"The highlight?" Ye Zhong asked puzzledly. In his opinion, the meal was finished and it was time for the show to end.
"Well, generally speaking, there will be a party after dinner. Of course, this refers to the upper class. The function of the party is also for communication between people, but compared with dinner , the communication method at the party is richer and freer, not as formal as at the dinner table.
Here they often exchange some news about each other, and everyone generally does not choose to talk about serious matters at the party. To be precise, this should be a leisure activity. But for young people, this is an important stage to show their charm. Well, this is also where those ladies live***. Hey, after saying so much, I guess you still don’t understand! You'll know after a while! "Shang was eloquent and looked like an expert.
Ye Zhong said nonchalantly: "Whatever!" He knew very well that this was definitely not the life he wanted. What he had to do was to listen to Shang's opinion and not be too conspicuous at this time. After all, he knew nothing about these etiquettes. If a joke is made, it will never be a pleasant thing. He was just curious that Shang would be interested in these things.
The dining table was quickly removed, and instead many small tables were placed. The small tables were filled with various cut fruits, wine and desserts. The center of the hall was vacated, and the surrounding areas were filled with sofas. The merchant's servants were busy at a rapid pace. The advanced holographic sound source on the ceiling can provide the highest quality sound.
Soothing and melodious music floats in the hall. Everyone walked into the arena at this time.
"Ye Zi. Don't stand here stupidly, holding a glass of wine. Even if you don't drink, you still have to show it." Shang reminded Ye Zhong.
Hearing this, Ye Chong immediately picked up a glass of red wine from the table next to him, and Shang continued: "You walk slowly now, and you can show your friendliness by just raising your glass when you meet someone. If you see the other person raising their glass, you should do the same. Cup sign! The movement is soothing and natural.”
"It's so boring!" Ye Zhong muttered in his heart.
"Hey, Ye Zi, is this boring? Don't worry. The boring ones are still to come!" Shang's smile sounded quite malicious.
At this time, many people entered the hall. Every man usually has a female companion by his side, and Shang Changming was walking around at this time, smiling, nodding, and toasting to the acquaintances he met.
Robert walked up to Ye Zhong, also holding a glass of wine in his hand. While raising his glass to Ye Zhong, he said with a smile: "Brother Wang, please don't be too restrained. There are many beauties in our stay! It's a waste of youth to be romantic. It's a pity for them. I can’t see Brother Wang showing off his power, otherwise, I’m afraid Brother Wang will be drowned by beauties! Haha!”
Ye Chong didn't react at all to this kind of teasing. He held Robert's hand in his hand, raised his glass in return, and said calmly: "Thank you, boss!"
Shang praised: "Yi Zi, that was a good move just now!"
When Robert saw Ye Zhong's expression, he seemed to understand him, so he laughed and walked away.
There were more and more people in the hall. For this party, Shang Changming invited almost all the famous people in Rich Star.
Ye Chong held the wine glass and walked aimlessly. Seeing Ye Zhong's cold expression, few people raised their glasses to Ye Zhong along the way, and Ye Zhong was happy to do so. It's just that Ye Zhong felt the eyes of many women drifting towards him vaguely, which made him feel very uncomfortable. But every time he tilted his head slightly, these eyes would flash quickly like frightened animals. open. This made Ye Chong very puzzled.
Ignore them, eyes can't kill anyway!
"Mr. Wang is here alone?" A pleasant voice came from behind Ye Chong. Ye Zhong turned around and saw Shang Xin coming with a wine glass, and next to her was a young man in a white dress. The young man's silver-white hair slightly covered one of his eyes, making his eyes somewhat hazy. There is always a faint smile at the corner of his mouth, and with Bai Jiu's smooth face, he is extremely handsome. Ye Zhong clearly felt that the eyes that had always been around him were focused on this young man almost instantly.
This made Ye Chong relax slightly.
The young man bowed slightly to Ye Chong, polite, elegant and calm.
"Hey, Ye Zi, this guy is more handsome than you! Damn it!" Shang said angrily.
"Handsome? What do you mean?" Ye Chong heard this word for the first time.
"Well, a handsome man is called handsome!" Shang simply explained to Ye Chong.
"Beautiful? What's the use of being beautiful? You can't eat it! If this is an advantage, it is also a flashy advantage!" Ye Chong said indifferently.
Ye Zhong bowed slightly to the young man first, and then said to Shang Xin: "Miss Shang, do you have anything to do with me?"
The expressions of the two people in front of them immediately turned dull!
"Wrong, wrong!" Shang was really furious now: "Yi Zi, don't use Mu's tricks here! Now you are just having fun, understand? There are actually people who greet others at the party by asking them the first question What's going on! Oh my god! This is too exaggerated!"
"Then what should I say?" Ye Chong asked.
"You can say whatever you want, like hello, Miss Shang, the weather is nice today, Miss Shang, you are really charming tonight, what can you say that's not allowed? You can never say anything like this to me!"
"Isn't this all nonsense?" Ye Chong muttered.
"This is a place to talk nonsense!" Shang summed it up accurately.
Even though Shang Xin was good at adapting to situations, this was the first time he was asked such a question at a party, and he was immediately speechless. The scene was quite embarrassing. Ye Chong was afraid that he would say the wrong thing again, so he simply kept silent. Finally, the young man came out to break the deadlock, with a charming smile on his face: "I heard from Sister Xin that Mr. Wang can accurately shoot the enemy with a dagger from more than sixty meters away! This makes Xiao Ling admire him very much! "
Shang Xin quickly introduced: "This is Shang Ling. He heard about Mr. Wang's deeds. He pestered me to bring him to meet Mr. Wang to express his admiration."
"Oh, it was luck that time!" Ye Zhong said lightly. To be honest, there was a bit of luck in it that time. Ye Zhong was not sure that if he repeated his actions now, he would still have such satisfactory results.
Shang Ling's lips drew an elegant lone line. As if he didn’t mean anything: “You have no strength and no luck! Mr. Wang is so self-effacing!”
"Mr. Shang praises me too much!" Ye Chong's expression remained as usual, neither cold nor hot.
Shang Ling shrugged elegantly: "It would be a pleasure in life if I could compete with Mr. Wang one day!" Immediately, he seemed to realize his gaffe. Shang Ling laughed at himself: "Just kidding. How can I be Mr. Wang's opponent? I wonder if Mr. Wang is interested in driving mech armor?"
Ye Chong couldn't help but feel wary. He said: "General!"
"I really want to see what it's like for Mr. Wang to drive a mech!" Shang Ling had a look of strong expectation in his eyes.
"Oh!" Ye Zhong just responded. How could the other party mention light armor for no reason? Could it be that he meant something? Ye Zhong didn't dare to speak nonsense as he didn't know the depth of the other party.
Seeing that Ye Zhong didn't seem to be interested in talking, Shang Ling and Shang Xin said goodbye and went to other places.
Ye Chong simply stayed in a corner, slowly drinking the wine in his glass, and allowed Shang to instigate him. Just don’t go in the middle.
"A-Ling, what do you think of this person?" Shang Xin and Shang Ling walked side by side.
"A very strange and interesting person! And very cold!" Shang Ling had an interesting look in his eyes.
"Yes, he is really a strange person. He seems to have no idea about social etiquette, but just now my third uncle told me that this Wang Xing occasionally used a double sword ceremony at the dinner table, but it seemed that the time was very short! My third uncle was suspicious He is probably a noble!" Shang Xin said: "He doesn't look like a noble. But if he has really been taught by the nobles, then why is he pretending like this?" Shang Xin said with a serious expression. Somewhat puzzled.
"Double sword ceremony?" Shang Ling was slightly surprised.
"A-Ling, do you also know the double-sword ceremony?" Shang Xin asked curiously.
"Well, the double-knife ceremony is an ancient dining etiquette that is only spread among upper-class nobles with considerable status. It is different from our current table etiquette. They use two knives. This way of dining is very difficult because It is difficult to control Ruyi with two table knives, and it is easy to hurt the mouth without special training, so it was later changed to one knife and one fork. It is very likely that those who can skillfully use the two-knife ceremony are descendants of nobles! Even in some wealthy families and In aristocratic families, it is very rare for people to be able to use the double-sword ritual!" Shang Ling explained in detail.
"So, he should be well-educated, so why does he act so vulgar? Disguise? What is his purpose?" Shang Xin couldn't help but fell into thought.
"It looks like this is a really interesting person!" The expression on Shang Ling's face became more and more excited, and a strange light flashed in his eyes.
Ye Zhong drank the wine in his hand one sip at a time. This red wine had a very low alcohol concentration and a slightly sweet taste. It tasted more like some kind of juice. Ye Chong tasted red wine for the first time and thought it tasted quite good. However, the memory of Madman Guan's drunk appearance was too deep in his mind, and he didn't want to become like that and lose control.
Ye Chong, who was alone in the corner, was not lonely. He was chatting with Shang.
Unknowingly, the music changed to dance music, and for a while, people entered the open space in the center of the hall one after another. Often a man and a woman enter at the same time. As soon as they entered the center *** they started dancing to the music.
Ye Zhong, who glanced at it twice at first, was still a little bit fresh, but after a while, this slow-paced dance music made Ye Zhong almost yawn.
Of course, Shang also deserves some of the credit for this. Shang never stopped reforming Ye Chong's thoughts from the very beginning. The effect of this fatigue bombing is undoubtedly significant.
"Yi Zi, you have to learn to enjoy life. This world is relatively peaceful! It's not just about fighting and killing!" Shang suddenly paused, seeming to feel that this statement was completely inconsistent with Ye Chong's experience, so he abandoned his Peace Theory continued: "Fighting is undoubtedly very important, but life is equally important! If there is no joy in life, what is the difference between it and a killing machine? Ye Zi, I am a virtual intelligence and I also know the joy of life, you… "
Ye Chong knew that if there was no accident, Shang would not stop in a short time.
"Excuse me, can I ask you to dance?" A timid female voice reached Ye Chong's ears.
Ye Zhong raised his head and saw a girl wearing a light brown beige dress. Her long hair hung naturally, her head lowered, and her hands folded in front of her. With sharp eyes, Ye Zhong saw that her hands were moving. He kept twisting the skirt in front of him.
"Are you talking to me?" Ye Chong looked around.
"Yeah!" The girl's face was so red that it seemed like it could bleed, and she said, "Can I ask you to dance?"
"Oh my God! She is so beautiful! She is so pure! Ye Zi, please agree, please agree! You, a guy who doesn't know how to be charming, are so lucky that you always meet beautiful women. Oh my God, this is so unreasonable! You are really lucky today. That's great, haha, I've been here three hours to meet a beautiful woman!" Shang was so excited that he couldn't contain himself.
Ye Chong wailed, and sure enough, it happened again! As soon as Shang sees a woman, especially a so-called beauty, he will immediately fall into this abnormal state in Ye Chong's opinion.
"Why should I dance with her?" Ye Chong said lazily. It was a very painful thing to be scolded by Shang, but if it could hit Shang, it would be a very pleasant thing.
"Ye Zi, you inhuman guy! You beast! Such a pure beauty invites you to dance, and you actually ask why? Is this, is this a question that a man should ask?" Shang burst into tears.
Seeing that Ye Chong suddenly didn't respond again, the girl couldn't help but look up.
Only then did Ye Chong see her face clearly. Her snow-like skin could be broken by a blow. Her delicate jade face was still a bit innocent. She had a small nose, a round mouth, and she was dressed in a light brown lace dress. She stood tall and graceful. Make her look like a fairy tale princess.
His big watery eyes looked at Ye Zhong cautiously, his timid eyes showed anticipation. Somehow, Ye Zhong suddenly thought of his daughter, whom he had not seen for several months.
I remember that my daughter had such timid eyes and cautious expression at that time. The eyes and expressions are really similar! Ye Chong's thoughts were a little wandering!
"Yi Zi, promise, promise, promise!" Shang kept urging, as if he was taking the stage in person.
"But, Shang, you clearly know that I can't dance!" Ye Chong said disapprovingly.
"Hey!" Shang heard a hint of wavering in Ye Zhong's words and continued to encourage him: "It doesn't matter, Ye Zi, I have a way!"
"Are you sure?" Ye Zhong was doubtful.
"Hehe, don't worry! There will be no problem," Shang said as a guarantee, but his laughter was full of pride.