Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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When Lu Chengyu drove to the hotel, the parking space was almost not enough. He drove his small Pentium around and found a parking space in the corner.
After adjusting his coat, Lu Chengyu got out of the car, closed the door and entered the hotel lobby. This hotel was very famous in the whole capital. Generally, if you want to hold a wedding banquet here, you had to book a vacancy at least half a year in advance. As soon as he entered the lobby, he could see a table for collecting gifts on each side. It seemed that the gifts were being collected separately by the man and the woman’s sides. From the visual point of view, the woman’s guests were obviously more than the man’s.
The bride had a good family background and knew many people. This scene really made the man’s side look a little deserted.
Lu Dong and Shen Min were talking to a middle-aged couple dressed very elegantly, so he didn’t go up to disturb them and walked in directly to pay the gift money.
Lu Chengyu’s uncle and aunt were greeting guests. When they saw Lu Chengyu coming, they smiled and greeted him.
“Chengyu is here,” his uncle smiled and took two steps forward. He looked at him and saw that he was dressed very energetically, so he said, “I haven’t seen you for a long time. You don’t come to our house often.”
“I just graduated and it’s time to work hard. I don’t have much time to rest. I spend the little time sleeping. I will come when my work is stable.” Lu Chengyu smiled at his uncle Lu Yongguo. How could he not see that the smile on his uncle’s face was more polite than intimate? This kind of relationship was better when it was far away than close.
Taking out the gift money that had been prepared long ago, Lu Chengyu gave it to his eldest aunt Lu Suyun who was responsible for receiving the gifts. His second uncle Lu Changjun was responsible for registering the gift money. After the two counted the amount of the gift, their faces changed.
Lu Suyun said in a joking tone: “Where does Chengyu work and how is his salary?” This gift money was considered very generous among his peers.
“The job is in this city, the boss is nice and the salary is alright, but it’s a bit busy.” Lu Chengyu responded with a smile and looked at the time. It was already 11:40, and it seemed that the banquet would start soon.
Lu Suyun realized that Lu Chengyu didn’t want to talk about his work in detail. Although she sighed in her heart that this nephew was too estranged from her, she didn’t continue to ask, but just gently invited Lu Chengyu to sit on the second floor for the banquet.
After exchanging a few polite words with the few elders, Lu Chengyu went upstairs. Thinking about the meal later, he drove all the way here, and didn’t even wash his hands. So he turned around and went to the bathroom.
As soon as he reached the door of the bathroom, he heard the second uncle’s son Lu Liang and the eldest aunt’s son Sun Junyi talking inside.
“Why didn’t we call Chengyu when we accompanied Brother Dong to welcome the bride in the morning? With Chengyu around, the bride’s girlfriends wouldn’t have made it difficult for us to open the door for so long.”
“Didn’t eldest aunt tell you, eldest aunt was afraid that Chengyu’s family’s luck would affect the newlyweds, so she only notified Chengyu to attend the wedding two days ago, and she didn’t even call him to welcome the newlyweds.”
“It would be so embarrassing if Chengyu knew about this,” Sun Junyi said in a lower voice and dryly, “Besides, Chengyu has good grades, is handsome, and had no trouble finding a job. What’s wrong with that?”
“Third uncle and third aunt…” Lu Liang coughed dryly, feeling that he couldn’t say any more, “Forget it, let’s just pretend we don’t know about this and don’t tell Chengyu.”
Lu Chengyu stood outside the bathroom, silently stepped back a few steps, then increased his pace, pretending to have just walked in from the corner and entered the bathroom.
Sun Junyi and Lu Liang stopped talking when they heard footsteps. When they saw that the person who came in was Lu Chengyu, whom they had just talked about, their faces looked a little unnatural.
“Chengyu, when did you arrive? We were just saying that you were going to be late,” Lu Liang wiped his hands and forced a smile, “Let’s sit at the same table and have a drink later.”
Lu Chengyu washed his hands and said, “Brother Liang has a good alcohol tolerance, so don’t challenge me, who gets drunk after one drink. It will be embarrassing if I’m already drunk when the newlyweds toast. Just spare me.” He put his hand under the dryer to dry the water on his hand. He sighed, “I’ve been busy with a planning case these days. I didn’t go to bed until late last night. Fortunately, the traffic jam was not serious today, so I didn’t miss the newlyweds’ wedding.”
When Lu Liang and Sun Junyi heard the words “planning case”, they guessed that Lu Chengyu should be doing well in the company, otherwise how could a newcomer who just entered the workplace get in touch with these things? Thinking of this, the expressions on their faces became much gentler.
Sun Junyi was relieved when he saw Lu Chengyu’s natural expression. It seemed that his cousin didn’t hear what they said just now.
He stepped forward and hooked Lu Chengyu’s shoulder and said, “Who would believe that you can’t drink? Needless to say, we will all drink later, and you can’t escape.”
Lu Chengyu smiled and put his arm around Sun Junyi’s shoulder, pretending to punch him. The three brothers walked out of the bathroom with smiles on their faces, looking like good brothers.
After the three left, a closed toilet cubicle door opened, and Cao Jingshen came out with a frown. He came to attend his cousin’s wedding, but he didn’t expect Lu Chengyu to be a relative of the groom, and what he said just now…
Some people who were particularly superstitious did find these things a taboo, but this was too obvious. Regardless of whether Lu Chengyu heard this conversation just now, he felt that with Lu Chengyu’s emotional intelligence, he could also sense the alienation and embarrassment in it.
Sighing, it was really hard to guess what happens between relatives.
The banquet started. Lu Chengyu listened to the host saying various sensational or funny things on the stage. And he touched his hungry stomach. He forgot to eat breakfast in the morning. Now he felt even hungrier when he saw the cigarettes, alcohol and candies placed alone on the table.
After waiting for a while, the dishes started to be served. Lu Chengyu didn’t have the habit of drinking on an empty stomach. He quickly filled his stomach with several mouthfuls of food and began to deal with the toasts from these cousins.
Although Lu Chengyu ate a lot of food during the toasts, he still became drunk in the face of the crazy toasts. When the newlyweds came to toast, everyone at the table was already drunk and couldn’t even tell the directions. Lu Chengyu was the most sober person among the group. Facing the toasts from the newlyweds, he relied on his half-drunk brain to come up with a few words of blessing to avoid making the atmosphere awkward.
The parents of both parties who followed the newlyweds to introduce the identities of the relatives also looked better and after toasting at this table, they walked to another table.
After the banquet, Lu Chengyu shook his slightly dizzy head and watched his cousins at the same table being helped away by uncles and aunts. He was already sober and stood up and walked out the door slowly. When he reached the lobby downstairs, he heard someone calling him. He turned around and saw Cao Jingshen walking towards him.
“Did you drink?” Cao Jingshen walked up to him and smelled the alcohol on him. “I’ll take you home.”
Lu Chengyu didn’t refuse and gave Cao Jingshen the car keys. “Then ask someone to help me drive the car back.”
“You’re still drinking after driving here. Didn’t anyone teach you not to drink and drive?” Cao Jingshen pushed his glasses and said, “Why did you just get drunk?” Thinking of the conversation he heard before the banquet, he felt a little complicated. Lu Chengyu was really graceful. If he encountered such a thing, he might just turn around and leave, not caring whether others were embarrassed or not. Logically speaking, people like Lu Chengyu don’t seem to repay evil with kindness. Why did he act as if nothing happened?
Or did the Lu family always have this attitude, and Lu Chengyu had long been accustomed to it, so he didn’t care about these people at all?
“If I pass out drunk, are you going to carry me back?” Lu Chengyu glanced at Cao Jingshen, “I’m afraid you can’t carry me.”
“I noticed that you’re really mean when you’re drunk,” Cao Jingshen dragged Lu Chengyu to sit on the sofa in the lobby, “Has your usual elegance been eaten by a dog?”
Lu Chengyu glanced at him and didn’t say anything, but his sitting posture proved that he was still the elegant handsome guy, and even attracted the attention of female compatriots passing by.
Cao Jingshen was about to continue speaking when he heard his cell phone ring. The screen showed that the caller was Yan Mu, so he had to answer the phone first and let Lu Chengyu go.
Lu Yongguo was seeing off guests at the door. When he saw Lu Chengyu sitting and talking with a man in a suit, he couldn’t help but look at his son Lu Dong: “Who is that person, is he your friend?”
Lu Dong turned his head and recognized who was talking to Lu Chengyu at a glance. Wasn’t this the powerful cousin Cao Jingshen that Xiao Min mentioned? How did Chengyu know him?
“He is Xiao Min’s cousin. I heard that he is the secretary general of Huading. He is a very powerful person,” he said in a low voice, “Even Xiao Min’s family is polite to him.”
Lu Yongguo was a little confused, “Doesn’t my daughter-in-law’s family run a company? Why should they be polite to a secretary general?”
Lu Dong was too lazy to explain the various differences in the workplace to his father. He thought for a while: “Did Chengyu tell you where he works?”
“We don’t have much time to contact him normally,” Lu Yongguo looked at Lu Chengyu several times, “If we contact too much, people will say that we are thinking about the dead. What should we do then?” Although those things were indeed tempting, Lu Chengyu did not have only one elder like him. Several other people were watching. Everyone had a face. Even if they really have the intention, they didn’t have the face to do that.
Lu Dong frowned and stopped talking about this topic when he saw Shen Min coming towards him.
After Shen Min walked to Lu Dong’s side, she also saw Lu Chengyu and Cao Jingshen sitting together, but she was not surprised at all. Perhaps subconsciously, she has already labeled Lu Chengyu as “very capable”, so it was normal for the two to know each other.
Cao Jingshen hung up the phone and glanced at Lu Chengyu who was still sitting upright. “The boss is nearby. He will take you back later. I have some things to do in the afternoon.”
“Oh.” Lu Chengyu rubbed his forehead. He vaguely heard Cao Jingshen mention Third Uncle Yan just now. It seemed that the boss wanted to settle the previous matters. It was only because of the relationship between Yan Mu and Third Uncle Yan that this matter was handed over to Cao Jingshen.
Seeing him like this, Cao Jingshen put the phone in his pocket, “I will have someone drive your car back for you. Remember to go downstairs to get the car keys.”
Lu Chengyu continued to nod and thank him. This honest look made Cao Jingshen unable to find words to blame him, so he held his breath. For him, Lu Chengyu was half of his apprentice in the workplace. So he felt something was wrong when he saw him being drunk without saying a few words.
After about fifteen minutes, Cao Jingshen saw Yan Mu walking in from the gate, and his expression was particularly serious. When he saw them, he took a few big steps over.
Before Cao Jingshen could speak, Yan Mu took out a bottle of hangover medicine from his suit pants pocket, put a straw in it and handed it to Lu Chengyu.
“Thank you,” the hangover medicine tasted bad, so after Lu Chengyu finished drinking it, his expression twisted for a few seconds. He then looked up at Yan Mu and smiled awkwardly, “I have to trouble the boss again.”
“Cigarettes hurt the lungs and alcohol hurts the liver, so you have to be moderate.” Yan Mu saw that he had finished drinking, took the empty bottle and threw it into the trash can next to him, “Let’s go, my car is parked outside the door.”
“It’s not good to park the car at the door of the hotel, won’t the security come out?” Lu Chengyu stood up and thought it would be better to get in the car early. If the security came to chase them, it would be embarrassing.
“It’s not good, but I’m the boss,” Yan Mu walked to the door and found that some people standing at the door looked at Lu Chengyu. After opening the car door, he frowned and said, “Do you know these people?”
Hearing that Yan Mu was the owner of the hotel, Lu Chengyu seemed very calm. No matter how much wealth a local tyrant had, he could remain calm. Maybe one day Yan Mu would buy an island casually like the hero in a romance novel, and he still won’t have any doubts. Because the world of rich people was just so illogical.
Seeing that Yan Mu was driving the 50 million Aston Martin today, he turned around and looked at the relatives who were looking this way. He pretended to be very drunk and leaned on Yan Mu’s shoulder: “Yeah, I know them.” He didn’t want to be asked about private matters anymore, so he thought it was best to leave.
Yan Mu’s shoulders stiffened slightly. After he was stunned for a moment, he reached out to help Lu Chengyu sit in the passenger seat, fastened his seat belt for him, closed the door, stepped on the accelerator and left under the eyes of everyone looking at the rich.
The relatives of the Lu family who knew the value of the Aston Martin sports car suddenly felt a little complicated. It turned out that Chengyu not only studied in a prestigious university, but also met such extraordinary people after graduation. Could this person live so well even without his parents?
Lu Dong looked at the direction where the Aston Martin sports car had disappeared in, and suddenly felt a little tasteless.
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