Chapter 774 New Year's Eve
This year's New Year's Eve had the addition of Yang Yinhou, making the Ge Family's celebration a bit livelier than usual.
Ge Dongxu's mobile phone was also much busier than in previous years. After dinner, while his parents watched the Spring Festival Gala with Yang Yinhou, he found a moment to call Elder Feng.
Normally, such a call would seem more meaningful after the stroke of midnight, but he was worried that Elder Feng was quite old and led a very regular life, so calling at midnight would obviously disturb the old man's rest, which is why he chose to call early.
Elder Feng was delighted to receive Ge Dongxu's call. They chatted for a while and exchanged New Year's greetings before hanging up.
No sooner had Ge Dongxu ended the call than a slew of calls seemed to come in, one after another.
There were calls from the doctors at the Internal Medicine Department of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, his roommates like Lu Lei, Wu Longcai from the provincial radio station, Wu Shiyi and others, Jiang Lili's roommates Jin Yushan and Lin Sijie, several people from the Qimen community he had met at the exchange meeting in Jiangnan and Dongyue Provinces, people from the Special Ability Management Bureau like Fan Hong and Xu Lei, and friends and business partners like Cheng Lehao and Lin Kun... Even later on, leaders from the Provincial Party Committee of Jiangnan Province, King Gustadin of Reel Country, Chinese tycoon Gu Yezeng, and intlernational figures such as Matsukawa Nozomu from Japan, Piao Tianchang from Korea, and Betty from Australia also called Ge Dongxu to extend their New Year's wishes.
After receiving all these calls, Ge Dongxu suddenly realized that in the three and a half short years since he left Baiyun Mountain, he had unwittingly gotten to know so many people. He couldn't help but feel deeply moved.
After reflecting outside for a while, he then considered whether he should make calls to people like Wu Yili, but recalling that his senior brother was still at his house, and that it would be rude to just focus on making calls, he returned to the living room.
"Kid, your senior brother has come to our house for New Year's, and look at you, busy on the phone," Ge Shengming remarked with a stern look upon seeing Ge Dongxu finally put his phone away and join them.
"Haha, we're all family here, no need for formalities. Besides, my junior brother is truly a big shot now. It'd be strange if he didn't have a lot of calls during the New Year!" laughed Yang Yinhou.
"Could he possibly be a bigger shot than you?" Ge Shengming said.
Having interacted with Yang Yinhou often, Ge Shengming naturally knew how important a figure this elder had once been.
"Of course, Dongxu is the Sect Leader! His abilities outshine mine by far," Yang Yinhou replied seriously, his eyes reflecting a hint of awe.
Seeing Yang Yinhou's solemn expression, Ge Shengming opened his mouth in shock and pride.
"Still, Dongxu is young. Mr. Yang, when you have time, you should still remind and discipline him to prevent any youthful recklessness and prevent him from going astray," Xu Suya said.
"Had it been someone else, youthful impetuousness would be inevitable, but Dongxu is inherently simple and kind, there is no need to worry he will go astray. My concern is that he might be too compassionate," Yang Yinhou said.
"Too much compassion is better than being ruthless and heartless!" Xu Suya responded, looking at her son with a touch of joy and pride.
"Haha, indeed!" Yang Yinhou laughed.
While they were laughing, Yang Yinhou's phone, which seldom rang, began to ring.
"It must be Murong calling," Yang Yinhou said with a smile.
"Not necessarily, it could also be Gu Yezeng, Chen Jiateng, or even Su Bojian, and Zhu Dongyu for that matter," Ge Dongxu added with a laugh.
"Haha, I actually forgot, ever since these legs of mine recovered, my social circle seems to have expanded." Yang Yinhou was taken aback for a moment, then burst into hearty laughter.
Indeed, as soon as Yang Yinhou checked his phone, it was not Ouyang Murong calling, but an incoming call from Chen Jiateng, the head of the Chen Family in Indonesia.
He exchanged pleasantries with Chen Jiateng and offered New Year's greetings.
Yang Yinhou's phone kept ringing, with calls from the people Ge Dongxu had mentioned before, including Ouyang Murong.
Yang Yinhou stayed at the Ge Family's place until around ten o'clock before he got up to leave.
Ge Shengming and his wife were worried about him and insisted that Ge Dongxu personally escort him back, but Yang Yinhou just waved his hand with a smile, and then, with a leap, he was more than ten meters away in the blink of an eye, leaving Ge Shengming and his wife rubbing their eyes vigorously, before they eventually exclaimed, "Dongxu, your senior fellow apprentice is truly an extraordinary person, just like the martial arts experts on TV. With just a light tap of the toe, he vanished out of sight in an instant."
"Of course." Ge Dongxu said with a smile.
"Oh, right, that move your senior fellow apprentice just used, do you know it too?" When they returned to the house, Ge Shengming suddenly remembered something and looked at his son with burning eyes, asking.
"What are you fantasizing about? How old is your son? And how old is Mr. Yang? How could he suddenly leap so far out? Not even the martial arts experts on TV with their qinggong are that impressive!" Xu Suya gave Ge Shengming a sideways glance and said.
"Mom, you mustn't forget that your son is the Sect Leader." Ge Dongxu had never shown his qinggong in front of his parents, and seeing her say that, combined with the fact that he had drunk a bit of alcohol this evening, inevitably stirred an impulse to show off a little in front of his closest kin, and he chuckled softly.
"Does that mean you can also fly out more than ten meters in an instant, just like your senior fellow apprentice?" Both Ge Shengming and Xu Suya's eyes suddenly sparkled with excitement as they spoke.
Ge Dongxu didn't answer but looked around to see that there weren't many people moving around their home, only some children further away playing with firecrackers. Then he smiled mysteriously at his parents, grasped someone's arm, and whispered, "I'm going to take you up the hillside for a bit of fun to celebrate the New Year, but you mustn't scream, okay?"
Before his parents could react to their confusion, Ge Dongxu had already lightly tapped his toe on the ground, grabbing one parent with each hand, and suddenly leaped into the air, flying right over the roof of his house.
The height of the leap was several meters higher than that of Yang Yinhou just earlier.
"Ah..." Feeling herself suddenly soaring into the air and the whooshing of cold wind by her ears, Xu Suya instinctively let out a cry but, fortunately, she reacted quickly and immediately covered her mouth with her other free hand, her eyes bulging wide.
With his parents in tow, Ge Dongxu naturally couldn't fly several hundred meters with his ability to control qi as he did before, nor could he hover in the air as before.
However, his qinggong was still much more impressive than that of Yang Yinhou.
Each leap spanned forty to fifty meters, and at a height of over ten meters, it took just a few moments to reach the hillside behind the house by stepping on tree after tree, then they returned to their yard from the hillside.
"How was that?" As the three of them landed, Ge Dongxu looked at his parents with a grin, his face showing a trace of pride.
"It's unbelievable! Absolutely unbelievable! Dongxu, if it were just you by yourself, could you actually fly?" Ge Shengming and his wife said with faces full of shock and excitement.