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Inside the hot spring pool of Xingqing Marquis's Residence, Marquis Xingqing Ji Tao was frolicking with several beauties draped in gauze. As he looked at the chief steward of the inner residence waiting by the pool with his back bent, his face was full of displeasure.
"Damn slave, you interrupted my enjoyment. If you cannot give me a good reason, I'll skin you alive!"
The moment those words came out, the chief steward of the inner residence immediately dropped to his knees, pressing his forehead to the ground. He did not dare glance toward the hot spring pool at all and merely said in an extremely cautious voice, "It is not anything major. It is simply that Zhao Zhong has taken rather too many things from the stores using Your Marquis's token. This old servant wondered whether I should report it to Your Marquis?"
"What? In this marquis's residence, even my token no longer works?"
Marquis Xingqing's casual remark immediately had the chief steward prostrating on the ground repeatedly cry that he would not dare.
"Zhao Zhong is handling important matters for me. Let him take whatever he needs directly!" At this point, Marquis Xingqing raised his brows and gave the chief steward a rather surprised look.
The few chief stewards of the inner residence he employed were all reliable people. He normally found them exceedingly convenient to use. For many matters, Marquis Xingqing only needed to give an order and never had to worry about them himself.
Logically speaking, Zhao Zhong taking a bit of cultivation resources should not have warranted the chief