Xia Youran originally wanted to say something at this time, but at the moment she was about to speak, a gentle voice sounded outside the carriage, interrupting her thoughts.
"Master Ying, welcome to the Flower Banquet."
Well, it’s really the right time.
Xia Youran opened the door curtain of the carriage, and what came into view was a woman who was not unfamiliar. She was wearing a bluish dress, standing in front of the carriage with a gentle temperament, and her beautiful eyes were staring at the carriage in front of her curiously. , when he saw Xia Youran coming out, a trace of regret clearly flashed in his eyes.
Xia Youran captured her regret very accurately. She put her right hand on her hips and looked at her unhappily: "What? Did you see that I let you down?"
The girl didn't want to talk to her at all. She said "tsk" and all her gentle temperament disappeared: "Stop standing here talking nonsense and expecting you to bring people over. It's really useless."
Xia Youran stared at her teasingly, laughing secretly in his heart.
To be honest, even if she maintains this form for a few more minutes, she will not achieve the current effect.
Thinking of this, she turned around and said to the two people in the car: "Mr. Ying, it's time to get off the car."
Hearing her words, the woman froze on the spot, her whole body seemed to be frozen, and she moved her head little by little. When she saw the white figure coming down from the carriage, She violently covered her pretty face, which was already flushed with embarrassment.
"Xia Youran, you deserve to die."
The tone of this sentence should be gritted teeth.
Xia Youran looked at her side with gloating, calling you a prostitute, something must have gone wrong.
When Ying Baiye got off the carriage, he saw the girl in a blue dress covering her face with her hands. He glanced at Xia Youran next to him strangely, wondering what was going on.
"The daughter of the mayor of Fanhua Town, if nothing else goes wrong, should be the next mayor of Fanhua Town. This guy is your admirer. Doesn't he look a little stupid?"
Xia Youran said this in a brisk tone.
The girl over there had already put down her hands and adjusted her mood. Just when she was about to walk over, she heard Xia Youran's "brainless" words. Her pretty face darkened, but she still managed to keep her expression calm. dignified.
"Master Ying, good evening, welcome to the flower banquet."
She has a gentle temperament, dignified manners, and an elegant smile on her pretty face. Anyone who looks at her will probably sigh that she is such a young lady.
But in fact...
"Uh, you don't have to be like this." Ying Baiye looked at her with strange eyes. "What you said just now...I heard it."
"..."
The scene suddenly became quiet, and the smile on the girl's face was a little stiff. Xia Youran was holding back her smile, for fear of breaking this embarrassing scene.
Lingxi stood behind Ying Baiye and looked at the scene in front of her curiously. She had just gotten off the carriage and didn't know what happened.
For a moment, the scene was so awkward.
"I..." The girl twitched the corners of her stiff mouth. The next second, she couldn't help but raise her hands to cover her eyes.
Obviously, I have been preparing for this meeting for a long time...
Forget it, that's it, it can be broken.
She put down her hand, sighed, and bowed slightly to Ying Baiye: "Little girl Hua Ruoran, this is Young Master Ying's first time at the Flower Banquet, and mother asked me to lead the way for Young Master Ying."
"Little girl? I remember you used to call yourself my girl. Stop pretending, no one will accept your trick."
Xia Youran unceremoniously revealed her true identity, Hua Ruoran gave her a vicious look, and then looked at Ying Baiye in front of her.
To be honest, for Ying Baiye, she had only seen a portrait circulated from Zhenjiao City before. The face of Ying Baiye in that portrait was already stunning enough, but when the real person stood here, Hua Ruoran I discovered that the depiction in the portrait was far less than one percent of the real person.
It's not because the portrait is not realistic enough. The portrait was originally painted by a famous artist, and the painting skills are naturally not bad. But apart from the handsome face that is enough to be evil, the most attractive thing about Ying Baiye is the pair of cold eyes. And the deep golden eyes, those eyes seem to have some kind of charm, people can't help but fall in love with them just by looking at them.
For Ying Baiye, his temperament was far more prominent than his face.
Really are……
"anthomaniac."
Why is this bastard always around to disrupt things?
Hua Ruoran gritted her teeth and looked at Xia Youran aside. She really wanted to stab this guy to death with a sword. In this case, she would not be able to say a word.
"Stop making trouble, everyone has gone away, and I am the only one here waiting for you to end your nymphomaniac behavior."
Xia Youran came to her side, pointed at the two figures in the distance, and said in a rather helpless tone.
Hua Ruoran snorted coldly: "I would rather you not wait for me."
"Tch, I'm free." Xia Youran leaned on her shoulder, while Hua Ruoran did not move away. "Stop your wishful thinking, don't you see? This young man has already found his wife."
Hearing her words, Hua Ruoran looked at her with a puzzled face: "What's wrong with the famous flower having an owner? Does it have any influence?"
Xia Youran was slightly startled: "Don't you like him?"
"Who told you?" Hua Ruoran looked at her with disgust. "Have you misunderstood the definitions of liking and admiration? I'm just a simple admirer, not an admirer. Tsk tsk, Xia Youran, Xia Youran, why are you filled with such boring thoughts?"
"..."
I always feel despised by this guy.
Xia Youran frowned: "Just worship?"
"Otherwise?" Hua Ruoran looked at her like a fool. "I've already been appointed as the next mayor of the town. I guess that's the way it will be for the rest of my life. I don't have any qualifications to like people. It's good to find a suitable person to worship."
After listening to her words, Xia Youran became unusually silent.
She is somewhat familiar with the rules of Fanhua Town. Hua Ruoran was selected to become the next mayor, which means that she will be locked in Fanhua Town for the rest of her life. Her future marriage will only be a matter of choosing someone to marry into her husband or staying together for the rest of her life. Marry, and when it's time to choose a successor, go and choose someone from the younger generations of the clan to continue this fate.
Her mother, the current mayor of Fanhua Town, was selected.
For such a fate, Hua Ruoran could only choose to accept it without any possibility of giving in.
Looking at the best friend next to her who was pouting secretly, Xia Youran's eyes flashed with a hint of distress.
"It's okay, I accept it." Hua Ruoran noticed Xia Youran's gaze and smiled nonchalantly. "It's good for me to be like this now. When you inherit the Jiuxia Chamber of Commerce, I will directly transfer the right to supply nectar to you. Anyway, you are stupid and can't trick me."
"..."
The first half of this sentence sounded quite touching, but the extra content at the end made her feel a little itchy.
Don't you know you can't beat me?
"Haha, let's go. Mr. Ying and the others have already gone far. If we don't follow them, they will be separated."
Hua Ruoran sensed that something was not right about the surrounding atmosphere and hurriedly walked forward.
Looking at her back as she left in a hurry, Xia Youran smiled softly, shook her head, and followed quickly.
Forget it, seeing how pitiful this guy is, I'll just bypass her once today.
…
While the two women were talking, Ying Baiye and Lingxi had already entered the banquet hall.
The mayor's mansion is very large, and even if such a banquet is held, the space in the hall does not seem narrow.
When Ying Baiye and the others came in, there were already many guests at the banquet. Most of these people looked very young, about the same age as Xia Youran.
Among these people, Ying Baiye even saw a few seniors who were third-year students. However, these seniors were only about twenty or so on the ranking list and had little interaction with Ying Baiye on weekdays.
Taking Lingxi with him, the two of them walked to a relatively remote corner. He just came to go through the motions, and Lingxi just came to accompany him through the motions. The two of them had no intention of being in the limelight, so they just kept a low profile. .
After the two of them took their seats, Xia Youran and Hua Ruoran arrived behind them.
The two of them scanned the guests for a long time before locking onto the positions of Ying Baiye and Ling Xi, and moved towards this side.
"This place is really quiet."
Xia Youran sat next to Lingxi and said,
"Aunt Hua has prepared a seat above for you, don't you want to take a look?"
"Are the drinks above different from those here?"
Ying Baiye looked at her and asked with a smile.
"Uh, same thing."
"Then the food is more delicious than the one here?"
"It's all the same stuff."
"Isn't that enough?" Ying Baiye leaned aside lazily. "Since it's all the same, then why should I go up there and be looked at like a monkey?"
"You can see clearly."
Xia Youran couldn't help but sigh.
At this age, Ying Baiye loves to be in the limelight. It is rare to be able to see things so clearly.
It was only after banquets that she gradually got tired of sitting as the chairperson of banquets. If it was not necessary, she would basically sit in this position now.
"Master Ying, don't you plan to compete for the treasure at this flower banquet?"
At this moment, Hua Ruoran, who was sitting next to Xia Youran, suddenly spoke.
A manual appeared in her hand and she handed it in the direction of Ying Baiye. "This is the list of treasures this time. If you are interested, please tell me and I will arrange it for you."
"..."
Why don't you make arrangements for me?
Is it really okay to make the behind-the-scenes operation so obvious?
Xia Youran glanced at Hua Ruoran resentfully. There were some things in this that even she couldn't help but want to fight over. Hua Ruoran knew this clearly and had never told her so.
It’s just that I have forgotten my true love.
"The roster."
Ying Baiye took the list from her hand and slowly opened it.
The order of these treasures on the list is based on the degree of rarity. The names that appear later are more valuable. Ying Baiye scanned the lists one by one.
It can be seen that Fanhua Town has really put a lot of effort into the flower banquet. Some things would probably have a sky-high price even if they were placed in the Spiritual Value Hall.
However, even so, Ying Baiye really wasn't interested in those things.
He has no shortage of divine techniques, and he can produce a lot of spiritual weapons by rubbing them with his own hands.
As for some treasures of heaven and earth, he had seen them a lot in Yinglong City since he was a child, and now he didn't have any big impulse when he saw them without any need.
The only thing that could arouse some interest in him was the scroll of spiritual formation diagram.
Ying Baiye put the roster in front of Ling Xi and pointed at the scroll of spiritual formation diagram.
Lingxi glanced at it and drank tea calmly: "I have it over there, no need to bother."
Hehe, are you looking down on the collection of a spiritual formation master? What's more, this spiritual formation master is also a disciple brought out by two spiritual formation masters.
Ying Baiye closed the roster and handed it back to Hua Ruoran's hand, smiling and shaking her head.
A trace of surprise flashed in Hua Ruoran's eyes. It seemed that the final items carefully prepared by her mother could not move the heart of the most talented person in Beicang Spiritual Academy.
I guess my mother's calculations will be overturned this time.
There are more and more guests present, and there are fewer and fewer seats. The main seat above is always vacant, and the host mayor has not arrived yet.
That is, when the number of people was almost complete, a figure entered the banquet.
"Liu Ying." Xia Youran smiled coldly. "Did you come so late on purpose to attract other people's attention?"
The moment she finished speaking, she could clearly feel the noise around her. Many people were discussing this famous genius who had just come in and was already famous throughout Beicang Continent.
But after Liu Ying came in, she didn't rush towards the seats above. Instead, she turned around and seemed to be looking for someone in the vast sea of people.
Hua Ruoran raised a smile when she saw this scene. She knew what Liu Ying was looking for.
Xia Youran "tsk" and just wanted to avoid it, she found that the man's eyes lit up, he locked onto her position, and then strode towards her.
Hua Ruoran had a gloating smile on her face.
Xia Youran covered her face helplessly, and then Liu Ying walked through the vast sea of people, getting closer and closer to her.
Not long after, he appeared in front of Xia Youran.
"Youran, long time no see."
haven't seen you for a long time?
Hua Ruoran couldn't help laughing.
If she remembered correctly, it seemed that these two people had just met yesterday when the three major chambers of commerce came to Fanhua Town.
"Don't call me Youran, I'm not familiar with you."
Xia Youran said coldly.
Liu Ying is obviously used to her attitude. No matter what, the two of them can be regarded as an unmarried couple in name. Although the Jiuxia Chamber of Commerce does not seem to want to fulfill the verbal engagement, but many times , the Shadow Chamber of Commerce still holds the idea of letting their young master marry the eldest lady of the Jiuxia Chamber of Commerce.
Liu Ying also has a certain fondness for Xia Youran.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to endure her cold treatment so many times.
Now that Xia Youran is sitting here, then...
He glanced around and suddenly focused on a seat.
At this time, Ying Baiye was leaning aside and chatting quietly with Lingxi, not paying attention to the situation on Xia Youran's side.
Half of his body was hidden in the shadows, and people outside could not see his face clearly.
Just when he finished speaking, he suddenly found that the surrounding light was dimmer. He raised his head and looked in front of him, frowning slightly.
There was a man standing still, blocking his own light.
Just when he was about to ask, he heard the man opposite speaking first.
There was a kind of confidence and arrogance in his tone that he couldn't understand.
He said: "Give up your position."
"..."
At that moment, Ying Baiye fell silent.
Xia Youran and Hua Ruoran next to them also fell silent.
Lingxi had no intention of speaking at all.
After being silent for a few seconds, Hua Ruoran suddenly turned her head and looked at Xia Youran. After thinking for a moment, she couldn't help but speak.
"Is he... usually so brave?"
This behavior is really brave...
