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After leaving the Pi Fu Shop, Chen Ping’an paid a visit to the young employee who had helped him carve the forty-eight Luminous Jade Cliff pebbles. The latter was extremely grateful to him, even shedding tears at one point, but Chen Ping’an didn’t say much. He merely chatted with the young man briefly before making his way to the old locust tree, standing at the foot of the tree for a long while.
From there, he got on the talismanic boat gifted to him by Huan Yun and visited the Nightglow Grass Hall, then the old woman who was the mistress of Song Lanqiao. On both occasions, he presented tea leaves from the Rainbow Sparrow Residence as gifts to his hosts.
The old woman was particularly pleased. At the moment, Song Lanqiao’s status in the Spring Dew Garden was steadily rising, and it was all thanks to this young sword immortal. Furthermore, the young man had treated her with a great deal of respect on both of his visits.
The first time, she hadn’t reciprocated his gifts with any of her own, and the same applied on this visit as well, not because she was stingy, but because Chen Ping’an told her that good things came in threes, so he insisted that she only reciprocated him on his third visit, much to her amusement.
Upon his departure, she personally escorted him to the foot of the mountain, and after he was gone, she decided that she was going to take active measures to strengthen her relationship with the Nightglow Grass Hall.
On top of that, she was also going to instruct Song Lanqiao to look after the Pi Fu Shop’s business going forward, and there was no need for him to be discreet and secretive about it. He would have her full backing in this matter, and if anyone dared to spread gossip about it, then they would have to face the wrath of both mistress and disciple.
Chen Ping’an should’ve given a jar of tea leaves to Qi Jinglong back at the Great Emblem Sword Sect to fulfill his promise to Sun Qing, but he didn’t feel it was appropriate to do so at the time. Qi Jinglong had just been forced to drink a bunch of wine during Xu Xingjiu’s visit, and Chen Ping’an couldn’t bear to force tea upon him so soon after the wine debacle.
Hence, he decided to send the tea leaves to Qi Jinglong...
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