Xiao Xue.

Late night.

Brightly lit.

The sound of clinking glasses came from the hutong alley.

Gong Zi’s laughter drifted out of the house, echoing beyond the long hutong streets.

"Everyone! Raise your glasses in celebration! Celebrating... the completion of the mausoleum reconstruction! A great success!"

In seven days, the formation patterns of the mausoleum were completely renovated, and the original inverted order of the formation patterns was completely modified. This was an unprecedented project, but the efficiency was frighteningly high.

In an old shop in the hutong, a large round table was set up.

Gong Zi, Mu Ya, Mu Nan, Little Iron Man, Li Qing Sui, Gao Shu, Luo Yu, Gu Nanfeng, Lu Nanjin... and Song Ci, who came from afar. A dozen people sat around the table, chatting and laughing, enjoying themselves.

Gu Nanfeng's eyes were somewhat complicated. He had dealt with the trivial matters in Nagano and finally had some free time.

For him, being able to attend such a banquet was simply unbelievable.

In fact, it wasn't just him.

The Five Great Families... hadn't experienced such an atmosphere for many years.

The beef hot pot shop in this hutong wasn't big. Everyone was squeezed together, a little cramped, but very warm.

"This cup, I toast to Miss Chu!"

Gong Zi stood up, very boldly, with a smile on her face, and said to Chu Ling, who was beside Gu Shen, "Miss Chu is truly a divine being."

No one expected that Miss Chu's command ability would be so outstanding.

Luo Yu also laughed, "Miss Chu, why don't you join the command post in the future? I'll tell the old man, and reserve a position for you as commander."

Chu Ling smiled, exchanged a glance with Gu Shen, and said nothing.

With her talent, sitting in the commander's position was naturally more than enough... or rather, far too much.

Strictly speaking, the entire command post could not function without her guidance.

After all, in all large-scale missions, the first thing the commander did was to link to [Deep Sea].

And she was [Deep Sea].

"Miss Chu... I'll drink my fill, you can have some!"

Gong Zi raised her glass with both hands and drank it all in one gulp, her spirit soaring to the clouds.

This action caused great dissatisfaction from the Little Iron Man beside her.

"Give me a break..."

Shen Li tapped his glass full of juice lightly with his finger, rolled his eyes, and said disdainfully, "You're drinking orange juice, but anyone who didn't know would think you drank several jin of baijiu."

Gong Zi, who had just finished drinking, choked on the sentence and almost spat it out.

"Cough cough cough..."

Gong Zi wiped her mouth awkwardly and explained in a low voice, "The one at home is watching, please understand, I'll get scolded if I drink too much."

Little Iron Man noticed Mu Ya, who was watching covetously from the side.

He sneered, "You are the future head of the Gong family, don't you have the freedom to drink whatever you want outside?"

After saying that, he stood up and said loudly, "Brother Gu, I also toast you..."

After the mausoleum turmoil.

For some reason, everyone he met in the entire prison was much more polite to him.

Especially the Grand Judge!

Mr. Shan actually summoned him personally... more than once, gave him excellent breathing techniques, sealed items, and even specially instructed him to ask for anything he wanted, and even bestowed a mansion in Snow Forbidden City.

Shen Li didn't know why, he didn't know what had happened at all, but he vaguely felt that it was mostly related to Brother Gu!

At least, he was able to get his life back from the mausoleum because Gu Shen risked his life to save him!

He kept this favor in his heart!

Having said that.

Shen Li raised his glass with both hands and drank it all.

A comfortable sigh.

Little Iron Man sat down with a proud face, raised his empty cup, first gestured to Mu Ya, and then showed off to Gong Zi, "But I'm different... I have the freedom to drink whatever I want."

Gong Zi had black lines all over his head.

He stared at Shen Li's cup... this guy, he was also drinking orange juice!

"I just like to drink orange juice..."

Shen Li also coughed and defended weakly, "Besides, drinking is so ugly, getting drunk and muddy, embarrassing!"

He remembered something not very pleasant in the past.

Luo Yu, who was sitting next to him, shook his tiger body, obviously also thinking of this old incident. The two looked at each other, and their expressions became strange at the same time.

One year ago.

At the Gong family's night banquet... Shen Li got drunk and gnawed off Luo Yu's iron hand.

After the two woke up, one covered his wrist and ran to the mechanic to repair it with tears in his eyes, while the other pinched his throat and tried to vomit, but the [Iron Eater] gave Shen Li an iron stomach. Overnight, Luo Yu's iron hand had been digested cleanly.

This was really a nightmare he couldn't bear to look back on.

...

...

"How's the taste of the beef?"

Gu Shen used chopsticks to pick up several slices, put them on a plate, and asked with a smile.

The freshly slaughtered beef on the brain was cut evenly thick and thin, and could stick to the plate. Even if the plate was erected, it would not fall off. Such beef was a delicacy even if it was rinsed in clear water, dipped in sesame sauce, and gently sipped, the body and mind would be greatly healed.

"Mmm... delicious!"

Chu Ling's cheeks were bulging, and there was mist in her big eyes, half of which was the heat of the hot pot, and half of which were tears of emotion.

During the days of building the mausoleum.

Her time was filled to the brim, and she didn't have the mind to enjoy the food.

I didn't expect... beef in clear water would be so delicious!

Most of the people at the table were reminiscing about the old days.

Only Chu Ling was seriously eating, she almost never stopped, but her eating appearance was elegant, so she was quite low-key, and there was another "gluttonous general" in charge, responsible for putting the beef and mutton into the pot, so almost no one noticed that she had never stopped since the beginning of the meal.

That gluttonous general was naturally Mu Nan.

Mu Nan maintained his whirlwind-like eating speed.

The main purpose of others coming here was to reminisce about the old days and chat.

But he was a little different.

His main purpose was to eat.

Beef, mutton, poured in one plate after another... eating one plate after another!

But this time, Mu Nan felt that something was wrong. He once thought that he was hallucinating. Why was only half a plate left when he started to fish out the meat he poured in?

There was a senior foodie at the table who was snatching food from him.

Looking around carefully... he even more suspected that he had hallucinations.

That person... was Miss Chu?!

He almost slapped himself in the face.

Taking a closer look.

The person who had been snatching meat from him and hadn't stopped with his chopsticks was really Chu Ling.

Unconsciously, Mu Nan's purpose for eating this meal gradually changed. From childhood to adulthood, he couldn't get first place in the internal competitions of the clan, but there was one thing that he was always the champion.

That was eating.

No one could eat more than him!

After eating continuously for an hour, Mu Nan hiccupped comfortably, ready to sound the gong and withdraw to welcome victory, he found a frightening thing, that was Chu Ling ordered a series of dishes again, and then smiled shyly at himself... so he forcibly swallowed that hiccup.

Was Miss Chu's stomach a bottomless pit?

...

...

There was more than one "silent war" at this banquet.

Song Ci, who still had bandages wrapped around half of his body, raised his wine glass, his words already slurred with drunkenness. He tried his best to straighten his tongue and asked seriously, "Lao Gao, won't you have a cup? This is good wine, I brought it from Da Du!"

The Lao Gao in Song Ci's mouth... could only be Gao Shu.

Li Qing Sui cautiously pulled Gao Shu to sit further away from Song Ci.

Gao Tian smiled helplessly when he saw this, and said, "Sorry, Xiao Song, I really don't drink."

"That's a pity, I can only drink with the one surnamed Gu..."

Song Ci shook his head and said indignantly, "You don't know this person, he drinks wine like water... I can't drink him under the table!"

Gao Tian had a smile in his eyes.

He naturally knew that Gu Shen could drink. At the Gong family's banquet last time, Gu Shen single-handedly drank everyone under the table.

However... this one surnamed Song was also a good drinker.

Although he didn't know how this spiritual element wine was made, Gao Tian knew that even he would feel a little tipsy after drinking a sip. This was an extremely wild "hypnotic wine" for transcendent beings!

"It's okay, drink as much as you want, have a good time." Gao Tian said with a smile, "If you get drunk, I'll take you home after I send Miss back, I'll definitely get you home safely."

Li Qing Sui sighed softly, touching her forehead.

Gao Shu seemed to like Song Ci quite a bit.

In just a few days.

This guest from Da Du had already become quite successful in Nagano.

He was a simple person, and Nagano liked simple people.

Of course, there was also a very important reason... that was that his fists were hard enough, and his background was hard enough.

"Sister Xiao Lu, aren't you going to take care of him?"

Li Qing Sui blinked her eyes and cast a look of help to the one beside Song Ci. Of course, this sentence was not just a request for help. She had also seen the relationship between the two these days. Now this sentence was just to test the actual progress of Lu Nanjin and Song Ci.

Lu Nanjin was stunned when she heard the words.

In fact, she was also drinking Lion's Wake wine, but she was sipping it in small sips, so she drank very little.

But... there was still a flush on her cheeks.

It became even redder at this moment, and along with the surprise, there was also some anger and shame.

She never expected that the topic about Song Ci would run to her side.

"Aiya..."

Song Ci smiled a little embarrassedly after hearing this.

Behind his back, he quietly gave Li Qing Sui a thumbs up.

It's worthy of the heavy support from Hua Zhi for the Li family.

This little girl was really loyal, at a critical moment, she sent such an assist, he had to grasp it well.

Song Ci put down his wine glass, looked at Nanjin, sat upright, and waited for a reply.

He thought he was very sober, and now had a restrained smile on his face.

Little did he know that after drinking Lion's Wake wine, he was now smiling foolishly, with the words "Come and take care of me, come and take care of me" written on his forehead.

"Bah."

Lu Nanjin took a deep breath, quickly calmed her mind, and said disdainfully, "Who wants to take care of him?!"

What a terrible answer...

This should be a rejection, right?

Li Qing Sui felt heartbroken for Song Ci.

She smacked her lips with some regret, then looked at Song, and sure enough, he had suffered a huge blow, and the whole person was petrified, motionless.

Song Ci sat blankly at the table, and after a long time, a silly smile appeared.

He carefully savored that sentence just now for a long time.

The reply he got was "Who wants to take care of him?"

Instead of "What's it to me!"

Obviously... he had a chance.

Song Ci raised his glass to Li Qing Sui with gratitude and took a big gulp.

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(ps: There will be a very big chapter tomorrow, which should be the last chapter of the second volume.

The final conclusion of the second volume, in my plan, is warm and plain.

The outline of the new volume has been drafted.

From the perspective of the story's progress.

The reunion, banquet, and conversation of these people... could have been omitted.

But in this way, Little Iron Man, Old Gong, Crow... these comrades-in-arms who have truly experienced with Xiao Gu, and old friends who share joys and sorrows, would have lost a bit of color.

I am happy to meet them.

I hope you all are too.)