Now that they had decided to help Tong Xiaohuai expand his network, both Boss Tong and Yan Bo began to frequently take Tong Xiaohuai to various dinners and parties.
Before this, Tong Xiaohuai did not like these social engagements, but she also understood that since she was now the eldest daughter of the Tong family, she had to attend these dinners and parties, and she also had to get to know the people at those dinners and parties.
Furthermore, her relationship with Yan Bo is now common knowledge in L City. Given her father's ruthlessness and prestige, 90% of people believe that she and Yan Bo are inseparable.
Even she herself often felt that she and Yanbo were inseparable.
Therefore, even if she didn't consider the Tong family's interests, just from Yan Bo and Yan Huang's perspective, as the boss's wife, she needed to become stronger and more tactful. In the future, if anything happened, even if she couldn't help, she shouldn't be a hindrance.
Yanbo was initially worried that she wouldn't be able to adapt, so when he took her to the first business dinner hosted by Yanhuang, he took the initiative to shield her from a lot of drinks.
Tong Xiaohuai secretly tugged at his sleeve, "Yanbo, I can drink, and I can hold my liquor pretty well."
Yan Bo assumed she was just putting on a brave face or afraid of being drunk. However, after one dinner, he realized just how capable she really was.
At this dinner party, several powerful figures from L City were present, and for Yan Bo and Tong Xiaohuai, as juniors, drinking became an unavoidable matter.
Two hours later, the dinner party ended. Yan Bo felt a little dizzy, so Tong Xiaohuai took his hand and helped him see the elders of the family off to their cars.
Tong Xiaohuai could tell that Yan Bo had reached his limit, so she subtly took his arm. Although she was the one struggling to support Yan Bo, who barely had the strength to walk, to others it looked like two young people showing affection.
"Third Young Master, you and Xiao Huai are a perfect match. When will you invite us to your wedding banquet?"
These patriarchs all received Yan Zhong's "reminder," but they all believed that fathers and sons shouldn't hold grudges overnight.
Therefore, while outwardly agreeing to Yan Zhong's request, he didn't neglect Yan Bo in private.
In particular, Yan Bo simply invited them to dinner this time without making any substantial demands.
"Don't worry, Director Chen, you'll definitely get a drink at this wedding!"
Yan Bo was on the verge of getting drunk; another half a glass and he would be slumped over the table, unable to get up.
But now that Tong Xiaohuai was holding his arm, he couldn't tell the difference on his face.
After seeing all the elders off to their cars, Tong Xiaohuai took Yan Bo's arm and got into her own car.
"Drink this first!"
Tong Xiaohuai pulled out a small oral medication from somewhere, inserted a straw, and handed it to Yan Bo's mouth.
Yan Bo took the small bottle, still a little dazed, and asked indistinctly as he took a sip, "What's this?"
"Hangover relief oral liquid..."
Tong Xiaohuai felt a little sorry for Yanbo, who had to take hangover remedies several times recently for her sake.
"Next time you drink less, I'll drink it!"
Tong Xiaohuai looked at him in the dim light and whispered.
Yan Bo quickly finished the medicine and looked up at her.
The lights were dim, and since he was quite drunk, Tong Xiaohuai appeared as several overlapping images in front of him.
"Your alcohol tolerance is amazing... How much can you drink at most?" If he remembered correctly, she should have drunk more than him, but she seemed perfectly fine the whole way.
Just now, I was supporting him the whole time, and I made sure everyone was safely taken away.
Tong Xiaohuai held his head and let him rest his head on her thigh. "My dad raised me to drink since I was a child, gradually increasing the amount. Now, I don't even know how much I can drink. Anyway, under normal circumstances, I rarely get drunk."
The "normal situation" she referred to excludes cases where someone drinks to drown their sorrows because they are in a bad mood.
Although Yan Bo was still conscious, he was extremely dizzy. He rested his head on Tong Xiaohuai's thigh and simply closed his eyes.
"You should get some sleep. I'll wake you up when we get home."
Tong Xiaohuai didn't even ask where Yan Bo was going back to, and directly assumed that he was going back to the Tong family.
Yanbo now basically treats the Tong family home as his second home, where he has all the clothes and daily necessities he needs.
His everyday clothes were brought over little by little by him, while his daily necessities were prepared for him by his mother.
In contrast to the Yan family's complete refusal to exclude Tong Xiaohuai, the Tong family, from top to bottom, has almost universally accepted Yan Bo's identity.
"Xiao Yan drank too much?"
When Tong Xiaohuai and Brother Yang helped Yan Bo home, Boss Tong was still awake. After asking him a question with concern, he followed him into Yan Bo's bedroom. Seeing that Yan Bo was alright, he went back to his room to rest.
The next morning, Yan Bo woke up to find himself sleeping in the private room that the Tong family had prepared for him, and he felt a little annoyed.
After washing up, I walked out of the living room, where Boss Tong was already drinking tea.
He looked at Yan Bo with a kind smile and said, "Xiao Yan, breakfast is in the dining room, hurry up and eat."
Yan Bo looked around. "Good morning, Uncle Tong. Where's Aunt Tong?"
“I have a cousin who is getting married later, and she was dragged to the wedding early this morning to give him advice.”
Tong Laoda lowered his head again to look at the newspaper, seemingly having no particular opinion on Yan Bo's drunkenness.
Yan Bo took the tea brought by the servant and sat down next to Boss Tong.
"Uncle Tong, I'm curious, how much alcohol can you hold?"
Having witnessed Tong Xiaohuai's drinking capacity, Yan Bo couldn't help but feel a little strange as he recalled the scene a few days ago when Tong Laoda drank with him.
"Me?" Boss Tong was still looking down at the newspaper, but he answered him, "I used to be able to drink much more than I am now. Now that I'm old, my alcohol tolerance has decreased a lot."
Yan Bo thought for a moment, "Is it because you're afraid Aunt Tong will worry?"
Tong Laoda raised his eyelids and glanced at him, "You already know, why are you asking?"
Yan Bo knew about Tong's mother's illness, but he never told Tong Xiaohuai the truth.
It seems that Tong Laoda and Tong Ma intend to keep this a secret forever.
This cover-up had an element of goodwill. At the same time, Yanbo also saw Tong Laoda's侥幸心理 (a mentality of taking chances) in this matter.
He probably thought that as long as Tong's mother had a stable life, she would be able to overcome her illness and live to be eighty or one hundred years old like a normal person.
"Uncle Tong, you are a good husband and a good father!"
Yan Bo has been in L City for almost a year. During that time, he has heard many rumors about Boss Tong, but the Boss Tong in those rumors is obviously very different from the real Boss Tong he knows.
"Xiao Yan, I hope you will be the same in the future!"
Since letting go of his resentment towards Yan Bo, Tong Laoda no longer speaks in that strange, sarcastic tone he used to.
"Uncle Tong, I will!" Yan Bo assured him.
"Well, I can't interfere with what your family thinks or does. In short, just protect Xiao Huai and don't let her suffer!" Boss Tong also stated his position.
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