As Li Zeyu was talking, the waiter brought ice cubes. Li Zeyu put a small bucket of ice cubes in front of Jason and Mark. When he saw Mark holding a foreign wine bottle and looking at it seriously, he couldn't help but laugh, "Brother Mark, what are you looking at?"
What? Why, the foreign wine in China is stronger than the wine you have abroad? If it doesn’t work, why don’t you add some ice cubes?”
"It doesn't matter if it's mixed with ice or not. When I drink with my friends in the United States, I often drink without ice. I'm just curious about the brand of this foreign wine. It looks a bit familiar, but something is different. Johnniewalker, this is a word-of-mouth reputation all over the world.
It’s a good brand. Look at the packaging. I don’t know the Chinese characters. What do these words mean?”
Mark pointed to the four words on the bottle of foreign wine and asked. Li Zeyu didn't even need to read it. He was the manager of a hot pot restaurant, and the wine was purchased from his uncle's shop. He knew the name of the foreign wine very well, "I don't even know the name of the foreign wine."
I don’t know how to pronounce it, but I only know that this wine is called Johnnie Walker, and Brother Peng’s brother-in-law is a provincial agent, and the sales are very good.”
"Dapeng's uncle is working as a provincial agent? Maybe I'm overthinking it. I've never seen Johnnie Walker print the words of other countries on the brand packaging. I'm curious, very curious."
Mark is doing experimental research, so he is very curious and thirsty for knowledge. When he encounters unclear things, he likes to ask for the most reasonable explanation as much as possible. However, when he heard that Shen Dapeng’s uncle was the agent, he
Try to suppress your strong curiosity.
No matter how Shen Dapeng treats him, Mark thinks that he is just a foreigner who has just arrived after all. He cannot and has no reason to point fingers at Shen Dapeng's family affairs. The most important thing is that he just likes to drink with friends to relieve his boredom in the United States.
A person who specializes in the foreign wine business will also be afraid that he will say the wrong thing or do the wrong thing.
"Johnnie Walker? A world-famous brand? If my uncle can win the provincial agent, wouldn't it be a great development?" Shen Dapeng couldn't help but pick up the foreign wine bottle and play with it in his hands. To be honest, he didn't understand foreign wine either, but
The shape and packaging of the wine bottle looked pretty good, similar to what he remembered from his previous life.
"Hmm, it's indeed a good brand. Maybe this wine is specifically aimed at the tastes of people in your country. It's a little too strong, but... you can drink bottle after bottle of liquor, which is not too much for you.
point."
Mark smiled easily and turned his attention to the light green Bamboo Leaf Green in Qu Yina's wine glass, "They drink it called Bamboo Leaf Green? The color looks pretty, I want to try it too."
"Okay, you can drink whatever you want, but once you enter this room, you can't leave without getting drunk."
Sun Dapaozi quickly opened another bucket of bamboo leaf green, filled it for Mark, and brought the foreign wine in front of him, "You don't want to drink foreign wine, leave it to me and Tang Wei, we both like it."
"No matter what everyone is drinking, please fill up the cup."
Tang Wei arranged for everyone to fill up their wine glasses, and everyone ate, drank, chatted, and gradually got into the high mood of a gathering of friends.
Shen Dapeng also drank a lot of wine, but his eyes always glanced at the bottle of foreign wine on the table. In his previous life, he lived in the capital and drank red wine and foreign wine, but he really rarely had the opportunity to enter high-end occasions, let alone
He had never attended any high-end banquets and dances, and his deepest impression of foreign wine was still in the realm of round bottles xo, but at this time, the more he looked at the Chinese characters on the brand labels, the more awkward he felt.
He has never seen any foreign wine brand with Chinese characters printed on it. Is it, as Mark said, a wine specially designed to take care of the taste of the Chinese people? Or is it a domestic agent trying to increase the domestic people's awareness of the brand?
, a brand tag that is optionally added?
Or...
Shen Dapeng was lost in thought when his sight was suddenly blocked by a bottle of gold. Then came Sun Dapaozi's extremely excited voice, "Brother Peng, you have to have a correct attitude when drinking. What are you always thinking about absentmindedly? This bottle of foreign wine is empty.
Why are you looking at it? I've changed the beer, come on, I'll pour it for you."
"Yes." When Shen Dapeng nodded, the wine glass was filled again. He listened to Tang Wei and Sun Dapaozi's various orders to persuade them to drink, and they accompanied him absentmindedly and boredly.
Shen Dapeng is not sure whether wine is a good thing or not. Wine can refresh people when they are excited, can drown sorrows when people are heartbroken, and can enhance and shorten the relationship between people at the drinking table. But no matter what,
, he really can't be overly interested in wine. Whether he drinks or not depends entirely on his mood.
After a meal, we ate, drank, chatted and made noise. Two hours passed not too slowly. Two bottles of foreign wine, two bamboo tubes of green bamboo leaves, and a whole box of beer were all gone in a matter of seconds.
Except for Tang Wei and Sun Dapaozi, who have an unusually high capacity for drinking, everyone was in pretty good condition. Their faces were all red, like cooked crabs, especially Qu Yina's big eyes, which were flushed red.
The bloodshot eyes, like a rabbit with red eyes, directly exposed the upper limit of her drinking capacity.
After coming out of the Little Lotus Pond Hotpot, Li Zeyu staggered towards his little Xiali without thinking. As soon as he opened the car door, Shen Dapeng appeared beside him at the right time, "You are not allowed to drive after drinking, it is too dangerous."
Li Zeyu looked at the time, smiled awkwardly and waved his hand, "It's okay, it's already ten o'clock, and there are no people on the roads in the county. In the past, there might have been taxis running the night shift, but now they are all on strike. I'm afraid there are no cars on the road.
They are all rare.”
"That won't work either." Shen Dapeng wanted to take a taxi just a moment ago, but after Li Zeyu reminded him, he remembered the taxi strike. Normally, he never thought about how much impact the suspension of taxi operations would have. He would only consider it important when needed.
Looking back, Wang Yuying was also drunk and half-squinting her eyes. The car must not be driven. In the end, there was no other way, so she had to find three waiters in the store who could drive and send everyone back to the hotel.
Sun Dapaozi and Li Zeyu seemed to have not finished drinking, so they asked the hotel front desk to order skewers and beer, and happily went back to the room to continue singing while drinking.
Shen Dapeng kept fussing for a while. Seeing that it was almost eleven o'clock, in the middle of the night, he didn't want to go home and bother his parents, so he could only stay in the hotel for one night. However, since he went home to visit relatives during the Chinese New Year, there were more people visiting, and the county was busy.
There is only Yuanmeng, a relatively high-end hotel, so the rooms are already full.
Helplessly, Shen Dapeng lived in the same room as Mark and Jason. Fortunately, Mark and Jason's rooms were suites, so Shen Dapeng didn't even have a bed to sleep on.
After Jason returned to the room, he fell asleep. Shen Dapeng and Mark were still awake, lying on the bed and watching the reruns of the Spring Festival Gala on TV. Mark couldn't understand many of the programs, but he still watched them with gusto.