What is a banquet?

"What do you think?"

After Eluma asked Zhou Li this question, Zhou Li did not answer. He shook his wine glass and threw the question to Ai Wei who was doing nothing.

"Famous Vanity Fair, at least it is a bond between nobles."

Ivey, who maintained the elegance and demeanor of a nobleman, put down his wine glass, looked at A Zi and Ain surrounded by the crowd, and chuckled and said, "Socialize, show off, communicate, and show off their financial resources. Isn't this the same thing in this kind of banquet? Once or twice you will feel interesting, and once there is too much, there will be only an empty feeling."

The lights in the banquet venue were slightly dim, and the nobles in the dance floor danced with music. The incense condensed by magic would not dissipate, making the entire palace full of luxury. As the representative of the Zixia Chamber of Commerce, A Zi was serious at the banquet today. Her cold expression and petite and cute appearance attracted the love of a group of female nobles. Surrounded by many rouge powder, she leaned against the Linghai as if she asked for help, but anyone familiar with her knew that this was just a little bit of her cunning thought.

"You're so relieved to your sister?"

Zhou Li pinched Eluma's small nose and grabbed the concentrated fruit wine that she placed beside her mouth. Then he took a juice from the side and handed it to her. Zhou Li looked at Ain in the spotlight not far away, and asked Ai Wei aside with a little relaxed look.

At this time, Ain was negotiating and negotiating with a group of nobles on behalf of the Al Chamber of Commerce. Although Ain, wearing a black and white maid suit, seemed not good at socializing, sometimes he always flashed a pity that made people feel pity. But because of this, people relaxed their vigilance against this girl.

"certainly."

Aiwei smiled, leaned against the window ridge, staring at the cute girl who had been with him for several years, and said with a little emotion: "Aiyin is more suitable for the position of president of the Al Chamber of Commerce than me. I can't compare to her in terms of business acumen or interpersonal communication."

"You're wrong."

Zhou Li touched the hair of Aluma who was drinking juice with anger, and then smiled and said to Aiwei: "Although you can't compare to your sister in terms of business acumen and interpersonal communication, you can run the Al Chamber of Commerce for so many years without luck."

Upon hearing this, Ai Wei was stunned. In fact, he had never heard of others' encouragement in his life. After all, in his family, whether it was his own sister Ai Lei or his picked up sister Ai Yin, he had been hitting him in all aspects since childhood. From childhood to adulthood, the most common sentence Ai Wei had heard was "Why can't you learn from your sister/sister?"

He has never heard of others' recognition of him.

"Ivey, I'll give you a choice."

Zhou Li's voice woke up Ai Wei in a daze. He looked at the boy who had just had a crazy game with the emperor, with confusion in his eyes.

"I can tell you something." Zhou Li stretched out a finger, stared at Aiwei with a solemn voice: "What I want to do in the future is very risky, so great that even the identity of a brave man cannot be equal to him. You used to stumbling on the goblin farmhouse, but that was normal business means, and you did not do anything out of order. I don't blame you."

"After this, you even made a blind eye to help me transport black gunpowder. This is enough to make up for your previous mistakes."

Zhou Li looked at Ai Wei with a solemn expression and a very serious tone: "Then I will give you the last chance to choose now. Now I choose to withdraw. You are still the president of the Al Chamber of Commerce. I will still retain the shares you give me. You don't have to participate in my plan in the future. You can honestly develop your chamber of commerce."

"Or, keep following me."

Zhou Li no longer looked at Ai Wei, which would give him a sense of oppression. He stared at the various figures on the dance floor indifferently, and stopped talking.

Aiwei remained silent for a long time. He looked at the wine glass beside him, and then at Aiyin who was surrounded by the crowd. After a while, Aiwei reached out and summoned Kaya, who was led by Linghai and A Zi, who was not far away, and was led by Linghai and A Zi, to come over.

"Go and call your sister Ain over."

Kaya nodded, then took the napkin and wiped the cream from her cheeks, and ran to Ain happily. She held Ain's hand and said something to her on tiptoe. Ain said a few words of apologies and politeness to the people around her, and then walked quickly with Kaya to Ain's side.

"What's wrong?"

Looking at Zhou Li who was a little confused, Ain just asked, then suddenly realized and quickly took out a platinum badge engraved with deer patterns.

"I, Aile and Aine each have one. I have one for Kaya, and I will leave one for him, and this will be handed over to Miss Alema by Aine."

Ain handed the badge to Aluma, looking at the small and exquisite platinum badge in his hand, Aluma let out a whisper, and then looked at Zhou Li next to him with a pair of watery big eyes. The meaning of it was self-evident.

“It’s quite suitable for you.”

Zhou Li touched Ailuma's head, and then stopped talking about the choice. He and Aiwei looked at each other and smiled. The wonderful tacit understanding between the two men made Ai Yin confused.

"By the way, where is Maeve?"

At this time, Zhou Li remembered the red-haired lady. He asked Ain curiously, "Why didn't I see her? And Ms. Christine, I want to thank her in person."

"They're both...uhhh..."

As soon as she talked about these two people, Ain suddenly froze all over. Then her eyes were vaguely looking out the window and said shyly: This, I only knew yesterday that Duke Christine had not been married for so many years, and that orientation is quite special..."

"Duke Kristen, like girls."

Aluma, who was standing beside him, suddenly exclaimed slightly when she heard this, her face was covered with a layer of blush. Zhou Li's hand holding the wine glass paused. He coughed twice and said to Ain: "You tell Mave that there is no need to be wronged yourself, just a duke, we don't need to... pay such a big price."

"Uh-huh?"

Ain was about to nod and respond at first, but after hearing Zhou Li's second half of the sentence, she said huh? Then she said to Zhou Li a little embarrassedly: "Uh, Mr. Zhou Li, I don't mean that. Duke Christine just asked Miss Maeve to accompany her to meet her blind date and give her a staff officer."

"well."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Li's expression became deeper. He faced Ain, who was confused, and said twice, "This, just tell her, don't worry about the others, let her decide for herself."

"Okay, I'll go to Miss A Zi's place first. She wants to introduce me to two financial MPs. I will tell Maeve if you say it."

Although confused, Ain still accepted the task. She walked to Aiwei, pinched his waist and smiled, asking Aiwei not to play with the curtains anymore. Then she held Kaya's hand, who was reluctant to leave the cake, and walked towards A Zi.

After introducing his connections to Ain, Ah Zi immediately cheered up and waved to Kaya: "Little Kaya is back~"

As the old and small-sized A Zi in the original brave team, she loves Kaya, who is younger than her. When she saw Kaya beside Ain, A Zi's face, which was originally smoked by the smell of perfume, suddenly appeared. She greeted Kaya under the gaze of a group of female nobles with maternal love and said to her happily:

"Is the cake delicious? Where is Linghai?"

“Delicious~”

Speaking of the cake, Kaya's eyes suddenly narrowed a crescent moon. She looked at A Zi and said in a beautiful voice: "Sister Linghai said she really can't stay anymore. Go outside for some breath. Ain just now, I didn't follow me to help her get out."

"Woo, Linghai is really."

A Zi slapped her mouth, sighed and whispered to Kaya, "You sister Linghai is very bad. She originally agreed to help me deal with it, but in a short while, she ran away. Now she secretly went out to let the news."

"oh!"

As if A Zi was awakened, Kaya said to A Zi: "Before Sister Linghai left, he told me that if A Zi said bad things about her behind her back, let her snap her fingers."

"well?"

A Zi was stunned for a moment, then she subconsciously stretched out her hand and snapped her fingers.

"Huh!"

Suddenly, the voice of the Linghai sounded in A Zi's ears. Before A Zi could react, her familiar arms wrapped around her waist and gently pulled her back. After being pulled into the warm embrace, A Zi's nervousness just now was a little less. The next second, A Zi's figure disappeared into the hall, and suddenly, a group of people exclaimed.

"Don't care."

At this time, Zhou left the mouth and said, "Switch on music and dance, don't worry."

After hearing the brave man's words, the group of MPs and nobles who had just been very excited suddenly became quiet. They looked at Zhou Li's face, found impermanence and continued to talk, and all let the little episodes just happen as if nothing had happened.

"Miss Linghai asked you to help her lift the void restriction just now for this?"

Avello asked Zhou Li curiously. After receiving a positive answer, Avello said in surprise: "They have a really good relationship."

"Yes..." Zhou Li looked at a full moon outside the window and said to himself softly: "It's so good."

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Huh ~

As space traveled again and again, Linghai hugged A Zi and walked through the border between the clouds and the void. Feeling the howling wind in front of his ears, A Zi narrowed her eyes slightly and admired the scene where the purple space and pure white clouds alternately missed.

After jumping and shuttle again and again, A Zi was gently placed on the roof of the tall building by Linghai. Two chairs, a table, and a pot of honey and plum wine that A Zi likes to drink the most. Linghai stood beside A Zi with a smile on her hips, her back facing the dark night embellished by the stars and the moon. In her black dress, she leaned against the moonlight like an elegant and mysterious elf, standing quietly in the curtain called night.

"Yo hey, I've been preparing for a long time."

A Zi looked at the scene in front of her and a sweet smile appeared on her face. She pretended to be indifferent and paced aimlessly. Then she sat on the recliner, patted the chair beside her and said to Linghai:

"Come on, come on."

Linghai shrugged, then walked to A Zi and poured a glass of plum wine for her and herself, and sat slowly on the chair with a glass of glass. The two of them looked at the same starry sky and moonlight together. The gentle wind blew gently, and the comfortable breath calmed down A Zi and Linghai's hearts.

"Haihai, are you a little panicked?"

After a while, A Zi took the lead in breaking the tranquility. She turned her face sideways and looked at Linghai who was slightly surprised. The crescent moon in her eyes was a little more adorable than in the moonlight: "I'll go to Muqi in a few days. Are you nervous?"

Linghai did not subconsciously stubbornly as she used to. She just held her hands uneasy and lowered her head to stare at the stars scattered in the cup. After a while, Linghai's trembling voice sounded:

"A Zi, I'm a little scared."

Before A Zi could speak, Ling Hai curled up his legs and continued:

"Do you still remember those two tasks I had at the beginning?"

"Well, of course." A Zi nodded. It was precisely because of the two tasks taken by Linghai that his life would have such a wonderful war. "One investigates the goblin farmhouse, and the other hunts down the terrifying beast."

"Do you remember when Kaya and Ain talked about Void that day, they mentioned the old wolf?"

"The old wolf who saved Ain and Kaya and was finally killed by the hunter?"

When I saw A Zi, I still remembered the conversations of people at that time. Ling Hai, who was worried, nodded. She took a sip of sour plum wine and her voice was low: "I checked yesterday... that old wolf is the terrifying beast I was going to hunt at that time."

"What??"

A Zi was stunned and exclaimed: "How is that possible? Ain said that the old wolf is a platinum-level terror beast, but your mission is to hunt silver-level..."

Suddenly, A Zi seemed to think of something. She opened her mouth and a look of shock appeared on her face.

"The Shadow Union wants to kill Kaya." Seeing A Zi's surprise, Ling Hai sighed lightly, hugged his arms and said softly: "Vengkong hasn't talked to me for a long time. I wanted to ask her what's going on in that city yesterday, but I didn't find her."

A Zi didn't know what to say for a moment. She knew that for Linghai, the best thing for her was the Void sound besides herself. Over the years, the Void sound has been helping Linghai escape the peeping and pursuit of various forces, helping Linghai like a gentle mother, enlightening her when Linghai was in a complicated mood, like a loving mother.

But when Kaya found the "real void" and noticed the "purple cancer", Linghai, who learned the news, was at a loss. She wanted to ask the void directly, but for some reason, the Void Vow Vow no longer spoke to her. A Zi knew that Linghai would not care whether the Void Vow Vow Vow was the so-called cancer, but she was afraid of losing and was afraid of losing her relatives again.

In A Zi's eyes, Linghai, who is several years older than her, is sometimes a little more fragile than herself. She is like a child, and has been growing up in the embrace of the void. Suddenly one day, her "mother" suddenly disappeared with the bizarre life experience she was discovered, and no matter how she called her, the blow to Linghai was self-evident.

Thinking of this, A Zi stood up, she stepped in front of Linghai in two steps, took a deep breath, and gently hugged Linghai.
Chapter completed!