"No..." Lin Xiazhu wanted to say that she had nothing left to sell. She wasn't going to sell the last ginseng, which was over 600 years old, but then she remembered that she still had a few Ganoderma lucidum plants at home.
"Want some 100-year-old Ganoderma lucidum?" There are two 1000-year-old Ganoderma lucidum plants, and five 100-year-old ones, which can fetch a good price.
"I'll go back to the county town tomorrow, check out the goods, and then set a price," Bai Junbai said decisively.
So it was settled, and then they took a car to have dinner.
To prove that what he said was true, Bai Junbai had his bodyguards find out about the best Western restaurants in S City beforehand. There were two Western restaurants in S City, and they went to the best one.
However, he overlooked the fact that S City was just a relatively undeveloped fourth-tier city, and finding a Western restaurant was already considered good; as for the various delicacies he mentioned, many of them were not available.
The steak wasn't very good either, and the oldest vintage of the red wine disappointed him. But disappointment wasn't the most important thing; the main thing was that he lost face, was embarrassed, and felt like he had boasted.
"Believe me, when you go to Beijing in the future, I'll treat you to the best Western restaurant. It'll be a real treat," Bai Junbai boasted, repeatedly promising to treat you in Beijing.
If Xiao An really is a child of the Bai family, then his trip to the capital won't be long; he thinks it will be in a week.
If Xiao An isn't a member of the Bai family, then there probably won't be a chance anytime soon. However, if they do go to the capital, he will definitely keep his promise and invite them to the most upscale Western restaurant in the capital.
Lin Xiazhu ate the steak listlessly. The taste was really not good. It would be better to buy a fresh beef and stir-fry it, or make a bowl of beef soup noodles.
Seeing how reluctant she was to eat, Xiao An moved her plate away and said, "Stop eating, let's find a restaurant to eat Chinese food."
"There's a Chinese restaurant here?" Bai Junbai didn't want to eat anymore; Chinese food would be nice too.
"You can understand it that way," Xiao An said casually, "It's just a restaurant anyway."
They entered a restaurant that looked quite festive, and Lin Xiazhu booked a private room with a large round table that could seat twenty people.
Half an hour later, the dishes began to be served one after another: braised fish, steamed sea bass, steamed lobster, steamed crab...
"Why is it all from the water?" Bai Junbai looked at all this meat and felt a little nauseous.
"At home, we eat chicken, duck, pork, and beef every day. Now that we're out here, of course we want to eat seafood that we can't usually get." Lin Chacha knew her sister's ordering routine: there was no seafood in the county town, so when they went out, they wanted to eat food that wasn't available in the county town.
"Don't you get tired of eating meat every day?" Bai Junbai simply couldn't understand why this family loved eating meat so much.
There are many people who can't live without meat, but the problem is that this group of children can eat dozens of kilograms of meat a day, which is too exaggerated.
“We’re still young and growing, so we need to get enough nutrition. My sister and I can eat six pounds of meat every day, but that’s not much. There’s not much meat on the ribs, we just make soup with them, so there’s really not much.” Lin Chacha nodded, indicating that she was absolutely right.
"You two have good appetites." Bai Junbai genuinely admired the two girls.
"What's the big deal? We also consume a lot of energy. I often go to construction sites to carry bricks. How can I have the energy to work if I don't eat enough? Besides, we're not fat. Being able to eat is a blessing."
Lin Chacha is never ashamed of her ability to eat. She earns her own money and doesn't eat other people's rice or meat. Her savings over the years have totaled 30,000 yuan, so she's not worried about going broke from eating.
Bai Junbai, an adult, sat in the middle, but he had the smallest appetite. He only ate a bowl of rice and drank a bowl of soup before he was full.
The two bodyguards and Lin Xiazhu devoured the food together, finishing off all the dishes on the table without wasting a single bite.
"Burp..." Lin Chacha felt a little full and touched her bulging belly.
The others were similar; even the two bodyguards couldn't help but let out a couple of burps.
Bai Junbai: "..." Would it be a loss to eat less?
"Eating too much is bad for your stomach, so you should control yourself in the future." This was obviously said to Xiao An. He didn't want Xiao An to come back to Beijing with him, where every meal would be like a battle.
"It would be such a waste not to finish it. Besides, who said we're stuffed? We're just a little too full. Let's sit for a few minutes, and after we pay the bill, we'll go for a walk. We'll digest it quickly." Lin Chacha was very experienced.
"I'll go pay the bill." Bai Junbai didn't want to talk to them anymore; he wanted to go out for some fresh air.
"This meal is on me." Lin Xiazhu got up to pay the bill. She ordered so much because she was prepared to pay for it herself, but she didn't expect to rip someone off.
"What's there to argue about? I said I'll go pay the bill." Bai Junbai frowned, his expression not very good. He didn't like people contradicting him after he made a decision.
Well, Lin Xiazhu has figured out this guy's ways. If he wants to pay, let him pay; otherwise, she'll offend him.
After leaving the restaurant, Bai Junbai went back to the hotel first. He asked his second bodyguard to stay and watch over Lin Xiazhu and the others, as it was easy for a group of women and children to get into trouble late at night. Of course, he was mainly worried that something might happen to Xiao An.
He hasn't told his family about Xiao An yet. He doesn't plan to tell them until the test results are out, in case it's not true and he disappoints his parents again.
Back at the hotel, Bai Junbai took out his latest mobile phone and made a call to Beijing. "Help me find someone, around fourteen or fifteen years old, suffering from amnesia... Yes, we must find out where his biological parents are."
Although the test results are not yet available, Bai Junbai has a premonition that Xiao An and his older brother must be connected in some way. He is fifty percent certain that Xiao An is his older brother's child.
Xiao An seemed unusually quiet tonight. Although he was usually quiet, he seemed preoccupied. Lin Xiazhu noticed this. Although Xiao An didn't say anything, he must have had some doubts about today's sudden medical check-up.
He seemed to understand nothing, but he just didn't say it.
Lin Xiazhu guessed correctly. Xiao An knew everything. He knew what DNA testing was and had vaguely heard Bai Junbo mention wanting to do DNA comparison. He had been a ghost for so long, and he knew far more than others could imagine.
Although it was a long time ago, he vaguely remembered his adoptive father telling him that his biological father was named Bai Junsong and died shortly after his birth, and that his biological mother died in childbirth.
Bai Junsong saved Xiao An's adoptive father's life. To repay the kindness, his adoptive father took him in after his father's death. Unfortunately, his adoptive parents, who were such good people, also passed away in an accident at a young age.
Bai Junbo and Bai Junsong sound like the names of two brothers. If he's not mistaken, his father and Bai Junbo are either biological brothers or cousins.
His adoptive parents had previously said that he looked a lot like his biological father. Bai Junbai must have seen that he looked like someone else, which is why he was so eager to get a DNA test done to prove his identity.
It's a bit ridiculous that they actually used this as an excuse to bring their whole family to the city hospital for a medical check-up. They really know how to make a fuss.
If the Bai family had come looking for him before his rebirth, he would have been overjoyed to acknowledge them and would have returned to the capital with them without hesitation. But after experiencing so much, none of that mattered anymore.
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