Chapter 31: The Engagement Banquet Turmoil
At night, the Lu family's mansion is brightly lit. Bright lights shine through the large and beautiful picture windows and spread out onto the lawn in front of the house, and the soft and moving jazz music accompanies the joyful crowds in and out, setting off the full atmosphere of the banquet.
"Congratulations!" Another pair of unfamiliar faces raised the wine glass in their hands with a smile, Shang Yucheng also raised the wine glass with a stylized smile, listened to Lu Jingcheng on the side say words of thanks, and then raised his glass and took a sip.
Most of the guests who came today are people who have various relationships with the Lu family, some are business dealers, some are friends of Lu Zuoyuan's antique industry, and some are political dignitaries who have always been good friends with the Lu family. Such a banquet actually has little to do with the heroine Shang Yucheng, who has a mediocre family background, and everyone present knows this.
Leng Hui and her parents, as well as Zhao Wenxuan, arrived early in the morning, at this time the Leng couple was drinking and chatting with Lu Zuoyuan and his wife, and they had a good conversation, while Leng Hui and Zhao Wenxuan danced and drank with a few young young ladies and had a lot of fun.
Shang Yucheng observed them quietly, looking at the wall clock on the wall from time to time.
"I'll touch up my makeup." Shang Yucheng said something in the ear of Lu Jingcheng, who was staggering with the guests, nodded to everyone with a smile, turned around and walked away.
The bathroom was also overcrowded, but she was just trying to find an excuse to avoid endless socializing, so she walked out again, went upstairs to the second floor terrace and sat down, glanced at the hand on her wrist, and looked up at the guests coming in and out of the door.
It was already nine o'clock in the evening, and Ye Shen and Jia Wenxin should appear at any time. No matter what doubts they had at this time, tonight's plan needed their help to accomplish it. Shang Yucheng knew this in her heart, so she didn't plan to debunk Xianglin's matter, but was just patiently waiting for them to appear.
After about ten minutes, sure enough, I saw Ye Shen's car driving into the gate, Shang Yucheng glanced into the car, the lights in the garden were staggered, and before she could see the people in the car, the car had stopped, Ye Shen got out of the back seat, and then went around to the side and opened the door next to him, and gentlemanly stretched out his hand and welcomed Jia Wenxin out of the car.
"Mr. Ye." The guests in the courtyard have already been greeted.
Ye Shen smiled and greeted others, raised his head, and looked upstairs on the terrace like an electrocardiogram.
Seeing each other, Shang Yucheng smiled slightly, and immediately reacted, at such a long distance, Ye Shen must not be able to see her demeanor clearly, so he regained his indifferent expression and quietly watched them walk towards the house.
At this time, there was a lot of people downstairs, and it seemed that the corner where Shang Yucheng was hiding was particularly quiet, she raised her hand to look at the time, turned around and walked downstairs. Now that the protagonist and supporting roles have arrived, it is time for her to prepare this scene for many days.
Today, Lu Jingcheng was proud of the spring breeze, and at this time he drank a lot of wine with the guests, and stood aside to talk with Ye Shen and Jia Wenxin. Shang Yucheng walked towards him, Jia Wenxin saw her, and said to Lu Jingcheng with a smile, "You don't want to patronize and chat, you should also ask Miss Shang to dance-" After speaking, he turned to Ye Shen who was looking at Shang Yucheng beside him and said, "Let's go dance too." β
Ye Shen smiled and nodded, leading Jia Wenxin to the dance floor. Lu Jingcheng and Shang Yucheng followed, dancing in pairs.
Lu Jingcheng was a little drunk, and whispered in Shang Yucheng's ear, "Yucheng, you are really beautiful today." β
Shang Yucheng smiled and turned his head slightly, "What are you doing so close to me, it's itchy." Am I not beautiful on weekdays? β
"Beautiful! Of course it's beautifulβ" Lu Jingcheng smiled and looked at her with a confused look in his eyes, "I'm really happy to be able to marry you." β
Shang Yucheng smiled and approached Lu Jingcheng, and whispered in Lu Jingcheng's ear, "If I can be with you day and night, I also feel very happy." β
The warm breath swept through Lu Jingcheng's ears, and he staggered under his feet, and stepped on Shang Yucheng's feet in high heels.
"Oops!" Shang Yucheng flashed suddenly, but one of them was unstable, and he fell to the ground on his back.
Such a movement disturbed the people dancing around, and someone around him reacted quickly to help Shang Yucheng up, "Ah! Miss Shang's handβ"
Shang Yucheng raised his hand to take a look, and sure enough, a piece of skin was scratched on the back of his hand, oozing bright red blood.
"How? Does it hurt? Lu Jingcheng hurriedly stepped forward, held Shang Yucheng's injured hand distressedly, and looked at it carefully.
"It doesn't matter." Everyone was watching from the side, Shang Yucheng was a little embarrassed and withdrew his hand.
"Wait." Lu Jingcheng hurriedly took her hand again and looked at the back of her hand carefully.
"What's wrong?" Shang Yucheng looked at his hand with some strange eyes, and suddenly exclaimed, "Oops! How did the diamond in this ring break? β
The person next to her looked curiously at her hand, and sure enough, the diamond on the ring had fallen from the setting, and a few pieces of it had grazed the skin on the back of her hand and embedded it in her flesh.
"This-" Shang Yucheng frowned suspiciously, looked up at Lu Jingcheng and said, "This ring was bought from the Leng clan yesterday, how could it be broken?" β
"Leng's jewelryβ" the crowd whispered, "how could a diamond shatter like this?" It can't be a fake. β
Ye Shen stood not far away, taking in everything in front of him, and at this time, he finally understood Shang Yucheng's intentions. The Leng jewelry she was wearing, along with those on Jia Wenxin's body, were all fakes that had been manipulated. This engagement party, along with all that was in front of him, was nothing more than Shang Yucheng's means to attack Zhao Wenxuan.
Jia Wenxin looked up at Ye Shen, although she didn't know as much as Ye Shen, she also had some guesses of her own, so she waited for Ye Shen to respond.
Ye Shen made a decision in an instant, he pulled Jia Wenxin to Shang Yucheng's side, frowned and looked at Shang Yucheng's hand, then turned around and took off the diamond pendant from Jia Wenxin's neck, glanced at the light, and then sneered and slammed to the ground.
"What are you doing!" Jia Wenxin raised her voice cooperatively, successfully attracting the attention of more people, and everyone looked over one after another.
"This diamond is a fake." Ye Shen's voice was neither high nor low, and he calmly judged.
"Fake?" Jia Wen hurriedly leaned over and picked it up, and sure enough, the diamond on the pendant had been shattered.
"I bought it from the Leng family yesterday-" Jia Wen said a little confused, "How can it be fake?" β
At this time, Zhao Wenxuan finally noticed that something was wrong, and hurriedly walked over to this side, "What's wrong?" β
Ye Shen sneered and looked at Zhao Wenxuan, and said sarcastically, "Is the Leng family bullying us for not knowing the goods by selling such clumsy fakes?" β
Such a sentence was like thunder on the ground, and Zhao Wenxuan was suddenly blinded, "Fake? When did Leng sell a fake to Mr. Ye? β
Ye Shen took the necklace in Jia Wenxin's hand and threw it to Zhao Wenxuan casually, "I don't dare you sell me fakes." But even if it's someone else, you shouldn't prevaricate with fakes, right? β
Zhao Wenxuan's words were distorted by Ye Shen like this, and it immediately caused a dissatisfaction in the crowd, could it be that the Leng family not only sold fakes, but also divided the guests into three, six, nine and so on?
Zhao Wenxuan was also annoyed to find out that he had made a mistake, so he hurriedly explained, "Our Leng family has never sold any fakes to anyone, this must be a misunderstanding-"
"Misunderstanding?" Jia Wen said with a straight face, "This chain and ring were bought from your store yesterday, doesn't Mr. Zhao refuse to admit it?" β
Zhao Wenxuan looked at the necklace in his hand, his face was hard to see, this necklace is indeed Leng's new product, and the same style can never be found in Shanghai - how can it be fake?
"What's going on?" Leng Hui also squeezed through the crowd, she looked at the necklace in Zhao Wenxuan's hand, and her face sank.
Shang Yucheng sneered in his heart, but his face seemed to be a little embarrassed, "I went to your store a few days ago to buy jewelry, and I heard that there will be new arrivals, so yesterday I called Miss Jia to go to Leng's with me to choose a few models, but I didn't expect it to be fakeββ"
"Fake?" Leng Hui couldn't help but ask rhetorically, and turned her head to look at Zhao Wenxuan.
Zhao Wenxuan finally reacted at this time, "The Leng family has always been honest, there must be some misunderstanding here." Why don't you let me see the other jewelry that Miss Shang has bought, so that I can check it out at this time. β
Shang Yucheng finally showed an unhappy look on his face, "What does Mr. Zhao mean, is it that he refuses to admit it?" β
Jia Wen also said in her heart, "Yes, Mr. Zhao, this jewelry was bought together by us yesterday, will we still wronged you?" β
Zhao Wenxuan wanted to say something, but Lu Jingcheng interrupted him, "Okay." It's just a piece of jewelry, and it's not worth disturbing everyone's interest for such a thing. Let's talk about it tomorrow. β
As he spoke, he secretly glanced at Shang Yucheng.
Lu Jingcheng's reaction was not unexpected by Shang Yucheng, Leng is a partner of Huijin Department Store, and if Leng's reputation goes wrong, it will also affect Huijin Department Store. Lu Jingcheng and no one in the Lu family wanted to see this matter make a bigger fuss, which was also the reason why Shang Yucheng wanted to involve Ye Shen, she had to consider Lu Jingcheng's worries, but Ye Shen didn't have to think about it so much.
"Miss Shang has been wronged, is it okay to just forget it?" Ye Shen sneered, "It's that you are willing to give up, but I can't see Miss Jia being wronged-" As he spoke, he looked up and saw the Leng couple who were looking here, and then walked over with Jia Wenxin in mind.
"Ye Shen!" Lu Jingcheng called behind him, but Ye Shen didn't even look back.
"Uncle Leng." Ye Shen walked in front of Leng Hui's father, Leng Fanqing, in front of the helmsman of the Leng clan and Leng Hui, in the eyes of everyone, and respectfully saluted.
Leng Fanqing looked at Ye Shen's unwilling expression and sighed slightly.
Unlike the Ye family and the Lu family, Leng Fanqing is a self-made entrepreneur, and Leng's current status in Shanghai was created by this business predecessor after several ups and downs, and Leng's signboard embodies most of his life's hard work, and he will never tolerate any smearing of Leng's reputation.
Fang Cai's farce, although it was far away from him, but with his keen observation and Ye Shen's reaction at this time, he had already guessed seventy-seven-eighty-eight, so before Ye Shen could speak, Leng Fanqing said, "I already understand what the virtuous nephew means, don't worry, I will definitely give you an explanation." But today is a happy event for your Uncle Lu's family, so we might as well put it aside for a day and talk about it tomorrow, how about it? β
Ye Shen smiled and said politely, "Uncle said this, the juniors naturally have to obey orders." Leng's business has always been honest, and the younger generation also firmly believes this. Ye Shen glanced back at Shang Yucheng, who was still standing in the crowd, and continued, "Naturally, there will be such and such accidents in business, which is naturally understandable, and the younger generation is not a person who can be ignored and unforgiving. It's just that today's fake is obviously from the Leng family, but Mr. Zhao flatly denies it - isn't there a suspicion of shirking responsibility? β
Ye Shen said a few words, and turned the spearhead directly from Leng's jewelry store to Zhao Wenxuan, Leng Fanqing naturally heard Ye Shen's meaning, he looked at Ye Shen expressionlessly, "If Leng's does sell fakes, we will definitely double the compensation for your losses - and investigate the facts clearly, and give you an explanation." If someone commits the responsibility of negligence, of course, the Leng family will severely punish them. At this point, please rest assured that Ye Xian's nephew. β
Ye Shen smiled slightly, "Since my uncle said so, I am relieved." β
After speaking, he didn't look at Leng Fanqing's eyes, and retired very politely.
Shang Yucheng looked at Ye Shen and Leng Fanqing from a distance, and then glanced at Zhao Wenxuan beside him indifferently.
Although he tried his best to restrain his expression, the anger and resentment on Zhao Wenxuan's face were still revealed. Shang Yucheng lowered his eyes slightly, and heard Lu Jingcheng trying to ease the atmosphere, "It's okay, it's okay." Keep dancing. β
Shang Yucheng also put on a nonchalant expression, smiling and standing beside Lu Jingcheng, as if he didn't take everything to heart.
Everything returned to normal, everyone began to sing and dance again, Shang Yucheng saw that Lu Jingcheng was relieved, and said, "You entertain everyone first, and I'll go back and deal with the injury on my hand." β
Lu Jingcheng remembered Shang Yucheng's injury at this time, and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, it's all because I accidentally caused you to be injured." You don't have to go back, just go upstairs and rest for a while, I'll call a doctor for you." β
Shang Yucheng shook his head with a smile and said in a low voice, "No need. It's so easy to calm down the farce, why bother to stir up the crowd like this. I quietly went back to wash the wound and put some medicine, and it was fine. What's moreβ" she frowned, "these pieces of jewelry are awkward to wear on your body." β
Lu Jingcheng heard that Shang Yucheng made sense, so he nodded, "Then you can go quickly." β
Shang Yucheng answered, turned to leave.