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"D-Dominion King L-Lobster..? Are you sure my lady? That is extremely pricey, even for this restaurant"s standards!" Heng Wu the old butler swallowed a mouthful of saliva and his words became a little bit incoherent.
"Of course I am 100 percent sure! Why? Did you think that I won"t be able to afford it?" Meng Yue put on a wide, smug face as she crossed both arms on her chest.
Hearing this, the old butler Heng Wu almost stumbled down and collapse.
D-d.a.m.ned woman! Did you think that I have forgotten the mess you did 20 years ago?
This cheeky short woman back then ordered a dish that was quite expensive when she first came. At first, the staffs were of course quite happy that a person would willingly spend so lavishly on food, but they soon found out that this woman had no intention to pay them in full at all!
This was because there were ways to pay for their food without actually having to pay the full price!
However, not only that this method was not that well-known, it was also extremely risky!
This method had three different stages and they were called as "Food Decryption"!
On the first stage, the guests were required to list out 10 ingredients used to make the whole dish accurately. They would only have 3 chances of making mistakes in their guess, and each mistake would increase the price of the dish by 10 percent!
If they managed to clear the first stage, they would get a 30 percent off from the actual price. On the other hand, if they failed to name all 10 ingredients and used up all their chances, they would have to pay 30 percent more!
In the second stage, if the guests chose to continue, they were required to name 15 more ingredients used to make the dish and their chances would be resetted back to three. However, a single mistake would inflate the price by a whopping 20 percent!
This meant that if they failed in this stage, they would have to pay 60 percent more of the price of that dish! Similarly, if the guests happened to list out all 15 ingredients correctly, they would get a 60 percent off!
On the third stage, the stakes were even higher! The guests needed to list out 20 more ingredients and their chances were resetted back to three. But if they made just a single mistake here, they would be penalized by a staggering 30 percent increase in price!
Therefore, as long as the Heavens were on their side, the lucky guests would get a 90 percent off from the actual price, but if the devil chose to make their life miserable, then they would need to pay 90 percent more of that single dish!
In addition, the higher the guests status inside this restaurant were, the more expensive and rarer the ingredients used to make the dish were!
In other words, while accomplishing stage 1 and 2 on the first floor of this restaurant would be considered normal, on the second floor, people would only dare to aim and complete the first stage, and those who dared to challenge the second stage here were extremely rare.
This went on to show that on the third floor, the number of people that had ever challenged the first stage could be counted on two hands, while there was only a single person that ever managed to complete the second stage.
As for the third stage on this third floor? Only lunatics would dare to challenge it!
"S-So.. that would be 3 high quality spirit stones lady Meng Yue.. P-Please pay the bill first before we could process your order. " Heng Wu said in a stutter.
Pu!
Duan Li and all his followers immediately saw their life flashing by before their eyes when they heard this price quote.
3 high-quality spirit stones?
That is just daylight robbery!
Just what sort of value that a single high-quality spirit stone has?
10,000 medium-quality spirit stones! That is how much a single spirit stone of that quality amounts to!
In other words, this restaurant demands some 30,000 medium-quality spirit stones for this Dominion King Lobster dish!
Even for the flithy rich Duan Li, that was just a price too steep that would cause him to reconsider deeply before deciding to order it!
Yet it seemed like this mother of his does not care about this even a single bit!
"Mother.. I know that I"ve said I would cover all the food expenses for us.. but do you want to make your son here a pitiful pauper?" Duan Li cried in his heart.
Silently taking a peek inside his spatial ring by sending his consciousness into it, he could see that there was still some few thousands of high-quality spirit stones laying around like useless cabbages, which caused him to sigh in relief. But still, spending 3 high-quality spirit stones was just too darned expensive!
Meng Yue then started to laugh, "Hahaha! Heng Wu, you like to make jokes now eh? Don"t say that you forgot, I am this restaurant"s "Culinary Seer", therefore my method of payment is obviously Food Decryption!" she said proudly.
Hearing this, Duan Li and his party turned their head to her with a confused look. Chuckling lightly, Meng Yue explained everything there was to know about Food Decryption.
Soon after, everyone finally nodded in comprehension.
So because Duan Li"s mother had always used this method to pay for her food far cheaper than the normal price everytime, she was heralded the t.i.tle of Culinary Seer at this restaurant by the managing director!
Seeing that smug look on her as she explained all these to the crowd, Heng Wu gritted his teeth in frustration as he recalled those tragic days in the past due to this woman.
Hais!
"At that time, when you first came here and used this exact method to get a 90 percent discount on your very first food you ordered on the first floor that day, we were honestly amazed by your rare talent to list out everything correctly.."
"But then, you started to come here everyday and got your 90 percent discount everytime! I got scolded by the managing director as we incurred a huge loss because of you, thus we have no choice but to elevate your status to the VIP level on the second floor.."
"Yet the same thing still happened! Although you only managed to get 60 percent discount everytime, our losses was even more considerable because the food and ingredients used on the second floor was far more expensive than the food on the first floor!"
"Thus again, we increased your status to the VVIP level so that you could only eat here. We were confident that you would not be able to pa.s.s the first stage, at least not everytime, but we were wrong.. very wrong!"
This was because she happened to get the 30 percent discount everytime, even on this third floor! What had them mind-boggled the most was that her success rate is at 100 percent which was far too unbelievable!
Even the managing director had to step in personally, and interrogate each of the staffs including the Seven Saints chefs because he was suspicious that there was someone among them leaking out the ingredients to her on purpose!
However, after that extensive alibi check, they found out that no one had spoken a single dust about any food and ingredients to her!
This only meant that she was a natural and knew a lot of stuff about food!
Thus, the Seven Saints Culinary restaurant was on the verge of bankruptcy and nearly closed down. But as luck would have it, she suddenly disappeared and no one could trace her anymore!
This had them celebrate such a miracle for seven days and seven nights straight, offering their sincere thanks to the Nine G.o.ds and the Heavens!
Slowly, all their losses could be recovered throughout the following years, and the cover was finally finished after 20 long years..
But now, she has returned!
Why Heavens? Why?!
Heng Wu roared out at the top of his lungs silently. But if this were to be heard, one could not imagine just how agonized he was right now.
Thus, that was why she managed to earn the privilege of eating on this third floor.
Hais!
Exhaling a moutful of air in resignation, he nodded, "Alright.. let me process the order right now.."
Suu!!
He disappeared and didn"t reappeared after that.
"Mother, are you going to get a discount again? By the looks of it, he doesn"t seemed that pleased.." Duan Li asked his mother.
"Of course! After all, this was still part of their rules, and I am just following it!" Meng Yue replied shamelessly.
Tap! Tap!
"Huh? Why the h.e.l.l are you peasants here?!"
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