248: Chapter 244 Embarrassing Spectacle 248: Chapter 244 Embarrassing Spectacle Yuedong was warm all year round, like an everlasting spring.
Even though it was already December, the temperature in Yang City still maintained around the twenties.
The plump auntie was wearing a dress.
Although her figure was a bit out of shape, it didn’t stop her from dressing up beautifully.
Seeing Jiang Zhendong, now only in his underwear, rolling towards her, she scread in fright, squeezing her legs tightly together.
“Jiang Zhendong, what are you doing?
Get up right now!”
Ye Rongzhong’s face had already darkened.
He coldly stared at Jiang Zhendong, who was rolling on the ground, frantically scratching at his body, and rebuked him angrily.
As soon as he spoke, several n in black suits rushed over to Jiang Zhendong, pinned him down, and then lifted him up.
“Uncle Ye, I…
I…” Jiang Zhendong, whose mind seed to have cleared up a lot, was ashen-faced, his head nearly buried in his pants.
He wanted to explain the situation to Ye Rongzhong, but he was stamring and had no idea how to start.
Just a mont ago, he thought he saw a swarm of leeches, a dense mass of them, rushing towards him.
Down his collar and through his sleeves, countless leeches, he didn’t know how many, burrowed into his clothing.
He slapped himself frantically, but it was useless.
The number of leeches getting into his clothing didn’t seem to decrease but rather continued to increase.
If he hadn’t been desperate, why would he strip naked and roll around on the ground in front of everyone?
But now, pinned down by the n in black suits, all the leeches had completely vanished.
It was as if, just monts ago, he had experienced hallucinations.
Those countless leeches he saw never really appeared.
Black Swan Hotel was one of the most luxurious five-star hotels in Yang City.
The chance of a leech appearing in such a place was tiny, maybe a little bit possible.
But in the banquet hall of the catering departnt, the appearance of a swarm of leeches was recognized by everyone as utterly impossible.
Moreover, from the looks in the eyes of those around him, no one but he had seen those leeches.
Under such circumstances, even if he wanted to explain, he didn’t know where to start!
Was he to honestly tell Ye Rongzhong that the reason he stripped and rolled on the ground was that he saw a group of leeches biting him?
Once he said that, Jiang Zhendong thought that not only would the people in the banquet hall not believe his explanation, but they would also think he was crazy and needed to see a neurologist!
Feeling everyone’s strange gazes, Jiang Zhendong wished there was a crack in the ground he could crawl into!
The sophisticated image he had cultivated over the years had completely crumbled…
He hastily redressed himself in the clothes he had ripped off and thrown to the ground.
“Just causing trouble blindly.
Find a place to sober up and stop embarrassing yourself here!”
Looking at Jiang Zhendong, who was unable to co up with an explanation, Ye Rongzhong frowned and harrumphed coldly.
“Uncle Ye, Aunt Song, the fault is mine.
I was rude today!”
“I have so matters to attend to, so I must hurry back.”
“Regarding today’s incident, I will certainly give everyone a satisfactory response in a few days…”
Embarrassed and in a dire state, Jiang Zhendong, who had made an international spectacle of himself, had no face to stay any longer in the banquet hall!
After finding an excuse, he hung his head and hurriedly walked towards the exit of the banquet hall.
He didn’t even dare to glance a few more tis in the direction where Chen Hai and Ye Qingqing were.
His only thought now was to leave as fast and as far as possible!
Jiang Zhendong’s departure went unnoticed and unretained.
After all, he was an uninvited guest.
In Capital City, his family might have deep connections, but in Yuedong, there weren’t many who knew them well.
Among the hundred or so people still in the banquet hall, probably only about a dozen truly knew Jiang Zhendong and had a good relationship with the Jiang Family.
If it had been other matters, these people might have spoken a few good words on his behalf.
But now, at soone else’s engagent banquet, his behavior of stripping and rolling on the ground made even those familiar with Jiang Zhendong and his family feel extrely embarrassed.
Under such circumstances, they didn’t pretend not to know Jiang Zhendong, and that was already sothing.
So who would be willing to speak well on his behalf in this matter!
“Chen Hai, was that your doing?” With Jiang Zhendong, the troublemaker gone, the banquet hall quickly returned to its previous state.
Ye Qingqing, with a puzzled expression, pulled Chen Hai aside, leaned in, and whispered in his ear.
“What do you think?” he chuckled noncommittally, giving nothing away.
“You’ve made Jiang Zhendong lose face completely; be careful he doesn’t find out sothing and co to settle the score with you!” Ye Qingqing giggled behind her hand, giving him a friendly reminder.
“If an enemy cos, we’ll block them; if a flood cos, we’ll cover it with earth.
Just now, all he did was lose face here!”
“If he really doesn’t know what’s good for him and wants to trouble again, I’m afraid it won’t be as simple as just losing face!”
He shrugged his shoulders, Chen Hai didn’t care at all, and responded.
Ye Qingqing guessed that Jiang Zhendong’s matter was related to herself, which wasn’t surprising.
After all, not only did she know that Chen Hai had many quirky skills, she was also clear that her fiancé did not get along well with Jiang Zhendong!
“The Jiang Family is nouveau riche, and their guy is at the height of his power right now.”
“Anyway, just be careful yourself.”
“If he really dares to trouble you, tell .
I’ll get my brother to help you out!” Ye Qingqing said with a smile.
“Alright, wife!”
“Who’s your wife?”
“We’re engaged, so you are my wife…”
Chatting, the two of them started flirting and teasing again.
The arrival and departure of Jiang Zhendong was just a minor incident for their engagent ceremony.
The ceremony continued regardless, and amid the witnesses and blessings of nurous friends and family, Chen Hai and Ye Qingqing exchanged rings.
Followed by that, the two of them offered tea together to both sets of parents, finally marking the completion of the engagent ceremony.
In truth, although the traditional customs of Yanhuang Country spoke of arranged child engagents, having an engagent before marriage was more of a custom that ca from the West.
The engagent ceremony of the two, neither traditionally Yanhuang nor completely Western, was just going through the motions and far from formal.
Of course, Chen Hai hadn’t decided this on his own.
When planning the engagent ceremony, he had already asked for the opinions of Ye Rongzhong and Song Ling.
…
In Capital City, within an extravagantly luxurious Siheyuan.
Jiang Zhendong sat in the pavilion in the courtyard, looking dejected, gripping a bottle of alcohol and frequently taking big swigs.
“What on earth is happening?
I just had a check-up not long ago while in the USA!”
“The Arican doctor who did my dical examination said I was strong as an ox, without a single issue.”
“How could I suddenly be having hallucinations and hearing things?”
“Dammit, I should never have co back here!
Staying in the USA, riding Arican horses every day—I was fine there!”
“If it weren’t for my fourth uncle telling about Qingqing’s engagent, and going on about how marrying a Ye Family daughter would benefit the Jiang Family this way and that…”
“Now, I’ve lost all face.
The incident in Yang City won’t take long to spread to Capital City.”
“In the circles I move in, how will I, Jiang Zhendong, ever show my face again…”
There wasn’t a single dish of peanuts on the stone table inside the pavilion, just several empty bottles of alcohol.
If there had been even a few peanuts, Jiang Zhendong wouldn’t be this drunk,
Holding that bottle of foreign liquor in his hand, he had only drunk half but was now slumped from the stool directly onto the ground.
Leaning against one of the pavilion’s columns, he took a drink of alcohol and then had to spit for quite so ti.
In just this short while, the spot where he sat was littered with several piles of vomit.
Leaving the Black Swan Hotel, too ashad to stay in Yang City, he had imdiately caught a flight back to Capital City.
So people, when feeling troubled, like to shop compulsively.
Others, when particularly frustrated, would seek out escorts to vent their rage.
Jiang Zhendong?
He preferred to hide in a secluded corner and get utterly drunk, quietly licking his wounds alone.
Upon rushing back to Capital City, his very first move was to return to this Siheyuan, take the stored foreign liquors from ho, and start drowning his sorrows.
“What the heck is wrong with you, boy?”
“Ashad of making a scene outside, you run back to Capital City, hide here, and you want to keep losing face?”
“Get up right now and tell exactly what happened in Yang City…”
A middle-aged man dressed in traditional Chinese garb, slender and appearing to be in his forties, pushed open the gate of the Siheyuan and strode in.
Seeing Jiang Zhendong in the pavilion, disheveled and drunk as a skunk, his anger rose uncontrollably.
Fuming, he walked up to Jiang Zhendong, grabbed his collar, and slapped him several tis.
Unfortunately, Jiang Zhendong was quite severely intoxicated.
Despite the slaps, his blurred drunken gaze seed completely unaffected.
The middle-aged man had only just lifted him back onto the stool when he let go, and Jiang Zhendong’s body went limp; he tumbled back onto the ground, rolling over several tis.
The filth from his vomiting, now sared all over him, was almost everywhere on his head and face.
“What a disgrace…”
The middle-aged man cursed and glanced around, then stood and walked away.
A few monts later, he returned, this ti holding a half bucket of cold water.
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