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Chapter 626 — Bring a Few More Bottles

The Blossom Guardian

"Oh, Brother Jianwen is really not bad, treating us to world-famous wine!" Shen Yushu nodded and said happily to Gu Mengyao, "Right, Sister Yaoyao?"

Hearing Shen Yushu's words, An Jianwen felt wonderful inside! He thought to himself, Shen Yushu, oh Shen Yushu, all these years you have never done a single good thing for me, and now at last you have said something fair. That is just too awesome!

"Hehe, this is nothing. As long as Yaoyao and Little Shu are happy, what are a few bottles of wine?" An Jianwen waved his hand and said lightly.

"Yes, but what does that 1982 Lafite taste like? Sister Yaoyao, do you want some?" Shen Yushu turned her eyes toward Gu Mengyao.

Gu Mengyao was left speechless. She had been sunk in sorrow, but Shen Yushu almost made her want to laugh. After all that circling around, it turned out this girl had this goal in mind all along, she just wanted to wangle another taste of the 1982 Lafite!

An Jianwen's expression froze. He had never expected Shen Yushu to say that. Was this not digging a hole for him? The 1982? A single bottle had been hyped on the market to more than 150,000 yuan, and here in the Starlight Grand Hotel it was sold for the sky-high price of 300,000. An Jianwen felt a sharp pain in his kidneys.

"Brother Jianwen, Sister Yaoyao wants to try the 1982 Lafite too. Neither of us has ever tasted it. How about ordering a few bottles?" Shen Yushu had fleeced Zhong Yongliang with this trick countless times, she could do it effortlessly.

A few bottles? Oh, my kidneys! An Jianwen nearly fainted dead away on the spot! 300,000 a bottle, one bottle was almost worth a kidney, and some kidneys would not even fetch that price! Did that little Chen girl really take him for a tycoon? Did she think his money came easily?

The police were pressing closer at every step and his business had shrunk sharply. He had no choice but to hunt for kidney sources in the rural villages in the suburbs, and in a whole week he could not cut even one or two kidneys. And now one meal was going to eat up several kidneys?

He was so angry he wanted to curse his mother. He glared fiercely at Su Taizao. What a damn loose tongue you have? Would anyone take you for a mute if you said nothing? If you had not mentioned the 1982 Lafite, where would Shen Yushu ever have heard of any 1982 Lafite?

But he could not flare up on the spot. That would make him look petty, and how could he go on pursuing Gu Mengyao? Especially since Shen Yushu had already said that Gu Mengyao wanted some too. How could he refuse?

"Waiter, bring two bottles of the 1982 Lafite!" An Jianwen ordered two bottles, enduring the pain in his heart.

"Two bottles will hardly be enough, will they? Sister Yaoyao and I will have one each, so what will the rest of you drink?" With one sentence Shen Yushu monopolized both bottles of the 1982 Lafite.

"Enough... We will not drink that. We used to drink it all the time. You two just have a taste..." An Jianwen wanted to cry. Two bottles not enough? Did she want him to go sell his own kidneys too?

The An family was rich, but the two brothers each managed their own business, and every month after handing money up to the family and to the Fire Wolf Gang, there was really not much left. A meal that should have cost tens of thousands had become hundreds of thousands, and it left An Jianwen gravely weakened all at once.

Chen Yutian thought to himself that his little sister was just as ruthless as ever! No ordinary man could really stand her! What puzzled him was how Wei Zhao had become a follower to Gu Mengyao and his sister. What on earth was going on?

With his strength, he was qualified to protect any important figure, yet here he was protecting two little girls? But Wei Zhao had clearly stopped him from revealing his identity earlier, so Chen Yutian did not dare ask rashly!

But none of this could stop the fervor in Chen Yutian's heart, his worship of Wei Zhao! It could be said that without Wei Zhao, there would be no strength he possessed today!

The two bottles of 1982 Lafite were set on the table, and Wei Zhao glanced casually at the seals and labels. They should be genuine beyond doubt. Although there were many fake 1982 Lafites on the market, with the standing and power of the Starlight Grand Hotel, it would not sell counterfeits. After all, even its price for the genuine article was not cheap, one to two times the normal channel price.

"Sister Yaoyao, let us drink one bottle first and take the other one home, shall we?" Shen Yushu felt that drinking here was not as good as taking it home and having Shield Bro fry a couple of dishes, the three of them sharing a candlelight dinner. How romantic that would be!

"As you like." To Gu Mengyao it made no difference what she drank. She only wanted an outlet, to drown her sorrows in wine and let the grief in her heart scatter along with the drink.

Hearing Shen Yushu's words, An Jianwen nearly jumped up from his chair. You want to take it home? Why did you not say so earlier? Then why buy it at the hotel at all? Buy a bottle at a shop tomorrow and save 150,000, half a kidney!

But An Jianwen could not say that, for saying it would cost him even more face, so he could only endure it.

Thinking that today's main mission was to get everyone drunk and then seize the chance to confess, An Jianwen could only put all other thoughts aside. If his confession succeeded today, then these hundreds of thousands would not have been spent in vain!

So while An Jianwen kept urging drinks on the others, he drank himself as well. To make it convincing, he did not deliberately control his capacity. Anyway his tolerance was good, and red wine could hardly get him drunk.

Watching Su Taizao raise his glass and propose toasts on every pretext, the anger in An Jianwen's heart eased a little. The fellow was sensible enough after all, he knew to help press drinks on everyone!

Chen Yutian was very restrained today. With Wei Zhao present, he could not relax at all. From the corner of his eye he kept glancing at Wei Zhao, only to see him as calm as ever, sitting there without looking sideways or speaking a word.

Still, Chen Yutian felt an invisible pressure that left him breathless. An Jianwen and Su Taizao, however, had not seen Chen Yutian for a long time, so they found nothing strange in it at the moment. They simply assumed his character had changed after joining the army and grown steady.

An Jianwen's main purpose was to invite Gu Mengyao and then confess after the wine, so whatever Chen Yutian was like had nothing to do with him. He was merely a pretext for hosting the feast. The Four Young Masters of Songshan were no longer the Four Young Masters of old, and their bond was not as close as one might imagine.

A telephone rang. An Jianwen frowned, took out his mobile phone, glanced at the caller ID, and saw it was his subordinate, the tattooed man.

After a moment's hesitation, he still answered, "What is it? I am in the middle of dinner."

"Brother Wen, the heat is on lately. It looks like they are getting serious again. There are police cars all around Gayazi Village, and we have no way to make a move!" the tattooed man reported gloomily.

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