Although this was the case, everyone had their own difficulties, and high quality materials weren’t easy to find. There were always those who were forced to the Low Open Heaven Stage.
As the two of them were talking, they suddenly heard a loud bang and the door was kicked open.
Just as Old Fang was feeling pleased with himself, he slammed the table and stood up, shouting, “Who is it!”
Turning his head to look, he didn’t recognize him, but Yang Kai did recognize him and asked in surprise, “Brother Shi?”
The comer was one of the newcomers who had come with him, the Monster Race man Shi Haocang. He didn’t know why he had appeared here, he had even rudely kicked open the door.
Hearing Yang Kai’s shout, Old Fang also came to his senses and remembered that he had vaguely seen this man in the servants’ house in Fire Spiritual Land. Looking at Yang Kai, he asked, “Do you know him?”
Yang Kai nodded, thinking that not only did they know each other, but they had also formed an alliance.
Since it was someone Yang Kai knew, Old Fang didn’t show much of an expression and instead asked, “Since you’re Brother Yang’s friend, how about we sit down and have a drink?”
Shi Haocang glanced over at Yang Kai and frowned slightly before fixing his eyes on Old Fang again. Slowly shaking his head, he said, “I wouldn’t dare.” Turning to the side, he said, “You two, Manager Zhou has invited you.”
“Manager… Manager Zhou?” Old Fang shivered and sobered up, “Which… Manager Zhou?”
Shi Haocang sneered, “How many Manager Zhou do you know?”
“Where is Manager Zhou?” Old Fang gulped.
Shi Haocang didn’t say anything and just stared at him quietly. Old Fang’s forehead slowly began to drip with cold sweat, suddenly feeling like a great catastrophe was approaching.
At this moment, he also realized what was happening. He must have been too excited and had drunk too much with Yang Kai, causing him to speak without thinking. If someone else were to hear what he was saying, or perhaps Manager Zhou would be sitting next door.
Turning his head to look at Yang Kai for help, Yang Kai also smiled wryly and stood up, “Let’s go.”
If it was a blessing, it would not be a disaster. If it was a disaster, it could not be avoided. Since the other party said he wanted to invite the two of them, he would definitely be included.
Shi Haocang led the way while Yang Kai and Old Fang followed close behind. Old Fang’s legs and stomach were shaking. When he was chatting with Yang Kai earlier, although he had reduced Zhou Zheng, a First Order Open Heaven for nothing, Open Heaven Stage was still Open Heaven Stage. Moreover, Zhou Zheng was also known as the Manager of the Fruit Garden, so no matter what, he was powerless to resist. If he were to be made a fool of, he could only endure.
He wanted nothing more than to slap himself in the face. After drinking a bit of wine, he didn’t even know how to shut his mouth, daring to say anything in his mind.
Manager Zhou was indeed next door, and he wasn’t the only one.
As Shi Haocang entered the next room, Yang Kai saw a table filled with exquisite dishes and five people sitting around it.
Manager Zhou sat at the head of the table, Fang Tai from the Black River World on his left, Su Nianyi on his right, Qian Yu and Asun is also in his right, all of the newcomers who had recently arrived at Fire Spiritual Land.
Yang Kai immediately showed a look of surprise. This situation was very obvious. Fang Tai and his group had been the host, inviting Manager Zhou to a banquet. What surprised him was that he had not been informed about this matter at all, and no one had come to inform him. Although he had come to the market after returning from the fruit garden, after forming an alliance last time, everyone had left a way to contact each other. If they wanted to find him, they could easily send him a message.
Since he had not received any news, it meant that these people had never intended to inform him.
While his thoughts were wandering, Yang Kai had already figured out what was going on and smiled casually, not paying too much attention to it. Together with Old Fang, he stepped forward and cupped his fists, “Greetings, Manager Zhou.”
Zhou Zheng’s expression was as cold as ice as he sat at the head of the table, not even sparing the two a glance, simply taking a sip of his wine.
If he didn’t speak, Yang Kai and Old Fang wouldn’t be able to either. The atmosphere in the room became extremely tense and the newcomers all stared straight ahead. Only Asun kept shooting glances at Yang Kai, not knowing what to say.
After a long time, Fang Tai finally smiled and poured a cup of wine for Zhou Zheng before saying, “Manager Zhou, please calm down. These ignorant people are just making irresponsible remarks, why should you care?”
“Hehe…” Steward Zhou sneered lightly, picked up the wine cup in front of him, and suddenly reached out and splashed the wine in it onto Old Fang’s face.
The wine contained the condensed power of an Open Heaven Stage master, so although it was only wine, how could it be anything but a blow to the head? Old Fang’s head was instantly thrown back, and he staggered back several steps before stabilizing himself. After stabilizing himself, his nose and mouth were covered in blood.
Zhou Zheng stood up and walked over to Old Fang’s side. Looking at him, he asked in a cold voice, “How is this Manager's Open Heaven Stage? Is it even worthy of your attention?”
Old Fang couldn’t be bothered to wipe away the blood on his face as he lowered his head like a quail that had yet to build its nest in the cold winter, shivering and muttering for a long time before finally apologizing profusely.
Zhou Zheng coldly snorted and swept his sleeve across Old Fang’s face before turning to leave.
Fang Tai became anxious and quickly chased after him, leaving the others in the room staring at each other.
“Are you alright?” Yang Kai looked at Old Fang with concern. Speaking of which, he was also somewhat responsible for this matter. If it weren’t for the fact that he and Old Fang had been drinking and chatting so happily, he wouldn’t have encountered such an unexpected calamity. But who would have thought that Old Fang’s object of talking would coincidentally be sitting next door and listening to his words?
The soundproofing of this room isn’t very good… Yang Kai thought to himself. However, he and Old Fang had been too careless and had drunk too much, so they hadn’t noticed the person next door.
Old Fang had also sobered up, and upon hearing this, he looked up at Yang Kai bitterly, “Little Brother, save me!”
Yang Kai was speechless, “Don’t panic, don’t panic, it’s not a big deal.” Looking away, although it wasn’t very moral, seeing Old Fang’s blue face and swollen nose, it was quite funny.
“You two… what should I say about you?” Su Nianyi’s brow wrinkled as she stared at them. “Don’t you know that walls have ears? Even if we weren’t sitting here today, even if others were sitting here, listening to those words, they would have gone to Manager Zhou to complain about you. Can you bear the consequences?”
Yang Kai smiled bitterly, “There’s no use talking about this now.” Turning to look at them, he asked, “Why are you here?”
Before Su Nianyi could say anything, Fang Tai came back from the door and said with a dark expression, “Naturally, it’s to invite Manager Zhou to a banquet, is there a need to ask?”
Asun said, “Yang Kai, you don’t know, but Senior Brother Fang has made another great contribution, so today he specially came to thank Manager Zhou.”
“Another meritorious deed?” Yang Kai turned to look at Fang Tai, thinking to himself, isn’t this guy’s luck a bit too heaven-defying? Last month he made a meritorious deed and obtained thirty Open Heaven Pills as a reward, and this month he made another meritorious deed? Does he think that meritorious deeds are common? Since he dared to come here to invite Manager Zhou to a banquet, it seems the rewards he received weren’t small.
He even began to wonder what kind of meritorious deed it was. Was it really a meritorious deed, or was it the result of establishing a good relationship with Zhou Zheng? In any case, he didn’t know what kind of meritorious deed he would need to perform.
Fang Tai ignored him. It was obvious that he was upset, but this was not surprising. He had specially invited Zhou Zheng today, and from the looks of the dishes on the table, it hadn’t been long since they were served and no one had started eating yet. In other words, it was likely that they had just sat down for a while and before the banquet had even begun, the guest had run away in anger. As the host, how could he not be happy?
Sitting down again, Fang Tai’s face darkened as he picked up some food and drank without saying a word.
Old Fang grabbed Yang Kai’s arm with a pleading expression, as if he was holding onto a life-saving straw.
Yang Kai didn’t have any way to save him, so a few words of comfort didn’t have any effect, so he simply pulled him to sit down with him. Although Zhou Zheng had only vented his anger on Old Fang today, Yang Kai estimated that he had already remembered him.
This was really bad luck. Previously, he had thought that after earning some money this time, he would return to Zhou Zheng and give him some gifts. After all, if he were to work under Zhou Zheng, even if there were no benefits to be gained by maintaining a good relationship with him, it wouldn’t be bad. But now, before he could even implement his plan, he had offended Zhou Zheng again. Counting the things that had happened before, he had offended Zhou Zheng to death.
“You two still have the mood to sit here!” Fang Tai glared at Yang Kai.
Yang Kai asked, “Then what should we do?”
Fang Tai had a look of disappointment on his face, “Look at you, it’s not good for you to hang out with this old man. Now that you’ve been implicated by him, let’s see how you’re going to establish yourself in Fire Spiritual Land in the future!”
This attitude of an elder teaching a junior a lesson left Yang Kai stunned.
“Also…” Fang Tai looked at Yang Kai coldly, “What happened to General Si Chen?”
“What?”
“How did you offend him? It’s rumored that you offended Great General Si Chen and now he’s treating your head like a chicken’s nest? Don’t try to deny this, this Fang saw it with his own eyes before, it can’t be faked. Do you know what kind of background General Si Chen has? He’s a pet of our Fire Spiritual Land's Protector Venerable. To put it bluntly, if you offend Manager Zhou, you may be able to survive in Fire Spiritual Land, but if you offend Great General Si Chen, will you still have a good life? I won’t be surprised to see your corpse one day.”
Yang Kai was speechless.
Many people had seen this stupid chicken use his head as a chicken’s nest, so it wasn’t strange that there were rumors about it outside, but he was too lazy to argue about it. It was better to let others misunderstand, so the exposure of this matter would be delayed.
However…
Yang Kai frowned and said somewhat unhappily, “Does Brother Fang care too much?”
Fang Tai coldly snorted, “Do you think this Fang wants to meddle in your affairs? This Fang just doesn’t want you to implicate us. No matter what, we’re all newcomers who have come here together with the Venerable. Your actions will more or less affect us!”
“Brother Fang is thinking too much, right?”
“It’s best if I’m thinking too much, but if you’re still so stubborn, I don’t think we need to form any kind of alliance. From now on, we’ll go our separate ways.”
TO BE CONTINUED...
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