Chapter 21 On the Battle of Eating and Drinking(1/2)
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After everyone tasted the dishes for a while, in order to curry favor with Mrs. Hao and to be able to interact with the Hao family in the future, Zhang Xueru said to Mrs. Hao in an obvious complimentary tone:
"Sister Liu, your skills are really good. The dishes you cook are higher than those in star-rated hotels!"
"Oh, I dare not, I will make you laugh. Come on, since you think it tastes delicious, everyone should eat more. Hey, Liping, you should eat more."
Seeing that Liping had been blushing and did not dare to look up, she didn't eat much, so she picked up a piece of braised pork and put it in Liping's bowl, and looked at her affectionately.
"Thank you aunt!"
Liping quickly nodded and thanked Mrs. Hao.
"Uncle Zhang, I have something I want to tell you, but I don't know whether to say it or not?"
After Hao Min waited for everyone to eat the dishes for a while, he wanted to have a drink again, so he looked at Zhang Xueru inquiry.
"Hao Min, just say something. This is in your house. What else can you say if you don't say it?"
Zhang Xueru answered.
"Look, at the beginning, Meng and I gave you a cup together. Just now, I gave you another cup. Now, should Meng and I give you a cup alone?"
As he said that, Hao Min winked at Meng.
"Oh, yes, Uncle Zhang, Liping is a girl. We can't force her not drinking alcohol; she doesn't drink alcohol in order to maintain her figure, and we can't force her. Now, we can only toast you. Hao Min is right. He just toasted you alone just now, and now I should toast you alone!"
Mengdu admired Liping's blushing face and said considerate Liping's words, while raising his wine glass to Zhang Xueru.
"Okay, thank you, Mengdu, come, let's have a drink together."
Seeing that the mayor's son toasted him, Zhang Xueru wanted to have a close relationship with him and wanted to toast to him, but he was really worried that he would lose his composure after drinking too much, so he quickly stood up and wanted to do something perfunctory.
"No, no, Uncle Zhang, you are an elder, why can you only drink one sip? You have to toast! Otherwise, it is my dishonestness to you."
Mengdu immediately shook his head and expressed his objection.
"No, Mengdu, didn't you say it just now? My alcohol content is limited. After having that glass of wine with Hao Min, I really can't drink more."
Zhang Xueru still dared not accept Mengdu's toast.
"How about that,"
Perhaps in order to show respect for her father in front of Liping, Meng turned to Hao Min and said,
"Hao Min, you can tell me a joke about drinking. If everyone laughs after they finish, Uncle Zhang will dry the wine in the glass; if everyone doesn't laugh at the joke you said, you will kill the wine for Uncle Zhang! Uncle Zhang, do you think this is OK?"
"Oh, this-ok?"
Zhang Xueru didn't know what kind of jokes Hao Min would say, nor did he know whether he would laugh after listening to the jokes, so he said vaguely without comment.
"Okay, since Dreams have given the highest instructions, I'll just say a joke about drinking."
Hao Min closed her eyes, thought for a moment, gently cleared her throat, and said seriously:
"Now, I will read Uncle Zhang a passage on the 'On the War of Drinking'."
"Hey, no! Hao Min, what did you say just now? 'On the War of Drinking'? It should be "On the Protracted War", right? The persistence of persistence and long-lasting 'long' was a famous article during the War of Resistance."
Zhang Xueru thought Hao Min was wrong and corrected him immediately.
"Uncle Zhang, what I am talking about is not "On Protracted War", it is indeed "On the War of Wine"! "Eating" for eating and drinking. Now, aren't we eating?"
Hao Min took some playful points to Zhang Xueru.
"Oh, yes, we're having wine."
Zhang Xueru was confused and nodded mistyly.
"Please listen, 'On the War of Drinking',"
Hao Min cleared her throat again and started reciting seriously:
"Wine is like water in a bottle. It's haunted in the stomach. When you speak, you're talking and goofy, you're shiver when you walk. When you get up in the middle of the night, you regret it when you get up in the morning. When you pick up the wine glass at noon, you're still pretty!"
"Hahahaha! Xiao Hao, you are really good at telling jokes."
As soon as Hao Min finished speaking, Zhang Xueru was amused by him.
"Okay, Mengdu, how about it? Uncle Zhang is already laughing. Should he toast?"
Seizing the opportunity, Hao Min immediately signaled Mengdu to persuade him to cheer Zhang Xueru.
"Yes, Uncle Zhang, we just said that after Hao Min said the joke, if everyone laughed, you will kill the glass of wine. If everyone didn't laugh, Hao Min would cheer on you. Now everyone is laughing, Uncle Zhang, can you cheer?"
Meng never missed the opportunity to persuade Zhang Xueru to drink, and while urging him to drink, he took the initiative to raise his glass and said:
"Uncle Zhang, I'm just toasting you this glass of wine. I'll do it first." As he said that, he looked up and fucked his own glass.
"Oh, okay, okay! Do it, I'll do it!"
Zhang Xueru had never seen such a scene in the past. He was amused by the two young men for a moment and couldn't help but raise his cup and fuck him.
"Look, Uncle Zhang is indeed a huge number!"
Hao Min said, then picked up the bottle and refilled the three of them.
"Okay, okay, don't add too much. If you drink it, I'll really pour it!"
While Zhang Xueru made a gesture of stopping Hao Min from adding wine, he allowed Hao Min to fill his cup.
At this moment, perhaps because of the fact that Zhang Xueru's drinking was mobilized, and his words and deeds had shown a greed for alcohol.
"Uncle Zhang, actually, I haven't finished my joke just now!"
After Hao Min finished drinking for the three of them, he glanced at Meng, as if asking for his opinion.
Seeing Meng nodding at him, she continued to say to Zhang Xueru:
"Let's do this, Uncle Zhang, I'll finish the following joke. If everyone doesn't laugh, I'll have three drinks! If everyone laughs, you and Meng will have one drink each! OK?"
"Okay, I agree!"
Mengdu immediately raised his hand to agree, and looked at Zhang Xueru and said:
"Uncle Zhang, what do you think? Let's let him continue to talk. If everyone stops laughing, he will have to have three drinks in a row! Even if we laugh, we only need to have one drink. This is a business that only makes money but not loses!"
"That--?"
Zhang Xueru felt that this seemed unfair to Hao Min, so he looked at Mrs. Hao and asked:
"Sister Liu, look, is this OK?"
"Zhang Shifu, you guys are having a drink, just say yes!"
Mrs. Hao knew her son and was full of confidence in his ability to tell jokes, so she smiled and replied to Zhang Xueru.
"Okay, then please let Hao Min continue."
Seeing that Mrs. Hao agreed, Zhang Xueru agreed readily.
"Okay, then I'll say it!"
Hao Min smiled proudly and continued:
"Drinking is a special war without gunpowder in peacetime. Its cost, great casualties, and tragic scenes are no less than a nuclear war. It often kills one thousand enemies, hurts eight hundred themselves, or dies on the other hand. This kind of war mainly develops between relatives and friends, and directly attacks the opponent's liver, kidney, gastrointestinal and other key parts in a singing and laughing manner.
During the wine war, the two sides of the war took the guidelines of "deep feelings, one mouthful of stuffy, iron of emotions, and vomiting blood". Taking "It is better to let the stomach penetrate a hole instead of letting the emotions break a crack" as the breakthrough point, "If you don't drink, I don't drink, our feelings will fall" as the focus point, and "If you don't drink, I don't drink, our feelings will fall" as the support point, and adopting powerful public opinion offensives such as "Wine style, wine tastes like character, and alcohol content is like courage" to paralyze the central nervous system, destroy the will to resist, eliminate the fear, and make the person who raises the glass look dead as if he's home. The deeper the feelings, the more injured it is, and even sacrifice.
This kind of war originated from ancient times and flourished in the present. It is the most humane form of war in ancient times, both at home and abroad. It is often "fighting repeatedly and defeating repeatedly, and fighting repeatedly", and is enjoying it.
When drinking the first round of wine, whisper softly; when drinking the second round of wine, whisper boldly; when drinking the third round of wine, whisper nonsense; after drinking the fourth round of wine, silence! Ah—!"
After saying that, Hao Min closed her eyes, fell down on the chair, leaned her head on the back of the chair, and looked unconscious after being drunk.
"Hahahahahahahaha! Has Hao Min been a TV actor as well?"
When Zhang Xueru listened to Hao Min's recitation, he was full of emotion and resoundingly when he leaned towards the chair. When he remembered the introduction he said that he was always dreaming of being an amateur actor, he asked with a laugh.
"Okay! Mengdu, Uncle Zhang laughed! It's time for you two to toast!"
Hao Min immediately jumped up from the chair and seized the opportunity to drink with Zhang Xueru.
"Then——Uncle Zhang, you did laugh just now. But I laughed too. Let's keep our word and have a drink together?"
Mengdu asked Zhang Xueru in a very respectful tone.
"Okay, let's have a drink!"
Zhang Xueru opened his eyes today and also became a foreigner.
Seeing that the two cadres respected him so much, he began to fantasize in his heart that Liping might become the mayor's daughter-in-law!
Thinking of this, the happier he felt. He no longer considered the problem of losing his composure by drinking too much. He raised his glass and drank it in one go.
Mengdu and Hao Min also raised their respective wine glasses and their mouths were dry very quickly.
"Uncle Zhang, it's great to drink with you. Today, you must drink it until you get drunk!"
Hao Min immediately added wine to the three of them.
"Hao Min, I really didn't expect that there would be so many people saying drinks in your city. To be honest, Uncle Zhang has never heard of the jokes he just said in his life!"
Zhang Xueru drank strongly and took advantage of the rising alcoholism and began to talk to Hao Min.
To be continued...