After My Rebirth Chapter 5: Snake Wine

Chapter 5: Snake Wine

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

When Li Sinian returned home, Auntie Zhang had just come back from buying vegetables and had not yet started cooking. Seeing Li Sinian, Auntie Zhang’s hand choosing vegetables gave a beat and her mouth opened slightly, “Young master, you, you just got off work?”

“Yeah.” Li Sinian threw his briefcase onto the sofa, took off his suit and entered the kitchen, “What’s for dinner?”

Auntie Zhang gave him the names of a few dishes, “We’ll make these tonight, what does the young master think?”

Li Sinian looked at the freshly washed and chopped vegetables, “Mn, it’s fine, you do it, don’t worry about me.”

Auntie Zhang’s cooking was not the kind of pursuit of taste nor the pursuit of nutrition, the dishes she mentioned were quite reassuring.

Li Sinian went back to his room without going into the kitchen. He played games in his room for a while and waited until almost dinner time before he slowly and leisurely went downstairs.

Li Wenxing was a senior in college and was preparing for his graduation project. Originally, the most idle person in the family should be this person who has not even graduated from college, but after Li Sinian broke out the salted fish property, the most idle person in the family became him. He went downstairs for dinner and met up with Li Wenxing.

When he saw Li Sinian coming down from upstairs in his pajamas, Li Wenxing was surprised even though he knew he wasn’t too interested in his work these two days, “Brother, you’re off work already?”

Li Sinian gave a ‘hmm’ and didn’t wait for Li Wenxing to ask more questions before brushing his shoulder and going downstairs. Li Wenxing turned around and stared at Li Sinian’s back, his brow frowning slightly, seemingly confused. Li Cheng and Lian Menglei were working late today, and the only two brothers were eating at home. Li Wenxing went upstairs and was busy for a while, and Li Sinian ate almost all of his meal before he came down.

“Brother, are you not busy with work today?” Li Wenxing walked without sound, did not know when to come down, and asked this question when he had already settled down.

“No, I’m not busy.”

“No wonder.” Li Wenxing said with a smile, “I feel like I’ve never seen you back at this time, it’s simply more leisurely than me, who hasn’t left school.”

Li Sinian finished his last bite of rice and looked up at him, “Are you saying I’m lazy at work?”

Li Wenxing’s hand was full of rice, “No, no, I didn’t mean that.”

“It’s okay, it’s okay, I’m just lazy.” Li Sinian suddenly smiled, “I’m lazy, you remember to be diligent and behave well in front of Dad.”

After saying that, he pushed away the bowl, went upstairs to change into sportswear, and went out for a walk to digest food.

Li Wenxing had been in a daze since he heard Li Sinian’s words, eating his bowl of rice without a second thought, until the door slammed with a ‘pop’ and he came back to his senses. He lifted his head and stared at the door, the doubt deepening in his eyes. Although he didn’t know why, he could keenly perceive that Li Sinian didn’t like him. But even if he didn’t like him, Li Sinian would never question him as bluntly as he did just now, and after that, he would ask him to behave properly in front of his dad.

Did he do something recently that made Li Sinian notice something?

What Li Wenxing didn’t know was that Li Sinian was very sincere in what he said. Not surprisingly, he would soon leave this place and go to the countryside to live his ideal life.

Although Li Cheng and Lian Menglei only treated him as a tool, in the end, they have raised him for many years and have never given him less than what he deserves. He also considered to distribute the last bit of conscience, telling Li Wenxing to work hard, otherwise without his help, Li Wenxing would continue to be as carefree as now, then the Li family’s company would really close down.

The next morning, Li Sinian still woke up to go for a run, came back for breakfast, and then slowly made his lunch before going to the office. Unfortunately, he was late again today. But the improvement was that he was only 35 minutes late today, five minutes earlier than yesterday.

Li Sinian himself was very satisfied with this. But seeing Li Cheng’s heavy breathing like a donkey panting, he guessed Li Cheng was not too satisfied.

After two days of such leisure, the head of ChuanHe Construction came to Beijing.

If Liu Xue did the pickup, such a thing would be good. But Li Sinian had been working at the company for the past two days playing puzzle games, and he felt that his eyes were not too good recently, so he followed Liu Xue to the airport.

On the pretext of picking up the plane, he blatantly skipped work. ChuanHe Construction sent a total of five people, three men and two women. They initially thought that both Li Sinian and Liu Xue were assistants, and even if they weren’t assistants, it was estimated to be a pairing of one assistant and one driver.

Only when they heard Li Sinian introduce himself did their mouths open wide together.

“Vice President Li actually came to pick us up from the plane personally? We are too honored!”

While saying honored, the five began to exchange glances.

-Look! I told you, Li took our cooperation very seriously this time. The vice president personally came to pick us up from the plane.

-This was not only the vice president, but also the prince of Li’s!

-The rumors that Li’s was really true are that it’s a big deal on the outside but not on the inside.

-Since Li’s was so sincere, we don’t want to rip them off, wouldn’t it be wrong?

The five’s eyes slipped around, and their faces all showed a lewd smile of ‘know it all’.

Li Sinian was quietly observing from the side, waiting for them to finish exchanging glances before he moved away and pretended not to see anything. The two parties politely exchanged a few words where they were, then left the airport and went straight to the restaurant.

Knowing that there were many of them here this time, Li Sinian purposely asked the driver to drive the long Lincoln limousine out.

The five people in charge looked at the luxury sedan and couldn’t help but glance at each other again, with another lewd smile of ‘know it all’ on their faces. Look, luxury cars are out, who believes it when they say they don’t pay attention? Alas, it seems that this year’s year-end bonus will be doubled, thanks to the Li’s.

What they didn’t know was that the long Lincoln was driven out because Li Sinian wanted to sit.

He would soon go to the countryside, although the leisurely idyllic life was his ideal, but people are always living a life they would certainly be tired of, so he wasn’t sure he wouldn’t suddenly recall the former life of the gentry while living in the countryside.

In particular, he would think about what he did not experience when he lived in the big villa. In order not to let his future self have a little regret, he decided to experience all the things he hadn’t experienced before because he was busy at work in the past two days.

One ride in a luxury car that was not low key at all counted as one.

In the car, the five people in charge chattered enthusiastically with Li Sinian. They talk about everything, but not about work. This was exactly what Li Sinian had in mind, so the two sides had a great time talking on the way.

The first meal of the reception was very important, and Li Sinian set the place at a five-star hotel, where the five people were also accommodated.

In the private room, gorgeous dishes were served one after another. At the same time, there was the essential wine, red wine, white wine, and a red cloth covered with something looking like an altar shape.

When the food was ready, Li Sinian generously waved his hand, “Don’t be polite to me, eat the food. If it is not enough, order again, just treat this place as your own home.”

The five nodded politely, none of them moved their chopsticks to pick up the food, but carried out the first step of this business meal, pouring wine. When the glasses were full, the five people looked up, but they saw that the proprietor of the board was eating happily with chopsticks and head down.

The most shocking thing was that the Vice President Li who received them had a bowl of rice in his hand at some point, and in order for the rice to taste better, that Vice President also took a spoon to pour soup on the rice.

Five people: ????

The point of the meal was not the ‘meal’, but the ‘game’, okay?

Of course Li Sinian knows that the point of the meal was to drink and talk business, but drinking on an empty stomach was very harmful to the stomach. How can he do such an unhealthy thing when he died of stomach cancer in his last life? Of course, you have to eat something to cushion your stomach before drinking.

The five people across the table just stared blankly at Li Sinian eating with a spoon, half a bowl of rice down, Li Sinian felt less empty in his stomach, he lifted his head, poured himself a glass of red wine, elegantly raised his glass, “Come on, everyone, wish us success in cooperation, cheers!”

Five people looked at the small cup that should have been used to hold white wine at the moment lying in a dot of crimson, the corners of the mouth could not help but twitch.

“Vice President Li, that cup is used to hold white wine, right?”

Li Sinian gently smacked his lips, “Look, you are wrong to say this. I just said, you come to Beijing, you should treat this place as your own home, since this is your own home, then we are a family, a family still so prescriptive, why ah?”

The person in charge, “…”

They thought that ‘family’ was polite to them, so this comment was for his own nonchalance was it?

Li Sinian insisted on drinking red wine from the small glass, and the five people had no choice but to pick up the white wine they had poured and reluctantly clinked glasses with Li Sinian.

After the first glass of wine, the meal started. It should have been like this, but Li Sinian ate so much before drinking that the five people in charge lost their sense of ritual and took their chopsticks with a lot of energy.

Li Sinian continued to eat with his head down, and while he was down, the five people started to make eye contact again.

-What is the situation? I thought this Vice President Li was a young and successful man? How come he doesn’t even know the rules of the dinner party? Are the rumors false?

-The people of Li’s said so, it must be true, this is probably Li’s strategy.

-How?

-Li’s must have sent this VP to pick us up at the beginning to give us a feeling that we are valued, just like we thought before.

When we get that feeling, they then show that they don’t value us, so we’ll be in doubt as to whether Li values working with us or not.

When we put all our attention on speculation, this time Li then makes some seemingly reasonable demands, our attention was deprived, our guard was down, and we will fall for the trick and negotiate this cooperation at an unfair price.

That was Lee’s conspiracy!

-The analysis makes so much sense!

-This must be it!

-Li is too sinister. We must not let them get away with it!

Li Sinian, who was sinister and cunning in the eyes of the person in charge, finished his bowl of rice and was seven or eight minutes full when he finally lifted his head.

Seeing that the five people across the table didn’t move their chopsticks much at all, he couldn’t help but remind, “Why aren’t you eating? The food in this room is delicious.”

Each of the five people averted their eyes, and one of the men in charge named Ai Sibi said, “I’m eating, I’m eating, the place Vice President Li picked is naturally good and delicious.”

When Li Sinian was full, he naturally had the strength to drink with them.

However, his intention was not to let this cooperation be successful, and he cared about drinking too much and hurting the body, so also did not drink much, and drank all the red wine. The table held a bottle of red wine and white wine each, so with a total of seven people at the table plus Liu Xue, soon the two bottles of wine were finished.

The five people in charge of the opposite side practiced at the wine table, so this wine was not enough for them to even feel it, now how to talk business without drinking too much?

So, the opposite Ai Sibi spoke again, “Vice President Li, where did you hide the wine? The bottle on this table is empty, why don’t you refill it?”

Li Sinian smiled faintly, “Mr. Ai, since we are family, I have to advise you. There are limits to drinking, too much hurts the body, we have had enough wine today, we can’t drink any more.”

The five smiled, the smiles on their faces slowly collapsed and slowly replaced with confusion. This was the healthiest business they had ever talked about.

What the hell was Li up to?

Ai Sibi pulled the corner of his mouth. “Vice President Li, you are not so stingy that you are not even willing to pay for the wine, right? If you are like this, we can’t negotiate this cooperation.”

He thought in his heart that although Li was sinister, he still wanted to cooperate with them, and if they threatened like this, the people on the other side would have to drop their posture, no matter how much they wanted to.

He never expected that his threat would be met with a sigh from Li Sinian. So fast to achieve the purpose, no challenge at all ah.

Li Sinian met Ai Sibi’s somewhat confused eyes and smiled slightly, “I’m not happy when Mr. Ai says that, how can the Li family be so big that they can’t even spare some wine? It’s just that I really see you guys as relatives, and I can’t see you guys drinking so much wine for the sake of cooperation and hurting your bodies. Forget it, since you guys insist on still wanting to drink, let’s drink something healthy.”

Saying that, Li Sinian got up and carried the thing covered with red cloth over.

After the item was put on the table, Li Sinian removed the cloth to reveal its original appearance. It was a jar of wine, a dark yellow wine, with a layer of herbs underneath the transparent jar and a snake floating in the middle.

“Snake wine has the effect of invigorating blood and dispelling wind, removing phlegm and dampness, and tonifying the middle of the body, which can be called the treasure of wine.” Li Sinian said slowly in the face of the five people in charge, “Since the family wants to drink so much, let’s drink something to nourish the body!”

 

 

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