Trillionaire's Slice of Life-Chapter 314 - 221: The Best Man at the Wedding

Chapter 314: Chapter 221: The Best Man at the Wedding

At 7:58 a.m., the auspicious time arrived, heralded by the sound of balloons popping, as a Bentley led the way, closely followed by a Rolls-Royce Phantom, and a wedding caravan spanning twelve cars set off from Xiangyun Community.

There really were a lot of people getting married on October 1st, as just along the way, the motorcade encountered no fewer than six other wedding processions.

Fortunately, the journey wasn’t far, and even though the traffic wasn’t too smooth, with starts and stops along the way and some delays at traffic lights while waiting for cars to catch up, they arrived at the bride’s home in just half an hour.

This was a self-built villa located in the suburbs of the Metropolis. Due to its age, along with the fact that it was self-constructed, the interior decoration followed a style from over a decade ago. As the motorcade slowly stopped in front of the villa, naturally, someone came out to greet them.

Because firecrackers are banned in the Metropolis, wedding balloons were prepared here as well, and with the sounds of balloons popping one after another, the atmosphere was bustling and celebratory.

After Chu Mo got out of the car and looked around, Wang Tuo, who was also a groomsman, quickly walked over to him. First, he offered Chu Mo a cigarette, which Chu Mo declined with a wave of his hand, then Wang Tuo eagerly took his place by Chu Mo’s side, his face full of eagerness.

“The other two groomsmen are over there. The groom will have to ‘break through the gates’ soon, Brother Chu, should we go over?”

Wang Tuo, standing one meter seventy-seven tall, was slightly shorter than Chu Mo. His face wasn’t particularly handsome, but it was clean and neat, topped with a crew cut, making him the type who wouldn’t stand out in a crowd.

At this moment, Wang Tuo was like a follower by Chu Mo’s side, his demeanor enthusiastic yet cautious.

One couldn’t blame him for this display.

He was just a newly promoted team leader in a subsidiary of Star Moon Technology, with a monthly salary just over ten thousand. But half an hour ago, Chu Mo had made a phone call, directly to Star Moon Technology’s boss, Cao Renyi. With just this one call, his job was going to change, and his monthly salary would at least triple or quintuple.

Of course, this didn’t mean that Wang Tuo had the ability to earn that salary just yet; it was merely the weight of the favor from Chu Mo’s phone call that played a part.

Wang Tuo, who had been seasoned in the professional world for three years, had long since learned to read people and situations. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have climbed to team leader in just three years. Naturally, in front of Chu Mo, he truly saw Chu Mo as his gold-giving benefactor. Right now, even if Chu Mo asked him to roll on the ground, he would do so without a second word.

It wasn’t that he lacked backbone, but these three years of social polishing had taught him that if he wanted a better life, he had to let go of certain things.

To roll on the ground twice, and have his salary jump from ten thousand to fifty thousand, as well as earning the admiration of the company’s president, looked like a future of boundless prospects. This kind of choice might be refused by those self-important students in school, but most of those who had been tempered by society for a few years would do the same.

Wang Tuo’s cautious words fell.

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Chu Mo nodded lightly, then turned to steal a glance at Liang Bing inside the car. With so many people around, creating a noisy and busy scene with over a hundred onlookers, if they were to let the eight bridesmaids out now, it would likely cause quite a commotion.

He gestured to Liang Bing in the car, signaling for her not to rush out, then followed Wang Tuo towards the three-story self-built house in front of them.

Naturally, this villa, built over ten or twenty years ago, was worlds apart from Chu Mo’s Emperor Xuan Number One Building, with no grounds for comparison. Chu Mo and Wang Tuo, together with Li Fei’s two cousins making up a total of four groomsmen, followed behind Li Fei. The bride was in a bedroom on the second floor. When the wedding party reached the foot of the stairs, they were stopped by a long line of disposable cups placed at the entrance of the staircase.

On the stairway carpeted in red, at the head of every other step, two disposable cups were placed, filled with a mixture of red and white liquids and other assorted drinks.

“If you want to come up, you have to finish these ‘drinks.’ Otherwise, you’re not allowed upstairs!”

This was a playful, good-natured challenge from the bride’s family members.

Of course, it was time to break through the ‘gate.’

And this was the moment when the four groomsmen led by Chu Mo were supposed to spring into action.

Wang Tuo took the lead, picking up a cup of fizzy Coca-Cola, then tilted his head back and gulped it down. After putting down the first cup, Wang Tuo’s face was the picture of a bitter gourd.

Before Chu Mo could taste it for himself, Wang Tuo gestured with his hand and said:

“Chu Mo, you should stop drinking, the beverages here are definitely spiked, that Coke we just had tasted salty and sickly sweet, that flavor…!”

As soon as Wang Tuo finished speaking, another groomsman by his side said discontentedly:

“You say you’ll stop drinking and just stop? There are at least thirty drinks here, and the four of us groomsmen can split them, about six or seven each. Grit your teeth and it’s over, but if one person doesn’t drink, the rest will have to down more than ten each. I’m afraid we won’t make it to the end. Are you still Li Fei’s brother or not? Don’t you have any sense of duty?”

Chu Mo was not familiar with the other two groomsmen, they were either Li Fei’s cousins or some sort of relatives, he wasn’t sure, but they were both tall and skinny. Seeing Chu Mo reluctant to drink, they immediately started muttering complaints.

Surrounded by onlookers from both the groom’s and bride’s sides, with the anxious groom Li Fei waiting right behind him, the drinks in front were naturally the ‘Naihe Bridge’ blocking the groom from seeing the bride.

It was his brother’s big wedding, and it was only reasonable that Chu Mo wouldn’t stoop to the level of the two youngsters. He stepped forward voluntarily, picked up a cup of white liquid, and downed it without even a flinch!

It tasted sour and salty with a faint sweetness. Luckily most of the cup wasn’t liquor; otherwise, Chu Mo reckoned that he would have keeled over after half a cup. Still, even with his taste buds, trained by drinking bitter coffee, he found this weird taste unbearably torturous.

The other two youngsters had just casually complained. They were Li Fei’s relatives, and even if Chu Mo really refused to drink, they would have to grit their teeth and finish the rest, lest they get a good scolding from the elders.

Seeing Chu Mo drink, the other two said no more, each picked up a cup and tilted their heads back, pouring it into their mouths.

Naturally, the messy tastes made all four groomsmen grimace and grimace, their expressions comical, which immediately provoked laughter from all the relatives and guests, making the festive atmosphere even livelier.

As Chu Mo picked up the second cup, which was green and shiny, he didn’t have the courage to chug it all at once this time. He took a small sip first, the spicy flavor immediately made him frown, but seeing that the other three had already moved ahead, and with the crowd behind him egging him on, he gritted his teeth and poured most of the unknown mixture into his stomach.

He turned to glance at the happily smiling groom Li Fei behind him and swallowed any words of complaint he had at the tip of his tongue.

It was his own brother’s big day. He could take this bit of hardship for him and seek payback later.

Chu Mo put the empty cup on the ground and moved up another step. When he picked up the third cup, which looked like plain water, he was about to tilt his head back and drink when a strong scent of alcohol assaulted his nose, and he immediately stopped.

This time it wasn’t any ordinary beverage but a full cup of white liquor.

Drinking this cup would be more than two shots, and given his tolerance, he was bound to throw up.

The sounds of cheers and noise were everywhere, and the three groomsmen in front had already chugged four or five cups, leaving Chu Mo far behind. If this were a normal drinking setting, he would refuse to drink a single drop no matter who was toasting, disregarding anyone’s feelings.

But unfortunately, this wasn’t a normal drinking setting, but his brother’s wedding. Here, no one toasts to you, and no one reasons with you. What’s needed is a festive and lively atmosphere; you can’t be sulky, nor can you get angry. In the end, Chu Mo, holding the cup in his hand, hesitated several times, each time not brave enough to drink this full cup of liquor.

However, as the crowd behind him heckled, a figure suddenly appeared beside him. Then, a pair of slender, jade-like hands reached over and snatched the cup from his hand. The woman in the pale blue wedding gown tilted her head slightly, and in a moment, she poured the cup of white liquor into her mouth.

As she moved the cup away, a face of devastating beauty appeared before him, and the once-noisy hall suddenly fell silent.

Everyone looked incredulously at the girl on the stairs, who seemed like a heavenly immortal.

The woman before him was not Yu Jade or Qiu Shui, nor was she Liang Bing, but the girl with willow-leaf eyebrows he had seen before, named Xia Xue.

Xia Xue was also one of the eight maids of Tianxiang Garden, with a dreamlike beauty second only to Liang Bing’s.

Her face, as pretty as a fairy from the ninth heaven, immediately flushed with an intoxicating red hue as she spoke gently, her voice melodious as music:

“Mr. Chu, while I can still stand straight, let me drink a few more cups for you!”

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