BXBX NOVEL Chapter 55: The first interaction
"Oh my god! I'm so sorry." Wei Jun frantically backed away and pulled out a handkerchief from his pocket. He began to clean the whisky on Run Long's clothes to remove any traces of tampering.
"What the… What the hell are you doing?! Are you blind?!" Run Long wasn't happy. His suit was completely ruined and Wei Jun was at fault so his outburst was totally justified.
Wei Jun completely agreed and took all the blame as he said, "I'm very sorry. I was too focused on making my way over there that I didn't notice you."
Wei Jun pointed at the gathering of the elite members of the Yuan Yin city. Run Long, on the other hand, wasn't interested in that, "I don't care where you were going. All I know is that you ruined my suit and you're going to pay for it."
"Sure, sure." Wei Jun readily agreed before he pulled out his wallet and asked, "How much is your suit? I will pay for it and also compensation for it." Wei Jun said, raising his head with an inquisitive gaze.
"This is a whole 10,000-yuan suit. Pay up." Run Long curtly said, completely oblivious of the fact about the class he was present in. For the people present, their cheapest suits began from 50,000 yet here he was, calling a 10,000-yuan suit expensive.
Wei Jun, on the other hand, was happy to play along. "Oh, such an expensive suit, what have I done? Please, let me know how much I need to pay for it?" Wei Jun said as if he was truly sorry for his sin.
"Whatever is in your wallet. Hand it over." Run Long said whatever the first thing that came to his mind.
Wei Jun smiled and pulled everything out of his wallet, handing it to him. It was about 100,000 yuan but Run Long didn't bother counting it and simply left with a few curses leaving his mouth.
Wei Jun on the other hand, just saw him go with a smile on his face His objective was complete but there was still one thing to do. Rattle the cages.
While Run Long and Wei Jun's exchange was going on, a lot of attention converged on them. One such spectator was Chen Na who couldn't believe that Run Long was making such a fuss over a suit as cheap as that. She was embarrassed because Run Long was the Na family's chief guest and almost everyone at the banquet thought the same thing, 'Do the Na family associate itself with such cheapskates?'
Needless to say, Run Long's image in her mind had fallen even more than before.
"What is the Ruan boy doing here?" Bei Tian asked with displeasure as he heard the exchange between Wei Jun and Run Long.
"I… don't know. I will check it out." Ouyang Na replied and instructed a servant to check the list.
"Whatever it is, it doesn't look well for you, elder Na. I think you should intervene." Yao Tian said, worried about the image of the Na family. After all, they were the ones who were associating themselves with the Na family. It was also their reputation at the stake.
"I will." Ouyang Na was also aware of the issue with the whispers he picked up but before he could act, Wei Jun had already paid Run Long and turned his attention to them.
He approached them with steady steps and greeted the host of the banquet with a smile, "Greeting, Elder Na. Congratulations on your recovery. This is a small gift from me." Wei Jun was extremely sincere or at least that was how he came off as and as a gift, handed him a vial with a dark blue round pill inside.
Ouyang Na had no choice but to accept the gift since there were a lot of eyes on them and greeted back, "I express my gratitude for coming here and thank you for the gift." Ouyang Na kept it short and to the point which was enough for all to understand that he was trying to end the conversation with Wei Jun.
Wei Jun smiled and said, "Well, it is a festive occasion. I was quite surprised to receive an invitation from the Na family. But since you invited me with such a big heart, it would have been rude of me to come here without a gift. I hope you like it."
Wei Jun was acting very friendly and respectful and with each passing second, the expression on Bei Tian was changing for the worse.
"Also, I wanted to apologize for the incident earlier. I really wasn't focusing on anything other than giving you the gift." Wei Jun sincerely apologized, changing the topic to accidents which he knew these influential people wouldn't be able to resist.
"It's no problem, accidents happen." Ouyang Na tried to downplay the situation. Wei Jun decided to continue as he said, "Quite often so. This city had truly gone crazy. I mean, people get robbed and stuff every day, and sometimes, things don't end at just that. I wonder what the mayor is going to do about it." Wei Jun said before he suddenly realized that the mayor was there.
"Oh, hello Mister Mayor. Fancy seeing you here." Wei Jun said to which the mayor could only smile because he knew that with his authority, he couldn't talk back to the Ruan family. Especially now that Sun Ruan was a Qi Master.
However, Yao Tian didn't hold the same fear nor did he have the same virtue as Ouyang Na to end the situation as he said, "Yes, accidents do happen. Weren't your actors also involved in an accident the other day?"
"Oh yes, that. An unfortunate accident but now they have fully recovered." Wei Jun replied with a sad tone before he added, "And it is also unfortunate that the culprit was involved in an accident before justice could be delivered." Wei Jun said, referring to Na Tong's 'accident'.
"It was truly horrific what happened to her." Wei Jun commented before he turned to Yao Tian and asked, "How is she by the way?"
"I don't understand why you would ask me that, young master Ruan?" Yao Tian said with a smile that was as fake as hell.
"Well, I assumed it was because of the rumors going around about you and her being very, very close." Wei Jun replied with a genuine smile, emphasizing the word 'very' a bit too strongly.
"I didn't know a man of your status would believe in some rumors." Yao Tian remarked, maintaining his smile.
"Oh well, I thought with how much rumors were being gossiped in this group, I would have believed you believed in rumors a lot." Wei Jun said with a smile, referring to the earlier rumor discussion regarding Xia Lu before he added while turning to Zhan Lu, "But then again, we're all hypocrites every now and then."
The blatant meaning hidden in Wei Jun's words was visible for everyone to see. Zhen Lu was called a hypocrite on his face and in such a way that he couldn't even deny it.
Wei Jun turned to Ouyang Na when he had successfully ruined the mood of everyone present and said, "Once again congratulations on your recovery. I do advise you to use the gift carefully."
He turned and left, leaving the atmosphere so awkward that even Ouyang Na didn't know how to salvage the situation.
On the way out, Wei Jun once again came across Run Long once again and said, "Once again, sorry about your suit."
"Hmph." Run Long wasn't interested and left without a word. Wei Jun simply replied and left.
Run Long approached the earlier group dressed in a different suit but before he could say something about the rude person from before, his eyes fell on the vial in Ouyang Na's hands. "Elder Na! Where did you get this!?"
Run Long's loud voice was enough to snap everyone out of that awkward atmosphere. Ouyang Na was about to speak when Yao Tian said, "Elder Na, I don't think you should hold onto it too long. It would be poisonous considering where it came from."
Ouyang Na nodded but Run Long shouted, "Are you crazy!? How could you tell him to throw such a treasure away?"
Yao Tian along with almost everyone was taken aback by Run Long's outburst. "What do you mean by treasure, young man?" Bei Tian asked with a cool head.
"I don't what to call it other than a treasure. Just know this, even my master cannot make something like this. He was awarded one by his master but he himself has never been able to make it. Even Qi grandmasters would kill for this." Run Long rambled quite a bit about the treasure but didn't state its purpose.
"What does it do?" Bei Tian asked once again.
"Ha! It replenishes the Qi of a cultivator completely regardless of the volume of Qi. This means it is a treasure to even a Qi master of spiritualization rank. Truly a treasure. You should hold onto it and thank whoever gave it to you greatly."
Run Long was unaware of the unrest his last statement had caused because Ouyang Na was now truly nervous. This incident screamed that there was something going on between the Na and Ruan families.