Yue Ting walked over with a smile and interrupted: "Okay, what's the point of this name? Let's go in and eat."
Actually...when Yue Ting saw Ma Xiaoquan's name on the door, she became a little jealous.
Yue Ting actually has selfish motives. She wants to keep Ma Xiaoquan by her side, but she knows that she cannot keep him. Even if she keeps him for a while, he will leave one day.
Mr. Gu once proposed to completely destroy Ma Xiaoquan, but he was too powerful, and it was simply unrealistic to completely destroy him. Furthermore, Yue Ting had never completely let go of Ma Xiaoquan in her heart, even if she took her body back and forth.
So many times, even though she had taken away a man's body and became a man, she still couldn't forget Ma Xiaoquan.
...
Ma Xiaoquan didn't notice the change in Yue Ting's expression. He scratched his scalp, smiled, and looked away from the wooden door with some reluctance.
After entering the Fire Temple, we came to the reception hall. It was said to be the reception hall, but in fact it was a private room where the leader entertained distinguished guests.
The table was filled with delicacies from the mountains and seas, but there was only a little bit of each dish.
Lingyue explained with a smile: "If it's too much, it won't look good or taste good. Come on, try the food at the Fire Temple, it's very good."
Ma Xiaoquan was not polite to Lingyue. He sat down, picked up his chopsticks, picked up a vegetable dish, and slowly put it into his mouth.
After entering the vegetable dish, he chewed it twice, and the faint fragrance instantly filled his mouth. He continued to chew, and the slightly sour vegetable juice penetrated the sour taste buds on his tongue, making Ma Xiaoquan couldn't help but shudder.
"This dish... is really good~" Ma Xiaoquan swallowed the vegetable dish and subconsciously stuck out his tongue and licked his upper lip.
Lingyue smiled slightly: "This dish is called 'Siquan', and it was created when the Vulcan Empress was still alive. By the way, the Vulcan Empress not only left a lot of study experience, but also left several books.
The recipes she studied.”
"Siquan..." Ma Xiaoquan sighed and smiled bitterly, "What a Siquan. It has a refreshing fragrance but a sour aftertaste. It is so refreshing that it pulls people's thoughts far away. Inadvertently, I think of
An old friend."
Yue Ting curled her lips and picked up the chopsticks. She picked up a piece of meat and murmured: "What is this dish called?"
Lingyue smiled and said: "The name of this dish is quite interesting, it's called Miao Xiaomiao..."
"Miao Xiaomiao? Isn't this a meat dish? Why is it named a vegetarian dish?"
Lingyue shook her head: "Look carefully, what is this?"
Yue Ting groaned, took a closer look, and then exclaimed: "This vegetarian dish actually has a mellow meat flavor."
"Yes, although this is a vegetarian dish, it has the aroma of meat. It is named after one of the eleven victorious men who followed Prince Shanhe to conquer Hongzhou in the past."
The Prince of Shanhe, isn't that Ma Xiaoquan?
Yue Ting frowned slightly and said, "Lingyue, why do I think you have ulterior motives today?"
Lingyue shook her head and smiled slightly: "Yue Ting, if you bring Mr. J to meet with me, I'm afraid it's not just a simple meeting, right?"
Sure enough, two women in power have each other's thoughts.
Yue Ting put down her chopsticks and said coldly: "Why do you want to participate in the independence of the United Nations?"
Not only was Lingyue not angry, she calmly poured herself a cup of tea.
"Because I also want the Vulcan Sect to be as powerful as the Tianji Party, or to be as pervasive as a beacon."
Ma Xiaoquan snorted and raised his head to glance at Lingyue. Her face was still calm and there was no hint of panic.
What an ambitious woman.
"And..." Lingyue said this and raised her head to glance at Ma Xiaoquan, "I know who he is. He is not only Mr. J, but he is also the person that the Vulcan Empress has never forgotten in her heart...
"
Ma Xiaoquan: "Uh~~"
Yue Ting exhaled and calmly spread her hands: "Why do you say this?"
Lingyue smiled slightly, took out a jade pendant from her arms, and said: "This jade pendant is the inheritance of the leader of the Vulcan Sect. Whenever the leader's designated candidate approaches, the jade pendant will involuntarily generate heat. Of course, it can also be the person you like.
The person who makes the jade pendant heat up is the original owner of this jade pendant. Looking at the development of the entire Vulcan Sect, there is currently only one person besides me who can make the jade pendant heat up." As she said that, Lingyue turned her attention to Ma Xiaoquan.
Seeing the jade pendant in Lingyue's hand, Ma Xiaoquan felt helpless.
That jade pendant was a token of love that he gave to Li Qinghan in the past. When he entrusted Xiaoshuang to Li Qinghan, Ma Xiaoquan specially left a trace of fire in the jade pendant and told Li Qinghan that if Xiaoshuang was not willing to be in her body
If you want to wait, you can go to the jade pendant to warm it up. Even if Xiaoshuang doesn't go to the jade pendant, as long as he is close to the jade pendant, the jade pendant will heat up on its own.
I didn't expect that what I did unintentionally in the past would actually lead to my identity being exposed today.
Yue Ting was silent. She looked at Ma Xiaoquan with some resentment, obviously blaming him.
Ma Xiaoquan chuckled, stretched out his hand to take the jade pendant from Lingyue, and murmured: "You are only half right."
Lingyue's beautiful eyes moved: "How do you say this?"
Ma Xiaoquan chuckled and said, "This jade pendant does respond to me, but it doesn't mean that just because of a piece of jade pendant, I can be said to be the original owner of the jade pendant."
What Ma Xiaoquan said is true. Although the jade pendant was a token of love he gave to Li Qinghan, in fact the original owner of the jade pendant was Zhou Chao, the friend Ma Xiaoquan met when he physically traveled back to the late Ming Dynasty.
The origin of this jade pendant is actually not glorious. Ma Xiaoquan got it from Zhou Chao while he was sleeping. Because he was afraid that Zhou Chao would find out, Ma Xiaoquan never dared to take out the jade pendant. Later, because he left the capital, he
He made this jade pendant a token and gave it to Li Qinghan.
Just as Lingyue was about to speak again, Ma Xiaoquan interrupted her and said, "What is your purpose? Do you simply want to be a person with supreme power, or do you have other ideas?"
Lingyue was stunned for a moment, then laughed. After a long time, she slowly said: "He doesn't think about me. I just want to carry forward the Vulcan Sect."
"There are many ways to carry it forward. Do you have to take such a radical approach? Do you know that if you go against the country, you will definitely be killed."
"I know..." Lingyue's beautiful eyes sank, "But I have no choice."
Ma Xiaoquan and Yue Ting looked at each other. The latter wanted to ask, but Ma Xiaoquan shook his head to stop it.
In fact, regardless of whether Lingyue is telling the truth or a lie, the Vulcan Sect is currently in a position where there is indeed no way out. In this case, one must either go all the way or die.
When parting with Lingyue, Lingyue said that she wanted to return the jade pendant to Ma Xiaoquan. Ma Xiaoquan shook his head and said that you are a good leader and the Vulcan Cult may survive in your hands.
Lingyue took the jade pendant, with mixed feelings in her heart.
On the way back, Yue Ting was a little dissatisfied with what Ma Xiaoquan had just done. No matter what, by taking back the jade pendant, she could still mobilize the followers of the Vulcan Sect at the critical moment.
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head: "Most members of the Vulcan Cult are ordinary people. If you want to mobilize these people, aren't you going to hurt innocent people? No matter how shameless I, Ma Xiaoquan, am, I would never do this."
Yue Ting curled her lips. Although she did not agree with Ma Xiaoquan's benevolence and morality, she was happy for such a man.
It's a pity that the man in front of her does not belong to her after all.
...
After coming out of the Fire Temple, Yue Ting suggested going to the United Night Market.
There is no sun in the underground world. Thanks to sufficient geothermal energy and strong technological level, the entire underground world can still obtain sufficient light protection.
The night market mentioned by Yue Ting is actually the effect of various colored lights, because in the underground world, there is no obvious separation between day and night.
Compared with the above-ground world, the underground world is obviously much more high-tech. Each vendor has a luminous wristband tied to his wrist. When people buy items, they only need to bring the vendor's wristband and the buyer's wristband closer together.
After the transaction was completed, Yue Ting explained that the underground world had actually implemented digital currency very early.
Ma Xiaoquan was filled with emotion, thinking that it took more than 40 years for the above world to implement digital currency, but the underground world now has a complete digital currency system.
United Unity belongs to the Black-Qing Republic, and the currency it uses is also the currency of the Black-Qing Republic. However, due to the autonomous characteristics of United Unity, the digital currency used by each resident has a string of regional identification codes. This string code is used in payment and
When collecting payment, the wristband will light up to prompt the buyer and seller to verify each other's identity information.
Ma Xiaoquan shook the wristband on his wrist and said: "This thing is really good~"
Yue Ting smiled and said: "How about you, do you want to consider coming to the underground world to live permanently? What's so good about the above-ground world? The technology is backward and you don't have anything you want. It's great to come here. Look at this night market, you can buy everything. What's more?
The wristband you are wearing is already in its third generation. It is said that the fourth generation will be launched soon. Well, the fourth generation is no longer a wristband in the strict sense. It may be a chip implant by then.
Or it can be attached to the human body, and when paying or receiving money, it can be done by just shaking it with your hand. Not only that, this technology may be used in everything in the future.”
Ma Xiaoquan nodded and joked: "You speak so eloquently. It seems that your Yu family has a lot of money, right?"
"Well, there are indeed many, many. Anyway, I don't know how many there are. How about you, do you want to be a happy rich man?"
"No, money is just enough. No matter how much I have, I can't eat ten meals a day and wear a hundred beautiful clothes."
"But..." Yue Ting's tone suddenly turned cold, "As the person in charge of the family, having more resources is what I need to consider as the patriarch. After all, money is issued by the state. Explain
The power is always in the hands of the state. If the state freezes the assets of the Woyu family, it is actually very easy to do. Therefore...resources are what the major families are actually pursuing tirelessly."
