Trading system, I exchanged vegetables for golden pills.

"Holy crap, can you stop messing with me like this? If I can't cultivate, I might as well not have given you any promises at all!"

Ye Chen was completely dumbfounded!

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Who understands the feeling of having a treasure mountain but not being able to access it?

No wonder he'd been practicing breathing exercises all afternoon and felt nothing!

Oh, I kind of feel that way, like the northwest wind has had its fill!

Ye Chen took a deep breath. Although he couldn't become an immortal, life had to go on...

Perhaps famous mountains and rivers possess a spiritual energy?

That's what the books all say!

Therefore, Ye Chen's glimmer of hope was not completely extinguished.

He has already opened the Gaodao Map and started looking up travel routes!

Just then, his phone rang. The caller was an unknown local number.

Ye Chen answered the phone: "Hello, who is this?"

"Brother Ye Chen, this is Caiwei. Grandpa wants you to come over for dinner tonight!" A sweet female voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Oh, Caiwei, I guess I won't go to that meal. I'm busy cultivating immortality!" Ye Chen said half-jokingly.

"Hehe, Immortal Ye, cultivating immortality won't make a difference in a little while. Come over here, there's some sweet and sour pork ribs you love. It's a deal, see you later!"

After saying that, Zhou Caiwei hung up the phone.

Ye Chen listened to the dial tone with a sense of helplessness!

The food at Grandpa Zhou's house is indeed delicious. They have a professional chef who cooks dishes that are perfect in color, aroma, and taste.

Having eaten there twice before, Ye Chen really missed it.

A family dinner is definitely different from eating out.

In the end, Ye Chen couldn't control his legs and got up to walk towards Old Master Zhou's house.

After reaching the door, Ye Chen turned back and went to the backyard to pick some green vegetables he had grown himself.

After all, you can't always go to other people's houses empty-handed!

When he walked into the Zhou family's house, he was slightly taken aback. Wow, there are quite a lot of people here today!

Ye Chen pulled over a nanny and asked, "What day is it today? Why are there so many people?"

The nanny recognized Ye Chen and smiled kindly, "Mr. Ye, didn't you know? Today is Miss Caiwei's birthday!"

Uh... this...

Ye Chen really didn't know that today was Zhou Caiwei's birthday.

Nobody told him that!

Caiwei is really something, she didn't even mention it once, so he could have prepared some birthday gifts!

So he came carrying a bag of vegetables.

Just as Ye Chen was about to slip away, Old Zhou walked in from outside: "Oh, Brother Ye, you're here. What are you doing standing here? Come on in."

And so, Ye Chen was invited into the house by Old Master Zhou!

"Why are you being so formal? You're here, why did you bring anything?" Old Zhou saw Ye Chen carrying a bag and casually took it from him.

"Hehe, Old Zhou, I didn't know it was Caiwei's birthday today, so I didn't prepare anything. I just picked some vegetables I grew in the backyard!" Ye Chen blushed.

"Hey, it's just a small birthday celebration, just a simple family meal!" Old Zhou waved his hand.

"But Brother Ye, you actually grow your own vegetables? That's rare! I'll have to keep these vegetables; they're green and organic! You don't know, I'm getting a little tired of eating supermarket vegetables every day!"

Old Zhou asked Ye Chen to go to the hall to make a cup of tea first, while he solemnly took the dishes to the kitchen and instructed the chef to add another dish.

When Ye Chen arrived at the hall, Zhou Caiwei was sitting and making tea, with seven or eight young people of similar age sitting on either side of her.

They were either colleagues or classmates, and a group of people were chatting and laughing.

It seems the latter is more likely!

Ye Chen also saw a familiar face, Xie Nan, Xie Lao's granddaughter!

Ye Chen didn't see Old Master Zhou; he probably didn't want to bother with the young people's chatter and was busy ranking up in his room!

Ye Chen's appearance attracted everyone's attention.

Handsome men and beautiful women all turned to look at Ye Chen, and it had to be said that they felt quite pressured.

Ye Chen walked over nonchalantly and nodded to the crowd as a greeting.

"Who is this handsome guy, Weiwei?" a girl asked.

"He, he's a distinguished guest of the Zhou family, Ye Chen!" Zhou Caiwei introduced with a smile, "Brother Ye Chen, come and sit down, they are all my friends!"

"Hello everyone, handsome men and beautiful women!" Ye Chen sat down in an empty seat and smiled at everyone.

Apart from Xie Nan, he didn't recognize anyone else present.

"Weiwei, could this be your boyfriend? Don't hide it!" another girl teased with a laugh.

As soon as the girl said this, Ye Chen clearly felt two unfriendly gazes directed at him!

This feeling is inexplicable!

Perhaps it is also related to the fact that his constitution changed after taking the Marrow Cleansing Pill.

He was surprisingly perceptive to this subtle hostility.

Ye Chen glanced around casually and saw two young men casting hostile glances at him.

He's probably an admirer of Zhou Caiwei.

Ye Chen secretly found it amusing that he could become the object of someone else's jealousy.

It seems that being too handsome is also a problem. He can hardly imagine what it would be like if the gentlemen present who are even more handsome than him encountered this situation.

Zhou Caiwei blushed slightly and glanced at Ye Chen: "Don't talk nonsense. Brother Ye Chen is my great-grandfather's savior. I... I've only known him for a short time. Maybe he already has a girlfriend!"

The girl smiled and joked with Ye Chen, "Handsome Ye, do you have a girlfriend yet?"

Ye Chen smiled at the girl who had spoken and said, "Beautiful lady, are you trying to introduce me to someone?"

"Oh my, it seems that handsome Ye is also single. Now there's someone ready for you. My Weiwei calls him 'brother' all the time!" the girl teased.

Ye Chen could clearly feel that the two gazes directed at him were becoming more hostile.

Sure enough, one of the young men wearing white-rimmed glasses coughed lightly to interrupt: "Ahem, Jiajia, what are you doing, trying to play matchmaker? Didn't you hear that Weiwei and that person only met recently?"

"That's right, Weiwei's family isn't an ordinary family, so they definitely need to be well-matched when it comes to dating!" Another young man wearing a silver necklace and a floral suit chimed in.

"How do you know that handsome Ye is not good enough for Weiwei?" Jiajia, the girl who spoke, retorted.

Given his presence here, Weiwei's kind attitude towards him, and the fact that he's the savior of the Zhou family patriarch, how could his circumstances be bad?

That last point alone was enough to break down any barriers between them. Anyway, her first impression of Ye Chen was quite good; he gave off an indescribable sense of comfort.

"Hehe, alright, stop teasing me. Do you want to hold a matchmaking event? Come on, have some tea!" Zhou Caiwei interrupted the conversation with a smile.

"Ye Chen, right? I wonder what industry you're in? We're both friends of Weiwei's. I wonder if there's ever a chance for us to work together?" The young man in the floral suit took a sip of tea and steered the conversation back to Ye Chen.

Perhaps it was Ye Chen's appearance that made him feel a sense of crisis, and he wanted to figure out how powerful Ye Chen was!

Ye Chen couldn't help but chuckle; it's true that being handsome makes it easy to attract attention!

"Me? I work in the medical field. As for collaboration, that depends on whether you have a headache or fever!"