22. Drunkenness
The movie "Orphan Girl" is scheduled to start after the year, because Ning Die is going to play the heroine, Lin Laiyu plans to slaughter her fiercely, and she will go to Xingyue Tower for dinner.
The two booked a private room in the famous Chinese-style Xingyue Building, and the meals were served one after another, and in order to celebrate, Lin Laiyu ordered a bottle of liquor.
After a few glasses of wine, Lin Laiyu said: "Did this Meichen ask you to be the heroine for the reason?" β
She threw herself into the movie and wanted to learn from Ning Die.
Ning Die actually didn't understand Chen Yueming's intentions, but she generally knew, "I heard that I was going to fight with Lexing." β
Then he said why he used the newcomer, and the reason why the heroine chose her, Ning Die continued: "Maybe the upper echelons think that my image matches the role." β
"Image?" Lin Laiyu chuckled, "Yao Shouyue, the heroine of "The Orphan Girl", is a famous courtesan in the southwest, do you really think you can match?" β
After speaking, she looked Ning Die's clear soup and water-hung clothes and an innocent and innocent face up and down up and down.
"And Mr. Huo, Mr. Chen Ziao, you haven't even had a relationship with me, so you don't have any opinion of them?" Lin Laiyu then gossiped and asked.
Ning Die sandwiched a chopstick dish and said: "Mr. Huo, I am afraid to avoid it, and Chen Ziao, no, you should call him Chen Hao, this is his real name, I owe him a favor to repay, speaking of this, I have something to ask you, the southwest racecourse will start business after the Spring Festival." β
"You're going to bet on horses?" Lin Laiyu was surprised.
Ning Die said: "It's not a bet on horses, but it's not much different from this, when the time comes, I will press a number casually, and you can make perjury for me." β
Lin Laiyu still didn't understand, Ning Die had to tell her carefully and explain the matter clearly, Lin Laiyu couldn't help but put down the chopsticks, "Who are you this Chen Hao, you have to help him like this!" β
Could it be that he is a stunning beautiful man, just like the vixen in Liaozhai, he is seduced by it.
Ning Die is not good at elaborating, she was in a miserable situation in her previous life, and there were very few people in Ning Mansion who treated her sincerely.
She can't forget how well Chen Hao treated her in the past, and she tried her best to help with food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Seeing that she had made up her mind, Lin Laiyu sighed: "I'm worried that you will be deceived, you take me to see this Chen Hao after the Spring Festival, and I will check it for you." β
Ning Die was naturally relieved by the impression Chen Hao gave and nodded.
At this time, a woman's shout suddenly came: "Ning Die! β
As soon as it seemed that the person was Feng Xiuxiu, Lin Laiyu threw Ning Die a look, she painted eye makeup, and she had a unique style when she looked horizontally.
This time, Feng Xiuxiu did not show the temper of the eldest lady, she was dressed dignifiedly, under the fox fur coat was a piping buttoned soft satin cheongsam, her hair was carefully coiled into a peony bun, a jade hairpin was inserted, her face was painted with β‘β‘ and lipstick, and her body was rounded, vaguely revealing the appearance of a woman.
When Ning Die saw her, her eyes drooped, and she couldn't help but move the chair to the table.
"When I saw you on the other side, I thought I had made a mistake, Ning Die," a layer of crimson appeared on Feng Xiuxiu's face, "I was too impulsive that day, and I always wanted to apologize to you." β
Ning Die was a little surprised.
"Later, I was drugged and brought back to the southwest, and I lost an arrogant reputation, and it was difficult to stay in the film industry, but this was also my retribution, thinking about it carefully, my character was really not suitable for the film industry, and after I went home, my mother told me about my family, and the date was set, and I had a banquet at fifteen." When she said the back, it was no different from the little girl who had always fallen in love, a pair of dimples were full of sweetness when she laughed, and she looked downstairs outside the window, Ning Die followed and poked out her neck, and a young man in a suit and leather shoes downstairs stood straight, obviously waiting for her.
is a person with a good appearance, Ning Die turned his head, Feng Xiuxiu took out two wedding cards from the wallet of the purse, "Be sure to invite the two of you to have a glass of wine then." β
Ning Die took it with a smile, since Feng Xiuxiu was willing to apologize and reconcile, of course she was willing to make friends again.
Lin Laiyu looked at the wedding card and sighed, this delicate young lady said that she would marry someone if she got married.
How willing to let her fiancΓ© wait for a long time, Feng Xiuxiu finished talking about the address of the wedding banquet, and then the person hurriedly went downstairs.
Ning Die said puzzledly: "Feng Xiuxiu was given sleeping pills, why don't I know about it?" I thought she was trying to scold me again. β
"She has to dare to scold again, be careful that I deal with her again," Lin Laiyu played with the bronzed red wedding card, it is said that the quality of the wedding card shows the family background of the husband's family, looking at the exquisite wedding card, I want to come to Feng Xiuxiu to marry not badly.
"Again?" Ning Die thought for a moment, and then understood, so she looked helpless, "No wonder I couldn't find the sleeping pills prescribed by the doctor, you......"
"I'm helping her, and the movie industry isn't full of people like you, do you think her temperament is suitable?" Lin Laiyu said, and the thief leaned his face in front of Ning Die, "Don't tell me, you don't feel so happy in your heart." β
Ning Die wiped her mouth with a handkerchief and said, "Your method is too dangerous, in case something goes wrong......
"Huh?" Lin Laiyu raised his chin.
"Yes...... It's a little bit ......."
"Isn't that enough," Lin Laiyu bit his chopsticks with a smile.
The meal was satisfying, Lin Laiyu was greedy and slightly drunk, staggering and unsteady, Ning Die called two rickshaws, one of them took one back to Thirteenth Street.
Lin Laiyu's drunkenness made Li Feng verbose for a while, put people on the sofa, and the nanny went to cook some sobering soup, Li Feng said: "This is about to be the New Year, this girl is getting more and more crazy." β
Ning Die smiled, "I'm going to invite Lin Laiyu to drink." β
"I don't know if she wants to drink it, who forced her to pour it." Li Feng still wanted to complain, but Lin Laiyu on the sofa muttered: "Mom, this soup is too hot, I don't drink it." β
"If you don't drink tomorrow morning, it will give you a headache," Li Feng shouted, and he still went to the sofa to comfort Lin Laiyu.
Ning Die silently went back to her own home, seeing that Su Mei and Li's mother were busy at home to prepare for the festival, she stepped forward to take the paper-cut in Su Mei's hand and help paste the window flowers.
"I'm back," Su Mei said.
Ning Die hummed.
Su Mei stared at her and smiled with satisfaction, it was another Spring Festival, and I wish it would be so safe all the time.
On the night of the New Year, the sound of firecrackers in every household came and went, Su Mei specially made dumplings, and the radio was playing New Year's music, the music was lively, and the house was full of New Year's flavor.
Mother Li is a lonely person, she used to be a long-term worker of the Su family, and now she is a member of the Su family with Su Mei, and she has been staying here during the Chinese New Year.
After eating the New Year's dinner, Lin Laiyu came to visit the door, today is not the time to visit the door, but Lin Laiyu is not an outsider, there is no need for these rules, she entered the door and shouted sweetly Aunt Su Mei is good, and she got a red envelope and stuffed it into her pocket happily.
Later, Li Feng was bored in the house alone, and her nanny went home for the New Year, so she had to come to Sumei to join in the fun, so everyone was familiar with it, spending a table, pulling up Li's mother and the four of them to play the tag, and Ning Die was responsible for serving tea and sending snacks to everyone from time to time.
It was noisy until midnight, this New Year's Eve was going to be obtained, no one said to break up, Ning Die was sleepy, so he took a nap on the sofa.
Sleeping hazy, she heard a knock on the door, Su Mei called her to open the door, she rubbed her temples and went over, and Li Hao was standing outside the door.
"You, why are you here?" Ning Die was stunned, today is the New Year.
Of course, Li Hao understood this, he didn't want to cause trouble to Miss Ning, but when he thought of that, he could only say cheekily: "Mr. Huo is drunk." β
Oh, Ning Die remembered that Huo Cheng was injured for him, "When did he come back to the southwest?" β
"Just these two days," Li Hao calmly replied to the lie he told last time, "I didn't have time to inform you." β
It was because he was too busy to ask, Ning Die said, "Do you want to go into the house and sit." β
"No," Li Hao said again, "Mr. Huo, he's drunk." β
"He's drunk and you take him home, what does it have to do with me," Ning Die frowned, if she went out tonight, how would Su Mei explain here.
Li Hao's face was full of helplessness, if he could find a way, why bother Ning Die on the New Year's Day, "Mr. Huo has been downstairs and refused to leave. β
Every year is like this, after the reunion dinner of the Huo family is over, Huo Cheng must be drunk, all hotels in the Chinese New Year's Eve are closed to thank guests, and there are one or two that hinder Huo Cheng's forces and send people to serve, but he can't bear to drink desperately, others are afraid of making trouble, only find Li Hao here.
Li Hao's parents are both in Hong Kong, and there are no relatives in the southwest, so he accompanies Huo Cheng every year, and this year he knows that Ning Die is in the southwest, so he wants Li Hao to drive the car to Thirteenth Street, planning to stay here for one night in winter, and he doesn't want to go anywhere.
"The weather is cold, I'm afraid that Mr. Huo's body will not be able to bear it." Li Hao begged Ning Die and said, "You go down and persuade him, and I'll handle the rest." β
Ning Die's heart was soft, in case Huo Chengzhen had an accident on Thirteenth Street, she had a bad conscience, so she had to say, "You wait for me for a while." β
She went into the room and put on the coat on the sofa, and said to Su Mei while arranging her collar: "Mom, my classmate has something to do with me, I'll go out and come back." β
After she finished speaking, she went out and went downstairs with Li Hao, the sound of rubbing cards just now, no one in the house heard the conversation at the door clearly, Su Mei was touching a good card in her hand, her eyebrows were crooked, and she was puzzled: "There are still classmates looking for someone during the Chinese New Year?" β
Lin Laiyu replied with a smile: "It must be shouting to go to the river to put lights, young students like these things." β
Su Mei was no longer worried.
Huo Cheng's car was parked at the mouth of the alley, and others were sitting quietly in the back seat, if it weren't for the smell of alcohol all over his body from close proximity, and seeing the way he was sitting, it was hard to imagine that he was a drunk person.
Ning Die got into the car and sat next to him and said, "Mr. Huo, it's cold at night, let's go back." β
Huo Cheng raised his head and squinted his eyes, "Ning Die? β
His voice was hoarse after drinking, and Ning Die shouted softly.
"Well, it's me," Ning Die tightened his coat and buttoned him one by one, "Don't spend the night in the car." β
"Okay," he stroked Ning Die's hair with a pair of big hands, alcohol anesthesia, his movements were a little rude, just like the usual stroking of his long-haired white dog, each stroke was long, touching the end of the hair.
Li Hao coughed dryly when he saw this, "He is really drunk, every time he goes back to eat at Huo's house for the New Year, he will be like this." β
Ning Die didn't misunderstand that he was deceiving herself, pushed Huo Cheng back to her original position and sat down, she got out of the car and said, "I understand." β
She has been married to him for many years, and it is not the first time she has seen him drunk.
"Take him back, put some sugar in the sobering soup, he loves sweets," Ning Die finished speaking and was leaving, Li Hao was stunned, his boss was vicious on the surface, but he loved sweets behind his back?
Before the car door was closed, Huo Cheng stretched out his hand and grabbed Ning Die's arm: "Don't leave ......"
His eyes were not as arrogant and arrogant as usual, but with a wet longing, "You said, we go back, without you, nowhere is home." β
Li Hao stood outside the car and pretended to look at the pocket watch, in this situation, he promised Ning Die to hand over the follow-up to him, but the boss's happiness is always proportional to the happiness index of the employees.
"Why don't Miss Ning accompany me and send people back." He buckled the metal lid of his pocket watch and smiled innocently.