It was just around the corner of New Year's Eve. The entire city was decorated with lights and decorations, and many places also prepared lantern festivals. The Su Mansion had already arranged two days before the New Year, hung up large lanterns and posted the word "Fu".

Linlang gave red envelopes to everyone in the mansion. After the holiday, they could go home for the New Year. After the servants of the Su Mansion left, there were less than ten people left in the mansion, and the huge mansion seemed very deserted. [The latest updates in search are all available.]

Early in the New Year's Eve, Master Li got up early, asked Chu Huan to prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and wrote a few couplets himself, asking Chu Huan to post them on several gates of the house. Su Niang and Ru Lian followed Chu Li's family to cut the word "Fu" and a big red lantern was hung at the door of the house. Although it was winter, the house was full of joy.

After noon, Chu Li led Su Niang and Ru Lian to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner. In previous years, Chu Li and Su Niang lived a very shabby life, and Master Li also celebrated the New Year alone. However, this year was different from previous years. Not only did he buy a large number of New Year goods, but the whole family gathered together and was lively. Originally, Master Li adhered to the rules of men not going to the kitchen, but when he saw Chu Huan making dumplings, he also helped him, and the whole family was happy.

At night, the table was full of dishes, so naturally the bamboo sake that Master Li loved was indispensable. The family of five surrounded the table and was full of joy. Chu Huan even prepared a gift for everyone. Master Li liked to do something, so Chu Huan spent his time preparing a good inkstone and a good brush for him, which made Master Li's ears so happy.

After two rounds of drinking, the family was talking auspicious words, but Chu Huan had already stood up and said, "Mom, uncle, you eat first, I'll go out!"

Master Li said: "Where will you go at this time?"

"All the servants in the Su Mansion have left." Chu Huan said: "I want to go over and see how the situation is."

Chu Li said hurriedly: "It's time to go and take a look. People have helped you so much... Do you want to take something? On New Year's Eve, it's always a big deal to go empty-handed."

Chu Huan laughed and said, "I'll take a jar of wine. There is a Su Bo in the mansion who likes to drink. I'll go over and drink a few cups with him." He then rode a jar of wine from home and rode a horse to the Su Mansion.

The gate of the Su Mansion was closed, but the lantern in front of the door was lit. Chu Huan stepped forward and knocked on the door. It took a long time before a sound came out: "Who?"

Chu Huan replied: "It's me, I'm Chu Huan."

The door opened with a creaking sound, but Linlang's close-fitting maid Cuiping opened the door. When he saw Chu Huan, he was surprised and said, "Young Master Chu, why are you... you here?"

Chu Huan led his horse into the yard and smiled and said, "Can you have the New Year's Eve dinner?"

Cuiping smiled and said, "I'm eating inside. Yes, Mr. Chu, Cuiping greets you with New Year's greetings, can you get a red envelope?"

Chu Huan laughed and said, "I'm just about to ask you for a red envelope."

"So stingy." Cuiping smiled, and Chu Huan had already asked: "Yes, where is the big boss? It seems that I should be the first to come to her to wish her a happy new year!"

Cuiping looked dim and said, "I'll take you there!" He led Chu Huan to the garden, pointed to a small room and said, "Miss is alone inside, we dare not go in... She... She seems to be drinking, go see her, Master Chu, please advise the lady not to let her drink too much...!"

Chu Huan frowned. The back garden was very deserted. The room seemed very lonely in the garden. She walked straight to the door. When she arrived at the door, she knocked on the door lightly. After a while, Linlang said in a drunken voice: "Don't quarrel...you...you don't quarrel...!"

Chu Huan said in a deep voice: "The big boss, it's me, I am Chu Huan."

Soon, the door of the house was opened, and Linlang's pretty face with redness was revealed, white and red, very charming, but her eyes were hazy and she was already drunk. When she saw Chu Huan, she smiled charmingly and said, "You... Why are you here? Come... drink with me..." Chu Huan entered the house, and Linlang closed the door casually and sat down at the table.

Chu Huan saw five or six dishes on the table, but they were all cold. The dishes had never moved their chopsticks at all. Instead, there were five or six pots of wine next to them. Two pots of wine had been dried, and only half of the third pot was left.

After Linlang sat down, he picked up the wine glass and wanted to drink it. However, Chu Huan had already grabbed her hand and frowned and said, "Big Boss, you can't drink anymore... you've drunk too much..."

"You're so many...!" Linlang was drunk and waved his hand: "Why don't you let me drink... Take your hand away, I want to drink... My Su family runs a winery, and some of them are wine..." He drank it all with a glass.

At this time, she no longer had the dignity and caution she usually had, like a greedy child.

Chu Huan sat down on the chair beside her. Seeing her like this, for some reason, she felt so sad. She reached out to take the wine glass from her and said softly: "Linlang, don't drink it again..."

Linlang blinked, her pretty face flushed, her starry eyes were blurred, and she looked extremely beautiful. At this moment, Chu Huan couldn't help but pass the words "Drunk Concubine" in her mind.

Although she was drunk, Linlang's movements were still elegant. She supported one hand on the table, holding her pink chin on the back of her hand, staring at Chu Huan with starry eyes and said, "Pour wine for me... will you drink wine? Drink with me..."

Chu Huan sighed, put down her wine glass, and was about to get up to have someone cook a bowl of quenching soup, but Linlang had already stretched out his other hand to hold Chu Huan's collar and said, "Don't leave... Why do you want to leave? You... don't want to drink with me..." She let go of Chu Huan's collar and her expression became dark: "It turns out... no one drinks with me... I'm still... still alone..."

Chu Huan continued to do it again. He saw disappointment and loneliness in Linlang's eyes. He couldn't bear it and filled Linlang's glass with wine. He had taken a wine pot and stared at Linlang's eyes and said, "I'll drink with you!"

Linlang chuckled and asked, "Why do you want to drink with me? Who are you?"

Chu Huan smiled bitterly, it seemed that Linlang was really drunk, and said softly: "I am Chu Huan. If you want to drink, I will accompany you. You are not alone."

Linlang held her cheeks and looked at Chu Huan, saying, "Okay, how much can you drink?"

Chu Huan didn't say much, picked up the wine pot, raised his head and drank it. Linlang laughed and said, "So you can drink... Yes, your name is Chu Huan... Chu Huan..." She looked at Chu Huan for a while, but for some reason, she suddenly fell on the table and sobbed.

Chu Huan was a little panicked for a moment and said anxiously: "Linlang, what's wrong with you?"

Linlang cried for a while, raised his head again, tears streaming ripples in his eyes, Chuhuo said: "I thought you wouldn't come. I've been waiting for you... You're still here..."

Chu Huan heard the sadness she said, "Today is Big Eve, okay, okay, let's not cry?" He took out his handkerchief and wiped Linlang's tears. Linlang looked at Chu Huan in a daze. When Chu Huan wanted to withdraw his hand, he suddenly reached out and held one of his hands and whispered, "Are you leaving? You can stay with me for a while, okay... It won't take too long, it will be fine. If you leave, it will be very cold here, I...I'm afraid of the cold..."

Chu Huan said softly: "I won't leave, I will stay with you."

Linlang smiled, and she held Chu Huan's hand in one hand, looking very satisfied: "Your hand is so warm... Chu Huan, do you know that no one is willing to accompany me, only you are willing... Year after year, the only one in the lonely lamp..." At this point, she picked up her wine glass, drank the wine in the glass, and then started to cough violently.

Chu Huan hurriedly advised: "You can't drink anymore...Linlang, can I help you rest?"

"I don't want to rest. Today is Big Day, I want to drink." Linlang let go of Chu Huan's hand: "Chu Huan, do you know that I have a lot of worries in my heart... I can't breathe..."

Chu Huan said: "Don't keep it in your heart if you have any worries, it will be better if you say it."

Linlang blinked his eyes, drunkenly, and asked, "Do you want to hear?" and said, "But I told you, you are not allowed to tell others... You can't tell Chu Huan, okay?"

Chu Huan opened her mouth. Linlang seemed to be really confused. She didn't know what to say for a moment, but Linlang had already approached and lowered her voice: "I...I like him, but...but I dare not tell him that I am not worthy of him...What do you think I will do...I really like him...!"

Chu Huan was stunned.

"That day... he helped me take drugs that day, he held my legs... From that moment on, I fell in love with him..." Linlang said softly as if he was murmuring: "He must not know. I tell you a person, you can't tell him... He will look down on me, okay do you promise me?"

Linlangxiang's soft body was already very close to Chu Huan. The body fragrance emitted from her body drilled into Chu Huan's nostrils, refreshing. A strand of black silk passed through Chu Huan's face, itchy, but with a faint fragrance.

Chu Huan pondered for a moment and finally whispered: "Why don't you dare to tell him? If you don't tell him, how can he know your intention?"

Linlang's body distanced, shook his head and said, "He has the ability, and sooner or later he will achieve great things... What am I..." She had a bitter smile on her face: "I am just a widow, how can I deserve him?" She whispered: "From the first day of marriage to their family, I knew how much I hated him. He was not doing his job... He looked like a gentleman, but behind his back, he was looking for flowers and willows... The wine and sex emptied his body, and his mother kept blaming me, blaming me for not being able to give birth to their family, but she didn't know that his son was a useless person... He got drunk that day, and I quarreled with him for a few words, and he actually called me a bitch. It was so dark that he wanted to drive me out of their family..."

Chu Huan frowned. He had already understood that the "he" Linlang said later was the dead eldest son of the Fan family, Linlang's ex-husband.

Linlang obviously felt extremely miserable, so when he was drunk, he unknowingly expressed his pain. Chu Huan listened quietly without saying a word.

"I left the place that filled me with pain overnight... Within ten days of leaving, he took another concubine... In just a few months, he died." Linlang whispered: "But after I knew the news of his death, I was not sad at all... I thought I would not fall in love with any man in this life, but... but...!" Linlang stared at Chu Huan's eyes and said word by word: "But when I met you, I fell in love with you..."

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