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Chapter 134 The Grandfather of All Paintings
Both men were applauding. The same painter, two completely different approaches, both perfectly matched to their audience.Jiang Qingyu felt a quiet, reluctant admiration stir in his chest."Brother Mo's painting — I love it!" Ximen Kandan announced. "I'm going to show this to Xia Shuangshuang and deflate that smug look of hers. Let her see what a real painting looks like."Mo Qian smiled, though he privately hoped Ximen Kandan would not actually do that.Jiang Qingyu looked at Ximen Kandan's expression and silently gave up. Some aesthetic disagreements were simply not worth the breath."Brother Mo, we've hit it off immediately! Come — let me show you my collection of treasures!" Ximen Kandan tucked the painting under his arm and gestured grandly.The moment those words left his mouth, Jiang Qingyu's expression underwent a dramatic change. He clasped his fists briskly. "Brother Mo, lovely to see you! I just remembered — I have something urgent I need to see to. I'll take my leave!"He
Chapter 133 Tiger, Python, and the Bumpy Path
Inside, the ground was covered with soft grass, pale stone slabs laid as stepping stones through it. The plantings everywhere were varied and layered — trees, low shrubs, stands of bamboo, and flowering plants scattered in arrangements that managed to look both natural and considered. It was the kind of garden that took time and care to develop.Mo Qian's eyes lightened. Quiet, tasteful, genuinely liveable.Shi Liang went directly in without announcing them, and led Mo Qian into the house.Inside, Jiang Qingyu and a short, heavyset young man were seated across from each other at a Go board, bent over a game in progress.Shi Liang said, "Young master! Master Jiang! Master Mo is here!"The short, heavyset young man — who had been frowning over a stone with one hand raised and a troubled expression — looked up at once and pushed to his feet."You can't just leave now!" Jiang Qingyu objected. "That's abandoning the game!""What do you mean abandoning? The guest is here — where's your mann
Chapter 132 The Medicine Shop's Son
In the middle courtyard near the weapons rack, Mo Qian reached out and took hold of a blade at random. He was not planning to devour it — he simply wanted to read the weapon spirit, to check whether his mental strength had progressed.He looked at the data that appeared in front of him.Mental power: Level 1.Still level one.Not entirely unexpected. By his reckoning, the eighty-one first-order tree spirits from Wild Boar Mountain had been digesting for only a little over two weeks — not long enough. He had only been at it a matter of days since.Mo Qian let out a quiet breath.The Taizang Sutra was inaccessible for now. His mental power had not broken through. The one thing he could currently train — the one goal within reach — was the Bone Shrinking Skill.He would get it to a working level in the shortest time possible.Decision made, his mind cleared, and something that felt like energy moved through him.He walked back to the dormitory quickly, shut the doors and windows, and beg
Chapter 131 The Bait and the Truth
The table was a wreck of empty plates. Chunmei was sprawled on the bed, arms spread like pale lotus roots, clothes in a heap on the floor.The meatball woman laughed to herself. "Shameless girl — tossed around all night and sleeping like the dead."Mo Qian walked out of Jinmao Lane.It was the hour of Mao. The sky was still dark, and a single large star hung low and brilliant above the rooftops.The street was empty of people. Only a few dogs moved through the shadows, nosing along the ground.The breakfast stalls were already open, steaming and warm, their owners moving about in the lamplight — but the buns were not yet cooked and the beef soup had not yet come to the boil.Mo Qian barely registered any of it. He was moving with quick, purposeful strides down the street, and despite everything he was keeping still on the surface, his hands were curling slowly into fists at his sides from the force of what he was holding back.Twelve layers of the Taizang Sutra.That old dog never tol
Chapter 130 The Twelve Layers
The curtain of a nearby room lifted, and a young woman in a pale green fitted dress with a small bunch of flowers tucked into her hair stepped out. She was white-skinned and soft-featured.Chunmei looked across at Mo Qian and paused.She had assumed from the meatball woman's welcome that it was a familiar customer, but the face in front of her was entirely new.Mo Qian met her eyes and grinned. "Little wave — has your grandfather come to find you?"Chunmei's expression warmed into a practiced smile. She took Mo Qian's hand and said in a sweet, accusing tone, "You've been away so long! Did you find yourself a ready-made woman somewhere and forget all about us?"The two of them laughed and walked into the room together.A full-night booking was far better business than receiving customers one by one, and paid out in full commission, so Chunmei was genuinely attentive. Mo Qian even ordered several dishes and two pots of wine, and the two of them sat eating and drinking together.A booked
Chapter 129 Jinmao Alley
Mo Qian let the words settle and smiled faintly. Xie Lei had clearly been good to Yang Zhen, and Yang Zhen was grieving in the way that people do when they lose both a person and a future in one stroke.Then something moved at the back of Mo Qian's mind."Jie Daohan ran into Xu Ruhu at a brothel?""Ah, yes." Yang Zhen was already slurring slightly.Mo Qian's eyes sharpened. "Which brothel?""How many brothels are there in Xiangu County? The one in Jinmao Alley." Yang Zhen finished the sentence and slumped forward onto the table, asleep.Mo Qian sat in the quiet for a moment, drained the last of his bowl, and said softly to himself, "Jinmao Alley. The brothel. Xu Ruhu — I hope you haven't disappointed me."The street outside had gone dark, lanterns coming to life up and down the road.Mo Qian looked at Yang Zhen's sleeping face, got up, and left the yard.He intended to pay that brothel a visit tonight.The establishment in Jinmao Alley was a different kind of place from Huaying Tower.
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