"Marquis Wuding, Eunuch Zhao, please make way. I have official business with scholar Xu Qing." At this moment, Academician Zhou arrived and eased the situation for Xu Qing.
Xu Qing, like a man granted amnesty, promptly followed Academician Zhou, and instructed Su Lianqing and others to move the luggage to a residence he had prepared in advance in the Heavenly Capital.
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Upon arriving at the Zhou residence.
Prior to this, Xu Qing had already observed the changes in the dark Qi fortune through the bronze mirror.
Though the attitudes of Eunuch Zhao and Marquis Wuding were enigmatic, the feedback from the Qi fortune indicated, at least, an absence of malice.
Could this be genuine?
Xu Qing came to respect the two men.
An opponent who knows when to be humble and when to assert is even more fearsome.
He understood that the current cordial demeanor of the two old men was temporary, likely due to Feng Xifeng.
