Chapter 196

Late at night at eleven o’clock, the big clock on the first floor of Mayor Feng’s residence made a dull ringing sound.

Lv Yingfang wearing a dancing dress, painted with big red lipstick and nail polish, wearing high heels and glass stockings, from the second floor down to the ballroom lightly.

An old maid saw her and greeted her attentively: “Miss Yingfang, would you like to have a snack? The bird’s nest soup has just been cooked.”

Lu Yingfang stood still and asked her, “Where is Mrs. Shao?”

The old maid laughed, “Mrs. Shao is naturally dancing.”

As we chatted, Mrs. Shao came out of the ballroom with a young man on her arm, and as we got closer, it was Su Chunjun.

When Mrs. Shao saw Lu Yingfang, she asked, “Is madam asleep?”

The mayor’s wife, Mrs. Feng, is old and never attends dances, and has to go upstairs to bed at ten o’clock every day. Lv Yingfang, the niece of a relative of the Eight Roads, was very filial, and every day she would come to read a scroll of scripture to Mrs. Feng and wait for her to go to bed. After Mrs. Feng fell asleep, she would then come out for the ball.

Lu Yingfang turned her eyes towards Su Chunjun and replied to Mrs. Shao, “She has already fallen asleep.”

Mrs. Shao said, “That’s good. You go in and play, I’ll see Mr. Su off.”

Su Chunjun was now wearing a white shirt, a pair of smoky gray slacks, and a suit jacket on his arm. He stood at three-seven paces, his back straight as a pine, even with the gorgeous Mrs. Shao leaning beside him, he was not moved, and when he saw Lv Yingfang, he only nodded his head gently as a salute, and didn’t even offer a greeting.

Lv Yingfang was angry that he did not take the initiative to speak, and did not speak to him, only said to Mrs. Shao: “Why do not you stay Mr. Su to play a little longer?”

Mayor Feng’s residence has a ball every night, friends from all walks of life come, it’s very lively and interesting. The mayor’s close friends would also join in, either to steal a scent from the dancing girls, or to show their close relationship with Mayor Feng, of course, they would not be absent.

The only exception is Su Chunjun. In the past, when there was a dance, he would always stay for two or three times in ten days, but recently he refused to stay for a day, and would always leave before twelve o’clock.

Lv Yingfang heard some rumors and scoffed at them, but when she ran into Su Chunjun today, she had to ask him to confirm them.

Mrs. Shao, who is a general in love affairs and has a keen sense of what is going on between men and women, sensed that Lv Yingfang’s attitude was different and she just wanted to see the joke, so she deliberately said, “I can’t stay, I can’t stay. Mr. Su’s family has a shrewish wife who has to check his post daily.”

When Su Chunjun heard this, he had to open his mouth to defend his own Second Miss Yang, and he pulled the corners of his mouth hard to reveal a cold smile, “Mrs. Shao made fun of me, it’s me who’s not used to dancing, and it’s useless to stay.”

Mrs. Shao had no way of taking advantage of this man who refused to take advantage of her or her, and also developed a few moments of respect and smiled, “I know you are a lover, don’t lie to us anymore. It’s just that I heard how it was someone who stuffed a maid into your home for you that scared you away from going home?”

This involved the matter of the Golden Mansion.

Su Chunjun just smiled and refused to spit out a single word.

Mrs. Shao is the most shrewd, did not pursue the question, sent Su Chunjun out, came back to see Lv Yingfang is still standing in place, know that this little girl’s heart is too much, although can not see Su Chunjun, but not allowed to turn a blind eye to her, because he turned a blind eye to her, but also to get up to the idea of subjugating him under the pomegranate skirt.

She smiled over to hold Lv Yingfang, not waiting for her to ask to take the initiative to say: “I heard people say, Mr. Su’s home more than a beautiful girl, so his fiancée knows, for fear that he will have a second heart, every day to make him call him, so that he can not go home.”

Lv Yingfang had also heard about it long ago, this kind of interesting gossip had long been spread amongst the underlings’ drivers, and the one who spread it was none other than Su Chunjun’s driver.

Lu Yingfang was unwilling to believe it, whether it was Su Chunjun’s family being sent pretty girls, or that his fiancée could make him, it all seemed that she was not as good as these women compared to what they could do to Su Chunjun.

A man like Su Chunjun should have been at her fingertips, but not only did he not pursue her, he instead treated her with disdain, which annoyed her! After that, he even looked at the poor lady from the poor family as a treasure, making her look inferior to the poor lady, which made her even more unhappy.

Lu Yingfang swore in her heart that she would make Su Chunjun beg for her on his knees. She will then dump him, in order to solve this resentment in her heart.

Lu Yingfang said, “Mr. Su looks smart, but he is such a confused person.”

Mrs. Shao laughed her ass off in her heart, but she still agreed with her: “Isn’t that so? For the sake of his fiancée’s joke, he even disregarded his future, tell me, is this stupid?”

When the two girls, arm in arm, were exactly the same, young and beautiful, appeared in the ballroom, the men around them all cast their eyes over.

Mrs. Shao took Lu Yingfang on her arm and went to Mayor Feng, smilingly pushing Lu Yingfang forward, “Mayor, quickly coax Yingfang, she’s about to be pissed off by the unappreciative Director Su.”

Lv Yingfang was furious at hearing this and shook off her hand, “How could I!”

Mayor Feng is over sixty years old and has gray hair. But he can not serve the old, hair combed neatly and slicked back, but also dyed black.

He asked smilingly, “What’s going on? Yingfang, is it Director Su who is not treating you well?”

The man next to him was Cai Wenhua, Mayor Feng’s staffer, who held the duties of Foreign Minister. He said smilingly, “Although Commissioner Su is a bit younger, he has always been polite and disciplined, I’m afraid it’s a misunderstanding, isn’t it?”

The people around him exchanged a look, secretly watching the show.

Cai Wenhua did not get along with Su Chunjun, and because of this, he liked to speak well of him in front of outsiders.

Lu Yingfang dared to be unkind to Mrs. Shao, but she did not dare to make a pass at Mayor Feng.

“There’s nothing, it’s Mrs. Shao talking nonsense.” She said.

There was no need to be particularly serious at the ball, not to mention that Mayor Feng had always wanted to draw Su Chunjun in and turn him into one of his own. How to make him one of us? If Su Chunjun married Lu Yingfang, wouldn’t he be one of us?

Mayor Feng asked Mrs. Shao: “You tell me.”

Mrs. Shao is the best talker. She deliberately looked at Lu Yingfang and said, “It’s my fault, I said the wrong thing. Just now I sent Mr. Su out and met Yingfang. However, Mr. Su was in a hurry to go home to see the Taizi, so he left without saying anything more to us. I guess it was because of this that Yingfang was called unhappy.”

The group of middle-aged men led by Mayor Feng laughed.

Cai Wenhua said, “I remember that Commissioner Su isn’t married yet, right? Just engaged.”

A man who was very good at holding a joke picked up, “Yes, the one who is engaged to Director Su is his former female student.”

“Director Su is a thief.”

“Then how come you’re doing Taoism here? One should also steal from our Ms. Lu.”

Mayor Feng said to Lv Yingfang, “Yingfang, you are a modern woman, you have to be bold in your approach to love, you have to go and fight for your love.”

Lv Yingfang simply do not see Su Chunjun, and never wanted to marry a small officer, she has her own ambition, how would she settle for such an unsatisfactory marriage?

However, she did not dare to refute Mayor Feng to his face, a pretty face was white and blue, but could not spit out a word.

Or Mrs. Shao clever, quickly interrupt: “Old Feng, you do not talk nonsense, the girl’s thin skin, to be annoyed. Okay, okay, let’s go dancing.” She went forward to hold Feng mayor to invite him to dance on the dance floor, but also pushed a hand Lu Yingfang: “Yingfang also go to dance, happy to play.”

Mayor Feng took Mrs. Shao into the dance floor, swept a glance at the surrounding men, pointed to a Japanese businessman and said, “Mr. Suzuki, please dance with Miss Lu.”

This Suzuki was a Japanese businessman who had taken the initiative to find a Japanese businessman who wanted to do business with Mayor Feng, and was very friendly to him. Although Mayor Feng did not want to concede too much to the Japanese, there were some things that he could only rely on the Japanese right now, so he could only turn a blind eye to this Japanese businessman surnamed Suzuki. Fortunately, this Suzuki very smart, never rely on their own is Japanese to Feng mayor nonchalant, on the contrary, he will help Feng mayor to the Japanese garrison to speak a good word, so that Feng mayor to him is also more and more eyes.

Suzuki never missed a ball, but also took the initiative to provide a lot of wine and a lot of fish at the ball. Now that the Japanese fleet has overrun the wharf and the harbor, there is no way for Mayor Feng to transport things without a note from the Japanese.

Although Lu Yingfang did not know Suzuki, she did not dare to oppose Mayor Feng’s orders. She took the initiative to walk towards Suzuki and gave him a curtsy before passing her hand over.

Suzuki took her hand and put it to his mouth for a kiss, “Miss Lu, I am very honored.”

The two slid onto the dance floor arm in arm and danced.

On the other side, Mrs. Shao ambled into Mayor Feng’s ear and spoke, and she herself laughed so hard that her bones went limp, and Mayor Feng was apoplectic as he hugged her.

Mrs. Shao said, “I told you that Yingfang could only use provocation, she is now very defiant.”

Mayor Feng laughed, “Young people don’t know what’s important, those like Su Chunjun are a minority. That fiancée of his, isn’t she also unreasonable?”

Mrs. Shao: “Miss Yang is not reasonable, but Mr. Su is not. Whether a woman is reasonable or not, it’s all up to the man. Yingfang can’t be unreasonable now, she hasn’t captured someone’s heart yet, when she does, it’s not too late to be unreasonable.”

Mayor Feng: “Do you think it’s possible for Yingfang to be with Su Chunjun?”

Mrs. Shao leaned on Mayor Feng’s shoulder and said, “If Yingfang is willing to be humble, it may not be impossible. But this first matter is very difficult. Mr. Su is so high and mighty that he can’t treat her like a princess. If a man and a woman want to hook up, one of them has to reach out first, and if neither of them is willing to reach out, this matter won’t come to fruition.”

Mayor Feng pondered for a moment and sighed: “If it doesn’t work, we can only forget about it.”

Mrs. Shao laughed: “Old Feng, you don’t see Yingfang’s ability.”

Mayor Feng: “What else is she capable of besides being a fox and making a fool of herself?”

Mrs. Shao laughed so hard that her voice was about to break the roof. Fortunately, the ballroom was full of people and the dance music was melodious, so it didn’t startle anyone else.