“I’m afraid some dishes sound good but don’t taste good.” Luo Chen shook his head.
Seeing the atmosphere was off, the others also stopped interrupting.
Li Jiayi grew increasingly disappointed with Luo Chen.
She opened her mouth wanting to say something, but was pulled by Li Yingying.
Instead Shen Junze spoke.
“Jiayi, when looking for a boyfriend in the future, you should find someone on the same living level. You cannot have too great a gap, otherwise it will feel like living in two different worlds, without even common topics.” Shen Junze’s words were of course still aimed at someone.
Li Jiayi sighed. Indeed, Shen Junze’s words were not wrong. Li Yingying had been trying to bring her and Luo Chen together, but now she felt Shen Junze suited her better.
For example, now at this meal, Luo Chen actually shouted about eating steamed buns. Was this not ridiculous?
They were simply not on the same living standard and level.
Luo Chen’s world probably only remained at that kind of ordinary common people’s living standard. It was truly not the same world as their kind of life growing up in luxury.
How could you spend your whole life with such people?
“Let’s agree first today, my mum has no money. Everyone pays for their own meal, AA.” Luo Chen suddenly spoke.
Here his mother was the eldest. After finishing eating later, it would definitely be his mother who had to pay. But Shen Yuelan had no money, so it would still fall on him in the end.
But Luo Chen did not want to pay to treat Shen Junze to a meal. He would not treat Shen Junze to so much as a steamed bun.
When Luo Chen said this, everyone had no objections.
Only Li Jiayi shook her head. She did not think Luo Chen was stingy, but rather that Luo Chen truly might be reluctant to treat them to a meal here. After all, this money was not ordinarily expensive.
The waiter quickly brought the menu.
Everyone looked and was somewhat dumbfounded. Even Li Jiayi and Shen Junze were somewhat dumbfounded.
Because this menu was entirely in French!
Normally speaking they should not be unable to recognise it, but Li Jiayi truly had not studied French. She also came to French restaurants extremely rarely. Even if she had gone, those were half baked French restaurants with Chinese menus.
This was the first time seeing a menu entirely in French, without even pictures.
And although Shen Junze counted as a young master of the Shen family, his situation was similar to Li Jiayi’s. If it were English that would be fine, but this French, who would bother learning this stuff?
Instead Luo Chen very casually pointed at several dishes. Those dishes were all ones Shen Yuelan liked to eat.
“Little Chen, Auntie doesn’t recognise it. Can you help Auntie look?” Li Yingying watched Luo Chen ordering with such apparent confidence, and immediately turned her gaze to Luo Chen.
“Auntie, what do you want to eat? I’ll introduce it to you.” Luo Chen nodded.
“Hmph.” Shen Junze suddenly sneered.
“Auntie, don’t count on him. I estimate he also can’t understand. Look at him ordering, he’s only ordering the cheap ones, not touching the expensive ones at all.”
When Shen Junze said this, everyone looked and it was true. The dish prices on this menu were somewhat expensive.
One dish several hundred pounds, the most expensive over five thousand pounds.
The few dishes Luo Chen just ordered were indeed dishes of one or two hundred pounds.
Luo Chen did not explain, simply helping Li Yingying order a set of the dishes he ordered for Shen Yuelan.
“Jiayi, none of us understand, why don’t you let Little Chen…”
“Mum, forget it. I’ll let Brother Junze order for me.” Li Jiayi rejected Li Yingying’s proposal.
She did not want to lose face even eating a meal.
“Brother Junze should recognise it. After all his living standard is so high.” Li Jiayi praised.
“Of course, Auntie Yingying, I am after all the chairman of a listed company. Normally my living standard is so high. Can ordering a few dishes stump me?”
“I am not like a certain person, who only dares to order the cheapest when not recognising it.” Shen Junze spoke arrogantly.
Luo Chen still did not speak, but when looking at Shen Yuelan’s gaze, Shen Yuelan always felt this boy seemed to be brewing some bad idea.
“That’s right. How can you, Young Master Shen, eating a meal compare with us small common people?” Luo Chen finally still said this sentence.
“Waiter, I want these three most expensive dishes, and the lady beside me too.” Shen Junze spoke arrogantly, and beckoned to the waiter.
“Young Master Shen, if you can’t understand, you’d best ask the waiter.” Luo Chen said leaning back in his chair.
“I can’t understand?” Shen Junze smiled disdainfully.
“Rather it’s you, don’t pretend to understand when you don’t. I am after all the young master of the Shen family.”
The waiter was originally busy on the other side. Seeing Shen Junze beckoning to her, she walked over.
“Sir, you want?” The waiter’s Chinese was clearly somewhat poor.
“These three dishes!” Shen Junze pointed at the most expensive dishes on the menu, also the topmost three dishes. Those three dishes were clearly very special, separated by a rose pattern from the dishes below.
He also did not recognise French, but it did not matter. He had money, he could order the most expensive.
The three dishes were five thousand, two thousand, one thousand pounds respectively.
These three dishes added up to nearly one hundred thousand yuan.
The waiter cast a surprised look at Shen Junze.
“Sir, you are sure?”
“Do you want me to help you introduce…”
“No need, I can understand it myself.”
“Are you afraid I have no money?” Shen Junze spoke dissatisfied.
“The lady beside me is the same.” Shen Junze pointed at Li Jiayi.
“Very well, sir you truly have taste.” The waiter collected the menu and left.
“Brother Junze, won’t those dishes be too expensive?” Li Jiayi suddenly spoke.
Three dishes nearly one hundred thousand. This price was somewhat…
“Sometimes when eating, expensive has its expensive reasoning. Although expensive is not necessarily the best, but whatever is good is certainly very expensive.” Shen Junze spoke.
“And rest assured, your Brother Junze has plenty of money. This little bit of money is no hindrance. Eating a meal must be eaten happily, eaten with taste.” Shen Junze folded his arms, his face full of arrogance.
“How can one see what’s cheap and order it? Who knows what will be served later?”
“If it turns out inedible, then that would be…” Shen Junze deliberately spoke with deep meaning, clearly still mocking Luo Chen.
“Young Master Shen has such boldness, such taste.” Luo Chen smiled.
But Shen Yuelan kept feeling something was off, for she noticed this boy Luo Chen seemed to be trying his utmost to stop himself from laughing.
Very quickly a dining cart was pushed over. Lifting the cover, there was French red wine foie gras, French snails, and Persian lobster etc. These were all dishes Shen Yuelan loved to eat.
Luo Chen still remembered when he ate with Shen Yuelan back then, the dishes Shen Yuelan ordered.
Shen Yuelan looked at Luo Chen somewhat surprised. How did this son of hers know she liked these dishes?
And after a few more minutes, amid the soothing music, Li Yingying’s several dishes were also served.
Then after waiting five minutes, it was Luo Chen’s dishes. Luo Chen had casually ordered several snacks, Saint Jacques scallops, French pan fried turbot etc.
Then after five minutes, Shen Junze and Li Jiayi’s dishes still had not come.
After another five minutes, still nothing.
“Don’t worry, good dishes may require very slow preparation.”
Only Luo Chen was holding back a secret laugh the entire time.
Finally, after another three minutes, Shen Junze could no longer contain himself.
“Waiter, why have our dishes still not come?” Shen Junze spoke dissatisfied.
Then the waiter walked over looking at Shen Junze utterly confused. “Sir, the things you two ordered have already been served!”