Chapter 549 - Chapter 549: Bustling Jiangjing, Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage Principal Shi (Two Chapters Combined)_2

Chapter 549: Bustling Jiangjing, Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage Principal Shi (Two Chapters Combined)_2

Xu Nanjing didn’t find Bai Lian, but saw clearly what Jiang Fulai was up to—he was—

Sorting junk?

Xu Nanjing finally understood how Ming Dongheng felt back in Xiangcheng.

Aside from his research, Young Master Jiang wasted not a second with anyone else; his hands used to handle delicate instruments, scale rulers accurate to the millimeter for gunpowder, and pens wielded with decisive lethality upon his team members…

Not to mention sorting junk, if he were willing to pour himself a cup of water, Xu Nanjing would doubt the reality of this world.

“Xiaoming,” Xu Nanjing went out to the balcony and spoke to Ming Dongheng, “where’s Alian?”

Ming Dongheng looked up, his reply succinct: “She’s gone out to eat with her mom.”

Xu Nanjing hadn’t seen Ming Dongheng for a while and was startled by his eyes, “Xiaoming, how come you’re as intimidating as Sister Beixuan now!”

Ming Dongheng ignored him, handed him a kettle, and asked him to help out. “I’m going to take out the trash. When they deliver the TV, sign for it.”

Bai Lian didn’t have a TV here, but as soon as Jiang Fulai arrived, he ordered one.

Realizing later, Xu Nanjing asked, “Wait, Alian has a mom?”

He hadn’t looked into Bai Lian’s background, only knowing she had a grandfather and assumed her parents were deceased.

Hearing that Bai Lian had a mother, Xu Nanjing pulled out his phone and messaged Gao Yan—

[Latest news, Alian has a birth mother.]

Empress Dowager: [One more doesn’t make much difference, does it?]

**

After helping Bai Lian set up the TV, Xu Nanjing returned home, still contemplating the matter.

On Lous Street.

Xu Jueling was confirming tomorrow’s schedule with his secretary, “Are Xu Jin and Xu Jinyi familiar with Azure Dragon Bar?”

Since last year, Azure Dragon Bar had shifted its focus to Jiangjing. All the big families of Jiangjing had a sword hanging over their heads, aware of the international powers behind the bar.

Especially the third floor for information trading, which houses a black market not open to the general public, has all the major families enviously eyeing it.

“Xu Jin frequents various bars and has more channels of information than others. That Xu Kang… seems to have some connection with the Jiang Family.” Saying this, the secretary glanced toward the yawning Xu Nanjing.

The young master was also a regular at bars, but he didn’t dare mention Xu Nanjing.

Gao Yan was baffled, “Why would these forces suddenly come to Jiangjing?”

Gao Yan, clad in a dark, figure-hugging cheongsam with only slight wrinkles at the corner of her eyes, possessed a strong aura.

She looked well-maintained, appearing only to be in her early thirties.

“I don’t know.” Xu Jueling’s secretary shook his head, “But Azure Dragon Bar has indeed shifted its focus to Jiangjing.”

Now, that was strange…

Rare auctions that normally didn’t happen often were held twice this year in Jiangjing, things that previously only happened on Backter Street.

“Has Young Master Jiang arranged his lab?” Xu Jueling mused.

“I don’t know.” Xu Nanjing replied casually.

Xu Jueling took a look at him and then remembered, “This can wait. Has Miss Bai arrived?”

Hearing this, Gao Yan also looked at Xu Nanjing and sat up straight: “What’s the verdict, does she want to meet me?”

Xu Nanjing checked his phone, she hadn’t responded to his message just yet, “She’s visiting her uncle tomorrow, not sure if she’ll have time in the next two days.”

No time?

Xu Jueling was very surprised, the college entrance exams were over, what could she be so busy with?

“Her uncle is here too?” Gao Yan was also surprised.

She thought all of Bai Lian’s relatives were in Xiangcheng.

“Yeah.” Xu Nanjing replied lazily; he bought a new motorbike for Bai Lian, she was sure to like it.

Gao Yan averted her gaze from him, Bai Lian had also arrived in Jiangjing.

She took out her phone and messaged President Jian—

[President Jian, hello, she has arrived in Jiangjing.]

**

The next day.

Ji Shaojun got up early and headed to the Mu Family branch, managed by Manager Xu, who was a confidant of the old master of the Mu Family. Since changing his surname, Ji Shaojun had been learning the practical aspects of the business here.

After work in the afternoon, Manager Xu would take him home and teach him some practical case studies.

Xiaojie parked the car at the market, and Ji Shaojun went to buy groceries.

Manager Xu sat in the passenger seat and listened as Xiaojie mentioned Ji Shaojun’s niece was coming, quite surprised, “A niece?”

“Yes,” Xiaojie remembered Bai Lian, “she came to Jiangjing right after finishing her college entrance exams.”

“So soon,” Manager Xu recalled it as well, “Isn’t Mu Zhao still held up by professors at Jiangjing University in the hotel?”

Top students would be taken by these universities in advance. The schools would have upperclassmen and professors keep them company to play social deduction games like Werewolf until they signed agreements and were allowed to leave.