The dining hall on the third floor is elegantly decorated, with wooden booths arranged under lantern-like headlights, and a round Chinese dining table, large enough for five to eight people to dine together.

The waiter led the four of them to the pre-booked seats, where Duanmu Shenjiu was already sitting. At this time, Duanmu Shen was bored, holding a cigarette in his hand, leaning lazily on the chair and looking at the ceiling, it seemed that he had arrived a long time earlier than the four of them, because in addition to the cigarette in his hand, there were several cigarette butts on the table that had been extinguished.

The four of them came to the table, and Wu Hou shouted, "Master." ”

Duanmu Shenjiu came back to his senses, looked at the four of them, he smiled and extinguished the cigarette, and said, "Come on, sit down." Before Gu Qinghui sat down, he respectfully bowed to Duanmu Shenjiu and shouted Mr. Shenjiu.

When the people have arrived, the waiter began to serve the food, and the dish was ordered at the time of booking, so now after the guests arrive, they will be served directly, and all kinds of Hunan dishes are served by the waiter one after another, and the whole table will be filled after a while.

At this time, it was a meal, and there were many guests dining, and the sound of fist slashing occasionally came from the surrounding booths, which reached the ears of several people.

Mai Wenxiang took the chopsticks, looked around the crowd, and asked, "Do you want to drink?"

Wu Hou shrugged indifferently, Guan Qingyao's face was as usual, and Gu Qinghui looked at Duanmu Shenjiu.

Mai Wenxiang then also looked at Duanmu Shenjiu and said with a smile: "Uncle Cousin, have a drink?"

Duanmu Shenjiu smiled and nodded, "Yes." ”

Then Gu Qinghui summoned the waiter and asked for a bottle of red wine, and after the waiter brought the red wine and opened it with a corkscrew, Gu Qinghui began to pour a glass for each of them.

After pouring, Gu Qinghui sat down and asked Mai Wenxiang, "Why are you called Mr. Shenjiu's cousin?

Duanmu Shenjiu and Wu Hou both laughed after hearing this, and Mai Wenxiang also smiled and explained to Gu Qinghui, saying: "Before, Wu Hou didn't let me know his master, so he lied to me that this was his cousin, and then I called him cousin, in fact, I already knew that this was not his cousin, and he still wanted to lie to me, how could I be so easy to deceive if I was so smart and clever?"

"Yes, yes, how smart you are, the most expensive rich second generation in Hangzhou has been caught by you. Wu Hou looked at Mai Wenxiang and said, "This time I go back, I'll go to your dad for a drink, and then I'll tell your dad about it, his ambition for many years has finally been achieved." ”

Gu Qinghui asked puzzledly, "What ambition?"

Wu Hou said with a smile, "What kind of ambition can it be, find a wealthy family for your daughter, your quasi-father-in-law's name is Mai Weili, a man who fell into the eyes of money." ”

Wu Hou said this about Mai Weili, and Mai Wenxiang was not angry, after all, the two of them had worked together for four or five years and made a lot of money together, but Mai Weili finally got much more money than Wu Hou, after all, the old fritters, Wu Hou would still be a child, and Mai Weili could put more money into his pocket by casual means.

Of course, Wu Hou knew about this, but at that time, he didn't have a special concept of money, so he didn't care much, and only occasionally said a few words to hurt Mai Weili, and his words were neither big nor small. At that time, Wu Hou's understanding of money was not very thorough, unlike now, when he knew the hardships of not having money, sometimes it was difficult to move an inch. Every time I think of a few months ago, when I got a membership card with tens of thousands of yuan, Wu Hou felt a pain in his flesh, and his bowels were blue with regret.

The speaker had no intention of listening, and after Wu Hou finished speaking, Gu Qinghui had an abacus in his heart. Gu Qinghui's vision is very far, he has already thought about the future of himself and Mai Wenxiang, at first he was worried that Mai Wenxiang's parents would not like him, but listening to Wu Hou say this, in line with the sentence that money can solve eighty percent of the troubles in life, Gu Qinghui knew that in the future, it would be good to please this Mai Weili and use money to smash it, simple and rude, and likeable.

Gu Qinghui picked up his wine glass, faced Wu Hou and Guan Qingyao, and diverted the topic: "Come on, come on, I salute you two with a glass, thank you for saving you on the viaduct last time, I left this little life." ”

Wu Hou and Guan Qingyao picked up their wine glasses, touched them with Gu Qinghui's wine glass, and took a symbolic sip, and then Gu Qinghui called Duanmu Shenjiu and Mai Wenxiang again, and the five of them clinked glasses again.

Putting down the wine glass, several people began to move chopsticks, chatting while eating.

Guan Qingyao remembered the dead driver Lao Li, so she asked, "Lao Li's body was brought back by your father, has the rest been dealt with?"

Speaking of Lao Li, Gu Qinghui was sad for a while, and his mood was instantly lost a lot, and he said melancholy: "It's dealt with, alas! Originally, I wanted to find a cemetery for Lao Li here and bury it well, but my father said that Lao Li would not want to live here, he must want to return to his roots and return to his hometown." So we cremated Lao Li, and I will personally send the ashes to Beijing, find Lao Li's daughter, and send them to his daughter's hands. ”

"Are you going in person?" Wu Hou asked in surprise.

Gu Qinghui nodded, "Yes, Lao Li is all for me, alas, I will never hear him call me in the car one by one." ”

Yes, Gu Qinghui's drivers have changed a lot since he was a child, from professional drivers to drivers with martial arts, at least more than ten have been changed, but Gu Qinghui's favorite is Lao Li, because although Lao Li is a subordinate and shouts himself as a young master, in fact, Lao Li still treats Gu Qinghui as a child in his heart, and Gu Qinghui likes that feeling.

Although there is a new driver now, when he sits in the car, this new driver is like a stuffy gourd, he doesn't say a word, drives in a proper manner, looks ahead, and doesn't even have the courage to look at Gu Qinghui from the rearview mirror. Gu Qinghui misses the time when Lao Li was there, when Lao Li was sitting in the car, he could still relieve his boredom, but now, he seems to have returned to the previous state where no one could communicate.

Gu Qinghui cares a lot about this dinner, so he dresses very formally, which is a necessary etiquette in high society, he has been exposed to it since he was a child, and he has long remembered it. Those present today, in addition to Mai Wenxiang, Wu Hou and Guan Qingyao are their life-saving benefactors, Duanmu Shenjiu healed his injuries again, Gu Qinghui wants to have a good relationship with these three people and be real good friends.

Wu Hou ate a few mouthfuls of bacon, took a sip of the wine glass, and thought about Lao Li and said: "Lao Li is good, but his feet are too smelly, I still seem to be able to smell it, and it can disgust people to death." ”

Except for Gu Qinghui, the rest of the people didn't understand how Wu Hou said this, and then Wu Hou opened his mouth to explain it to everyone, and after finishing speaking, everyone couldn't help laughing, even Duanmu Shenjiu shook his head with a wine glass and smiled bitterly.

After laughing, the atmosphere was a lot more relaxed, and Gu Qinghui was no longer sad because of Lao Li's death, after all, people can't be resurrected after death, Lao Li desperately saved himself, he must live well, so as to be worthy of Lao Li. Gu Qinghui remembered that Lao Li had told him on the viaduct, saying that Gu Jiajie had shown himself his life by looking for a Xiangshi, and that he had a death calamity in his life, and he couldn't go up to the sky or touch the ground, and the viaduct that day just fit this proverb.

Later, Gu Qinghui asked his father, Gu Jiajie said frankly yes, Xiangshi said that Gu Qinghui's robbery was between the ages of twenty and twenty-five, so Gu Jiajie replaced the driver with Lao Li, who knew martial arts, because he knew that Lao Li was loyal, if Gu Qinghui's life was in danger, Lao Li would fight to save him. Gu Jiajie said that Gu Qinghui's catastrophe, unless someone dies for him, it will never be broken, even if those five killers don't have the intention to kill on the spot, they will die of serious injuries.

Therefore, in Gu Qinghui's catastrophe, Wu Hou, Lao Li, Guan Qingyao, and Duanmu Shenjiu all played a role, but Lao Li played the biggest role, exchanging his life for saving Gu Qinghui, if he didn't buy time, Gu Qinghui would definitely die, maybe even with Mai Wenxiang would be in danger of life.

Thinking of this, Gu Qinghui was even more grateful to Lao Li, and couldn't help but sigh again: "Alas! I really feel that many things are becoming more and more unscientific, human disasters can be calculated, dying people can be brought back to life, broken bones can be healed again, and the human body can also cultivate such things as true qi, although I know that my father has many unexpected things after practicing martial arts, but when I really started practicing martial arts, I know that this road is full of wonder." ”

"There are so many wonderful things. Wu Hou said, "Look. Then Wu Hou raised his hand and pointed to the piece of meat that was eaten on a plate on the table, and the piece of meat began to rise magically in everyone's sight, slowly floating towards Wu Hou, Wu Hou opened his mouth and directed the piece of meat to fly into his mouth, and then he chewed it deliciously.

Gu Qinghui and Mai Wenxiang looked at Wu Hou in surprise, and the former said, "Amazing, you are much better than me." The latter said: "Wow, you usually hide quite deeply, and you already have this ability." ”

Guan Qingyao also looked at Wu Hou in surprise and said, "Yes, I can already control things, and there is progress." Although this hand is not difficult for her, she still can't do this when she is Wu Hou's age.

Wu Hou swallowed the meat in his mouth and said, "It's been a long time, but I haven't used it much." ”

When he said this, his face was full of indifferent expressions, but in fact, in his heart, he especially enjoyed the feeling of being looked at by the other three people with envy.

Duanmu Shenjiu, who had been silent, drank the wine in the cup, looked at Gu Qinghui and said: "The imperial object is actually not difficult, the internal force reaches a certain level, and the true qi can be controlled at will and released after the external transformation, you can complete the imperial object, your talent is better than Wu Hou, and it will definitely be possible in a few years." ”

Gu Qinghui showed a yearning look, nodded and said, "I will definitely work hard, I will never want others to die for protecting me in the future, I want to protect others, protect people who are very important to me." ”

When he spoke, he also looked at Mai Wenxiang, and a wave of tenderness came, and Mai Wenxiang lowered her head shyly.

Wu Hou shook his head secretly, and said in his heart that he really didn't miss any opportunity to please the girl.

Then everyone ate for a while, eating and eating, Wu Hou talked about the fact that after sending Gu Qinghui to the hospital, he had fallen asleep for ten minutes, and when he woke up, he had recovered his energy and reached his heyday.

Duanmu Shenjiu didn't care, but said lightly, "There are many wonderful things about the teacher's exercises, you kid just wait." ”

Maybe he was a little drunk, but he was also infected by the four young people in front of him, Duanmu Shenjiu rarely smiled with Wu Hou: "To have a master like me, you kid, you must have been a good person for eight lifetimes, and you have cultivated the blessing of this life." ”

Several people laughed along, Gu Qinghui glanced at Wu Hou enviously, and said dumbfoundedly: "Wu Hou is really blessed, I can be your apprentice, if only I had worshiped you as a master at that time." ”

He envied Wu Hou for having a good master, and Wu Hou envied him for having a good father.

Mai Wenxiang also nodded and said, "Yes, I want to worship my cousin as a master, or Uncle Cousin you will accept me and Gu Qinghui as apprentices today, so that we and Wu Hou will be the same brother and sister, by the way, plus Sister Yaoyao, in this case, the four of us are your apprentices." ”

Duanmu Shenjiu's face was slightly red, and he poured himself another glass of wine, and the bottle of wine that Gu Qinghui ordered, several people began to pour a glass each, and the rest was basically drunk by Duanmu Shenjiu alone.

"What? you want to be my apprentice?" Duanmu Shenjiu laughed a few times and said, "You little girl, eccentric, want me to promise you when I'm drunk, don't you?"

Gu Qinghui and Mai Wenxiang looked at Duanmu Shenjiu with a smile, without any intention of refutation, it seemed that Duanmu Shenjiu was right.

It's just about Qingyao, sitting there indifferently, not at all like Gu Qinghui and Mai Wenxiang with hopeful eyes on their faces.

Duanmu Shenjiu shook his head and said, "No, silly children, it's enough for me to cultivate an apprentice, but I don't have the heart to cultivate others, besides, Wu Hou can be my apprentice because of my fate with him, fate is very important, you and I don't have a master-apprentice fate, so we can't be masters and apprentices." ”

Mai Wenxiang pursed her lips, anyway, she didn't report much hope, she just said it casually, whether she succeeded or not, it was Gu Qinghui who was a little disappointed.

Seeing that Gu Qinghui was a little lost, Guan Qingyao said, "Master is just a guide, and it can't determine your final achievements, it's a great ability to be better than blue, like Wu Hou, he can't catch up with his master after practicing for five hundred years, and what else is it to talk about being better than blue." ”

"There are high mountains on the road of people who practice martial arts, and the master is the first, the apprentice who is better than the blue can be higher than the mountain of the master, but you look at Wu Hou, is there any hope that it will be higher than the mountain of his master?"

Guan Qingyao is very good at talking, and what she said is also true, which invisibly gave Gu Qinghui some confidence.

Wu Hou looked at Guan Qingyao with a bitter face, and then at the master, and then he thought in his heart, as if he really didn't expect to surpass the master.

Duanmu Shenjiu ignored the lost Wu Hou, looked at Gu Qinghui and said, "Your master is not bad, but the current era restricts his actions, if the Heaven and Earth Martial Arts return to Qingming, then your master will definitely be able to make a big breakthrough, after all, he was the number one swordsman in the world." ”

The number one swordsman in the world, what a tall hat, of course Gu Qinghui knows this weight, he doesn't think that his master is bad, it's just that Duanmu Shenjiu is too good.

Gu Qinghui opened his mouth and asked, "Mr. Shenjiu, if you only look at the control distance of the true qi, my father's true qi can hit ten zhang at the farthest, and if it exceeds ten zhang, it will turn into a gust of ordinary wind, and it will have no lethality." My master's true qi can hit forty zhang, and after that, it can still blow off the leaves, making the big tree that takes four people to hug slightly shake, I don't know Mr. Shenjiu, if you only look at the control distance of the true qi, how far can you hit?"

The question asked by Gu Qinghui made Wu Hou and Guan Qingyao both interested, although Mai Wenxiang didn't know what was true or not, but he also looked at Duanmu Shenjiu.

Duanmu Shenjiu put down the wine glass slightly drunk, put his hands on the table, leaned forward slightly, looked at Gu Qinghui and asked, "What about you?"

Gu Qinghui immediately blushed and said, "I... I'm not really angry yet..."

Duanmu Shenjiu laughed twice and comforted: "Don't worry, don't worry, there will be later." Then he looked at Wu Hou again.

"Wu Hou, how far can you hit now?" asked Duanmu Shenjiu.

Wu Hou scratched his head, thought for a while, and said, "When I was practicing swords in the river, I tried, and the waves that were about seven zhang away from me could be broken up with one palm. ”

Duanmu Shenjiu nodded and said, "Yes, if you remove the waves, there are probably two or three zhang of stamina, which is on par with Gu Jiajie." ”

"Huh?" Gu Qinghui looked at Wu Hou in disbelief and said in surprise: "He's about the same as my father?"

Duanmu Shenjiu smiled, "Yes, hehe, now you know how cheap your father's eight masters are, right?"

Gu Qinghui lowered his head depressedly, he really didn't expect that Wu Hou would be on par with his father, how old is Wu Hou, he can have this level, if he reaches Gu Jiajie's age, then he will have it? It seems that the gap between himself and him is not a star and a half, and I don't know how long it will take to catch up with him.

Wu Hou saw that Gu Qinghui was a little lost, and pouted helplessly at Guan Qingyao, he didn't expect that the master would put himself and Gu Jiajie on a high level, could it be that he was too powerful? Or did the master say before that because of the withering of martial arts luck, Gu Jiajie's cultivation was dragged down?

Before Wu Hou could come up with a reason, he heard Duanmu Shenjiu ask Guan Qingyao again.

"Girl, what about you, how far can you hit?" Duanmu Shenjiu asked with a smile.

Guan Qingyao was slightly stunned, and said nervously: "I... I..."

"But it doesn't matter, everyone here is your own people, there is nothing to be ashamed of, and it is not in the way. Duanmu Shenjiu looked at Guan Qingyao and encouraged.

Guan Qingyao glanced at Duanmu Shenjiu meaningfully, and stopped talking.

Wu Hou and others began to urge,

"Say yes. ”

"Sister Yaoyao said quickly. ”

Gu Qinghui also said, "That's right, let's talk quickly, how far can you hit." ”

Guan Qingyao hung her shoulders helplessly, raised her eyes and looked around the crowd and said, "Last year, I was able to hit twenty zhang, and this year is about to end, I guess I can hit twenty-two zhang anyway." ”

"I'm X!" Wu Hou almost fell off his chair, looked at Guan Qingyao and said, "How much do you say?"

"Maybe it's a little more, I haven't tested it this year, every year my dad tries my cultivation, but he hasn't tried it this year..."

Gu Qinghui was already speechless in shock, and even Mai Wenxiang, who didn't understand what true qi was, could hear Guan Qingyao's power. Gu Qinghui looked at Guan Qingyao's heroic face in disbelief, and smiled bitterly in his heart, if what she said was right, it would be more than twice as strong as her own father, this Hangzhou City is really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.