Good luck with koi carp

Chapter 281 Engagement Banquet

Arriving earlier than the imperial delegation was the engagement party of Chi Lili and Huo Zhuoyan.

Tomorrow the Empire's envoys will arrive, and today they are holding a grand engagement banquet. It's hard to say who they are not targeting.

Fortunately, this engagement party was not as troublesome as Chi Lili had imagined. Although the scale was not small, it could not be called a grand affair. The main guests were relatives and friends of the bride and groom, as well as some superiors and colleagues at work, and the party was not deliberately reported by the media.

So strictly speaking, this was just a private banquet.

Everything about the engagement banquet was basically prepared by the Huo family. Chi Lili only needed to cooperate and provide a list of people she wanted to invite, and then dress appropriately and attend the banquet with Huo Zhuoyan on the day.

Chi Lili invited General Gao Roushu, Lao Yang and other superiors, as well as some colleagues with whom she had a good relationship. As for friends, she invited all her roommates in the university dormitory to come, and they also enthusiastically expressed that they would definitely come. As for family members, only Chi's mother came, while Chi's father and Chi Xinxin could not come.

It is said that Chi Xinxin is preparing for a very important competition, so she can't come. Upon hearing this, Chi Lili said nothing, but canceled one of the two hotel rooms booked for her family.

The engagement party started at 7pm, but guests started arriving at 6pm.

So Chi Lili took Huo Zhuoyan's arm early in the morning and stood at the door of the banquet hall to greet the guests entering with a smile.

She and Huo Zhuoyan were both wearing matching dresses today. The woman was wearing a beautiful dark blue fishtail skirt, and the man was wearing a dark blue suit with the same design elements. The well-tailored dresses showed off their perfect figures. In addition, both of them had good looks and temperament, the man was handsome and the woman was beautiful. Who wouldn't say they were a perfect match?

In response to this, Chi Li, who had asked the owner to help her host and the owner's host choose the dress after several days of searching, expressed her satisfaction.

Sure enough, her vision was as good as ever. Fortunately, she was there. Otherwise, given her host's unpredictable behavior of working, studying or training all day, she would definitely wear a military uniform to attend her engagement party to save trouble.

It’s not that wearing military uniforms is bad. In fact, many soldiers wear military uniforms when they get married. In the interstellar world where everyone values ​​martial arts, military uniforms are more dazzling and special than any wedding dresses.

But this is just an engagement party, and Chi Li thinks that the host cannot wear military uniforms for both engagement and wedding parties, so she can save the military uniforms for her wedding and wear the beautiful dresses she specially picked for them today.

When most of the guests arrived, the banquet began.

After all, it is not a wedding. Although it is just as grand, the process of the engagement banquet is not complicated. It starts with the eldest uncle of the Huo family giving a speech as the elder, congratulating the two newlyweds on their engagement. Then Chi Lili and Huo Zhuoyan stand up together and say a few simple words to thank everyone for coming to their engagement banquet. Then the banquet can begin. Everyone eats and drinks, and the engagement banquet is over.

As the elder of the bride's side, Chi's mother was seated at the main table. She looked at her daughter's smiling face and started smiling too.

Although the engagement of their eldest daughter was a little sudden for them, as a mother she feels relieved to see that her child has found a good home. She also sincerely wishes this eldest daughter, who has been somewhat neglected by them, to have a good life in the future.

Even if they are partial, there are no parents in this world who don't want the best for their children.

Touched by herself, seeing her eldest daughter and future son-in-law walking hand in hand, Mother Chi grabbed their hands and put them together, sighing and saying, "You two should live well in the future. Husband and wife must understand each other in order to live long-term..."

Listening to her mother's long string of words, Chi Lili's facial expression remained unchanged, but she felt a little embarrassed in her heart.

If others don't know, how can she not know?

This engagement was just for show, and they would never really get married in the future. Although she was unaware of this, her mother's words made it sound as if the two of them were holding a wedding banquet today instead of an engagement banquet, which made her feel uncomfortable from the bottom of her heart.

She couldn't help but turn her head to glance at the expression of Admiral Huo next to her, only to see that he looked serious and seemed to be listening very attentively, as if he really wanted to learn a little bit about how to get along with his wife from her mother's words.

Chi Lili was shocked: Is this acting?

Chi Li looked at her host with the eyes of a caring child: I don’t think so.

Chi Lili, who has a telepathic connection with the host, can naturally sense what the host is thinking. She can't help but sigh secretly that this is still a child who has not yet gained any wisdom.

Admiral Huo has already expressed his affection for the host, but this King is only concerned with work, study and improving his strength, and has no other romantic thoughts at all.

However, Admiral Huo was not fully enlightened. He just had a vague affection for his host, but it was just a good impression, not enough to reach the level of affection between a man and a woman. After all, in his eyes, his host was still a minor, and with his moral level, he would not fall in love with a minor, so he just showed more care for his host in daily life.

Even though they are already engaged.

Now he was listening to the mother so carefully only for his fiancée's sake and to give her mother due respect.

But this does not mean that there is no possibility for the two of them in the future, it is just that it is still full of uncertainties, so even though Chi Li saw the red line that was faintly emerging between the two of them, she did not point it out.

Chi Li, who was watching the show, felt a familiar atmosphere surrounding her. She lowered her head and saw a thin and long golden dragon that had formed a circle around her and silently trapped her in the center of its body. Although it did not make any noise, its presence was so conspicuous that people who noticed the two spirit beasts wisely avoided them and did not dare to approach them casually.

Chi Li reached out and touched the beautiful dragon scales on its owner's body. The golden dragon did not dodge and let her touch it. It felt warm to the touch, with the unique body temperature of a dragon, which was also a temperature that Chi Li was very familiar with.

I still remember the last time I touched this dragon scale, it felt cold all over, and sticky and wet. Chi Li was born in water, so she should be a hydrophilic person, but at that moment, she actually hated this wet feeling.

'Why are you unhappy?'

The golden dragon noticed that the little koi was in a low mood, so he raised his head and moved closer to ask with concern.

"No." Chi Li pushed away the faucet, flew back into the host's spiritual sea, and did not come out.

Noticing Chi Li suddenly returning to her own spiritual sea, Chi Lili glanced at the place where she had just been, only to see that Jin Long was still there, with a helpless expression, like a child who had said something wrong, and finally returned to his host's spiritual sea in disgust.

"Did they have a quarrel?"

She couldn't help but lean over to General Huo's ear and whispered.

"Probably not." Huo Zhuoyan sensed Jin Long's condition and found that he was relatively stable, not as if he had just had a quarrel with his fiancée's spirit beast.

Since there was no quarrel, what happened?

Knowing that Chi Li would definitely not tell anyone if she asked, Chi Lili could only sigh and not pursue the matter.

Her spirit beast has too many secrets. If she wants to know all of them, it would be too tiring to investigate them one by one. There might not be any results, and it might easily infringe on Chi Li's privacy. So Chi Lili has long learned not to be too curious.

The reason I asked whether the two had had a fight just now was just out of concern for Chi Li.

The engagement party lasted until around nine o'clock in the evening. After seeing off the last guest, Chi Lili asked Huo Zhuoyan to accompany Grandma Huo home, while she took her mother back to the hotel.

The hotel where Chi's mother stayed was not far from the restaurant where the engagement party was held, or rather, it was opened by the same family. The two buildings were located next door, less than 200 meters away on foot.

Chi Lili accompanied her mother walking silently on the road.
The road was not long, and even if Chi's mother deliberately slowed down her pace, she still reached the end soon.

She turned around and looked at her eldest daughter, who had not spoken a word since the mother and daughter were alone together. She knew in her heart that she was not deliberately not talking to her, but due to long-term neglect and favoritism, the eldest daughter had finally become estranged from the family and the closeness of the family was no longer there.

"This is the engagement gift your father and I prepared for you. Don't refuse it. It is also a blessing from us. If your sister wants to get married in the future, our family will also prepare something for her."

Mother Chi forcefully stuffed a small jewelry box, which was less than the size of a palm, into her eldest daughter's hands, blocking her from saying anything in advance.

Chi Lili refused in vain and had no choice but to accept it.

"Thank you, Mom. Thank you, Dad for me too."

"Okay, I'm going back to rest. You've been tired all day, so you should go back and rest early too." Chi's mother wanted to say a few more words of concern to her eldest daughter, but when she looked up and met that cold and distant face, she was choked up. In the end, she just said goodbye to her hastily and left.

Chi Lili stood there, watched her mother safely enter the hotel gate, then turned and left.

She originally wanted to call a car online to go back to school, but unexpectedly, Chi Li, who appeared out of nowhere, reminded her and looked sideways at the floating road sign on the right side of the sidewalk.

Under the colorful lights of the road sign, there was a tall and slender figure. He waited there silently until he saw the person he was waiting for noticed him, then he took a step towards him.

"Grandma asked uncle to take you back. I'll take you back."

Without waiting for Chi Lili to ask, Huo Zhuoyan explained why he was here.

"Thank you, let's go."

Chi Lili did not refuse. She followed Huo Zhuoyan and got into his car parked on the side of the road, asking him to take her back to school.

Since their engagement, the Huo family has had a room for her, next to Huo Zhuoyan's room. However, Chi Lili has no plans to move into the Huo family. She still lives in the school dormitory, and even after graduation she will only consider finding another place to live.

After all, it is not clear how long her relationship with Admiral Huo can last, and that room will probably not be for her to live in in the future.

The car soon arrived at the gate of Chi Lili's school. She got off the car after thanking people and returned to the dormitory. She found that her roommates who had left earlier than her had not returned yet. She sent a message to ask and found out that they had made an appointment to go out together after attending her engagement party. Considering that she and her fiancé had just got engaged and they must want to spend some time together, they considerately did not disturb them.

Chi Lili: “…”

There is no need to be so considerate.

Chen Xixing and the others planned to play for a while, then go out for a midnight snack before returning to the dormitory. They asked Chi Lili if she wanted them to pack some snacks, but it might be a bit late when they get back.

[No thanks.]

Chi Liliwan rejected the proposal. She had just returned from the banquet and was not hungry yet. However, before declining, she asked Chi Li if she wanted to have a midnight snack, to which Chi Li's answer was a burp.

I ate too much at the banquet and I'm still full.

It seems that Chi Li can't eat midnight snack either.

Chi Lili turned her eyes away from Chi Li, replied to her roommate's message, then stood up to remove her makeup and take a shower.

When she came out of the shower, she saw Chi Li sitting on her desk with a laptop in her arms, browsing something. Next to her was a jewelry box that she had casually placed there.

She walked over and sat down, looking at the virtual interface unfolding in front of Chi Li while opening the jewelry box.

"You want to buy a house?"

"Ok?"

The former was a question about Chi Li's sudden browsing of the properties for sale on Capital Star, and the latter was a surprise at the items in the jewelry box.

Chi Li was attracted by the host's voice and turned to look at the jewelry box she had opened. She saw a small glass bottle lying inside. Inside the bottle were sparkling gold-like metal beads.

Apparently they both knew what it was.

Gilded crystal, a precious metal that looks like gold, can also be called the gold of the interstellar age. This type of metal contains a special energy. It is said that making it into jewelry and wearing it for a long time is beneficial to life. In addition, due to the value it represents, it is quite popular among interstellar people.

According to the current international price, one gram of gilt crystal can be sold for more than 10,000 star coins.

Each gilt crystal in the bottle is one gram in size. There are nineteen in total. Chi Lili is exactly nineteen years old this year. Obviously, these gilt crystals were saved for her by her parents year by year after she was born.

One hundred and ninety thousand star coins may not be a big deal for Chi Lili now, but for an ordinary family, it is already a considerable sum of money.

This represents the love of Chi's parents for their eldest daughter, but Chi Lili would rather not get this gift.

In this way, she can be even more cruel to her family.

But they really loved her, they were just biased.

"Humans are so complicated." Chi Li could sense the host's complex emotions and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

In the end, Chi Lili stuffed the jewelry box into the magic storage device that Chi Li gave her. It looked like she might never take it out again in her life, let alone use this gift that her parents had saved for her since she was born to make a piece of jewelry and wear it for a long time as they expected.

After dealing with this hot potato, the scene fell silent for a moment. As if to change the subject, Chi Lili randomly found a topic to ask Chi Li: "Why are you suddenly interested in the houses in the Capital Star? Do you want to buy a house here?"

While she was talking, she was calculating her savings in her mind, wondering if giving it all to Chi Li would be enough for her to buy a house of her dreams. Even if she couldn't get the full amount, it should be enough for a down payment, right?
Because the price was too high, buying a house in Capital Star had never been in Chi Lili's plan before.

But if Chi Li really wants to buy it, she will fully support it.