139: Chapter 139 Inviting Sun Lingyue to Dinner at Home

Seeing that Young Marquis Wei Wuji was unwilling to touch Luo Ningshuang, Lao Qi felt a bit regretful.

Because every time Young Marquis Wei Wuji finished playing, he would hand over the beauties he had abducted to him and Lao Liu to deal with.

Lao Liu was not interested in the beauties the Young Marquis had played with, but he did not mind.

"Tell me about the others!"

"Yes!"

Lao Qi continued, "Speaking of Linjiang Prefecture, the most famous are the Five Great Families. The daughters of these Five Great Families are all quite exceptional, such as Nangong Hongyan of the Nangong Family, Wang Yaqian of the Wang Family, Hu Yue'er of the Hu Family, Meng Qinglan of the Meng Family, and the sisters Huang Mengyao and Huang Lingyun of the Huang Family."

"Besides them, there's Xu Wenxi, the daughter of a wealthy merchant surnamed Xu in the Inner City, Zhou Huandie of the Zhou Family...!"

"Nangong Hongyan, that name is nice. I like it. However, this Young Master is tired today. I will go to the Nangong Family tomorrow!"

It was approaching evening.

Chen Hu returned from the agency with General Zhao Zilong.

He had purchased two grooms and four young, strong servants at the agency.

Then, Chen Hu went through the motions and accepted the six of them as his underlings.

Immediately, the total number of underlings changed from 1717 to 1723.

An Elementary draw was added, and the number of Elementary draws accumulated to five.

"Although you are people I bought back, I will still pay you a salary. Each groom will receive eight hundred wen per month, and each servant five hundred wen per month. If you do well, you can get a raise in the future, and I might even give you the opportunity to practice martial arts!"

Hearing Chen Hu's promise, the six of them were overjoyed.

You have to know, for people like them who were bought, it was already very good if the master let them eat their fill. Now that they were actually getting silver, it was truly like a pie falling from the sky.

He swept his gaze over the six people with the Eye of Insight.

Chen Hu discovered that after he announced the salary, the loyalty of the six people had directly soared to over 60 points, with the highest reaching 82 points.

After arranging the six of them in the back-row rooms.

Chen Hu brought General Zhao Zilong to the backyard.

Then he instructed Rushuang and Ruxue to send some food and daily necessities to the two grooms and four servants in the front courtyard.

Meanwhile.

Inner City, the Hu Family.

Hu Qin-shi hurried to the pavilion where her daughter lived.

"Mother, why are you here?"

Learning of her mother's arrival, Hu Yue'er hurriedly went downstairs to welcome her.

"Yue'er, hurry up and pack. We are going to visit your grandmother's house," Hu Qin-shi said in a deep voice.

Hu Yue'er was quite intelligent. If they were going to visit her grandmother, her mother would definitely have notified her in advance. It was not like now, setting off near evening.

"Mother, did something happen at home?" Hu Yue'er asked.

Hu Qin-shi lowered her voice and said, "The Young Marquis Wei Wuji has come to our Linjiang Prefecture. It is said that this person is fond of killing and beautiful women. Your father said that he had just moved into the prefectural government office today and had already killed eight maidservants."

"He could act lawlessly in the capital. Now that he has come to our Linjiang Prefecture, I am afraid he will be even more unscrupulous."

"Therefore, your father wants the two of us to leave quickly, lest we be targeted by that Young Marquis."

Hearing her mother say this, Hu Yue'er's expression changed slightly: "Mother, what about the other younger sisters? Are they not leaving?"

Hu Qin-shi shook her head: "They cannot leave. The two of us going to visit relatives can still be explained as a coincidence. If everyone leaves, once that Young Marquis breaks into our Hu Family, he will surely understand that we deliberately sent people away."

"At that time, he might use it as a pretext to cause a calamity that could destroy our Hu Family!"

Hearing this, Hu Yue'er also felt it made sense. Although she felt some reluctance in her heart, there was no other way.

Soon.

Hu Qin-shi and Hu Yue'er took a carriage and left the Hu Family with guards.

However, after arriving in the South City, they encountered the Huang Family's carriage convoy.

Seeing the Huang Family's convoy, the mother and daughter of the Hu Family immediately understood. Most likely, the Huang Family had also heard of Young Marquis Wei Wuji's notorious reputation and, worried that their own daughter would be targeted, were rushing to send her out of the city.

Not long after, the Meng Family and the Wang Family also successively sent their own legitimate daughters away.

However, the Nangong Family did not send their daughter away.

Because Nangong Hongyan had already hidden in Chen Hu's home in advance.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

The Chen Family.

A knocking sound rang out.

Chen Hu, who was eating in the backyard, suddenly received a report that someone from the Zhenwu Division had arrived.

Dongfang Jun, who was wearing a maid's outfit, felt her body tense up slightly upon hearing that people from the Zhenwu Division had arrived, and she subconsciously looked at Chen Hu.

Chen Hu gave her a reassuring look, then stood up and said, "You guys keep eating, I'll go handle this!"

When Chen Hu arrived at the front courtyard.

He discovered that Sun Lingyue was bringing a team of subordinates into the front courtyard.

"Oh, Squad Leader Sun has been promoted!"

Chen Hu saw that the uniform on Sun Lingyue had changed to that of a Chief Squad Leader, and he could not help but tease her.

"You fellow, be serious. This Chief Squad Leader is leading people to search for assassins!"

Sun Lingyue glared at Chen Hu and said irritably.

"Have you eaten? My family happens to be eating. If you haven't, come and have a bite!" Chen Hu said with a chuckle.

Hearing the words "eating," Sun Lingyue's stomach could not help but feel a bit hungry.

Ever since Young Marquis Wei Wuji was assassinated, they had been ordered to search for the assassin throughout the city and simply did not have time to eat.

For a moment, Sun Lingyue hesitated.

At this time, Chen Hu took out a ten-tael ingot of silver and stuffed it into the hand of a Squad Leader under Sun Lingyue: "You adults have worked hard. The food prepared at home is not enough, so I cannot invite you all to eat. Take this little bit of silver to a restaurant to eat. I hope you adults will not mind!"

"How dare we, how dare we!"

That Squad Leader said, flattered and fearful. Although Chen Hu was a Gang member, this Gang member was a powerhouse in the Marrow Refining Realm. Even though they had official status, they dared not offend him easily.

Seeing that the Squad Leader was about to return the silver, Chen Hu glanced at Sun Lingyue.

Sun Lingyue also understood: "Since Gang Leader Chen is willing to treat you to a meal, then you should accept it."

"Yes!"

Seeing that Sun Lingyue had spoken, the Squad Leader immediately took back the silver, but still thanked Chen Hu.

After the subordinates left.

Chen Hu forcibly pulled the somewhat coy Sun Lingyue toward the backyard.

"Let me introduce everyone. This is Chief Squad Leader Sun of the Zhenwu Division, my good friend. It just so happens she has not eaten, so she will just make do with a bite at our place!"

Hearing this, everyone stood up one after another.

"Greetings, Chief Squad Leader Sun!"

"Hello, Chief Squad Leader Sun."

"Chief Squad Leader Sun, please sit!"

"I will go get a bowl and chopsticks!"

Soon, Sun Lingyue sat down under the enthusiastic greetings of everyone.

When she picked up the rice bowl, she could not help but be stunned, and subconsciously looked at Chen Hu: "Your family eats this well?"

Because she discovered that the rice in the bowl was actually Spiritual Qi rice. At the same time, she quickly scanned the bowls of the others, and they were all Spiritual Qi rice as well.

This is too extravagant.

Actually using Spiritual Qi rice as a staple food.

"Are you very envious? How about this, if you join our family, you can eat Spiritual Qi rice every day!" Chen Hu teased.

"Pah, in your dreams!" Sun Lingyue said haughtily.

"Alright, eat!"

Chen Hu greeted them, and everyone started eating again.

However, after tasting the dishes at Chen Hu's house, Sun Lingyue showed a look of surprise again.

Because she discovered that the texture of these dishes was truly too good, and furthermore, the dishes also contained traces of Spiritual Qi.

Actually, this was because some Spiritual Spring water had been added for seasoning when cooking.

Because Widow Wang discovered that after adding Spiritual Spring water, it could improve the taste of the dishes.