On the stage, the host of the charity banquet had already started. Shi Yunmu’s attention finally moved away from Shi Yubai, looking curiously at the person on stage who talked about high-sounding words without growing tired of it.
Dish after dish was also quietly delivered to the table. Shi Yunmu took a bite of the appetizing appetizer, and his eyes lit up like a searchlight instantly: “So delicious!”
It was a completely different kind of deliciousness compared to the meals cooked by Lu Que!
He settled it in a few quick movements.
Another dish came.
It was again settled in a few quick movements, the plate clean to the point of being shiny.
Shi Yubai caught it with his peripheral vision, and the corners of his eyes could not help but twitch: This “younger brother” of his actually really liked to eat, rather than doing it to block him.
After eating a few dishes, the lights that had just dimmed brightened up again; the speaking had ended, and free time arrived along with it.
The Shi family, as a family that liked to find favor on all sides the most, could not avoid going to greet and toast other companies or family forces at this time.
Raising his goblet, Father Shi’s brows furrowed, and he said critically to Shi Yunmu, who was still buried in eating fiercely: “You follow your older brother well. When the time comes, do not say a single thing, do you understand?”
He was truly scared by Shi Yunmu’s police report last time.
Shi Yunmu lifted his head blankly from the porcelain plate: “Ah? Me?”
Did he have to go too?
Shi Yubai said smilingly: “Yes, younger brother. The purpose of our family participating in the charity banquet is to manifest that our family is very harmonious; you are an indispensable link.”
Wasn’t it so? After that encounter last time, there were whispers internally that the Shi family was not good to the real young master. When some investors encountered them, they would deliberate a couple of times on whether to cooperate with the Shi family… After all, if a family enterprise had a conflict between a real and fake young master, what if they couldn’t avoid fighting for the family property and shaking the foundation?
Looking at the food in front of him, and then looking at the three people urging him to act, Shi Yunmu didn’t want to go a bit.
Little Wei, however, secretly reminded him: “Master, I discovered that if we follow behind them to toast, we can just happen to go to the buffet area to get cake!”
Dessert…
The gluttonous bug in Shi Yunmu’s stomach was hooked out, and he was thoroughly convinced by Little Wei. But this was certainly not enough.
He had already bowed his waist for a Michelin chef; he couldn’t go and bow his waist again for a dessert, right? Otherwise, wouldn’t these humans think that he, a slime, was easy to bully.
Erecting three fingers, Shi Yunmu opened his mouth wide to demand an exorbitant price with a serious expression: “I want 300,000.”
This time, the one with blue veins popping up on his forehead and the corners of his eyes twitching became Father Shi: “…”
Just for a toast, why did he have to pay 300,000?!
“Impossible!” Father Shi rejected Shi Yunmu.
Biting his chopsticks, the young man let out a slow “oh,” lazily propping his chin with his hand: “Then I’m not going.”
He made a gesture to continue eating. Father Shi, who was anxious to repair the Shi family’s reputation outside, could bear it no longer, and said with a black face: “300,000 it is! You go with us to toast first, and I will have my assistant transfer it to you later.”
“No way,” the slime was shrewd, “You will definitely look for an excuse not to give it to me later, it’s better to give it now.”
Shi Yunmu’s eyelids lifted upward, his expression playful: “Or could it be that the Shi family can’t even produce 300,000?”
Father Shi was so angry that his chest heaved violently. Taking a deep breath, he ground his teeth and said: “Give! Giving it now!”
With a sunken face, he transferred 300,000 over to Shi Yunmu.
Hearing the beautiful notification sound of the arrival of funds, Shi Yunmu was reassured: “Thanks for the support, here I come!”
The young man changed his face in a second, stood up actively, picked up his goblet, and trailed behind Shi Yubai.
Even though what was contained within the goblet was cola, with gas bubbles still continuously rising.
Although money had arrived in his account, in the final analysis, Shi Yunmu went unwillingly. The young man followed the Shi family from one family to another with a bored expression; the words of finding favor on all sides and playing the sycophant were things the slime could not understand even a half of.
With great difficulty, the Shi family strolled to the vicinity of the buffet area. Shi Yunmu separated from the team with immense joy, preparing to go and enjoy some cake.
“Ah, younger brother, don’t wander off.” Just as Shi Yunmu was about to have an intimate meeting with the cake, he was called to a halt by Shi Yubai.
Thinking about the 300,000 that arrived in his card, Shi Yunmu held in his breath and turned his head: “Is there something else?”
Shi Yubai pointed with a smile toward the place where young people gathered: “Mom and Dad went to chat with other uncles and aunts, let’s go over there.”
Shi Yunmu looked at the cake: “.”
Little Wei complained: “No, what trick is this human going to play again?!”
It hadn’t even eaten the cake fed by its master yet!
Shi Yunmu furrowed his brows in indecision, and in the end, he still held the goblet in one hand and the cake in the other before following Shi Yubai toward the direction he pointed: The reason was that the cake was deeply attached to him, making his heart soften upon looking at it.
At worst, he could just chat and eat at the same time later.
Walking with his head down together with Shi Yubai to that gathering of people, Shi Yunmu consciously wanted to stand at the edge, but he was inadvertently nudged by Shi Yubai to a position slightly close to the center of the crowd.
Before he could even see clearly who the person being pampered in the center of this crowd was, Shi Yunmu was pushed to a conspicuous place, and he could not help but feel a bit puzzled. He turned his head back wanting to ask Shi Yubai what he was up to, but the other party traced a nudge against him unnoticeably, neither lightly nor heavily!
The control of the strength was not bad. If an ordinary person encountered it, they might have unstable footing and already poured out the liquid inside the goblet in their hand.
A pity that the one Shi Yubai bumped into was Shi Yunmu.
Him bumping against him was no different from a mayfly shaking a giant tree; the opposite party was as immovable as a mountain, with only his stature swaying a bit, while the goblet as well as the cake in his hands remained perfectly steady.
Shi Yubai: “?”
His clothes’ corner dangerously brushed past the young man beside him, and Shi Yunmu immediately turned around to look at Shi Yubai, the doubt within his green eyes even greater.
What was this for?
Before he could question Shi Yubai, the young man beside him who was brushed against by his body let out a soft “ah” first.
The mature man beside him immediately wrinkled his brows and supported that thin and frail young guy: “Xiao Yi, are you alright?”
At this point, what else could Shi Yunmu not understand: That good older brother of his was pitting him again.
Different from Shi Yunmu’s speechlessness, the corners of Shi Yubai’s mouth were slightly turned up, yet his brows were knitted, looking as if he were very worried: “Younger brother, I didn’t mean to bump into you, I’m sorry… Hurry up and apologize to Young Master Xu.”
Although the process was somewhat different from what he thought, at least the result was achieved. He was not like Shi Yunmu, who was completely ignorant of the wealthy circle; Shi Yubai was extremely clear about the identities of the mature man and young guy in front of him the eldest young master of the Xu family, Xu Mingzhou, and his younger brother, Xu Yi, who was accustomed to being arrogant and domineering.
The Xu family’s strength was also not to be underestimated, and occasionally, they could even match up against the Gu family. Furthermore, their family had a characteristic known to everyone: being considerably protective of their own.
Take Xu Yi for example; although his temper was very bad, he was firmly the pearl in the palm of the entire family. Recently, it was heard that he even fell heavily ill, and his family tightened their care around him even more, fearing he would melt if held in the mouth, and fearing he would break if cradled in the hand.
Seeing that although Shi Yunmu did not bump into the opposite party, Xu Yi nevertheless had a somewhat delicate appearance, Shi Yubai almost laughed out loud: This time, there was certainly a good show to watch.
Sure enough, Xu Mingzhou, who supported Xu Yi, raised his eyebrows and looked coldly toward Shi Yunmu: “Do you walk without looking at the path? Must you bump into people?”
Shi Yunmu scratched his cheek, just wanting to argue back, yet he heard Shi Yubai add fuel to the fire: “Yes, younger brother, hurry up and apologize.”
Shi Yunmu: “…” Did he take him for a dead person?
But there was someone even more silent.
The young guy stared blankly at Shi Yunmu’s face, his gaze condensing onto the young man’s green-glowing irises for a long time. In the next second before Xu Mingzhou was about to continue unleashing trouble, the guy called out probingly: “Xiao mu…?”
This, in the ears of others, was calling “Xiao Mu,” and only Shi Yunmu was stunned.
Only then did he distribute his gaze to that young guy: At one glance, it was hair that had been dyed, and underneath the tips of the hair, there were still faint silvery hair strands; deep blue eyes, looking like a mixed-race person.
Shi Yunmu: “!!!”
Wasn’t this his abyss friend’s human form?!
Even though the slime ran rampant and dominated in the abyss, he also had friends his best friend was a silver dragon.
Caring no longer about the goblet and cake, Shi Yunmu stuffed them all into Shi Yubai’s hands in one go, took an arrow-step forward, and gripped Xu Yi’s slightly cold hand: “Brother! Brother!”
Xu Yi took a step back before enduring this force, but his eyes also became tearful: “Is it you? It’s really you!”
Shi Yubai: “…?”
Holding the cake and goblet forced into his hands by Shi Yunmu, he froze in place.
The other people watching the good show had expressions that were identical to his blank expression: …What kind of bizarre plot development was this? Why was it just like the Spring Festival Gala?
The two magic creatures didn’t care what other people thought anyway; they were just brothers meeting brothers, with both pairs of eyes tearful.
Xu Yi spoke with a crying tone: “I thought I wouldn’t be able to see you again!”
Shi Yunmu also held back tears: “I thought I could only cherish your memory!”
The two magic creatures looked exactly as if they had experienced a parting of life and death.
Xu Mingzhou coughed lightly, attracting Xu Yi’s attention: “Xiao Yi, this person is…”
“Oh, oh,” Xu Yi wiped away his teardrops, gripped Shi Yunmu’s wrist, and introduced him to Xu Mingzhou, “Brother, this is my best friend!”
He turned his head aside and introduced quietly to Shi Yunmu: “This is my human brother, quite a good human.”
Shi Yunmu nodded: Oh, oh, then he was about the same as Lu Que.
Unconsciously, he began to treat Lu Que as the standard for judging a “good human.”
Shi Yunmu was exceptionally enthusiastic: “Hello, brother!”
Xu Mingzhou: “…”
Facing a pair of blue eyes and another pair of green eyes, Xu Mingzhou had a kind of feeling that he was bringing along two children.
The scrutiny from just now because Shi Yunmu brushed against Xu Yi dissipated. Xu Mingzhou was also a smart person; seeing that Xu Yi liked Shi Yunmu so much, he naturally wouldn’t say anything more, so the man nodded and smiled lightly: “Hello.”
The man’s eyes swept across Shi Yunmu, and then landed on Shi Yubai, smiling yet not smiling.
Withdrawing from the worry over his younger brother, Xu Mingzhou was a smart person. After calming down and reviewing the accident just now, what else could he not understand.
Staring at Shi Yubai, Xu Mingzhou opened his mouth with an unclear meaning, carrying a few bits of direct, beating-down intention: “Some small tricks… don’t bring them to perform in front of my younger brother.”
Realizing that he was exposed, a bit of redness stained Shi Yubai’s face: “Brother Mingzhou, I didn’t mean it that way…”
Xu Mingzhou remained unmoved: “Don’t try to claim a relationship.”
The gazes of the surrounding people all concentrated onto Shi Yubai, more or less carrying the meaning of watching a joke. Perhaps some people had also long been unable to stand the way some wealthy young masters always circled around Shi Yubai.