Taking a break from his busy schedule, Xiao Jingting took Xu Muan around big merchant houses.

“What nonsense are you talking about? Why would I need a storage bracelet? I stay at home all day and have nowhere to go, so what do I need this for?” Xu Muan stood in front of the counter and helplessly shook his head at Xiao Jingting next to him.

“Put this on!” Xiao Jingting said.

Xiao Jingting and Xu Muan looked at the storage bracelet at the merchant’s ground floor counter, when a woman wearing a green dress came down from upstairs. 

“Miss Sun, do you really not want this Thrasher Cloud Gauze Garment? It’s a rare Thrasher yarn, warm in winter and cool in summer and costs only two thousand taels of silver, so it is actually not very expensive.” A receptionist followed behind the woman.

Xiao Jingting subconsciously looked behind him and discovered that Miss Sun was Sun Miaomiao.

When Sun Miaomiao saw Xiao Jingting, her face became hot.

The receptionist who entertained Xiao Jingting smiled lightly and said “Young Master Xiao, this storage bracelet, do you want me to wrap it up for you?”

“It’s necessary, no need to pack it.” Xiao Jingting took the storage bracelet and put it on Xu Muan’s hand.

“Master Xiao, you are a gold member, a total of nine thousand five hundred taels.”

Xiao Jingting very readily paid the silver.

“Young Master Xiao, your business is so big now. 9000 taels of silver for you is now a drop in the ocean.”

Xiao Jingting smiled bitterly and said “What are you talking about? It’s just a small business. It’s just enough to make a living. “

Sun Miaomiao looked at the bracelet on Xu Muan’s hand and felt like her eyes were being burned by the bright bracelet.

Xiao Jingting said to Xu Muan “Let’s look at other things.”

“Xiao Jingting.” Sun Miaomiao said in loud voice.

Xiao Jingting turned his head and looked at Sun Miaomiao, asking “Sister-in-law, what’s the matter?”

Sun Miaomiao pointed to the Thrasher Cloud Gauze Garment in the hands of the receptionist behind her and said “I like it, buy it for me.”

Xiao Jingting was stunned. Miss Sun was famous for being unruly and capricious. However, Xiao Jingting heard that after Sun Miaomiao married Xiao Muhong, she had restrained herself a lot. But now it seemed she hadn’t restrained herself at all. Ah!

“Sister-in-law, I don’t have enough silver with me, if you want to buy it, you better find cousin Xiao Muhong. My family will have another member soon so I need to make more money and support my family.” Xiao Jingting said sincerely.

Sun Miaomiao was filled with anger “Xiao Jingting, you used to say that if I liked something, you would buy it for me even if you lose all your money. Didn’t you mean what you said?”

Xiao Jingting “…” That was what the original body owner said! Well, who let him occupy the body of the original owner. Sun Miaomiao could be regarded as open-minded to say such things in public and was not afraid of Xiao Muhong’s reaction.

“Sister-in-law, I was still young and spoke without thinking. Now things have changed and you are married to my cousin, so don’t mention the past.”

Xu Muan tugged at Xiao Jingting sleeve and said “Let’s go first.”

Xiao Jingting nodded and said “Yes!”

Sun Miaomiao watched Xiao Jingting pull Xu Muan away, her face turning pale.

Noticing that many people around her looked at her, Sun Miaomiao couldn’t help becoming a little bit irritated “What are you looking at?”

Sun Miaomiao threw her sleeves and left furiously.

After Xiao Jingting walked out of the merchant shop, he carefully looked behind them and then said relieved “She didn’t follow us.”

“Afraid of her?” Xu Muan was a little amused.

Xiao Jingting nodded his head saying “A little bit.” It looked like Xiao Muhong was not able to control Sun Miaomiao anymore.

“When you saw her before, you got so weak-legged that you couldn’t even walk.” Xu Muan said.

Xiao Jingting “……”

 

……

 

The fact that Sun Miaomiao had asked Xiao Jingting to buy her clothes in public and was refused, quickly reached Xiao Muhong ears.

Liu Xian said angrily “Son, your wife is too unruly.”

Xiao Muhong’s face was so dark, he didn’t say a word.

The relationship between him and Sun Miaomiao became more and more strained as the business of beverage shop became better and better. He had hoped that the newly opened beverage shops would take up the business of Xiao Jingting’shop. But, unexpectedly, the standard of those beverage shops was so poor that there was competition at all.

Sun Miaomiao was a young lady of the Sun family, who was used to spending a lot of money. Now that the second house was in power, they suppressed them a lot in terms of accounting and administration. Different ways of making money were all transferred to the third and fourth house so Liu Xian had to cut down her expenses repeatedly.

“I didn’t expect it to be like this.” Sun Miaomiao was unruly but she had been restrained a lot after she married him. Many of Xiao Muhong’s friends praised him for his ability. The miss of the Sun family became more tender after marrying him. Now he was afraid that he had become a laughing stock among his friends.

Xiao Muhong took a deep breath. Sun Miaomiao probably regretted doing such a thing in the public. Xiao Jingting’s shop earned the income of several thousand taels a day, so it was no wonder that Sun Miaomiao was tempted.

“It seems that Sun Miaomiao bumped into Xiao Jingting in the store when he was buying a storage bracelet for Xu Muan. Xiao Jingting, this guy, showed off that he could earn some money when he doesn’t know how to cultivate, but knows to spend indiscriminately. I don’t think he can make a name for himself.” Liu Xian was full of vicious curses.

Xiao Muhong looked at Liu Xian’s angry expression and said “Mother, just calm down.” The pressure that Liu Xian was facing recently was very high, making her whole person look haggard.

“These two little brats.” Liu Xian cursed in a hateful voice. Had she known that it would turn like this, she would have done whatever it took to get those two bastards killed out there.

“I’m back.” Sun Miaomiao walked into the room and gave a faint greeting to the two people inside.

Looking at Sun Miaomiao’s indifferent appearance, Liu Xian’s anger came out. Only thinking of relying on the Sun family behind Sun Miaomiao made Liu Xian swallow the anger in her heart forcibly.

 

……

 

Beverage shop.

“Brother Jinfeng, should it be higher?” Li Qing asked, moving the plaque.

Xiao Jinfeng looked at it and said “It’s almost done, just about this height. You can come down.”

Li Qing was originally a member of the mercenary team, but his cultivation was broken by a demonic beast. His cultivation fell from the third level of Qi Practice to second level of Qi practice. After Li Qing returned home, he was ostracized by his brothers at home, and his life was very difficult. Since Xiao Jinfeng recruited Li Qing as an employee who did deliveries, Li Qing’s life had become much more stable.

Tong Li had not been able to find work since his leg was bitten off and fitted with a prosthetic leg. Now he was helping in the shop.

“Deputy Leader.”

Xiao Jinfeng frowned. When Li Qing and Tong Li first arrived, they often used to call him Deputy Leader, and it took him a while to correct it.

Xiao Jinfeng turned around and saw it was Zhang Meng, but his expression was not good. When Xiao Jinfeng was in the mercenary team, he had a good relationship with Zhang Meng and Zhou Fang. AT that time, when he was expelled from the mercenary team, Zhang Meng also tried to speak up for him. However, Hua Yufeng had already held all power at that time, so if Zhang Meng and the others still wanted to stay in the mercenary team they naturally could not offend Hua Yufeng too much. In the end, they just watched as he was expelled.

Xiao Jinfeng could understand Zhang Meng’s and Zhou Fang’s choice to protect themselves, but it didn’t mean he could accept it.

“Don’t call me Deputy Leader. I am the person who was expelled by the mercenary team so I am no longer the Deputy Leader.” Xiao Jinfeng said coldly.

Hearing Xiao Jinfeng’s words, Zhang Meng’s and Zhou Fang’s faces were full of embarrassment.

“What can I do for you?” Xiao Jinfeng asked. 

“Brother Jinfeng, the mercenary group disbanded.” Zhang Meng said.

“Oh.” Xiao Jinfeng replied faintly.

This guy, Hua Yufeng, had finally broke up the mercenary regiment. Xiao Jinfeng originally thought he would feel like gloating, but found that although  it cheered him a little, but his heart was completely empty.

Thinking of the bad things that happened in the mercenary group, Xiao Jinfeng really didn’t want to talk about it, so he turned around and left “I still have things to do, so excuse me.”

“Brother Jinfeng, I’m sorry.” Zhang Meng said.

Xiao Jinfeng sighed and walked into the shop.

Li Qing looked at Zhang Meng and didn’t know what to say.

“How did the mercenary team disband?” Li Qing asked.

Zhang Meng was stunned for a moment before he replied “The mercenary team took on several high-risk missions in a row, losing more and more personnel, then it was disbanded.”

“So it was like this!” Li Qing sighed and didn’t know what to say.

“Jinfeng is doing well now.” Zhang Meng said.

Li Qing nodded and said “That’s right.”

The business of the beverage shop was getting better every day and there were even some merchants who bought drinks in large quantities from them for reselling. When Xiao Jinfeng was out now, everyone had to shout “Boss Xiao” so his life was much more comfortable than when he was in the mercenary team.

“How is Hua Yufeng?” Li Qing asked.

“Seriously injured. It seems that even if he is healed, he will be at most at the second level of Qi Practice. That’s why the mercenary group was disbanded.” Zhang Meng said.

Li Qing didn’t know what to say, knowing that the mercenary group had expelled Xiao Jinfeng, Li Qing was very angry. Li Qing knew that Hua Yufeng and Xiao Jinfeng didn’t get along well. However, he didn’t expect that Hua Yufeng would take it so far, and the mercenary group would fall so much that they would poison Xiao Jinfeng for benefits promised by the Zhou family.

At this moment, hearing that Hua Yufeng was seriously injured, Li Qing felt that Hua Yufeng had brought this upon himself.

“In the cycle of heavenly justice, retribution will always be unpleasant!” Li Qing shook his head.

“How are you doing here?” Zhang Meng asked.

“Pretty good.” Li Qing said.

Although Xiao Jinfeng was nice to the few mercenaries he worked with before, he was not as friendly as before. Although they had already left the mercenary team when the incident happened, they were after all once considered mercenaries. So it was already good that Xiao Jinfeng was willing to put aside his prejudices and appoint them.

Li Qing and Zhang Meng talked for a while and then left.

Zhang Meng looked at the direction of the shop with a sigh and turned around to leave.

 

……

 

After returning to Xiao family house, Sun Miaomiao began to start smashing things.

“Miss, calm down, this is the Xiao family. If you do this, the lady will not be happy.” The maid said in a panic.

Sun Miaomiao’s eyes turned red and she gritted her teeth as she said “If she is not happy, she is not happy.”

Sun Miaomiao’s heart was full of grievances. When she married Xiao Muhong, she hoped he would stand out. But as a result, the house was under control everywhere, and the servants of the family were also swayed by the wind. Many people secretly said that her abandoning Xiao Jingting and choosing Xiao Muhong was like picking sesame seeds over watermelon.

When Xiao Linfeng first returned, Sun Miaomiao still felt like she had made the right choice. Xiao Muhong had potential, but that Xiao Jingting was nothing but a second generation ancestor who was just relying on his parents’ influence.

However, now her life was getting worse and worse, while Xiao Jingting was living a good life which made Sun Miaomiao feel a little shaken.

Wang Lu hated her very much, and sneered at her when she had nothing to do. Xiao Muhong was afraid of Wang Lu so he didn’t dare to defend her.

When she was still in the Sun’s family, she was a young lady, so she had never been wronged like this.

Sun Miaomiao used to think that Xiao Muhong was a good person, but now she thought he was nothing more than a wimp.

What kind of thing was Xu Muan! He was born in a humble family and was also a ger. She didn’t know what kind of wrong medicine Xiao Jingting had eaten to care about such a person and even spend ten thousand taels of silver for a storage bracelet for Xu Muan. He was not worth it when even she was still using a storage bag.

Sun Miaomiao clenched her fist, she said those words on impulse today. But Xiao Jingting, that guy, dared to refute her on her face.

Earlier, when she pointed to the East, Xiao Jingting would not say West, and when she said South, Xiao Jingting would not say North.

Sun Miaomiao blushed, her heart full of grievances.

 

Edited by: Tetsu

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