Chapter 177 - Wedding Banquet I (1/2)

“Little Ye, are you sure you’re okay?” Li Hongmei couldn’t help her voice from quivering.

“Yes, I’m sure. He just threatened me, he wasn’t really trying to kill me. He also wanted to know where Baoshan is, just like those other people.”

“What?” Li Hongmei was dumbfounded by the shocking news.

I didn’t expect that gentleman had also come looking for Baoshan. After all, he buys our snacks every morning and always helps Little Ye. How could he have held off on asking about Baoshan for so long and conceal his aim until today? It’s too dangerous to have such a man lurking around us.

What on earth has Baoshan done? How has he made so many enemies?

…

As soon as Li Chengru returned to the inn, he began smas.h.i.+ng everything he could reach.

Fengsheng couldn’t stop him at all, so he stood aside, counting how much compensation he would have to pay later.

Li Chengru didn’t leave alone a single corner of the room. Fragments of tables, chairs and porcelain soon littered the ground in a mess. The destruction didn’t stop until he was exhausted and collapsed on his bed.

Fengsheng could tell that his master had either failed in his plan or hit a snag. He had told him that this plan wouldn’t work. It would be better to threaten Ye Xiaoxian with a knife or kidnap someone she cared about, such as Li Hongmei. Wasn’t there a boy in her family? If they kidnapped that boy as well, Ye Xiaoxian would definitely tell them where Xiao Baoshan was.

Li Chengru didn’t get up until the afternoon. His usual vitality was lost in his eyes.

“Fengsheng, she knows everything. She knew our aim from the very beginning, but she didn’t say anything. She has been watching us acting this whole time. She didn’t tell me anything, even when I put a dagger to her neck. The waiter is right — she yields neither to persuasion nor to coercion.”

Fengsheng couldn’t believe his ears. Young master must feel so humiliated after playing this monodrama for so long, he thought.

Li Chengru was furious not only because he had lost face. but he had also failed to get the information he wanted.

Fengsheng sighed sympathetically. How heavy this blow was to his master’s self-esteem! “Young master, your plan is excellent. You failed only because that woman is so cunning.” Fengsheng comforted him.

Li Chengru went back to lying on his bed. “Fengsheng, I won’t go back to the capital. I will try every way there is to find out where Xiao Baoshan is from that woman.”

…

Soon, Liu Qianqian’s wedding day was just around the corner. Jia Zhenbo and her had planned to get married last month, but a fortune-teller suggested postponing their wedding to avoid some destined conflicts in their lives.

A famous lady from a big family like Liu Qianqian always deserved a big wedding banquet. It was said that there would be 30 tables set at the feast. Usually, in such a big family, it was its cooks who prepared the feast. However, Squire Liu and Liu Qianqian wished their guests to enjoy the best feast at her wedding.

When Ye Xiaoxian was invited to be the chef for the banquet, she agreed without hesitation. Since Liu Qianqian would be the bride, her family just needed to hold a single banquet. Ye Xiaoxian went there a day in advance to prepare for the feast. She some salting and frying, as well as made various delicious sauces, getting everything ready for the next day’s cooking.

Only when it became dark did Ye Xiaoxian finish her work. Just then, a maid came up to her saying that Liu Qianqian wanted a chat, so Ye Xiaoxian headed for her bedroom.

Liu Qianqian and Jia Zhenbo had been pa.s.sionately in love lately. They wrote letters to each other every day and sometimes went out for some tea, but marriage would be such a big event in her life that she felt very nervous.

She had so much to worry about, including how to get along with her future mother-in-law and how to look after the house. More importantly, she was afraid that Jia Zhenbo might take a concubine when he grew tired of her.