Chapter 21 (2/2)

After the banquet, Lu Chengyu shook his dizzy head and watched his cousins at the same table being supported by aunts and uncles. After he sobers up, Chengyu stood up and walked slowly towards the door to go outside. As soon as he reached the lobby downstairs, he heard someone calling himself. When he looks back, he saw Cao Jingshen striding towards him.

“You drink?” Cao Jingshen walked up to him and smelled the alcohol on Chengyu. “I'll take you back.”

Lu Chengyu did not refuse, and he gave Cao Jingshen his car keys. “Then, ask someone to help me drive my car back to my home.”

“You still drink although you know that you need to drive? Did no one's teach you that you can't drink if you are driving?” Cao Jingshen pushed his gla.s.ses and said, “You might as well just get drunk and forget all about it.” When Cao Jingshen remembered the conversation he heard before in the bathroom, his mood was somewhat complicated. Lu Chengyu is really graceful. If he encounters this kind of thing, he may turn around and leave, ignoring the embarra.s.sment of others.

It is reasonable to say that, people like Lu Chengyu doesn't seem like returning his grievances with virtue [1], but it seems to Chengyu, it was like nothing important had happened.

[1] 以德报怨 [yǐdébàoyuàn]: to return good for evil (idiom) / to requite evil with good

Or is it that because Lu's family has always had such an att.i.tude, Lu Chengyu has been used to it, so he doesn't care about these people at all?

“If you're 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 when you drunk, your mouth becomes really cheap,” Cao Jingshen dragged Lu Chengyu to the sofa on the lobby. “Did the dogs eat your usual elegance?”

Lu Chengyu looked at him and did not speak, but he proved that he was still an elegant, handsome young man with his sitting posture, even attracting the attention of the woman who walks by.

Cao Jingshen was trying to keep talking, but he heard the phone ringing and the screen showed that the caller was Yan Mu. He had to answer the phone first and let go of Lu Chengyu.

Lu Chengyu fall down on the floor and start screaming, Jingshen frowned his head

Lu Yongguo was receiving guests at the door when he saw Lu Chengyu sitting and talking with a man in a suit. He couldn't help looking at his son Lu Dong: “Who is that man, your friend?”

Lu Dong turned his head and recognized at a glance who was talking to Lu Chengyu. Isn't that Xiao Min's fierce cousin, Cao Jingshen. How did Chengyu know him?

“He's Xiao Min's cousin. I heard he's the chief secretary of Huading. He's a very powerful person,” he said in a low voice. “Even Xiao Min's family is polite to him.” (T/N: Xiao Min is the bride, Shen Min)

Lu Yongguo does not understand, “Isn't my daughter-in-law's family has their own company? Why need to be polite to a chief secretary?”

Lu Dong was too lazy to explain the differences in workplaces to his father. He thought and said, “Did Chengyu had told you where he works now?”

“Usually, how much times do we spend to stay in touch with him,” said Lu Yongguo while looking at Lu Chengyu for several times, “If we keep in touch with him too much, then what should we do when others say that we are actually concern about the dead peoples' things (Chengyu's parents' property, insurance etc),” Although the property indeed stir up some emotion in his hearts, Lu Chengyu has not only one elder. When other elders are watching, although there are some people who wanted to covet Chengyu's property, they didn't do it because they want to save their face, it will be shameful to do this kind of things.

Lu Dong frown but when he saw Shen Min coming towards himself, he stopped talking about it.

When Shen Min came to Lu Dong, she saw Lu Chengyu sitting with Cao Jingshen, but she was not surprised at all. Perhaps subconsciously, she has labelled Lu Chengyu as “very competent”, so it's normal for them to know each other.

Cao Jingshen hung up the phone and looked at Lu Chengyu, who was still sitting there. “The boss is nearby. He will send you back. I have something to do in the afternoon.”

“Oh,” Lu Chengyu rubbed his forehead, just now while he was in a trance, he seems to hear Cao Jingshen mention Yan Lao San. Apparently, the boss wants to settle accounts of this matter. But because of the relations.h.i.+p between Yan Mu and Yan Lao San, this matter will personally be handled by Cao Jingshen.

Seeing him like this, Cao Jingshen put his cell phone in his pocket, “I'll have your car driven back for you, and remember to go downstairs and pick up your keys.”

Lu Chengyu continued to nod his head and thank Cao Jingshen. His honest appearance left Cao Jingshen unable to get mad with him, but he couldn't hold his breath. For him, Lu Chengyu is half of his apprentices in the workplace. When he sees that Chenyu is drunk and he doesn't say a word, Cao Jingshen feels that something was wrong in his heart. (T/N: Jingshen wants to nag to Chengyu because he is somewhat his(Jingshen)'s apprentices, but looking at Chengyu's honest appearance, he didn't want to do it, but somewhere in his mind, he feels like he should say a word or two, that's why his heart feel something wrong).

In less than fifteen minutes, Cao Jingshen saw Yan Mu coming in from the gate, and his face looked very serious. When he saw them, he strode over with big strides.

Before Cao Jingshen opened his mouth, he saw Yan Mu pull out a bottle of sobering medicine from his suit trousers bag, insert a straw and handed it to Lu Chengyu.

“Thank you,” Lu Chengyu's expression twisted for several seconds after he finished drinking. He looked up at Yan Mu and smiled awkwardly. “I'm bothering boss again.”

“Lung injury caused by smoking cigarette, liver injury due to alcohol poisoning, be moderate,” Yan Mu saw that he had finished drinking. He took the empty bottle and threw it into the garbage can beside him. “Go, my car just parked outside the door.”

“Is okay to park at the entrance of the hotel? Wouldn't the security guard come out?” Lu Chengyu stood up and thought it would be better to get on the car earlier. In case the security guards came, it is humiliating.

“It's not okay, but I'm the boss.” Yan Mu went to the door and found some people standing at the door looking at Lu Chengyu. He frowned while opening the door, “Do you know these people?”

Hearing Yan Mu was the owner of this hotel, Lu Chengyu seemed quite calm. Nouveau riche does have a lot of a.s.sets that Chengyu wasn't surprised after knowing this, which is why he was calm. Chengyu has no doubt that maybe one day Yan Mu, like a man in love stories, would casually buy an island. Because the world of wealthy people doesn't have logic.

Seeing the 50 million Aston Martin that Yanmu drive today, Chengyu looks back at his relatives and he pretended to be very drunk. Then, he lay on Yan Mu's shoulder: “Well, yes.” He didn't want to be questioned about personal matters anymore. He felt he had to take the best course.

Yan Mu's shoulders were slightly stiff. After a moment of stunned, he reached out to hold Lu Chengyu and help him by bringing him to the front pa.s.senger seat. He fastened Chengyu's seat belt for him. After closing the door, he stepped on the accelerator and the others were looking at the nouveau riche(Yan Mu) as he left.

The relatives of Lu Jia who knew the value of Aston Martin's sports car were in a complicated mood for a while. Originally, Chengyu was able to study at a prestigious university. After he graduates, he knew a man who wasn't so simple, a person without parents like Chengyu's life is so good? (Jia = family)

Lu Dong looked at the direction in which the Aston Martin sports car disappeared and suddenly felt a little dull.

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Translator rambling section:

Is it normal to ask someone's salary? I don't even know my sister or my parents' salary because I feel somewhat weird to ask them…. and suck to you Lu Dong, hahahaha

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