In the years of famine, I led a comfortable life with my husband

"You don't have to worry about me. I'm just old and have too many things to worry about lately. That's why I have a poor appetite." Meng's mother couldn't eat because she missed her son, but she didn't want to make the two worry, so she lied that she was just overtired.

"Let me prepare for the New Year's Eve, Mom. The most important thing for you now is to have a good rest." Su Zhizhi took the initiative to let Meng's mother rest while she figured out how to make arrangements for the New Year.

"How about we celebrate the New Year's Eve in a restaurant?" Suddenly Su Zhizhi had a good suggestion to celebrate the New Year's Eve in a restaurant.

Xie Chengjin also thought this was a great idea and nodded in approval: "We can save a lot of trouble by celebrating the New Year in a restaurant. This way we can have a reunion dinner together."

"Peizhi, no matter how busy the family is, we must go to the reunion dinner together, do you hear me?" Su Zhizhi specifically reminded Su Peizhi to be present, otherwise Meng's mother would definitely be unhappy.

"I promised you that I would have a reunion dinner with you after I'm done with my work." Su Peizhi also tried his best to go to the restaurant to spend the New Year's Eve.

Hearing that Su Peizhi could still have the reunion dinner with her, Meng's mother finally smiled: "That's great, I'll use yours and we'll go to the restaurant to celebrate the New Year together."

"Let's go, let's go choose a restaurant now."

The two of them chose a restaurant in advance and planned to book a good private room so that the whole family could sit together and have a reunion dinner.

"This restaurant is the most famous restaurant in Beijing. Let's go in." Xie Chengjin specially brought Su Zhizhi to the number one restaurant in Beijing.

The restaurant owner saw Xie Chengjin coming and noticed that he was dressed so well, so he reserved a good private room for him to curry his favor. He said, "I heard you wanted to book a restaurant. Our restaurant is the best choice for the New Year. We have reserved the most expensive room for you. We will definitely satisfy you."

"Yeah!" Xie Chengjin ignored him and just nodded from beginning to end without saying anything.

"Let's go with this one." Xie Chengjin decided after just one look.

No matter how the restaurant owner tried to please Xie Chengjin, he ignored him the entire time.

He always looks like he doesn't want anyone to approach him, and he seems very aloof.

After the two men left, Xie Chengjin's indifferent reaction made the hotel owner jealous. He mistakenly thought that Xie Chengjin looked down on him, and the owner couldn't help but complain: "Isn't it just a few cents? What's so great about it? Why do you look down on me?"

"When the guests from Xiaonian's private room arrive, you must reduce the portions of the dishes you serve by half. The smaller the portions, the better."

In order to deliberately embarrass Su Zhizhi, the restaurant owner specifically ordered the waiter to reduce the portion by half.

"Boss, they have already paid the deposit, why are you still doing this? Isn't this bad for us?" At first, the waiter thought that this was really unfair, so he did not agree to persuade the boss.

"They are so arrogant and think they are great just because they are rich. I will teach them a lesson today. If you don't do as I say, you will be fired." The boss' attitude was very bad. He insisted on reducing the amount of food they ate in order to teach Xie Chengjin a lesson for making him give up.

The boss threatened the waiter, and the waiter had no choice but to do as he was told.

The two left the restaurant and went back to inform their families. Su Zhizhi said with a smile, "We have already booked the first restaurant in Beijing. The dishes there will definitely satisfy you."

Su Zhizhi said that the quality of the No. 1 restaurant in Beijing should not be bad, and the family will be able to have a good reunion dinner together.

Soon it was the day of the Little New Year, and in order to have more people around, Su Zhizhi came to the Shen family early.

"Let's have the reunion dinner together this year. We've already booked a private room in the restaurant."

They had previously agreed to celebrate the New Year's Eve together, and Su Zhizhi specially brought the Shen family to this private room.

Seeing how luxurious this private room was, Shen Wenjun nodded: "The restaurant is decorated so high-endly, the dishes must be good."

The whole family had already gathered here, waiting for the food to be served. Xie Chengjin specifically notified everyone, "Boss, the food is ready."

"Don't worry, my dear guests. Our restaurant has been a well-established brand for more than ten years. We will definitely satisfy you." The boss appeared respectful in front of Xie Chengjin, but secretly he returned to his ferocious attitude.

The boss came to the kitchen in a stern voice and ordered again: "Remember, you must do as I say. The fewer dishes the better, and don't serve them so quickly."

The boss specifically warned that the dishes should be served slowly. The people in the private room had been waiting for half an hour, but still no dish was served.

The family was already getting impatient, and Su Zhizhi couldn't help but call the waiter to urge them: "Why haven't your dishes been served yet?"

"We'll go and urge them right away." It wasn't until the waiter came to the kitchen to urge them that the first dish finally came up, but unexpectedly, there were so few dishes.

"There are so few dishes here, won't the secret be exposed?" The waiter was worried when he saw that there were only a few pieces of meat on the plate.

But because of the pressure from the boss, I had no choice but to serve the dishes.

"This is the first dish you ordered, the precious duck. Please enjoy it."

"Why is the portion of this dish so small?" Su Zhizhi noticed something was wrong when the dish was served and did not pick up her chopsticks.

"Our products are of high-end quality. It has always been like this." The waiter found an excuse to cover it up.

Su Zhizhi didn't suspect anything, so Shen Wenjun suggested, "Let's wait until the dishes are all ready before we start eating."

During this period, Su Zhizhi urged many times, but found that the dishes were served unusually slowly. It was not until two hours later that the dishes were finally served.

When the last dish was served, Su Zhizhi realized that the portion was still so small, and she couldn't help but explode: "It's not enough that your restaurant has so few dishes, but the serving is also so slow. What's going on?"

"I'm sorry, sir, this is all done by our boss, there's nothing we can do about it."

The waiter realized that he could no longer hide the truth. His legs were shaking with fear, and he had no choice but to tell the whole story.

"This is outrageous! This is too much. We paid money, but it's simply a shady shop." Su Zhizhi was so angry that she wanted to settle the score with the owner of the restaurant. She had to smash the shop today.

Xie Chengjin intervened at the critical moment. He calmed Su Zhizhi down and said gently, "Now that we're all here, let's just enjoy the reunion dinner. After all, it only comes once a year."

"How can this be tolerated? The small portion of food is fine. I didn't expect it was done on purpose." Su Zhizhi was furious, knowing that her good mood for the New Year was about to be ruined.