leonardwarren Chapter 130 A Lunch
Chapter 130 A Lunch
"Just for a show, the price is a bit high." Lin Luo was also a little unimaginable.
"The darkness of these families is beyond your imagination."
"The purpose of the new city lord coming to Jincheng is not to manage this small city in order."
"His biggest purpose here is to recruit talents."
"Even if Jincheng is destroyed, it is just a trivial matter to him. As long as he can get some professionals to go back and help his family, his trip will be worthwhile."
"Of course, it would be a better choice if Jincheng can remain in his hands safely and provide talents to his family for a long time. So if the Zhang family cannot give him enough benefits, he will not kill Jincheng. ."
"But I can't bet. I know that Zhang Fang is a thunder mage and a special professional. The Zhang family and the forces behind him are all optimistic about him. If he falls into my hands, hum... .”
"They know they can't deal with me, and they can't succeed with Yutang under my protection, so they can only attack the people of Jincheng. After all, not everyone is as cold-blooded as them."
Lin Luo and the others finally understood Deputy City Lord Xiao's explanation.
But they still couldn't figure out how someone could put a whole city of innocent people in danger for personal vendetta.
"Don't doubt it, Mr. Xiao... the deputy city lord didn't lie to you." Fang Na spoke at this time. The old man Xiao she almost blurted out came to her lips, but she changed it abruptly.
It's just that this sentence was changed too harshly, and everyone present heard it.
Deputy City Master Xiao just smiled helplessly. There seemed to be a deep connection between the two families.
"Okay, after explaining why you want to send your daughter out, we should talk about the mission." Fang Na's words were still somewhat unkind.
The eyes of Lin Luo and others all fell on Deputy City Master Xiao again.
To send Xiao Yutang away from Jincheng, there are actually many choices.
You could go to Rongcheng next door to pick up the mission, or you could go to a big city farther away, but Deputy City Master Xiao chose the extremely dangerous dark night forest.
Although this task only requires checking the situation outside the forest, who can say for sure whether these young people will get excited and enter the forest.
Deputy City Master Xiao looked at Fang Na and said slightly apologetically: "I know you can't understand what I'm doing, but I really can't tell you the reason now."
Seeing a hint of dissatisfaction on Fang Na's face, he continued to explain.
"You can trust me for once. This mission has only advantages and no disadvantages for them."
"At this time, sending them to other cities is not a good choice. Rongcheng is too close, and there has been a lot of trouble there recently."
"As for other big cities, it's not like you haven't been there before. It's really not suitable for them to go there now."
Fang Na pondered for a while, then nodded gently.
Lin Luo and the others have no background and high talents. It is indeed not a good thing to appear in front of those people too early.
"Well, in that case, I'll trust you again."
Lin Luo and the others didn't quite understand what happened between Fang Na and Vice City Master Xiao, but since the two of them could reach an agreement, it seemed that they had to go on this trip to the dark night forest.
"When do you plan to arrange for them to leave?"
"The sooner the better, tonight is best, tomorrow night is the best."
"good..."
The two of them asked and answered questions and decided on the departure time for the Wuyou team.
"Now that everything is settled, let's go have dinner."
"After dinner, you go get ready. If you can leave tonight, I will send someone to pick you up."
After discussing this matter, Vice City Master Xiao became more relaxed. Seeing that it was getting late, he called everyone to prepare for dinner.
"I won't eat any more rice."
"Lin Luo, come to the guild after you finish eating. I have something else I want to tell you."
After Fang Na finished speaking, she walked out the door without waiting for Vice City Master Xiao to ask her to stay.
Deputy City Master Xiao seemed to have expected her reaction. He just smiled bitterly and shook his head, but he was not angry that the other party did not give him face, nor did he ask to retain anyone.
"Come on, let's go eat."
After this happened, Lin Luo and the others had no choice but to stand up in embarrassment, and followed the deputy city lord to the restaurant downstairs.
"I feel like this meal will make my stomach hurt." Su Junjie pulled Lin Luo and said silently.
The corners of Lin Luo's mouth twitched slightly. Although he didn't want to admit it, now he could indeed understand Su Junjie's silent complaints.
Just as Su Junjie imagined, the Xiao family's lunch was very sumptuous, but they did eat in great pain.
Except for the occasional sound of tableware touching each other at the dinner table, no one spoke during the entire meal.
Vice City Master Xiao's eating movements were extremely elegant, and he seemed to enjoy this quiet dining environment.
This made Su Junjie very depressed. When eating at Su's house, everyone had no time to talk except when they were grabbing meat to eat. Later, they talked while eating, and they were having fun.
Finally, Deputy City Master Xiao put down the chopsticks.
Su Junjie also put down his chopsticks as if he had been granted amnesty.
"I've finished eating. Thank you, Vice City Lord, for your hospitality."
Deputy City Master Xiao looked at Su Junjie amusedly, feeling that the words "want to leave" were clearly written on his face.
"You don't feel comfortable with me here either, Yutang, you drink some tea and eat some fruit with your teammates, and I'll go do other things first."
After saying that, he stood up, pulled out his chair, and went upstairs alone.
"Miss Xiao, we won't have tea anymore. We still have something to do, why don't we leave first?"
Seeing the back of Vice City Master Xiao disappearing on the stairs, Su Junjie immediately breathed a sigh of relief and hastily rejected the arrangement of drinking tea and eating fruits.
"If you have something to do, go ahead and do it first."
"Let's contact you tonight."
It wasn't until he left the Xiao's house that Su Junjie completely relaxed.
"It's a shame that I still expected to eat something good at the deputy city lord's mansion, but it turned out it wasn't as delicious as the food at my house."
"I'm almost exhausted from sitting with my back straight all the time."
"Lin Luo, where should we go next?"
Su Junjie complained while walking forward. It wasn't until he remembered to ask Lin Luo where to go next that he realized that Lin Luo and Wang Zhiyu were standing behind him and they didn't know what they were talking about.
Wang Zhiyu nodded to Lin Luo and then walked in the other direction.
"Who is she?" Su Junjie asked curiously.
"She went to make some potions to take with her. The potions in the pharmacy are not as effective as hers, but she doesn't have many medicinal ingredients, so we have to buy some commonly used ones."
"Isn't it a lot? When I beat the tree man last time, I saw that she collected a lot." Su Junjie was still very impressed by her collecting herbs.
"Those have been used." Lin Luo then remembered that this guy really escaped without getting the detoxification potion sent by Wang Zhiyu last time, so he must give him a few more bottles this time.
"How do you know the potion she made is more effective than the one in the pharmacy?" Su Junjie asked casually.
Lin Luo did not answer his question because it would remind him of the pain he felt when he drank the bottle of potion.
"Come on, let's go buy some medicine too."
Fortunately, the drugstore owner was not that familiar with Su Junjie, otherwise his poor acting skills might have been noticed soon.
"Boss, we bought so much, can't it be considered cheaper?"
After buying the needed medicines, Su Junjie bargained with the boss in the pharmacy for a long time.
In his words, this is real enough.
What Lin Luo was thinking was that the medicines they bought could be taken to Wang Zhiyu for examination, which was what he was telling her about just now.
"Are you going anywhere else?"
I don't know if eating at Xiao's house consumed Su Junjie too much energy, but he looked a little listless.
"I'll go find Sister Fang Na. You can go back and rest first."
"No, I want to go with you."
"You go back and say goodbye to Uncle Su. You are going on a far journey this time and I don't know how long it will take you to come back. You and your son should have a nice talk."
"As for what Sister Fang Na said to me, I will tell you when I come back. Okay." Lin Luo rejected his request to go with her.
Although Su Junjie was curious about what Fang Na was going to say to Lin Luo, he also knew that if he was leaving tonight, he wouldn't have much time to say goodbye to his father.
"Hey, what's there to say to that old man?" Su Junjie muttered, but after seeing Lin Luo's disapproving look, he immediately changed his mind.
"It's better to go talk to the old man. After I leave, there will be no one to quarrel with him." After saying that, he honestly went back to his father to say goodbye.
After Lin Luo watched him walk away, he came to the professional guild alone.
As soon as Fang Na saw him, she quickly stood up, regardless of the fact that there was someone else looking for her to do something in front of her. She pointed upstairs and signaled Lin Luo to go to Jiang Xiaoyu's room to wait for her.
As soon as Lin Luo knocked on the door, Jiang Xiaoyu immediately opened the door as if he had known he would come for a long time.
"Sister Fang Na asked me to come here and wait for her."
Lin Luo knew that Jiang Xiaoyu was shy, so he quickly explained why he came.
"I know." Jiang Xiaoyu took a step back and let Lin Luo in.
"Come in and sit down first. There are so many people coming to the professional guild today. I don't know why."
Maybe it was because she had already met Lin Luo several times. She was not as shy as when they first met, and she could still take the initiative to say a few words.
After Lin Luo sat down, Jiang Xiaoyu immediately brought two cups of tea over.
"I heard that you are going on a long trip?" Jiang Xiaoyu looked at him with envy and said.
"Yeah." Lin Luo didn't know why Jiang Xiaoyu stayed in the professional guild and never went out. Seeing her envious look, he didn't know what to say to comfort her, so he nodded.
After Jiang Xiaoyu said this wordlessly, he fell into silence.
The two sat in silence for a while, and then Lin Luo suddenly spoke.
"I have something to ask you. If I can't tell you, it doesn't matter if you don't."
Jiang Xiaoyu adjusted the glasses frame on his face, and then replied softly: "Just ask, if I know, I will definitely tell you."
"Today at noon, Sister Fang Na and I went to Vice City Master Xiao's house for dinner."
"Well, I know. I was originally invited, but my teacher wouldn't let me go out, so I refused." When Jiang Xiaoyu mentioned this matter, the expression on his face was very calm. It seemed that this kind of thing often happened to her. on the body.
Lin Luo couldn't help but wonder what was going on with her teacher, why he disciplined his students so harshly, not even allowed to go out for a meal.
"We went to Vice City Master Xiao's house for dinner, and what happened next?" Jiang Xiaoyu seemed to know what Lin Luo would be curious about, and immediately changed the subject.
"Oh, I just want to ask what happened between Sister Fang Na and Deputy City Master Xiao. She usually doesn't talk to people in that manner, not to mention that Deputy City Master Xiao is an elder."
Although it is speculated that Fang Na and the Xiao family must have had some grudges in the past, the way they get along is really strange.
If she was an enemy, Fang Na finally fully accepted Vice City Master Xiao's plan. If she was a friend, her manner of speaking was really rude. The same was true for Vice City Master Xiao, who always felt that he was vaguely trying to please Fang Na. mean.
"I know something about this matter, but after hearing this, please don't ask Sister Fang Na again. This is the past that she doesn't want to mention again." After hearing Lin Luo's question, Jiang Xiaoyu showed a faint sadness on his face. .
"When Vice City Master Xiao was young, he and Sister Fang Na's mother were in the same team."
As soon as Lin Luo heard this beginning, he couldn't help but have tens of thousands of words of bloody romance novels appear in his mind.
"This team is very powerful. By the way, Xiao Yutang's mother is also in this team. I heard that the relationship between them is as good as real sisters."
"Then one time, they teamed up to go on a mission."
"That mission is very difficult. It consists of a series of small missions, and at the end you have to fight an extremely difficult dungeon."
"At that time, Sister Fang Na's mother was already married to the president, and she had just given birth to Sister Fang Na. Her family members advised her not to go. It was too dangerous. She also couldn't bear to leave Sister Fang Na, who had just been born, so she refused to participate in this mission. .”
"But Deputy City Master Xiao used some reason to convince Sister Fang Na's mother, and she went anyway."
Lin Luo didn't expect the story to develop like this. When he heard this, he probably guessed that something might have happened to Sister Fang Na's mother during this mission.
"What's the result? Something happened?" Lin Luo asked.
"Well, I heard that I was hit by the boss's skill when I was playing the last dungeon, and I didn't make it out alive." Jiang Xiaoyu said in a low tone.
"No wonder Sister Fang Na has such an attitude towards Deputy City Master Xiao. This can be regarded as revenge for killing her mother."
"It's really not easy for her to be able to calmly talk to Vice City Master Xiao and discuss our whereabouts." Lin Luo sighed.
"If it were just like this, Sister Fang Na would not treat Deputy City Master Xiao like she is now." Jiang Xiaoyu added, which Lin Luo did not expect.
Are there other stories happening between them?