Ye Chuqi even said with a smile, "As long as you aren't embarrassed, everyone else will be."
Joshua: That sounds awfully familiar.
Ye Qinglan did not quite understand, because he did not see why he should be embarrassed.
Ye Chuqi wandered around the city for a day before taking Ye Qinglan and Joshua to visit the City Lord's Residence. She was not worried about how old Barnard was being treated there. He had genuine expertise, and with the Leaf Pearl in hand, he would surely resolve the important person's unusual poisoning soon. She had merely heard that the City Lord's Residence held an even richer collection of books than the city library. In particular, many rare works existed in their original form only at the residence, while the library had copies. The residence even held quite a few old editions that had never been seen elsewhere.
The city lord was a book lover, Ye Chuqi concluded.
Getting into the City Lord's Residence was not difficult, either. She had old Barnard as her "inside man" and Ye Qinglan to back her up, along with a perfectly legitimate excuse—to discuss the collection with the city lord and consult some ancient books, searching for clues to treating Xiao Nuo's congenital deficiency.
After getting thoroughly accustomed to making Big Black Fish her excuse every day, Ye Chuqi had started doing the same with Xiao Nuo.
She felt there was something almost mystical about it. After she kept using Big Black Fish as her excuse, he had actually evolved in that direction. If she used Xiao Nuo as her excuse more often, might she really find a solution?
Big Black Fish: I clearly got there through my own hard work!
Yuges, the city lord of Monte City, also held a noble title. But something as