reunion

Gathering for drinks is all about chatting and reminiscing about the past, and this applies to young people as well. They chat about everything from the endless snow and rime in the Snow City to the small bridges and flowing water in the water village, from school memories to their original families.

Li Xingzang rubbed his forehead with a headache as he looked at the people in the hall who were making a mess. She was not in the lair of the divine realm, right?

The boundaries between humans and demons blurred at this moment.

"Ah—wuwuwu—!" A young man over there, who was being pressured into marriage, hugged Zidane and burst into tears. "Uncle, I also want to be a small manager like you, managing this little piece of land every day, but they won't let me. They insist that I take the civil service exam. And even if I pass, they'll complain that I don't have a girlfriend. How can I have the time for that!!!"

Zidane hugged the young man helplessly and said, "Life is too stressful nowadays... Alas..." He rolled his eyes at the old man who was laughing at him.

"Who isn't? When you were in school, you said you should study hard and we would let you get married as soon as you graduate from college. How come you can just pick up someone on the street? And then they think you have high standards and want to look at your own conditions. What's wrong with my conditions?!" The girl on the other side took a big sip of beer and complained: "With my conditions, I'm not good enough for those bald guys they found. They'll have to wear a bang when they go back and forth!" A good girl from Haicheng, but after living here for a week, her accent has completely changed.

"You're still relatively young, and youth is your asset. But what about us? We're in our thirties, about to turn forty, and the company laid you off just to cut costs and increase efficiency." The man patted Li Long on the shoulder. "Brother, don't you agree?"

"Oh, that's so true. What should I do every day?" Li Long empathized with her and clinked his glasses. "But we can't keep getting depressed. Better days are ahead!"

"Why are you people from Northeast China so bold?" the man looked at him in confusion.

Li Long smiled brightly, "Why don't you be a little more carefree? You're always worried, aren't you feeling suffocated?" He waved to Li Xingzang over there, "Sister! Let's listen to a song!"

Boss Li took a look and realized that he had drunk something.

"Come on, come on, let me give you a song called 'Good Days'. After this New Year, everyone will have good luck and good days!"

Li Long raised his glass first. "You can't let yourself be suffocated to death, right? It's a bit crude, but it's the truth. Life is but 36,000 days long, and every day that passes is one less. How can there be so much perfection? Don't think about things that you can't get over, and get rid of things you don't want to do! Everyone, let's drink and sing, life is so short! We don't seek to achieve great things, but at least we should live happily and enjoy ourselves!"

"Okay!" I don't know if it was the BGM that gave everyone strength, or Li Long's words that inspired them, but everyone responded loudly, raised their glasses, and vowed to get drunk and enjoy themselves.

"Oh..." Li Xingzang smiled and shook his head. Although he was clear-headed, he was still influenced by them. He couldn't help but think of many things. He was drinking when he heard another burst of crying beside him.

It was Gao Yuan. This kid drank a bottle of white wine and two bottles of beer, and he was a little unconscious.

"Uncle Li is absolutely right!" He howled while drinking, "What's wrong with you?" Li Xingzang asked with a smile, isn't it fun to be a bard in KTV every day?

"My father always says that I'm hanging out with my enemies and not doing my job properly. He wants me to go back and inherit the family fortune."

Enemy? Jin Rui, who was chewing his lamb leg, looked up at him and said, "Are you talking about me?"

"Yeah." Gao Yuan nodded without hesitation. Li Xingzang opened his mouth. He really had too much.

"Zang'er, do you think I'm that kind of material?!" Gao Yuan slapped the table. The sound was quite loud, but it was nothing in today's restaurant. The crowd of people howling and screaming over there was much louder than his.

"...I think, why don't you take a nap first?" Li Xingzang thought about his family business and decided not to bother with him. After all, he was obviously not sober now.

"Why are you answering a question that is not related to the question?!" Gao Yuan was irritated by her perfunctory question, "Can you please stop being so stupid? I notice you are so slow now! Didn't Yu Shishi abduct you?" He angrily glared at Yu Shishi who was drinking silently beside him.

He was so angry at Gao Yuan's random attacks that he started to laugh. Just as he was about to start cursing, Li Xingzang, who was trying to hold back his laughter, stopped him and said, "There are many of them. Don't be like him."

"Who's more?!" Gao Yuan pointed at the wine bottle on the ground. "This little thing is nothing. Li Xingzang, who are you looking down on?"

Yu Sishi frowned. Was this guy trying to take advantage of his drunken stupor? He put down his drink; he had to sober him up. Before he could do anything, Li Xingzang grabbed the bottle of mineral water and threw it at him. Jin Rui and Yu Sishi stared wide-eyed, silently covering their mouths and laughing.

“Are you awake now?” Boss Li was still smiling, but Gao Yuan swallowed, and the fear of being dominated by her at school came over him.

"Wake up, wake up!" He nodded hurriedly, but his expression seemed a little aggrieved. Wasn't it just that he spoke a little loudly? What was their relationship? Why did they fight?

Boss Li sighed and pulled Shi Yi to take off his coat, "Put it on."

"Huff--" As soon as he took off his clothes, a female gangster started whistling. Gao Yuan's face looked as red as if he had drunk another bottle of wine.

"So innocent?" Yu Sishi mocked from the side. Although Gao Yuan was a little drunk, his reaction to Yu Sishi was a bit chaotic. "Of course he can't compare to Officer Yu, who is experienced and elegant."

Hey! I have such a bad temper! Yu Sishi rolled up his sleeves and was about to have a good argument with him, but seeing Li Xingzang's half-smile beside him, he decided not to bother with a drunkard.

"Why do I always have so many worries no matter what time it is...?" Chen Jingyi, who had been lying on the table quietly, also grumbled softly. Li Xingzang gently stroked her hair, as if soothing a little animal. "Isn't our Jingyi happy too?"

"...well..." Chen Jingyi nodded aggrievedly, "Mom and Dad have been busy with my sister's affairs and have no time to talk to me."

"Sister?" Li Xingzang was a little surprised. "I haven't heard you mention it. Have you been at home all the time?"

Chen Jingyi shook her head mysteriously and whispered into her ear, "It's my dead sister."

"For some reason this year, they kept dreaming about her and thought she was having a bad time. They even burned a lot of paper money and gold ingots, but it didn't help, so they asked someone to do a fortune-teller."

"The master said she was homeless and wandering in a foreign land, so she came to them in her dreams. My parents asked the master to help calculate where she was and why she was in a foreign land. So she came to Northeast China."

Li Xingzang looked at her in shock. "This..." She exchanged glances with the other conscious friends, unsure how to react. Although there were many non-human creatures here, encountering some of the superstitious activities of humans still made her feel a little embarrassed.

"Boss Li, don't be afraid..." The little girl muttered and then she realized that this kind of thing should be a little scary.

"They said my sister is very cute, has a good personality, and is a little angel."

"Haven't you seen my sister?" Li Xingzang seemed to have some guesses in his mind.

Chen Jingyi was dazed holding the bottle of wine. After thinking for a while, she said, "It seems... I've seen it before, but it also seems... I haven't seen it before."

"I was too young when my sister had the accident, so I don't remember much about her. I just remember that she seemed to have cut her hair short and took me to see the puppies in the roadside pet shop."

Li Xingzang understood what was going on. He leaned over and whispered a few words to Yu Sishi. Yu Sishi nodded and walked out through the back door.

Just as he was about to say something to Chen Jingyi, Gao Yuan suddenly perked up again and said, "I was wondering, you smell like paper money."

Li Xingzang frowned, "How could I not smell it? Don't scare her by talking nonsense."

"You can't smell it like this." Gao Yuan shook his finger. "This scent doesn't belong to the dark world, but... the world of metaphysics." He said mysteriously, "Hey, Xiao Jingyi, did the master tell you that you need to burn paper for 49 days somewhere in the Northeast to help her soul?"

Chen Jingyi hesitated a little. "I'm not sure either. My parents don't tell me much about this. I've only heard it occasionally, and it seems like it happened."

"Hey! You've been scammed!" Gao Yuan slammed the table. "That guy is taking advantage of you! I'm afraid he even sold you paper money, talismans, and all that other junk, right?"

"...It's not paper money." After holding it in for a long time, Chen Jingyi weakly retorted.

"Gao Yuan, do you have any clue?" Li Xingzang saw that he had directly asked for his birth date and eight characters, and then started to engage in feudal superstition by counting on his fingers. He looked at him with some dissatisfaction. What if he was not well-trained and made a mistake in the calculation?

"Just wait for me, Boss Li. I'm going to show you my skills!" Gao Yuan was a little unconvinced. His hand that was holding the wine bottle just now was shaking as if he had suffered a stroke, but now it was very steady.

"Is the horoscope you gave me your sister's?" After rummaging for a long time, Gao Yuan looked at Chen Jingyi in confusion.

"Yeah, I haven't even memorized my major courses so well at the end of the semester. I've heard my parents talk about it every day during this period. How could I have remembered it wrong?" College students don't allow anyone to doubt their memory!

"Isn't that ridiculous?!" He threw down the bottle of Gaoyuan wine. "Your sister is right here!"

Before Chen Jingyi, Li Xingzang and the others could react, the hotel door was suddenly pushed open, "Borigede, I finally found you!"

Xiao Huo was sleeping on the table. There was nothing he could do about it. He could only drink so little. If Xiao He hadn't been unable to meet people, they would have been sitting at the same table.

The man was dressed in elite attire, with a suit, coat and leather shoes in the middle of winter. Li Xingzang glanced at Yu Shi silently, then he raised his eyebrows and stretched out his long arm and placed it on the back of her chair, "Why is there a competitor here?" She was even more pretentious than him.

The man with gold-rimmed glasses was obviously frightened by the chaos in the restaurant, but his good professional ethics allowed him to adjust his glasses and accurately find Xiao Huo who was about to slide under the table.

"Borigede? Huo Bozhi!" Little Huo suddenly looked up, and upon seeing the newcomer, he uttered the dirtiest words anyone had ever heard of him. "Where did this bastard come from? And why is he bespectacled?!"