eurekapd Chapter 198: Say 2 sentences and refute 3 sentences.
Chapter 198: Say 2 sentences and refute 3 sentences.
Since Shousui spoke like that on behalf of Gu Xulin, Chi Yu let down his guard.
"Is it convenient for you to hold chopsticks with your left hand?" Shousui looked at Yan Shun who was sitting diagonally opposite him and asked, "How about I find you a spoon?"
Yan Shun's right hand was injured. His hand, wrapped in gauze, was still hanging around his neck with a bandage. Now he had to use his left hand to eat.
"Don't look for it. I can use my left hand. It's just a little slow." Yan Shun retracted his gaze from Luo Tingyu, who had run to the table at the back at some point, and turned to Shousui and replied, his voice slightly less cheerful than before.
"Well then," Shousui looked at Yifeng, who had already eaten half a bowl of rice less than two minutes after Gu Xulin sat down and said that the meal was about to start. He said to Yifeng, "Xiaofeng, help Yan Shun pick up more dishes. His hands are not convenient."
"Yeah, no problem." Yifeng took the time to raise his head, and with his cheeks puffed up by his mouth full of food, he responded to Shousui in a half-hearted manner.
Gu Xulin asked Mu Yun to pour them a glass of wine one by one. He looked at He Ci who was sitting opposite him and raised his glass to him, "Have a drink?"
He Ci raised his eyes and glanced at the person opposite him, and said honestly, too lazy to give face, "Sorry, I don't know how to drink."
He himself was not very interested in cigarettes and alcohol. From childhood to adulthood, except for attending family dinners and other grand banquets where he had to drink, He Ci had only touched alcohol a few times. Especially that time in the Shucheng Bar when Yan Shun gave him a glass of vodka that made his throat feel like it was on fire, He Ci hated alcohol even more from then on.
What's more, today was the day when Gu Xulin was behaving so abnormally. He Ci didn't understand why Gu Xulin arranged this dinner. Even though Shousui said that he just wanted to apologize for his reckless behavior of tying up Shouchen and the other two and fighting with Shousui last time, He Ci still wanted to be careful, at least keep a clear head to be ready to deal with various changes at any time.
"If he doesn't drink, then we will. Come on, let's clink glasses!" Shousui was quite casual about alcohol and would drink when he had it but he wasn't addicted to it. Seeing that Gu Xulin was rejected by He Ci and was humiliated, he thought that since Gu Xulin was already friends with him, he should not put the other party in too embarrassing a situation.
Shousui replaced the wine on the table in front of Heci with a glass of boiled water, and poured a glass each for Shouchen and Chi Yu. Thinking that Yan Shun should not be suitable for drinking due to his injuries, he handed the kettle to Yifeng opposite and asked him to replace the wine for Yan Shun with boiled water. Then Shousui called everyone else at the table and asked them to clink glasses together.
When He Ci saw Shou Sui's attentive behavior of not liking to drink alcohol or carbonated drinks and only accepting boiled water, mineral water or pure fruit juice, his icy face that had been clenched for a day finally melted and he smiled. He Ci picked up the glass of warm water and clinked glasses with everyone else.
"Thank you for your hospitality, Major Gu," Shousui looked at Gu Xulin and said, "Since you are so sincere today, I will forgive you for what happened last time!"
Thinking that many of the companions at the table were not acquainted with Gu Xulin yet, Shousui then briefly introduced Yifeng Chiyu and others to Gu Xulin.
Luo Tingyu, who ran to another table to flirt with girls but got a lot of cold reception, heard the crisp sound of glass cups clinking. After being rejected by the beautiful girls, Luo felt bored and got up from the table and went back to the table where they were staying to celebrate the New Year.
"Why didn't you call me for a drink? Don't you know I just love it?" Luo Tingyu sat down in the empty seat next to Yan Shun and complained to him with a somewhat dissatisfied tone.
"What do you want me to do? Aren't you busy chatting up people?" Yan Shun's left hand holding the chopsticks was not very natural, so he had to eat slowly. After hearing Luo Tingyu's complaints, he didn't even raise his eyelids, and replied in a neutral tone, "Isn't it disturbing your leisure time to ask you to do that?"
Luo Tingyu took the bowl and went to get himself a bowl of rice. When he came back, he looked at Yan Shun and said with even more dissatisfaction, "Why do I feel like you don't like me? I say one thing and you say two things back. I say two things and you say three things back. This morning, too..."
When Luo Tingyu said this, Yan Shun was trying hard to pick up some vegetables for himself from a plate of his favorite vegetables. After failing several times, he seemed to be angry at his useless left hand, or as if he was displeased with what Luo Tingyu said. Yan Shun put down his chopsticks on the table with a heavy voice, turned his head and stared at Luo Tingyu and said, "I was just telling you the truth, but it seems that I don't like you?"
Luo Tingyu's words after "This morning..." were abruptly stopped by Yan Shun's question, which was several decibels higher. As if she didn't expect the other party to get angry suddenly, Luo Tingyu looked at Yan Shun with her mouth slightly open and eyes wide open in surprise, as if she was frightened.
The other people at the table glanced over with some confusion, looking back and forth at Luo Tingyu and Yan Shun.
Facing the inexplicable gazes from the crowd, Yan Shun realized that his reaction seemed a bit excessive. He secretly adjusted his mood and asked Shousui and the others as if nothing had happened, "Isn't it? Please judge for yourself, why do I dislike him?"
"Ah, this..." Shousui stared at the two of them, and always felt that one of them was a little strange. He chose to speak from an objective perspective, "What Brother Yan said is indeed the truth. I also think that Brother Luo is overthinking it."
"..." Although, Luo Tingyu always felt that Yan Shun's anger just now was a bit inexplicable! He also said that he just felt "a little bit", at most he just had a little suspicion, and he didn't explicitly accuse the other party of disliking him! So, is he angry?
Although he felt a little aggrieved when he thought about it, Luo Tingyu felt that Yan Shun's mood was a little unstable today. In the past, when they quarreled and wanted to fight, he never saw Yan Shun get angry. Today, he really couldn't understand Yan Shun. So even though he felt aggrieved at this moment, Luo Tingyu shut up and stopped arguing with him. He just smiled and said, "I'm not kidding, am I?"
"Hmph!" Yan Shun turned his head away and snorted coldly at Luo Tingyu's explanation.
Yifeng, who was standing next to him, saw Yan Shun put down his chopsticks in anger because he failed several times to pick up food with his left hand, so he hurriedly picked up some food for him.
Yan Shun looked at the various meat and vegetable dishes piled up in the bowl bit by bit, and he quickly stopped Yi Feng, "Enough, enough, I don't like garlic sprouts, take less, thank you!"
Yan Shun's calm tone at this moment formed a sharp contrast with his cold sneer towards Luo Tingyu a second ago.
Luo Tingyu was speechless for a long time.
"Oh, OK." After hearing this, Yifeng hurriedly took the garlic sprouts from Yan Shun's bowl and put them in his own bowl. From the tone of Yan Shun's words, it seemed that the reason why Yan Shun was angry just now was not because he forgot to pick up some food for him. After Yifeng finished his assessment, he continued to show off his meal.
"What kind of wine is this? It's quite delicious." Seeing that the place had fallen silent again and the atmosphere was a bit stiff, Shousui changed the subject and asked Gu Xulin who was sitting on the main seat, trying to liven up the atmosphere again.
"Rum..." Gu Xulin looked at Shousui and replied with a smile, then gave him a more detailed introduction.
Although Luo Tingyu kept silent about Yan Shun, he was quite interested in the topic of rum that Shousui and Gu Xulin were discussing, and he would occasionally interject a few words. After tasting the rum, Luo Tingyu couldn't help but praise it, "This wine tastes sweet and mellow, and the flavor is fragrant and rich. It's really delicious!"
After Shousui's unremitting efforts, the atmosphere at the table became lively again. Shousui was so happy that he drank a few more glasses of wine. After a few glasses of wine with a concentration of more than 40 degrees, two crimson clouds immediately climbed up on Shousui's face.
He Ci looked at his slightly tipsy face and couldn't help but advise him, "Drink less, it's uncomfortable to be drunk."
Shousui waved his hands, "It's okay, just be happy!"
"But you can't drink too much, otherwise I'm afraid you'll get drunk and feel uncomfortable." He Ci simply took his wine glass and put it farther away from himself.
"Well... okay then." Shousui compromised after hesitating.
Chi Yu glanced at Shou Sui secretly, lowered his voice and said to Mo Yuankai beside him, "Don't give me any more food, I'm almost full."
Chi Yu didn't pick up any food for himself during the meal. It wasn't because he was lazy but because he didn't have the chance.
Whenever he finished eating the food in his bowl, Mo Yuankai would continue to add food to his bowl with his serving chopsticks, and he would not stop until the food piled up like a mountain. This caused Chi Yu to bury his head in eating the food, but he could never finish it.
Chi Yu refused to let Mo Yuankai pick him up, and the man was unhappy. He asked him the reason and pretended to be wronged.
"Don't you like this dish?" Mo Yuankai would ask this question whenever Chi Yu refused to give him a dish.
Chi Yu could only speak honestly, "No."
"Then why not?"
"You took too much. You can't eat that much."
"How can it be too much? You should eat more since you are so thin."
"Eating more won't make you fat in one meal!"
"I see. You dislike the way I sandwiched it, don't you?"
"..."
In the end, Chi Yu was completely helpless. Until now, after his stomach was filled to the brim and he felt bloated, Chi Yu finally had a reason to stop Mo Yuankai's behavior of picking up food for him.