"Go out and have fun? I don't have time for that."
Ye Qingyu strode swiftly along the Cloud Corridor, her robes seeming to drift like clouds. Speaking with a smile, she simply pinched the jade Cloud Crane that was talking in her hand into an earring and hung it beside her ear.
The elder and younger Wangs followed behind her step for step. Quiet as they were, their ears were pricked.
Every so often, they handed over jade slips for Ye Qingyu to review and handle. Once she had finished reviewing them, they took them back and tucked them into their sleeves.
Ye Qingyu listened carefully to the endless stream of scenic introductions and descriptions of famous sites from the other end of the jade crane, merely smiling. "With everything going on in the Cloud Kingdom, how could we possibly do without people?"
As she walked, she said, "There's a heap of trivial matters at High Heaven Pavilion, I have to worry about Cloudtop Trading Company too, the interests along the Cloudborne Trade Route need to be renegotiated, and I have to deal with every side... unlike you, sitting back with folded arms and watching the show at White Jade Capital Restaurant. What do you mean, you're not sitting back? Business is good? Isn't Shopkeeper Bai the one handling all that?"
Even as she spoke, she continued flipping through the jade slips. From time to time, she pinched the jade crane shut and quietly asked the elder and younger Wangs a few questions before releasing it again.
"Now that the chaos in the Heavenly Sea has finally ended, rest properly for a while before talking about anything else. Don't go thinking about running all over the place again! Are you forged from iron, or are you a blacksmith? That's all