Chapter 104 Blind Date Invitation
"Su Jiang...how are they?"
Qin Huai glanced at Su Luo and chuckled, "If you wanted to know, you would have known it a long time ago. If you don't want to know, why bother asking now ?"
Su Luo nodded. She really didn't want to know. She didn't want to care about the Su family's affairs at all. However, she always had a good impression of Su Jiang.
"You don't have to worry." Qin Huai took the teacup in front of Su Luo and replaced it with a hot cup. "With Zimao here, nothing serious will happen."
Su Luo was surprised. "Su Jiang is willing to accept Li Rusong's help?"
Qin Huai shook his head in disapproval. "You and Zimao are friends, right? You can call him Zimao. I feel uncomfortable when you call him by his first name."
"I feel uncomfortable calling him by his given name." Su Luo thought of Li Rusong's so-called good points and scratched his chin, "At most I will be more polite to him next time he comes back. After hearing what you said today, I have some confidence in him handling my mother's affairs."
Qin Huai smiled leisurely, "It should be so. As for your question just now, Zimao, as an official appointed by the court, is naturally not so easy to come forward, but it's different for me."
"I see." Su Luo couldn't help but want to sneer when he heard the word "Zimao", "He is really a Lei Feng who does good deeds without leaving a name, for the sake of his beloved woman, tsk tsk..."
Qin Huai chuckled, "He treats you the same way."
"I am not blessed with it."
Qin Huai took a deep breath and exhaled suddenly, "Zimao is a very contradictory person. His heart is buried deep. You will understand him better over time."
Su Luo looked at Qin Huai strangely for a long time. Qin Huai looked at himself a little uncomfortably, then looked at Su Luo, "What's wrong?"
"You are a weird person. You have a lot of things to do, but you still blame others for being contradictory. If you have time to care about your brother Zimao, why not care about yourself and your son?"
When Qin Qi was mentioned, Qin Huai's nerves became noticeably tense, and the lively conversation between the two suddenly turned silent, which seemed a little awkward.
After a long while, Qin Huai moved, "Do you want to stay for dinner?"
"Forget it, I'll leave." Su Luo stood up, walked to the door and turned back and said: "The time you were silent shows that you still have this son in your heart. I don't know why you have come to this point, but Xiaoqi admires you very much, just like all sons who admire their fathers ."
After leaving Qin Huai's study, Su Luo planned to go find Qin Qing, and asked a maid to lead the way. Not long after walking a distance, he saw Bai Qing coming out of the inner courtyard. Bai Qing's attitude towards Su Luo was not very good, so he just casually greeted her, which was not considered rude.
Su Luo didn't bother to argue with the little girl. She chased after her and asked her if she had just come out from Qin Qing's place.
Bai Qing said yes, so Su Luo asked her if Qin Qing had mentioned traveling recently. Bai Qing looked at Su Luo for a long time and snorted, "She is most busy right now with Brother Qin Huai's second marriage. How can she have time to go out? If she wants to go, she has to wait until everything is settled before going."
Su Luo wiped the cold sweat off her forehead. It was Qin Huai who was going to remarry, not Qin Qing. Why was she busy with him? But it could also be because of the deep affection between brother and sister. From what Bai Qing said, Qin Qing did plan to go to Zhuxian Town, but not for the time being. This made Su Luo feel relieved. At least she didn't have to worry about Qin Qing for the time being.
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Bai Qing became alert again, and his voice became two tones higher, "Don't let your imagination run wild. Brother Qin Huai's remarriage has nothing to do with you."
It was such a headache. Su Luo really wanted to yell at her and tell her that she didn't like Qin Huai at all, but Qin Huai's words just now were still there. He made it clear that he didn't want to remarry, and he needed her help to cover it up. If she denied it now, it would seem that she was creating trouble for Qin Huai again.
Unable to admit nor deny, she could only avoid talking about it. Su Luo did not go looking for Qin Qing either. Going to Qin Qing might stimulate her determination to go to Zhuxian Town. It would be better to let Qin Huai keep an eye on her.
After that, the news that Qin Huai was going to remarry spread like wildfire. Every day, countless people visited the Qin Mansion. They had to get a number plate before entering the door. When it was Su Luo's turn, she was number 106. She didn't know where so many unmarried young women in Nanjing came from. However, she didn't want to meet Qin Ying and Qin Huai's mother for a blind date. She just wanted to ask Qin Huai about Li Rusong's whereabouts. A month had passed in a blink of an eye. Why hadn't he come back yet? It was ridiculous to ask this person to do something. If he didn't come back, he should send a message. Did he deal with the princess? If he didn't, she could send her mother to seclusion early in the morning.
After squeezing out of the crowd in front of Qin's house, Su Luo went to Qin's headquarters. There were also crowds of people, but she still couldn't find Qin Huai. Su Luo could understand. He was scared, right? Not only him, Su Luo was also scared. From now on, if anyone tells her that girls in ancient times were conservative and introverted, she will get angry with them!
However, thanks to this matchmaking campaign, the sales of Su Luo's beauty salon has skyrocketed, especially for projects such as rapid whitening, anti-inflammatory and acne removal, and short-term breast augmentation. Wu Yong's container for extracting essential oils has been upgraded from that small wine distillation pot to a large distiller, and it has been appropriately improved. From a distance, it looks like a small boiler. Ten more nursing girls have been recruited to serve more customers.
Until today, Su Luo finally realized what it meant to be "in high spirits". A woman's face cannot be ignored, so Su Luo's face is naturally looked up to by others. Wherever she goes, people will call her "Boss Su". Although it doesn't sound as elegant and calm as "Miss Ji Mei", Su Luo just likes its vulgarity. She is a vulgar person herself, doing the most vulgar things in the world, so why should she pretend to be so?
Qin Huai hid for many days, and Su Luo even suspected that he had secretly left Nanjing. Qin Huai actually sent Su Luo a poster.
The gist of the note was that the recipient was invited to visit the Qin residence on a certain date in a certain month, and it mentioned that other celebrities would also be attending the party. Su Luo didn't understand what he was up to, and happened to meet an official's wife who came to the store for skin care. Only then did she realize that the small red note in her hand had been sold for one thousand and two taels of silver on the black market.
In short, this was a high-level blind date event. In order to avoid wasting time, Qin Huai sent out 20 invitations for everyone to get together. Of course, the people who received these invitations were either rich or noble in Nanjing, but he picked them and they also picked him. After all, he was a merchant family. Some wealthy and scholarly families would not allow their daughters to come because of their status, so there were vacant invitations, and after a while, they were sold at the current sky-high price.
One thousand taels, Su Luo was a little... no, quite tempted.
Why would she go to join in the fun at Huaxian's blind date conference? But she also understood Qin Huai's intention. Maybe if he didn't find someone he liked at the event, he would catch her to take the blame. This was the fate of the props, and the appeal was invalid.
After hearing the origin of the note, Su Luo immediately went home and found an exquisite box, solemnly put the note in it, and then instructed his newly hired assistant to book the second floor of the best restaurant in the city, and then invite the socialite who most wanted to get the note to go along.
By the way, Su Luo's new assistant is called Bi Hen, who used to work in the prefect's house. Because of the kindness she had shown to Su Luo and her prudent way of doing things, Su Luo deeply liked her, so he asked people and gave gifts to ask the prefect's wife to give up her love for him, redeemed her indenture, and hired her as an assistant, doing the work of a secretary.
Su Luo once asked her why she gave her so much advice at the beginning, but Bi Hen only said that it was because of Su Luo's smile, which was neither cold nor distant, which was quite difficult for a servant like her.
Su Luo could no longer remember clearly the scene of her first meeting with Bi Hen, but she was still very moved when she heard her say that. When her salary was set at ten taels per month, it was already a rare salary for white-collar workers at that time.
However, Bi Hen's indenture contract had always been at the bottom of Su Luo's dressing box. Su Luo felt that she would return it to Bi Hen one day, but not now, but one day.
Bi Hen is very capable at work. In just one morning, she had contacted seven or eight powerful socialites and cleverly let them know Su Luo's intentions, so they arrived on time. However, they did not expect that there would be other people, and they were a little embarrassed when they met.
"Don't be so nervous." Su Luo looked at the socialites in front of him and noticed that two of them were famous for disliking each other. He couldn't help but glance at Bi Hen with satisfaction, "I believe everyone is clear about the purpose of coming here today." Su Luo gestured, and Bi Hen placed the box in her hand on the table, opened the lid, and revealed the invitation.
"The invitation party of the Qin Mansion will be held the day after tomorrow. Since the number of places is limited, and everyone knows how much this post is worth now, I will not waste any more words. Today I will sell this post by auction. The highest bidder wins. The starting price is one thousand taels, and each bid will increase by one hundred taels. Ladies who disagree with this rule can leave first."
The eight socialites looked at each other, but no one moved.
Su Luo smiled and was about to speak again when the waiter came up and said apologetically that a guest wanted to go upstairs to enjoy the view, and since the entire second floor had been booked by Su Luo, he would like to ask Su Luo to make an exception.
Bi Hen signaled the waiter to be quiet, and then went to the stairs with him to talk. Su Luo continued to explain, "Let's be frank, this post is just a pass, and this is what I sell. It can only guarantee smooth entry into the Qin Mansion, but it does not guarantee marriage and childbirth. Young ladies with too high expectations can leave now."
The socialites still didn't move. Su Luo finished her words and was about to announce the start of the meeting when a faint quarrel was heard from the stairs. A man's voice said, "What are they talking about? We just want to go up and take a look."
Su Luo walked to the stairs and looked down. In addition to Bi Hen and the waiter, there were three other people standing on the stairs. The two people in front and back were one masculine and one feminine. The one in the middle was wearing a light blue satin robe with a large collar and a jade belt around his waist, which was the attire of a wealthy family. Looking at his appearance, his skin was fair and smooth, his eyebrows were slightly slanted, and his pair of authentic peach blossom eyes were full of affection. Just looking at his appearance, Su Luo might guess that he was a playboy on tour, but this person's face was mixed with a bit of gentle Confucianism, and he didn't look like a dissolute dandy. Coupled with a gentle smile on his face, he had the potential to be the second Zhou Si.
When Bi Hen saw Su Luo coming, he went upstairs and retreated behind Su Luo. Su Luo said to the waiter impatiently: "If I remember correctly, the second floor is reserved for me?"
The waiter smiled and nodded in embarrassment. Su Luo turned his gaze to the three people again, "Did you see that? Who said that just now?"
The waiter's eyes were fixed on the man in the middle. Su Luo hooked his finger at him. The man was about to step forward with interest, but was stopped by the person behind him, "Mr. Wan..., let's go to another one." Not only did the man look feminine, but his voice was also androgynous. Su Luo shuddered, thinking, could this be the legendary woman dressed as a man?
The young man shook off the man's hand, pushed away the burly man in front of him, went up two steps of the stairs, and bowed to Su Luo, "Miss, what do you have to say?"
"I have no advice, but I have some suggestions." Su Luo looked at him unscrupulously, "You are a young man from a wealthy family. How can you be so tactless? Since we have booked the second floor, we don't want to be disturbed, but you insist on wanting to know what we are doing. Are you kidding? What does what we do have to do with you? Is it related?"
The young man in blue was stunned for a long time. The sturdy man was obviously very angry and rushed over with his fists clenched. Su Luo was startled and made a defensive move. He said anxiously: "Young Master Wan, right? Keep an eye on your servants. The servants are ignorant and will embarrass their master if they come out."
Master Wan's face immediately darkened, and he whispered to his men to stop any further action, and then said to the feminine person, "This girl is right, let's go down and sit down."
