If I could take this opportunity to board the Ou family's express train, I would definitely be able to rise to a high position and make a lot of money in the future.
Olena sat at the main seat at the banquet, with Cheng Zizhen sitting next to her. The others took their seats in turn. As long as Olena didn't express her opinion, no one dared to move their chopsticks.
Under her light grey Bulgari trench coat, a pair of charming legs were crossed and raised, and her right foot rubbed Cheng Zizhen's trouser leg from time to time, making him feel confused and distracted, as if a kitten was scratching his heart.
Long Yi and the other man sat in the most inconspicuous corner of the banquet. He leisurely watched the clowns take turns to please Olena.
"As expected of the Ou family from eastern Guangdong, they can have such a grand show in Yandu!" Xu Li said with envy.
Although he had made a name for himself in Shuntian, the Ou family was still far beyond his reach.
"Look at what you have accomplished." Long Yi scolded. If a grown man is frightened by such a small scene, his life will end here.
After the banquet started, Long Yi just took a sip of the water in front of him and didn't even move his chopsticks.
Ever since he refined the Soul Storage Pill, he only needed to take one pill a week and occasionally drink some water to satisfy his appetite. Naturally, he disdained such vulgar worldly affairs.
While everyone was toasting each other, Orena actually walked towards Long Yi with a goblet in hand and a sweet smile on her face.
She smiled, a rare sight on her pretty face, and said, "Mr. Long, this time we relied on you to lead the way in finding the cave in Longju Ridge. Let me toast you first.
When the treasure is found, Mr. Long will be the first hero, and you will definitely get a lot of benefits."
After saying that, she drank the red wine in the goblet in one gulp. The red wine hanging from the corner of her mouth added a bit of charm to her.
Everyone at the table looked at Long Yi with hostility.
From the time they met until now, Olena has never smiled at anyone, even when facing Cheng Zizhen, the young master of Lingbao Pavilion, she has a lukewarm attitude.
Now he actually took the initiative to toast for an insignificant boy. How could these rich young men not be jealous?
Long Yi narrowed his eyes slightly. This girl certainly couldn't be so kind. She took the initiative to toast him just to attract hatred. Unfortunately, in his opinion, this method was more childish than that of a three-year-old child.
To everyone's surprise, he simply turned the wine glass on the table upside down and said calmly, "Go toast someone else, I don't drink."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's faces instantly became even gloomier.
Why are you pretending? Miss Ou can toast you without holding a grudge, which is a testament to your ancestors' gratitude. But you are so arrogant that you say you don't drink?
Cheng Zizhen frowned and stood up, saying hypocritically, "Mr. Long, right? I'm the Young Master of Lingbao Pavilion. I'll toast you, okay?"
When he spoke, his tone was full of complacency and disdain. In his eyes, he was the young master of the powerful Lingbao Pavilion in Yandu, and Long Yi was just a stinky guide who would be discarded after his value was utilized and anyone could step on him.
The fact that he could toast Long Yi now was simply because he saw that he still had some value to him.
Long Yi still sat calmly in the chair, too lazy to even stand up, and directly refused.
"Don't you understand me? I said I don't drink."
When these words were spoken, the whole audience was shocked.
The wine glass that Cheng Zizhen raised hung in the air, and the veins on his forehead bulged.
The other rich young men were no longer jealous of Long Yi, but instead felt happy about his misfortune.
This guy is really too arrogant. I guess this country bumpkin doesn't even know the name of Lingbao Pavilion. It would be easier for Young Master Cheng to crush him than to crush an ant.
The district chief, who had been in the officialdom for many years and was already a shrewd person, saw that Cheng Zizhen's smile had frozen and quickly stood up and said attentively:
"Mr. Cheng, why bother with this country bumpkin? This guy may not have even had red wine. Let me offer a toast to Mr. Cheng."
The district chief drank the wine in the glass in one gulp. Cheng Zizhen's face was still covered with frost. He threw the glass in his hand to the ground, glared at Long Yi fiercely, and left in a huff.
Everyone looked at Long Yi with schadenfreude. This guy must have been hated by Young Master Cheng. Would he have a good life in Yandu in the future?
Olena, standing by, was secretly surprised. This guy really didn't know how powerful Lingbao Pavilion was. It was a well-known force in Yandu, and even she didn't want to offend it easily.
However, this was also the purpose of her taking the initiative to toast Long Yi, to kill someone with a borrowed knife. However, she did not expect that Long Yi would be so stupid as to offend the young master of Lingbao Pavilion.
But that's also good. This way, after she finds the elixir in the cave, she won't have to take action and dirty her hands. Someone will help her deal with Long Yi directly.
After the banquet, Xu Li tactfully reminded him, "Master Long, Yandu is no match for the Central Plains. The hidden forces are intertwined and complex. The power that the Lingbao Pavilion alone can mobilize is greater than that of the bigwigs in the four provinces of the Central Plains combined.
By offending the Young Master of Lingbao Pavilion, aren't we narrowing our path?"
Xu Li was born in Yandu, so he naturally knew the horror of a behemoth like Lingbao Pavilion. Even if Long Yi was a master of martial arts, he could not defeat four people with two fists.
"He's just a clown, why should I bother paying attention to him?" Long Yi was not at all flustered.
Even Old Master Qi of the Qi family in Yandu respectfully calls himself the Dragon Divine Doctor, so how could he allow a second-generation rich kid to take advantage of him?
The next morning, everyone left Longju Town. Due to the rugged mountain road, they could only walk to Longju Ridge.
At the foot of Longjuling Mountain, there are a few hunters scattered around, all of whom are experienced locals who make a living by hunting at the foot of Longjuling Mountain.
Master Liu casually knocked on the door of a thatched hut and explained his purpose.
The old hunter was smoking his pipe on a chair. When he heard that everyone was going to look for the cave on the top of Longju Ridge, he was so scared that he couldn't even hold the pipe steadily.
"What? Are you trying to kill yourself?" the old hunter exclaimed in shock. "There's not a single blade of grass growing within a kilometer of that cave, as if there's something evil going on. Someone once strayed into it and died suddenly a few days after returning.
Furthermore, our ancestors have said that a real dragon lives in that cave. If we disturb the dragon's peace, I'm afraid we will all be implicated."
"A real dragon?" Cheng Zizhen sneered, then said unkindly, "People like you in this remote village are superstitious. Why don't you just say this is one of the 81 trials Tang Monk encountered on his journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures?"
The other wealthy young men who were traveling with them also sneered and deliberately took the fully automatic rifle from the bodyguard behind them and threatened:
“I only give you two choices. First, lead us to the cave, and these twenty red bills will be yours.
Second, these large-caliber guns were originally intended to deal with the real dragons you mentioned, but if you don't know what's best for you, you'll have to take two bullets first."
The old hunter was startled when he heard this. He turned around and looked at his grandson who was still in swaddling clothes on the kang. He said helplessly, "What a sin! Well, he is half buried in the ground. I will just go with you."
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