Chapter 625 — Drinking Away Sorrow
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He and Su Taizao had thought up any number of pretexts for urging her to drink, and now it seemed none of them would be needed. Still, An Liwen felt rather aggrieved: what had gotten into Gu Mengyao today? Why was she no longer playing by the rules? All those brain cells spent dreaming up excuses, wasted for nothing.
"Sister Yaoyao, why are you drinking so much?" Shen Yushu had noticed something was off as well.
"Nothing. I just want to," Gu Mengyao said lightly, unwilling to admit to the unhappiness in her heart.
"Oh — then can I drink too?" Shen Yushu smacked her lips, eyeing the red wine in the glasses with some longing. She did not normally drink either, for such things were seldom to be found at home. Gu Mengyao never let her drink; several times she had asked, and each time Gu Mengyao had refused her flatly. Yet today Gu Mengyao had taken the initiative to drink herself.
"You may — but not much." Gu Mengyao hesitated, then nodded her consent.
"Oh!" Shen Yushu helped herself to a wine glass. She had not drunk when the toast was raised, and now that no one was proposing one, she savored it with great relish.
Fortunately, everyone present was long accustomed to Shen Yushu's ways and no one said a word about it.
"Sour and sweet — it seems rather tasty?" Shen Yushu took a sip, then gulped down the entire glass in one go. It was not a top-grade wine, but An Liwen was paying, and the wine he ordered could hardly have been cheap.
"If you like it, drink up," An Liwen said — the last thing he wanted was for them to hold back. He refilled the glasses and raised his own again. "Come, another round — Little Shu, Yaoyao, may you stay forever beautiful, forever young..."
Shen Yushu showed him no courtesy at all: before An Liwen had even finished speaking, she had drained her glass, poured herself another, and paid his words not the slightest heed. "Sister Yaoyao, this tastes better than juice!"
"That still doesn't mean you can drink so much. You'll get drunk." Though Gu Mengyao said this, deep down she truly wanted to get drunk, to forget the sorrow in her heart, so that when she woke, she could become the strong self she once was.
"What kind of wine is this?" Shen Yushu drank another glass, then suddenly took hold of the bottle and asked.
"I don't know. As long as it's drinkable, that's enough." Gu Mengyao seldom drank; how would she know about such things? Even though she came from a wealthy family, she was still only a high school senior, and Gu Pengzhan would never have allowed her to drink as she pleased.
"This is a 2009 Lafite." An Liwen began to show off with a touch of smugness. Seeing that neither Gu Mengyao nor Shen Yushu understood, he had just the excuse to fill the silence: "Lafite wine is one of the world-renowned Bordeaux wines of France, produced by the Lafite estate! Any wine lover knows that in 1855 Bordeaux classified the great estates of the region. From among the stars in that firmament they selected sixty-one of the finest estates and named them the classified growths. Those sixty-one were then divided into five levels. The first level comprised four: Chateau Lafite, Chateau Latour, Chateau Margaux, and Chateau Haut-Brion, and among those four, Lafite ranks first."