Xu Xinghe: "..."
He looked at Ling Changfeng who was "kindly persuading him", and thought, aren't you more dangerous?
He thought of what he saw after waking up that day, the horrifying scene of him hugging Ling Changfeng and sharing the bed with him...
Hehe, I don't want to recall it in this life.
Xu Xinghe twitched the corners of his mouth: "No thanks, drinking alcohol hurts the liver, kidneys and brain, so you have to quit."
When Ling Changfeng heard this, his different pupils flickered faintly, but he didn't try to persuade him any more, instead he picked up his chopsticks: "Let's eat."
As soon as he moved his chopsticks, everyone finally followed suit.
Dinner officially begins.
Appetizers include fig foie gras, king crab tartare, black truffle caviar, sea urchin pudding, etc.
The delicious and mellow taste exploded in the mouth, and Chef Xu had to marvel at the perfect fusion of the top ingredients and cooking.
During the dinner, everyone started chatting while eating again.
The focus of the topic was mainly on the newlyweds Ling Changfeng and Xu Xinghe, and the bachelor Qin Yuan—
"Where are you planning to spend your honeymoon? Have you made any arrangements?" Lin Ting asked.
Ling Changfeng paused slightly with the hand holding the chopsticks, but he didn't answer, he didn't even raise his eyelids, and continued to pick up a piece of fried foie gras with a calm expression.
Lin Ting also knew his temperament, so he didn't expect him to answer, but turned his attention to Xu Xinghe.
The latter was startled slightly, swallowed the food in his mouth and said, "Honeymoon??"
"Yes, newlyweds always have a honeymoon."
Parish also asked from the side: "Do you currently have any favorite places? For example, places with a long history, or a small island with a beautiful and quiet environment, or a city in the sky full of flowers?"
Xu Xinghe said awkwardly: "Thank you, but we don't..."
"after a while."
Ling Changfeng, who was eating silently beside him, suddenly spoke, interrupting Xu Xinghe's words.
Xu Xinghe was taken aback, then turned to look at him.
Ling Changfeng said without changing his face: "I've been a little busy recently, and I'll make up for it when I'm done."
Unfortunately, this statement immediately ushered in a wave of complaints—
"Ah?? What have you been up to lately?"
"You've been married for more than a month, why are you still 'after a while'? Even if Xinghe has a good temper, he can tolerate you, and most people have already started to make trouble."
"Yeah Changfeng, you still..." Waite originally wanted to ask "Can you still do it", but he didn't dare to say it, and changed his words temporarily: "You are just married, how can you delay your honeymoon? Can I still be able to become an old husband and wife in the future?"
"Even if I was busy with work before and couldn't make it, at least I should start planning from now on, and push back the unimportant things. Time is squeezed out."
After everyone complained about Ling Changfeng, they turned their finger on Qin Yuan.
"Old Qin, you can't do it either, how can you make the officer so busy that you don't have time to spend your honeymoon now?"
Qin Yuan who got shot inexplicably: "???"
This old man never said before that he would arrange a honeymoon!
Adjutant Qin was bitter, but he couldn't expose his own official in public, so he could only eat Coptis chinensis dumbly, raised his hands in surrender and said, "Okay, okay, it's my fault, I'll arrange it when I get back."
After saying that, he turned his head and blinked at Xu Xinghe: "Is it okay?"
Xu Xinghe: "..."
The honeymoon came too suddenly.
However, thank you, Fang Zhou still has two weeks of honeymoon leave, it seems a bit of a loss if I don't use it.
He thought for a while and nodded silently.
After the appetizers were finished, the hard dishes began.
Xu Xinghe's favorite bluefin tuna in the sashimi platter.
Charcoal-grilled wagyu beef with special teriyaki sauce is also delicious.
Major General Waite picked up the serving chopsticks and gave his wife a piece of beef.
Then ask, "What else do you want to eat?"
Lin Ting picked up a piece of salmon sashimi and looked at Su Lan: "Can you eat these?"
Su Lan shook her head, and said softly: "You can eat it yourself, my allergies are almost cured, but just to be on the safe side, I'd better avoid it for another two days."
Dr. Lu Zimo directly used his chopsticks to block Brigadier Parrish's chopsticks from pinching the sashimi, and instead gave him a piece of braised crocodile tail meat: "Didn't you feel sick to your stomach recently? Eat less seafood, and let them give it to you later." Order a bowl of porridge."
"Okay, okay." Parrish nodded with a smile, and then "reciprocated" a piece of Wagyu: "This is delicious, try this."
As the only single dog in the audience, Major General Qin Yuan Qin, in the loving atmosphere of everyone feeding me a spoon and I feeding you a chopstick, finally couldn't bear to speak.
"What are you doing here? Don't you have any hands? What's the style of pinching around??"
When everyone heard the words, they all cast sympathetic glances.
Except for Ling Changfeng who was still eating seriously without saying a word, the eyes of the others seemed to say: "Look at this sour person, so pitiful."
Qin Yuan: "..."
Fuck! How can this group of people be so tired of eating?
At this moment, he finally felt that his parents were doing well, and decided not to complain about Ling Changfeng's boredom anymore.
What's wrong with being bored? It is a good habit to eat without talking and sleeping without talking, and it also helps digestion!
"Why can't you imitate other people's patriarchal style..." Adjutant Qin was about to preach when he saw Ling Changfeng, the role model in his mind, stretched out his hand and picked up the last piece of bluefin tuna in the sashimi platter——
Put it firmly into the small dish in front of Xu Xinghe.
Then under the shocked eyes of everyone, he said lightly: "I remember you like to eat this, try it."
It was quiet again in the box.
Not only Marshal Ling's old classmates were shocked, even Xu Xinghe, one of the parties involved, was also shocked.
He stared blankly at the tuna meat on the plate, first raised his head and stammered, "Thank you, thank you."
Then he thought for no reason, why did Ling Changfeng suddenly pick up food for himself
Should I also learn to "reciprocate the favor"
Xu Xinghe hesitated for a moment, and finally, because Ling Changfeng brought him out for a big meal, he gave him a piece of soft-boiled abalone, and whispered: "This tastes good too."
Qin Yuan: "???"
what's the situation
It's been a few days since I haven't seen these two people, how did they progress so fast!
By the end of the meal, everyone was already half full, so naturally they were about to start drinking.
General Waite said: "I brought a bottle of wine from home that has been cellared for 70 years. It was produced by the Romani Manor in 259 of the Galaxy Calendar. Come and taste it together?"
Colonel Lin Ting became interested when he heard this: "Let's go! The seventy-year-old wine is older than us, so we must try it!"
Xu Xinghe was originally sucking the red hairy crab matsutake noodles in the bowl, when he heard this, he couldn't help but raise his head.
Seventy years of wine
The best wine I've ever had before was just a bottle of 15-year-old wine, and it was the birthday guest of Vincent, a rich second generation.
You know, no matter how expensive the food is, there is always a price. Even if this meal costs tens of thousands, it is still affordable with his high salary in Ark.
But good wine is priceless. The top vintage wines cost millions of dollars a bottle, and the supply is often in short supply, which he never has the chance to drink normally.
Xu Xinghe's heart suddenly moved.
General Waite asked the waiter to sober up, and turned to his wife, saying, "We drink all on our own accord and within our means. Don't worry, we will never drink too much!"
Mrs. Elizabeth smiled gently, and her voice was gentle: "It's okay, if you drink too much, you can sleep here tonight."
Waite: "..."
He patted his chest and promised: "Absolutely not drunk!"
Lin Ting smiled gloatingly at the side.
The waiter stepped forward and opened the wine carefully.
The moment the wine cap was pulled out, the rich and mellow aroma of wine filled the entire room.
The waiter picked up the wine bottle and began pouring wine for everyone gracefully.
As soon as he walked to Ling Changfeng's side, before he stood still, Marshal Ling said in a calm voice: "No need."
Xu Xinghe silently waited for the waiter to come to him, thinking: As long as the other party asks, I will say "thank you".
As a result, as soon as the waiter opened his mouth, before even making a sound, Ling Changfeng said again: "He doesn't need it either."
Xu Xinghe: "..."
Group leader Xu was indignant: Why did you say no for me!
Reluctantly, Marshal Ling gave an order, and he could only watch helplessly as the seventy-year-old fine wine left him, heartbroken beyond measure, followed the wine bottle all the way with his eyes, but was embarrassed to speak again.
Ling Changfeng looked into his eyes and asked casually, "Want to drink?"
Xu Xinghe: "..."
He struggled for two seconds, and finally overcame his face with eagerness, and whispered sophistry: "I don't want to drink, I just want to taste what it tastes like, I want to explore, not be greedy."
There is no way, after all, after today, you may not be able to drink the fine wine of this year in this life, if you just miss it, it would be a pity.
Seeing him trying to defend himself, a long-lost laughter flashed in his different pupils.
Ling Changfeng raised his head and said to the waiter in a deep voice, "Give him some to taste."
Xu Xinghe was satisfied.
He watched the sweet and mellow wine slowly pouring into his glass, suddenly thought of something, continued to turn sideways, and asked Ling Changfeng in a low voice: "You don't drink any wine?"
Ling Changfeng: "Don't drink."
Xu Xinghe asked curiously: "Why? Are you a bad drinker?"
Ling Changfeng: "General, it's okay."
"Pfft—" Qin Yuan, who was sitting next to Ling Changfeng, finally couldn't help laughing when he heard their conversation up to this point.
"You two over there, what nonsense are you talking about at the party?" General Waite, who was sitting across from him, couldn't help teasing Xu Xinghe and Ling Changfeng when they saw Xu Xinghe whispering to each other.
Then he turned to Qin Yuan and said, "What did you hear so funny? Let's have fun together!"
Ling Changfeng pursed his lips, his expression was cold, and he didn't say a word.
Xu Xinghe replied: "It's nothing, I just want to know how he can drink and why he doesn't drink." As he spoke, he pointed to Ling Changfeng beside him.
Everyone fell silent for the third time.
But this time, Xu Xinghe had to see that two of them were holding back their laughter.
Ling Changfeng's different pupils coldly swept across the audience, and asked expressionlessly, "Is it funny?"
"Pfft ha ha ha ha..." Lin Ting couldn't help it anymore, and said while laughing, "It's not funny, it's not funny at all."
Yitong narrowed his eyes slightly: "It's not funny, why are you laughing?"
"I, I, I... I'm laughing at this dish! Hahahaha, look, this dish looks so funny!" Lin Ting laughed.
Ling Changfeng: "..."
Xu Xinghe: "??"
Seeing everyone's reaction, Xu Xinghe became even more curious.
Hei Mou looked at Ling Changfeng probingly for a moment, then suddenly teased: "From my experience, if a person says his drinking capacity is 'average', it means that his drinking capacity is either very good or bad, and it is likely to be the two. Choose one to go to extremes, there is no such thing as 'make do with it'. According to them, you're not a good drinker, are you?"
Xu Xinghe laughed a bit maliciously, and leaned forward to ask, "How bad is it? One or two bottles of beer should be enough to drink, right?"
After a pause, he asked again: "How are you drunk? You won't be the same as me, right?"
He suddenly thought, if Ling Changfeng looked like a ghost when he was drunk, would he still have the nerve to talk about himself?
Ling Changfeng squinted at Xu Xinghe, his eyes swept over his pale pink lips, for a moment, he suddenly had an urge to shut up this little hedgehog in a special way.
But in front of so many acquaintances here, he finally suppressed this urge.
Marshal Ling lowered his eyes, thinking that he couldn't scare him.
Take your time.
Qin Yuan strained his ears to hear this, and became curious again.
He poked his head around Ling Changfeng and said to Xu Xinghe: "It doesn't mean anything when he's drunk, what do you do when you're drunk?"
Xu Xinghe: "..."
Forget it, let's not continue this topic of drunk or not.
Xu Xinghe picked up the wine glass, shook it lightly, then took a small sip and put it in his mouth.
The wine flowed through the tip of his tongue, and it tasted sweet; when it flowed through the side of his tongue, there was hidden fruit acid; when it flowed to the root of his tongue, it was slightly bitter and strong.
In the end, I drank the wine into my stomach, and my mouth was mellow and sweet.
Xu Xinghe let out a satisfied sigh: "Good wine, really good wine."
Although he doesn't know how to taste wine, he can still drink the basic good or bad.
So I couldn't help but took another sip and asked, "How much is this wine?"
General Waite said: "13 degrees, not spirits."
Xu Xinghe was relieved when he heard that.
Not high, you can continue to drink it!
He also asked Ling Changfeng again: "This alcohol is not high in alcohol, why don't you take a sip and try it?"
Marshal Ling carried out his amazing self-control to the end: "Don't drink."
"Okay." Although Xu Xinghe liked to have dinner and drink, he never persuaded others to drink.
Hearing Ling Changfeng's repeated refusal, he thought he hated drinking, so he didn't mention it, but started drinking again.
Ling Changfeng looked at Xu Xinghe's face that was gradually turning red, hesitated a little between "let it go" and "speak to stop it", and finally reminded him: "Drink less."
"No problem." Xu Xinghe gestured "OK" to him.
Then take another sip.