(Chapter 22) A Meal

*Sigh* "How disappointing, I thought that they would look a bit better than that." Mrs. Tuhs was quite disappointed after her shopping trip.

Astrid nodded along with her mother. Not that she really knew much about fashion, but she wasn't entirely impressed either...

"Oh, a new restaurant opened?" Mrs. Tuhs mumbled as she looked at the new building in the city.

Astrid looked up at the building. It was being built ever since she first went into the city. Now it was finished?

"Let's call your dad over for a meal." Mrs. Tuhs had decided to try out this restaurant.

Astrid nodded. She wanted to try out the foods of a high-society restaurant...

She had never eaten out in her former life, she had only eaten what she required. In this life she had already become a connoisseur of food. Whenever she could taste the food, she would eat as much as she could. Because of that, her body had also started to grow quite quickly.

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"Mr. Tuhs, we have been expecting you. Please follow us into your room." The manager greeted Mr. Tuhs first, he had gotten a call earlier that the great CEO of Hanxi had taken fancy to this restaurant.

He didn't ask questions about the two women behind him. He was in the business long enough to know not to ask unneeded questions.

"Mm, lead the way." Mr. Tuhs was a cold man in the public eye. He looked around at the restaurant and his eyebrows slightly tilted.

'This seems quite good. The mood is relaxing.' He was pleased. It would be good to eat out in a restaurant with his family once in a while.

Mrs. Tuhs and Astrid were sitted by the waiter and given their menus. While Mr. Tuhs made some payments and also gave some good words to the manager.

"Even at this time he thinks of the benefits of business. We are here to eat." Mrs. Tuhs grumbled in dissatisfaction, but her face betrayed her real feelings.

Astrid lightly shook her head. As she decided to read the menu.

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The family had ordered their food and were enjoying a quiet meal. Of course, Mrs. Tuhs had food appropriate for a pregnant woman and had no alcohol. While Astrid decided to go for some foie gras.

She was impressed, she was slowly transforming into a foodie. She might have found her new favorite meal...

Seeing his daughter scoff down her meal so quickly and excitably. Mr. Tuhs quietly made another order of food. Just for his little foodie...

"Dad, is the wine good?" Astrid asked innocently as she finished her second plate.

Mr. Tuhs smiled and looked at Astrid slyly. "What are you trying to say here?"

Astrid gave a smile of her own. She was interested in the alcohol of this world. She wouldn't know unless she tasted it to compare...

"It'll be fine, she will need to know sooner or later how to drink." Mrs. Tuhs was quite happy to let Astrid try some, since they were here. There wasn't much to worry about.

Mr. Tuhs relented and handed over a glass.

Astrid took a healthy sip of the wine. And immediately relooked at the glass again.

"Haha, strong?" Mr. Tuhs felt watching his daughter drink alcohol for the first time.

'Woah, this is much better than I knew.' Astrid felt that this alcohol could be extremely satisfying to drink.

It was a strong taste, but had an extremely distinct taste of the grapes and other fruits. It also had a slightly sweet taste. Not like a more bitter taste Astrid was used to.

"It's quite good." Astrid mumbled, she took another sip and then took a bite of her third plate of food.

Mrs. Tuhs felt her eyebrows twitch, her daughter being a foodie and also being a fan of alcohol... She didn't know what to think anymore.

As Astrid was happily enjoying her meal. Mr. Tuhs felt his ears twitch. The VIP room was quite soundproof, but there were some muffled sounds of what seemed to be a woman shouting...

Astrid also heard this muffled sound and had lost her appetite. She was intrigued by what was going on.

Mrs. Tuhs sighed. 'Look, my husband has made my daughter such a busybody. I thought we were here just for a meal.' She inwardly thought.

But her thoughts wouldn't change the curious minds of Mr. Tuhs and Astrid. They finished their meal quickly and took their leave.

"How could your cheifs not see this hair in my food!? It's unhygienic and disgusting!" A strangely familiar woman's voice to the Tuhs family spoke out.

Astrid's expression subtly changes, her gaze didn't pay attention to Direa, who was acting like a shrew, but rather on something else...

The manager listened with a calm face, he listened to every complaint Direa had about the restaurant.

"Mr. Manager, it wouldn't be rude to ask for some compensation right?" Direa was joined by one of her sugar dads. He wasn't bad-looking by any means, but he seemed to have quite a bad attitude.

Mrs. Tuhs noticed the ring on his finger and her expression shifted, Mr. Tuhs noticed this as well. And he frowned with slight disgust.

Noticing that Direa and the businessman were finished, the manager started to talk...

"First off, I don't know if you have knowledge of this or not. But none of the staff with black hair handled your food. Second, there are cameras in the main restaurant. Thirdly, you can't do anything about it without having any evidence. Where, we have evidence of you tampering with your meal." The manager's words were swift and cold.

Direa chocked up, she didn't expect to hear the manager mention there were cameras in the restaurant...

"Does that matter? We aren't satisfied with our food, I wish for compensation." The sugar dad was quite smart, if he insisted he wasn't happy with the food, he could keep his face with his mistress complaining.

The manager then gave them a smirk. "Compensation? You can take it up in court, we have no need for ungrateful customers." He spoke strictly, unlike a manager of a restaurant.

Mr. Tuhs was quite impressed, he didn't expect this restaurant to have such a strong backbone...

The sugar dad wished to puke blood! He hadn't been insulted in public like this before...

"Is there an issue?" Astrid then smiled. 'Ah, how interesting.'

As the sugar dad fumed, a man walked into the restaurant and looked at the manager.

"Boss, these customers were unsatisfied and tried to frame our staff. I'll kindly invite them out now." The manager understood that his boss would do it anyway...

The man nodded. "The security can deal with it." And with such a small comment, the security came in and 'invited' the sugar dad and the hysterical Direa out.

"Tch, shut your mouth! Have you no shame!?" The sugar was now fuming! He was embarrassed publically because of this woman...

Direa immediately shut her mouth. As she noticed some familiar faces...

Her smile then turned cruel. 'You see me in such difficult positions. Now it makes sense...' It seems she was trying to seduce a man who was already taken by another woman...

"My apologies for the problems. Your next drink will be paid by me." The man spoke to everyone in the public area of the restaurant.

Of course there was a celebration. While the manager bowed and went back to work after seeing his boss handle the situation.

"Come on, let's go home." The show was over, so Mr. Tuhs wanted to go home now.

Mrs. Tuhs agreed, Astrid tagged along and pulled away her gaze from the man. A lingering smile on her face.

The man slightly turned and looked at the family of three walking out, his eyes stayed locked on the small girl who had been watching him since he had come into the restaurant...

'I need to stop thinking so much.' He inwardly thought, he needed to do more work otherwise his boss would have his head...