The Love of Passerby A

Chapter 557: A Survival Guide for Women in the Old Republic of China (96)

As the banquet was coming to an end, the Cao family members began to get busy and stood up to see the guests off.

At this time, Su Xiangran and Song Chengjing came to their uncle Cao Ce together and toasted him.

Su Xiangran lightly picked up the wine glass from the tray beside her, handed it to Cao Ce carefully, and said with a smile: "Uncle, I wish you all the best and a long life!"

However, when these words of blessing came out of Su Xiangran's mouth, Cao Ce felt a little uncomfortable.

Despite this, he still took the glass politely and drank the wine in it.

Then, a few people chatted for a while.

Wu Wenyue watched the guests leave one after another, and then she confidently entrusted the remaining matters to her daughter-in-law Xie Wanru, and prepared to go to the annex building to find her son Cao Shixun to see what the situation was.

However, none of them noticed that at the moment Su Xiangran handed the wine glass to Cao Ce, her fingers gently stroked the rim of the glass.

This seemingly unintentional action has actually allowed some mysterious substances to be quietly smeared on the edge of the cup.

As Su Xiangran's uncle, Cao Ce would naturally not use strong medicine like she did on Wu Wenyue.

What Su Xiangran took was just a drug that could speed up blood circulation and take effect under the influence of alcohol.

The biggest advantage of this drug is that its onset is rapid and violent, but it is not time-sensitive, and the key is that it cannot be used to harm others.

At most, it was discovered that the person who drugged the patient took a low-quality hangover drug.

Cao Ce actually drank a lot of wine tonight, but he has a good alcohol tolerance, so the alcohol hasn't completely taken over yet.

But as the potion began to take effect, Cao Ce's face slowly turned red. Su Xiangran also noticed this and asked with concern: "Uncle, what's wrong with you? Is this wine a little too much?"

"I'm fine!" Cao Ce thought he was drunk, but he still had to maintain his dignity as a general. Even though he was a little lisp-slurred, he still held on.

Su Xiangran frowned and said, "Uncle, I am drunk, there is nothing wrong with admitting it."

Cao Ce really wanted to refute, but when he looked up and saw Su Xiangran’s frown, certain memories from the past came to his mind again. He lowered his head, standing there, like a child ready to be scolded.

"Uncle, this won't work. Let someone help you go to this room and rest for a night before going back home!" Su Xiangran advised softly.

"Hey! All your advice." Cao Ce had obviously confused Su Xiangran with his own princess mother, and he spoke this sentence in authentic Beijing dialect.

Cao Wanning also heard this, looked at his daughter, then at his brother Cao Ce, raised his eyebrows and looked around, but didn't see his sister-in-law Wu Wenyue, feeling a little unhappy.

"How can you be someone's wife? You've disappeared at this time." Cao Wanning said deliberately with dissatisfaction. It's not certain that she loves her brother very much, but it's true that she would put on a show whenever she gets the chance.

As a junior, Xie Wanru couldn't say anything, so she had to ask the hotel staff to help Cao Ce to the annex building to rest.

Originally, she should have gone with them, but there were still guests in the banquet hall and she couldn't leave for the moment, so she had to ask someone to help Cao Ce go to the annex building.

At this point, everything arranged by Su Xiangran and Song Chengjing had come to an end, and no one knew that an unexpected incident would happen afterwards.

It turned out that Cao Shixun had booked a room in the International Hotel all year round in case of "emergency need".

Usually!

Although this room is vacant, the situation has changed because today is the day the Cao family is holding a birthday banquet.

It turned out that the concubine that Cao Shixun kept - perhaps it would be more appropriate to call her his mistress - was not satisfied with following him without any name or status.

So she checked into the suite early, hoping to find an opportunity.

However, contrary to her wishes, she found that she could not squeeze into the banquet at all.

Now that she was already here, she naturally felt reluctant to give up, so she decided to stay in this suite for a few more days and enjoy the high-quality service of the International Hotel.

But it is worth mentioning that Cao Shixun’s little lover was named He Yurong, and "Yurong" happens to be another name for peony.

At this time, one of the waiters who helped Cao Ce upstairs knew that Cao Shixun had such a room, so he did not ask the front desk and directly helped Cao Ce into the room.

On the other side, the person who was supporting Cao Ce together with the waiter was actually arranged by Song Chengjing.

But the order he received was to wait for the right time to act. Seeing that there was no opportunity anymore and he could not bring Cao Ce into the room prepared in advance by Song Chengjing as originally planned, he had no choice but to give up his original plan to avoid exposing his identity.

After all, as for Cao Ce's matter, it was just a matter of convenience and not something that had to be done.

No one knew about these things at the time, including the planners Su Xiangran and Song Chengjing.

Their original idea was very simple, which was to find another stepmother for Cao Shixun and create some trouble for Wu Wenyue so that they would have no time to think about other things in the future.

But no one knew that Cao Ce would meet Cao Shixun's mistress in the room.