Chapter 156 — Decision
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"Old Chen?" He raised an eyebrow. "I hear you went to the capital to visit a friend. I wonder where in the immortal realms this esteemed friend of yours resides? And why, having gone to the capital, you did not call upon Seventh Master Dou? Truly a dragon whose head we see but whose tail we never glimpse!" There was a note of mockery in his tone.
Chen Yanzhou did not know that Ji Yong had been looking into him.
Had it been before, he would certainly have taken some offense. But after all that had happened at the Yingzhenguo Estate, he suddenly felt that compared with what Song had endured, these were trifles hardly worth mentioning.
"My friend lives in Daxing," he said with a calm smile. "Out of habit I called it the capital. I fear I have misled Young Master Ji. As for Seventh Master, I did call upon him too; it is only that I did not happen to encounter Young Master Ji." Concise and to the point, not a single word more.
Ji Yong grew all the more suspicious of Chen Yanzhou, but looking at Dou Yan's excited expression, he swallowed the words that had risen to his lips.
"Then I shall take my leave first!"
He swung his sleeves and went out of the main hall of the Western Dou.
From outside came Zishang's breathless voice: "Young master, young master, won't you at least throw on a cloak?"
Dou Chiyou smiled, and went inside with Old Chen and the others.
After Ganlu and the others had served tea, they quietly withdrew.
Old Chen began to recount what had befallen him in the capital these past days.
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Sisters, brothers, I still owe you one chapter of updates, and I have been keeping this matter in mind all along. It is only that these past few days have been too busy and I have had no time to make it up. I will do my best to think of something these next couple of days, and see whether I can ask for leave or the like...
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