Seeing everyone taking their seats, Mr. Tang turned around and ordered Tang Yingying: "Yingying, go call your parents over and have dinner together."
"okay!"
Tang Yingying responded and walked towards the kitchen.
Three minutes later, she led her mother, Qiu Maixiang, and father, Tang Jiankai, to sit down at the dining table.
"Tian Xiaohai, why are you here?" Tang Jiankai was greatly surprised by Tian Xiaohai's arrival.
"I called Xiao Hai here. What's wrong? Do you have any opinions?" Mr. Tang put down his chopsticks with a gloomy expression.
"No, no objection! Dad, I just feel it's a bit sudden." Tang Jiankai smiled awkwardly. He picked up a bottle of Maotai next to him and stood up with a smile: "Come on, Dad, I'll pour you some wine!"
"You serve the bar to Master Meng first!" Mr. Tang pointed at Meng Bowen beside him, then nodded to Tian Xiaohai and Meng Rixiang with a smile and said: "You young people, I won't toast you, just feel free to do it."
Meng Rixiang and Tian Xiaohai nodded at the same time.
Tang Jiankai politely poured wine for Meng Bowen. Meng Rixiang wanted to drive, but he said he could not drink.
However, Tian Xiaohai was not polite. He poured a small cup of Maotai into his own cup.
Seeing this, Qiao Maixiang's face darkened slightly.
She remembered that when she went to the hospital to visit her brother last night, Jin Xiaobiao gave two bottles of Maotai to Principal Qiao, and Principal Qiao gave them to Tian Xiaohai. Later, she thought of letting Tian Xiaohai take them home first and then give them to her.
She had forgotten about it, but when she saw Moutai, she remembered it again and asked Tian Xiaohai: "Tian Xiaohai, where are the two bottles of Moutai I asked you to bring back last night? Why didn't you give them to me?
Bring it over?"
"I brought a bottle over, and I gave it to Yingying just now." Tian Xiaohai answered truthfully.
"Mom, I've already put the wine in the wine cabinet." Tang Yingying replied.
"No, there's another bottle left? Didn't I ask you to bring back two bottles of Maotai?" Qiu Maixiang asked Tian Xiaohai with a straight face.
"Aunt, I'm sorry. There is still one bottle left and my dad and I finished it." Tian Xiaohai replied with some embarrassment.
"What? I asked you to bring back the Moutai, and you actually gave it to your father to drink. Tian Xiaohai, are you still shameless?" Qiu Maixiang scolded angrily.
Hearing this, Tang Jiankai gently tugged on the corner of Qiu Maixiang's clothes and whispered: "Mom, forget it, your brother gave this wine to Tian Xiaohai. If it hadn't been for Xiaohai, your brother's injury wouldn't have been that bad."
It’s easy! As a human being, you need to be grateful!”
Upon hearing this, Qiao Maixiang's face immediately darkened.
She hit Tang Jiankai with her elbow: "What are you talking about? My brother can wake up because the doctors at the People's Hospital are good and my brother is lucky. What does it have to do with Tian Xiaohai?"
Mr. Tang couldn't understand what the two of them were talking about, so he said with a gloomy expression, "What on earth is going on? Principal Qiao fell ill last night? Why didn't I know about this?"
No one told Qiao Maixiang that his brother fell down last night. Naturally, they didn't know. They didn't even know that it was Tian Xiaohai who saved Principal Qiao.
"Dad, it's okay. My brother just fell down last night. He's fine now and has been discharged from the hospital." Qiao Maixiang smiled sheepishly and explained to Mr. Tang: "It's a small matter, so I didn't talk to him.
you say."
"Wait a minute, what Jian Kai said just now is that Tian Xiaohai healed Principal Qiao's injury?" Mr. Tang looked at Qiao Maixiang inquiringly.
"No way! He just happened to visit my brother. At that time, my brother had just been rescued by the doctor. He was confused and mistakenly recognized the wrong person. He thought Tian Xiaohai was the doctor who treated him." Qiao Maixiang
Explained with a smile.
"That's right!" Mr. Tang nodded and didn't ask any more questions. But he had a new view of Tian Xiaohai in his heart.
Qiu Maixiang glared at Tian Xiaohai hatefully.
Tian Xiaohai didn't want to get entangled in this matter. He picked up the wine glass with a smile, paused the glass towards Mr. Tang, Meng Bowen and others and said: "Come on, come on, drink!"
Seeing this, Meng Rixiang glanced at Tian Xiaohai with a sneer: "Mr. Tian, you must not have eaten out often! Drinking is not your way. There is something special about it. Only elders or leaders can do it.
You have the right to call others to drink. For juniors or people of low status, you can only toast or invite someone to drink. It is quite impolite to pick up the cup and sit at the wine table."
"Sorry, I'm a rough guy. I don't know much about wine culture. I made everyone laugh." Tian Xiaohai smiled and nodded.
"You want to get rid of me just because you don't understand the culture of drinking? That's not possible!" Meng Bowen also smiled and added: "Young man, if you are really sincere, then punish yourself with three drinks!"
"Xiaohai, it's true that you were wrong this time, and you should be punished with three drinks." Mr. Tang smiled and nodded, then winked at Tang Yingying and said, "Come on, Yingying pours wine for Xiaohai."
"Ah...Okay!" Tang Yingying felt a hundred reluctances in her heart, but the old man had already spoken, so she had no choice but to agree.
"Okay, then I'll punish myself with three drinks!" Tian Xiaohai readily agreed. With my future sister-in-law pouring wine and Maotai drinking, it's no problem to punish me with ten drinks.
Qiu Maixiang on the side gnashed her teeth with hatred when she saw it, and cursed in her heart: Tian Xiaohai, a country bumpkin, didn't know what kind of enchantment he had used to charm the old man, and actually asked my Yingying to pour wine for this poor guy, and even drank.
Maotai. Why doesn’t he go to heaven?
Tian Xiaohai raised his long neck and took a sip of a glass, while Tang Yingying poured the wine aside, full of resentment in her heart.
She secretly thought: It would be great if this guy was drunk, it would be better to make him look ugly.
After three cups of Maotai, Tian Xiaohai smacked his lips with enjoyment: "It smells so good!"
Seeing this, a hint of pride flashed across the corner of Meng Bowen's mouth. He raised his glass with a smile and said, "Come on, may I ask this little brother his name? I, Meng Bowen, am willing to make you my friend. Done!"
After saying that, he picked up the wine glass and drank it in one gulp.
"Just call me Tian Xiaohai." Tian Xiaohai also finished a cup happily, then picked up a piece of beef jerky with his chopsticks and started to nibble on it.
"Wait a minute! Tian Xiaohai, my grandfather's generation is much higher than yours. According to the custom of our county, if the elders toast to the younger ones, they will get double portions in return." Meng Rixiang smiled and said to Tian Xiaohai.
Hearing this, Mr. Tang's face darkened slightly. He had a vague feeling that the grandfather and grandson deliberately wanted to get Tian Xiaohai drunk. You must know that this is Maotai with more than 50 degrees! Double the amount of wine, keep going like this
, who can bear it?
He opened his mouth and was about to persuade.
Not wanting to, Tian Xiaohai picked up the wine glass with a smile and replied cheerfully: "Okay, double portion is double portion! However, I want to ask Master Meng, is it true that as long as I am willing to toast you, you are willing to accompany me all the time?"
Drink!"
"Haha! Of course, young man, this is the best thing I, Meng Bowen, have in my life. It seems you have a good drinking capacity! Come, let's drink three glasses first." Meng Bowen picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.
"Refreshing, three cups are enough."
Tian Xiaohai picked up the empty cup, nodded and smiled at Tang Yingying on the side: "Yingying pour the wine!"
Tang Yingying curled her lips and reluctantly filled Tian Xiaohai's glass of wine.
Meng Rixiang, who was on the opposite side, smiled proudly and deliberately reminded Tian Xiaohai: "Mr. Tian, don't forget, you have to pay back double the amount! It's six cups, not three. Be careful with your stomach!"
"It's okay, drink slowly, don't be in a hurry!" Tian Xiaohai smiled disapprovingly. He picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.
Qiao Maixiang on the side cursed in her heart: This poor boy is afraid of being reincarnated as a starving ghost. He dares to love Moutai for free! He is not afraid of getting drunk, and I still feel sorry for my wine!
Watching Tian Xiaohai pour cup after cup of Maotai into her mouth, her heart ached. That was Maotai worth thousands of dollars a bottle!