Chapter 21 (1/2)
Sorry for the late release (like seriously late~) My real life is quite busy that I sometimes sleep like 3 hours per day, or skip sleep altogether. Here is the next chapter that I squeeze all my life essence time to translate for weeks, so if you guys find something weird, like the name or something, just write it in the comment, my brain stops functioning by now.
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Chapter 21: Nouveau Riche
When Lu Chengyu drove to the hotel, the parking s.p.a.ce was almost full. He drove his little Benteng around and find a parking s.p.a.ce in the corner.
After straightening his coat, Lu Chengyu got out of the car, closed the door and entered the hotel lobby. The hotel is well-known throughout the capital. It is the usual place to holds a wedding banquet here. It takes at least half a year before to book this place.
As soon as he entered the lobby, he can see that there is a desk for receiving gifts on both sides. It seems to be a separate gift for both men and women. Visually, the number of bride side's guests is significantly higher than the bridegroom side's guests.
The bride has a good family background and knows many people. This situation really makes the bridegroom side's looks desolated.
[T/N: In China, usually they separate the guest from the bride and the bridegroom, so here, they can see clearly that the guest from bridegroom is less than the bride.]
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Lu Dong and Shen Min are talking to a middle-aged couple wearing very expensive clothes. So, Chengyu didn't bother them, he went straight inside and give the gift money.
Lu Chengyu's uncle and aunt are greeting guests. When they see Lu Chengyu coming, they greet him with a smile.
“Cheng Yu is here,” the uncle laughed and took two steps forward. He looked at him and saw that he was dressed up very well. He said, “I haven't seen you for a long time, and you didn't come to our house.”
“I just graduated, so this is the time when I need to work hard. I usually have less time to rest and sleep. When my work is stable, I will come to your house.” Lu Chengyu smiled at Lu Yongguo. How Chengyu couldn't see that the smile on his uncle's face more to politeness than intimacy. In this kind of family relations.h.i.+p, it is better to distance himself(LCY) from it rather than being intimate.
Lu Chengyu took out the monetary gift that he had been prepared and gave it to his aunt, Lu Suyun, who is responsible to receive the gift and his second uncle Lu Chang Jun, who is responsible to register the monetary gift. When both of them saw the amount of the monetary gift, their complexion's change.
Lu Suyun jokingly speak out: “Cheng Yu, how's your work? How much is your salary?” This gift is quite generous among ordinary people.
“I work in the city and my boss is a good person. Also, my salary is quite appropriate, just a little busy.” Lu Chengyu smiled and answered two questions. He looks at the time and it was 11:40. It seemed that the banquet was about to start.
Lu Suyun realizes that Lu Chengyu did not want to talk about his work in detail. Although she sighed that this nephew was estranged from her, she did not continue to ask him questions. She just greeted Lu Chengyu with a gentle att.i.tude and asked him to go to the second floor where the banquet is being held.
After saying a few casual polite remarks with several elders, Lu Chengyu went up to the second floor. Earlier, he drove all the way over without was.h.i.+ng his hands, when he thought about having dinner later, Chengyu 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, is talking to the aunt's son, Sun Junyi, inside the bathroom.
“This morning, when we accompany Dong ge to meet the bride, why didn't ask Chengyu to come along with us? If Chengyu is there, the bride's best friends will unlikely to make things difficult, we don't need to wait for a long time for them to open the door.” (T/N: ge: brother)
“Auntie didn't tell you, the eldest aunt was afraid of Chengyu's fortune will influence the newcomers. Therefore, they inform Chengyu to come to the wedding ceremony and as for welcoming newlywed, they didn't mention it to him.”
(T/N: in a Chinese wedding ceremony, the groom will decorate the car and went to the bride's home to fetch the bride, then they need to pa.s.s the block by the bridesmaids (by getting their consent, not kidnap the bride), after succeeding, he will take the bride to the wedding hall.)
“How awkward it would be if Cheng Yu knew about it,” Sun Junyi said dryly, with a lower voice. “Besides, Cheng Yu has good grades, looks handsome, and his job hunting went smoothly. Is there anything wrong with him?”
“Third uncle and third aunt…” Lu Liang cough dryly, suddenly he thinks that it is not appropriate to speak more about this topic, “Forget it, just pretend that we don't know this matter and let's not tell Chengyu about it.”
Lu Chengyu stood outside the bathroom, silently retreat back a few steps. After that, he makes heavier footsteps and entered the bathroom as if he had just walked around the corner.
When Sun Junyi and Lu Liang heard the footsteps, they stop talking to each other. When they saw it was Lu Chengyu, whom they had just talked about, both of their expressions were somewhat unnatural.
“Chengyu, when did you arrive? We were just saying that you were going to be late,” said Lu Liang while wiping his hand and squeeze out a smile, “Once several of our brothers sit together, let's have a good drink.”
Lu Chengyu washes his hand and said: “Liang ge is a good drinker. Better not to include me to drink wine together. Spare me, if when the newlyweds giving a toast but I've already drunk, how embarra.s.sed it is.” Chengyu went to the hand dryer to dry his hand, sighed, “I've been busy planning these days. I didn't go to bed until midnight last night. Fortunately, the traffic jam is not serious today, so I didn't miss the wedding ceremony.”
When Lu Liang and Sun Junyi heard the word ‘planning', both of them can guess that Chengyu was able to mix well in the company, or else, how could someone who just enter the company able to touch this thing? With this in mind, the expression on both men was a lot gentler.
Sun Junyi saw the natural expression on Chengyu's face, he was relieved. It seemed that his cousin had not heard what they had just said.
He went up and grabbed Lu Chengyu's shoulder and said, “Who believes you can't drink? Don't say anything, we'll all drink together later, and you can't run away from us.”
Lu Chengyu smile and he easily turn his hand to the back and make a punching gesture towards Sun Junyi's shoulder. These three brothers went out from the bathroom with a smile on their face, looking like they were good brothers to each other.
After the three left, a closed toilet compartment door opened. Cao Jingshen frowned and walked out. He came to attend his cousin's wedding. He didn't realize that Lu Chengyu was a relative of the groom, and what they had just said…
There are some people who are particularly superst.i.tious will avoid doing any taboo things, but this is too obvious. Whether or not Lu Chengyu had just heard it, he felt that with Lu Chengyu's EQ, he could perceive alienation and discomfiture.
Sighed, it's hard to speak of matters between the relatives.
Nevertheless, Cao Jingshen really hates Chengyu, so for him, it's a win-win situation.
When the banquet begins, Lu Chengyu listens to MC on stage, stirring up the emotions of the audience, getting them to laugh. Chengyu stroke his somewhat hungry belly, this morning, he forgot to take his breakfast. He looks at the table where there are tobacco and sugar were placed, he feels even hungrier.
After a while, they began to serve the dishes. Lu Chengyu did not have the habit of drinking on an empty stomach, he fills his stomach with several mouthfuls of food and starts to cope with toasts given by his cousins from both sides of his parents.
Although Lu Chengyu eats several dishes to pad his stomach in between the toasts, confronting the berserk toast mode, he finally began to get dizzy. By the time the newlyweds came to toast, the people at the table were getting a little drunk and already in a confused state. On the contrary, Lu Chengyu is a more presentable person among these people on the table. Facing the newlyweds' propose for a toast, he rashly works his half-drunk brain to think a few words of blessings to the newlyweds, didn't let the mood becomes awkward.
The newlyweds were followed by their parents, who introduced their relatives' ident.i.ty, looks embarra.s.sed. After a quick toast to the table, they went to another table. (T/N: the one look embarra.s.sed is both of the parents)