Chapter 8: Drinking
For the next few days, nothing happened.
In the original novel, Shen Ci had a high fever and was in the hospital for three days on IV drip. The original owner was afraid that he would pass away the disease, so he didn't look for him for three days. This was also a rare opportunity for Shen Ci to catch his breath in the early stage of the novel.
In reality, Xie Yu slept comfortably for three days, tasted the hotel chef's cooking skills, and even commented with interest: "The black truffle is a bit old, there is too much mousse sugar, and the chocolate shell is too thick. It doesn't feel very authentic."
The system can only watch but not eat. It can only glare at Xie Yu when he eats, growing mushrooms out of boredom.
Finally it’s Saturday, another important plot point.
Xie Yu opened the novel chapter: [Saturday's Party]
It was Saturday. He Zhiyuan was thinking about Chen Ci and was determined to get this cold beauty, so he organized a party. He told Xie Yu to bring Chen Ci with him. The original owner also had a bit of "brotherhood" and really brought Chen Ci with him. The group drank until they were drunk and the academic god had stomach bleeding. What happened afterwards was all mosaics. Xie Yu guessed it was almost right. It was nothing more than some violations of the criminal law that would get him into jail.
Considering the completeness of the plot, he must bring Shen Ci with him, but he can be free to play with the Mosaic part.
Sure enough, He Zhiyuan was shouting and yelling in the group early in the morning, and dragging people to get together.
He Zhiyuan: "Want to drink tonight? I got two bottles of good wine to liven things up. Let's go to the usual place, the riverside pleasure boat. I've reserved the place for myself."
The Jiangxin Painting Boat is the most luxurious cruise ship in the city. It also serves as a hotel. It sets sail every evening and stays overnight in the middle of the river. One night is very expensive.
He Zhiyuan shouted: "Zhou Yang, is Zhou Yang coming?"
Zhou Yang: "Come."
"Where is Mr. Xie? Is Mr. Xie coming?"
Xie Yu said succinctly: "Come."
He Zhiyuan was not interested in the wine. When he saw Xie Yu speak, he immediately asked, "That beautiful girl you just picked up, the one who does research at A University, with a thin waist and long legs, is really attractive. She ran away last time. Will she come this time?"
"What's the relationship between us? I'll tie you up and bring you here."
This is the original line.
Xie Yu typed such intimate lines, but his face showed no expression, his glass-colored eyes were cold and distant, and he showed impatience.
He Zhiyuan was overjoyed: "As expected of you, Brother Xie, you take care of your brothers."
Xie Yu thought, bullshit, taking care of a brother means sending him to his bed, trampling his dignity into the mud, and then stepping on it? What kind of bullshit brotherhood is this?
He became more and more impatient, but couldn't say much due to his character. He spoke a few perfunctorily to He Zhiyuan in the tone of a rich second-generation, then turned off his phone.
By noon, when Shen Ci had almost come out of the laboratory, Xie Yu called him according to the original text: "There is a meeting in the evening at 7 o'clock. Get ready and dress cleanly. I will pick you up."
This time the phone only rang three times before Shen Ci answered it. He lowered his voice and quickly replied, “Okay.”
Judging from the voice, he seemed less reluctant than last time.
Xie Yu had several more threatening lines to say, but he was blocked by the word "OK". After a long pause, he lowered his voice and continued: "Be good, don't forget that I got your grandma's quota."
"Okay." Shen Ci replied, "I know."
He lowered his voice very softly as if there was someone beside him. In the original book, Shen Ci's tone was cold and he never gave Xie Yu a good look, but now it sounded a little soft.
Xie Yu: “…”
He looked at the original text in his hand, skipped the last few sentences, and coughed twice: "Anyway, you stay here honestly, I'll pick you up in the evening."
After saying that, he turned off his phone.
In the laboratory, Shen Ci also turned off his phone and put on his gloves again. The milky white rubber wrapped around his slender fingers, and a hint of flesh color appeared in the slightly stretched part. When he raised his eyes, Han Yunyun was winking at Li Yue.
Shen Ci stopped what he was doing and looked up: “What’s the matter?”
"No! No!" Han Yunyun stood at attention urgently.
Shen Ci didn't say anything else and continued to look at the data. As a result, when he looked up, Han Yunyun was hiding behind the test bench again, fiddling with the equipment and looking over here curiously.
Shen Ci sighed slightly: “What exactly do you want to do?”
Han Yunyun laughed awkwardly: "Brother, I just want to ask, have you had any important things recently? You never looked at your phone in the lab before."
She actually wanted to ask if he was in love.
Shen Ci didn’t think too much about it, and just hummed.
Young Master Xie’s message was indeed important. I don’t know how much suffering I would have to endure if I had replied two minutes late.
Han Yunyun exclaimed and covered her face with the lab report. It was unknown what she was thinking about.
Li Yue glanced at him and handed another document to Shen Ci: "Then Senior Brother, I see you are very busy recently, are you still accepting the work-study orders from the Student Affairs Department?"
Li Yue is one of the student officials in the Student Affairs Department. He knows Shen Ci's family situation. When Shen Ci worked part-time to support himself with his studies, Li Yue would leave him some well-paid jobs.
Shen Ci nodded: “Also answer it.”
He devoted himself to Xie Yu mainly for his grandmother's drug contract, but he did not get much support in terms of finances and was still strapped for cash. With Shen Ci's pride, he could not bring himself to borrow money from Xie Yu.
Li Yue said: "Currently, there are two main short-term orders. One is to be a temporary teaching assistant for pharmacokinetics next week. Their teaching assistant is in the hospital. At the end of the next period, I have to explain the homework to the students. There is a subsidy of fifty yuan for one evening self-study class."
"Another one is to be a volunteer at a hospital or school in the suburbs, and work with the school's publicity department. The round-trip fare is 200 yuan."
Both jobs are not difficult and will not delay anything, so Shen Ci nodded: "Take both."
*
It was approaching autumn and winter, and the sun set quickly. It was completely dark before seven o'clock on Saturday night.
The Jiangxin Cruise was docked at the shore, the neon lights were already on, and there were people dancing in the cabin. The flashing light balls were dancing to the violent drum beats, and the scene was colorful and dazzling.
He Zhiyuan ordered a champagne tower. More than 200 goblets were stacked up, and golden wine poured down from the top, half of it poured into the goblets, and half of it hung on the walls of the goblets. The air was filled with the pungent smell of alcohol. They used expensive champagne from Seros, which cost tens of thousands of dollars on average. Just for this tower, hundreds of thousands of dollars were wasted.
Shen Ci got out of Xie Yu's car, and when the wind blew by the river, he reached out and held his clothes.
It's very cold.
Xie Yu stepped onto the boat and handed his coat to the waiter. Soon someone came forward to lead the way and took him inside.
Xie Yu took two steps, and seeing Shen Ci falling behind, he tilted his head slightly: “Why don’t you come up?”
Shen Ci lowered his eyes and followed: "Coming soon."
He stood on the side of the boat, the boat swayed gently in the river, then he blew the whistle twice, and the cruise ship gradually sailed away from the shore.
Shen Ci took one last look at Jiang An, and went up to the second floor with Xie Yu.
From now on, the ship is like an isolated island, with no village in front and no shop behind. The young masters are laughing wantonly inside, while the others are isolated and helpless, with no one to call for help.
Xie Yu walked through the crowd and sat down in the innermost small box.
He Zhiyuan and Zhou Yang had already arrived, and they stood on the left and right, leaving the middle seat for Xie Yu. Lin Yin, carrying a small bag, sat next to He Zhiyuan stiffly. When she saw Xie Yu silent, she dodged his gaze and quickly looked away.
He Zhiyuan looked around Shen Ci, then immediately embraced Xie Yu. He laughed and said, "Good brother!"
Xie Yu brushed his hand away without changing his expression, and said with a fake smile: "Of course."
He Zhiyuan didn't notice Xie Yu was refusing at all. He handed over the champagne and said, "I've been waiting for you."
Xie Yu took two sips and turned to talk to someone else.
He Zhiyuan didn't mean to do that, so he let him go and turned to Shen Ci. He looked him up and down, then bent down, stopped 20 centimeters away from the tip of Shen Ci's nose, put the wine glass in front of him, and said with a smile: "Mr. Shen, give me some face?"
This is a glass of strong liquor with an alcohol content of over 62 degrees.
Even someone like Shen Ci who can't drink can make him vomit after just one glass of alcohol.
He Zhiyuan didn’t dare to force Xie Yu to drink strong liquor, so he only gave him a glass of champagne, but facing Shen Ci, he had no scruples.
Shen Ci said calmly: “I can’t.”
Hearing this, not only He Zhiyuan, but Zhou Yang also laughed out loud, with an expression as if they were enjoying a good show.
When these playboys are having fun, they just drink whatever they want, and they don't care whether they drink or not? Even if they drink until they vomit, what's the big deal?
He Zhiyuan narrowed his eyes and picked up the cup: "Really? Everyone on the ship knows how to do it."
Even if you don't know how, you should be able to learn it once you get on this boat.
Shen Ci looked at him straight in the eyes: “No.”
He Zhiyuan obviously didn't expect Shen Ci to be so disrespectful, his face suddenly darkened, and then he sneered: "Okay, very good."
As he spoke, he suddenly picked up the wine glass and pressed it heavily against Shen Ci's lips. His left hand reached out to Shen Ci's neck, trying to force his jaw open and pour the wine into him.
"I'm going to force you to drink it, will you?"
Shen Ci turned his head to avoid it, but the space on the chair was limited and his back was against the cushion, so there was no way to retreat.
He frowned, a look of disgust on his face. The wine was so close to him that a lot of it had spilled from the glass, wetting the collar of his shirt. He could smell the pungent smell of alcohol just by lowering his head.
He pursed his lips, unable to retreat.
"Hey, I say."
Suddenly someone spoke behind him. However, with the beauty in front of him, He Zhiyuan's mind was filled with Shen Ci's gloomy expression. That expression seemed to be contemptuous and hateful. It was very dazzling and made He Zhiyuan's heart burn. He couldn't wait to pour the wine into her and make this beautiful face full of fear, despair and pain. He wanted to make this person vomit and twitch, and it would be best if she could never make such an expression again...
"Hey, I say!"
He Zhiyuan was just thinking about it when he suddenly felt a strong force behind him. He was then pulled back two steps and forced onto the seat.
He Zhiyuan turned around in surprise, and saw Xie Yu slowly letting go of his hand and gently patting his sleeves as if brushing away some dirt.
Master Xie slumped in his chair and looked at him with a raised eyebrow: "Hey, I say, the party has just started, what's the point of getting everyone drunk? Let's take our time, don't be so hasty, okay?"
He Zhiyuan: "But..."
Before he could say anything, he saw Xie Yuban lowering his eyebrows, glancing over lightly, staring at him intently, with a smile on his face. He was clearly sitting in the middle of the lights and feasting, his pair of black eyes reflected the lights, but they were quiet and indifferent, as quiet as a cold pond.
He Zhiyuan felt a chill down his spine and for some reason he dared not speak.
He touched his nose, sat back with his wine glass, and said awkwardly, "Yes, it has just begun. The night is still long, the night is still long."
Although everyone present was a second-generation rich, they also had different family backgrounds. Xie Yu was considered one of the top in Jiangcheng, so everyone present had to give him face.
During the period, a few more orders of wine were made, the rich second generations were laughing and cursing, Zhou Yang started playing dice, and played two rounds of moderate size, and someone in the box lit a cigarette and puffed away.
Shen Ci choked twice, suppressed his throat and coughed, and after a moment, he stood up: “I’m going to the bathroom.”
Xie Yu nodded.
So he walked quickly onto the deck. The early autumn river breeze was chilly, and when it blew towards people, it blew away the smell of tobacco. Chen Ci stood along the side of the ship in a quiet and deserted place, listening to the sound of the river waves.
These ten minutes of voting may bring some peace and quiet tonight.
He stood there for a while, and was about to go back when he suddenly heard someone calling him in a low voice: "Shen Ci?"
Shen Ci looked in the direction of the voice and saw Lin Yin hiding in the shadows, looking hesitant, as if he had something to say.
Shen Ci asked, “Miss Lin Yin, what’s the matter?”
Lin Yin is nominally He Zhiyuan's girlfriend, but she is very shrewd and has no feelings for He Zhiyuan. She is just after his money and comes to the banquet to be a vase. She didn't say a word in the first half of the dinner. Shen Ci didn't expect Lin Yin to talk to him.
"Mr. Shen, it's like this," Lin Yin hesitated for a moment, and finally spoke, "When I came here, I saw Mr. He's phone, and he was chatting with Mr. Xie... Do you know what he said?"
Lin Yin is half of the circle. She is not a bad person. Although she is weak and cannot pull anyone out of the quagmire, she wants to remind people when she sees some things.
Shen Ci was startled: “What?”
Lin Yin took a deep breath and said, "It's like this. Young Master He organized a party and asked Young Master Xie to come and play. He specifically asked Young Master Xie if he could bring you. Then Young Master Xie said that we are all good brothers, so he should bring you anyway... You know what this statement tacitly approves in our circle, right?"
The cold wind blew over the river, and Shen Ci paused in place, feeling inexplicably cold. He put his cold fingers into his sleeves and gathered his clothes: "I don't know."
Lin Yin gritted her teeth and said, "It means allowing others, multiple people, a lot of people to play together!"
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Xie Yu (kicks the stool): "What? What did I agree to?"
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