Chapter 321: Jokes and Riddles at the Dinner Table

Secretary Liu waved his hand to refuse me, making me wish I could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

He took the initiative to ask Guo Wei for a drink, and Guo Wei didn't drink! I took the initiative to accompany him for a drink, but he refused! Anyone with eyes could see that I had been insulted to the heavens.

A wave of anger rushed from the soles of my feet to my forehead, and I wished I could flip the table. Suddenly, a pleasant voice sounded: "Yo, you're really here."

Then I saw Xuelai standing in front of us, graceful and elegant, with a smile on her face, her hands folded in front of her lower abdomen.

She first nodded politely to Secretary Liu and introduced herself, "I am the manager of the Chinese restaurant department of Xinlinyin, my name is Xuelai. Please give me your valuable suggestions."

Secretary Liu nodded, looked at me meaningfully, stood up and said, "You all eat slowly, I'll go down first." He looked at his watch and said to me, "Come to my room at ten o'clock." After saying that, he walked away without looking back.

Once Secretary Liu left, Guo Wei quickly finished the food on his plate and stood up to follow him. As soon as these two people disappeared, the County Magistrate and the County Committee Office Director followed. As soon as the four of them vanished, the restaurant became heated. First, Deng Hanyu shouted in a weird tone: "Town Mayor Chen, the Secretary won't drink with you, I'll drink with you!"

Mao Ping was just about to follow suit, but I glared at him, and he immediately shut his mouth, burying his head in eating cake.

"Do you want to drink?" Xuelai asked in surprise.

Deng Hanyu smiled gloomily and asked, "Can't we drink?"

Xuelai smiled and said, "Of course you can. However, drinking in the buffet restaurant is not as good as going to my Chinese restaurant to drink. The atmosphere for drinking here is not as good as the Chinese restaurant."

Deng Hanyu asked me provocatively, "Town Mayor Chen, do you dare to go?"

"If I don't go, I'm a grandson!" I responded, "Manager Xue, please help us prepare a case of Hengyue Daqu. We'll drink that today."

Xuelai said in surprise, "Drink this?"

"Yes! Just this. Town Mayor Deng, do you dare?"

Deng Hanyu didn't expect me to take the challenge, and it was a killer move right from the start. He was stunned for a moment and didn't dare to make a sound for a long time. You have to know that Hengyue Daqu is "dizzying Daqu," a divine wine that can make people collapse directly! Hahahaha, I have drunk this wine many times in Suxi Town and have practiced an iron stomach, so I'm not afraid of you, a Deng Hanyu.

Other cadres saw Deng Hanyu not speaking for a long time and started to boo.

Deng Hanyu's face turned red and white, as if he had made a determination to die, and said through gritted teeth, "I'll accompany you to the end!"

A group of people withdrew from the buffet and swarmed into the Chinese restaurant.

Several town secretaries and town mayors shook their heads and left. The remaining ten of us asked for a private room, set up the formation, and prepared for a big fight.

Xuelai really brought a case of Hengyue Daqu. As soon as the wine came up, the waiter sent in a few side dishes. Xuelai smiled, "Since everyone wants to drink, naturally there can't be no dishes. These dishes are my treat, everyone please help yourselves."

We didn't care to thank her and shouted for the waiter to pour the wine.

Once the door of the private room was closed, it was another world. Several people from the townships were not here to drink, but to watch the fun. They didn't sit at the table, but leaned on the sofa, took off their shoes, put their legs on the coffee table, and kept shouting to start.

Xuelai stood beside me, looked at the wine in front of me and Deng Hanyu, and smiled, "Only the two of you drinking?"

Mao Ping took over the conversation and said, "Isn't it just the two of them? Who else." As he said this, his eyes wandered around, and seeing no one answering, he walked to the sofa to pull people. Everyone giggled, all refusing to come to the table.

Deng Hanyu stared at the wine, looking miserable.

He is fooling me! I know. Deng Hanyu is a person tested by alcohol, what wine hasn't he drunk, would he be afraid of me?

"Forget it, Old Mao, don't call anymore. These people are not brothers who share adversity. You come!" Deng Hanyu beckoned Mao Ping to drink together. Mao Ping was so scared that his face turned pale, and he hurriedly waved his hand to refuse, saying, "With my level, how can I be on a big occasion."

I laughed, "Drink as much as you can. It's not like asking you to die, what are you afraid of? Don't you think so, Town Mayor Deng."

The flesh on Deng Hanyu's face moved, squeezed out a smile and said, "Indeed! Old Mao, you don't dare to come up either?"

Mao Ping had no choice but to come over, looked at Xuelai standing beside me, and said, "How about we invite Manager Xue to join us?"

Xuelai actually didn't refuse, pulled a chair over, sat down beside me, and said boldly, "Good! I'll come to accompany a few leaders. You say, how to drink?"

Xuelai's straightforwardness surprised us all. Several cadres hurriedly put on their shoes again, gathered at the table, wanting to watch Xuelai drink.

"Manager Xue, how do you want to drink?" Deng Hanyu asked, fiddling with the chopsticks between his fingers.

"I'll set a rule, everyone tells a joke, and everyone acts as a judge. Whoever tells a joke that isn't funny drinks. And drink 'depth charges'." Xuelai said gracefully, her expression calm.

Mao Ping was startled and asked, "What are 'depth charges'? Drinking wine and making a bomb! Isn't that looking for death?"

Everyone laughed, waiting for Xuelai to tell the rules of the "depth charge."

Xuelai looked around, took a large glass, took a small glass, and said, "There is beer in the large glass, white wine in the small glass, pour the small glass full and put it into the large glass, and drink it in one gulp."

Everyone shouted "Oh" in unison, each pondering what kind of drinking method this was.

Mao Ping didn't care about the method, but first asked Xuelai, "You said tell a joke, can it be colorful?"

Xuelai smiled faintly and said, "Whatever!"

So everyone had a large glass in front of them, filled with golden beer, and a small glass filled with white wine placed on the side, just waiting to drink, put the small glass into the large glass, and drink it clean.

The first to tell a joke was Deng Hanyu, who said: "There is a leader who always writes wrong characters, mispronounces sounds, and never learns humbly. Once, the unit held a commendation meeting, and a comrade who won an award was surnamed Feng, named Feng Po. The leader took a look, oh my, I don't recognize the first character, but fortunately, the teacher taught me, if you don't recognize a character, read one side. I still don't recognize the second character, read one side again, it must be wrong, I need to handle the tone, so he opened his mouth and shouted loudly: 'Ma Pi (Horse Ass), Comrade Ma Pi won the award.' As a result, it caused a roar of laughter. He thought, maybe I mispronounced something, so he went to look at the secretary. The secretary reminded him: 'There are two dots!' The leader then put on a straight face and said: 'Everyone don't laugh, it doesn't matter if there are two dots missing! We are all comrades in the same unit, why care about these one or two dots?'"

After the joke was finished, not many people laughed. Mao Ping said, "Town Mayor Deng, this leader is someone you know, right?"

Deng Hanyu hurriedly waved his hands to deny it, saying he read it in a book.

Mao Ping laughed, "How come I heard that this joke is about a leader in a neighboring county?"

Deng Hanyu's face turned black, and he hurriedly picked up his wine glass and said, "Everyone thinks it's not funny, I'll drink first." He picked up the small glass in front of him, threw it into the large glass with a thud, tilted his head and drank it down with a gulp.

He put down the glass and pointed at me, "Town Mayor Chen, it's your turn."

I looked at Xuelai and said, "The joke I'm telling has something to do with Manager Xue."

Everyone stared at me, and Xuelai also became nervous, looking at me suspiciously.

I said: "It's a joke related to Manager Xue's profession. I have a classmate, we used to go to a restaurant to eat, and the menu was written by ourselves and given to the waiter. Once it was his turn to treat, my classmate was stingy, wanted to save money, and flipped through the menu for a long time. He almost tore the menu, and then hurriedly wrote a dish name on the menu and handed it to the waiter.

The dish name was written, and we waited for the dishes to be served. We waited for a long time and didn't see the dishes, and everyone was so hungry that our stomachs were growling, so I called the waiter over and asked him why he didn't serve the dishes. My classmate was even more furious, gesturing and wanting to smash the restaurant.

The waiter was extremely aggrieved and took the menu to me and said, sir, our restaurant really doesn't know what this dish is.

I took it and looked, it was written 'Cold Mixed O', so I asked my classmate inexplicably what dish it was. My classmate was furious and said, 'Cold Mixed O (Lotus Root), Cold Mixed O (Lotus Root). This character is too hard to write, too hard to write!'"

As soon as I finished speaking, everyone burst into laughter. Xuelai laughed until she was trembling, "Town Mayor Chen, don't say it has anything to do with me. This O, I'm afraid all the waiters in the world can't guess it."

Since everyone laughed, I don't need to drink this glass of wine.

Next was Mao Ping's turn. Mao Ping looked miserable, scratching his ears and cheeks for a long time, before stuttering: "The jokes you told aren't colorful, not satisfying, I'll tell a satisfying one."

Everyone applauded and shouted for him to tell it quickly.

Mao Ping cleared his throat pretentiously and said: "When I was a child, there was a neighbor girl who drew butterflies very beautifully, but she never drew them in class, she always drew them at home.

Because she drew them extremely beautifully, she could always get the teacher's praise. At that time, the teacher's praise made us feel as beautiful as if we were sitting on a helicopter. I wanted to learn, so I secretly followed the girl to the girl's door, and as a result, I saw her pour some ink on the table and sit on it, and a beautiful butterfly was drawn.

I thought, it turns out it's so easy, the next day at school, it happened to be an art class, so I reported to the teacher that I could draw butterflies too. The teacher let me draw, so I poured some ink on the table and sat on it too, and as a result, guess what I drew?"

Everyone said in unison: "A butterfly."

Mao Ping knocked on the table and said: "Wrong! I drew a dragonfly."

Everyone looked at each other, not having tasted the flavor for a long time. It was Xuelai who couldn't help covering her mouth and laughing, and then everyone realized and followed with a big laugh.

Mao Ping passed the test, and finally it was Xuelai's turn.

Xuelai's eyebrows frowned slightly, her star-like eyes blinked, and she picked up the wine glass in front of her and said: "I accept the punishment."

The second round didn't tell jokes, but changed to guessing riddles. Everyone came up with a riddle, specified someone to guess, and if they couldn't guess, they drank a glass.

Deng Hanyu was punished with a glass in the first round, so naturally he wouldn't let me go and wanted to come up with a riddle first, specifying me to guess.

He said: "Town Mayor Chen, you have to think about this character, the riddle is: I want to bury my head and make contributions! The facts are also like this!"

I blurted out: "Isn't it just the character 'Wild' (Ye)? Burying the head is 'Li' (Inside), contribution is 'Yu' (Give), put together isn't it the character 'Wild'?"

Deng Hanyu's face turned cold, and he picked up the second glass of wine and drank it.

It was my turn to come up with a riddle, and I specified Mao Ping to guess. As soon as Mao Ping heard me specify him, he immediately started to play rogue and said: "The injustice has a head, the debt has a master, you should specify Town Mayor Deng to guess."

I laughed: "I just want you to guess. If you don't want to guess, accepting the punishment is fine."

Mao Ping stiffened his neck and said: "Anyway, it's just a glass of wine, I want to see what kind of big problem Town Mayor Chen can come up with."

I said: "Listen carefully, it's actually a character, called: Don't like to show off."

Mao Ping was stunned, his face flushed red, holding his breath and thinking hard, but finally shook his head and admitted defeat. After drinking the wine, he kept asking me what character it was. I laughed: "Go back and check the dictionary and you'll know."

The speed of drinking like this was too slow, and several cadres shouted to speed up, and didn't want any tricks, just drink directly, drink until you collapse.

Just about to agree, I stole a glance at my watch and found it was almost ten o'clock, so I couldn't care about their entanglement, took a chance and ran out, running straight to Secretary Liu Qimeng's room. ===== CHAPTER 322 =====