The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law
Chapter 726 - 720: The Melancholic Human

Chapter 726: Chapter 720: The Melancholic Human

Miss Du laughed and said, "Just bring it to me, please wait here for a moment, lunch will be ready soon."

The sun was directly overhead; it was the height of noon.

Several young ladies sat at one table, while Jin Zijin and Yue Rujing joined the farmers from the manor at another table to drink wine and eat meat.

Compared to the dishes on that table, the girls’ was much more delicate with no large pieces of meat, but rather finely chopped varieties of stir-fries.

There was wine, homemade fruit wine.

Plum wine, mulberry wine, apricot blossom brew... surprisingly bountiful.

Miss Du laughed and said, "All the grain from this manor is used for brewing wine. Old Chen and his son and daughter-in-law are best at making wine."

That explains it!

Gu Youyou picked up a cup full of plum wine and took a light sip; the fragrance of the wine filled the air.

In her last life, she had overindulged in happiness, drinking wine that led to mishaps. In this life, she had always been wary of wine and never touched it.

After being here so long, this was the first time she had picked up a wine cup.

Sharing a small cup with the other ladies, she felt that something within her heart had been let go.

Like wine, for instance...

She had abstained from wine, never touching it. Now, she realized what she had really abstained from was not the wine itself, but the day her friends and relatives got her drunk, which gave others the opportunity to take advantage of her.

It was her own lack of vigilance; how could it be the fault of the wine?

"What’s the matter? You’re both smiling and sighing," observed Miss Du, sitting nearby and noticing Gu Youyou’s odd behavior.

Gu Youyou lifted her eyelids, holding the now empty wine cup, and laughed, "I was reminded of the last time I drank, and felt a bit melancholic about the wine."

Miss Du said lightly, "What causes melancholy is never the wine, but people!"

Gu Youyou couldn’t help but give a bitter smile and said, "Yes, it’s me who is full of melancholy."

Lin Qianqing and Xie Qinyun, these two misses, had completely forgotten their status; a few cups in, they didn’t even remember their own names. The two of them even started to play rock-paper-scissors; who knows where they learned that.

Seeing them both somewhat drunk, Miss Du started to stand up to stop them.

Gu Youyou pulled her back and said, "Let them drink. They came out today to be happy, after all."

Drink however they want, let them indulge.

"After today, we might not have a chance to drink together again," Lin Qianqing said as she held her wine cup, looking melancholic.

Xie Qinyun downed a large cup in one gulp and laughed, "Of course, we will have the chance, but surely the feelings won’t be the same as now. If we end up in the same family, we’ll be enemies. If not, while the men fight it out, we could still collaborate in private, share our tactics."

This lass...

Miss Du gave a wry smile, then turned her gaze back to Gu Youyou and said, "You have to go back to the city in the afternoon; aren’t you afraid your aunt will hold you to account?"

Gu Youyou smiled and said, "If I were afraid, I wouldn’t have come! I will write a prescription, and you can have someone prepare the medicine; it will ensure she’s well by the time she returns."

"You, you came prepared," Miss Du took the prescription and handed it to a servant to prepare the antidote.

After a few more rounds of drinks, it seemed they were indulging in one final act of recklessness for their fading youth; the two young misses had started drinking heartily.

At first, it was wine cups, then bowls, and now, they were directly lifting the wine jars to drink.

The fruit wine wasn’t very intoxicating, but even so, it couldn’t stand up to this kind of drinking.

And they were just fifteen-year-old girls, with a shallow capacity for wine...

Lin Qianqing was mumbling something in a daze, incoherent to others; Gu Youyou listened and couldn’t help but twitch the corners of her mouth.