Chapter 626 — A Few More Bottles
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"Oh, so Brother Jianwen isn't half bad — he's treating us to a world-famous wine!" Shen Yushu nodded and said happily to Gu Mengyao, "Right, Sister Yao Yao?"
Hearing Shen Yushu's words, An Liwen felt absolutely thrilled! He thought to himself, Shen Yushu, oh Shen Yushu, all these years you've never done a single good turn for me, and now at last you've spoken a word of justice — that's more like it!
"Heh, it's nothing at all. So long as Yao Yao and Little Shu are happy, what are a few bottles of wine?" An Liwen waved his hand and said mildly.
"That's true, but what does that '82 Lafite taste like? Sister Yao Yao, do you want to try some?" Shen Yushu's eyes shifted and she looked toward Gu Mengyao.
"..." Gu Mengyao's somewhat sorrowful mood had been prodded by Shen Yushu into the verge of laughter. After all that circling about, so this was the girl's aim — she wanted another '82 Lafite to taste!
An Liwen's face froze. He had not expected Shen Yushu to say such a thing — was this not a downright swindle? An '82? That bottle was being hyped on the market at over a hundred and fifty thousand yuan, and here at the Starry Radiance Grand Hotel it was sold at the sky-high price of three hundred thousand. An Liwen felt a sharp twinge in his kidneys.
"Brother Jianwen, Sister Yao Yao wants to try the '82 Lafite too, and neither of us has ever tasted it. How about you order a few bottles?" Shen Yushu had already skinned Zhong Yongliang alive with this trick countless times — it was child's play to her.
A few bottles? My kidneys! An Liwen nearly fainted dead away on the spot! Three hundred thousand a bottle, one bottle was practically the price of a kidney — and some kidneys did not even fetch that much! Did this Miss Chen really take him for a tycoon? Was money easy for him to earn?
With the police pressing closer at every step, his business volume had plummeted, and there was no help for it but to push his kidney sources out into the rural villages; in a whole week he could not harvest even one or two kidneys. And now a single meal was going to swallow several kidneys?
He was so furious he wanted to curse his mother, and he shot Su Taizao a venomous glare. You blabbermouth, could no one take you for a mute if you just kept quiet? If you hadn't mentioned the '82 Lafite, where would Shen Yushu have learned there was any such thing as an '82 Lafite?
But he could not fly into a rage on the spot — that would only make him look petty, and how was he supposed to court Gu Mengyao then? Especially since Shen Yushu had said that Gu Mengyao wanted to drink it too. How could he refuse?
"Waiter, two bottles of '82 Lafite!" An Liwen called for two bottles, enduring the pain in his heart.
"Two bottles won't be enough, will it? Sister Yao Yao and I will have one each — what will the rest of you drink?" With a single sentence, Shen Yushu had monopolized both bottles of '82 Lafite.
"That's enough... we won't drink that, we used to have it all the time, you two just taste it..." An Liwen wanted to cry. Two bottles still not enough? Did she want him to go sell a kidney too?
The An family was wealthy, but the two brothers each managed their own affairs, and every month, after handing over the family's share and the Fire Wolf Gang's cut, what was left was really not much. A meal that should have cost tens of thousands had turned into hundreds of thousands, and An Liwen's reserves took a severe blow all at once.
Chen Yuxuan too was thinking to himself that his sister was just as ruthless as ever! Truly not something an ordinary man could withstand! What puzzled him, though, was how this man had come to be a follower of Gu Mengyao and his sister. What on earth was going on?
With his strength, he was qualified to guard any great personage at all, and yet he had come to protect two young girls? But earlier Wei Zhao had clearly not wanted him to reveal his identity any further, so Chen Yuxuan did not dare ask rashly!