The Immortal Emperor Returns

Chapter 57 Not Good at Chatting!

Empty Mulberry!

If suddenly hearing these two words, no one would connect it with wine, let alone connect it with the name of a pub.

However, this pub that covered two hundred square meters was named Empty Mulberry, and all the tables and chairs there were made with mulberry and were in different shapes.

Besides, the pub only sold one kind of wine—Empty Mulberry Wine!

The owner of the pub was from Yangluo County, Nanhe City. In Yangluo County, there was a place covered with mulberries and was named Empty Mulberry Ravine. The so-called Empty Mulberry Wine was made with mulberry fruits.

The wine sold in the pub was made by the owner personally, and the liquor-making techniques were very special. As the old sayings went, fill the stillage in the midnight, the stillage would smell good; heat the grains at sunrise, the wine would taste good; add the adjuvant in afternoon, the flavor would be strong; and stir the wine at sunset, the flavor would last long.

It was said that once a mulberry leaf fell into the wine pool which contained five hundred jugs of Empty Mulberry Wine, and the owner of the pub poured all these five hundred jugs of wine down.

Empty Mulberry Pub was well-known in Gujiang City, so it was popular among the high officials and noble lords of the city.

It was midnight, yet customers came into Empty Mulberry Pub in a continuous stream.

“Brother Chen, I’ve thought that rude guy like you would only go to have fun in bars. I didn’t expect that you’re really good at enjoying yourself. It a nice place, and we should often come here.”

The several of them sat in an elegant private room, in which all the tea utensils were made with mulberry wood. The room was full of the sweet flavor of Empty Mulberry Wine.

Su Fan observed around inside the room and teased with a smile.

“I’m just trying to hang on to the lips of men of letters.” Chen Hanlong was choked by the words. In fact, he was fond of Su Fan’s characters, only that Su Fan was not good at chatting.

“Big brother, let’s compete in drinking wine later, and we are not allowed to force the alcohol out of our bodies during the competition.” Su Fan suggested.

Chu Xun did not object it and nodded slightly. He would participate in the competition provided that the wine was good.

“You’re vulgar,” Chen Hanlong said in a tone of anger, “It’s not easy to make Empty Mulberry Wine. Besides, Mulberry bears fruits only in summer. Thus, Empty Mulberry Wine could not be made in batches. Every customer at most could buy 100 grams of the wine here.”

“100 grams?” Su Fan shouted. “100 grams are not enough at all. They will be absorbed by our guts before reaching our stomachs.”

“But that’s the rule of this pub.”

As soon as Chen Hanlong said that, a beautiful waitress came in with wine in her hands.

She brought in five white porcelain wine pots and five blue porcelain wine cups.

Su Fan could not wait to lift a wine pot, raise his head, and pour the wine into his mouth.

“Sir, be careful you will get drunk. Empty Mulberry Wine tastes sweet but contains strong alcohol,” the waitress reminded him kindheartedly.

Su Fan drank up all the 100 grams of wine in the pot. He smacked his lips and held on to the waitress before saying, “Could you please give me another pot of wine? I’ll pay you three times the price.”

The waitress withdrew her hand secretly and replied politely, “Sorry, sir. The rule that every customer could only get 100 grams of wine was set by our boss, and one can break it.”

“I’ll pay five times the price!” Su Fan said.

The waitress shook her head.

“Ten times the price.”

The waitress still shook her head with a smile.

Su Fan could not help but feel angry. He stood up and said in a tone of anger, “What’s wrong with your boss? Why he refused money? He shouldn’t run a pub if he could not provide his customers with enough wine. Let me say...”

Su Fan’s voice became lower and lower, and at last, he sounded like a fly buzzing. With a bang, he fell on the ground.

“There is something wrong with this wine.” the female gambler glared at the waitress sharply.

“Don’t worry, lady and gentlemen. Your friend is fine but got drunk.” The waitress smiled tenderly.

Drunk?

Chu Xun and others could not help but look at Su Fan, who breathed steadily and snored with his cheeks blushed slightly.

Everyone was stunned and felt amused.

“I’ve reminded this gentleman, but he didn’t listen to me. Please enjoy wine, everyone,” the waitress said with a smile and left the room.

“Shame on you.” The female gambler kicked Su Fan angrily and then crouched down and moved Su Fan’s body to let him lie flatly. The female gambler had taken off his mask. She looked very beautiful with delicate eyebrows and almond-shaped eyes. When she saw that others were looking at her, her beautiful face blushed.

“A cow chewing a rose. You wasted that good wine,” Chen Hanlong gloated. He was annoyed by Su Fan many times that night, so he wanted to take revenge.

“A toast to you, sir!” Chen Hanlong filled his cup and raised it up with both hands.

Chu Xun filled his cup as well and clinked it with Chen Hanlong’s cup in the air before drinking it up. Compared to the wine he drank in the other world, Empty Mulberry Wine tasted not good. However, since he was on earth, the wine was comparatively very good.

“A toast to you, sir,” the old man raised his cup up respectfully.

Chu Xun clinked his cup with the old man’s and drank up the wine. The old man was named Mo Xinghe, an impressive name. He was born in an ancient martial family, only that the family had come down. He did not talk much about his family, and Chu Xun did not ask him about it either.

The female gambler also proposed a toast to Chu Xun. She did not mention her name from the very beginning, and others did not ask her either.

In this beautiful night, with good wine, everyone chatted happily except Su Fan, who was in sound sleep.

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The next morning, the sun was shining.

Chu Xun massaged his head in pain not because of hangover but because of being interrupted by others during his cultivation.

This time, it was not Chen Hanlong but Elder Gui and Hua Qingwu that interrupted him.

Elder Gui paced up and down anxiously outside Chu Xun’s formation. Hua Qingwu no longer looked stunning as before. She looked haggard with tears in her beautiful eyes.

Seeing Chu Xun, Hua Qingwu looked as if she had seen a savior. She walked staggering to him and knelt down.

“Please get up and tell me what’s the matter.”

Chu Xun helped Hua Qingwu up. He was not used to let women kneel down before him.

“Please save my mother, sir.” As the voice fell, Hua Qingwu’s face was covered with tears.

Hua Qingwu looked absent-minded, so Elder Gui explained the whole thing for her.

It turned out that Hua Qingwu was not a native there but was from Yunyan City, a city that was thousands of miles away.

Five years ago, Hua Qingwu’s mother was affected with a weird disease. Every time the disease attacked her, she would be as cold as ice and give off frosty air; moreover, she would go insane, and wherever she passed, frost spread. Famous doctors all over the country all failed to cure her. Yesterday, Hua Qingwu received a call from her family, which said that her mother suffered from the disease again and might not survive it this time.

Chu Xun raised his eyebrows. According to what Elder Gui said, he guessed that Hua Qingwu’s mother was not suffering from a disease but from her rare physique. However, Chu Xun could not draw a conclusion unless he saw her. Since Hua Qingwu was his subordinate, he could not stand by and watch her mother die. He thought it necessary to visit Hua Qingwu’s mother now.

Chu Xun promised to go to Yunyan City with Hua Qingwu.

Hua Qingwu thanked him a million times. They booked a flight of 13:00 that afternoon.

Watching their leaving back, Chu Xun’s eyes darkened. He had a feeling that it would not be a smooth trip.

Chu Xun began to arrange something in the morning. He ordered the forces that had surrendered to him to continue looking for his parents. He also ordered Mo Xinghe to protect the rest of them in the city and gave each of them one life-saving Jade Card.

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The plane flew through the clouds and headed toward Yunyan City.

The three of them sat in a first-class cabin. Chu Xun looked around curiously.

Hua Qingwu looked more relaxed with Chu Xun. Though she had no makeup on her face, she looked stunning and became a beautiful scenery by just sitting there. The passengers around her were attracted by her.

As ordinary people would not choose to buy the tickets of the first-class cabin, those who sat around Hua Qingwu had to be rich.

“Is this your first flight, sir?” Hua Qingwu asked curiously after seeing Chu Xun look around.

Chu Xun nodded and thought there was no need for him to lie. It was indeed his first flight. Actually, he felt uncomfortable sitting in the narrow space. “It seems that I have to cultivate faster. When I reached the Golden Core stage, I can travel through space.” he thought to himself.

Chu Xun did not know that after his reply, the passengers around him all looked at him with disdain.

“Are you heading to Yunyan City, lady?”

Finally, a middle-aged man who looked like a successful businessman could not help but ask.

Hua Qingwu glanced at the man indifferently and replied in a mocking tone, “Where else could I go? I can’t get off halfway after fall.”

The people around all laughed upon hearing the words because the plane was flying nonstop toward Yunyan City.

Chu Xun could not help but smile.

However, the middle-aged man was shameless and did not feel embarrassed at all. In the case of pursuing a girl, mockery was not an obstacle at all, but being ignored was.

“Are you from Yunyan City, lady? Please allow me to introduce myself to you, I’m the general manager of Qinghua Group, and I’m surnamed Zhu. May I know your name?”

Two magic keys to open a girl’s heart were money and status. With a lot of money and high status, one was likely to win a girl’s heart. If one happened to be handsome, it was more likely for him to win.

Hua Qingwu furrowed her eyebrows and ignored the middle-aged man.

Though Hua Qingwu did not reply, the middle-aged man was not angry at all. He said with a smile, “Please don’t misunderstand me, lady. I like to make friends. Are you going to Yunyan City for work or to visit your families?”

“Are you trying to pick up me or investigate me?” Hua Qingwu asked disdainfully and continued, “You don’t look like a man for you behaved so timidly and were not straightforward.”

The passengers around them burst into laughter again.

The middle-aged man was rendered speechless and depressed. He complained secretly that Hua Qingwu was not good at chatting.

The trip was not boring at all. After the middle-aged man went away, some other men came over trying to chat Hua Qingwu up but were deeply frustrated by Hua Qingwu’s harsh words.

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The plane arrived in Yunyan Airport safely.

When Chu Xun and Hua Qingwu walked out of the airport, a group of people approached them with great strength and vigor, and the people around all gave way to them.

“Sister, welcome home!”

The leading man of the group took off his sunglasses, revealing a handsome but pale face, with dark circles under his eyes.

Hua Qingwu frowned slightly and asked impolitely, “What are you doing here?”

The man wiped his sunglasses as if there were dust on it and said with a chuckle, “I’m here, of course, to take you home, my dear sister.” the man stared at Hua Qingwu closely as he said that, with desire in his eyes.

“Well, we can go back by ourselves.”

“My dear sister, there isn’t much time left for Aunt Lan. Do you want to waste time on the way back?”

Hua Qingwu was stunned and looked at Chu Xun subconsciously.

Chu Xun nodded calmly.

Following Hua Qingwu’s eyes, the man then saw Chu Xun.

“Who is he?”

“He...” Hua Qingwu did not know how to answer the question for a while.

“I’m her friend,” Chu Xun said flatly.

An expression of jealousy flashed within the man’s eyes, and he said to himself in secret, “Her friend? Lair! Maybe you’re actually this bitch’s toy boy.”

The man put out his hands toward Chu Xun and said with a smile, “Nice to meet you. I’m Hua Qingwu’s brother, Hua Rui.”

Chu Xun reached out his hand. However, just as he was about to reply, he suddenly felt something sting his finger. He looked down and saw a strangely-shaped ring on Hua Rui’s fingers. A sharp light flashed within Chu Xun’s eyes, but he still looked as calm as before.

A vicious expression flashed within Hua Rui’s eyes. His ring was specially made with rank aphrodisiac hidden in it. Once he triggered the ingenious device, a silver needle as tiny as a hair would be bounced out. By doing so, Hua Rui could poison others without being found. Many innocent girls fell into his trap, and he never failed to do so with the ring. He even named the ring as “Desire Arouser”. As the name suggested, it could arouse one’s primitive desire in a short time.

As he thought that Hua Qingwu was no longer a virgin and must have lost her virginity due to Chu Xun, an unidentified guy, Hua Rui got very angry and almost went insane because of jealousy.

Therefore, he decided to give Chu Xun an unforgettable lesson.