Chapter 15: The Masquerade
"He agreed to come at night?" In the western-style building where Yun Miaoyin lived in Yun Hou Mansion, Yun Miaoyin asked the man in the suit. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info "Yes Miss, I've already said I'll drive to pick him up at six o'clock. ”
"Okay, I see, you go and get busy, don't forget to pick it up at the point. Yun Miaoyin commanded.
"Yes, Miss". The man was ordered to leave
Yun Miaoyin breathed a sigh of relief. I feel that I have more energy than before these days, and I can't help but be more grateful to Yunrui. As soon as she got home that day, there was an uncontrollable sleepiness that hit, and she didn't bother to take off her clothes and fell asleep on the **. She didn't even have a dream this night, and she slept for twenty hours in one night, and she had never slept so long, let alone so soundly.
The servants all knew that the young lady had finally slept well, and they did not dare to wake her up. After Yun Miaoyin woke up, in addition to the discomfort of being hungry, her spirit was surprisingly good, as if the tiredness accumulated for a long time had been swept away, not only the dark circles under her eyes were gone, but even her thinking seemed to be a little quicker than before, and even, soon she found that even the unspeakable constipation had disappeared. Yun Miaoyin couldn't help but sigh at the magic of qigong, no wonder so many people sought after qigong masters.
However, she also knew that Yun Rui was definitely not a person who liked to be public, on the contrary, he was very low-key. This is also normal, if others know that he knows qigong and go to visit, it is indeed very annoying. It's just strange that this is obviously a very profitable skill, why doesn't he rely on it to make money.
However, in order to thank Yunrui, she still spent a lot of brains. Giving money is just the lowest means, and it is not appropriate. Let him go to the Hou Mansion to help with things? The sister-in-law will not agree. Dad won't agree, although he is also surnamed Yun, but after all, he is a relative of Wufu, and there are too many distant relatives like this for more than a hundred years, and Dad will definitely not open this opening.
After thinking about it, he finally came up with a way to hold a party for him. In this way, he can quickly integrate into Haijing's upper circle, as long as he grasps it well, it is definitely a shortcut to the south, and many people want to enter the upper class but can't ask for it.
The party held by Yunhou Mansion is not something that everyone can attend. The parties she held were attended by celebrities and sons from the political and business worlds of Haijing, but with the status of Yunhoufu, of course, these people were also happy to receive her invitation, Yunhoufu is a great nobleman of the empire, not only in Haijing, but also looking at the entire empire, it is also a first-class family.
The prominence of the Yun family is a historical reason. More than 100 years ago, the First Sino-Japanese War broke out, and Japan defeated the Dongyu Dynasty, which ruled China at that time. Li Zhang, the leader of the Beiyang warlords, took the opportunity to raise troops, and soon captured Yanjing, and the Eastern Dynasty was destroyed. Li Zhang established the constitutional Bactria Empire and bestowed the title of meritorious hero. Among them, the most famous is the "Three Princes and Five Candidates", known as the "Eight Noble Families", and Yunhou is one of them.
Haijing is close to the sea, but there are not many beautiful beaches, and Yunjia has a villa with a sea view just on the beach with the best scenery. And tonight's small dance party was held in this villa with a pleasant view.
When Yunrui arrived, there were already twenty or thirty people gathered in the beautiful concert hall, and before Yunrui entered the hall, he saw that the guests were wearing all kinds of masks, and he knew that it was a masquerade ball. When he and the man in the suit who picked him up entered the door, the waiter at the door bowed respectfully, "Sir, please choose your mask first." As he spoke, he took a color picture and handed it to Yun Rui, who casually chose the least fancy icon, and soon the waiter took out the light blue mask and helped Yun Rui put it on his face.
Yun Rui walked in, and many strange faces looked at him, as if they were guessing who Yun Rui was. Although he couldn't see his face, he was all well-dressed, but the most interesting thing about this masquerade was that it was so mysterious, so no one asked him very uninterestingly at first.
Yun Rui didn't use his divine sense, but he still keenly sensed Yun Miaoyin's existence. Yun Miaoyin obviously saw him as well and nodded at him. Although he was wearing a mask, she saw that he was accompanied by someone she had sent. But even if there is no such one, Yun Miaoyin knows that it is Yun Rui, and it is not for nothing that the audience is dressed casually, but he is the only one who is dressed like him and is close to shabby.
After a while, several men and women came one after another. Yun Miaoyin counted it, and when she saw that the number of people had arrived, she stopped the music, walked to the middle of the hall, and said generously: "I am Yun Miaoyin, thank you for your face, come to the beautiful seaside on this midsummer night, and spend this breezy night together." The first item below, the masquerade, now please choose your dance partner freely!" Yun Miaoyin had just finished speaking, and in order to boost the atmosphere, he immediately took the initiative to invite a man.
Suddenly, soothing and beautiful music sounded, and the people on the dance floor chose each other's dance partners, and for a while, a pair of dancers were like a pair of fluttering butterflies, swaying and dancing with soothing music, and waiters holding champagne lightly interspersed between the crowd. Almost all of the men take the initiative to invite the woman, and the woman will not refuse.
However, Yun Rui didn't take the initiative to choose a woman, not that he didn't know how to dance this simple slow dance, but that he was not interested at all, and he still didn't want to embarrass Yun Miaoyin if he could come. And for some reason, he instead thought of Jing Xiaowan at home at this time, and he didn't know what she was doing now. Thinking of this, he was even less interested, so he simply prepared to find a seat on the edge and sit down. But when he came here, he found that a person had just sat down in the corner, a woman.
The woman wore a blue butterfly mask and sat quietly in the corner, looking a little desolate. She was dressed a little casually, which looked out of place with the noble and gorgeous dresses of the ladies on the dance floor, but it did not affect her graceful demeanor, and she was as demure as a cluster of elegant autumn chrysanthemums.
Yun Rui just glanced at her lightly, and sat down on the chair next to him. Soon a waiter came over with champagne, and Yun Rui took a glass and drank it casually, thinking about his thoughts. The woman just sat down just now, and when she saw Yun Rui coming, she thought she was invited to dance again, and she couldn't help frowning slightly, because the women on the field had dance partners, and he couldn't find a dance partner anymore, only himself. But seeing that Yun Rui just glanced at her lightly, he turned his head and did it directly to the side, only to know that he would be wrong.
She was invited to the dance party, but she excused herself on the pretext of going to the bathroom, and sat down. She really didn't like this kind of ball, but fortunately there were just 30 people on the field right now, and no one would bother her. It seems that this man also doesn't want to dance, so he hides here like himself.
She noticed that Yun Rui was sitting very close to her, but she didn't think that Yun Rui was doing it on purpose, because any chair next to her was very close to her. As soon as Yun Rui sat down, she smelled a faint smell, not a perfume, something strange but very good, like the smell of the green grass after the rain.
She couldn't help but take the initiative to quietly look at the man next to her, and found that he was also wearing a blue mask, revealing only well-defined lips and a smooth chin. He was dressed more casually than himself, even rudimentary. It seemed that she didn't care more about this kind of entertainment than herself, and the woman paid some attention to the man who had the same characteristics as herself, so she soon noticed that this person seemed to sit casually, but his back was very straight. He held a glass of wine, and the glass didn't even tremble.
Yun Rui also noticed that the woman looked at him, but he didn't care, after all, everyone has curiosity, especially women. He was wondering if it was time to find an excuse to say goodbye to Yun Miaoyin, but seeing that Yun Miaoyin was still dancing, he had to wait for the dance music to stop.
Yun Miaoyin had already found out that Yun Rui didn't know when to run to the corner to rest, knowing that he would definitely not be used to such a scene, but she didn't want him to feel cold, so she had to say hello to her dance partner and walk over to Yun Rui's side.
"Why don't you go up and dance with your dance partner?" Yun Miaoyin said to Yun Rui a little angrily wearing a red Fuwa mask. She was a little strange that Yunrui didn't go to the road, the scene was just matched, and if one person didn't jump, two people didn't jump. In her opinion, Yunrui must not have invited this girl, and of course the girl is not easy to take the initiative, so the two of them are sitting here.
Yun Rui also heard a little disgust in her words, but he said without hesitation: "I'm really not used to this kind of scene, and you know that I like to be quiet." I've been here anyway, so I'll take my leave. ”
Yun Miaoyin suddenly regretted holding this ball, because Yun Rui was not interested at all, didn't he know what kind of opportunity it was to break into this circle? Hearing Yun Rui say this, he couldn't help but feel a little annoyed in his heart, feeling that he was a little muddy and couldn't support the wall.
"No, aren't you going to ruin everyone's happiness if you leave now? Yun Miaoyin's stubborn temperament came up again, and she said undoubtedly with the eldest sister's shelf. "Ask your dance partner to go up and dance." Then she nodded to the woman next to her, and then walked to the dance floor without waiting for Yunrui to speak, she didn't want her dance partner to wait for a long time and lose her manners.
Yun Rui shook his head secretly, still sitting on the chair without any consciousness, and even started to run Xiao Zhoutian, it was okay to be idle anyway. The woman saw that Yun Miaoyin had taken the initiative to talk to Yun Rui just now, and felt that Yun Rui must be a guest valued by the host. Listening to the tone, the relationship between the two is not bad. She also knew that Yun Miaoyin had misunderstood Yun Rui a little, this man did not invite herself, but she had also shirked other people's invitations before.
At this time, if the other party invites her, she doesn't mind dancing with the other party casually. First, although she is weak, she doesn't want to upset her master, and secondly, Yunrui doesn't feel annoying to her, she doesn't want to embarrass people too much. But the man sat there steadily, not even trying to get up. I couldn't help but lower my evaluation of Yun Rui in my heart: This person has no eyes and doesn't know about human accidents.
Although Yun Rui was running Xiao Zhoutian, he still felt a series of eyes shooting towards him and the woman next to him, and he also keenly caught Yun Miaoyin's disgusted gaze. Yun Rui was a little helpless, and he really couldn't help himself in the game. At last he stood up, stretched out his hand to the woman, and said lightly, "Hello, can you do a dance?" At this time, he really hoped that the other party would refuse, so he was not to blame him for being rude.
But what disappointed him was that the woman did not refuse, she stood up generously and said very elegantly: "Thank you, it's an honor." But the tone is also very indifferent.
The two walked on the dance floor side by side, swaying soothing dance steps with everyone in the melodious dance music. Although Yun Rui's hand was only caressing the other party's waist as if it was leaving, he still keenly felt that the other party was a little stiff, obviously not suitable for such contact, his hand couldn't help but be farther away from her waist, and if he looked closely, he didn't touch it at all.
Her hands were white and slender, extremely soft. Holding her hand and smelling the faint fragrance coming from the other party, Yun Rui couldn't help but feel a little flustered, but he quickly came back to his senses.
Each pair of dance partners is dancing and laughing softly, some recognizing each other, while others are still in mystery. The atmosphere is relaxed and lively, to say that the only thing that is a little out of tune is Yun Rui and his dance partner, both of them were like dumb for a long time, and they didn't even say a word.