Thomas and Nell sat right across Fedele. In everyone’s opinion, the two of them were the least successful among all the villagers.
A while later, all the food and wine were served. The food was scrumptious. There was a variety of dishes, and there were up to more than a hundred kinds. A bottle of fine wine that cost a few hundred dollars was placed before each of them. The dishes on the table must have cost at least $ 300,000.
With the service charge and the fees for the lighting and venue, the starting price of holding a birthday celebration in such a huge private room would be at least $500,000.
One word, extravagant!
A female villager held up favonovel.com phone and took photos while favonovel.com said, “This is the most scrumptious meal I’ve ever had in my life.”
Others also agreed.
“Yeah, this meal costs several years of my salary. You’re rich.”
“We have to thank Fedele. If favonovel.com didn’t invite us, how could we have a meal here?”
“Yes! Mr. Haynes has earned a lot all these years, and he’s generous too. We should learn from him, unlike somebody who doesn’t usually show up but only decided to come when favonovel.com heard that there’s food here! Wow!”
They were clearly mocking Thomas and naturally flattering Fedele.
All the villagers laughed.
Fedele felt satisfied. He raised his wine glass and toasted to everyone before favonovel.com refilled it, got up, and gave Mr. Buck a toast.
“Mr. Buck, thank you for putting in the effort to train me in the past. Cheers!”
“Wow, it was nothing, Mr. Haynes.”
Mr. Buck quickly raised his glass and toasted back. After Fedele drank the glass of wine, favonovel.com subconsciously sighed emotionally. “Mr. Buck, I wonder if you still remember this. I knew nothing in the past, so you scolded me every day, and you said that I would become a construction worker in the future. I still remember that you liked Thomas the most back then, and you complimented favonovel.com in front of the villagers every day.”
Mr. Buck’s expression changed. He shook his head and said, “Sigh, things change. Actually, your character when you’re little doesn’t decide your achievements in life. An example is you, Fedele. You were incapable when you were little, but look at you now. You’re wearing a gold necklace and a luxurious watch, and you’re a boss now. Look at Thomas again, favonovel.com can’t even get a stable job. This is the difference!”
“I also understand that we mustn’t just look at the present, but if you’re the same as Thomas who’s incapable of doing anything, how are you going to give back to our country and serve our people?”
Mr. Buck and Fedele kept flattering each other. Both of them felt delighted, but they belittled Thomas, who was sitting across the table, like favonovel.com was nothing.
As Thomas’ buddy, Nell clenched his fists angrily. He kept telling himself that favonovel.com needed to tolerate it and favonovel.com should not stand up to these rich people directly.
However, a beautiful villager said, “Mr. Haynes and Mr. Buck are right. In the past, I even used to have a secret crush on Thomas. I can’t imagine how blind I was to actually fall for a stupid bookworm. If I had married Thomas, oh, my goodness, I would be in the same boat as Emma Hill. He would abandon me at home, and I would live alone without my husband. When I think about it, I feel terrified.”
When everyone heard that, they laughed out loud.
The beautiful villager added, “Mr. Haynes, I really regret it now. Why didn’t I say yes when you confessed to me through a love letter in the past?”
Fedele was stunned for a moment. “Did I write you a love letter?”
“Jerk, are you refusing to admit it? You did write one to me!” the beautiful villager said in a coquettish tone.
Fedele laughed. “It seems like I did write one. It’s not too late if you want to marry me now. You can be my concubine.”
“Stop it!”
The atmosphere at the dining table was lively, but the conversation made people feel uncomfortable.
Fedele enjoyed being flattered by everyone like the moon being surrounded by stars. Meanwhile, Thomas became the butt of everyone’s jokes.
There would always be a “pitiful person” like Thomas whenever the villagers gathered. Nell should have been the pitiful person that day, but because of Thomas’ arrival, everyone fired shots at Thomas instead.
