Chapter 96: Pursuit

  "Xu Yi, Xia Han is the number one beauty of the Supreme Court after all."

  Li Mingcheng chuckled and walked over to Xu Yi, patting him on the shoulder, his eyes shifting to Xia Han, "I knew it, who has such a big face to invite Summer beauty over, turns out it's my aunt."

  "Pretty girl, you guys chat slowly, my friend is coming."

  His voice paused, and a look of sudden realization flashed across his face. His gaze turned back to Xu Yi, patted him on the shoulder, "Brother, I'm done for, you take care of yourself."

  Xu Yi was taken aback, just about to speak, when Xia Han suddenly lifted her right foot and kicked Li Mingcheng's butt, "Good luck to you, get out."

  Li Mingcheng burst out laughing and ran away in a hurry, covering his buttocks with a rather comical expression. He even forgot to take the wine glass on the bar counter.

  Xu Yi smiled as he watched the scene unfold, his brow furrowed in concern. Hadn't he told her last time at Li Yu's house that he already had a girlfriend? Was this what Lao Ye meant?

  It seems that Xiaohan's background is not simple.

  "Xu Yi, don't you think I'm very un-ladylike, not your ideal girl?"

  Xia Han picked up the wine glass and took a sip, her right hand pinching the glass lightly as she shook it gently. Her eyes stared at the remaining wine in the cup before suddenly lifting her head to glance at Xu Yi, saying very seriously, "I've always been this kind of boyish girl, I was like that since I was young."

  "It's nothing, being natural is just fine. In work, we have to deal with all sorts of people and things, not everything is something you want to do, so everyone wears a few masks, who knows if the person we see is fake or truly human."

  He smiled and picked up his wine glass, smiling at Xiaohan, "So, this kind of true temperament is the most precious, more valuable than any lady. Come, let's have a drink to celebrate our meeting with Miss Xiaohan today."

  Xia Han was taken aback, then a faint smile appeared on her face. She raised her wine glass and clinked it with Xu Yi's, tilting her head back to drain the cup in one gulp. The wine glass lightly tapped against the bar, her long eyelashes trembling slightly as a hint of curiosity appeared on her cheeks. "By the way, I heard you've been studying Taoism in the mountains for twenty years. What did you learn? Do you spend every day chanting scriptures like a monk?"

  Xu Yi was taken aback, turned his head and took a glance at Xia Han, looking at her beautiful face with a sincere expression, believing that she really wanted to know the answer to this question, rather than using words to provoke him.

  "Sorry, I don't understand Taoist things, I'm just curious about your lives."

  Xia Han also knew that she had asked a very inappropriate question from Xu Yi's expression, "Moreover, you can still get married and have children, so you shouldn't be a monk, I know that Taoist priests are not allowed to get married or even eat meat."

  "It doesn't matter, I was born to learn Taoism anyway. Didn't you know that Laborong Xuan and the others like to call me Xu Daozhang?" Xu chuckled, "We Taoists emphasize naturalness and spontaneity in our practice, so not all sects require abstinence from wine and meat, and many even allow marriage."

  "For example, the Orthodox Oneness Taoism I belong to is like this. Our cultivation is not just about refining the body, but also about cultivating the mind. The seven emotions and six desires of human beings are all contents of our mind cultivation. If we deliberately suppress various habits, it would go against the core principle of naturalness in Taoist teachings."

  "For the past twenty years, I have been following my master to practice martial arts, learn medical skills, and study astrology in Changbai Mountain. As for Taoist scriptures, I haven't learned much, my master said that this thing relies on one's own enlightenment."

  Xu Yi lit a cigarette and took a puff, turning his head to glance at the crowd dancing in the ballroom. Li Ruoxi was laughing and chatting with Hao Yun and others, holding her wine glass. Although she looked happy, Xu Yi always felt that her figure seemed a bit desolate. He let out a soft sigh, thinking that Li Ruoxi probably didn't like this kind of occasion either.

  "Oh, those monks have to attend classes and recite scriptures morning and night. I saw this with my own eyes when I visited some temples. Compared to them, you Taoist learners have it much easier."

  Xia Han pursed her lips and smiled, raising her wine glass. "Xi Yi, let's celebrate that you're having a better time than the monks. Let's have a drink."

  Two wine cups gently touched together.

  Li Ruoxi stood still with a wine glass in hand, having just been introduced to almost everyone by her brother Li Chenggang. Many of them she was meeting for the first time, and she had never been fond of such gatherings. However, deep down, she knew this was something she would have to face in the future.

  Her eyes scanned the entire hall and Li Ruoxi saw a familiar figure in front of the bar, just about to walk over, but saw Xu Yi leaning against his body chatting with a girl very happily, couldn't help but pause for a moment, then slightly furrowed her brow, her face sank, and flashed back to what Yuan Yuting said to her, immediately pulled her legs and was about to walk to Xu Yi's side.

  "Yue Xi, that girl was invited by my aunt."

  Li Chenggang grasped Li Ruoxi's arm and said in a low voice, "Listen to your brother, that kid isn't even worthy of carrying your shoes, you two are completely unsuitable."

  "Listen, Xu Yi is very smart and handsome, but he's a monk who has no future, Grandfather won't like him, Auntie might like him, but she won't agree with you being close to Xu Yi!"

  Li Ruoxi was taken aback, a faint blush quickly rising to her small face as she felt embarrassed that her little secret had been discovered. Her eyes were fixed tightly on Xu Yi and the others who were chatting and laughing, her lips biting tightly together. "Big brother, Xu Yi, he's not a Taoist."

  "Silly girl, a person who is destined to have no future, if he's not a monk then what can he do? Do you think our family can accept such a person as your husband?"

  Li Chenggang sneered, "Grandfather doted on you so much, and this is how you repay him?"

  Li Ruoxi was taken aback by his words, her small face turned pale, and her right hand clenched into a fist, trembling slightly.

  "Alright, silly girl, Grandpa will definitely find you a husband who is one hundred times, one thousand times better than Xu Yi." Li Chenggang pulled on Li Ruoxi's arm, "Come on, go chat with my friends, they're all elite returnees from abroad."

  Li Ruoxi bit her lip tightly, reluctantly turning around, and after Li Cheng took two steps, she suddenly turned around, only to find that Xu Yi had vanished without a trace. She was taken aback, and her gaze quickly swept the area before seeing that the familiar voice had disappeared at the door. Two teardrops slowly rolled down her cheeks.

  Xu Yi walked out of the bar, rubbed his face vigorously with both hands, and then quickly straightened up to greet the cold wind. He didn't even say goodbye to Li Ruoxi, which was a bit impolite.

  But Li Chenggang had already been humiliated, so it was really unnecessary to go and suffer again, and also avoid being misunderstood by Li Yu as having ideas about his daughter.

  Xu Yifa started the car, and the white Santana sped out of the bar's gate, turning left before slowly coming to a stop under the night sky. A moment later, Tong Xiao hurriedly walked out of the bar's gate and quickly got into a black Mercedes-Benz.

  The Mercedes sped out of the bar and merged into the night, followed by a white Santana that shot out like a bolt of lightning and closely tailed the Mercedes.

  Tong Xiao's mood is great, tonight in front of so many people in the circle, he exposed the news that Xu Lin was betrayed by her husband, making the old Xu family lose face greatly, and it can be said that he avenged that arrow. Even if they want to get engaged, it should be the Tong family who brings it up first, not Xu Daolang from the Xu family.

  Damn it, it's like my sister can't get married off unless she marries a Taoist priest.

  A sudden ring of the mobile phone sounded, Tong Xiao held the steering wheel with his left hand and took out the phone to take a look with his right hand, quickly stopping the car by the roadside to answer the call.

  "Xuan Shao, right, I'm on my way over now. Just now, in front of many people, I exposed the news that Xu Lin was betrayed by her husband. Didn't you see? Everyone is so shocked! Especially Xu Yi, he seems to be surprised too. It looks like he didn't know either that his sister's marriage was just barely holding on..."

  Tong Xiao hung up the phone, casually stuffed his mobile phone into his pocket, and suddenly thought of Xu Yi's shocked expression tonight, so he excitedly hummed a little tune and quickly started the car.

  Just then, a white Santana suddenly overtook from behind and scratched Tang Xiao's Mercedes heavily before stopping, apparently the driver also felt the collision.

  Tong Xiao suddenly became furious, quickly extinguished the fire, pushed open the car door and jumped out. Damn it! This Mercedes-Benz was bought with a large part of his savings, now it's been hit by a Santana. If he doesn't make that kid who crashed into him pay for this today, things won't be settled.

  "Son, how did you drive? Today, I'm not done with you about this!"

  Tong Xiao glanced at the front of the Mercedes-Benz, where a large chunk had already caved in on the left side. He felt heartbroken and, hearing the sound of the Santana's door closing, let out an angry roar without lifting his head.

  "Tong Xiao, hello, we meet again."

  Xu Yi walked over slowly and steadily, grabbed Tong Xiao's neck, and directly lifted him up and stuffed him into the back seat of the Mercedes-Benz. As soon as Tong Xiao saw Xu Yi, a sneer appeared on his face, "Xu Yi, how is your brother-in-law doing? Who doesn't know that he has a mistress outside? It's just that you people from the Xu family are pretending to be deaf and dumb."

  "Are you kidding me? Does nobody else know about this?"

  "Tong Xiao, this is the last time, if I hear you maliciously insulting the Xu family again, I'll kill you!"

  Xu furrowed his brow, helped Tong Xiao adjust his tie, and gently patted Tong Xiao's cheek with his right hand. Word by word, he said, "Now tell me, what is the name of Qian Yunfeng's mistress, which unit is she from, where does she live, and where can I find her?"

  "If you deceive me with a single word, I have a hundred ways to make you unable to live or die!

  Two years later, the doctor returned to the starting point and became a new person. As the saying goes, clothes are not as good as new, people are not as good as before. Please collect, click, and reward if possible. The doctor thanks you."