Chapter 99 Gossip
A few more days passed.
When Yun Chen’s injury was almost healed, Ye Yan’s daughter’s hundred-day banquet arrived.
They had originally agreed to go to Ye Yan's house together, but Bu Yan was busy taking the Feifu secret guard examination, and Xun Yan and Xiao Liu would not be able to get off work until later, so Yun Chen had to go find Hua Jue.
After hearing from the servants in the mansion that Hua Jue had just been seen going out a side door, Yun Chen went to look for him.
From a distance, she saw Hua Jue with his back to her, leaning against a peach tree, talking to someone outside the door.
Because of Hua Jue's height, Yun Chen couldn't see who was outside the door, but judging from Hua Jue's relaxed back and the pink bubbles all over his body, the other person should be a woman.
Yun Chen quietly hid behind a tree and heard Hua Jue say:
"Tonight is Brother Ye Yan's daughter's hundred-day celebration, we all have to go!"
A delicate female voice responded, "Then you should drink less. Drinking too much will make you uncomfortable and it's not good for your health."
Hua Jue chuckled, twisting his body like a snake with epilepsy, and replied happily with a voice as sticky as honey:
"I understand. I'll bring the pear candy you made with me. I'll eat one after I finish drinking, and I'll feel better."
The delicate female voice smiled shyly. Hua Jue shamelessly leaned over and said in an ambiguous voice:
"I'm going out on business in a couple of days. I won't see you for a long time. Come on, call me 'little brother'."
Yun Chen hid behind a tree and listened to all this, covering his mouth and laughing wildly, but not daring to make a sound.
After a moment, the girl called out "little brother" in a shy and gentle voice.
Yun Chen felt his bones were almost softened just by listening to the sound, and he couldn't help but lean over to take a look.
She saw Hua Jue's mouth was almost reaching the moon, and a girl with a sweet smile was smiling shyly at him.
The girl said, "I'm leaving now. I didn't tell you anything. The candy shop is very busy."
Hua Jue was reluctant to leave: "Okay, after I finish my work, I will help you run the shop. Don't move the heavy things, wait for me to move them!"
Yun Chen covered his mouth and laughed, then quietly left.
Ye Yan’s daughter’s hundred-day celebration.
There were ten tables filled with banquets in the yard.
Yun Chen walked into the yard carrying a silver nine-linked ring. At first glance, he saw that they were all guards of the Huo Gang, and he thought that the Huo Gang was holding an annual meeting.
Finally, everyone arrived. As usual, Ye Yan, Hua Jue, Buyan, Yun Chen, Xun Yan and Xiao Liu sat at the same table. After a while, Ye Cheng, the boy from Ye Yan's family, came out holding a delicate baby.
A group of old men immediately became excited, shouting "Let me see my niece" and "Give me a hug", scrambling to grab the doll.
Ye Yan hurriedly snatched his daughter, who was like a little lamb, from the "wolf pack," caressed her tender little face lovingly, and complained:
"Be careful, don't let me break it!"
“Hahahahahahaha——” everyone laughed.
One person joked:
"Daughter slave, daughter slave! Who dares to hurt our niece? With over a hundred uncles here, who dares to act rashly?"
Someone else slapped his thigh and shouted, "It's over, it's over! It's going to be so hard for our eldest niece to find a husband when she grows up! Who dares to go against more than a hundred of our fathers-in-law? Hahahahahahaha——"
Ye Yan's face was full of smiles, "How can I let that brat take advantage of me? I won't marry him!"
“Hahahahahaha——”
Ye Yan held his daughter in his arms and showed her off in front of each table, causing everyone to stretch their necks to look. They were so curious that they didn't know what to do and could only keep stuffing rattles, bracelets, and porcelain dolls into her mouth.
When it was Yun Chen's turn, she only saw a ball of white and tender cotton curled up in Ye Yan's arms, with a pair of black gemstone-like eyes looking at her and smiling at her with a toothless mouth.
"Achen, hold me." Ye Yan handed the child over.
Yun Chen was so scared that he kept dodging backwards, but his hand reached out unconsciously.
She held the child carefully, feeling that it was the lightest and heaviest thing she had ever held in the world.
Perhaps it was a woman's nature, but as she looked at the little man who had just come into this world, her eyes softened and she even felt like crying.
Seeing her emotional fluctuations, Xiao Liu smiled and said, "Look at Brother Yun, he can't wait to have a baby!"
Ye Yan smiled and said, "My daughter and Achen have a connection and like Achen."
Yun Chen carefully extended his index finger and moved it close to the child's hand. The marshmallow-like hand held it tightly and put it into his mouth.
She shouted anxiously, "No, my hands have calluses! Don't scratch my mouth!" But she didn't dare to pull her hand back. She could only look at Ye Yan with panic and help, which made everyone laugh.
A group of rough men laughed, and the laughter was deafening, which finally scared the child into crying.
Ye Yan was also panicked now. He screamed, "Madam, help!" and ran into the house with the child in his arms.
Everyone laughed even more happily.
Celebrating the arrival of a new life is much more joyful than saying goodbye to a life.
Therefore, the wine was drunk more freely than at any other time.
After three or two rounds, people were playing finger-guessing games, bragging, and arguing... It seemed as if all the mouths in Kyoto were here tonight, and the noise was so loud that it was overwhelming.
Xiao Liu was still thinking about his dirty brother Yun, and with the alcohol in his heart, he said:
"Brother Yun, hurry up and get married and have a baby. I've already thought of a name for you: Yun Xuandu!"
"Puff!" Hua Jue spat out a mouthful of wine. The others all slumped over the table, unable to straighten their backs due to laughter.
Yun Chen was so angry that he poked Xiao Liu with a chicken wing, "You're not done yet! I'm sending you to reincarnate today! The name 'Yun Xuan Du' will be reserved for your next life! How's that?"
Bu Yan hurried to separate them, but he was a little drunk, and he had just finished the Feifu title examination, so he was almost certain to be a secret guard. He was very excited and said to Xiao Liu without restraint:
"Kid, stop poking your brother Yun in the lungs! When will Achen catch up with Lady Songlan? When will there be a chance of success?"
Before Yun Chen could speak, Ye Yan was stunned: "Songlan? Ah Chen likes the female official Songlan? Isn't that right?"
Xun Xuan also laughed, "How is it possible! Obviously... obviously..."
Xun Xuan kept saying "Ming Ming" for a long time, but he didn't dare to say the three words "Miss Huo".
At this time, Hua Jue asked in surprise: "Isn't it that girl Huo Luyu?"
Several people were talking at the same time, and Yun Chen couldn't get a word in. She was so angry that she yelled:
"You're such a gossip-monger! Stop spreading gossip about me!"
Hua Jue sighed, "My dear," and put his arms around Yun Chen's neck and said with a smile:
"I can't believe it, I can't believe it, our most honest little Achen is actually playing so wildly? There are so many little Xiangxiangs waiting for him."
Yun Chen leaned over and hugged Hua Jue's waist tightly, taking a standard defensive posture, and said with a wicked smile:
"You're not as good as me in spending more money—little brother, please give me a piece of the pear candy!"
Hua Jue was extremely embarrassed, his face flushed red, and he punched Yun Chen hard, "You little bastard! Eavesdropping on others!"
"Oh my god—you've confessed! Hua Jue, quickly bring your sister-in-law over to see me!"
"He wouldn't let it go! He must be hiding under the covers when it gets dark and watching it for himself!"
"Don't talk nonsense! She's a decent girl!"
“Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha——”
The party lasted until dark, and after seven or eight rounds of drinking, people still showed no sign of leaving.
Yun Chen really couldn't drink any more, so he used the excuse of sobering up and sneaked back to the Huo Mansion.
Seeing that the lights were still on in Qiyunju, she walked in and saw Huo Gannian sitting in the yard waiting for her.
From a distance, Huo Gannian could smell the strong odor of alcohol.
He brought her the hangover soup that had been warming on the stove nearby.
"Drink something, or you'll feel uncomfortable when you wake up tomorrow."
She lifted the bowl with one hand, put the other on her waist, and drank it in one gulp as if she was drinking wine, which made him laugh and shake his head.
He patted his legs and waved to her, "Come closer, wipe your mouth."
Normally, she would just lift her sleeve and wipe her mouth and be done with it, but this time she obediently moved over, raised her head with a silly smile.
He held her face in his hands and wiped her mouth carefully, bit by bit, with a handkerchief.
Through the thin handkerchief, his fingers clearly touched her hot red lips, and he trembled slightly.
Finally, he finished wiping her, and while she was drunk, he put away the handkerchief and pinched her face, and asked softly:
"How was the Hundred Days Banquet?"
"There are ten tables full of people, and the gifts are piled up like a mountain. The Young Master's gift is the most generous. I like the name the Young Master gave to Brother Ye's daughter—'Ye Ling'. It sounds so nice."
"How is Ye Yan's daughter?"
She gestured with her hands and replied:
"What a really, really beautiful little doll, like it was carved out of jade, with arms as cute as lotus root nodes, so white and tender!"
"Since you like children so much, let's adopt one in the future," he said.
Completely unaware of the meaning of "we" in his words, she shook her head, pouting unhappily in a drunken tone:
"Why adopt? I like my own children. I want to have my own children."
He was stunned, his mind immediately becoming a tangled mess. He remembered that she had said in the past when she was drunk that she didn't like women, so why did she want to have a child now?
Thinking she was inexperienced and very drunk, he coaxed her:
"Silly, men can't have children."
She didn't say anything, just lowered her head and suddenly fell silent.
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