The way you're talking, it's as if we should be grateful they "don't mind" sharing our table. Why are they so entitled?
Xiao Ming didn't want to indulge such a bad habit, but since they were talking to Jiang Xue, he had to respect his wife's opinion first.
"Well... Okay! Bring them over," Jiang Xue hesitated before ultimately agreeing.
Zheng Yanan left happily without even saying thank you.
"Xue'er, you're too nice," Xiao Ming couldn't help but complain.
Jiang Xue smiled, "Anyway, we're almost done eating. After all, they are old classmates, it never hurts to be kind to others."
"Wife is wife, this mindset is at least a dozen stories high," Xiao Ming immediately laid on the flattery thickly.
At that moment, Zheng Yanan led a family of three over and said respectfully, "Mr. Wang, I'm really sorry for the inconvenience. Please bear with us for now.
Don't worry, they'll be leaving soon.
To apologize, I'll personally give you one of the restaurant's new pizzas later, wishing you a pleasant meal!"
At this, even Jiang Xue couldn't help frowning.
We helped you out, and you can't even say thank you, but now we're the ones being inconvenienced?
What do you mean "they'll be leaving soon"?
So, if we don't leave soon, are you going to kick us out?
However, the woman called "Mr. Wang" frowned even more than Jiang Xue, first glancing at her disdainfully then arrogantly said, "Qiang's Mom, our baby is very clean.
This way of eating is just too unsanitary."
"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry!" Zheng Yanan apologized profusely while bowing, "It's busy today, and we really don't have any spare seats.
If you really mind sharing a table, why not go to my office first and rest with a cup of tea?
Once they're gone, I'll arrange a table for you immediately, ensuring your family is the first in the waiting queue."
Mr. Wang adjusted her glasses, just about to nod, when the little boy she was holding shouted, "Mom, I'm hungry! I want pizza! I want meat!"
As he spoke, he tossed his dirty toy aside and reached into Jiang Xue's plate to grab a piece of steak.
"Oh no! That's so dirty! What if it's contaminated with germs?"𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖
Mr. Wang quickly slapped the piece of meat out of the boy's hand, perhaps a bit too hard, as the boy began to cry from the pain, screaming so shrilly it pierced the eardrums.
She and her husband rushed to coddle their "precious child," and seeing this, Zheng Yanan actually said to Jiang Xue, "You see what happened. We can't let the child be hungry, so why don't you guys just pay the bill!"
This was simply beyond the pale, not even resembling human conversation. Jiang Xue darkened her face and pushed the plate in front of her to the side.
"I haven't had enough to eat. Waiter, I'd like to order!"
Hearing this, Zheng Yanan's eyebrows shot up, "Jiang Xue, what do you mean? Didn't you hear what I just said?"
"I'd like to ask you what you mean!" Jiang Xue said sternly, "We are also guests here, and we agreed to share a table with you as a favor for an old classmate.
But you, you want to chase away your guests before they've finished their meal, would you do that even to strangers?
Is this the service attitude of your restaurant?"
Zheng Yanan's expression stiffened at the questioning, and then she flared up in anger.
"What attitude? Spell it out for me, what attitude?"
"You'd finished eating and were still hanging around, and it was only because I saw you as an old classmate that I spoke to you nicely about sharing the table."
"Look at yourself, what are you even? Ordered the cheapest pizza and you think you're God?"
"Favor given, favor spurned!"
"I'm declaring now, this restaurant does not welcome you, so please pay your bill and leave immediately. If you dare to cause more trouble, I will call the police!"
Sure enough, just like someone in the service industry, out comes the claim that Jiang Xue and the rest are causing trouble. The quality of service isn't great, but when it comes to turning the tables, their skills are top-notch.
Jiang Xue was so angry her face had turned an iron shade of blue. Just as she was about to retort, she felt a pat on the back of her hand and then heard Xiao Ming say, "If a dog bites you, you can't bite back. You beat it with a stick."
"You... what did you just say? How can you curse at people, where's your quality? Everyone heard it, he insulted someone!"
Zheng Yanan's voice suddenly rose a few notches. Her face was filled with indignant righteousness mixed with a sense of grievance, but inside she was already overjoyed.
She was well aware that she had no reason on her side; she was just stubbornly trying to show off in front of her son's teacher. Now that Xiao Ming had called her a dog, effectively handing over the moral high ground, how could she not be pleased?
Even if the truth came out later, it didn't matter, because the other party had resorted to insults.
It's like that classic saying, "No matter what the other person did, if you hit first, it's wrong."
The rules of this world are, in the end, made for the good people.
"I'm warning you, leave now and I can pretend nothing happened. Otherwise, our boss is a legitimate Italian Sicilian, and once the police get involved, it's you who will lose out."
Since she had the upper hand, Zheng Yanan naturally threatened with confidence.
Jiang Xue sighed silently, gave her husband—a man who couldn't speak up—a disdainful glance, and was about to grab her bag and stand up.
But Xiao Ming pressed her hand down again and, with a slight smile, took out his phone.
"What are you doing?" Zheng Yanan glared at him. "Can't you understand human speech? Our boss is a foreigner, it won't matter whom you call!"
Xiao Ming ignored her and dialed Shen Siyi's number, saying, "Jiangbei Gourmet City is owned by your family, right... There's a restaurant here called 'Sicilian Steak Pizza', contact its owner for me and have them come to table 19."
After hanging up the phone, he turned to Jiang Xue and said, "I've told you, when you hit a dog, you use a stick. Here, my steak is still warm, keep eating, you mustn't go hungry."
"For such a small matter, why bother Siyi? It seems like a waste to call in favors like this," Jiang Xue said worriedly.
"With a capable wife like you keeping watch over me, it would be against all reason for me not to succeed," as usual, Xiao Ming buttered her up, then added, "Don't worry, Siyi and I have a great relationship, there's no such thing as 'calling in favors' between us."
Zheng Yanan, who had been listening to the couple's conversation the whole time, began to feel nervous.
If Jiang Xue's man wasn't just bluffing to scare people, and could really make a single call to summon the boss, his social standing must be quite substantial.
Even if she could get through today's issue, if they decided to retaliate against her, a mere manager, it would be all too easy!
Feeling nervous, she glanced at Mr. Wang, who was still trying to pacify the child, and then clenched her teeth even harder.
It didn't matter anymore, since they had already offended them, they absolutely couldn't offend the teacher too. A little loss on her part was nothing; if her son was given a hard time at school by the teacher, that could be disastrous.
Shen Siyi was quick about handling the matter. In just a few minutes, a foreigner dressed in chef's attire came out from the back of the restaurant.
Zheng Yanan's eyes darted about; she immediately hurried over and spoke a fast stream of Italian. She told the chef that Xiao Ming and Jiang Xue were hogging a seat, causing trouble and insulting people, seriously affecting the business.
After finishing, she didn't forge to look smugly at the two, the implication clear: I have the advantage in language, so the naive foreigner is sure to believe me over you.
However, before she could even maintain her pretense of suffering, Xiao Ming spoke up and shocked everyone present.