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Chapter 4862: 5.0614 Speculation

Young Master Qin Da's public rebuke of him today was quite severe.

Old Steward Luo quickly bowed and apologized, "Yes, yes, this old servant overstepped. I will go apologize to Miss Qiao immediately."

Young Master Qin Da gave him a cold stare. "No need."

Murong Fei quickly followed Qiao Mu into the tent and with a flick of her sleeve, conjured a soundproofing barrier outside.

"Junior Sister, are you suspecting...?"

"Someone in the team is experimenting on living people," Qiao Mu stated definitively. "The Fang siblings were the first victims. That Miss Fang should be mutating soon too."

"What?" Murong Fei's eyes widened in shock. "Junior Sister, could it be that Miss Fang... she also? Also drank the mutation potion?"

Qiao Mu nodded, turning to look at her. "Did you tell your brother to be careful with his diet recently?"

Murong Fei nodded. "I did."

Qiao Mu sat down expressionlessly at the small table, holding a white porcelain teacup in one hand, and said coldly, "I can probably guess."

The next morning, everyone woke up with panda eyes and gathered.

The breakfast provided by the Qin Mansion, for the past two days, was half a white steamed bun with some pickles per person. Today, the portion was even smaller than the past two days, receiving only about a third of a bun, and even the pickles were gone.

Everyone exchanged glances, silently gnawing on the dry steamed buns with plain water.

Duo Shanmei and the others silently put away their buns without eating.

Anyway, with their cultivation, going a few days without food was no big deal; the white steamed bun simply looked unappetizing.

Yun Yunzhi yawned and scurried over to Qiao Mu, ignoring Murong Fei's disdainful look, and quickly whispered, "Junior Sister, Junior Sister, I have some homemade apple soup here, would you like a bowl?"

Qiao Mu glanced at him, reluctantly nodding.

Yun Yunzhi was overjoyed, hastily pulling out an ear cup from his inner space, taking out two small bowls, and very considerately poured a bowl for both Qiao Mu and Murong Fei.

Murong Fei initially didn't want to bother drinking it, but she caught a glimpse of Qiao Mu sipping small mouthfuls, seemingly finding it palatable. So, she kept a cold face and took a few sips from her bowl.

It was still warm, sour and sweet on the tongue, and quite tasty.

"Junior Sister, I have eggs and meat buns here too, you should eat some," Yun Yunzhi said, as if presenting a treasure, pulling out a small plate with several peeled hard-boiled eggs and five palm-sized meat buns.

"Eat a good breakfast, so you'll have the energy to snatch treasures when the secret realm opens," Yun Yunzhi said with a smile.

Qiao Mu thought there was some logic to that and reached out for a meat bun, taking two bites.

"Miss Murong, please eat, please eat." Yun Yunzhi was very perceptive. Noticing that his Junior Sister had a good relationship with Miss Murong, he quickly wanted to build a good relationship with her too.

The old grievances between the Murong family and the Yun family from a hundred years ago, shouldn't they have faded by their generation?

It's so bothersome to keep dwelling on those grudges and hatreds.

If there was a grudge, it would be between the Yun family ancestors and the Murong family ancestors, and it truly had little to do with them, the younger generation.

"Hmph." Murong Fei shot him a cold glance and reached for a plain boiled egg.

The three sat in front of the tent eating, occasionally attracting many gazes.

A middle-aged woman gnawed on the steamed bun in her hand without tasting it, her eyes fixed on the plate of eggs and meat buns as if they were glued there.

"Oh, Steward Gu is back."