Elephant Armored Sect.
Murong Huai followed the group to the Elephant Armored Sect. After receiving the news, the sect disciples hurriedly prepared a meal.
Huyan Shan and the others arrived at the Elephant Armored Sect ahead of them, only to find the feast laid out in the main hall. Every dish on the table was hearty and heavy: braised pork knuckles, red-braised pork, roast suckling pig, beef shank bones, meat buns, lion's head meatballs... all meat dishes, without exception.
At the sight, Qiu Ming and Li Mu could not help twitching at the corners of their mouths. Qiu Ming secretly patted Huyan Shan on the shoulder. "Brother Huyan, I have to say, what exactly did you prepare? It's all meat, and there isn't even a staple food!!"
"Exactly! Forget a full imperial banquet—you should at least balance meat and vegetables. Do you think everyone is built like the brutes of your Elephant Armored Sect?!" Li Mu also looked utterly helpless.
"It's not that—I didn't know either. This is how we usually eat. What's so good about those leafy vegetables? I was worried you wouldn't be used to it, so I even had them make some little meatballs." Huyan Shan spoke with an innocent expression.
"You call lion's head meatballs 'little meatballs'??"
Qiu Ming and Li Mu were speechless. There was nothing they could do.
Just then, Murong Huai stepped down from his carriage. The others hurriedly ran out, and Qiu Ming said with a placating smile, "Elder, Sect Master Huyan and the others haven't prepared the meal very well. How about we go eat at the branch hall instead?"
"Yes, yes," Li Mu added from the side.
Murong Huai looked at the two of them, then at Huyan Shan, who wore an awkward expression, and smiled. "Hehe, it's fine. A