Chapter 294: Who the hell is this kid?! How can he be so arrogant?!

Early morning, Huangcheng, Xin Cheng District.

Following the simultaneous roar of the salute cannons, Qingqiu Square opened.

Red flags fluttered, a sea of people.

After the salute cannons finished, a grand eunuch in red robes appeared, holding the imperial edict.

Everyone present knelt down together.

「By the mandate of heaven…………

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「Imperially bestowed golden signboard. 」

After the grand eunuch finished reading the edict, four Imperial Guards carried a plaque inscribed with 'Qingqiu' toward the building entrance.

Finally, when the plaque was hung above the main gate of the Qingqiu Building.

After three years, Lu Yuan's building finally opened for business.

The crowd applauded and rose to their feet.

Lu Yuan helped Su Liyan, who was standing beside him, to her feet and whispered:

「You don't need to kneel, why must you follow along? 」

Su Liyan wrapped her arms around Lu Yuan's arm, leaning her whole body against him, acting coquettishly:

「Everyone else knelt, so I, as your wife, naturally have to join you~」

Looking at this daughter-in-law who was sweeter, cuter, and more bewitchingly charming than three years ago, Lu Yuan couldn't help but smile and pinched Su Liyan's cheeks.

Just as three years ago, Su Liyan remained bashful in front of her husband, making people unable to let go.

Lu Yuan embraced Su Liyan, looked up at the huge golden signboard, and also showed a relieved smile.

Three years have passed, and his family's building is finally fully completed.

In fact, given the Great Zhou Dynasty's nationwide policy of full participation in infrastructure construction, such a building, if built with ordinary materials, would certainly not take three years.

The main point is that Lu Yuan later built a shopping plaza next to this building.

Moreover, the interior decoration required many very beautiful and unique materials.

He had to wait for the building materials, which delayed everything until now.

Today's Qingqiu Building, upon entering, is virtually indistinguishable from a modern plaza on Earth, and even more modern and luxurious.

This is also the first true star-rated hotel plus shopping plaza of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

From now on, it's just a matter of lying back and earning money.

Speaking of which... it's really time to make money.

These three years, Lu Yuan was nearly broke; if not for his second wife drawing money from his privy purse to help out, this would have been a stalled project.

The consumption was truly enormous.

These three years, not only was Lu Yuan poor, but his second wife was poor as well.

Fortunately, his second wife didn't much like traveling east, west, or to Jiangnan; as long as she didn't go out, there was no need to worry about appearances, and thus no need to spend extra money.

The couple spent these three years in poverty.

No wonder ancient emperors constantly wanted to fill their privy purses; an emperor without money sometimes lived worse than his ministers below.

But fortunately, things have improved now.

Just the stalls in the mall alone bring in astronomical annual rents.

After the golden signboard was hung up, another salvo of salute cannons sounded.

Official opening.

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Noon.

In the spacious office of the Qingqiu Building, Lu Yuan's family was having lunch.

Lu Yuan, Su Liyan, and Gu Qingwan, who had sneaked over.

Gu Qingwan still wore a black-red dragon robe, though it was her everyday attire, not the huge-sleeved, huge-skirted version worn for grand court assemblies.

Gu Qingwan and Su Liyan, two peerless beauties of the age, leaned together, whispering happily.

Not knowing what they were saying, both laughed delightedly.

Lu Yuan sat opposite them, holding a newspaper and reading.

Besides the three of them, the room also had two small boys running around a grand eunuch, chasing each other.

The two three-year-old boys ran about, cute and clumsy; even the Stone Buddha Grand Eunuch, seeing the two boys circling him, couldn't help but smile.

Indeed, three years ago Gu Qingwan also gave birth to a son, named Lu Qingyun.

To be honest, when this child was just born, Lu Yuan was very happy.

Two sons—who wouldn't be happy?

Every day after work, the first thing he did upon returning home was to kiss one, then kiss the other.

But as the children grew older, able to run, jump, and speak, it became clear that the two boys were really noisy.

The noise made Lu Yuan's ears hurt.

This made Lu Yuan urgently want a daughter.

However, these three years Lu Yuan has been busy, and his eldest and second wives have also been busy.

So there has never been an opportunity.

「Liyan, are you about to head back? 」

Looking at the newspaper, Lu Yuan suddenly thought of something, put down the paper, gazed at Su Liyan sitting opposite, and asked.

Su Liyan stared for a moment, then turned her head, looking at Lu Yuan and nodding repeatedly, she said in a coquettish voice:

"Mm~ because my master won't be back for a while, so I have to handle everything, I can't stay at home longer~"

Lu Yuan listened to Su Liyan's words and nodded.

Over these three years, my wife had already advanced to Quasi-Emperor.

In three years, going from nothing to Quasi-Emperor, this is unprecedented.

Even those who obtained ancient inheritances or some great fortuitous opportunity cannot compare.

Of course, not only Su Liyan, but also Gu Qingwan, and even Lu Yuan himself are like this.

In three years, the three of them have all reached the Quasi-Emperor realm.

However, aside from Su Liyan, for Lu Yuan and Gu Qingwan, life has undergone no change.

Just as Lu Yuan was about to say something, Su Liyan had already come to his side.

Su Liyan, crouching beside Lu Yuan, hugged one of his arms, raised her head coquettishly, and looked at Lu Yuan as she said:

"Brother~ you should go stay at the Linglan Sword Sect for a while~~"

Although, it's now quite convenient for Su Liyan to return home; she can come back from the spatial rift in a day and a night.

However, Su Liyan is now the Sect Leader of the Linglan Sword Sect.

All major and minor affairs of the sect are handled by Su Liyan, so naturally she cannot be said to come back every few days.

Of course, Su Liyan doesn't want to be that Sect Leader of the Linglan Sword Sect, but she is also not an ungrateful person.

Su Liyan knows exactly what Ji Lingxiao has been to her over these three years.

So, even if Su Liyan is unwilling, she can only reluctantly agree to this for now.

The current situation is basically that Su Liyan returns once a month, stays for a day or two, then goes back.

Perhaps due to different personalities, this arrangement is still fine for Gu Qingwan, this big woman.

But for Su Liyan, who constantly wants to cling to Lu Yuan's side, it is nothing short of torture.

Therefore, Su Liyan has always wanted Lu Yuan to go stay at the Linglan Sword Sect for a while.

However, over these three years, Lu Yuan has also been quite busy, so he hasn't gone.

Lu Yuan crossed his legs, looking at the wife crouching beside him, acting coquettishly, and couldn't help but grin as he said:

"After a while, during this period Qingbei has undertaken several big projects, and there's also a big conference to be held in the Asia-Pacific region; once I'm done with these, then……"

Before Lu Yuan could finish his words, Gu Qingwan, sitting opposite, involuntarily said:

"Even after finishing these, there will surely be more; work is never done, go stay at the Linglan Sword Sect for a few days."

Over these three years, Lu Yuan has been in the Great Zhou Dynasty, truly making Gu Qingwan blissfully happy.

Every day, the two of them are just like a working couple on Earth.

In the morning, Gu Qingwan gets up early to prepare breakfast, then after eating together with Lu Yuan, Lu Yuan goes to Qingbei and Gu Qingwan goes to the imperial palace.

If there's nothing major at noon, such as a grand court assembly, Gu Qingwan will return early to make lunch and wait for Lu Yuan to come eat.

If there is something today and Gu Qingwan cannot return to make lunch, Lu Yuan eats at the cafeteria in Qingbei.

In the evening, the two go together to the market to buy vegetables, then return home to cook.

This kind of life makes Gu Qingwan utterly blissful.

On the other hand, I also feel a bit that constantly monopolizing Lu Yuan is somewhat unfair to Su Liyan, after all Su Liyan also very much wants to be like that with Lu Yuan.

Even more so, given Su Liyan's personality, she would prefer such a life.

Lu Yuan looked at the wife crouching beside him, her face full of anticipation like a little girl's, and couldn't help but grin as he said:

"In about a month, mainly I've been keeping an eye on these several projects; it wouldn't be good to leave midway.

These few projects are almost finished; once they're done, brother will not worry about anything else and will go to the Linglan Sword Sect to keep you company~"

Hearing her man's words, Su Liyan immediately leapt up with joy, directly stood up, wrapped her arms around Lu Yuan's neck, and gave him a kiss.

After the kiss, Su Liyan then noticed the two little ones in another corner of the room had stopped, looking over here curiously.

For a moment, the shy Su Liyan buried her absolutely beautiful face into Lu Yuan's embrace.

Lu Yuan embraced his big wife and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Speaking of which, this big wife of mine, in front of me, really hasn't changed at all.

Forever she remains this shy and alluring.

As Lu Yuan held Su Liyan, he suddenly recalled something and said:

"By the way, how serious is the problem over at the Abyss? Why did your master go there?"

Speaking of this, Su Liyan became serious, slightly nodded and said:

"It's indeed quite serious; originally the master was supposed to go into seclusion to break through the realm, but in the end had to bring the sect's elders to the scene."

Upon hearing this, Lu Yuan gave a slight nod.

A year ago, in a certain continent of South Qingling Province, it seems that a seal from long ago in the cultivation world has been opened.

Of course, this sort of thing isn't particularly rare, after all South Qingling Province has a history of tens of thousands of years.

Just like on Earth, in some ancient cities with cultural heritage, when construction begins and foundations are dug, it's easy to uncover ancient tombs.

South Qingling Province also often has ancient seals that loosen due to the passage of time, and then what was sealed back then escapes.

Such incidents occur in South Qingling Province almost every year, several times.

Generally speaking, they don't cause any major trouble.

Just like if Qin Shi Huang were to now crawl out of his tomb with a million-strong army, what chaos could he cause on Earth?

The times are progressing.

For Earth, it's technological progress, but likewise the cultivation world also has progress.

In the cultivation world, progress lies in cultivation techniques, immortal arts, and the like.

I mentioned before, in this cultivation world, cultivation methods, immortal techniques and such, they have always been evolving, becoming more perfect and such.

Just like my eldest daughter-in-law's Qinglian Heart Method, the current heart method would definitely crush the Qinglian Heart Method from tens of thousands of years ago.

So, things that came out of those previous seals usually aren't a big problem.

It was handled casually.

But this time seems different.

A year ago, the region called the Abyss had its seal opened, and many strange, bloodthirsty things came out of it.

Originally, the nearby sects were supposed to handle it, but they didn't manage to.

They almost wiped out those sects, and afterward, other sects of the Nanqing Continent, upon learning of it, all sent their own people to help.

The result……

Still not working.

By now, the big shots of Nanqing Lingzhou, that is, people of the caliber of Ji Lingxiao, have finally started paying attention.

Now the Abyss continent has been directly sealed off.

As for what to do next, they should still be discussing it over there.

However, judging from the current situation, the problem is still quite serious.

After all, even someone of Ji Lingxiao's caliber personally went there, so this matter is definitely a bit troublesome.

Lu Yuan listened to Su Liyan's words and nodded; before he could say anything, Su Liyan, who was sitting in Lu Yuan's embrace, suddenly froze, then took out a jade pendant from her waist.

This jade pendant flashed with red light.

Immediately, Lu Yuan hugged Su Liyan and rose, then placed her on the seat and flashed to the side himself.

Gu Qingwan, meanwhile, looked at Lu Yuan with some displeasure, pouting her lips, and coquettishly said:

"Brother~~"

Seeing his wife so cute, Lu Yuan couldn't help but laugh and say:

"I'll hug you later, let's talk business first."

Su Liyan looked at Lu Yuan, her joy spreading as she nodded, then finally sat properly on the chair.

The next second, that face which had just been shy and charmingly beautiful instantly turned icy cold.

Truly a change in an instant.

Lu Yuan then pulled over a chair, sat down, leaned sideways, and lit a cigarette.

The next second, Su Liyan lightly gripped the jade pendant, and the room instantly dimmed.

Afterward, a screen appeared before them showing more than a dozen people.

Just like a video conference on Earth.

These dozen or so people all had the aura of immortals; at a glance they were clearly formidable—if not sect leaders, then at least grand elder level.

Lu Yuan curiously sized up these dozen or so people, and likewise, those people on the other side were sizing up Lu Yuan.

After all,

Who the hell is this kid?!

Never mind the identities of these dozen or so people; just look at this kid standing or sitting beside the Sect Leader of the Linglan Sword Sect—he doesn't have proper posture, and he's even holding a cigarette.

How arrogant can he be!!!

It feels like when starting a new book—writing and deleting, deleting and writing, never quite getting it right; from now on we'll resume normal updates.

(End of chapter)