"Isn't that so?" Qi Yu said as she walked upwards, "I suspect it's because Father didn't sense any threat, so he didn't pay attention."
Si Qing nodded.
After the two of them sneaked inside for a while, they stopped in front of the main door on the third floor.
These doors were made of solid wood, carved with many incomprehensible Sanskrit characters. At the top of the doors were carved phoenixes and dragons.
The overall color of the doors was gold. The center was not locked and had a gap, as if it could be pushed open at any time.
Qi Yu and Si Qing looked at each other. Neither dared to rashly push the door open, but instead hid to the side.
They continued to hide there, constantly paying attention to the movements around them. When they heard footsteps from inside the third-floor door, they immediately hid in the nearby flowerbed.
Soon, not long after, the third-floor door was pushed open from the inside.
A slender and long-legged beauty, wearing a veil, walked out from inside, carrying a basket. She seemed to be going to deliver something.
Qi Yu and Si Qing seized this opportunity to quickly walk out from the inside and then slipped in through the gap in the door.
Qi Yu moved very lightly. To avoid being discovered, she even cast an invisibility spell.
As the two of them had just sneakily walked in, they heard a cold female voice from not far away:
"After all the items are delivered, don't forget to bring me all the documents from the South Sea Dragon Palace."
Qi Yu's expression changed slightly, and her expression became a bit more serious. She secretly looked in the direction of the voice.
Only then did she notice that the woman speaking was wearing a very ostentatious robe embroidered with pure gold silk threads, with wide sleeves and a narrow waist. She was also wearing a mask. Although she looked elegant, her clothes seemed to exceed her status.
This was because such robes embroidered with pure gold silk threads were not something anyone could wear.
To wear this color, one needed a certain status and cultivation level in the South Sea.
One could not be lacking in either.
This woman looked very young, and her cultivation was not obvious, appearing not particularly high. How could she be qualified to wear this dress?
Si Qing was still in a state of doubt. He wrote on the Yan Zhen Mirror and asked Qi Yu, "Sister, do you think there's a possibility that this woman already has the qualifications to wear this dress, but has been deliberately suppressing her cultivation?"
"She's wearing this outfit but not revealing her cultivation. It feels like anyone would guess this." Qi Yu wrote this and then continued to write on the Yan Zhen Mirror, "Let's listen more."
Si Qing nodded.
The two of them watched as the masked woman walked towards them after speaking.
Qi Yu and Si Qing held hands and hid in the shadows.
The woman slowly walked to their side, as if she saw nothing. She just paced back and forth, then brought a chair, and sat down at the closest position to them.
Qi Yu and Si Qing fell silent.
Although their invisibility spells were very powerful, with someone so close, they couldn't guarantee that they wouldn't leak any aura. After all, they had just hatched after reincarnation, and their cultivation was still shallow.
Moreover, not to mention cultivation, just standing there and maintaining their stamina was quite tiring.
Qi Yu gently shook the bonsai pot beside her.
An orange fell from the nearby orange bonsai pot. It spun and rolled into a corner.
Qi Yu originally thought that the suddenly fallen orange would attract the woman's attention.
But the woman seemed completely unaware of their presence. She didn't even glance at them. Not only did she continue to sit calmly in her seat, but she also had someone pour her a cup of hot tea and took out many of their favorite pastries to eat and drink.
Qi Yu: "..."
If she hadn't seen these pastries, she would have thought it was a coincidence. But seeing that not a single one of the pastries on the table was not to her liking, she felt that something was not simple.
It was definitely not a coincidence, but intentional!
Si Qing had the same thought, but compared to this, he glanced out the window and was more worried about Shaofeng in the first-floor hall.
Si Qing tugged at Qi Yu's clothes. Instead of writing, he whispered in Qi Yu's ear, "Sister, it's getting late. He must be waiting anxiously downstairs. Let's go back first. We can draw a magic circle to mark this place, and we can find a way to sneak back next time."
Qi Yu nodded and quickly drew a formation on the ground with her blood.
After drawing, the formation disappeared in an instant.
Qi Yu did all this without anyone noticing. She confirmed that the woman opposite had no reaction and was still eating tea and snacks with her mask on before turning to leave with Si Qing towards the door.
Just then, a knock suddenly sounded from outside, and a maid gently walked in.
Qi Yu looked up and recognized the woman as the one who had been wearing a veil earlier.
She gave Si Qing a look, and the two of them slowly moved towards the door.
After moving close enough, they attempted to run at a hundred-meter sprint, intending to slip away through the gap when the door was opened.
But they never expected that as soon as they reached the halfway point and stepped over the threshold, each of them was grabbed by a large hand.
Qi Yu and Si Qing's eyes widened.
Turning back, they saw that the person who had grabbed them was the masked woman who had been eating pastries all along.
Qi Yu and Si Qing were about to use magic to attack her and escape quickly, when they suddenly saw the woman tuck them under her arms and remove her mask with her hand.
Qi Yu stared at the removed mask in a daze, then slowly looked up.
What met her eyes was An Nuo's familiar face.
"Mother!" Qi Yu's eyes widened as she hugged her mother's waist, her tail wagging happily. "How are you here?"
Si Qing also climbed into An Nuo's embrace.
An Nuo bent down and hugged them both tightly, then raised her index finger and chuckled, "Surprised? This place, Xiang Rui Yuan, is mine. I just never told your father. I always handle all the affairs here with my distinguished identity, so of course, he doesn't know how powerful Xiang Rui Yuan is."
Qi Yu and Si Qing showed expressions of sudden realization.
An Nuo tidied Qi Yu's bangs.
Qi Yu looked at An Nuo, obediently letting her tidy her hair. But then she seemed to remember something and suddenly said, "Mother, something is wrong. So, what happened just now was indeed intentional, right?"
An Nuo blinked. "What?"
"You definitely did it on purpose!" Qi Yu said indignantly. "When you were eating pastries and drinking hot tea just now, you had already discovered us, right? It was because you discovered us that you deliberately ate the pastries we both liked so much!"