The Beautiful CEO’s Dragon Blood Bodyguard
Chapter 445 - 0455: Eat and Drink Without Restraint

Chapter 445: Chapter 0455: Eat and Drink Without Restraint

The women brought out the dishes one table after another, with cold dishes including dried beancurd sticks, lotus root, peanuts, pig’s head meat, beef, deep-fried shrimp, and over a dozen other varieties.

Each table, wishing it could have two pounds of beef.

All the liquor was Wuliangye costing over a thousand yuan per bottle, which in the village was only drunk by esteemed guests hosted by the village chief.

Long Fei told Li Heiwa to buy the expensive stuff, and in Li Heiwa’s mind, this 68-degree Wuliangye was the best there was.

During village celebrations, each table’s allotted cigarettes were the five-yuan-a-pack Hard Red River.

Long Fei had Li Heiwa switch it directly to the softer Chunghwa, which cost sixty yuan a box.

Normally, it was one box per table, but Long Fei had Li Heiwa hand them out to everyone.

Regardless of men or women, old or young, one box per person.

No matter how frugal one might be outside, back in the village, one absolutely couldn’t skimp.

After all, it was these very people present who had contributed food from here and there to raise him.

The villagers were shocked by this display, not knowing just what Long Fei did for a living outside.

How had he become so wealthy in less than a year?

The richest in their village, Er Zhuzi, worked as a construction contractor in the city.

When he came back for the New Year, he gave each family a roasted chicken and a bottle of Er Guotou liquor, but this man couldn’t hold a candle to Long Fei!

Long Fei took out a Chunghwa, offering one to his grandfather and the village chief.

The village chief trembled as he took a drag, repeatedly praising, "Tasty, tasty, much better than our own pipe tobacco."

Long Santai, however, shook his head, contrarily asserting, "You’re just sweet-talking for money, if you ask me, our pipe’s still better!"

The people at the table were amused by his remarks, having long been used to his quirks.

In the village, Long Santai was known as a stubborn mule, always clashing with everyone.

When the village installed water pipes, he stubbornly refused, insisting on drinking well water from an older well.

This kind of obstinate individuality, deemed bullheadedness in the rural perspective, was considered having character in the city.

Lin Yingying actually admired the old man, raising her glass towards Long Santai, "Grandpa, let me toast to you!"

Long Santai raised his glass, laughing heartily, "See, it’s my daughter-in-law who’s sensible."

He and Lin Yingying clinked glasses, drinking it all in one gulp.

Long Fei, the village chief, and Li Heiwa joined in for a drink themselves.

Lin Yingying put down her glass, her pretty face blushing as she asked Long Santai, "Grandpa, they say ’In vino veritas’, so please don’t bluff me. Tell me honestly, are you satisfied with me as your granddaughter-in-law?"

Long Santai wiped his mouth, took a puff from his pipe, and smiling, said, "Long Fei told me everything about you just now. To be honest, I didn’t want to have anything to do with the Lin Family anymore. The matter with Long Fei’s parents has, after all, left some unresolved issues with your family. However, since you two have oddly ended up together, I certainly won’t oppose it. You just give your grandpa a heads up, and one of these days I’ll grab some chickens and ducks and head to the city to formally ask for your hand. At that time, he better not think little of me just because I’m from a poor mountain valley."

"How could he!"

Lin Yingying cried out excitedly, not expecting the old man to be so amenable.

With his approval, her and Long Fei’s plans were mostly settled.

Should there be any other competitors in the future, even if Long Fei had something to do with them, they would only play second fiddle.

She, as the main wife, was all but assured.

Lin Yingying filled her glass again, raising another toast to Long Santai, her face radiant as she said, "Grandpa, just give us a heads up whenever you decide to come over. I’ll book the best banquet in Binhai City’s finest hotel, I promise to let you taste the best of land and sea. Frankly, my grandpa talks about you constantly. If you were to pass away, it would settle a worry for him. He longs for your visit, how could he possibly despise you?"

"Alright, alright! That’s settled then!"

Long Santai was truly satisfied with Lin Yingying from the bottom of his heart; a girl who was thorough in her actions, polite in her speech.

Despite being wealthy and beautiful, she was humble in manner.

With such a grandson-in-law, he couldn’t find any faults at all.

Mayor Li Fugui took the lead and toasted to Long Fei and Lin Yingying.

Long Fei drank, but he was inwardly groaning.

If his grandfather really went to propose marriage, the conversation would certainly turn to marriage.

If he dared to get married, Wang Xiaoya would definitely not be able to handle it.

This matter, he had to delay it a bit longer.

Li Heiwa couldn’t help but ask Long Fei, "Brother Long, what do you do in the city? Is there still work for us brothers to follow you?"

Long Fei laughed and said, "I could have agreed to that, but not anymore."

"Why not?"

Li Heiwa and several childhood friends all looked disappointed.

Long Fei said, "Because you can dig up gold nuggets right in our village’s fields. You can get rich right here, why go suffer in the city?"

"Brother Long, you’re joking, right?"

"Brother Long, don’t you know the situation in our village? We have neither land nor fish, so how could there be gold nuggets?"

Li Heiwa and the childhood friends were somewhat disbelieving.

Long Fei said, "Today, I went to see the terraced fields where the Chinese roses are planted, and our village’s soil is indeed suitable for this kind of thing. If a company comes over and collaborates with everyone for standardized cultivation and also establishes a large tourism resort in our village, wouldn’t that be like growing gold nuggets?"

Mayor Li Fugui listened with shining eyes, and the others also got excited.

Li Heiwa said, "That’s a good idea, but who would invest money in us?"

Long Fei glanced at Lin Yingying with a smile.

His wife cleared her throat and said, "You don’t need to worry about these things; I will send a professional team down here to handle them. In less than a year, this place will be completely transformed. By then, there’ll be Chinese roses on the mountain, agritainment below it, and a water park by the sea that will attract tourists from the surrounding areas without a problem."

She spoke more convincingly than Long Fei.

In everyone’s eyes, she was like the young lady of a big family from the city, a standard beauty of wealth and privilege.

The group discussed excitedly, tired of their impoverished lives, and the sudden appearance of this pair of golden phoenixes made everyone feel like fortune had fallen from the sky.

Mayor Li Fugui looked at Long Fei hesitantly and said, "Long Fei, didn’t you say earlier that there’s geothermal heat under the fields, and because of that, the flowers are prone to decay?"

Long Fei nodded and said with ease, "Yes, there’s something under there, but it will be gone by tomorrow."

"Ah?"

The mayor was as bewildered as if he had heard something incredible, not understanding what Long Fei meant.

Long Fei didn’t elaborate. After all, how could he tell the mayor that he was going to use magic tonight to siphon all the geothermal heat away?

The group drank until late into the night before they all dispersed home.

The tables and chairs were left as they were; according to Long Fei’s plans, everyone was to eat at his house until he left.

Lin Yingying had drunk quite a bit tonight. Although she had opened the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, she didn’t know how to use the Essential Qi.

With alcohol in her stomach, she could actually expel it through her pores with the Essential Qi.

But since she didn’t know how, now her pretty face was flushed red, and she was swaying as she walked.

Long Fei made her a cup of Blood Spirit Flower tea to help her sober up.

He asked his grandfather to go to bed first, then shouldered the Tai’a Sword and prepared to go to the fields to deal with the geothermal issue.

Lin Yingying didn’t want to sleep and insisted on clinging to his arm and accompanying him.

Helpless, Long Fei supported her for a while, but seeing that she was too slow, he simply picked her up and carried her on his back. They traversed the half-mountain terraced fields in the dead of night.