Qi Zhongbin was welcomed into the Mo Household, where Master Mo and the others chatted with him in the reception hall, while the servants of the Mo Residence began their preparations, slaughtering chickens and ducks.
Many of the Mo Household's former servants were no longer there. Nothing had happened to them; they simply had not been bound by contracts of servitude.
As the maids grew older, they naturally married, and as the manservants came of age, they too took wives and had children. Many had left the Mo Residence to establish households of their own, and with a little help from the Mo Household, they had found their footing outside.
Only a few of the older generation had stayed.
Now, however, even several elderly manservants wore excited expressions, while many younger ones watched curiously from outside.
"I heard this old gentleman has exactly the same name as the Great Yong Celestial Master!" "I heard that too."
"He looks like a great master himself. Uncle Li, tell us!"
The old servant did not dare stare for long either. He glanced at those beside him.
"Off with you, go get to work! Let me tell you, this gentleman is something else. That Great Yong Celestial Master? It's most likely him..."
"What?" "Really?"
"Uncle Li, you can't be joking!"
"Heh, joking? You youngsters haven't seen much of the world... Enough chatting. Go get everything ready!"
The servants chatted excitedly outside, while those in the reception hall were talking as well. Their conversation, however, did not touch upon the Immortal Dao, but on the most ordinary-and most important-things in their lives.
The world certainly did not revolve around Yi Shuyuan, much less around Qi Zhongbin.
After so many years, everyone had undergone changes of their own.
Stoneborn was the Mo Household's eldest son, but