There are many restaurants in Beijing, but Jiang Yan and Xiao Jiye only like to find a small boat and go boating on the river.
"Taste it."
Throwing out a pot of wine, Xiao Jiye said: "You may not have drank this good stuff."
Jiang Yan sneered and opened the bamboo stopper.
The wine in the pot is clear and honey-colored, and a fragrant and mellow fragrance hits your nose, making you drunk before you drink it. Jiang Yan curled his lips and smiled, taking out the wine cup and filling it up.
"Tsk."
Xiao Jiye raised his eyebrows slightly and said with a slight mockery: "You are in a good mood, but you heard the rumors about going to Beijing?"
"It is said that your Marquis brother has neglected his wife, and they have not yet slept together..."
Thinking of that shocking glimpse that day, Xiao Jiye shook his head and smiled wildly: "What a waste of natural resources."
Jiang Yan's face turned cold when he heard this: "She is not someone you can play with and make fun of."
"You treat her like a treasure, but she is abandoned like a chicken. Things in this world are really interesting."
He picked up the wine bottle on the table and drank it all in one gulp. The honey-colored wine flowed down his Adam's apple. Xiao Jiye raised his hand to wipe it away with a graceful and carefree movement. Jiang Yan looked at him and suddenly felt envious, envious of the other person's casualness and never taking the secular world into account.
"but……"
After enduring it again and again, Xiao Jiye still couldn't hold it back. He half-bent down with a stern look on his face: "What do you think?"
"I don't know what you are talking about."
Xiao Jiye sneered: "Why do you have to act like a hypocritical gentleman in front of me? I'm not your sister-in-law. I only like to see these things."
Jiang Yan's hand holding the wine cup tightened slightly, and the look in his eyes gradually changed from clear and gentle to sinister.
"This is pleasing to our eyes."
Jiang Yan wanted to have an attack, but finally suppressed it.
When he first heard about what was going on in his brother's room, he was not unmoved. But compared to getting that person, he was more afraid that the other person would look at him with disgust and hatred.
Jiang Yan lowered his eyes, feeling weak in his heart, and the strength in his hands slowly drained away.
She would never tolerate his thoughts.
The mellow wine flowed down his throat, followed by the clear, sweet, soft and fragrant taste, which stirred up his vile thoughts and gloomy sorrow, and became obscure, sour and piercing.
Seeing his slumped appearance, Xiao Jiye suddenly became curious as to what kind of charm that woman had that could make Jiang Yan so fascinated.
Leaning back slightly, Xiao Jiye bared his teeth and smiled, his eyes full of ridicule. He would never be as stupid as Jiang Yan and let others control his emotions.
"Last time you used my name to close stores in Shangjing, do you know how much money I lost?"
Jiang Yan said indifferently: "When the batch of Srivijaya comes back, I will give you 10%25 of it."
"Very generous."
Seeing that the wine he had brought was finished, Xiao Jiye brought another one to the altar, and the two of them had a drink. Xiao Jiye said: "Who is the woman who turned the Marquis' Mansion upside down? How could she allow the Marquis of Chengyang to guard his beloved wife? Don’t get started?”
Jiang Yan frowned slightly: "It's just vulgar."
He didn't even remember that person's face.
"Except for your sister-in-law, which woman is not vulgar in your eyes?"
Xiao Jiye smiled crazily, and Jiang Yan gave him a slightly warning look.
"With your methods, it's not easy to deal with that idiot, so why did you need to borrow my name?"
“……”
Jiang Yan lowered his eyes and mocked: "What do you know?"
How could he, a man who licks blood at the tip of a knife, understand the charm of women? Not to mention things between men and women.
Taking a sip of strong wine, Jiang Yan smiled bitterly: "What if I have all the means? Is it possible that I still have to get rid of her and watch the two of them make love from now on?"
"Then let that concubine stand on top of your sister-in-law?"
Xiao Jiye was puzzled. If she was his woman, he would never let anyone bully her or humiliate her. Jiang Yan's tactful thoughts were really unpredictable.
"It's just a concubine of low birth. As long as she can't give birth to a bastard, she means nothing."
After drinking all the wine in the bowl, Jiang Yan looked gentle: "She is a very clean crystal person, and she doesn't bother to use any dirty means. I will do it for her, whatever she wants or doesn't want to do." If you wish, I will fulfill it for her."
"She wanted to close the shop in advance to make money for that stupid woman, so I promoted all the shops in Beijing for her. She wanted me to marry the daughter of the Sun family, so I married her. She no longer wanted to help the Hou family, so I forced the Sun family to break off the engagement. "
"Song Fu was having a hard time in the civil service, and she couldn't bear the pain, so I spent all my personal property to help Song Fu ascend to the throne."
"I have all kinds of means, but I don't want to separate Jiang Xingjian and that stupid woman."
Jiang Yan lowered his eyes and said, "I wish those two people will be together forever in this life. I long for them to harmonize with each other and fly together like branches."
"But I don't want to see her live alone, I..."
"you're drunk."
Xiao Jiye spoke calmly, interrupting Jiang Yan's words, just joking, it would be bad if the conversation got deeper.
Jiang Yan's mouth felt bitter, so he just smiled and drank another bowl of strong wine.
The two put aside their personal matters and talked about future business. It was already past midnight when the ship floated downstream. The young man from the Hou Mansion was waiting anxiously on the shore. When Jiang Yanfang got off the boat, he saw the waiter beside him and said, "The second master is back. Something happened in the house."
"What's up?"
The boy said: "It's the third girl. The third girl is dead."
Jiang Yan raised his eyebrows: "Why did it suddenly disappear?"
Jiang Yan told Jiang Yan in detail what happened today, but he only frowned slightly, but did not show any regret. When the boy mentioned that grandma might have been too frightened, he called the doctor when he returned to the hospital. Appearing panicked.
Just as he was about to say goodbye to Xiao Jiye, he saw him looking solemn, lowering his head and whispering to the people around him.
Jiang Yan only heard a vague sentence that the paralyzed man was going to die, and saw the two of them walking away.
"Go home."
After riding back to the house, Jiang Yan just entered the backyard and saw Song Wan standing very unusually not far from the hanging flower gate.
He was stunned for a moment, and then the tips of his ears turned red.
Jiang Yan stood by the door and did not dare to come forward, for fear that the smell of alcohol would stain Song Wan's nose.
"I've met the second master."
Heng Zhi made a pointer, and Song Wan turned around.
"Second Master, have you been drinking?"
The tips of Jiang Yan's ears were burning more and more, and he was filled with annoyance. He pondered for a moment before bowing and saying, "I did have a few drinks with my friends."
Song Wan smiled lightly, said casually that drinking alcohol would hurt his health, and turned sideways to let him go first.
Jiang Yan pursed his lips, feeling reluctant to give up. He also saw that her whereabouts were different today. She shouldn't have returned to the courtyard at this time, so he said, "Sister-in-law is..."
"Waiting for Hengwu, I asked her to go to Jixiangyuan to add some paper money to the third girl."
“……”
Only then did Jiang Yan remember that he was brought back to his mansion for this very reason.
As if he could see that he was a little drunk, Song Wan said warmly: "But are you feeling unwell?"
"It was me who caused the accident by drinking. Don't worry, sister-in-law. I will never drink again in the future."
After saying that, Jiang Yan bowed and left, returning to Yulingzhai to wash up and change clothes to prepare for the funeral.
Seeing him leaving, Song Wan said: "Observe his behavior and know his virtues. The second master is an elegant gentleman. It is rare to be upright and honest."
Thinking of this, Song Wan suddenly thought that if Jiang Yan had not returned to Jiang Xingjian, the Marquis Mansion would not have lost its etiquette and music, and it would have been like the end of the world.
