Zhao Kuo knew that his party was about to leave Qixia County, so he specially ordered the chef to prepare a sumptuous dinner, and also called two of his newly promoted people to accompany them.
At the dinner table, Zhao Kuo stood up, held a wine glass, toasted the three of them, and said a bunch of words of thanks.
Ye Juechen was indeed a veteran in official circles, and he was already familiar with such scenes. He picked up the wine glass and was about to drink it when he saw Hua Yanxi and Ye Juechen holding their chopsticks unmoved.
Do you really think of this as a meal?
Zhao Kuo made it clear that he wanted to please them. This is not how socializing is, many of the things he said were said over the wine table.
After receiving the signal from his eyes, Hua Yanxi glanced at him and slowly picked up the wine glass.
Zhao Kuo looked at Ye Yibai and asked tentatively: "Fifth prince?"
Before Ye Yibai could say anything, Hua Yanxi had already said, "Children, what are you drinking?"
Ye Juechen's teeth ached, and he said with a strange tone: "What a huge giant baby."
Hua Yanxi glanced at him coldly: "Do you live by the sea?"
Ye Juechen sneered: "It doesn't matter where I live, as long as you protect the cub, he won't grow up in the future."
"Did you eat your rice?" Hua Yanxi shot back.
Zhao Kuo quickly smoothed things over: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. Then the fifth prince can just have tea instead of wine. It's mainly just for fun."
As he spoke, he poured tea for Ye Yibai himself, and finally clinked glasses together.
"Pour her some tea too." Ye Yibai said, "What does it look like for a woman to drink?"
When Hua Yanxi heard this, she drank the wine in the cup in one gulp. She felt a heartburn rush from her mouth to her stomach, but she held it back forcibly, so there was no sign of any strangeness on her face.
After a while, Hua Yanxi glanced at him: "Look down on women?"
Ye Yi was dumbfounded and stopped talking.
After that, people at the table were all talking about this incident, and they drank a lot of wine.
Ye Yibai was a little worried at first that Hua Yanxi wanted her to drink less, but when he saw her face was not red after drinking, her eyes were extra calm and her expression was very clear, he felt that he was making a fuss out of a molehill.
Even after drinking, Hua Yanxi still walked back by herself.
The pace is steady, as usual.
As for the seventh prince, he had already been helped back to his room.
Ye Yibai followed Hua Yanxi all the way, watching her enter the room, and followed her in.
"Yan Yan, although you have a good drinking capacity, you should not drink when you can socialize later. Drinking is harmful to your health." Ye Yibai said behind her.
"Yeah." Hua Yanxi responded, sitting down and pouring water to drink.
Seeing that she could listen, Ye Yibai breathed a sigh of relief, and then thought of what he had been thinking about during the day, and recalled the events of the past few days. Indeed, because he was worried that she would leave, his whole body was on guard, and he deliberately stuck to him and pestered her. Now that he thinks about it,
She can accept a fool, but she may not be able to accept a normal person deliberately pretending to be stupid.
"Yanyan, I won't be clingy to you anymore in private. Don't bother me. Let's get along normally, just like friends, okay?" Ye Yibai looked at his hands holding the cup, drinking water seriously.
Hua Yanxi.
"Um."
Ye Yibai finally realized that something was wrong, something was wrong with Hua Yanxi, even though she looked the same as usual.
Ye Yibai stretched out his hand and waved it in front of her eyes, but saw that her eyes did not waver.
"Yanyan?"
"Huh?" His tone was slightly upturned.
"Are you drunk?"
"No."
"Then what did I just say, can you repeat it?" Ye Yibai said doubtfully.
However, Hua Yanxi still held the cup and said nothing. Suddenly, she burped.
In an instant, the rich aroma of wine filled the air.
Ye Yibai suddenly realized that he was not drunk at all. He was obviously very drunk.
Ye Yibai immediately said: "You stay in the room and don't move. I'll make you some hangover soup."
I just drank so much, I don’t know how it will hurt tomorrow.
Ye Yibai said as he stood up and walked out. After walking a few steps, he felt someone behind him. When he turned around, he saw Hua Yanxi talking behind him, not saying anything, just staring at him.
"Yanyan, what are you doing here? Go back quickly."
Hua Yanxi seemed not to hear.
Ye Yibai took two more steps, and she followed suit for two more steps.
He returned to the room, and Hua Yanxi followed him in, completely silent.
Ye Yibai rubbed his brow: "So you are like this when you are drunk?"
Weirdly cute.
Ye Yibai was worried that she would accidentally fall when she went out like this, so she stayed in the room with him and ordered people to prepare sobering soup.
"Yan Yan, you lie down and rest first. I'll call you after the hangover soup is ready." Ye Yibai said in a gentle and authentic tone.
Hua Yanxi said nothing, only stared at his mask, as if she was thinking about what he said, and seemed to be recognizing the person.
Ye Yibai closed the door and took off the mask. Sure enough, Hua Yanxi stared at his face without moving.
Ye Yibai was helpless: "You really want to see it?"
Is it looking at him or looking at another person through him? It's a bit sour.
She didn't respond when Ye Yibai held her hand, and continued to stare.
Ye Yibai led her to the bedside and sat down, took off her shoes, let her lie down and covered her with a quilt.
Those eyes are still bright and bright.
Ye Yibai reached out and covered her eyes: "Stop looking, close your eyes."
After a while, Ye Yibai put down his hand and saw that her eyes were still open.
Ye Yibai was angry and funny, pointing at his face: "What's there to see?"
As he was about to put on the mask, Hua Yanxi called him in a soft voice: "Xiao Bai."
Ye Yibai paused with the hand holding the mask and raised his eyebrows: "Do you recognize me?"
Hua Yanxi blinked her eyes, her expression was very innocent.
Ye Yibai reached out and pinched her cheek: "You are not allowed to drink anymore."
"Um."
Ye Yibai's heart moved. He approached Hua Yanxi and asked her softly: "Am I pretty?"
"nice."
"Then do you like to look at me, or do you like to look at good-looking men?"
Hua Yanxi blinked her eyes, as if she didn't understand.
Ye Yibai chuckled lightly: "If you want to drink from now on, you can only drink in front of me."
Such a lovely person cannot be seen by others.
"Um."
Seeing how well-behaved she was, Ye Yibai couldn't help but ask, "Yanyan, do you like me?"
I originally thought that Hua Yanxi would be well-behaved and reply ok in a serious manner.
Unexpectedly, she shook her head.
Ye Yibai's words "I like you too" came to his lips, and he was suddenly stuck there.
"Don't take it seriously if you are drunk." Ye Yibai muttered in a low voice.
"Master, the sobering soup is ready, please bring it in." Aying's voice sounded outside the door.
Ye Yibai stood up, and Hua Yanxi also sat up straight to get out of bed.
He quickly pressed her shoulders: "Don't move, I'm going to get some sobering soup and I'll be back soon."
After saying that, he just stood up, and Hua Yanxi also stood up, stepping on the ground with her bare feet.