Zhang Yuan handed over the hairpin and chuckled:
"All right, all right. Just you wait."
Li Huixi failed to catch the perfunctory note in his voice, and the corners of her lips lifted slightly.
Beside them, Cui Zhaowei had come on behalf of the Eastern Ya Cui Clan, so naturally, she also presented a congratulatory gift. Perhaps because the two clans shared the surname Cui and had been one family tens of thousands of years ago, her gift was quite lavish: a Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure.
Zhang Yuan was somewhat surprised.
Come to think of it, although the Eastern Ya Cui Clan ranked last among the Five Surnames and Seven Great Clans, even below the Eastern Bian Li Clan, its coffers were truly deep. Nothing it gave away fell below the grade of a Pre-Heaven Spirit Treasure.
As he pondered this, Zhang Yuan glanced sideways and noticed that every guest present had produced a congratulatory gift. Only Li Huixi and Li Zhongshuang remained unmoved, sitting at the table as though none of this concerned them, merely waiting for the food to arrive.
"Isn't the Eastern Bian Li Clan giving a congratulatory gift?" Zhang Yuan asked in puzzlement.
Having spent several months with the Eastern Bian Li Clan, he knew its head, Li Houcheng, fairly well. For Li Houcheng to hold the Family Head Position firmly with an Outer Dao Golden Core cultivation, he had to conduct his affairs so meticulously that not a drop could leak through.
Since he had sent people to attend the Aohai Cui Clan's Dharma Assembly, there was no way he would have failed to prepare a gift...
Could Li Huixi have pocketed the Eastern Bian Li Clan's gift?
"A congratulatory gift?"
Li Huixi raised her brows and said as though it were only natural, "Our Eastern