Chapter 22: Taste
Yu Nian felt that he had dreamed for a long time, dreaming of returning to Jiangnan.
returned to the old mansion of the Yu family, returned to the carefree youth, and returned to the time when I first met Ah Yan.
That year, the camphor tree in the courtyard bloomed, and the faint fragrance wafted into the bedroom, soothing the worries and horrors she had endured day and night after being held hostage.
And Ah Yan came.
With the scent of sunshine and camphor trees.
Yu Nian opened his eyes coldly.
Where did the Yu family's old house come from? Where did the camphor tree come from? And the silent boy never appeared.
Unfamiliar room.
The smell of alcohol fills the breath.
She was so sore that she couldn't do anything, and the first thing she did when she sat up was to check herself. With her hair scattered and the clothes she was wearing replaced with a bathrobe, she had a bad feeling and looked up subconsciously around.
I don't know where I am, and I don't know if there are cameras in this room.
The phone is not around, it is dark outside the window, and it is not clear what time it is.
Little by little, the memory came back, and the scene in the elevator was frozen in my mind.
Yu Nian's heart jumped suddenly, and an ominous feeling arose.
It's not a Jiang New Year's banquet.
It's his words, and there is no need to use this kind of "inviting people" means.
Yu Nian ordered himself to calm down, and the more he had to regain his composure at this time.
She staggered out of bed, the room lit up with goose-yellow floor lamps, and none of the other lights were on. She thought about it, tightened the curtains, and stepped forward to turn off the floor lamp.
The curtains darkened the moonlight outside the window, and the bedroom was immediately plunged into darkness. She didn't move, and when her eyes got used to it, she began to look around.
Time passed minute by minute, and Yu Nian completely calmed down in the process.
Fortunately, there are no cameras installed in the room.
Turning on the floor lamp again, Yu Nian entered the bathroom as soon as possible, and did not rush to take off his bathrobe. Ruling out the possibility that a camera had been installed in the bathroom, she took a closer look at the mirror.
In front of the floor-to-ceiling mirror, she first raised her hand and knocked on the mirror, listened to the sound and judged it, then turned off the light and looked carefully, and only breathed a sigh of relief after making sure that the bathroom was full of one-way mirrors.
Taking off her bathrobe, Yu Nian carefully examined herself in front of the mirror. I didn't see my clothes in the bathroom, so I put on my bathrobe again. Although he was weak, he should not have been taken advantage of, and it was caused by the drug of the handkerchief.
If it's not someone from Jiang Nianyan's banquet, who can it be?
Ji Zi's retaliation?
Even if he hated her, Ji Zi couldn't have come to kidnap someone so soon. Even if Ji Zi's building collapsed at this time, the staff standing behind her could not give up easily, and they would definitely pull her to make a final struggle to try to save her reputation.
In addition to Ji Zi......
Yu Nian thought of a possibility.
The heart snapped.
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The Red Reputation Hall is located on the outskirts of the city.
There is a heavenly road after entering the mountain. The reason why it is called the Heavenly Road is because this road is built in the mountains, and the heroic landscape of the green shadows of the mountains on both sides of the road is the car shuttling between the mountains has a unique style, especially when the snow is white after winter, it is even more pleasing to the eye.
There are very few vehicles on this road, as this road leads directly to the clan hall and is restricted to the clan hall guests.
When it comes to the Red Reputation Hall, the outside world knows very little, only that it is a place of power. In fact, the original founder of the guild hall belonged to the Beijing circle, and deliberately found a clean place to relax and Kan Dashan, and later the guild hall had more funds flowing in, and it was repeatedly renovated, becoming an important meeting place for the powerful in the Beijing circle.
The only people who can enter here are those who have a very good relationship with people in the Beijing area. There are many people in the outside world who want to come in, because the identity and status of being qualified to enter the Hongyu Hall are not simple, and they can also exchange more resources here.
Lao Liu drove the car steadily, the mountain scenery on both sides swished, and when the night fell, the mountain shadow looked a lot weirder.
"That Zhang Xuanwen usually disagrees with the Jiang family, and you didn't have any contact with him before, so you just got off the plane, is it necessary to go to this appointment?"
The driver, Lao Liu, is the person of Jiang Nian's banquet.
is the person of the pure Cuijiang New Year Banquet, born as a special soldier when he was young, and later became a mercenary in the Golden Triangle. It is an old acquaintance with Jiang Nianyan, when Jiang Nianyan returned to Jiang's house, Lao Liu was intercepted and chased by the enemy, it was regarded as Jiang Nianyan who saved Lao Liu's life, and from that day on, Lao Liu was wholeheartedly by Jiang Nianyan's side.
Therefore, Lao Liu is one of the few people who dares to have a word with Jiang Nianyan.
Jiang Nianyan looked at the dark mountain shadow outside the car window, he didn't often walk this road, because he didn't go to the Hongyu Hall often, but Jiang Xue was a frequent visitor to the hall. In other words, whenever the Jiang family came to the hall, they were all guests.
After a long time, he said, "I don't have anything to do with Zhang Xuanwen, and Zhang Xuanwen also knows very well that I don't want to see him, but at this time he told me that he got a beauty, and this mind was revealed." ”
"Got a beauty?" Lao Liu was surprised.
What surprised me was not the beauty, but Jiang Nianyan's banquet going down for such a sentence, which was too strange.
Jiang Nianyan has never been a person of heavy desire, and he has never seen him interested in any woman since the day he met him, and he has never left a woman around, so Zhang Xuanwen only used the word "beauty" to attract Jiang Nianyan?
Lao Liu was confused.
Transsexualized?
On second thought, it's not ...... is not interested in women, didn't he personally intervene in the affairs of the Yu family's daughter?
Jiang Nianyan didn't explain too much, so he hummed, "Yes, beauty." ”
Lao Liu didn't ask.
But I was muttering in my heart, what kind of beauty does this beauty have to be?
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From the manager to the housekeeper and a large number of waiters were waiting at the door early, and as soon as the car stopped, the manager took the initiative to step forward and respectfully guide the way.
In fact, the Hongyu Hall covers an area that is not large, and the purpose is not to be too ostentatious.
But in the eyes of outsiders, it is already a very ostentatious thing to open up a mountain for a guild hall, so even if the guild hall is as small as a latrine, the so-called "avoiding swagger" is just covering your ears and stealing the bell.
Zhang Xuanwen had already arrived, and he asked three children from the Beijing circle to accompany him to touch mahjong. Zhang Xuanwen is famous for his love of playing cards, and he is a frequent customer of Macau casinos, which is a well-known thing in the circle.
Seeing that Jiang Nian's banquet had arrived, Zhang Xuanwen sighed and threw the mahjong cards in his hand on the table, "The banquet is here, I am fortunate to be happy." ”
In addition to the four people at the table, there are five or six people, all of whom are also in the circle. Before Jiang Nianyan entered the door, they talked and laughed, talked about history, talked about economy, interspersed with women's, red wine in the cup continued, and the topic continued.
After Jiang Nianyan came in, the chatting people stopped chatting, and got up one after another, one by one, and the other three on the mahjong table also hurriedly stood up to say hello.
Only Zhang Xuanwen, Jiao Erlang sat there with a stack of cards, saying that he was lucky, but he didn't have the slightest compliment.
Among the children present, only Zhang Xuanwen dared to argue with Jiang Nianyan, and the others were still very good at judging the situation.
Most of the people present today had never seen Jiang Nianyan before, but Jiang Nianyan was famous, so they naturally heard of it. One after another beckoned Jiang Nian to sit down at the banquet, and Zhang Xuanwen proposed, "Since the banquet is here, play two?" ”
The shallowest family background on the table naturally gave way, and he personally pulled the chair apart, almost, "You sit here with me, I have good feng shui." ”
The person next to him is even more able to speak, "Where to sit at the banquet, which feng shui is good." ”
"Yes, yes, yes."
Jiang Nianyan was not polite and sat down.
Seeing this, Zhang Xuanwen shouted to the housekeeper, "Hurry up, take out the cards I have stored here." ”
The housekeeper hurried to prepare.
"Brother Wen, do you still have cards here?" The man at the table asked.
Zhang Xuanwen smiled, "That is, my deck of cards is not easy to take out, today you are lucky enough to see it by borrowing the light of Yan Shao." ”
"Oh, then we'll have more thanksgiving and less thanks."
Jiang Nianyan took the towel handed by the waiter and wiped his hands slowly, "Everything that can enter Zhang Gongzi's eyes is a good thing, and I am also fortunate to enjoy it today." ”
Zhang Xuanwen leaned forward slightly, looked at Jiang Nian Yan with a smile and said, "Yan Shao, I won't tell you, my deck of cards is rare in the world, and any card thrown out can be used as money." ”
"Oh?" Jiang Nianyan raised his eyebrows slightly, as if he was smiling, "That Zhang Gongzi is amazing." ”
Soon the butler came.
Not alone, he was followed by two waiters, carrying a large metal tray with things stacked on top of it, covered with a white damask cloth.
Zhang Xuanwen said loudly and arrogantly, "Clean up the table, don't let the mahjong on the table dirty Yan Shao's hands." ”
The waiters moved neatly, cleaned up the front feet, and the butler ordered the tray to be moved to the table.
The white brocade was gently lifted, and the gold suddenly shone brightly.
If you look at the tray, it is mahjong, and the back is stacked neatly up, and it is actually made of gold.
"See." Zhang Xuanwen gestured.
The person at the table picked up a mahjong tile and looked at it, sighed, touched it carefully, and exclaimed, "Carved with jade?" ”
The jade on the front and the gold on the back, the jade is white and delicate, without the slightest impurity, not to mention how smooth and cool it is to play with it in your hand.
Zhang Xuanwen was triumphant, touched a piece of it and played with it carefully, "This is called gold inlaid with jade, and flowers grow step by step." He looked at Jiang Nianyan again, "The jade of my deck of cards is Hetian, but the jade I personally went to Xinjiang to choose, so that the card is only worth a fortune." ”
Jiang Nianyan didn't touch the cards, took the warm tea handed by the waiter, took a sip, and said with satisfaction, "The tea is good." ”
"Huh? Yan Shao, you are slapping me in the face, I finally got a baby to share with you, you don't even look at it, it hurts me very much. Zhang Xuanwen said loudly and proudly.
He also ordered the housekeeper, "Yard on yard, let the banquet taste less." ”
The butler immediately complied.
Jiang Nianyan chuckled, "Zhang Gongzi is bold, I'm afraid it's the first time this card is on the table, right?" ”
"Isn't it? Yan Shao is a distinguished guest, and of course good things have to be left to Yan Shao to try first. Zhang Xuanwen is typical of a gentleman.
Jiang Nianyan's eyelids lifted slightly, and he buckled the tea lid on the teacup, and his tone was light, "Leave good things for me to try?" Including the beauty that Zhang Gongzi just got? ”