Chapter 506 — Feng Xiaoxiao Orders

"Really?" Feng Xiaoxiao said with admiration. "Then I'll order?"

"Yes, go ahead," Wu Chengtian said, thinking to himself that girls really did like guys who put on airs. His strategy for pursuing Sun Jingyan had been somewhat flawed—in the past, he had always been careful to maintain his poise, pretending to be a refined gentleman in front of Sun Jingyan.

But seeing Feng Xiaoxiao's reaction today, Wu Chengtian felt that it was better to show a little swagger. With just this bit of showing off, even Feng Xiaoxiao, who already had a boyfriend, was looking at him in a new light.

Wu Chengtian felt as if he had been enlightened. He grew more certain that this meal was well worth treating. Not only had he achieved his goal, he had also learned a thing or two about courting women—a lesson money could hardly buy.

"Oh, then let's have one of each of these signature dishes," Feng Xiaoxiao said to the waiter, pointing at the signature dishes on the first page of the menu.

"Very good... but are you sure you want one of each?" the waiter carefully confirmed. The signature dishes on the first page were all far from cheap—each started at five hundred thousand, and their ingredients were flown in from abroad that very day.

"Um... Brother Chengtian, which of the signature dishes here taste good? You've tried them all, haven't you? Why don't we just pick a few?" Feng Xiaoxiao looked up at Wu Chengtian and asked cautiously. "If we order too much, I feel it'd be a bit wasteful..."

"The signature dishes here are all excellent. I've tried them all, and there's nothing to choose between them, so let's just order one of each!" When had Wu Chengtian ever tasted any of those signature dishes? At a moment like this, he naturally could not name a single one. To save face, he could only pretend he had tried them all and let Feng Xiaoxiao order the lot. How could he possibly admit that he had never eaten them and had no idea which was good?

Seeing that Wu Chengtian had confirmed it, the waiter naturally did not press further, for it was obvious that the host today was Wu Chengtian. And Wu Chengtian was an arrogant, domineering sort, carrying more or less the spoiled air of a rich young master, so the waiter was not worried that he would be unable to pay the bill.

"Very good. Please go on," the waiter said, noting down the signature dishes and gesturing to her politely with a smile.

"Well... actually, I'm not very good at ordering either. Why don't you recommend a few tasty dishes for me? I like seafood!" Feng Xiaoxiao said.

Hearing Feng Xiaoxiao's words, Wu Chengtian instantly breathed a sigh of relief. Seafood might be expensive, but not exorbitantly so. To ordinary people it was top-grade fare, but to the children of prominent families like theirs, such things were already commonplace.

What was the most expensive? Naturally, it was those rare and precious things seldom found in the world. He had genuinely feared that Feng Xiaoxiao might open her mouth and ask for some rare animal or other—that would be truly costly!

"For seafood, we have Hokkaido torpedo fish, Australian lobster, and Devonshire crab. These are all signature seafoods of our establishment. May I ask which grade the lady would like? The Hokkaido torpedo fish is divided into..." The waiter was about to explain, but Feng Xiaoxiao cut her off.

"Brother Chengtian, why don't we eat something cheaper? Something like what you'd get at a street food stall would be fine!" Feng Xiaoxiao said, a little embarrassed. "We've already ordered so many signature dishes. Why don't we just order some cheaper seafood now?"

"Cheaper? Why order cheap? We'll have the best of everything!" Wu Chengtian waved his hand, thinking to himself, how expensive can seafood be? It wasn't as if he'd never eaten seafood at five-star hotels—a whole meal there cost at most ten or twenty thousand!

"Very good. The finest Hokkaido torpedo fish is..." The waiter nodded and was about to make a recommendation.

"I already said I want the best—what do you mean by this? Do you think I've never eaten it before?" Wu Chengtian was suddenly annoyed. This waiter kept going on with her introductions—wasn't she looking down on him? It made him feel he had lost face, and he snapped at her with some impatience.

"I'm sorry, sir..." The waiter hurried to apologize. She had meant to run through the grades of seafood in the restaurant—for instance, a whole Hokkaido torpedo fish, which was the very finest—and to boast a little about the establishment's caliber, but the host of this table clearly did not care for it.

"Then let's have one of each of these seafoods. I'll just have a taste myself... Mm, I've never eaten anything so delicious in my life. This life hasn't been lived in vain—I could die happy now!" Feng Xiaoxiao cast Wu Chengtian a grateful glance.

"One each? One for every person! Good things should be shared by all!" Wu Chengtian said to the waiter. "Besides the signature dishes and the seafood, just add a few side dishes for us. Don't make them too low-grade—they should at least match the rest!"

Though Wu Chengtian said this, he was thinking that ordinary side dishes couldn't cost much. Even the fancy ones—a few vegetable dishes—would come to a few hundred or a thousand at most.

"Very good." The waiter did not dare say more, and nodded to show she had noted it down.

She had already figured it out: the guests at this table were generous and presumably quite wealthy, and they did not like her talking too much. "Is there anything else you need? Shall we start serving now?"

"Brother Chengtian, we need drinks too," Xiao Wangba reminded Wu Chengtian.

"Well then, let's have some wine," Wu Chengtian said to the waiter. "An '82 Lafite."

"Certainly..." The waiter found it a little odd. An '82 Lafite was a fine wine, to be sure, but compared with the dishes ordered earlier, it was a trifling matter—and those dishes, paired with an '82 Lafite, seemed rather mismatched.

Still, the waiter could tell that Wu Chengtian had a foul temper and did not dare ask questions. For all he knew, the man simply liked drinking '82 Lafite.

Only after the waiter had gone did Wu Chengtian speak. "Meeting today is fate, so let me make some introductions. This is Wei Zhao. Brother Wei Zhao and I had a small run-in before, but the fact that he came to this dinner shows where he stands! And this is his girlfriend, Feng Xiaoqi..."

"Kang Jinglong!" Kang Jinglong rose to his feet and extended a hand to Wei Zhao. "Brother Wei Zhao, we've met before!"

"Ha..." Wei Zhao smiled faintly but did not offer his hand. "Do you think there's any need for us to shake hands?"

Kang Jinglong was somewhat nettled by Wei Zhao's words, but he was a man who knew how to bide his time. For one thing, he had not yet sounded out Wei Zhao's background; for another, he had to work with Wu Chengtian and could not afford to fall out with Wei Zhao. So he smiled and said, "It seems Brother Wei Zhao has some misunderstanding with my younger brother. On Zhaoming's behalf, I offer you my apologies! Zhaoming is just that way—spoiled by the family since he was small. I hope Brother Wei Zhao won't take offense..."