serious expression.

Ding!
A copper coin drew an arc in the air and fell in front of Yan Bingyun.

"Give me back your copper coins!"

(End of this chapter)