Chapter 22: The Gutter Capsizes
After playing football and driving home, Lu Wei suddenly received a call from Chen Long on the way.
"Hey, what's the matter?"
"Brother, come to me, Du Shao wants to invite us to dinner, I hope you will come over too, and we will make friends together."
"Invite me to dinner, Du Shao? You're not kidding, are you? Lu Wei shook his head and didn't believe it, Du Shao folded so much face on his hands, how could he be generous enough to invite him to dinner?
"No kidding, at first I thought that Du Shao was obsessed with the last time...... But Du Shao said that he was not angry with you, and he would not play with you in the future, and he wanted to invite you to dinner, make friends, and resolve the previous misunderstanding. Chen Long explained.
"Du Shao is so generous? I don't believe it, he can't be trying to get me drunk at the wine table, is he? Forget it, I can't drink enough, so I still don't go. Lu Wei smelled a smell of conspiracy.
"Brother, come here! This is the last chance to ease relations with Du Shao and make friends...... At the wine table, you will respect Du Shao for two more glasses and say a few soft words, won't this matter be completely revealed in the future? Chen Long pleaded: "Brother, you can help me with this." ”
"This ......"
Chen Long pleaded again and again on the phone, Lu Wei had to agree, just have a meal, even if it is a Hongmen banquet, it is really not possible to leave halfway.
"Okay, thank you, brother, come over quickly."
……
Grand Fortune Hotel, an upscale five-star hotel in S City.
On the fifth floor, in a richly decorated high-end box, almost all the guests arrived.
Among the guests invited by Du Shao, in addition to Chen Long, there were Tang Fei, Su Zifeng, Liu Chao, Tian Lei and several more distinguished young people, and finally Lu Wei, a total of ten people.
"Du Shao, I'm very sorry for what happened last time, I hope you don't mind."
Lu Wei was reluctant to say such a thing in his heart, but after walking into the box, Chen Long kept signaling to the side, and he could only walk up to Du Shao and say a soft word.
"It's okay...... it's okay" Du Shao waved his hand, with a warm smile on his face, "I, Du Junzhe, am not the kind of person with a small belly, not to mention that you are not wrong in the first place, why should you apologize?" I'm the one who says I'm sorry. ”
"Du Shao is bright."
Lu Wei praised it, this is a little impressive, this Du Shao is quite good at being a man.
The waiter took the menu and began to order.
"Lu Wei, what kind of food do you want to eat, you can have it."
Du Shao handed the menu to Lu Wei.
took the menu and flipped through two pages casually, Lu Wei was frightened by the expensive dishes on the menu, that is, an ordinary farmhouse dish costs 588, which is still the cheapest, the expensive abalone, bear paw, shark fin, sea cucumber or something, all of them are tens of thousands, including a golden fish, one costs 180,000 yuan.
"I won't order it, you can order it."
Lu Wei threw the menu to others, it was too expensive, and he didn't dare to order it randomly.
Fei Shao and Feng Shao may be used to this kind of banquet, and they ordered a 2888 dragon and phoenix and a 1688 Beijing roast duck respectively, while Chen Long ordered a cheaper bamboo shoot ribs.
Liu Chao's family has been in the catering industry for generations, and knows which dishes are delicious and which are not, so they ordered eight or nine dishes in one go, such as braised goose paws, West Lake beef soup, desert sand chicken, braised pipa pigeon, abalone tea tree mushroom, shallots and bean curd soup, bird's nest white porridge, etc., and finally handed the menu to Du Shao's hands.
"Du Shao, you are the host, you can order a few too."
"Okay, then add a first-class bear paw, Australian lobster, and shrimp truffle soup, ...... Add another goldfish. Du Shao said in a deep voice.
"Yes, sir!" The waiter with his trademark smile took the menu, bowed, and quickly got the food ready to be served.
Lu Wei was shocked in his heart, these dishes ordered by Du Shao are all big dishes, a first product of bear's paw costs 38,000, Australian lobster 12,000, fresh shrimp truffle soup seems to cost more than 10,000, and the most impressive golden fish, cooked with yellow-lipped fish, 180,000 yuan a piece.
Coupled with the dozen or so dishes ordered earlier, I'm afraid this table of banquets will eat three or four hundred thousand, right?
"I don't have any drinks, let's drink some bars, Lu Wei, what do you want to drink?" Du Shao looked at Lu Weidao.
"I drink an average amount of alcohol, you can order it, it doesn't matter if I drink it or not." Lu Wei waved his hand.
"Since it's a banquet, how can I do without wine at the table? There's a lot of wine on it, so what kind of wine is better for you to drink? ”
Du Shao asked for everyone's opinions, and finally ordered four bottles of 92-year-old Lafite and two bottles of Chivas Regal...... Lu Wei doesn't know the price, but it should be expensive.
After a while, the waiter pushed the dining cart to the door of the box, and the waiters holding the tray put the ordered dishes and drinks on the table one by one...... The high-end private room is filled with the aroma of various delicacies.
"Jump!"
Liu Chao opened two bottles of red wine with a corkscrew and poured a glass into everyone's goblet, and the aroma of red wine was extremely attractive.
"Eat vegetables, eat vegetables, everyone move chopsticks." Du Shao greeted, picked up a slice of beef and put it in his mouth, gave a thumbs up and praised: "It tastes great, you can taste it too!" ”
"Good, eat, eat!"
The gluttonous worms in Lu Wei's stomach have long been hooked out, and some of the dishes on this table have almost never been eaten, such as bear's paws and goldfish, he has heard but never seen it, and he knows that the price is very expensive, but he doesn't know how it tastes.
"Yipin bear's paw is the first dish in Sichuan cuisine, cooked in the traditional braised method, with bright red color, perfect palm shape, soft and glutinous texture, thick and shiny juice. After the dish image of the rich and luxurious, can be said to be a product, its main ingredient is a pair of bear's forepaws, weighing about 3000 grams, with a fat hen, a pork knuckle...... After repeated steaming through multiple processes to remove the smell and metacarpal bones, it finally becomes one of the eight treasures. ”
"The nutritional value of the bear's paw is very high, with its fresh palm and dry palm to treat the food, the taste is fat and mellow, rich in protein, fat, iodine, and a variety of amino acids, in addition to high nutritional value, it also has the effect of keeping out the cold, dehumidifying, strengthening the spleen and invigorating qi, after eating, it is very good for people!"
Liu Chao told the story, his fat round face looked funny, but his eyes flashed with an extremely shrewd light, and the dishes on this table were like endorsements, and his professional tone was unquestionable.
"There is also this golden fish, its main ingredient yellow-lipped fish, is an endemic fish species in China, distributed in the East China Sea and the northern part of the South China Sea, a national second-class protected animal, body length, side flattened, tail peduncle slender. It is currently on the verge of extinction due to its scarcity and increased fishing intensity along the coast. ”
"Before liberation, the southeast coast often has the fishing of yellow-lipped fish, regarded as a superior tonic, especially the fish maw is very precious, known as expensive as gold, the special effect of the fish maw to nourish the liver and kidney, such as Korean ginseng, hemostasis is very good, especially for pregnant women postpartum blood collapse and other medicine to the effect of disease removal! In the past, if the general fishing village caught the yellow-lipped fish, the village celebrated, divided and eaten, and dried the swim bladder to treasure it for the urgent use of maternal bleeding, and the simplicity of the folk customs can be seen......"
"As for the price of yellow-lipped fish, after drying, 1 gram is worth about 320 yuan, which is comparable to gold, but because the number of yellow-lipped fish is decreasing year by year, the price of fish is also rising...... Therefore, the yellow-lipped fish is called the golden fish in the Quang Nam area, which is true. ”
After a pause, Liu Chao's chopsticks pointed to the golden fish on the plate, and then said: "But the golden fish on our table, the hotel did not take out the swim bladder, if anyone eats the swim bladder in the body of this fish, 80% of the value of this dish will go into someone's stomach......" Liu Chao poked the golden fish with chopsticks a few times, took out a palm-long swim bladder, and said to everyone: "This is a great supplement, which of you wants to taste it?" ”
Lu Weiwei opened his eyes, just such a small piece of fish bladder, the price was more than 100,000 yuan, extravagant, it was too extravagant.
"Lu Wei, you can eat." Du Shao said enthusiastically.
"No, no, no, I don't eat, you do."
Everyone humbled one after another, and in the end, Liu Chao used a knife and fork to divide the fish into evenly divided into ten equal parts, put a small piece in each bowl, and tasted it.
Lu Wei gently picked it up with chopsticks, put this piece of fish worth more than 10,000 yuan into his mouth, chewed it, the taste was acceptable, with a gelatinous taste, but it was a great tonic.
There are also fat bear paws, tender lobsters, and greasy Beijing roast duck...... This banquet can be said to be unprecedentedly delicious and luxurious.
Eat, eat heartily!
Lu Wei didn't forget Chen Long's reminder, stood up, raised his wine glass and said to Du Shao: "Du Shao, I was offended a lot before, thank you Du Shao for being magnanimous, I toast you!" ”
After speaking, gurgling, Lu Wei poured half a glass of red wine into his stomach.
"No, no, everyone knows each other, it's a kind of fate, how can there be any offense that is not offended? I think you're a very good person, how about making friends in the future? Du Shaowen said.
"Good! It is my Lu Wei's honor to know a friend like Du Shao, and I will give Du Shao another drink! ”
Lu Wei drank half a glass of wine, and began to think that Du Shao was not bad and worthy of deep friendship, but he didn't notice Tian Shao who was sneering next to him.
Tian Shao called the waiter over, and ordered two bottles of Rémy Martin Louis XIII, after opening, the fragrance in the wine spread, and Lu Wei, who was already a little dizzy, was a little uplifted.
After drinking the two bottles of Remy Martin, the dishes were almost the same, and the time was not early, and four or five people drank too much, saying that they were going to pee outside, and then never came back.
"I'll go downstairs and pay for it." The people at the table were almost gone, and Chen Long stood up a little shaky, wanting to go downstairs to pay.
"No, no, I'll pay for it." Du Shao gave a look of motion, let Liu Chao and Tian Lei support Chen Long, took out a golden bank card from his wallet, and went to the waiter to settle the bill.
Five minutes later, his head was dizzy, and Lu Wei, who was sleeping soundly on the back of the chair, found that he was the only one left in the box.
"Huh? Didn't Du Shao say that he would continue to drink when he came back after settling the account? What about people? ”
looked at the time on the phone, it was almost 12 o'clock, "Everyone is gone, then I'll go too......"
Lu Wei staggered downstairs, passing by the cashier in the hotel lobby, and a female voice behind him suddenly sounded: "Sir, you haven't paid yet, how can you go?" ”
Lu Wei's head was shocked, and he suddenly woke up halfway from his wine, and settled the bill, what kind of account? Isn't Du Shao already over?
"No one has paid in box 88 on the fifth floor? Sir, you spend a total of 1228670 yuan, and after the discount, you only need to give 1.2 million. The female cashier looked at Lu Wei a little crampedly, and lowered her voice.
Rumble!
1.2 million?
Lu Wei woke up in an instant, and out of the corner of his eye, he found that several hotel security guards with unkind faces had already wrapped up towards him.