Carledo froze and wanted to continue talking, but Jesse immediately changed the subject and started talking about other things. It could be seen that few people were too lazy to know the names of Garen and Effie, but from the grade of clothing they wore, it could be seen that their levels were not in the same circle.
Only then did Weimar walk onto the platform in the center of the banquet hall, loudly announcing the start of the banquet, and let everyone eat and have fun. All the young men and women raised their glasses of wine or juice and laughed lightly. After saying some more emotional words, Weimar came down from the stage and returned to Carledo's side, and went up to the band instead.
"That's right. Wisga just came back from Jindili. The plane passed by Huaishan. I want to take a rest. Today, I held a banquet and called her here. She will drive here in a while. I guess she is on the way now, and I will finish eating later." Let's pick her up together." Weimar took a sip of the plasma wine in the glass.
"Going in a while?" Carledo frowned, "I still have friends here."
"It doesn't matter, I'll just go and talk to them. Just let them go back alone. We haven't got together in this circle for many years. This opportunity is rare,"
"Why don't you ask them to go together, everyone is my friend, and we can get to know each other." Calledo said hesitantly.
There was a hint of disapproval in Weimar's smile.
"Calredo, I hope that we old friends will get together tonight, and it's better not to let other people get involved." Seeing that Carredo hesitated, he continued, "Didn't you like Weiss the most before?" Plus? Now she finally came here, and you didn't pick it up? Besides, we only have four cars, and there is no place for the two of them."
"Okay, don't spoil everyone's fun. If you can't say it, I'll come."
Calledo was a little silent. He suddenly regretted inviting Garen and Effie to the banquet. He didn't expect that he hadn't seen him for many years. The Weimar brother he once admired has become somewhat incomprehensible. The one in his mind a while ago The perfect image slowly faded away. But in any case, Weimar and he have been friends since childhood.
"I'll see the situation later." He replied in a low voice, still hesitating.
Weimar frowned, the smile on his face slowly sank, and he patted Calledo on the shoulder. "Think about it for yourself."
As soon as Garen and Effie entered the door, they wandered around the dining table in the banquet hall, eating.
At the banquet, apart from Carredo, the two didn't know anyone else, and from time to time new people walked in who they didn't know. The people who came in were all boys and girls aged seventeen or eighteen. As soon as they entered the door, friends greeted them, chatting and laughing.
There were only two people who didn't know each other. Watching people talking and laughing happily, each gathered into a small circle to chat. Unconsciously, there is a feeling that I am redundant.
"If you can't let go, just eat. Carledo is entangled and can't leave. It's impossible for him to leave so many friends alone, so why not just accompany the two of us?" Garen whispered to him After what Effie said, she picked up the dinner plate and went to pick up vegetables in the distance.
It really felt unnatural to just stand there like this. Effie walked uncomfortably in front of the grass table, picked up the plate cautiously like other people, and carefully scooped up the soup in the bowl with a spoon.
The other people present, except for her and Garen, were either rich or expensive, and the gorgeous and splendid banquet hall was extremely dazzling.
In comparison, her dress of less than 200 yuan and boots of about 100 yuan were very conspicuous and out of place in the small hall. It was the random food on the dining table, many of which were expensive food she had seen in shopping malls, and a random dish was much more expensive than the clothes on her body combined.
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Suddenly there was a slight laughter from the side.
"Sister, that soup is not for drinking, but for gargling." A young girl next to her couldn't help laughing.
When Effie heard this, her face blushed and she almost choked. She quickly put down the dinner plate and picked up a tissue to dry her mouth.
"I, I may have read it wrong..." She even turned her neck completely red, and lowered her head, not daring to look at the other person's face.
"That soup basin is so obvious. You have never encountered mouthwash soup before meals, have you?" The girl smiled coquettishly again, and another girl walked by, and the two of them muttered for a while. , and immediately covered his mouth and laughed lightly.
Effie stood on the spot with her head lowered, her cheeks and neck were all red, she just felt hot all over, she didn't want to walk or stay on the carpet, she wanted to find a crack in the ground to get in.
"Does it matter? Is the mouthwash soup poisonous so you can't drink it?" Garen walked over from the side, frowning slightly.
He was dressed in clothes that cost hundreds of dollars, but he was not at all restrained. In his eyes, these young men and women present were just chickens that could be crushed to death. After killing someone, when he looked at other ordinary people, his mentality and perspective also had completely different changes. Especially in this world, killing people is not very dangerous. This made Garen faintly stabilize his mentality, and he became less and less important to things other than strength.
"It's just mouthwash soup. I like to drink it that way too. Is it funny?" Garen scooped up a spoonful of mouthwash soup from his own soup bowl and drank it down. Mouthwash soup tastes a bit sweet and has a minty smell, but it is not bad to drink.
"It's okay, it's okay." The girl saw Garen's natural face, but she was embarrassed to say more, and gave the two of them an ambiguous look, "Go on, go on" The two girls walked away slowly, and they didn't walk a long time when they left. Bu couldn't help but chuckle again.
Garen frowned as the two walked away, and then looked at Effie behind him.
"Okay, don't worry about other people, do whatever you want."
Effie nodded silently.
"Why don't we go and talk to Carledo, let's go back first. The decoration of this place is good, but the people are a bit poor." Garen shrugged naturally.
Seeing that Effie just nodded, her cheeks were so blushing that she couldn't lift her head, Garen turned around speechlessly and walked towards Carledo.
Carledo was chatting with a bright-eyed girl, but they didn't say a word. Most of the girls raised the topic on their own initiative, but Carledo seemed a little perfunctory. Seeing Garen approaching, this guy really couldn't stand up.
"I'll go and see my friend first. He might have something to do with me, so I'm sorry." He just found an excuse to leave, and walked directly to Garen's side without saying a word.
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As soon as the two got together, Carledo let out a long breath.
"See, that beauty with dark blonde shawl hair is my engagement partner, how do you feel?"
"It's okay, isn't it very good?" Garen asked doubtfully.
"It's just too good. I feel so useless in comparison." Carledo looked frustrated.
"Okay, I came here to tell you that Effie and I want to go back first, so you can spend more time with these friends."
"I still want to introduce you." Calledo didn't say anything, and fell silent for a while, "Then I'll see you off."
"No, we can do it by ourselves. I'll take Effie home first. I'm used to running every night. But you shouldn't ask me to come with Effie tonight. Are you right?" Garen said slowly sink slowly.
The expression on Caledo's face gradually became silent.
"I'm fine. You know Effie's family background. Her family is much poorer than mine. She was recruited by the academy's excellent students. It's no wonder I'm not nervous on such occasions. I even made mouthwash just now." It's ugly to drink soup. She's a girl."
"Blame me." Carledo whispered, "I thought it was just a few people chatting casually and it wouldn't be too troublesome. I didn't expect the scope of the scene to be so large."
"I don't blame you, you also have good intentions. Alright, let's go first, you have fun." Garen patted him on the shoulder and said no more. The latter opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything. He could only watch Garen return to Effie's side, and the two quietly walked out of the small hall door together. No one noticed them. Except himself.
Garen Effie and the two left the hotel, walked on the side of the street where traffic flowed, and walked slowly along the sidewalk towards the suburbs.
Effie seemed to be a different person after she made a fool of herself, and became taciturn. They didn't say a word all the way.
"It's no big deal. Don't take other people's eyes too seriously. After today, they don't have much contact with us, and everyone gradually forgets about each other." Gallon comforted. "Don't blame Carredo, that guy is just slow-witted, and he never expected this to happen."
"I didn't blame him." Effie straightened her red ponytail. "It's a joke I didn't know. Why should I blame others?"
"Don't think too much." Garen patted her on the shoulder, "You are still you, the same as before, don't affect your mood just because of such a small matter." In fact, he was wandering around the city these days and found Effie by chance secret.
The only adult in this stubborn red-haired girl's family is a seriously ill mother, and she needs to take care of her other sister and younger brother. The father of the family gambled and owed a debt and then ran away, leaving her to pay it off slowly. Fortunately, as a top student at Oriole College, he goes home with a scholarship every year to subsidize his family, plus he earns some money by doing odd jobs after school, which is barely enough to support his younger siblings' tuition money and his mother's medical expenses.
In fact, this girl has been working hard to persevere. For other students, school study may be mechanical and boring, but for her it is a rare and easy time.
"Okay, don't be depressed." Garen was about to speak, when his eyes froze suddenly, and a familiar yet unfamiliar figure flashed across the corner of his vision. Closing his eyes abruptly, he retracted his gaze. "Let's go, take you back early, I should go home too."
"No need, actually, I can go back alone, you don't need to send it." Effie shook her head and said, subconsciously, her eyes flickered suddenly, and she looked at Garen suspiciously. "Go back by yourself, I can do it alone."
Garen could also see that she didn't want people to know about his family's situation, and it happened that he also had something to deal with, so he nodded. "Then you should pay attention to yourself, just go home, don't hang out for a long time, it may not be safe."
Effie nodded silently, and turned left along the intersection of the street.
Garen stood behind and watched her leave, until her figure completely disappeared around the corner, he pulled his collar, walked towards a dark alley on the side of the street, got in and disappeared in the shadows after a while inside.
(end of this chapter)