"And whose fault is that?" Liu Shi Shi stared at him and pouted her lips.

Lin Xuan Qi shook his head, gave her a grin and said, "Fault? I'm never at fault, remember? Rule number one..."

"Hmph. I swear that one of these days I shall be able to find a loophole in the rules," she said and tried to walk away.

He grabbed her arms and pulled her into his embrace.

"What are you doing?" Liu Shi Shi didn't expect that and was caught by surprise.

Lin Xuan Qi's strength was now strong enough to overpower her.

She quickly glanced around with her heart beating faster.

Even though she was teasing him, she didn't want to cause any misunderstandings with Xue Cong and Yue Jie.

"I thought you were more direct than this?" Lin Xuan Qi got closer to her and teased her.

He recalled how she had approached him and asked whether he felt anything for her.

But now, her face blushed and her chest raising and lowering rapidly made him feel satisfied to see a part of her not shown to others.

"There's no one around." Lin Xuan Qi glanced at the surroundings then looked at her again and said, "Show me how direct you can be..."

Liu Shi Shi hesitated and bit her lower lip.

After a few moments of deliberation, she glanced over his shoulders, waved in the direction and suddenly shouted, "Xue Cong! Yue Jie!"

Lin Xuan Qi quickly turned around to check, and she took the opportunity to get out of his grasp.

She leaped away from him, shrugged her shoulders at Lin Xuan Qi and then mouthed the words, 'Wait for our big day... I will show you how direct I can be.'

After she finished mouthing the words, she turned around and got away, leaving Lin Xuan Qi standing where he was.

He gave a sigh and thought to himself, at least she is taking it better than I thought.

With her character being more direct and boisterous at times, Lin Xuan Qi was concerned that she might not be able to stay calm.

He was pleasantly surprised and glad that she was now different from when he first met her.

Now that he had checked on Liu Shi Shi, he was thinking of seeing how Yue Xin was doing.

But when he glanced at the sky, it was already late with the moon shining with its celestial light.

He decided to do so when he had the time.

It would be best for him to have a good night's sleep.

With the charity porridge dispensing starting tomorrow, it might be a long day for him too.

...

Next day.

Everyone in the mansion got up early.

Auntie Sue had woken up before the sun rose and cooked the porridge.

She did as she was instructed, and the porridge was as diluted as possible.

It was more like a fluid with barely any rice in it.

Mei Jiao and the other servants also helped her, and by the time Lin Xuan Qi was up, the porridge was loaded onto pushcarts, ready to be delivered.

Old Shao and the carpenters were also done with the makeshift stalls for the charity porridge.

"Thanks, everyone." Xue Cong checked everything and thanked everyone involved.

The servants were all smiles and replied, "It's an honor, young mistress Xue Cong."

When she heard how they addressed her, Xue Cong nodded and gave them a smile back.

She appeared to be normal, but her heart was thumping fast.

The realization that she was the lady of the mansion was getting stronger day by day.

Everyone had slowly become accustomed to it.

And she was also adapting.

"So, when can we move, young mistress Xue Cong?"

Xue Cong startled when she heard his voice from behind.

She glanced around and gave him a frown.

Lin Xuan Qi thought that he could never get tired of teasing her.

She always still had that demure look for him even though she could manage most affairs in the household now.

"We can move at any moment," Xue Cong walked up to him and replied.

"Do you want to have some breakfast first? I've gotten some meat buns from Luo Bao."

"Meat buns? Great, I haven't had them for a long while," Lin Xuan Qi nodded and said.

She still remembered, he thought.

And that also reminded him to invite Luo Bao for the wedding.

Luo Bao had helped when he first came over to Hong Feng City.

There were so many things going on for him that he wasn't able to have time to see Luo Bao again.

Xue Cong glanced at the servant girl beside her, and the servant girl passed him two meat buns.

He quickly took a bite from the meat bun, and it was just as tasty as before.

"Let's go, those needy out there must be starving," Lin Xuan Qi said after he swallowed the meat bun he had in his mouth.

There was work to be done.

He got onto the horse carriage with Xue Cong, Yue Xin, Yue Jie and Liu Shi Shi.

Outside the horse carriage, Lee He Song and Zhi Yong walked along with the security guards.

The other servants pushed the pushcarts with the porridge and porridge stalls behind the horse carriage, also surrounded by the guards.

Only a few of the guards and servants were left behind in the mansion.

The situation had calmed down a bit, and Lin Xuan Qi felt that it was a risk he could take.

Finally, with everyone in place, the coachman raised his arm and cracked the whip.

Trot.

The horses started trotting and the convoy headed for their destination to the southern part of the city.

The streets leading out of the mansion were empty but when they reached the junction where the other streets were, it was very much different.

Things seemed to be back to normal for some, with the street vendors back on the streets, but for some, they sat by the side of the road and glanced at the pedestrians walking by with their hollow eyes.

They had nowhere to go and nothing to eat.

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