Duan Feifei sat on the other side of the boat, looked over the young guy, and asked:
“Hey, what are you drinking? Wine?”
The guy opened his eyes, looked at her with curiosity, and nodded. But then he blinked his eyes and stared in amazent at the outstretched hand..
Feifei snorted.:
“What is unclear? I gave you a bottle here, I’ll drink it too!”
“Em...”
Now he was truly amazed, as if he had never thought before that this was possible. Where has it been seen that a young girl - almost a girl - demands a drink?.
Pointing his gaze at the bottle and his finger at his own lips, he wanted to say that he had already drunk it himself and the entire neck was covered in his saliva, but he could not find the words.
“Are you deaf?!” Feifei growled, snatched the bottle, and took a few greedy sips, coughing a couple of tis from the unexpected bitterness. Her face began to turn red before her eyes. Looking at the smug guy, she snorted: “And who in the fist world could like this rubbish?”
She took another sip. The second ti, Feifei knew what to expect, so the alcohol went smoothly and did not make her cough this ti. Snorting with satisfaction, she wiped her mouth with a small hand - matching her thin lips - and returned the bottle to the guy.
“On!”
He wordlessly took it and took a generous sip. He smiled, looking at the girl, and drank wine like water..
Duan Feifei frowned, snatched the bottle, and gave him an extrely dissatisfied look. The guy thought that she would reproach him for drinking too much, just like his little sister, but he heard sothing completely different:
“What, you hippopotamus, are you going to drink the whole bottle? You forgot about already, empty head?”
She raised her head and began to drink, grumbling in her gut, but the sound was reminiscent of a cat purring.
Having sipped as much as he did, she wiped her lips again - already almost dissolved on her peach-pink face.
“Leave it to ,” said the guy, snatching the bottle. “I’ll buy more later, but don’t be so greedy!”
He finished everything that was left in a few sips and grunted with pleasure. Noticing her ominous gaze, the guy said in an apologetic tone:
“Wait a second, I'll buy more now!”
Rising up and pushing off from the edge of the boat with the edges of his socks, he flew to the shore.
“Faster! You're barely dragging your feet, and I'm not drunk yet!”
He was already under a degree, so he pushed off rather weakly and did not have enough jerk to jump to the shore. He used an explosion of inner strength and launched himself like a projectile.
If soone saw this, that person’s eyes would pop out of their heads - wasting their inner strength to buy wine!
Duan Feifei picked up the empty bottle and tugged it above her head to shake out at least a drop of it. A few got on the tongue, but it didn’t bring any pleasure. Growling, she threw it into the water and barked:
“Where does he wear it?! Why so long?!”
“I’m already on my way!” shouted the guy in white.
With several large bottles of wine, he pushed off well from the shore and gracefully landed on the boat, spreading the bottles along its bottom in one movent. Taking out the tureen from his pockets, he removed the cap from one bottle and was about to pour the wine, but Feifei snatched the bottle and snorted.:
“Where are you pouring? Why waste ti, do you have too much? Drink from the bottle and that's it.”
Snorting, she threw back her head and transferred the contents of the bottle into herself..
The guy nodded respectfully - he had t a worthy opponent!
Because of his inner strength, he hasn’t gotten drunk in a long ti, even after a hundred bottles..
Sitting down opposite, he took the bottle, shook it, and poured all the contents into himself.
“Hey, my na is Duan Feifei. And you?”
“I? Linghu Feng.”
“Linghu Feng? From Huashan or sothing??”
“Yeah.”
“Wow, I've heard about you. You seem to be famous.”
“Yes, exactly. Yes, an ordinary person.”
“No need to la-la. You seem to be participating in a competition for the post of chief disciple of Huashan, right? Only in the Hengshan Courtyard, if I rember correctly. Why the hell did you forget here??”
“I don’t know myself, to be honest. I don’t want to be either the main disciple or the Sect Master. But all my comrades and elders insist on this. So I ran away to live in freedom, drink wine and eat at. I still can.”
“Sounds kinda shitty.”
“Well, maybe it is. And you? What are you doing in Hangzhou??”
“Things to do, things to do. I'm looking for my father. I lost both him and my mother when I was about six years old, if not five, but a year ago I heard that my father might still be alive, he just hid because of one freak. So I ran to look for him everywhere, but found nothing but dust..”
“Don't be upset. I'm sure one day you'll find it.”
“Ha, well, thank you for saying that, you look like a grandma-witch. What about yourself? Who will you be in life? Let's tell you about yourself, and I'll tell you about myself..”
“Well if you want to listen...”
They drank wine, telling their stories and making toasts from ti to ti. First, sitting on the edges of the boat, then lying on its bottom, they shared their most intimate feelings and were bored.
Tired of drinking, they turned over on their sides and fell asleep. When we woke up, we continued drinking. Linghu Feng periodically ran out to buy more wine and at. The sun and moon replaced each other while they had their lazy conversation about life.
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Outside the eting building, countless people waited eagerly for news..
Five days have passed since the start of negotiations. Until now nothing was known. There were assumptions that the matter would not end with negotiations and that an ard conflict would begin.
All five days they discussed the ownership of each building in Hangzhou, sotis they argued for hours over one building - and any ties between the three families at those monts did not matter at all.
But there are hundreds of thousands of buildings in Hangzhou!
Murong Yuan and Lu Yi looked tired as never before: their skin turned pale, their eyes sunken, their hair disheveled. They didn't think that negotiations would be the hardest competition of their lives!
And they looked angrily at Yuluo, who had dragged them into this. The girl, like Lin Yi, still looked energetic and fresh, as if arguing for every street and house was a pleasure for her.
From ti to ti she made eyes at her opponent, and when she got tired - or pretended to be tired - she put her elbow under her chin and looked at Lin Yi from under her brows.
When Murong Yuan and Lu Yi noticed this, the emotions completely disappeared from their faces.
And how did they not notice this in her before? She twisted them as she wanted.
And now, without stopping for a second for three whole hours, she was discussing so unknown house and its irreplaceable value for her clan.
Finally, Lin Yi also lost his patience. Still smiling, he rolled up the scribbled map, threw it at the wall, and said:
“All. I'm not going to discuss one fucking city for three years. I don't have much ti, and you're probably tired of this shit too. Or not?”
Murong Yuan and Lu Yi nodded like idiots, not paying attention to Yuluo’s pouting lips. They had long felt that negotiations were going nowhere.
She made such a speech about the importance of negotiations and discussing benefits, but at the sa ti she spoke complete nonsense until everyone simply got tired of listening to her. And so with every house. How, in her understanding, did negotiations differ from won’s chatter??!
Yuan asked:
“Brother Lin, you have another option to satisfy all four sides?”
Lin Yi nodded, causing joyful smiles on the faces of both boys. Yuluo, who had been sulking to the side, quietly moved a little closer and perked up her ears..
Lin Yi smiled and said:
“Why sit around and talk about compromise when we can talk about benefits for all four families??”
Both guys leaned closer, now they were interested. After five days of negotiations, Yuan and Lu Yi were no longer against giving Huashan half of the city, if only this would stop. But if a large sect becos their ally and not a competitor, it will be even better.
Lin Yi smiled aningfully and said:
“In that case, why don't the four of us start working together? How about joint rule of Hangzhou?”
“Co-governnt? the eyes of all three lit up.
“That's it. Let's establish Liushann headquarters here and distribute power among our four sects. Then in the future all issues in Hangzhou will be resolved by us behind closed doors and no one from the outside will interfere with us.”
“This is a good plan!” Murong Yuan laughed, rubbing his hands..
“I also think this is a great idea,” Lu Yi nodded. “If the city is ruled by three renowned sects and one major sect, then no one will dare to look into such a tiger’s mouth. Even Shaolin!”
He felt in his heart that he could take one of the leading positions in Liushann if he did everything right.
Yuluo blinked a couple of tis, raising her long eyebrows, and looked at Lin Yi with a slight smile. She imdiately understood what he was up to. But she didn't say anything. I just looked at him with admiration and curiosity..
Yes. He was a worthy man. Even too much.
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