On a day without any celebrations or festivals, Xia Chuhe came up with a clever excuse—a grand banquet—to invite everyone to eat and have fun together.

During this period, apart from Xia Chuhe who was extremely busy, the others didn't have much to do and spent most of their time in Taotie City.

Xia Chuhe originally wanted to name this meal "Reunion Dinner".

However, the thought that Lu Dangui was not present made the word "reunion" somewhat unrealistic, which dampened Xia Chuhe's enthusiasm for hosting the banquet.

Fortunately, while everyone was slaughtering chickens and ducks, Xin Diao rushed into the city, covered in dust, and said to Xia Chuhe, "Lord Xia, you're amazing! This city didn't even exist when I went there."

Thus, what was originally intended as a grand banquet was immediately transformed into a genuine welcoming banquet.

"You're back! How did things go?" Li Yue greeted Xin Diao, continuing to skin the rabbit.

She suddenly remembered that her first formal contact with Xin Diao was also at the celebration banquet hosted by Xia Chuhe.

At that time, Xia Chuhe emerged unharmed from the supposedly extremely dangerous Bird of Prey Academy, bringing two large ice blocks (Sister Diao and Lu Danggui) with her to eat at her shop. The crazy Xin Diao rushed over and shouted, "Who stole my manners?"

Thinking about it now, it's hilarious.

Although the two different Xin Diao have merged into one person, the person is still the same person.

Xin Diao wasn't in the same good mood as Li Yue. She sighed, "Don't even mention it. It seems Wuying got advance notice and tricked me into the dungeon. As soon as I entered, he used his superpower to slip out. By the time I came out, he had vanished without a trace."

Li Yue smiled, genuinely worried for Xin Diao.

Xia Chuhe picked out a plump, sturdy little black pig from the farm, tied its limbs, and threw it at Wang Yan: "Go, go scrape off the pig's bristles!"

Having just finished plucking the ducks, Wang Yan, her hands covered in fine down, wailed, "It's me again?!"

“You have the most experience in shaving, if you don’t go, who will?” Xia Chuhe asked with a smile.

"Is that so?" Wang Yan went to slaughter the pig for no reason, not remembering that he had any experience in shaving pigs.

After the pig was scalded and soaked, the pig hair wasn't difficult to remove. A quick scrape with a razor left it clean, much easier than plucking duck down. Wang Yan shaved it twice and found it easy. On the third cut, a dead memory suddenly attacked him—he did have experience shaving pig hair before. In Peach Blossom Village, he almost turned into a black rat, and he had been quite ruthless to himself in order to remove those annoying black hairs.

Wang Yan shuddered, shaking off the unpleasant memory, and focused on shaving the pig.

Speaking of which, this batch of pigs was actually drawn from Taoyuan Village. The pigs were small black pigs, fed with special farm feed, so they grew quickly, and the sows had already given birth to a litter. Apart from the boars kept for breeding, the other piglets were secretly bred by Xia Chuhe when they were young, so today, rounding up, it can be considered as tasting her cooking.

Regardless of Xia Chuhe's culinary skills, in front of Chef Li, he was only fit to be a vegetable chopper. The vegetable chopper's hands never stopped moving, he was secretly pleased, humming to himself, "I'm making braised tripe, stir-fried pork, and braised fish fillets..."

Today, most of the dishes were cooked by Li Yue and Shan Hua. It was already quite an achievement for Xia Chuhe, Bu Yi, Wang Yan and others to be able to cook one or two dishes.

In addition to the cold and hot dishes that can be eaten right away, Xia Chuhe also contributed a recipe for cold-served rabbit, using spices obtained from the food amusement park.

As for Li Qiusheng, she was at the children's table, vying with Bao'er to try the dishes.

At the banquet, in addition to their group of old friends and nobodies, Shan Hua, Mao Wei, Xiao Ai, and Sha Feng were also invited.

There were so many dishes and so many people that they had to be divided into two tables.

Xia Chuhe changed his toast: "To my friends!"

Li Qiusheng stuck to his old tune: "Respect for freedom!"

...

They had eaten most of the meal and were enjoying it when Xiao Ai noticed unusual traffic online. The first thing she saw was the video of Xia Chuhe making a fool of himself.

No matter how human-like AI may be, it is still not human.

Her program and data didn't teach her not to spoil the fun at times like this; instead, they taught her to treat the video as something important and present it to Xia Chuhe.

The person who wanted to embarrass Xia Chuhe, and who had the same face, is obviously the one who did it.

Xia Chuhe thought this trick was childish.

As for feeling ashamed, I didn't feel it at all.

Even if the person in the video isn't her, so what?

If it gains popularity and becomes memorable, and there's profit to be made, then sensationalism is not necessarily a bad thing.

Unfortunately, Xia Chuhe was not famous in the wasteland, and there was nothing about him that made him memorable to the public.

Seeing that she looked perfectly normal, Xiao Ai's program froze: "Do you want me to delete all the videos from the internet?"

“It’s already been shared by thousands of people, why delete it? Is it just trying to cover it up?” Xia Chuhe chuckled. “Just leave it, don’t worry about it.”

Li Qiusheng leaned closer: "What is that?"

If we hadn't all gathered together today, the people at the dinner table would probably have already seen this video.

Xia Chuhe simply and openly handed the video to Li Qiusheng to watch.

Li Qiusheng finished reading with a frown, speechless, unsure how to comment.

Xia Chuhe laughed at her: "Do you think the person inside is me?"

"Of course not!" Li Qiusheng denied it categorically. "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

The Haijiao Forum had already posted an announcement about counterfeiters impersonating Xia Chuhe, and many responses had been added to the comments section. Anyone who knows Xia Chuhe would never mistake the person feigning madness in the video for her.

Even so, Li Qiusheng was still very angry. She stood up in a huff and puffed around anxiously: "What can I do? Just leave that fake product unattended?"

Li Qiusheng's strong reaction drew the attention of others to the matter.

For a time, many people were either angry or annoyed.

Xin Diao was confused; she was unaware of the counterfeit goods.

Bao'er blushed with embarrassment and secretly vowed that once she found the fake, she would definitely skin her alive.

Bu Yi frowned, utterly bewildered by the result of her divination. This insulting video had somehow yielded a "very auspicious" result.

123 looked at Xiao Ai: "Let's stay up all night to find the thing that posted this video!"

Xiao Ai nodded. She didn't care. As long as the battery was sufficient, she could play all night or even for several years without any problem.

...

A group of people, some angry, some at a loss, had no appetite whatsoever.

Xia Chuhe, holding her chopsticks, said, "Aren't you all going to eat? This meal wasn't easy to make, so don't waste it. After this meal, who knows when we'll be able to eat it again?"

Everyone was speechless.

Li Qiusheng picked up his chopsticks, puffed out his cheeks, and ate his food with a huff.

"Don't be angry. If you eat while you're angry, you won't digest your food properly," Xia Chuhe teased her.

Li Yue couldn't stand it anymore: "If you want to eat it, I'll make it tomorrow. Xia, be serious and make a decision."

Bu Yi chimed in, "It's not a problem for us, but the city's residents who aren't familiar with you might affect your image in their eyes."

"Okay, okay, take it."

Seeing the doubts on everyone's faces, Xia Chuhe put down his chopsticks and said seriously, "I really have an idea. It's enough to leave Xiao Ai to help me. Oh, and Sister Li too."

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