Chapter Fifty-Nine: Gathering Together
How could Mei Zhexu let go of this good opportunity to pinch Su Wanning, and a smile stained his eyebrows: "A word is a certainty."
Su Wanning took the lead and walked shoulder to shoulder with Lu Qingyue: "Third Miss, the highlight of the Winter Wine Festival is in this Yanque Tower, are you interested in going to the top floor of the building to admire the moon?"
"How? Sir, I have heard that only the winner of the annual wine tasting is given this honor." Lu Qingyue was both excited and apprehensive, she rarely touched wine in Lu Mansion, at most she drank some fruit wine at the family banquet.
"It's a trifle. For the sake of Miss's face, Mr. Mei is determined to help us win the first prize, can Miss be confident?" Su Wanning looked at her Lu Qingyue's expectant gaze, and knew that she would not refuse.
Mei Zhexu also came over as a lobbyist: "Let's come along, Miss Lu. How can you warm up after a long night without a glass of wine?"
Lu Qingyue finally let down her guard and completely left behind her intoxication.
Su Wanning started quickly and ruthlessly, starting with a simple and easy to identify, and guessed the raw materials of five glasses of wine one after another according to the color of the wine and the utensils used to hold the wine.
She was holding the book presented by Yanque Lou in her hand, and five flower-shaped seals were also stamped.
On the other hand, on Mei Zhexu's side, Lu Qingyue followed closely behind, and she was a little restrained from time to time, and she drank more wine, and it was gradually difficult to recognize the ingenuity in it.
However, he also had four stamps on his notebook.
"Mei Gongzi, the slave family is drunk, can you send me home?" A slender woman shook her weak and boneless arms and snorted at Mei Zhexu.
Mei Zhexu's brow furrowed almost imperceptibly, and then he took a step back, avoiding the attack of the woman who suddenly appeared.
Lu Qingyue, who couldn't tell the situation, was pulled by Mei Zhexu's sleeves and taken away from the range that the woman could touch.
"Girl, please respect yourself. You and I have never known each other in our lives, so we must have recognized the wrong person." Mei Zhexu's feather fan was on the tip of his nose, as if he had smelled a foul odor.
The charming woman couldn't hold back her face, and muttered in her mouth: "Childe is really ruthless, and he forgot yesterday's pleasure in a blink of an eye."
After speaking, regardless of Mei Zhexu's face, the woman twisted her waist and quickly disappeared into the Yanque Tower, walked to the dark place, and took a bag of things from the man's hand: "Thank you so much, it's just that Mei Gongzi, where did you provoke you?" Even if you really commit your taboo, the words you confess to the slave family won't hurt him a bit."
"Yueniang is overstepping." Lu Jiarong hid in the dark, holding the Buddha beads behind his back of his hand.
Yueniang frequently touched the mold, and she was no longer in the mood to be in the building, so she went to have fun by herself.
Su Wanning's atmosphere was weird, she didn't expect Mei Zhexu to go to the flower building, and she also caused a bad fate.
blamed her for being careless for a while, and wanted to use Mei Zhexu to eliminate Lu Qingyue's fear of men, but I was afraid that the candidate was not decided, and it would be half the effort.
"Mei Gongzi, you...... Why don't you chase it? That lady looks pretty drunk." Lu Qingyue held back tears in her eyes, and her slender fingers played with the bead belt around her waist.
Mei Zhexu didn't bother to explain, turned around and grabbed a glass of warm water and poured it into his throat, cleaned up the taste left by the previous tasting in his mouth, and continued to taste the wine.
Lu Qingyue didn't get a response, and she didn't dare to ask again, so she found a round stool and sat there wringing a handkerchief.
"Cousin, be merciful, Lu Qingyue is just a girl who is just beginning to fall in love, who let her take a fancy to you at a glance. Just bother your cousin and talk to her kindly, and promise that after tonight, I won't let her pester you again." Su Wanning was begging, and her voice was a little softer, and her hoarseness was mixed with flattery.
Ordinary men will be happy when they hear it.
Mei Zhexu moved his Adam's apple, with a hint of anger: "Xiao Ningzi, you have the right to lose my cousin, and regard me as a normal man who admires you, can you still easily push me to others?"
His palms wrapped around Su Wanning's willow waist as if he were ruthless, and lowered his head to approach her apricot eyes.
The eyes of the two were staggered, their breaths overlapped, and for a moment the air became ambiguous.
"Mejersh, let go. This matter will be discussed later, I have always regarded you as a relative, and I have no further thoughts. And my current identity is Qiushui, don't make a difference
incomprehensible behavior." Su Wanning always felt that there were eyes staring behind her, and she didn't dare to speak loudly.
Mei Zhexu knew from her look that he couldn't ask anything more today, so he also gave up.
"Anyway, I repeat, marrying Lu Jiarong may not necessarily save the entire Zhongbohou Mansion. You know that things are not so simple, and how much can a small Lu Mansion concubine make a splash in the court in five years?" Mei Zhexu turned his back angrily.
"But that's not something Mei Gongzi should think about." Lu Jiarong appeared at the right time, walked leisurely, and stopped beside Su Wanning.
"Second brother, why are you here?" Lu Qingyue hid to the side and watched for a long time, and when she saw Lu Jiarong's arrival, she quickly ran to him and calmly grabbed his arm.
Lu Qingyue's heartbeat and frustration experienced this night, as well as the jealousy born after seeing the intimacy between Qiushui and Mei Zhexu, were enough for her to relieve for a while.
Su Wanning left quietly, not wanting to get involved in the dispute between the two men, and continued to taste the wine.
As long as her identity is not broken, she still has to do a good job of Qiushui's character.
Lu Jiarong and Mei Zhexu looked at each other silently for a long time, and there was an undercurrent of tide in the depths of their eyes.
Lu Qingyue thought that the second brother came to fight for her, so she hurriedly dissuaded, "Second brother, this Mei Gongzi is a good person. Don't make it difficult for him."
"Qingyue, don't be afraid, second brother, I and Mei Gongzi are old acquaintances, and some things can't be said clearly for a while. Why don't we go to the festival with Mr. Qiushui?" Lu Jiarong saw Su Wanning flash aside, and he didn't want to waste time here with Mei Zhexu.
In the blink of an eye, Su Wanning had collected more than 20 stamps, and she seemed to be the most promising wine taster in the audience.
Mei Zhexu snorted coldly, threw off his sleeves and focused on wine appreciation, but his steps followed Su Wanning closely, no more than three fists away.
Su Wanning saw that the tense atmosphere was broken, so she teased in a low voice, "Cousin, you are cheating, aren't you afraid that you won't be able to taste the drink, so you will come and steal my answer?"
"Nonsense! Am I such an unrighteous gentleman? I see that Lu Jiarong's ghost is still gone, but I'm afraid that he will miss your big thing!" Mei Zhexu pursed his mouth again, and his eyes drifted to the man under the glass lamp on the west side, "Look over there, the son of the Fang family, who has been ill for a long time, has finally gotten out of bed. Do you still have the heart to visit the Winter Wine Festival?"
Fang Wenyuan is also here?
Ever since Su Wanning broke away from Ling Xue's identity, she had always felt that she had left too decisively in the end, and she really didn't take into account Fang Wenyuan's feelings.
"Didn't the Feng family be punished, and the Holy Lord also gave the Fang Mansion the compensation it deserved? It's just that listening to the meaning of Cousin Mei's words, this Fang Wenyuan has been injured a lot?" Su Wan condensed and looked sideways at Fang Wenyuan with concern.
The square single shadow is only a thin figure in a dark robe.
"After you left, Ling Xue didn't return to Fang Mansion. Maybe the real Ling Xue didn't treat Fang Wenyuan sincerely. The doctor who listened to Fang Wenyuan said that he had a heart disease, so after the trauma was healed, he was still sick on the bed." Mei Zhexu seemed to be also investigating Fang Wenyuan.
Lu Jiarong seemed to sense the subtlety of their side, and his eyes turned sharply to Su Wanning and the others.
Su Wanning naturally skillfully picked up a glass of wine and nodded at Lu Jiarong.
The moment she turned her back, she blurted out a reminder, "Cousin, stay away from me. Lu Jiarong saw the flaw in you last time and recognized my identity!"
Mei Zhexu took the newly stamped notebook from the wine boy's hand, and said disdainfully: "Now no one in Yandu knows that Mei Shizi is greedy and lustful. Cousin, it's not surprising that I'm close to any woman now. I'm for you, I've broken all the rings, and I can't see through Lu Jiarong for a while."
Su Wanning disapproves of keeping her distance from him, she thought about it and walked towards Lu Qingyue.
"Third Miss, I see that you have been preoccupied. Why don't I give you tonight's top prize, and you go to the young owner of Yanque Tower to ask for a wish?" Su Wanning admitted that she was a little bit of a cliché.
Lu Qingyue, she can't move now.
Lu Jiarong was next to Lu Qingyue, and when he heard this, he asked in surprise, "I don't know when Mr. Qiushui got here
I don't know how good it is to taste wine."
"Do you want you to know what to do? Could it be that the second brother still wants to take her as a concubine?!" Lu Qingyue was obviously still embarrassed by Mei Zhexu's treatment of Su Wanning differently, and what she said was also sarcastic and mean.
Su Wanning's hand that sent out the note froze in mid-air, it turned out that Lu Qingyue looked at her like this, a husband and painter, and she was not even a concubine.
Lu Jiarong was stunned when he heard this, and his eyebrows twisted into knots: "Lu Qingyue, where did you go with all the etiquette you should have?" Sir is an elder, you are such a critic of the elders?"
"Am I wrong? It is clear that my mother also said that outsiders in the same house should not be too close, they are lowly and short-sighted, and women are not even worthy of being concubines for our family!" Lu Qingyue landed on Lu Jiarong by her side, and became more and more unscrupulous.
"Miss Lu's words are biased, if the two of them are of the same heart and love each other deeply, how can they abandon each other because of the disparity in status? Girl, think about it, if you are just a servant girl, and you have a relationship with your son-in-law for a long time, you can't even be a concubine?" Fang Wenyuan came out of nowhere, and said what he thought in his heart with grief and indignation.
After Su Wan listened, she thought so.
Fang Wenyuan did what he said, he was able to give the heirloom Luan Ming jade pendant to Ling Xue, and he was also a man who dared to love and hate.
It's just that Ling Xue is nowhere to be found now, and Su Wanning feels very pity.
"What Childe said is extremely true, even if the family background is very different, it does not prevent the two from falling in love. However, I still have to thank the third lady for reminding her, Qiushui knows her identity, and she will never want to climb the high branch of the second son." Su Wanning lowered her eyebrows, indifferent and quiet.
On the other hand, the aggressive Lu Qingyue suddenly highlighted the level of virtue of the two.
A daughter of a family was actually compared to a wandering orphan girl.
"Mr. Qiushui, I'm really sorry, my sister was in a hurry and said something hurtful. I'll plead guilty to him afterwards." Lu Jiarong saw that he couldn't contain the momentum, and personally came forward to apologize to Lu Qingyue.
Lu Qingyue was still standing aside and pouting, looking unwilling.
Fang Wenyuan glanced at Lu Qingyue coldly, and the moment he saw Qiushui, he was a little distracted: "Is there a sister in the girl's family? I have an old man who is five points similar to you in tone and demeanor."
This time it was Su Wan's turn to be surprised, she was obviously pretending to work hard enough.
Where did Fang Wenyuan see that something was wrong?
Lu Jiarong also looked at Su Wanning with great interest.