"Who's yelling here!"

With a scolding, a pretty figure walked into the banquet hall, but it was Ming Ruotong.

When the lady saw Ming Ruotong, the arrogant expression on her face suddenly froze, and she was slightly flustered, pointing at Chen Xiaobei and explaining: "Ming...... Miss Ming, I just found out that a hillbilly had infiltrated the banquet, so I wanted to ask the guards to drive him away, it may be a little louder, please forgive me. ”

A faint smile appeared on Ming Ruotong's face, and said, "Who am I, it turned out to be Mrs. Zhao, when will Mrs. Zhao be free to meddle in the internal affairs of our Ming Manor?"

Hearing Ming Ruotong's implicit reproach, the noble lady surnamed Zhao was terrified, and there were faint sweat stains on her face, she hurriedly stepped forward and explained, "Miss Ming, I ...... I...... I didn't!"

Ming Ruotong didn't want to embarrass her too much for this little thing, and said when she saw this, "Okay! Pay attention in the future! Chen Xiaobei is a guest invited by his uncle, except for our Ming family, no one has the right to drive him away!"

Mrs. Zhao was submissive and didn't dare to show a slightly dissatisfied look, but she began to resent Chen Xiaobei in her heart. In her mind, the reason why she made such a big fool at the party was completely because of Chen Xiaobei.

"Thank you for helping me out!"

Hearing Chen Xiaobei's words of thanks, Ming Ruotong smiled and said, "Don't thank me! This is what I should do." As I said earlier, you are a guest invited by your uncle, and no one can drive you away. ”

Chen Xiaobei was about to say a few more words to her, when he suddenly felt as if someone was watching him, and couldn't help but look back, and sure enough, he saw a resentful gaze in the crowd aimed at him.

Zhou Haotian! He's here!

Chen Xiaobei was cast a shadow in his heart, although reason told him that this was the City Lord's Mansion, and it was limited to an oath, Zhou Haotian didn't dare to have any conspiracy, but for some reason, as soon as he saw Zhou Haotian, he felt that something bad was about to happen.

At this time, the middle-aged man standing next to Zhou Haotian suddenly turned around and looked at him deeply, Chen Xiaobei suddenly felt a chill on his body, although the person's eyes were plain, as if he was looking at a stranger, but only he could experience the feeling of substance.

Who is that man?

Looking at Zhou Haotian's appearance, it seems that he is respectful to him, could it be said that he is Zhou Tianmin, the contemporary head of the Zhou family?

Chen Xiaobei was eight or nine points sure in his heart, that was Zhou Tianmin, otherwise Zhou Haotian would not be so careful, and he was surprisingly safe.

Zhou Tianmin's look at him made him even more sure that the Zhou family had a conspiracy, but he had no way to guess the specific situation, but it was certain that the Zhou family would not dare to trouble him before the duel. Since that's the case, it's most likely a duel, and he'll have to be careful.

Putting Zhou Haotian's matter aside, he was about to continue the conversation with Ming Ruotong, but when he saw that at this moment of stunnedness, Ming Ruotong's side was already crowded with people. There is no way, there are too many people who want to take the opportunity to get close to Ming Ruotong!

Chen Xiaobei was not disappointed, after Zhou Haotian's incident, he had no intention of being leisurely, secretly thinking about the conspiracy that the Zhou family might use.

It didn't take long for Chen Xiaobei to suddenly find that the originally noisy banquet hall suddenly became quiet, and when he looked up, he saw a man who looked to be in his thirties and gentle and elegant standing on the stage, signaling everyone to be quiet, it was the city lord Ming Xiangyu.

Chen Xiaobei knew that it was finally the critical moment of the banquet, and Ming Xiangyu was ready to announce the list of people who had made outstanding contributions to this battle of demons at the banquet.

Sure enough, after a few words of thanks, Ming Xiangyu began to announce the list of the top three on the various contribution lists and rewards.

When mentioning the list of junior high school contributors, the city lord Ming Xiangyu paused, and then said: "Before announcing the list of junior high school contributors, I would like to thank one person, and that is my niece Ming Ruotong. It was she who gave up the guaranteed place in the key middle school that belonged to her, and used it as a reward to motivate the majority of junior high school students to devote themselves to the battle to defend the city. Thank you, thank you, my niece Ming Ruotong!"

Everyone applauded!

Chen Xiaobei looked at Ming Ruotong with a complicated expression in the audience, no wonder she said something like that downstairs in his community that day, it turned out that the quota was hers!

"Now I will announce that in this battle, the person who won the top of the junior high school contribution list is Chen Xiaobei!"

For a while, countless spotlights converged on Chen Xiaobei's body, Chen Xiaobei had never experienced such a scene, and was slightly nervous, but he still calmed down and slowly walked to the stage.

"Now I will give him the guaranteed place of Youzhou City Key Middle School!"

The people in the audience were either envious, jealous, or disdainful, and in different moods, all of them turned their eyes to Chen Xiaobei on the stage.

"Wait!"

At this moment, a stop suddenly sounded from the audience, Ming Xiangyu was slightly angry in his heart, looked at the person who spoke out in the audience, and said, "The head of the Zhou family, what are you going to do?"

It turned out that it was the head of the Zhou family, Zhou Haotian's father, Zhou Tianmin, who stopped him, and saw him facing the city lord's questioning, not flustered, and said slowly: "In a hurry, I blurted out before I could think about it, and I ask the city lord to forgive me!"

"It's okay, what do you have to say?" Although he knew in his heart that Zhou Tianmin did it on purpose, since Zhou Tianmin said this, it was not easy for him to hold on to what had just happened.

Zhou Tianmin said unhurriedly: "I doubt that Chen Xiaobei can win the top of the junior high school contribution list, so I hope that the city lord will slow down the distribution of rewards to avoid unnecessary trouble." ”

Chen Xiaobei's heart was shocked when he heard this, and secretly said that Zhou Tianmin's conspiracy turned out to be here, but Zhou Tianmin was not worried about the oath made by his son at all?

At this time, Ming Xiangyu frowned and said, "The top of the contribution list is completely determined by the system's statistics, how can it be wrong? Do you suspect that I deliberately changed the data?"

Zhou Tianmin said: "Don't dare!It's just that Chen Xiaobei's cultivation is not more than the fifth level of qi refining, how can it be possible to achieve such a high contribution value?"

Everyone in the audience talked a lot, and they all felt that with Chen Xiaobei's poor family background and the strength of the fifth layer of qi refining, it was really impossible to defeat Ming Ruotong, Zhou Haotian and other children of the family with the strength of one person, and win the top spot in one fell swoop.

Ming Xiangyu saw that everyone in the audience was suspicious, so he couldn't help but lower his head and groaned.

In fact, this matter is not difficult to solve, just look through the previous scene of Chen Xiaobei's battle in the system. However, the screen saved by the system is only stored in the system for seven days, and it is automatically deleted after seven days. But seven days have passed since this incident, and there is naturally no way to investigate.

And he also understood that Zhou Tianmin also grasped this point, so he challenged Chen Xiaobei.

This is a yang scheme, and Ming Xiangyu is also dissatisfied with Chen Xiaobei taking the quota of Ming Ruotong, so Ming Xiangyu does not intend to embarrass Zhou Tianmin at all, so he pushes the boat down the river, pretending not to know.

At this time, Zhou Tianmin saw that the time was almost up, so he said: "City Lord, it just so happens that Zhou Haotian and Chen Xiaobei discussed a duel not long ago, so it is better to ask the city lord to testify with this." If Chen Xiaobei wins, we naturally have nothing to say, and if we lose, then ask the city lord to change the escort quota to others!"

When Chen Xiaobei heard this, he couldn't help but be furious, Zhou Tianmin's move was not beneficial to himself, it was purely aimed at him, after all, the second place was not Zhou Haotian, even if he was disqualified, it would not be Zhou Haotian's turn, unless they had the ability to make Ming Ruotong unable to get this place.

After listening to Zhou Tianmin's words, the city lord seemed to have some emotion in his expression, Chen Xiaobei saw this and knew that he had to stand up, so he shouted loudly: "City lord, I don't agree!"

When Ming Xiangyu heard this, he looked at Chen Xiaobei meaningfully and said, "Why don't you agree?

Chen Xiaobei couldn't help but be nervous when he talked face-to-face with a big man like the city lord for the first time, but he still calmed down, cleared his thoughts, and said slowly: "Lord City Lord, the Zhou family master has no evidence at all, and he has to decide the ownership of the escort quota that belongs to me now based on speculation, I am not convinced!"

Ming Xiangyu said: "Didn't you see that everyone in the audience was suspicious of this?"

Chen Xiaobei said in a loud voice: "Is it possible to arbitrarily judge other people's affairs because of everyone's suspicions? If so, is it because of everyone's suspicions that an innocent person can be dragged into prison without any reason, or even sentenced to death?"

Hearing this, Ming Xiangyu's face couldn't help but change greatly, Chen Xiaobei's words obviously meant that he was unfair and trusting others.

"Bold!" shouted a man from the audience, "how dare you talk to the city lord like this?"

Chen Xiaobei was not afraid, and said loudly: "Isn't what I said wrong?"

Everyone was dumbfounded.

At this time, Zhou Tianmin stood up and said: "Having said so much, you are afraid, because you know that your own strength is limited, and you can't defeat my son at all, and you are worried that you will lose your guaranteed place, so you strongly oppose it! Am I right?"

Chen Xiaobei sneered: "Your son is just a straw bale, how can I worry that I won't be able to defeat him? Just three days ago, I easily defeated him!" Chen Xiaobei was really angry at this time, so he didn't speak so politely.

Zhou Tianmin hated him when he heard this, and he wanted to tear Chen Xiaobei to pieces, but he pretended to be casual on his face and said, "In this case, why don't you dare to prove yourself with this duel?"

Chen Xiaobei was not provoked by Zhou Tianmin at all, and said: "Ridiculous! Why do I have to prove myself? Why do I need to prove myself? On the contrary, you doubt me for no reason, so you need evidence to prove that what you said is right!"

Zhou Tianmin didn't expect that although Chen Xiaobei was young, he didn't have the impulse to fall for him at all, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

At this moment, Zhou Haotian suddenly stood up and shouted loudly: "Chen Xiaobei, in the duel on June 30th, do you dare to increase the stakes?"

Seeing Zhou Haotian's face, which had become distorted by anger, Chen Xiaobei realized that he had just said something that Zhou Haotian couldn't bear no matter what. However, he did not regret it, the Zhou family and the father and son were too forceful, and now they are just scolding him, and if they have the opportunity in the future, they will definitely let their father and son taste the feeling of being oppressed.

"Why? Don't you dare? Just bet on your guaranteed place in your key middle school!"

Chen Xiaobei said in a loud voice: "Why don't you dare? It's just that I take such a precious thing as a guaranteed quota as a bet, what can you take to match it?"

At this time, Zhou Tianmin interjected: "Our Zhou family will pay for you for your parents' teleportation fee to Youzhou City!

Chen Xiaobei shook his head: "Not enough!"

"Then how about adding an ordinary house in Youzhou City?" Zhou Tianmin bluntly raised the bet and did not bargain with Chen Xiaobei.

"Good!"

Chen Xiaobei agreed, but in fact, he had to agree. Just now, he argued on the basis of reason, although there is no fault in the truth, but from the perspective of the city lord, he must consider the opinions of the people below, and some things cannot be decided from the reason alone.

At that time, the city lord must have made a choice between the truth and the opinions of the people, and this matter was also related to the city lord, and he was worried that the city lord would make a choice that was not in his favor.

Now it is the best of both worlds, he not only proved himself in the crowd, making people speechless, but also making the city lord not embarrassed, and winning a chance for his parents to go to Youzhou City.

In fact, this opportunity is the real reason for his promise, if he goes to Youzhou City, he must take his parents with him, this matter has been thinking about it in his heart for a long time, and he doesn't know how to make up this teleportation fee.

Everyone didn't know that Chen Xiaobei had thought so much in his heart, but Chen Xiaobei's decision was a happy ending for everyone.

For the city lord, it doesn't matter whether the guaranteed quota can be taken back, it is naturally very good to be able to get it back, the icing on the cake, but if you can't get it back, it doesn't matter, anyway, even if Ming Ruotong doesn't have this place, she can be admitted with her own ability. The important thing is that he finally got rid of the dilemma born because of Chen Xiaobei's stubbornness.

For the father and son of the Zhou family, they finally got what they wanted, and they also skipped the city lord. Although they also had arrangements in it, in general it cost a lot more than it does now!

As for the others, it's just a bit of a hilarity.

After this episode, the banquet was held as usual, but the attention that fell on Chen Xiaobei was much more than before. Chen Xiaobei didn't care much about this, he still didn't give up the idea of eating a big meal, not that he was greedy for appetite, but that most of the food at the party was rich in aura, which was a big supplement for him, so he naturally couldn't give up easily.

His current cultivation stage is in the stage of "refining and refining qi", and the more sufficient the essence qi, the faster his cultivation speed will be.

Although he used the "Tianyi Divine Water" to lay the foundation of the innate five elements, after all, his cultivation is still shallow, and he can't play the true role of the "Tianyi Divine Water" at all, and can only secretly recuperate, so the role he plays is at most faster than ordinary people's cultivation.

He was now almost desperately eager to increase his strength, this kind of aura-rich delicacy was a rare thing that was completely harmless to enhance his strength, and he naturally refused to let it go.

The "Taishang Wuji Mysterious Sutra" records a cultivation method of improving cultivation by eating all kinds of delicacies rich in spiritual energy, and it is said that the strength is not bad after refining. However, this method requires meals to eat food rich in aura, and the effect is slow and takes a long time, and non-local tyrants cannot practice this method.

Chen Xiaobei naturally didn't have so many spirit stones to buy so many aura-rich delicacies, but when he bumped into such an opportunity, he could taste many aura-rich delicacies for free, and he naturally wouldn't miss it easily.