"I…"
Hong shi's face darkened.
He didn't expect that the other party would be so vicious, intentionally bringing out all their treasures first before cornering him.
The other three had taken out gifts of extremely high quality, yet he hadn't prepared anything at all. He couldn't take out anything even if he wanted to!
While not giving a gift might not have a decisive impact on the slot allocation, granted that everyone had given a gift and he didn't, this might incur Wu shi's displeasure and thus the crown prince's in turn!
Besides, the other party was already clearly mocking him. He couldn't possibly just sit still and allow the other party to ridicule him, right?
"What's wrong? It can't be that you didn't prepare anything at all?"
"Are you serious? I told you this afternoon that Wu shi and the others would be attending the banquet, and I thought the reason why you arrived late was so you could prepare something. Was I mistaken?"