The engagement banquet hosted by Mr. Yan for Yan Jinzhou and Jiang Baiyu was no less grand than his own birthday party a month ago. Almost half of City A’s people from the business, political, and even entertainment circles came.
Jiang Baiyu was a little cautious at first when he saw people who usually only appeared in the news. But seeing Yan Jinzhou’s calm and gentle demeanor, he also puffed up his chest, followed Yan Jinzhou calmly, talked to people from all walks of life, and accepted everyone’s blessings.
During this period, some people secretly discussed the purpose of the marriage between the Yan and Jiang families at this time, and expressed doubts about the relationship between the two. Yan Jinzhou was keenly aware of this and took Jiang Baiyu’s hand, walking around them several times before giving up.
Lu family, Lu Mingxiu and Lu Qingchu also came.
Lu Qingchu found an opportunity and walked up to Jiang Baiyu and smiled: “Jiang Baiyu, congratulations.”
“Early Qing Dynasty?”
Jiang Baiyu himself didn’t realize that he addressed Lu Qingchu with sincere kindness.
In the last life, Lu Qingchu was the only person who helped him. Unfortunately, her heart disease surgery was performed too late, which caused the root cause of the disease. After returning to the Lu family, her body was still very weak, but she finally managed to survive a few years.
The surgery had been mentioned for more than a month in this life, so Lu Qingchu probably didn’t have any bad roots.
He thought about it and asked unconsciously: “How is your recovery after the operation?”
“much better.”
Lu Qingchu was very beautiful, and his big eyes were very bright when he smiled, “My brother said that you saved my life. I must say thank you to you today, Jiang Baiyu, thank you.”
Jiang Baiyu thought of Lu Qingci, and her heart sank a little, “No need to thank me, it was my mother who helped. I didn’t do anything.”
Lu Qingchu: “But my brother said it was you who saved him. I believe him.”
Jiang Baiyu said nothing.
He had completely reborn Lu Qingci like him, that’s why he said that.
“Can I call you Xiaoyu?”
Lu Qingchu emphasized: “I’m still a few months older than you. You can call me Qingchu, or you can call me Sister Qingchu.”
Jiang Baiyu smiled: “I’ll call you Qingchu.”
“Xiaoyu.”
Lu Qingchu called his name with a smile and asked in a low voice, “Are you really engaged to the Yan family?”
Jiang Baiyu thought that Lu Qingci probably asked her to come up with the words.
He nodded seriously and said, “It’s true. We will get married again in the future.”
“I got it.”
Lu Qingchu sighed softly: “My brother is not so lucky, but I will definitely repay you for your life-saving grace in the future.”
“Hurry up and go to the second young master of the Yan family. He has been killing me with his eyes just now. If we continue to chat, I’m afraid I will offend the second young master of the Yan family.”
Lu Qingchu said as he looked at Yan Jinzhou and smiled helplessly at him.
Jiang Baiyu looked back, and sure enough, Yan Jinzhou, who was socializing with others just now, looked at them from time to time while talking to others. The seemingly smiling eyes were filled with evil intentions.
Jiang Baiyu was about to walk over to find him when he saw Li Hao coming with his aunt.
As soon as Li Hao entered the banquet hall, his little eyes searched everywhere. When he saw Lu Qingci talking to Jiang Baiyu, he immediately ran over and asked quietly: “Hey, Xiaoyu, was that Yan Shuran just now? “
Jiang Baiyu frowned: “No.”
Li Hao clicked his tongue regretfully: “No, it’s such a pity that she is so beautiful.”
Jiang Baiyu knew his intentions and warned him: “Yan Shuran is not an ordinary person, you’d better restrain yourself.”
The look of anticipation in Li Hao’s eyes became brighter and brighter: “Of course the eldest lady of the Yan family is not an ordinary girl. She will come out soon, please introduce her to me.”
At this moment, a girl’s appearance caused a small sensation. Jiang Baiyu followed the reputation and found that it was indeed Yan Shuran.
Although this was his and Yan Jinzhou’s engagement party, it was also a large-scale social event for fame and fortune. Young men who had the same purpose as Li Hao, when they saw Yan Shuran’s appearance, they seemed to see butterflies covered with nectar and flowers, and they all went over to surround the bright and flamboyant young lady.
Li Hao’s small eyes were wide and straight. He looked at the girl who was being admired by the stars and asked, “Xiaoyu, is it her?”
Jiang Baiyu hit him: “She doesn’t like you, you’d better be self-aware and don’t ask for trouble.”
How could Li Hao listen?
The moment he saw Yan Shuran, his heart almost jumped into his throat. beautiful! More beautiful than any girl he had ever seen, no, more stylish than the female stars on TV.
His legs were uncontrollable and he walked towards Yan Shuran.
Jiang Baiyu couldn’t stop him, so he just gave up. He knew that Yan Shuran would definitely make Li Hao suffer, and by then he would know how much he weighed.
After Yan Jinzhou spoke to the people around him, he pulled Jiang Baiyu aside and asked, “What do you want to tell the Lu family?”
Jiang Baiyu: “How do you know that in the early Qing Dynasty, you were from the Lu family?”
“Early Qing Dynasty?”
Yan Jinzhou’s eyes narrowed slightly: “You call me so intimate?”
Jiang Baiyu noticed his jealousy, and his heart trembled, and he said, “We just knew each other before.”
Yan Jinzhou hummed: “Lu Qingci is a loser. He doesn’t dare to come and see me kiss you. The same goes for kissing his sister.”
“Don’t be ridiculous.”
When Jiang Baiyu saw him like this, he became nervous, fearing that he would really kiss him in public, so he persuaded in a low voice: “There are so many people, please don’t do this, I will really be angry.”
Yan Jinzhou was full of jealousy: “Is it okay if there is no one?”
Jiang Baiyu didn’t dare to provoke him, so he could only nodded.
Yan Jinzhou squeezed his hand: “After the banquet is over, come back to the room with me.”
This was already the third time Yan Jinzhou had asked him to go to his room, and because he was jealous, Jiang Baiyu slowly felt nervous.
“Xiaoyu.”
Yan Jinzhou nodded in the direction of Yan Shuran and said, “Your cousin has found Yan Shuran. Do you want to take care of him?”
Jiang Baiyu took a look and found that Yan Shuran was talking to Li Hao.
He thought Yan Jinzhou was protecting the Jiang family, including Li Hao, for him. He frowned and said, “No, Li Hao asked for it.”
“But he is your cousin.”
Yan Jinzhou’s voice was slow: “I’m afraid that he will be taken advantage of by Yan Shuran.”
Jiang Baiyu:!
He didn’t think about this level. But what can Yan Shuran do with Li Hao?
Yan Jinzhou sneered: “But your cousin doesn’t seem smart, so don’t worry too much.”
This way.
Yan Shuran looked at Li Hao with disgust, “Are you Jiang Baiyu’s cousin?”
Li Hao: “Yes, cousin. From now on we can be considered relatives, hehe, hehehe.”
Yan Shuran: “Want to make friends with me?”
Li Hao’s head was nodding like a chicken pecking at rice.
Yan Shuran snorted and said: “When you come here, pass by a garden. There is a pool over there. You go and sit by the pool until the banquet is over. If I see you still sitting there when I go back, I will Be friends with you.”
Li Hao was stunned for a moment, not understanding Yan Shuran’s intention, but he thought that Yan Shuran was willing to be friends with him.
He agreed immediately.
“Then go and don’t stay here.”
Yan Shuran waved his hand as if greeting a puppy.
“well.”
Li Hao ran out of the venue happily.
Everyone around him could tell that Yan Shuran was teasing Li Hao, and they all laughed.
They all know the eldest lady’s temper, she is proud of it, and they just like this eldest lady’s bad temper. Since she is the eldest daughter of the Yan family, she is qualified to bully others.
The banquet officially started.
The master of ceremonies stood at the front desk to preside over the engagement ceremony and invited the two betrothed ladies to enter. Although it is not as formal and grand as a wedding, the procedures of an engagement ceremony still need to be followed.
Mr. Yan happily pulled Jiang Baiyu and Yan Jinzhou forward, followed by the eldest son and his wife of Yan and the Jiang family. Two neat families.
The old man stood in the center, holding Jiang Baiyu with one hand and Yan Jinzhou with the other, and said: “I personally decided on this marriage between the Jiang family and the Yan family. Moreover, the two children get along very well. At my age, I can’t judge people. He sees it very clearly. Xiao Yu is the lucky star of our Yan family at first glance. Being engaged to Xiao Yu is also the blessing of my child Jin Zhou. Jin Zhou, you must treat Xiao Yu well in the future. “
“Here, I leave it to you.”
As he spoke, Mr. Yan took a step back and put the two children’s hands together. Jiang Baiyu and Yan Jinzhou naturally held hands and stood in the center.
The emcee immediately picked up the microphone to express his congratulations, and at the same time bursts of congratulatory applause erupted from the audience.
It was the first time for Jiang Baiyu to face so many powerful people in City A, but he would not be nervous as long as he stood next to Yan Jinzhou. Like Yan Jinzhou, he looked at the people in the audience with their own thoughts and a decent and steady smile.
Jiang Baiyu and the others had all seen the ceremony process the day before and knew what to say, so they just followed Yan Jinzhou and finished reading the lines.
The same is true for the Yan family couple and the Jiang family couple. It’s just that the Yan family couple just said it the way they meant it, while the Jiang family couple said it very emotionally. They were the only two people who really valued the engagement of their two children.
After the speech process was completed, the two families walked out amidst the congratulations of everyone, and the engagement ceremony was successfully concluded.
But Jiang Baiyu and Yan Jinzhou still had to say hello and toast to their elders and relatives one by one. All the relatives and friends in the Jiang family sincerely wished the two of them a happy and harmonious atmosphere.
It’s different with the Yan family. Everyone has their own thoughts, and their angry words are all kinds of temptations, and even weird.
But no matter who Yan Jinzhou met, it was the handsome second young master of the Yan family who used to be gentle and smiling, Jiang Baiyu had already been mentally prepared, and followed Yan Jinzhou to deal with them with ease without making any mistakes.
After a few laps, he saw many clues.
The Yan family’s power is roughly divided into four factions.
The older generation of relatives headed by Mr. Yan and the older generation of senior Yan family members. The uncles headed by Zhou Hui formed a faction with relatives related to the Zhou family. Then there were the relatives of Elder Yan’s generation. Because they were the elders of the Yan family, their noses were pointed upward when they looked at Jiang Baiyu and Yan Jinzhou, and they didn’t take them seriously at all.
Then there is Yan Jinzhou’s group.
Jiang Baiyu himself observed that Yan Jinzhou’s people were mostly young people, mostly senior managers of Yan’s companies and a few relatively low-key board members.
Their seats were far away from relatives of the Yan family and Jiang family, but Yan Jinzhou would put down his fake smile when talking to them, and some even just made eye contact or nodded lightly. The most obvious point is that these people respect Jiang Baiyu.
Jiang Baiyu silently checked their faces and names.
After the toast, Jiang Baiyu discovered that Yan Shuyan was not present.
He sat on the seat and asked Yan Jinzhou in a low voice: “Where is Yan Shuyan?”
“He?”
Yan Jinzhou leaned closer to him and laughed in a low voice: “Last time he went to school to harass you, grandpa banned you for a month.”
Jiang Baiyu was surprised: “Grandpa Yan is so strict? Why didn’t I know?”
Yan Jinzhou: “How can we let others know about the scandal in our family?”
When the two of them were talking, their heads were naturally close to each other, and they both smiled and looked very intimate.
Not far away, Mr. Yan observed them carefully, his cloudy eyes seemed to be thinking about something. Suddenly he greeted Xiao Yu with a smile: “Come, good boy, come and sit here for a while.”
“Why.”
Jiang Baiyu walked over obediently.
Mr. Yan waved his hand and backed away from the others around him, and asked in a voice that only two people could hear: “Child, do you see anything?”
Jiang Baiyu looked confused.
Mr. Yan took his hand and said seriously: “My child, at my age I can see the end of my life. I know that I don’t have much time left.”
Jiang Baiyu quickly said: “Grandpa, you are in good health and you will definitely live a long life. No, no, you can live longer than a hundred years.”
“Don’t try to make me happy like everyone else.”
Mr. Yan laughed and said in a calm tone: “I think that before I leave, the descendants of the Yan family can do whatever they can. Among my children, the one who is most worried about is Jin Zhou. “
“Jin Zhou was a child who was lively, smart, obedient, and filial when he was young. I particularly liked him. Among all my grandchildren, I favored him the most.”
“But, he is too smart…”
Mr. Yan’s tone became heavier and heavier: “Even I was deceived by him. By the time I found out that he had changed, it was already too late. I am useless now and can no longer control him.”
Jiang Baiyu’s heart sank and he looked towards Yan Jinzhou.
On the other side, Yan Jinzhou was talking with the young senior executives of the Yan Group who were away from the chairman’s seat. Those people were cautious and low-key in their behavior, and their attitude towards Yan Jinzhou was particularly respectful.
Mr. Yan sighed helplessly: “You see, Jinzhou no longer hides his strength in front of me. He invited all his people to your engagement party today just to demonstrate to me.”
“He used this method to tell me that if I dared to do anything to him, he could immediately expel me from the highest position in the Yan family.”
Jiang Baiyu’s spine felt cold when he heard this, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on the palm of his hand held by Mr. Yan.
“Look over there.”
Mr. Yan nodded towards Zhou Hui: “Those people still want to fight against Jin Zhou, but they don’t know that their strength is already inferior to Jin Zhou. If the fight continues like this, the Yan family will fall apart sooner or later.”
Jiang Baiyu was frightened when he heard this. He pursed his lips and looked at Mr. Yan, trying to figure out why Mr. Yan told him so thoroughly.
“Kid, don’t be afraid.”
Mr. Yan regained his kindness and smiled kindly at him and said, “I feel really relieved to see that you and Jinzhou get along so well. Jinzhou, once he takes you into his heart, he will treat you well all his life. So. , I was right at first, only you…only you can save Jinzhou.”
Mr. Yan said, holding Jiang Baiyu’s hand tightly.
Jiang Baiyu was shocked and asked in a low voice: “Grandpa, why do you say that?”
Mr. Yan shook his head and said, “I can tell at a glance that you are a kind boy. Promise me one thing. From now on…”
The old man took a deep breath and said in a low tone: “If Jin Zhou wants to kill the Yan family in the future, you must stop him. Otherwise, all the descendants of the Yan family will die, and Jin Zhou will also suffer retribution. Neither you nor the Jiang family will have any problems. Good ending.”
Jiang Baiyu’s hair stood on end, his pupils tightened, and he looked into the old man’s turbid and sharp deep eyes in fear. “You, why did you say that? Yan Jinzhou, how could he kill someone.”
Mr. Yan closed his eyes as if he was feeling unwell, and said feebly: “It’s all retribution.”
“So, even if it’s for you and the Jiang family, we must stop Jin Zhou. My child, you must save him.”
The old man’s breathing became more and more rapid. The family doctor who was standing in the distance hurriedly came over after seeing it. Several people helped the ancient old man leave the table.
Jiang Baiyu sat there with a chill running down his spine and was extremely frightened.
Suddenly, he seemed to feel that someone was looking at him. He looked up and looked at Zhou Hui’s eyes. The hateful eyes seemed to be filled with hatred and were almost as ferocious as killing him.
Layers of cold sweat broke out on Jiang Baiyu’s forehead.
Grandpa Yan is right, he is now tied to Yan Jinzhou.
If Yan Jinzhou is safe, he and the Jiang family will be in peace.
If something unexpected happens to Yan Jinzhou, he and the Jiang family will also be swallowed up by these people.
He suddenly realized something that he had always ignored. Yan Jinzhou was originally the villain of this world. The villain would do many bad things and would never have a good ending.
He thought he had escaped Lu Qingci’s plot, but now he was involved in a more terrifying family struggle.
In the second half of the banquet, as Mr. Yan left the banquet, the guests at the banquet gradually began to say goodbye. Gradually, only the young people who were still having fun were left inside and outside the banquet hall.
The Jiang family couple came to find Xiaoyu and asked him: “Your father and I still have to send our relatives and friends Let’s go back. Do you want to go back together? Still want to play some more? “
Yan Jinzhou looked like a gentleman and waited for Jiang Baiyu’s answer with a gentle smile.
Jiang Baiyu didn’t dare to go back directly like that, and said, “You go back first and then I’ll go back to play for a while.”
Shen Shiyi knew that the two children had just gotten engaged, and they would definitely be reluctant to separate at this moment. She smiled and asked: “Don’t forget that you have to go to school tomorrow, go home early.”
After watching the Jiang couple leave, Yan Jinzhou held Jiang Baiyu’s hand and said, “Come, follow me.”
He looked impatient.
Thinking about Grandpa Yan’s words, Jiang Baiyu followed with heavy footsteps to the main building of the villa and walked to Yan Jinzhou’s bedroom.
This place is far away from the banquet hall, and the noise of the guests cannot be heard at all. The Chinese-style decorated villa interior is even more quiet and peaceful, making people feel calm.
Yan Jinzhou’s bedroom is the room at the end of the flat-floor villa. It is more quiet and secluded, and the spacious room is filled with the calming fragrance of wood.
Yan Jinzhou’s heart was not at peace at all.
After closing the door to the room, he held Jiang Baiyu’s soft face in his hands.
The boy’s face is fair and clean, with handsome features, and his clear eyes are always reserved and nervous, making people want to bully him. There always seems to be a sweet taste on the thin lips, and I can’t get enough of it. Especially since he has a gentle personality and will not refuse to avoid, he can eat as much as he wants.
Yan Jinzhou touched the boy’s lips with his fingertips and asked, “What did grandpa tell you just now?”
Jiang Baiyu’s face turned pale: “No, I didn’t say anything.”
“lie.”
Yan Jinzhou chuckled, took the boy’s lips and bit them lightly, saying, “I will punish you if you don’t tell the truth.”
Jiang Baiyu pursed his lips: “It’s really nothing, just some… words for us to be together well.”
Yan Jinzhou could see through Jiang Baiyu’s guilty conscience, but he would not really press him.
Jiang Baiyu didn’t want to say it, so forget it.
He held the boy and kissed him for a while, then asked, “Do you remember what I asked you to do?”
Aren’t you looking for an excuse to kiss him?
Jiang Baiyu looked at him nervously, scared but not daring to hide.
Really, he can do whatever he wants.
Yan Jinzhou lingered on the boy’s lips for a while longer, then went to the closet and took out a set of soft cotton pajamas for him and said, “Take off your dress and put on these clothes, and we will sleep.”
Jiang Baiyu:!
Because of what Grandpa Yan said, he is now very afraid of Yan Jinzhou. He was afraid that Yan Jinzhou would not be satisfied and would really do something beyond his psychological expectations. Jiang Baiyu was so panicked that she couldn’t help but retreat and said: “Sir, I…”
“Don’t be afraid, I’m just sleeping.”
Yan Jinzhou saw the boy’s startled retreat, pinched his face gently, and said with a low smile, “I want to make sure that I can sleep peacefully with you here.”
I accidentally wrote too much about the next plot point, but if I didn’t write it out, the plot would not be clear later. Baozi, don’t worry, don’t dislike it.
I’ll give you an extra update tonight.
I’m going to have lunch first and take a nap.
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