Since they met, it was the first time that he saw Ning Xiner talk so much and help Mingzhu fight against injustice. She was quite eloquent.
What puzzled him was, how did these two people know that he and Yan Xiaohui were eating hot pot here? This was a question.
The matter was not serious, he just invited Yan Xiaohui to have a meal, there was nothing shameful about it, and he was not cheating on Chen Cang secretly, so he didn't feel guilty.
"Are we, the Yan family, afraid that you will join the Cao Gang?!" Yan Xiaohui asked.
She said this with confidence. The Yan family is not as good as the Sheng family, but it is just inferior. The financial resources and strength of the Yan family can be counted on the palm of a hand in Shanghai.
"Can everyone sit down and have a good meal? Sister Ning and Xiao Hui are both my friends. Don't make it difficult for me to be a good person." Lu Ming kept winking at Mingzhu, hoping that she would mediate and not add fuel to the fire.
The Yan family is not afraid of the Cao Gang. This is a fact, and the reverse is also true. The two sides are evenly matched, which is not said.
However, who is he afraid of? Even in the French Concession, he dares to confront Du Yuesheng's eldest son. The background of the Sheng family may be useful, maybe not. It's just that this kind of jealousy among women is unavoidable.
It's not nice to hear, but I have become the protagonist of a sexy story about Shanghai's famous ladies.
"Sister Xiner, forget it, give Lu Ming some face." Mingzhu pulled Ning Xiner and said.
"You are giving him face, but he is deceiving you. He thinks there is no one in our family, right?" Ning Xiner sneered.
"Lu Ming can't. He will never deceive me, just like I will never deceive him, right? Lu Ming?" Yuan Mingzhu looked at Lu Ming with bright eyes.
"Of course." Lu Ming smiled.
The two held their hands together and shook them vigorously.
"It's sour, it's so sour." Ning Xiner turned her face away.
Yan Xiaohui watched Lu Ming and Yuan Mingzhu being intimate. Even though he knew they were engaged, he was still so jealous that he could only grit his teeth and swear in his heart: We'll see, who laughs last!
"Is this your treat today?" Mingzhu asked as gently as water.
"Yeah, it's cold, let's have hot pot." Lu Ming knew what he was saying was nonsense.
"Sister Xin'er, let's sit down too and have a good meal at Lu Ming." Yuan Mingzhu pulled Ning Xiner to sit down.
She was next to Lu Ming, and Ning Xiner was in the middle, which separated them from Yan Xiaohui.
Yan Xiaohui wanted to leave, but she knew she couldn't leave. If she left now, she would leave early and declare her failure. Besides, she was Lu Ming's guest today and she must not bow her head in front of these two women.
In her eyes, these two uneducated and low-quality women cannot be compared with her. Only people like Lu Ming who have studied in the United States and stand side by side with her are a perfect pair.
Real gold and beauty like Lu Ming are really wasted in the hands of country women like Mingzhu. They must not be allowed to continue. The starting gun of the challenge has been fired today.
So Yan Xiaohui sat motionless.
Lu Ming didn't think there was anything wrong. He and Yan Xiaohui were good friends and family friends. His association with Yan Xiaohui was very legitimate and no one could find anything wrong with him.
He called the waiter and asked him to remove all the dishes from the table and start serving them again.
After all, mutton-shabu-shabu is a northern cuisine, and there are only a few edible dishes. Fresh mutton and some northern vegetables. The bamboo shoots and wild rice that southerners love to eat cannot be eaten in the mutton hot pot.
After a while, another table of mutton and vegetables was put on the table, and old wine from the old jar was also added.
"How come we bumped into each other by such a coincidence today?" Lu Ming was still curious about this.
"Because you robbed my eldest brother's box." Yuan Mingzhu said with a smile.
"This is your eldest brother's box. It's occupied by us magpie nest doves." Lu Ming joked.
"My eldest brother likes boiled mutton the most, so he bought this box." Yuan Mingzhu said with a chuckle.
She hadn't seen Lu Ming for a few days, but now when she looked at Lu Ming, her eyes were full of love and tenderness. Lu Ming just liked how down-to-earth she was.
Only then did Lu Ming realize that it was no wonder that this box was left. It turned out that the boss of the Cao Gang had bought it.
However, how could the restaurant waiter dare to let him into this private room? Did he recognize him or think that the private room was empty, so he used it to entertain guests in private?
"This is a misunderstanding, I didn't know this was Brother Ning's box." Lu Ming said to Ning Xiner with a smile.
"It doesn't matter if you know. You are the son-in-law of our Ning family and you are qualified to use this box." Ning Xiner said.
She repeatedly stated that Lu Ming was the son-in-law of the Ning family, clearly declaring her sovereignty and asking Yan Xiaohui to hide away.
Yan Xiaohui looked at it coldly, not caring in her heart. What she cared about was the way Yuan Mingzhu was making out with Lu Ming, and she thought to herself: What's wrong with being so intimate? It's just holding hands, and maybe they haven't even kissed on the mouth.
Well, it’s not necessarily as close as Lu Ming and I.
Thinking of this, she felt happy.
Although it was not awkward to sit here, she had to pretend to be calm and composed. This was also a declaration of her sovereignty. She was more qualified to get Lu Ming than anyone else!
This is no longer the Qing Dynasty, nor Beiyang, but the Republic of China. The May Fourth Movement has been over for more than ten years. A marriage contract does not mean that it will last forever. The marriage contract can be terminated, not to mention that it is an old marriage contract that is worthless.
Lu Ming ate and drank with the three girls, looking carefree and relaxed, without any worries at all.
"Don't toast to me, I'm not that familiar with you." Ning Xiner refused Lu Ming's toast.
"Miss Ning, am I not the son-in-law of your Ning family? We are not outsiders?" Lu Ming said with a smile.
"You are a heartless man. You are not now, and you will be sooner or later. I have seen many men like you. Only a blind pearl can love you so much." Ning Xiner bit her lip and said.
"If you look at him like this, why do you still want him?" Yan Xiaohui said after taking a sip of wine.
"You are waiting to take over. Stop dreaming. Even if he is a heartless man, he will still die in our Ning family's house." Ning Xiner sneered, making Lu Ming seem like an abandoned husband.
"Ning Xiner, are you jealous of Miss Yuan? Do you want to break them up so that you can take over?" Yan Xiaohui suddenly felt something from Ning Xiner's attitude.
"How dare you talk nonsense again!" Ning Xiner stood up suddenly, her eyes filled with anger.
"I'm talking about the two eldest ladies, my aunt, can you two stop talking to each other? Why don't we have a good meal and drink?" Lu Ming said with a bitter smile.
"No!" Ning Xiner said stiffly.
"Sister, forget it, I know what Yan Xiaoniu is thinking, and I welcome her to come to our Ning family to be a second bedroom." Yuan Mingzhu exaggerated the word "second bedroom".
Ning Xiner thought for a while, suddenly laughed, then sat down and started to drink and cook the meat.
Yan Xiaohui was so angry that her eyes were spitting fire, but she was not good at quarreling with others, so she was at a natural disadvantage in this regard.
Lu Ming gave her a wink to calm down the matter, and Yan Xiaohui said nothing more.
"Did you see that he was flirting with her in front of both of us?" Ning Xiner said to Yuan Mingzhu.
"Okay sister, I know what Lu Ming is thinking." Mingzhu smiled.
"Just pamper him, sooner or later you will cry." Ning Xiner sneered.
"That's because he loves me so much that he moved me to tears." Yuan Mingzhu was full of confidence and winked at Lu Ming.
Ning Xiner was speechless. She couldn't figure out why Mingzhu loved Lu Ming so much that even though she saw him flirting with other women, she turned a blind eye and wasn't jealous.
Mingzhu said, holding Lu Ming with one hand and gently stroking Lu Ming's face with the other. The tenderness on her face made Lu Ming feel itchy and uncomfortable.
Just as he was talking, the box door opened, but the person who came in was not a waiter from the restaurant, but someone who no one expected.