"Your subordinate will make sure the message gets through!"
With that simple reply, the two vanished from Chen Changsheng's sight.
After they left, Chen Changsheng smacked his lips and muttered to himself.
"My luck really is something else. Of all things, my mother-in-law had to stumble onto something with such tiny odds."
"If not for that habit carved into her bones, she almost would have kept it from me."
"But speaking of which, these scions of great clans really are something. Calm in the face of danger—quite a spectacle!"
With that, Chen Changsheng found a shady spot and waited at his leisure.
Cui Family.
Li Fengyi and Cui Xingxue were packing their luggage and making various arrangements.
Just then, the two men from earlier came to report.
After hearing their report, Cui Xingxue said mildly, "Do as he says."
"Trust those you employ, and do not employ those you distrust. Since I handed him the authority, you are to follow his orders from now on."
After waving the two away, Cui Xingxue looked at Li Fengyi. "My lady, it seems you still couldn't hide it from him."
"This mistake was mine. I never imagined such a small habit would make all our efforts come to naught."
With a soft sigh, Li Fengyi understood exactly where she had gone wrong.
That morning, she had spoken with Chen Changsheng.
Though her actions had already aroused Chen Changsheng's suspicions, he likely had not realized at first that she had guessed his identity.
Her only slip had come when she left—she had bowed to Chen Changsheng.
Most people knew that Chen Changsheng came from no ordinary background.
But as the legitimate daughter of a great clan and Chen Changsheng's mother-in-law in name, Li Fengyi could show him respect, but she had no reason