Chapter 645 - A Dozen Each (2/2)

“Brother Luo, I was only joking. Look at you. Why are you so serious about it?” Ding Kai asked with a frown.

“That’s right, Brother Luo. Don’t you know us by now? We like to kid around. We will settle for ordinary dishes for this dinner. How can we order bear paws and shark fins? Those are fine dining dishes for the extremely affluent,” Zhu Xiaofei smiled. He regretted starting that joke.

“It’s fine. I haven’t had these dishes before. We can try them now!” replied Xiao Luo.

“Young brother, allow me to elaborate on the dishes. What we serve in this restaurant is not bear paws and shark fins. We subst.i.tute the paws with those of other animals and the fins of other fishes. Serving bear paws and shark fins are illegal in the Mei Nation. However, the prices are still pretty steep. A serving of the paw and shark fin each cost about ten thousand bucks. So, even with the fifty percent discount, they would still cost five thousand, respectively,” the restaurant owner explained smilingly.

“That’s okay,” Xiao Luo said.

The restaurant owner asked, “Then shall I tell the kitchen?”

The owner wanted to avoid any possibility of a dine and dash situation by his compatriots, so he confirmed the orders multiple times.

Xiao Luo took a sip of the tea and said, “Yes.”

He then ordered every single specialty dish on the menu, shocking Zhu Xiaofei and the rest of them, as this meal was adding up to be about one hundred and thirty thousand bucks. With the paws and shark fins, this would be the most expensive meal they ever had in their lives.

“Gulp!”

w.a.n.g Ling took a sip of her tea and gulped down with much difficulty. She felt horrified when she saw the receipt showing a long list of dishes.

Zhu Xiaofei was curious and asked, “Brother Luo, did you quit your bodyguard job? Did you become crazy rich in some business?”

Xiao Luo shook his head and smiled. “I didn’t become crazy rich, but I can comfortably spend now. Don’t worry about a few pennies. I am thrilled to have reunited with you guys,” he said.

Did he refer to a hundred and thirty thousand bucks as a few pennies?

Watching how Xiao Luo had casually spent such a sizeable amount of money astounded Zhu Xiaofei, Ding Kai, and w.a.n.g Ling. He had to be extremely wealthy to treat a hundred thousand bucks as mere pennies. Xiao Luo was self-a.s.sured and behaved as if he was born into an affluent family. Though he had brushed off the cost of their meal, they did not feel offended as he did not come across as arrogant.

“Brother Luo, please let me be your employee!”

“I don’t care. Once I have graduated, I will follow your footstep!”

Both Zhu Xiaofei and Ding Kai left their seats and grabbed Xiao Luo by his thigh.

They left Xiao Luo speechless.

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Time flew by as they enjoyed the evening and the merriment of each other’s company. However, Xiao Luo had come to the Mei nation to a.s.sa.s.sinate specific targets, so it was not wise for him to hang out with Zhu Xiaofei and the group. After the dinner ended, he bid them farewell and invited them to visit him in Xiahai whenever they were free.

Huang Ruoran stopped Xiao Luo and asked for a private chat.

Xiao Luo knew that she had a crush on him, and he did not avoid her this time. He wanted to clear things with her. Xiao Luo did not want to lead her on as she was a decent girl. So, he agreed to the chat.

Both of them walked side by side across the lawn of the University of Was.h.i.+ngton. The architecture of the building was mainly Gothic. The Central Plaza, filled with red bricks, was also known as the Red Square, and there a beautiful fountain stood majestically. Up ahead, they could see the scenic view of Mount Rainier. The buildings on the campus resembled castles from fairytales, and its grounds offered a better environment than any local inst.i.tution in the Hua Nation.

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