Next, Sjepan refused to talk to Brother Jiu for a day or two.

Brother Jiu himself also regretted it a little, he was open-mouthed that day, and his speech was too ugly, even if this Sjiepan had a good temperament, he couldn't hurt people like that.

It happened that there was an answer to the post sent that day, and Tong Guowei's nephew invited him out for a drink again, so Brother Jiu took the opportunity to take the post and go to the study to find Si Jiepan.

"Do you want to hang out?"

Sjepan was dozing off on the bed, but when he heard him say to go out to play, he immediately got up!

"Where are you going?"

"Taibai Building." Brother Jiu smiled and handed the post in his hand to Sjepan, "There are a few friends from the past who asked me to go to dinner, if you want to go, I'll take you along?" ”

Stepan immediately forgot about his anger in the past few days, and he nodded again and again: "Okay, good!" I'm going! ”

The meeting place is the restaurant where Brother Jiu used to go, and the people are still the same idle gentlemen as before, the wine table is very lively, and there are singers next to him. Only this time, there was a different guy to participate - Brother Nine brought Sjepan with him.

Originally, as soon as he entered the elegant seat, those fox friends and dog friends were still happy, but when they saw the foreigners following him, their faces became strange.

Brother Jiu smiled faintly: "Don't sting like this." He is the person who is the foreign monk Mu Jingyuan, and the starling asked me to take care of it temporarily, so he lives with me for now......"

"Hello everyone! My name is Sjepan! His full name is Sjepan. Vsevolodo......"

Before he finished his words, he was covered by Brother Jiu!

"Who told you to come here and introduce yourself?" He didn't have a good breath and said, "By the way, ask someone to set up another table for a banquet, and then get two screens." ”

After a while, the screen came, and on that side, a table was still set up.

"You go over there." Brother Nine pointed to the inside of the screen.

"Why can't I sit with you?" Sjepan was angry, "Why did you drive me to the side alone?" I also took the screen to cover the ...... Is it discriminating against me? You're apartheid! ”

"I didn't discriminate against you. There's no place for you here. Brother Jiu said slowly, "Besides, you can't understand what a few of us are talking about, aren't you sitting here in the way?" Be obedient and go and sit there. ”

Sjepan refused to move, his face still very angry.

Tong Guowei's nephew heard that it was the eighth elder brother, and when he saw that Si Jie Pan was awkward, he simply stepped forward to play a round: "Ninth master, just let him sit here, just one more pair of chopsticks......"

"Nope." Brother Jiu said lightly, "He broke the rules when he sat here." ”

He turned his head and said to Sjepan: "The dishes are the same, what kind of wine do you want to drink, let Xiao Er add it to you - look, the six of us share a table of dishes, what about you, how good it is to charter the venue alone!" ”

Sjepan was not happy, but when he said this, he looked down at the fragrant dishes, and felt that it was indeed worth it.

He thought for a moment: "Is there a free Cuba?" Oh, don't give me rum. ”

Brother Jiu rolled his eyes: "Isn't that pure coke!" This is the Qing Dynasty, there is no freedom, and there is no freedom Cuba! Just drink plain water! ”

Then the guest and host were seated.

As usual, it is a greeting, talk about the recent affairs of the court, talk about the gossip of the ministers and the palace, some say that the abolished prince has been restless recently, and always wants to send a letter to the palace, and there is also said that this year's autumn is "put Taijia in Tonggong", the old man means this, do you want to give the abolished prince a chance to reset the throne?

Brother Jiu only drank on the side, but he didn't say anything, he knew everything, but he couldn't say anything.

Sjepan ate a few bites of food, listened to the lively conversation, and couldn't help but throw away his chopsticks and ride on a chair to listen to their conversation. When he heard it funny, he laughed, and rode the chair with a clattering sound, so annoyed that Brother Jiu knocked on the screen to make him quiet.

Hearing the end, he couldn't help but interject: "The crown prince can't come out, His Majesty the Emperor has given up on him a long time ago." ”

When he said this, everyone was shocked, and Brother Jiu frowned, and knocked on the screen with a fan: "Eat you!" What a mouth! ”

Sjepan let out an aggrieved "oh" and was about to turn his head, but Tong Guowei's nephew asked with interest: "This foreign lord also has insight into government affairs. ”

Brother Jiu thought to himself, he had an insight, but he just read two more lines of encyclopedia.

"Ninth Master, where did he come from?"

Before Brother Jiu could speak, the person behind the screen replied positively: "I'm from Russia!" I was born in Vladivostok and went to Minnesota......"

Brother Jiu sneered, and sure enough, the guests at the table looked at each other, and Tong Guowei's nephew knocked on the table: "Russia? I know! Vladivostok? I've heard about it too. But that Minnesota, what is it? ”

"In America!" "It's very cold, it's Siberia, it's freezing." I hated the cold, so then I decided to go to California. But California is so hot that I can't stand it...... Hey, what's your name? My name is Sjepan! ”

Brother Jiu was a little angry, he turned his head and shouted at Si Jie Pan through the screen: "You are here to listen to the government!" ”

Sjepan muttered, "Listen to the government? I've heard this word, oh I remember, the Empress Dowager Cixi established the Tongzhi Emperor in the last years of the Qing Dynasty......"

Before he finished speaking, Brother Jiu was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat! He jumped up in a hurry, pushed the screen open and wanted to beat him!

The person next to him hurriedly stopped: "Ninth Master!" Don't get angry! Foreigners, don't worry about talking nonsense without holding back! ”

Sjepan's face turned pale with fright, and he realized that he had lost his words, so he shrank in his chair and held his head, not daring to move.

Finding that everyone hadn't noticed the "last years of the Qing Dynasty", Brother Jiu breathed a sigh of relief, he pointed to Sjepan and said, "If you say more, I'll let the family tie you up and go back to the house!" Got it! ”

Sjepan hung his head and whispered, "...... Got it. ”

After that, Sjepan didn't dare to interject again.

But he still made all kinds of noises on the side of the screen, cups, chairs, or in a very small voice, shouting, "This fish is delicious!" Or keep looking for Xiao Er, ask for tea, hot towels, vinegar saucers, chili sauce, and "Why is there no chili sauce!" Don't you Qing Dynasty people eat chili peppers? ”…… It's as if he's telling people here with all sorts of signals: I'm here! Don't treat me like air!

After going back and forth, the others understood his intentions, and they couldn't help laughing, Tong Guowei's nephew whispered to Brother Jiu: "Ninth Master, don't you really let him come and sit?" ”

Brother Jiu shook his head and deliberately said coldly: "If it is not my race, its heart will be different." Let him stay over there. ”

Originally, this was Brother Jiu's favorite way of entertainment in the past, once he felt annoyed, he would call friends, come to this kind of place to eat, drink and have fun, after making a fuss, his mind could calm down, and he returned home drunk at night, hugged a concubine to bed, and then all the depression and boredom disappeared.

Today, however, that method has failed.

Although he still eats and drinks with people, and although he still laughs with courtesans, a cold voice always echoes in the heart of Brother Jiu: boring.

Yes, it's all very boring and not interesting at all. If he could, he even wanted to exchange the hardest years before, those days of meeting with business partners day and night to make plans, those days of repeatedly modifying the operating model, even if he was so tired that his spine was broken one by one, and he crawled to the computer with a pair of red eyes, it was much more interesting than sitting at this wine table now, listening to the courtesans singing a breezy little song in his ear.

He once told the Eighth Elder Brother about this distress, and the Eighth Elder Brother said that it was because he was deprived of the natural nature of "creation".

"People naturally want to create something, to achieve something extraordinary, to verify the unknown rather than repeat what is known. When this mobility is deprived, people get sick. When the eighth elder brother said this, he paused before comforting again, "But the current situation is special, we can only endure it, Lao Jiu, you can bear with it again, just wait for you to escape." ”

But the ninth elder brother felt that he was about to take it anymore, he was not the eighth elder brother, and he couldn't comfort himself with philosophical thinking.

Seeing that he was absent-minded, the friend next to him smiled and said, "What's wrong with the ninth master today?" Doesn't look like a pleasure? ”

Brother Jiu came back to his senses and smiled: "What's the matter, you are wrong." ”

Tong Guowei's nephew came up and said with an ambiguous face: "Do you want to call the girl with sleeves over?" ”

Brother Jiu was about to excuse himself, but someone laughed and said, "Oh, it's for this!" Ninth Master, you have spoken early! Emerald! Quick, go get the sleeves! This Nizi is really ignorant, knowing that the ninth master is away from her, and she can't eat the delicacies of the mountains and seas. ”

Not long after, Ying Sleeve was called over, she was dressed up very movingly today, came in and saluted everyone first, and then went over to sit next to Brother Jiu, took the wine bottle and poured him wine, and behaved very intimately, without shying away.

Brother Jiu sighed slightly in his heart.

A few years ago, when he had not left the Qing Dynasty, he only met with this girl, and only knew that this girl was a "strange goods" of a certain bustard. When he came back three years later, Brother Jiu knew that in the past three years, this Ying Sleeve had become his "friend", and it was the first night he bought Ying Sleeve.

So when Jiufujin found out that he had cut off contact with Yingsleeve, he was very surprised. Including Yingsleeve, when she found out that Brother Nine was not coming to her, she was also very panicked, thinking that she had done something wrong and offended him, so she kept sending people to ask Brother Jiu and euphemistically expressed her lovesickness.

Brother Jiu couldn't excuse herself, so she had to say that she didn't do anything wrong, but she didn't have the energy recently.

However, now that he is back and repeats his life, Brother Jiu still inevitably meets this girl in Fengyue Field, every time he meets, he is very ashamed, he can see that Yingsleeve has pinned his life on him, since he is favored by Brother Jiu, in the heart of the woman in the wind and dust, even if there is a backer, suddenly this backer leaves without saying a word, who is not afraid?

Brother Jiu had to quietly instruct his cronies, still take care of Yingshou, give her money and things, and use his power to protect her, but he himself refused to come to Yichun Courtyard again.

However, the last time he and Yinzhen went to rescue Lao Lu, it was only so much work, and when he came back, he heard from the eighth elder brother that his copy was stitched, and he went to Yichun Courtyard again, and he got along with Yingsleeve.

Brother Jiu secretly vomited blood, and it was easy for this girl to break her thoughts, and if the copy was so messed up, his hard work was in vain.

He didn't want to see Ying Sleeves, not only because of this girl's "shaving head and picking hot hair", but also because, as soon as he saw Ying Sleeves, Brother Jiu remembered that free and easy life, and the cover girl who had a romantic relationship with him but didn't know what to do...... This made him feel unspeakably sad in his heart, and even felt that his life was full of sores that he couldn't look back on.

But at this moment at the banquet, he can't show it, not only can't he show it, but he has to pretend and make a very happy appearance, otherwise not only will his sleeves be strange, but his friends at the wine table will also notice the strangeness.

So Brother Nine tried his best to smile at Ying Sleeve, occasionally touched her arm, and laughed with her, he could see that Ying Sleeve was very happy, probably she thought that Brother Nine accepted her again, which made Brother Nine even more sad.

After a while, Brother Jiu felt that something was wrong, and felt that something seemed to be missing, and after thinking about it again, he realized that some kind of noisy sound that had been there just now had disappeared.

Although everyone was still boxing and drinking, talking and laughing, the noisy sound was gone, which made the seemingly noisy room seem a little quiet.

What's going on? Brother Jiu thought to himself, and inadvertently, he turned his head and saw Sjepan through the gap between the two screens.

The big blond man sat at the table in a daze, facing the plates, chopsticks and bowls on the table, his hands hanging down, neither eating nor moving, not knowing what he was thinking.

Looking at the guy's motionless back, Brother Jiu suddenly realized: It turned out that the disappearance of the noisy sound was because of this.

Turning his head again, looking at his friends at the wine table, and the sleeves around him, he suddenly felt tired.

Brother Jiu stood up.

Seeing him get up, those people hurriedly stopped, and Tong Guowei's nephew asked, "The ninth master wants to go back?" ”

"Hmm." Brother Nine said lightly, "It's not too early, there is still something going on there." ”

Ying Sleeve's face immediately showed a look of disappointment, Tong Guowei's nephew noticed this, and said with a smile: "What is the ninth master anxious about?" Sit a little longer. What else can the eighth master do that has to be done? I'll go talk to the eighth master! Ninth Master, stay here tonight. ”

The others also followed suit, saying, it's easy for the ninth master to come, don't leave tonight, stay here at Yingsleeve, at home, just send someone back to say it.

"Let this foreigner go back and talk to Fujin." Tong Guowei's nephew casually pointed at Si Jie Pan and said, "Ninth Master, don't worry, I will let someone send him back to your house." ”

Brother Jiu turned his head and looked at Sjepan behind the screen.

Sjepan looked up at him, then at Tong Guowei's nephew, and he lowered his head.

"I don't do it."

He said these three words, which confused the rest of the audience.

Tong Guowei's nephew still wanted to come forward to ask, but Brother Jiu hurriedly persuaded: "Forget it, I'd better go, there is really something wrong tonight, really, I told the eighth master that there is something important." ”

He felt the hand that was clinging to his left wrist gradually loosen.

Brother Jiu couldn't bear it, so he had to whisper to Yingsleeve: "I'll go to see you again in two days." ”

He knew he was lying, maybe this lie wouldn't be able to fool Yingsleeve, but for now, he had to lie.

Then, Brother Jiu walked up to Sjepan and said lightly, "Have you eaten enough?" When we're full, we'll go back. (To be continued.) )