May Teresa Teng be addicted to fried puffer fish.
Even if there is a lot of momentum around the dining table, the plates of pufferfish are piled high.
Although Ning Weimin and Zhou Mumin were full, they both said they didn’t want any more.
But Teresa Teng is far from satisfying her appetite.
Her appetite is not that good for men.
So I finished the twenty-fifth time and quickly ordered the twenty-sixth time.
As a result, Teresa Teng was not able to wait for her beloved fried puffer fish this time, but the waitress came and apologized with a look of uneasiness and shame.
“I’m really sorry, distinguished guest, our store has no more fried puffer fish. Due to the relatively small amount of ingredients brought in today, there are only twenty puffer fish in total. You have consumed twelve puffer fish here alone. I’m really sorry that all the puffer fish have been used up.”
“Oh? He looked at the empty plate in front of him.
Then he responded pitifully, and put down the chopsticks in his hand without saying anything.
However, compared to her regret and helplessness, Funaki Minoru, who was burping and relishing the delicious puffer fish, could be said to be content, did not stay relaxed for a while.
Because soon, when the service lady brought the bill.
It was the president of Taurus Palace's turn to be so anxious that his head was sweating.
Nothing else, just because the contract between Teresa Teng and Taurus Records at this stage is as follows:
Teresa Teng was responsible for paying all the production expenses related to the recording, while all expenses during her activities in Japan were paid by Taurus Palace.
For example, Teresa Teng pays for the use of the recording studio and the rental of audio and video equipment.
After the royalties are obtained from the sale of the records, Taurus Palace will pay these fees back to Teresa Teng and of course also pay the royalties for Teresa Teng's singing.
It is precisely because of this contract that Teresa Teng was able to take her own initiative and take her songs to her friend Mai Lingzhi's recording studio for production.
Because of this contract, the cost of operating awards for Teresa Teng should be paid by Taurus Records.
Although Ning Weimin took the initiative to take charge of this matter, he paid for it.
As the biggest beneficiary after Teresa Teng won the award, it is reasonable and reasonable that the Taurus Palace should provide the money for the treat, otherwise it would be too shameful.
As a result, when it was time to pay the bill, the number on the bill was so unexpected that Funaki Minoru was stunned when he saw it.
He simply suspected that he had seen it wrong.
It’s clearly on the bill! The price actually written is about 590,000 yen!
However, the content is clear and not very complicated.
For example, the snapper fish sashimi and mountain product hot pot ordered for Matsumoto Keiko later totaled 50,000 yen.
The sake the four of them drank was more than 30,000 yen
The other 498,000 yen was all spent on fried puffer fish.
If you do the math, the four of you should have eaten a total of eighty-three portions of fried puffer fish during this meal. That portion of fried puffer fish is 6,000 yen.
In this day and age, this is undoubtedly a huge sum of money.
This is equivalent to eating the bonus of 4,000 US dollars or 30,000 RMB in one meal.
It should be said that Minoru Funaki enjoyed the meal just now, but this exaggerated number was something he did not expect.
However, what made him even more embarrassed was not that it was expensive. It wasn’t that he couldn’t afford the reception fee, but that he didn’t bring enough money with him.
The funds he brought out from the company that day were only 500,000 yen, which was packed in an envelope.
I thought that this amount of money was enough. No matter how much I ate, it was impossible for one person to eat 100,000 yen.
So he didn’t take his personal wallet and simply put it in a drawer in the company office.
But how could he have expected that Teresa Teng would not play according to common sense at all.
This diva actually doesn’t even read the menu and only orders puffer fish over and over again.
If you do this, you will end up risking your life.
Needless to say, at this time, Funaki Minoru just wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it.
Especially when he saw Teresa Teng looking at him like an innocent child, urging him to pay the bill, he felt more and more like an ant on a hot pot.
In order to prevent the few people present from seeing his embarrassment, he quickly covered his face with a smile, "Sorry, I want to go to the bathroom."
Following an idea, he stood up and said to the service The lady said, "I still have something to explain to your shopkeeper. Please take me to the counter."
After following the waitress out, Funaki quietly called the record store from the public phone. The company wants its subordinates to send money immediately for emergency relief.
However, Ning Weimin is really a good person.
Not only did he treat guests in his previous life, he also had a similar experience, and his eyesight was fine. He glanced at it and was shocked by the price of the bill.
For him, as long as he turns his mind a little, it is not difficult to guess the reason for Funaki Minoru's abnormal expression and what he will do next.
He also understood that this was a great opportunity to further invest in favors and what he should do.
So he waited until Minoru Funaki left, and said he wanted to go for convenience, leaving Keiko Matsumoto with Teresa Teng, and then quietly followed him.
When Minoru Funaki was on the phone at the counter, he stepped forward and took out his credit card to pay for the bill.
By the time Minoru Funaki realized that he had paid for himself, it was already too late.
Not only was he shocked, he felt extremely ashamed and apologized profusely on the spot.
Needless to say, how could Ning Weimin, who offered help in times of need, make it difficult for Minoru Funaki?
The matter was revealed in an understatement.
"Hey, President Funaki, you are so unreasonable. What does it matter who pays the bill? I had a lot of fun today, and that is the most important thing. Besides, with the cooperative relationship between us, I am afraid we will eat together often in the future. Funaki If the president wants to treat us, we’ll have to wait for another day. Are we still afraid that we won’t have a chance?”
This immediately relieved Funaki Minoru’s mental pressure and saved face.
I have to say that Ning Weimin is indeed a wise and emotionally intelligent businessman. His words are like the "salt" in interpersonal relationships. They may seem ordinary, but they can turn decay into magic.
For Minoru Funaki at this time, Ning Weimin's simple words sent to him on the steps were really better than thousands of sweet words.
Japanese are human beings too!
Especially as a man, everything is self-explanatory.
In short, this meal is different from what everyone originally imagined.
There were many small accidents and episodes during the meal, which distorted the atmosphere several times, but the final ending was quite satisfactory.
Don’t look at the price of this meal, it will still be amazing even thirty years later! Indeed, only Japan’s economic bubble period would lead to such incredible prices!
But it cannot be denied that as a business banquet, this meal was not only not in vain, but also quite meaningful.
In fact, each of the four people who participated gained much more than they expected.
I just don’t know if this should be attributed to this economic bubble, and I understand it as a miracle brought about by the bubble economy.
But having said that, no matter what, when it comes to his marriage, Ning Weimin should really be grateful to this bubble, which like a tornado has stirred up the extravagant wind of Japanese society.
Otherwise, how could he, who is good at making money, be able to reuse the advantage of money to offset the disadvantage of family status.
How about entering the house as a Chinese and walking upright to Matsumoto Keiko's parents?
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January 25, 1987, was the day when Ning Weimin formally visited Matsumoto Keiko’s parents.
The reason he was able to reach this point was actually all thanks to the help of his future mother-in-law.
Because since that meeting at Shiseido, Tsuneko and her daughter Keiko have quietly stood together, secretly worrying about their affairs.
Chang Zi can be called the best assistant. Not only does she behave in various ways in front of her husband, she often speaks good things about Ning Weimin and brainwashes Han Yingming with her words every day.
Moreover, trolley cases and Chinese handicrafts from Ning Weimin were introduced into his home little by little, impressing Han Yingming with real objects.
In this way, Han Yingming finally agreed reluctantly and promised to give Ning Weimin a chance to meet.
At the same time, Chang Zi also revealed Han Yingming's preferences to Ning Weimin secretly.
You know, this is the heyday of this unprecedented bubble, and almost everything in Japanese society is being blown away by the increasingly dazzling wind of luxury.
Not only various assets, famous brands, and consumer demand, but also greedy human nature and vain hearts.
So when I learned that my prospective father-in-law also had a hobby of collecting pots and dishes.
Not only did he have a lot of such things in his home, but he also recently became obsessed with golf. Ning Weimin used his money skills to make special preparations for this meeting.
In addition to using Masahiro Mihara's social connections, he spent a lot of money to buy a tea bowl worth millions of yen made by a famous artist as a gift to meet his prospective father-in-law.
He also borrowed flowers to offer to Buddha, and planned to transfer the New Year gift given to him by Nomura Securities to his future father-in-law.
It was a set of Honma Golf's top "golden clubs" worth 850,000 yen.
He still remembered that in his previous life, when Shinzo Abe came to power, he gave such a club to the President of the United States to flatter him.
Of course it will be easier for him to talk now that he is here.
As the saying goes, don’t hit someone with a smiling face, especially if you receive a favorite and quite expensive gift.
Facing a son-in-law candidate who is not so satisfactory, even Han Yingming, who has always been known for his rigidity and seriousness, cannot show off his face too much.
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The living room was very quiet, Han Yingming looked at a tea bowl on the table.
This milky white and slightly gray tea bowl was taken out by him personally from an old Paulownia box.
There are also some rough flower and grass patterns on it, which exude a sense of simplicity.
“Yeah.”
Han Yingming snorted from his nose and looked at it carefully. This tea bowl should be made from the ancient Shino kiln.
He took the teacup in his hand again and looked at it over and over
Yes, the unique milky white glaze of Shino ancient kiln made the pattern on the teacup particularly elegant, and the glaze was because of the drawing The iron oxide raw material is somewhat reddish.
After observing these, he can conclude that the things are indeed good things, and the prices must be considerable.
“Where did you get this tea bowl?”
"I bought it from a friend who likes to collect tea sets..."
"Are you telling the truth?"
"Yes, I don't Dare to lie to you..."
"Then you must have spent a lot of money"
"It's nothing, as long as you like..."
"No matter what, I can't take this thing, so I'd better ask you to take it back..."
"Why?"
"Didn't I make it clear enough? It's too valuable. . ”
“But I have no research on this kind of thing. If I take it back, I might as well put it in your hands. Only in the hands of qualified owners. I will be happy. If I don’t have a good home, I will cry.”
“It’s okay for Chawan to cry, but what if you hurt my daughter?”
"What?" Originally, Ning Weimin was still proud of his eloquence, thinking that with his experience in collecting antiques, it would be no problem to persuade Han Yingming to accept the gift, but he did not expect to be questioned so suddenly.
He couldn't help but get excited, stood up slightly, and responded nervously.
“I mean, how can you guarantee that you will always be good to my daughter? You are so young, and there is a big age gap between you. How can you make me believe that my daughter will be happy with you? I will never be disliked by you in the future..."
This is a fatal question, just like a show of force.
Ning Weimin had a premonition that if his answer did not satisfy Han Yingming, no matter how expensive the gift was, it would be useless.
In other words, only after passing this preliminary test can the next step take place.
And Han Yingming is really not a person who trusts others easily. He is not as easy to deal with as Qingzi's mother. If you want to convince him and satisfy him, you must not just talk empty words, you must be real.
Of course he didn’t want to be eliminated, so he couldn’t help but think carefully.
After pondering for a long time, he raised his head and said, "Everything else can be judged by age, except for marriage, the age gap is not a threshold. As for your question, how can I guarantee that I will always be good to Qingzi? How can I guarantee that I will be a responsible husband? I can’t guarantee this. I can only prove it with actions and time. If I can’t guarantee it with words, I can only explain it from the perspective of collecting antiques. . In fact, I am also a collector like you. I was obsessed with this when I was in China, and I have been collecting it for a long time. I have not sold it yet. Now, you should understand how I pour my feelings into something, right? I will never be careless about it.”
It’s true. It was Ning Weimin. What he said was so flattering.
He actually inspired Han Yingming's empathy through the same hobbies, and even equated Qingzi with their most cherished treasure.
In this way, although it is still a verbal guarantee, it no longer seems empty.
As expected, Han Yingming stared at Ning Weimin silently for a while, and actually pushed the tea, "Please use tea, it is the best jade tea."
Ning Weimin heard this. Only then did I feel relieved, knowing that the test just now was over. (End of this chapter)