tkworld Chapter 332 The county town's grand restaurant is deserted; all the relatives from the village
Chapter 332 The county town's grand restaurant is deserted; all the relatives from the village
Triumph Grand Restaurant.
Jiang Jianye looked at the time on his phone; it was already 12:30.
The entire banquet hall remained empty, so quiet that you could hear your own heartbeat.
He couldn't sit still any longer. His face was as black as the bottom of a pot. He paced anxiously at the door, his cheap suit soaked with sweat.
"They've rebelled! They've all fucking rebelled!"
He was trembling with anger. He took out his phone, opened the family group chat, found Jiang Jianping's number, and dialed it.
He refused to believe that even an honest man like Jiang Jianping wouldn't give him face!
The phone rang several times before it was answered.
"Feed? Jian... Brother Jianye... What's up?"
Jiang Jianping's honest voice came through the receiver, but it sounded somewhat muffled.
The background noise was also interspersed with chewing sounds and loud commotion.
"Jiang Jianping!"
Jiang Jianye practically shouted it out.
"What the hell time is it?! Why aren't you here yet?! Don't you even respect me as your brother?!"
There was a two-second silence on the other end of the phone.
Immediately following, accompanied by Jiang Jianping's satisfied sigh, came an even louder sound of tearing into a crab leg.
"Oh dear! Brother Jianye, I'm so... so sorry..."
"My...my old sow is suddenly about to give birth, and I really can't leave..."
"Listen to her, she's still humming..."
Jiang Jianping finished speaking.
Sure enough, a series of "huffing and puffing" sounds came from the other end of the phone.
But the sound didn't sound like a pig squeal at all; it sounded more like someone who had eaten too much and was burping.
"you……"
Jiang Jianye was so angry he almost couldn't catch his breath.
He hung up the phone and then called several more of his relatives.
The replies were varied, but all surprisingly consistent!
"Brother Jianye, my stomach hurts, I'm getting an IV drip at the clinic!"
In the background, someone shouted, "Come on! I'll down this glass of Moutai, you can drink as you like!"
"Uncle, my...my wife and I are arguing, and she won't let me go out!"
In the background, someone urges, "Honey! Hurry! Peel another lobster for me!"
"Brother, my...my cow is missing! I've been searching the whole mountain for it!"
In the background, someone shouted, "Don't move! That Wagyu beef is mine!"
One excuse after another, utterly perfunctory.
Accompanied by the smacking sounds of chewing lobster and gnawing on crab legs.
They were like resounding slaps across the telephone line, striking Jiang Jianye's face hard!
"Ughhhhh! I'm so angry!"
Jiang Jianye finally couldn't hold back anymore.
Like an enraged bull, he slammed his phone to the ground.
The screen shattered into pieces immediately!
"I'm not eating! Damn it! Let whoever wants this tattered mat eat it!"
He grabbed Zhang Guifang and Jiang Sisi, who were still in a daze beside him.
"Come on! Come back to the village with me! I want to see which bastard is behind this! I'll flip their table!"
The family of three stormed downstairs in a menacing manner.
Jiang Jianye stepped on the gas, and his dilapidated Wuling Hongguang roared under the strain as it sped back towards Jiangjia Village!
. . .
Forty minutes later.
When his beat-up car had just arrived at the entrance of Jiangjia Village.
The family of three was completely stunned by the scene before them, which was a hundred times more extravagant than an international food festival.
In the huge courtyard of the village committee, there were hundreds of large red round tables that stretched from inside the courtyard all the way to the road outside, seemingly endless!
A huge crowd! Every seat was taken!
The air was filled with an incredibly rich and domineering aroma of meat and seafood, almost tangible!
Every table was piled high with red seafood, some of which they had rarely even seen on television, and some were as tall as small mountains!
The scene was extravagant! Stunning! Extravagant!
Jiang Jianye's eyes widened immediately, and he stopped breathing.
He pushed open the car door forcefully and rushed into the courtyard, looking utterly dejected.
He saw it at a glance!
He saw a person at the table where the crowd was densest.
That person was his wife Zhang Guifang's maternal uncle, and the elder he had specifically called that morning to remind him to arrive early.
At this moment, he was holding a king crab leg that was thicker than Jiang Jianye's arm in one hand and a shiny roast suckling pig in the other.
He ate with both hands, his mouth greasy with oil, thoroughly enjoying himself!
Jiang Jianye felt all the blood rush to his head!
He rushed over in a huff, pointing at his uncle, his voice trembling with anger.
"Uncle! What...what are you doing here! Why didn't you go to the county town!"
The uncle was enjoying his meal when he was interrupted, and he looked up with a displeased expression.
When he saw it was Jiang Jianye, he didn't even bother to stand up.
He just rolled his eyes and pointed with the crab leg in his hand at the plate of garlic Boston lobster on the table, which was bigger than a washbasin.
"Go to your place? Your few plates of bland soup can't possibly smell as good as this!"
After saying that, the uncle curled his lip in disdain.
"Besides, can your seats provide as much as these king crab legs?"
These words, though not spoken in a loud voice, sounded like a deafening roar!
The previously noisy banquet immediately fell silent.
The entire village of over a thousand people stopped eating, turned around in unison, and stared at Jiang Jianye and his family, who were standing there blushing, as if watching a monkey show.
Those thousands of gazes were filled with mockery, ridicule, and pity!
Jiang Jianye felt as if he had been stripped naked and thrown out into the street, so ashamed that he wanted to crawl into a hole in the ground!
Just then.
Jiang Chen, carrying a white porcelain wine glass, walked over from the main table with unhurried steps.
He wore a faint smile, seemingly oblivious to everything that was happening before his eyes.
"Hey, Uncle, you're back just in time!"
Jiang Chen's voice sounded exceptionally clear in the quiet courtyard.
"We've only eaten halfway through, would you like the chef to bring you another pair of chopsticks?"
As he spoke, Jiang Chen pointed to the plate of sea cucumbers on the table next to him, which were simmered in a top-quality broth and were thicker than an adult's arm.
"This braised sea cucumber with scallions tastes pretty good, the cooking time is just right, you should like it."
Jiang Jianye's gaze was fixed on the plate of braised sea cucumbers with scallions, which glistened enticingly in the sunlight, and then he glanced at the faces of the surrounding villagers who were trying to suppress their laughter.
He felt as if his face had been rubbed hard a hundred times with sandpaper!
It hurts like fire!
His already dark face suddenly turned a deep liver color, and then a purple color, even redder than the lobster on the table!