"Ahem, carry on with your duties."
Seeing the strange looks on the faces of several shop assistants and managers nearby, Qi Zhengyan lowered his voice and coughed.
The few of them hurriedly acknowledged.
Qi Zhengyan was the manager sent here by the Flower Washing Sword Sect, serving as the deputy to the sect's overseer in the city.
Although Yi City was not large, its favorable location and convenient waterways made it fairly prosperous.
The person in charge was one of Qi Zhengyan's Uncle-Masters at the Aperture Opening Stage, an ordinary disciple without much talent for martial arts.
Being assigned to a place like this, he naturally intended to skim a little profit while preparing for retirement.
However, Qi Zhengyan had come out in order to conceal the Hun Tian Bao Jian on him, so he had no intention of fighting for power.
Since Qi Zhengyan did not vie for authority, Uncle-Master Li was naturally quite pleased. He worried that if he gave Qi Zhengyan no benefits at all, Qi Zhengyan might return to the sect and be replaced by an even more troublesome deputy.
Thus, Uncle-Master Li treated Qi Zhengyan fairly well, handing quite a few shops over to him to manage and allowing him some profits.
For that reason, Qi Zhengyan held a certain degree of prestige among the shop assistants and managers.
Even though they knew that the Tang Family's second young master from the direct line had come to the shop to recuperate, they had not leaked the news and remained obedient.
After Qi Zhengyan reprimanded them, they continued as before, doing what they were supposed to do. The disputes of the martial world had always had nothing to do with them...
"Senior Brother Qi, is something wrong? Is there an issue with the identity Xu