After a while.

  "Alright, the st dish, stir-fried mb, is ready!"

  Xu Taiping scooped up the stir-fried mb from the pot and then carried the pte to the main hall.

  At this moment, the dining table in the main hall was already filled with a variety of dishes. Although most of the ingredients were mb, the cookihods were different. There was "mb heart soup," "mb kidney soup," "mb bone soup" for the soup, and for the meat, there was "stir-fried mb," "steamed mb head meat," "roasted mb leg," "baked mb," and "mb cooked in wine."

  These dishes were all ohat Xu Taiping's grandfather had eaten when he was young and traveling around. Xu Taiping listeo him talk about it every day and was so eager to try them, so he asked him to teach him the recipes, pnning to make them when he could afford the meat iure.

  He didn't expect to use them today.

  "Mmm... it's really delicious... it's worth the seve s."

  Lao Jiu sniffed with his ilted back, and his expression ged, uo help but pat the table hard.

  "If I had known that Taiping, you had this skill, I should have e over for meals more often!"

  Bai Hong couldn't help but salivate as he looked at the table full of dishes.

  "If you like it, Uncle Bai, you e over often iure."

  Xu Taiping replied early.

  "Hehe, I'm just saying. How I e over and disturb your cultivation often?"

  Bai Hong shook his head with a smile.

  On the side, Lao Jiu, upon hearing Xu Taiping's invitation, couldn't help but feel envious. After secretly pig up a pieeat with his pliers and putting it in his mouth, he tentatively asked Xu Taiping, "Taiping, after this meal, are we sidered friends?"

  "Of course not."

  Xu Taiping said seriously.

  "Taiping, you 't treat me differently. Look, I helped you with the fire and ing the table. We should be sidered friends too."

  Lao Jiu looked disappointed upon hearing this.

  Bai Hong, on the side, wiped the sweat for Xu Taiping, feeling a bit proud in his heart, thinking, "I didn't expect that I, Bai Hong, would surpass the senior uncle one day."

  "Bang, bang, bang!..."

  Just as the three of them were enjoying their meal, the courtyard door was suddenly knocked on.

  "Bai Hong, why did you invite me here? What's the matter?"

  The voice of an old man came from outside the courtyard.

  "Taiping, besides Lao Jiu, I also invited a few friends. you add another set of tableware?"

  Bai Hong didn't ahe person outside the courtyard, but instead put dowableware and asked Xu Taiping for permission.

  "Since he's also Uncle Bai's friend, please let him in."

  Xu Taiping nodded.

  "Don't fet to make him pay. I paid seve s!"

  Lao Jiu looked at Bai Hong with a meaningful look.

  "Of course!"

  Bai Hong nodded repeatedly and got up to open the door.

  "Bai Hong, why did y me here? I don't have the time to remih you!"

  Not long after, Xu Taiping, who was gnawing on a mb rib, and Lao Jiu saw Bai Hong bring a geously dressed old man with meticulously bed hair into the main hall.

  "Brother Liu, I didn't mean anything else. It's been a long time since I, Lao Jiu, and you have gathered. I want to have a meal with you."

  After arriving in the main hall, Bai Hong poio the old man gnawing on the mb rib at the table.

  "Lao Jiu? Who's Lao Jiu?"

  The old man referred to as Brother Liu by Bai Hong looked impatiently at the table and happeo meet Lao Jiu's gaze.

  "Why... how..."

  "Why so muonsense? Sit down a!"

  In the instant when Brother Liu's eyes met Lao Jiu's, a hint of shock fshed in Brother Liu's eyes, but he was immediately stared back at by the old man.

  "Yes, sir!"

  Brother Liu hurriedly sat down.

  "Hey, aren't you the Pavilion Master of the West Wind Pavilion?"

  At this time, Xu Taiping alshe old man who had just ehe door.

  If he remembered correctly, this old man was the Pavilion Master of the West Wind Pavilion, Liu Songshan, whom Senior Sister Linglong had taken him to see when he first arrived on the mountain.

  "I'm talking to the senior... two senior brothers. What right do you have to speak?"

  Seeing Xu Taiping interrupt, Liu Songshan immediately looked displeased and gred at him fiercely.

  "Liu Songshan, your cultivation may not be great, but you have a big attitude, don't you?"

  Before Xu Taiping could speak, Lao Jiu suddenly put down his chopsticks and s Liu Songshan.

  "Uncle... Ninth Uncle... I..."

  "Hey hey hey, Brother Liu, Brother Liu, let's talk nicely. Ninth Uncle is just reminding you to speak politely. The dishes on our table today are all made by Little Brother Taiping."

  At these words, Liu Songshan's face turned pale, and his body trembled suddenly. He seemed about to slide off the chair, but Bai Hong on the side promptly helped him up.

  "Yes, we are able to gather today thanks to Little Brother Taiping. You, kid, are quite something, scolding others as soon as you arrive, how rude."

  Lao Jiu stuffed a pieeat into his mouth, his tone slightly softened.

  "Yes, yes, yes! What Ninth Uncle said is... "

  Upon hearing Ninth Uncle's softeone, Liu Songshan was relieved, noddiedly.

  "Brother Liu, try Little Brother Taiping's cooking. Ninth Uncle just praised it."

  Bai Hong brought a set of tableware and pced it in front of Liu Songshan.

  "If Ninth Uncle praised it, the taste must be good."

  Liu Songshan took the tableware with a smile full of fttery towards Ninth Uncle.

  "Wait!"

  Just as Liu Songshan was about to pick up the food with his chopsticks, Lao Jiu suddenly grabbed his chopsticks and then gave him a stern look.

  "Pay up!"

  Xu Taiping, atg the show on the side, also reacted at this time and immediately reached out to Liu Songshan, saying, "Pavilion Master Liu, just like Ninth Uhis meal costs seve s."

  He naturally noticed that Ninth Uncle's identity was extraordinary, and these three people did not just e to eat a meal at his pce. However, he didn't want to refuse the merit s that were easily obtained, and as for what tricks these big shots were pying, he couldn't trol it and didn't want to.

  "Maybe they're just passing by. Anyway, I'll just treat it as a show."

  Xu Taiping specuted in his heart.

  Ninth Uncle, oher hand, was very satisfied with how Xu Taiping collected the money, nodding very tentedly. Then, he casually asked Liu Songshan as he ate, "Who is the current head of the Liefeng Hall under your and?""The Gale Hall is currently headed by Disciple Xu Youzhi of the Sed Peak's Qing geion."

  Liu Songshan quickly put down his chopsticks and replied early.

  "Xu Youzhi, eh? His master brought him to meet me once, so we do have a bit of an acquaintance. Why not invite him over for a meal as well?"

  Uncle Jiu dled himself a bowl of soup, sipping it with relish, not even gng at Liu Songshan.

  "Uncle Jiu... this... might not be appropriate, the Gale Hall is... quite far from here."

  Liu Songshan's forehead began to sweat.

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