Chapter 110: Dragon Palace Banquet (End)
The farce at the banquet continued.
The drunken Four Seas Dragon Kings had already started talking about forming a group to debut. They patted their chests and said they would definitely dominate the entertainment industry, and at the end they pointed at the Weishui Dragon King's nose and said they would not take him with them to sing and dance.
The excluded Weishui Dragon King was very angry: "Why not take me?! I can also pursue my dream of the entertainment industry!"
The Dragon King of the South China Sea revealed the secret: "Your limbs are not coordinated." At the same time, he pointed out another way out for him, "Besides, if we all become stars, who will be the agent? You have the best business acumen among us brothers, so you must be the agent."
Commercial hype never goes out of style.
Weishui Dragon King, who had insisted on singing and dancing, heard a few compliments and actually felt that they made sense. He immediately slapped his thigh and agreed, and quickly stepped into the role of agent: "In that case, there is no time to lose. Let's quickly rehearse the debut stage together..."
After hearing this, the four dragon kings all nodded, put down their wine glasses and started practicing.
Of course, even though they didn't want to admit it, the Dragon King of the Four Seas was indeed the face of the Four Seas. The Dragon Clan of the Four Seas couldn't let them make a fool of themselves in public, so they quickly stepped forward to stop their elders.
However, it was not the first time that the old Dragon Kings had acted so outrageously. Every time they had a party and drank, they would easily cause trouble. The Four Seas Dragon Clan originally thought that they would be more restrained today with Lord Yinglong around, but who would have thought that they would still not care even after drinking.
After drinking a few bowls of yellow soup, even the Dragon King didn't know his own name, and he didn't even care that Lord Yinglong was still here.
In short, due to the enthusiastic performances of the old babies, the format of the banquet changed so quickly that no one could care whether Lu Ren was secretly feeding his little pet.
While the dragon was pulling at its limit, Lu Ren continued to secretly pour food into the teddy bear: lobster, oysters, abalone, sea cucumber...
There is a dazzling array of precious ingredients available.
At that moment, Lu Rencai truly felt that staying for dinner seemed to be a very good choice. After all, it now seemed to effectively save a lot of A Bing's food expenses.
"Maybe we should buy less food tonight." Lu Ren was casually calculating in his mind what dishes to make for dinner, how much to make, and how much money he could save.
Ah Bing in Lu Ren's arms was also full. A few black tentacles stretched out weakly from the teddy bear, and he lay limply on Lu Ren's knees, like a cat lying on its owner with its belly facing up.
Ah Bing swallowed the last piece of tuna sashimi with satisfaction and burped happily: "Burp."
The sound of his hiccups was not small. Even Ying Long, who was sitting next to them, couldn't help but look at Lu Ren and A Bing after hearing the sound.
Lu Ren shrank his neck embarrassedly and gave Yinglong an awkward smile to express his apology.
Then he seemed to remember something and turned to look in the direction of the dragon clan. Fortunately, the noisy dragon clan was still busy dealing with the future career planning of the Four Dragon Kings. They had no time to listen to other sounds and successfully missed the opportunity to find A Bing.
"Fortunately, fortunately." Lu Ren was thankful in his heart, "The fact that I brought an extra guest was not exposed."
But this feast seemed to have no end.
Even Ah Bing, whose stomach capacity was like a bottomless pit, was temporarily full, which showed how generous the portions of the dishes were. However, even so, the waiters continued to bring one dish after another to the table, with no intention of ending.
This made Lu Ren begin to wonder about the duration of this banquet.
So he asked Yinglong beside him: "How long will this banquet last? I was planning to wash and dry the sheets at home today while the weather is nice."
It won't take another hour or two, right?
Yinglong shook his head, indicating that he didn't know. He said, "The last time I attended a banquet in the Dragon Palace was five thousand years ago, and that banquet lasted about a hundred years."
Lu Ren was completely dumbfounded after hearing this. He repeated Ying Long's words in shock: "One, one hundred years?!"
That was his entire life, but it was only enough for Yinglong to have a meal?
Yinglong didn't dwell on how long the last banquet lasted. He just turned his head and asked Lu Ren: "Are you full?"
Lu Ren must have been full. Because the portion of the Dragon Palace Banquet was so large, no matter how large the seafood was, it was served intact. Lu Ren was full when he ate the third dish. After that, he just focused on feeding Ah Bing.
So Lu Ren nodded.
After receiving a positive answer, Yinglong immediately stood up and said, "Let's go."
Looking at Yinglong's actions, Lu Ren was stunned: "Leave?"
Don't we have to wait until the banquet is over?
The word "wait" does not exist in Yinglong's dictionary. It has always been others who wait for him, so how could he possibly wait for others?
Yinglong said, "If you don't leave, do you plan to stay here until Monday and get your salary deducted? Go back as soon as you are full."
After saying that, Yinglong took the lead and walked towards the door.
Lu Ren hesitated for a moment, then quickly zipped up the teddy bear , stood up and caught up with Yinglong.
As they walked, Lu Ren asked uncertainly, "If we just leave like this...will it be bad?"
Yinglong shrugged and said casually, "There is no good or bad saying." He explained, "We monsters are all brought together by fate and dispersed when fate ends. We don't engage in the fancy, hypocritical things that you humans do."
Yinglong is quite talented, being able to make blatant freeloading sound so refreshing and refined.
Of course, if Yinglong wanted to leave, no one could stop him, and no one dared to stop him.
Several old dragon kings were already drunk and could not preside over the situation, but several young dragons were still sober. Among them, the prince of the East Sea Dragon King was particularly outstanding. He directed everyone in the banquet hall with clear thinking, so that everything could proceed in an orderly manner. Obviously, he would definitely become a qualified successor in the future.
In the midst of his busy schedule, the East Sea Dragon King Prince discovered that Yinglong had already led Lu Ren to the door of the banquet hall. He understood what he meant and shouted respectfully , "Master Yinglong, please return home! Open the Qianhu Water Gate!"
His voice echoed in the banquet hall and then reached the gate outside the banquet hall. After the waiter standing outside the gate heard the voice of Prince Long, he immediately followed and shouted loudly: "Master Yinglong, please return home! Open the Qianhu Water Gate!"
The sound will therefore travel farther, and when the instruction reaches the next ear, that person will continue to repeat the instruction loudly.
Shouts echoed throughout the Dragon Palace, and along with them, all the gates were opened. The heavy white jade gates were all opened, fearing that they would block the ancient gods' path. The gates that had not been opened for a long time suddenly opened, making a heavy sound, like the orderly beating of drums, which was exciting.
Thousands of water creatures fell behind Lu Ren and Yinglong. They all bowed to Yinglong at the same time and said goodbye to him: "We respectfully send Lord Yinglong back home." Their attitudes were respectful and humble.
But Yinglong did not look back. He looked straight ahead and walked forward with firm steps, one step after another, as if he was crushing this useless vanity. He moved away from the waves of crowds and continued to do his job as a member of the combat team that was troubled by the report.
Lu Ren followed closely behind with his teddy bear in his arms, and he also did not look back at what was happening in the Crystal Palace. However, unlike Ying Long, he was mainly afraid that if he looked back, he would be left behind again, and he would not be able to leave.
Fortunately, the return journey was smooth, and the two finally managed to get on the elevator they had come from and returned to the high-end club they had started from.
When Lu Ren finally opened the door of the club and went out, it was an early winter afternoon outside. The bright and warm sunlight shone through the leafless branches and fell on Lu Ren's face, making him feel warm.
The entrance to the club is an ordinary street, with the sounds of vehicles passing by and pedestrians talking, full of the atmosphere of life. Lu Ren listened to the noisy sounds and took a deep breath in the sunshine. He thought: "Compared to the beautiful but cold underwater dragon palace, I really prefer the noisy human world. At least it is more real and more vivid."
However, since he has returned to the human world he is familiar with, there is no need to continue to trouble Yinglong.
Lu Ren then said goodbye to Ying Long: "Thank you for troubling you today and for helping me. See you at work on Monday."
Yinglong said nothing, just waved to Lu Ren, then turned and left.
After watching Yinglong walk away, Lu Ren took out his phone to check the way home. It was not close, he needed to take a bus for four stops and then walk home. Forget it, the weather is so good today, just treat it as going out for a walk. It just so happened that Lu Ren had just eaten too much in the Dragon Palace and needed to digest the food.
The bus stop is not far away, just walk across the street.
Lu Ren waited at the bus stop for about 20 minutes before he finally saw a bus with a license plate reading 414. Lu Ren checked the information on the navigation carefully and got on the bus after confirming it was correct.
Maybe it’s because it’s not the peak travel time, the bus is actually empty.
Lu Ren took out the bus card he always kept in his pocket and swiped it to pay. With a beep, the system prompted that the payment was completed.
However, just as Lu Ren was about to move towards his seat, the driver spoke.
"You are obviously two people, why are you only paying for one person's ticket?"
The voice sounded like that of a young man.
"Two?" Lu Ren was stunned when he heard this. Then he realized something and looked down at the teddy bear in his hand. "Could he see Ah Bing?"
However, A Bing was a corpse, and even the dragon clan did not notice his existence. How could a bus driver easily discover his presence?
Lu Ren understood that this driver must be no ordinary person. He looked towards the driver's position vigilantly, and began to slowly back away without changing his expression, moving towards the bus door.
Silence filled the air, but the driver did not do anything strange. Lu Ren also got closer and closer to the door.
Just when Lu Ren had stepped down the steps of the bus and was one step away from the door, something unexpected happened.
The car door quickly closed behind him. At the same time, the driver slowly turned his head, revealing an ordinary face with black hair and black eyes.
Lu Ren recognized him. He was the waiter that Long Gong found secretly feeding A Bing.
Lu Ren looked at the driver in shock: "It's you!"
The driver still had the same smiling face as in the Dragon Palace, seemingly meaning no ill intentions.
He just asked Lu Ren with interest: "Why do you keep a xukai?"
