Nine-layer armor-breaking

Chapter 97: Unprecedented
Qizhou City, the main street in front of the City Lord’s Mansion.

"Look, who is that?"

On the street, a man in the crowd spoke in an excited tone.

While chatting, he suddenly jumped up and down, pointing and drawing at the two people in the distance in front of him.

Everyone followed the sound, and suddenly, another person narrowed his eyes and stared at the two people walking side by side in front of him.

"Is that... the manager of the Wu and Gao families?" someone asked in disbelief.

"Are you kidding me? The managers of the Wu and Gao families are going to get together?"

"Yeah, their two families are incompatible. I'm afraid you're blinded, right?"

……

People on the street were talking about it.

Until, a little child appeared in everyone's sight on the street, with gorgeous clothes and very eye-catching.

"Dad, I want a hug." The child stood on tiptoe, his voice soft and tender, blinking his eyes, asking for a hug from his father beside him.

When the child's father saw this, he immediately smiled and looked very loving.

The man scooped up the cute child with his big hands, hugged the child tightly, and smiled.

The child looked over there, pointed ahead, and said in a neither loud nor soft voice, "Daddy, I've seen that uncle before."

The gorgeous dress and pleasant voice immediately attracted everyone's attention.

The child first looked in the direction of the man on the left of the two people in front and said, "Uncle appeared at the Green Lake Auction House before. Everyone there listened to him. He seemed very powerful and majestic."

As soon as this sound came out, the crowd was in an uproar.

In the crowd, pairs of eyes uncontrollably looked in the direction of the child, quietly waiting for the child to speak again.

"I know that uncle over there too. We've been to his house before. He seems to be Wu..."

Before the child could finish his words, his father glanced at the backs of the two people in front of him and quickly put his finger to the child's mouth.

Obviously, with just that one glance, he recognized the identities of the two people walking side by side in front of him.

He hushed softly and said, "Children don't understand, don't talk nonsense."

Seeing that the child was about to reveal the identities of the two people in front of him, the father moved quickly but his tone remained gentle.

……

Everyone looked at the child and his father, both of whom were dressed gorgeously. The child's father had a gentle and elegant temperament, and he was very extraordinary among the crowd.

The Wu family and the Gao family have some dealings with each other. Even if they are not rich or noble, they are definitely not ordinary people.

In this way, it is easier for people to believe that the child and his father, who are from families of extraordinary wealth at first glance, recognize the Wu family and the Gao family, who are also from extraordinary families, than for ordinary people to recognize them.

Furthermore, seeing how confident the child was, it seemed more genuine and less fake.

Children are innocent by nature, so what they say is probably true.

In fact, since they were both in Qizhou City, no matter how busy the housekeepers of the Wu and Gao families were, they would inevitably go in and out of the city, so they would always see each other.

However, ordinary people have very few interactions with big families like the Wu and Gao families. Therefore, even if they have seen them a few times on weekdays, they dare not recognize them in such a noisy environment.

In particular, the housekeepers of two families who are incompatible with each other actually walked together. This scene was something no one had ever imagined.

"He really is the steward of the Wu and Gao families!"

"How did their two families come together?"

……

"Look, they're heading towards the City Lord's Mansion!"

Walk along the street in front of the City Lord's Mansion until you reach the end, turn in, and the majestic and solemn City Lord's Mansion will appear before your eyes.

The City Lord's Mansion, as the name suggests, is the residence of every city lord of Qizhou City.

But its purpose is not just to provide a residence for the city lord. The existence of the City Lord's Mansion has many more diverse purposes. One of them is that the City Lord's Mansion has multiple interconnected but independent departments, which are specifically used to handle the affairs of Qizhou, big and small.

From the safety and survival of Qizhou to the trivial matters of the people of Qizhou, all are within the jurisdiction of the City Lord's Mansion.

Of course, matters concerning the city lord cannot be ignored.

Therefore, there is a separate department that is solely responsible for the city lord's personal affairs.

Today, the stewards of the Wu and Gao families came to the City Lord's Mansion. Judging from their expressions, it was obvious that they were not invited to the banquet and have fun.

……

The two of them came to the outskirts of the City Lord's Mansion together. The guards on duty at the outskirts of the City Lord's Mansion needed to question each visitor one by one according to the usual practice.

"We are the two stewards of the Wu and Gao families. We want to visit the city lord on important matters." The tall and thin steward of the Wu family spoke first.

The guards are often on duty at the City Lord's Mansion, so naturally they hear and see more than others.

Everyone in Qizhou City knows that the relationship between the Wu family and the Gao family is extremely bad, to the point where they are like ice and charcoal and cannot coexist.

But today, without being invited, the two of them came to the City Lord's Mansion together. It was so rare that the guards couldn't believe it.

In the past, even if they were invited to the City Lord’s Mansion by the City Lord or officials of the City Lord’s Mansion, people from the Wu family and the Gao family would never be together.

If the guard had not seen it with his own eyes and knew these two people, he would have thought that there was something wrong with his eyes and that the scene before him was a rumor.

So, was it a coincidence that both families had something urgent happen, or was it that both families had something to see the city lord, and they just happened to meet on the way here and traveled together, and it was unknown who was protecting them.

"Do you two have visiting cards?" asked the guard from the City Lord's Mansion.

After the guard said this, the two of them handed over the visiting card one after the other.

"Please wait a moment." The guard took the visiting card and handed it to the guard in charge of delivering letters inside the mansion gate.

While waiting, the atmosphere between the Wu family's butler and the Gao family's butler remained as silent as usual.

However, in the eyes of outsiders, the relationship between the two at the moment is not as "extremely bad, with fists and kicks" as the rumors say.

The tall and thin Wu family butler and the medium-sized butler of the Gao family who looked quite literary did not meet each other's eyes for a moment, and they did not even glance at each other.

……

"Sorry to have kept you waiting. The City Lord's Mansion has been extremely busy lately with many things to deal with. Therefore, no one is allowed to enter the Mansion right now."

The visitor was a middle-aged man who looked very honest. He spoke in a soft voice. Although he meant to refuse, it did not make people feel uncomfortable.

The housekeepers of the Wu and Gao families had dealt with the middle-aged man who was speaking many times and were considered to be familiar with him.

He was the official in charge of all commercial affairs in Qizhou City. It could be said that he could participate in all commercial activities in Qizhou City.

In fact, for some things, he can make the final decision directly.

Although the city lord did not agree to the two people's visit application, the honest middle-aged official in front of them was able to come out personally to explain to them why they were not allowed to enter the mansion, which gave enough face to the Wu family and the Gao family.

"Under the current circumstances, I'm sorry to bother you enough to come here in person." The Gao family's housekeeper said to the official.

After exchanging a few polite words with the other party, he continued, "May I ask you, what happened in the City Lord's Mansion?"

Hearing this, the official shook his head, his face still gentle and slightly smiling, but he replied embarrassedly: "I'm very sorry, I can't tell you the details."

After the official finished speaking, the Gao family's somewhat literary steward pursed his lips and nodded, with an expression that clearly showed helplessness but understanding.

The Gao family's butler was about to speak again when he was interrupted by the tall and thin butler of the Wu family.

"I'll just say it straight!" The Wu family's housekeeper said to the official, feeling a little impatient.

Seeing that the Wu family's butler wanted to speak frankly, but was afraid that he would behave inappropriately and implicate himself, the elegant Gao family's butler simply took two steps back and temporarily withdrew from the conversation.

But the reason why the officials in front of us have their current status is naturally that they are not incompetent and mediocre.

He observed very carefully and meticulously, taking in everything the two people in front of him did, but his face did not show it, still with that gentle face and faint smile.

"Speaking!"

(End of this chapter)