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Song Jiyun met Hong Xi in the hall.

He was dressed in a splendid blue Hangzhou silk robe, without a single piece of jewelry on him. Although his appearance was still handsome, and his posture still upright, compared to the time in Jingde Town, he had lost some of the pride hidden in his bones that was characteristic of a scion of a great family, and gained some of the composed restraint that comes with worldliness. He had changed a great deal.

"Boss Song," he greeted Song Jiyun with a beaming smile and a clasped-hands salute, his tone teasing, "I come to the Hall of Supreme Harmony only when I have no other choice. I ask you, on account of us being fellow townsmen, to do me a favor."

Song Jiyun raised an eyebrow.