The urban area is mainly from the economic department, and most of the people from the city are the leaders of various ministries and commissions who have close contacts on weekdays. Warm-color-small-say-net warm

Due to Lao Mai's arrival, he also invited two members of the city's price system, the general of Fat Dahai and the head of Lao Guang.

is also because Fat Dahai is in fact at the department level, so even Liu District, the head of the central district government of the city, also came to join in the fun, but he left quickly and wanted to catch up with the next one.

Because Lao Mai always looked at Fat Dahai and Lao Guang with a smile, these two didn't even dare to mention Moutai, and they didn't even dare to mention XO, so they had to drink the Great Wall dry red obediently, and they didn't dare to propose a toast frequently for fear of urinating.

Because it was a very polite drinking and talking, the table was dispersed in less than two hours, and the next show was transferred to the karaoke luxury box in the hotel, singing and dancing together to celebrate the New Year, and the beautiful girls who naturally danced and sang are also indispensable.

Originally, Lao Mai wanted to bring Yu Mu to see the world, but Yu Mu unexpectedly made other arrangements, and the senior brothers of the company where she used to work invited her back to participate in the weekend welcome party held by the company, so she gave up.

At the end of December 31, 2001, at 6 o'clock in the evening of Sunday, Lao Mai appeared on time at the entrance of the lobby of the Wuxiangling Farmhouse Hotel in winter clothes.

He now knows that this restaurant is actually opened by an outer disciple of the sect, otherwise so many wild animals are killed every day to eat, even if the source of goods comes from Vietnam, it is impossible to support it for so long, and if there is no background of Jinshi Sect, it would have been swept away by the local industrial and commercial department.

This time for the banquet, Lao Mai had already asked Ah Guang to make proper arrangements and set up the No. 9 box of the hotel.

Box 9 is separately separated for the exclusive use of the Jinshi Sect, never open to the public, and the mahogany furnishings inside reflect a traditional heavy luxury.

Despite the cold weather in the mountains, Tan Zhiduan, a long-haired thin man guarding the door of the lobby, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead for a long time, and it seemed that he was waiting here early.

As soon as he saw Lao Mai appear, he was overjoyed, and he came forward with a fart, bowing down to say hello, obviously in front of a full house of worldly diners, and it was not easy to salute.

Lao Mai nodded and asked, "Are they all here?"

Tan Zhiduan said with a bitter expression: "There is still one person missing, how can I not find it." ”

"Who's missing?"

"It's the real person who is a casual worker. ”

"Hmm, let's go in first," Lao Mai said, taking the lead in walking to the No. 9 box, which was a little hidden, Tan Zhi hurriedly rushed forward and opened the wooden door of the box for Lao Mai.

As soon as Lao Mai entered the box, the old man who was resting on the sofa restlessly stood up suddenly, like a spring on his legs, and said that the seniors were Pingxuzi, Pingdezi, Shui Xuanzi and Zhao Ruizong.

Lao Mai invited everyone to the table with a spring breeze on his face, and said with a smile: "The old people have come from afar, Mai is very honored, please come to the table, first drink a cup of tea to moisten your throat, let's talk about the old words, and then serve the food to welcome the New Year, haha." ”

The four hundred-year-old Taoist old men pretended to smile and sat down one by one, only Tan Zhi bowed and stood on one side, and Lao Mai said, "You also sit down", and he sat down next to half of his buttocks.

Lao Mai raised his voice and said openly and honestly: "Everyone is a cultivator, there are not so many politeness, killing people to pay for their lives, debts to pay back, you have cheated Mai a certain way, you must know that one report is one report, what I mean is that the materials buy lives, they are all old rivers and lakes, don't say what the price is, weigh it yourself." ”

As he spoke, he took out a piece of yellow-mounted rune paper, which was the one that Mu Qingzi handed over to him, and circulated it to the four people on the other side one by one.

Lao Mai continued: "When this is over, you can go home to practice and sleep peacefully, and you don't have to worry all day long, for fear that I will come to collect debts." ”

In cultivation, people focus on cultivation, and a stable cultivation environment is the most important, if there is a strong opponent who threatens from time to time, let alone quietly cultivating and improving, it is good that the realm does not regress under worry.

In the early days of Lao Mai's entry into Jindan, he was the first person in the realm of cultivation recognized by the mainland cultivation realm, and he forced Huashan Yinsu to extinguish his soul and not be able to live forever, which greatly shocked these old guys who had little longevity and were actually very greedy for life and afraid of death.

Since Tan Zhiduan came to the door and explained the reason why the incident was exposed, they couldn't wait to come, intending to eliminate the disaster as soon as possible, no matter what the price was, it was important to save their lives, and what would they do if their lives were gone.

The four people over there circulated the rune paper, and then exchanged their heads and ears, and then Zhao Ruizong of the lay family first picked up the head, reported the number of varieties of some medicinal materials, and then sat silently and waited.

Next, the other three old Taoists reported the number of different varieties of medicinal materials one by one, and after reporting them, they all sat back in their seats and were silent.

Although Lao Mai had never experienced this kind of transaction-like occasion, as a cultivator, especially when he had advanced to the realm above the innate realm, he had never forgotten it, and although the number of medicinal herbs reported by everyone was different, it almost covered the varieties listed on that rune paper, and the number was not a few.

Lao Mai glanced at the other party's vulgar face, and they were all very calm and silent, knowing that these were old and refined goods, and they would not do things that were out of place when they sang any song in what mountain.

So he spoke: "Very good, the goods you have shipped are enough to buy your life, and from now on, the grudge between us will be written off, and everyone can relax and have a New Year's dinner." ”

The four of them obviously showed a look of relief, and said unevenly: "Thank you for your generosity, and leave your juniors with a remnant life to survive the years." ”

Lao Mai threw two old storage talismans to Tan Zhiduan and asked him to receive the medicinal materials he had just reported.

Two storage talismans, one of which was lent by Mu Qingzi, Lao Dao estimated that one could not be filled, so he asked Lao Mai to go to him to get one first, he had already emptied it, and the vacated collection was piled up in the corner of the cabin behind him.

This claim almost took more than half of the various medicinal materials treasured by those old guys, and Lao Mai stared at them one by one as he took out things from his storage talisman with a painful expression and put them into the two storage talismans.

The process of transferring items was very fast, and it was over in a moment, Lao Mai got two basically full storage charms, put them in his waist bag, and asked Tan Zhiduan to inform the kitchen to serve the food.

Then he sighed at the four old men and said: "I can't help but say, you are really old and confused, not only have I publicly talked about the origin of my exercises, but also my senior brother Mu Qingzi is about to end his life, and I can't even help him in the later stage of advanced foundation building, how can I get what you can use?"

The facts were in front of them, and several hundreds of years old guys looked at each other, and they all showed annoyed expressions.

Soon, the wooden door of the box was pushed open, and a middle-aged fat man wearing a chef's hat came in with a plate of dishes, followed by a few young waiters, and as soon as he entered the door, he smiled and said: "Knock on the Seven Ancestors, seniors, please try the handmade mountain treasures made by yourself." ”

The fat chef is the owner of this restaurant, an outer disciple who has only cultivated to the third stage of Qi practice in the later stage of Xuanzhao, surnamed Wu Xiangling, but it is the homonym of Wuxiangling, Lao Mai laughed when he heard it for the first time.

His cultivation is slow to advance, and stir-frying is a must, and even Mu Qingzi often comes to eat a few bites by himself.

The abundant game and mountain dishes fill the table in an instant.

Old Mai Yan said: "It's over, you can eat at will, the ancients said: Eat sometimes, eat silently, just at the right time, let's start, Mai will no longer persuade you." ”

After speaking, he stretched out his chopsticks and ate the vegetables.

They are all cultivators, and they really don't pay so much attention to it, and the four old men also waved the chopsticks in their hands to eat, and they seemed to eat very hard, as if they wanted to eat back as much as possible from the loss just now.

Tan Zhiduan was the last to serve the table to eat, he was different from the others, he didn't dare to let go of his appetite to eat, and while eating, he also peeked at Lao Mai.

Lao Mai realized it immediately, waved his chopsticks and said, "Old Tan, you're fine, eat happily, and go wherever you like after eating." ”

Tan Zhiduan smiled lightly at this time, and his appearance became calm.

Although people in cultivation can be said to enter the innate realm, they can survive without eating worldly food and sucking wind and drinking dew, but the amount of food they want to eat is still not small, especially when the taste is delicious, it is not too much to describe it as a wind and clouds.

The crowd didn't bother to drink worldly liquor at all, but drank a lot of thick mountain turtle soup, and the specialties here, such as stewed pangolins, red stewed civets, etc., were eaten plate after plate.

Fortunately, Lao Mai ordered the banquet as the deputy sect leader of the sect, and Boss Wu prepared a lot of materials, otherwise he really couldn't cope with the appetite of this group of foodies.

Lao Mai usually doesn't come here to eat much, today is a big event, put your mind at ease, the second is really hungry, to the Jindan period, either don't eat, you want to eat a lot.

Although this group of ambushers has been intimidated by killing chickens and monkeys, Lao Mai has never had such an experience, and he is still very worried that they will not be able to resist death, so it will take a lot of effort to find someone again.

Unexpectedly, this group of people was both greedy and afraid of death, once the word was transmitted, they obediently came to be slaughtered, after all, they all have families and businesses, and the monks can't run away from the temple.

God knows what the consequences of not coming will be, whether someone will end their nest, so that it is possible to cut off their inheritance for thousands of years, naturally no one dares to gamble.

The diners at the table finally had their fill of food and drink, and they sat down and slowly drank the clear tea that eliminated their appetite.

Especially the four old men, none of them took the initiative to say goodbye and leave, they seemed to be waiting, as if they knew that Lao Mai had something to say in the end, but they didn't say it.

The owner of the restaurant Wu and his group of buddies only served the dishes and finally gave them a cup of tea, and then disappeared without a trace, and only six or seven people stayed in the huge No. 9 box.

Lao Mai drank a few sips of tea, and said leisurely: "The group of people you want to rob me originally had seven people, including six in charge and one bait, but now one person has died, five people have come, and there is still one person left. ”