Chapter 1052 — Five Million Down the Drain
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True, the Crystal Palace no longer had a minimum charge, but ordering only ten or twenty thousand worth of food would still look shabby. Feng Xiaoxiao, being one to pinch every penny of what fell into her hands, simply wanted a smaller room: the less spent, the better, and to her that was fine.
Wu Chengtian wanted to argue, but feared that once he opened his mouth Feng Xiaoxiao would take offence and refuse to play along with his showing off at the meal. So he forcibly swallowed the words on the tip of his tongue and, thoroughly sullen, said instead, "Fine, a smaller room it is. Fewer people, more peace."
"Very good, sir!" The waiter no longer cared. A five-million card had been bought; wherever the guests wished to go was all the same to her. That five million was certain to be spent here — whether they ate this time or not hardly mattered.
Once they were in the room, the waiter produced the menu and invited Wu Chengtian to order.
"Jingyan, Xiaoxiao, Brother Wei Zhao — what would you like to eat?" Wu Chengtian opened the menu, his eyes roving over the expensive delicacies. Five million had been spent, and it bought only this one meal; naturally he must order plenty of good things and enjoy himself. It was his own money, after all!
Many of those delicacies Wu Chengtian had never tasted, and he meant to sample every one of them today. Even if he did not spend the whole five million, he had to spend three million — otherwise he would have lost out terribly.
Feng Xiaoxiao, card in hand, saw that Wu Chengtian meant to order the expensive dishes and grew a little nervous. She wanted the money to last; she had no intention of blowing through it in a single day.
Wei Zhao glanced at Feng Xiaoxiao and nearly laughed, but he spoke up anyway: "Let's skip the seafood. Xiaoxiao is allergic — last time, after we ate seafood in Yanjing, she had a reaction on the way home."
At these words, Feng Xiaoxiao, thrilled, gave him a thumbs-up under the table! Her husband Wei Zhao was a godsend! She had been wondering how to make Wu Chengtian order less, and Wei Zhao had stepped in to help!
No wonder that girl Shen Yushu was always clinging to Wei Zhao — his talent for tormenting people was second to none!
"Ah?" Wu Chengtian was briefly taken aback, and his face turned bitter. No seafood either? Then what expensive dishes were left? In a restaurant, the priciest dishes almost all had something to do with seafood; ruling that out cut more than half of them away!
"It's early in the day — let's have something light. Skip all that rich meat and fish," said Sun Jingyan. She was shrewd enough to see right through Feng Xiaoxiao. Since Wei Zhao had spoken up for her, Sun Jingyan was happy to help her fleece Wu Chengtian a little more.
Sun Jingyan already counted herself one of Wei Zhao's crowd. As for Wu Chengtian? Let him go play by himself.
"All right, all right — whatever Jingyan says!" The moment Sun Jingyan spoke, Wu Chengtian forgot all about indulging his palate and hurriedly handed her the menu. To his mind, filling his belly was a trifle; the great matter was that Sun Jingyan eat happily.