The Hongmen Banquet

"Please invite Brother Liu to dinner. We have already made an appointment." Ye Zhuoran said.

Ye Jing'an and Liu Muzhe paused. Now it was no longer a question of money. It was like they were suddenly attending a Hongmen Banquet.

"You said you had something to do and didn't eat at home, so I specially invited you out for dinner today. I heard from Ye Jingning that you like to drink, so I bought some good wine and you can drink it to your heart's content today!" Ye Zhuoran said with a smile.

"You're welcome..." Liu Muzhe twitched his lips as he looked at the more than ten jars of white wine on the table.

Ye Jingan glared at his sister and then sent a message on his phone to curse her furiously. Half of the dishes on the table were suitable for drinking. He knew the situation today very well. This was not a dinner party, but a plan to get people drunk and trick them into talking.

There was no one in the Ye family who couldn't drink. When his grandfather was young, he was a good drinker and could knock out a whole house. His father didn't like drinking much, but he was always taken away by his grandfather to social events, so he had to develop a good drinking capacity. However, this also caused a great psychological trauma to Ye Zhuoran, and he never allowed his children to drink since they were young. Ye Jingning drank secretly while studying outside, and Ye Zhuoran couldn't control it, so he could only catch Ye Jingan to control it.

"Xiao Liu, let me toast you." Ye Yu took the lead, and the three of them toasted Liu Muze one glass after another, "Let's drink first."

Liu Muzhe saw that the man was old and drank a full glass of white wine. He felt embarrassed to refuse and drank with him.

Ye Jingan was worried for Brother Liu when he saw the situation. Although he was quite confident in his grandfather's drinking capacity, he couldn't handle it with his grandfather around today. Usually, his grandfather only drank tea and rarely drank alcohol. Ye Jingan had always thought that his grandfather couldn't drink alcohol, until his grandfather took him out for dinner with some old friends. Ye Jingan discovered that this was not the case.

Grandpa's five or six brothers were all drunk by him, but Grandpa was as calm as ever, not even blushing. Only then did he realize that it wasn't that Grandpa couldn't drink alcohol, but that he thought it was boring, just like drinking water, and the bitter taste of tea was more to his liking.

Ye Jing'an took the wine jar and poured wine for Liu Muzhe, blocking Ye Zhuoran's sight and only filling him half a cup.

"What are you doing? Fill their glasses!" Ye Zhuoran grabbed the jar and poured out all the wine.

"Why did you drink so much? Are you here to eat or drink?" Ye Jing'an said unhappily.

"Go eat." Ye Zhuoran handed him a pair of chopsticks and continued to toast Liu Muze, "What a fate! Jing An is lucky to have met you, otherwise he would have lost his life. I later found out that he got out without learning anything. It was also because of my carelessness as a father that I was fooled by this brat! Come, let me toast you!"

"He's very good." Liu Muzhe said with a smile.

"I can't be compared with you." Ye Zhuoran lowered his eyes and smiled, "Xiao Liu is really outstanding. To be honest, I can't bring Jing An back from there... By the way, how old is Xiao Liu this year?"

"You're too kind. I'm twenty-six years old." Liu Muzhe said.

"Just the same age as Jingning." Ye Zhuoran took a sip of his wine, smacked his lips and asked, "Does Xiaoliu have a partner?"

Ye Jingan thought, it really is a Hongmen Feast, nothing good will come of it. Either he wants to trick Brother Liu into talking, or he wants to introduce his sister to Brother Liu. He said to Ye Zhuoran, "Brother Liu has a girlfriend, don't go after him."

"Oh, you have a partner..." Ye Zhuoran asked unwillingly, "Why don't you bring her over for dinner?"

"Brother Liu's girlfriend is a foreigner, a beautiful Latvian girl with golden curly hair and blue eyes. She is so pretty." Ye Jing'an said.

Liu Muzhe glanced at Ye Jingan's hair, couldn't help laughing, and turned his head away.

"I asked him, what did you say?!" Ye Zhuoran glared.

"Brother Liu is a low-key person. Wouldn't he keep such a good partner hidden? If you ask Brother Liu, he won't tell you. I gossiped for a long time before he told you." Ye Jing'an fooled him casually.

Seeing that the man had a partner, Ye Zhuoran didn't say much, so he said to Liu Muze: "My daughter is a good person, and she is not too old. You have friends who are as good as you. Introduce her to him."

"Okay." Liu Muzhe said with a smile.

"Dad! I really can't get along with them. I'm fine alone!" Ye Jingning said.

"What's good about that? Find it for me quickly, otherwise how can your mother feel at ease down there? I won't feel at ease even if I die!" Ye Zhuoran said seriously.

"Don't bring up Mom." Ye Jingning looked at Ye Yu pitifully, "Grandpa, look at him, he always forces me."

Ye Yu smiled and said, "My grandson will definitely have no shortage of people to marry him, so don't worry too much."

"Why didn't you say this when you introduced me to a blind date?" Ye Zhuoran said helplessly.

"What are Jingning's conditions? What are your conditions? Is it possible for anyone to be interested in you without being introduced to someone?" Ye Yu asked back.

"Hey, am I your son?" Ye Zhuoran asked.

"Of course not, your mother gave birth to me." Ye Yu said with a smile.

"Puchi..." Ye Jing'an couldn't hold back his laughter. After being glared at by Ye Zhuoran, he buried his head in his rice.

"I won't talk to you, you're always so frivolous." Ye Zhuoran pointed at Ye Jing'an and said, "You should learn from your brother in this regard. He had a relationship at the age of 18. Even if the result was not good, at least he had experience. You are almost 28 years old, and you don't even have a boyfriend to bring home. What can I say about you?"

Ye Jingning sneered, "I'm going to imitate him? That would make you mad to death."

"I didn't ask you to learn his bad habits!" Ye Zhuoran patted Ye Jingan's shoulder, "Teach your sister well."

"Oh, okay!" Ye Jing'an said with a muffled laugh.

Ye Jingning didn't want to discuss these topics, and went to drink with Liu Muze. Once she came on stage, it was even more incredible. Ye Jingan was really afraid that Brother Liu would really drink himself to death, so he grabbed the wine glass and wanted to drink a few glasses for him.

"Ye Jing'an, no drinking!" Ye Zhuoran shouted.

"Dad! You have to let him drink. How can he not drink these days?" Ye Jingning said.

Ye Zhuoran disagreed with everything.

Ye Jingan really didn't dare drink on this occasion. What if he got drunk and did something to Brother Liu in front of his father and grandfather? Seeing Brother Liu being forced to drink glass after glass of liquor made him feel a little distressed. Although Brother Liu often drank, he always drank slowly in small sips, and he drank osmanthus wine. Brother Liu didn't seem to like this kind of strong liquor very much. He only drank it when there was no osmanthus wine.

In this situation, Ye Jingan had no choice but to persuade Ye Zhuoran and the others to drink less, and ordered a bowl of thick rice soup for Liu Muzhe to drink to offset the alcohol.

These wines were all aged wines that Ye Zhuoran had bought at the winery. They were sweet and easy to drink. Liu Muze initially thought the alcohol content was low, like sugar water, and he didn't take it seriously at all. However, after only a dozen or twenty glasses, the aftereffects started to set in. He blushed and asked, "What kind of wine is this?"

"My friend kept this for himself. He said it was a fine wine made by a famous winemaker." Ye Zhuoran poured him another full glass. "Xiao Liu, your alcohol tolerance isn't very good."

"Excuse me." Liu Muzhe drank another glass.

"Dad, is it appropriate for the three of you to bully him? And you even say that he can't drink much. With such a big cup, do you have the guts to try twenty cups?!" Ye Jing'an said unhappily.

"This is a good wine, you can't buy it!" Ye Zhuoran asked Liu Muze, "Does it taste good? Is it easy to drink?"

Liu Muze had already leaned over the table and nodded, "Okay, good wine!"

Ye Zhuoran drank and chatted, asking about Liu Muze's family background. Although Liu Muze was almost drunk at this time, he was still very tight-lipped, not revealing the identity of the ancestor at all, and used the same trick he had used to fool Ye Jing'an to fool them.

Ye Jing'an wasn't worried about Liu Muze getting drunk and talking nonsense, but seeing that he was so drunk that he could barely lift his head, he felt distressed. He snatched Liu Muze's wine glass and said, "No more drinking!"

"Then you come!" Ye Jingning put the wine glass to his lips.

"He can't drink!" Ye Zhuoran snatched the wine glass.

"Zhuoran, since we are in a good mood today, just let the child drink something. It's okay." Ye Yu said with a smile.

Ye Jingan was indeed very unhappy with today's drinking party. He grabbed the wine glass and was about to drink when he heard Liu Muze calling him. Ye Jingan helped him up and took a look. He was already drunk. Brother Liu never turned red when drinking, but today's wine made him red from face to neck. Ye Jingan asked in a worried tone: "Brother Liu, what's wrong? Are you feeling uncomfortable because of drinking too much?"

"I feel dizzy... hold me for a while." Liu Muzhe leaned sideways on Ye Jing'an.

The atmosphere suddenly became quiet.

"Brother Liu, you are drunk." Ye Jingan smiled guiltily, holding Liu Muzhe's shoulders and letting him lean on the chair.

The chair had no headrest, so Liu Muze leaned back, his neck against the top edge of the backrest. The hard backrest made it uncomfortable. Liu Muze shouted impatiently, "Ye Jing'an, hold me for a while!"

Seeing the three people opposite who were already stunned by what they heard, Ye Jing'an couldn't help but twitch his expression. He kowtowed to Liu Muzhe in his heart, begging him to be honest and not say anything else that shouldn't be said.

Seeing Liu Muze shaking his head and frowning as if he was about to shout again, Ye Jing'an quickly supported his head and straightened him up, then fed him some rice soup and said, "Drink some rice soup and you'll feel better."

Liu Muze tilted his head, unwilling to drink, and leaned his head against Ye Jingan's wrist and said, "Hold me for a while..."

Seeing that Ye Jing'an still didn't move, Liu Muzhe let out a very unhappy breath, hooked his hand around Ye Jing'an's neck, turned around and sat sideways on his lap, his head naturally resting on Ye Jing'an's shoulder. His movements were smooth and skillful.

Ye Jing'an froze, looking up at Ye Zhuoran and the other two, all looking at him in shock. He hadn't expected Brother Liu to be so outspoken and even take the initiative to hug him in front of so many people. He was completely panicked.

He was so angry that he wanted to drink a few glasses of wine like crazy. He didn't care what he was doing when he got drunk. It was just right for his father and the others to know about his relationship with Brother Liu. He didn't have to hide it. But with the current situation, he was really a little scared. After forcing himself to calm down, he blamed them, "I told you to get him drunk. You made him like this!"