Chapter 41: The Banquet

  The wine table culture of China has a long history and is extremely complex.

  But one thing that can be confirmed is that since the famous Hongmen Banquet between Xiang Yu and Liu Bang, there have been no good banquets for thousands of years.

  These two sentences were casually spoken by Xia Yu Fei's father when he was bored, but Xia Yu Fei took them seriously and thought they made sense after careful consideration.

  And in the midst of clinking cups and chopsticks, Xiaoyan suddenly remembered those two sentences again, and deeply admired her father's incredible prophetic abilities.

  Although she was complaining in her heart, Xiaoyan's face still looked like nothing was wrong. She and Luojue were talking nonsense, exaggerating and bragging, and of course, they didn't drink less wine during this process.

  During the process, Luo Jue was not without doubts about why Xia Yunfei was so good at it. Xia Yunfei's face didn't change color as he downed a cup of white wine in one gulp and casually came up with some school administrative tasks that were forced out of habit, thus covering it up.

  If it were in normal times, Xiaoyan would have come up with a better excuse, but today she woke up with a hangover, then got into an argument with Wenshan, and even had time to question life, so she didn't have the energy to think about how to respond perfectly.

  And she also had to discreetly block the wine that Luo Jue gave to Ao Yuan, after all, firstly, if they were both knocked down here, she didn't believe that Lan Ruoxue and others could escape unscathed. Secondly, Xia Yifei was unwilling to spend the night lying here even if she died, and secondly, she could no longer fully rely on her usual experience to judge everything they would go through, at critical moments still relying on Ao Yuan's existence which was equivalent to a golden plug-in.

  So when Luo Jue rushed to the waiter and shouted loudly, Xia Yunfei smiled on the surface with a carefree attitude, but when he lowered his head to take the cup, his smile was slightly bitter.

  Although she can drink, she also clearly knows her limits. If Xiaoyanfei was in good shape today, drinking like this would be no problem and it would come naturally to chat with him. The key is whether her current state can guarantee that she can walk back to the room, which is an unknown number.

  Xia Yifei was not a drunkard to begin with, let alone an iron-clad one. If it weren't for the fact that she needed this person to show her the way and also wanted to get some information out of him, she would have absolutely no interest in chatting with such a chubby man, let alone drinking a lot of baijiu with him.

  Just as she was hesitating, Ao Yuan pinched her waist under the table. This sudden move almost made Xiaoyan, who was already afraid of being tickled, jump up from her chair. She glared at Ao Yuan fiercely, but because of the wine she had drunk, her sparkling eyes seemed to have a coquettish meaning as they fluttered.

  Fortunately, Ao Yuan understood her much better than ordinary people, and he knew that if he didn't explain quickly, Xia Yu would definitely kick him hard.

  Zhang Xuan saw the two people's small movements and silently sighed before taking over the task of toasting with Luo Jue - Lan Ruoxue sat down and pretended to be weak, saying that girls can only drink red wine, just like yesterday when she drank with Xia Yunfei for half a night wasn't her. As for Wen Shan... it's better not to expect much from this young lady, he might as well consider the possibility of using water to get by - Zhang Xuan just hoped that Xia Yunfei and Ao Yuan would finish their conversation soon, after all, his alcohol tolerance was not great.

  Xia Yifei: "I'm going, what are you doing?"

  "Strange, I helped you find a way to easily get that fatty drunk, why are you being like this?"

  Xiaoyan Fei: "Do you have any opinions about my attitude? Wait, you're going to say something easy... Ao Yuan, big brother, hug my leg!"

  "Where's your integrity?"

  "What a pity, it was just drunk with wine by me."

  Ao Yuan's method was simple, to put it bluntly, it was just a trick to deceive the eyes, letting Xia Yunfei hold white water as if it were wine. Poor Zhang Xuan didn't know that his inner monologue would be seriously discussed by Xia Yunfei and Ao Yuan like this. He just used a trick to make the white water look like white wine.

  Then Xiaoyan flew back with the external hanging provided by Ao Yuan, and started killing all over the place... Oh no, focus on getting drunk with Luojue.

  After being poured more than a catty of white wine by Xia Yifei with ulterior motives, Luo Jie had already started to get a bit tongue-tied. He grasped the wine cup and shook it back and forth, pointing at Xia Yifei - but instead pointed at Ao Yuan who was serving Xia Yifei dishes. With a mysterious tone, he said: "I'm telling you, sister, you've really found the right person in me... If you had looked for someone else, no one would have been willing to take you to the Qinglong sunken ship for this price."

  He even let out a rather loud belch after finishing speaking.

  Xia Yifei's mind was racing quickly, but on the surface, she put on a calm expression: "Brother Luo, what do you mean by that? Every time we go out to inspect, it's this budget, and it seems quite high already."

  After hearing her words, Luo Jie burst out laughing: "Sister, you really are still a schoolgirl. You actually think this place is like my line of work, relying on being a tour guide to make a living, and just waiting for your kind of inspection team that comes once every few years?"

  "Older brother Luo said..."

  "Listen, I'm only telling you this because you called me 'Ge' just now, so don't go spreading it around, got it? Your big brother still wants to live a few more years and enjoy life."

  Seeing Xiaoyan nodding, Lu Jue continued: "After all, there are still underground workers, aren't there? The money they spend is more than double what you guys have."

  Xia Yifei rolled her eyes in her heart and endured for half a day before she couldn't help but laugh.

  She herself is the underground worker in Luo Ke's mouth, and naturally she understands the problem of the guide's reward better. This time she gave a very high price, if according to Luo Ke's words, she might as well wash her hands and not do it, and focus on changing careers to be a tour guide.

  Luó Jù seemed to have noticed Xiǎo Yuè Fēi's disbelief, and after pouring himself another cup of wine, he continued his boastful claims: "You just don't know how much stuff is here. Hey, the money we took doesn't even amount to a tenth of what those people brought back from their trip to Qīng Lóng Wān."

  "But those should be national... " Xia Yifei continued to pack her white lotus while stifling a smile, extremely pleased.

  But Ao Yuan looked at her in this state and really couldn't understand why he had such complicated feelings for this woman.

  "Little sister, what's more important to those people, the country or money? Otherwise, how do you think all that stuff on foreign auction houses came from? It's these people who have driven our country's export trade and made contributions to the export industry."