Marrying a powerful man: The third master is wild and untamable

Chapter 29 Love is not torture

Jincheng is very good at mathematics. People who are good at mathematics seem to be better at calculating winning and losing at the card table than ordinary people.

He personally taught Si Xiaotang how to play cards. After a few rounds, the chips in front of him gradually piled up into a small mountain.

Si Xiaotang was overjoyed and said in admiration: "Third Master has won so much money for me. Tonight, I want to treat you to Western food and a movie. Are you willing to give me a favor?"

Fu Jincheng said: "You're treating me to a treat, so of course I'll go."

Si Xiaotang seemed to have just remembered that Shen Xiuwan was still there, and immediately looked embarrassed.

She explained shyly: "Third Young Madam, don't get me wrong. Third Master and I are just ordinary friends, not a special relationship between men and women. That night at the Zhuhuang Pavilion, I almost got shot, but it was Third Master who saved me. Third Master He is a good man. When he saw that I was frightened, he went out of his way to comfort me afterwards and compensated for all the losses of Zhuhuang Pavilion."

Shen Xiuwan lowered her head to look at the cards.

It turns out that when she fainted in the private room, Jincheng was heroically saving the beauty downstairs.

He never brought women from outside home in the past, but he had only known Si Xiaotang for half a month, so he brought her home and introduced his relatives and friends to her.

He is really special to Si Xiaotang.

The bitterness in her chest almost filled her eyes. Shen Xiuwan forced a smile and whispered: "Jincheng... is indeed a very good person."

"Isn't that right?" Xue Qishu suddenly laughed, "The mink fur vest that Miss Si is wearing was also given to you by Jincheng, right? Such good leather goods are not circulated in the market at all, so Jincheng is the only one who can give it to you. Jincheng You are so generous to your friends, I am afraid that even Miss Shen, the principal wife, has never received such an expensive gift."

Shen Xiuwan glanced at the fur vest Si Xiaotang was wearing.

She knew that in winter, women in the rich and powerful circles of Yanjing City were very fashionable to wear leather goods. The one Si Xiaotang wore was worth three to four thousand dollars.

There is also a white fox fur coat in her closet, but it was not given by Jincheng. It was bought by Mrs. Fu and Grandpa Fu for their grandson-in-law the year she first got married.

She was afraid of getting dirty, so she was reluctant to wear them.

Her mind was confused, and she lowered her eyelashes and played a mahjong card: "Miss Si is very well-dressed."

Fu Jincheng's eyes fell on her face.

She was wearing a cloisonné satin quilted cheongsam today. She was not born bright and flamboyant, and her palm-sized face was delicate and cold. Perhaps because of the small cinnabar mole on the bridge of her nose, her whole face gave off a cold and stubborn look. feel.

Her voice sounded calm and calm, but the veins on the back of her hands were already bulging, and her apricot eyes seemed to be filled with mist, like a piece of glass about to break.

Fu Jincheng tugged at his thin lips.

He picked up the mahjong piece that Shen Xiuwan had placed on the table, inserted it into Si Xiaotang's mahjong tiles, and slowly pushed it down on the card table.

"Bullshit."

he said.

Xue Qinzhen became anxious and immediately glared at Shen Xiuwan: "How did you play the card?! Can't you see that they have been waiting for the 20,000 yuan?!"

Shen Xiuwan came to her senses and realized that she had made the wrong card.

She lowered her head and apologized to Xue Qinzhen.

"It's really unlucky that we won't fight if we don't fight!"

Xue Qinzhen pushed the mahjong away, stood up and left impatiently.

Fu Jincheng puffed lightly and took out a cigarette from the cigarette case.

Just as he was about to light it, a hand suddenly held him down.

Si Xiaotang frowned: "Smoking harms your health. Third Master has clearly promised me that he will quit smoking for me in the future."

Her boldness stunned everyone at the table.

But Fu Jincheng actually put away the cigarette: "It's my fault."

Si Xiaotang refused to give up: "I will punish you by personally delivering breakfast to me for three days!"

Fu Jincheng looked into her eyes, and the smile on his thin lips was gentle and indulgent: "Okay." The people at the card table fell into silence.

Xue Qishu stood up first, fanning the air in front of him, and said disgustedly: "Hey, it's winter, who is sweating, why is there such a smell in the room? I'll go out to get some fresh air, and you guys can chat slowly."

A game of mahjong ended unhappy.

In the afternoon, Shen Xiuwan walked through the corridor of the villa and saw Fu Jincheng and Si Xiaotang through the attic window.

Si Xiaotang took off the mink fur vest and sat on Jincheng's lap with a soft pillow in his arms. Perhaps because of Xue Qishu's words, he was pouting and making a fuss.

Jincheng put one hand on the back of the sofa, and his eyes behind the lenses were very gentle, probably coaxing her.

He didn't know what he said, but Si Xiaotang suddenly burst into laughter.

Shen Xiuwan watched quietly.

Snowflakes were blown to her eyelashes by the wind, and she felt her eyes were a little sore and her heart was heavy, as if a huge boulder was weighing on her.

She had never seen Jincheng be so interested in a woman as he was with Si Xiaotang, not even the former Liu Manling.

Only then did she realize that he was as arrogant and dignified as he could bring breakfast to women and coax them...

The third floor of Fu Mansion.

Bai Yuanjing stood on the balcony and had a panoramic view of Shen Xiuwan's entranced look.

Beside him, Xue Qishu held a cigarette between his fingers, and his mood had returned to calm.

Bai Yuanjing said: "You have liked Jincheng since you were a child. How do you feel when you see Jincheng making a new girlfriend?"

Xue Qishu took a puff of cigarette, spit it on his face like a mischief, and said with a smile: "What does it feel like? It's probably like watching Shen Xiuwan grieve for Fu Jincheng with your own eyes, but being unable to do anything. Bai Yuanjing, you like Shen Xiuwan, I noticed the way you look at her."

Cigarette smoke dispersed in the misty snow.

Through the snow curtain, Bai Yuanjing noticed that Shen Xiuwan's cheongsam had inverted sleeves. She was not wearing a muff, and her wrists were exposed. She was particularly slender and lonely. She was much thinner than in the spring, and her wrist joints were protruding. sharp.

It reminded him of those white and fragile lilac flowers in the alleys of Jiangnan.

Xue Qishu suggested: "Why don't you and I cooperate to break up their marriage? It's just another man. With your status, you can compete with Jincheng in the ring."

Bai Yuanjing was silent for a long time before saying: "Love is not torture."

Xue Qishu left with a sneer: "Love is not noble."

the other side.

Shen Xiuwan did not disturb Fu Jincheng.

She returned to the small hall alone, found a seat by the window, and asked Mei Xiang to bring her a cup of hot coffee.

The coffee is mellow and bitter.

She looked at the snowy scene outside the window. The Chinese New Year was coming soon. Every year at this time, her mother and Yu’s mother would go to the streets to buy New Year goods. The eaves of the house would soon be filled with all kinds of bacon, salted fish and stuffed sausages.

Every cold night, my mother would steam a plate of freshly dried sausages and cook a hot pork and cabbage soup. Grandpa and she would each hold a bowl of fragrant white rice and discuss this year's cured meats at the dinner table. Is it salty or bland? Which pork sausage is the best?

Shen Xiuwan was holding the coffee cup, her thoughts were wandering, and she saw that the snow outside the window looked like rice cakes.

Grandpa has bad teeth and likes to eat soft rice cakes. I wonder if my grandpa will go to the new shop in the east of the city or the old shop in the west of the city to make rice cakes at home this year?
  She misses grandpa.

She was in a daze when Xue Qishu suddenly came over and said forcefully: "Let's talk?"

Shen Xiuwan refused: "There is nothing to discuss between Miss Xue and I."

"You don't want to know why Jincheng is so special to Si Xiaotang?"

(End of this chapter)