Since they arrived at the peach mountain in the morning, they had only visited a small corner of the peach mountain after traveling for about 4-5 hours. The peach mountain occupied a large area in Xuanyuan Hill with picturesque sceneries including streams, cliffs, waterfalls, stone carvings of literati and karst caves which were one of the top 10 sceneries in the peach mountain. It would take them at least 1 week to visit the entire peach mountain.
It was already noon by the time they arrived at the place where Yan Feiqing had beaten a certain someone.
Watching the taverns beside the peach brook at the foot of the peach mountain becoming boisterous, Zhang Tie felt pretty satisfied. Closely after that, he took the two girls to a nice tavern beside the peach brook and had lunch there. By the way, they would take a rest.
The waiters of the taverns in Xuanyuan Hill were famous for their sharp eyes. In Xuanyuan Hill, these waiters had been used to all kinds of people, such as princes, peddlers, peddlers, big businessmen, royal households and eccentric people from subcontinents. Therefore, they had long been sharp-eyed.
Soon after Zhang Tie took them to the gate of the Immortals Restaurant, the waiters' eyes turned bright at the sight of them. Closely after that, he tilted his head and shouted towards the inside of the tavern as if singing, "Honorable guests, one Heaven-class private room …" After saying that, the waiters immediately bowed towards Zhang Tie, Bai Suxian and Yan Feiqing with a big smile as he said, "Please come in, please come in, please come in. It's our great honor to have you here. We will definitely satisfy you …"
Zhang Tie burst out into laughter as he flicked a gold coin towards the waiters, saying, "It's your reward. Lead the way …"
The waiters caught the gold coin deftly as they revealed a more fervent smile and served them more passionately.
As it was lunchtime, there were already many people in the tavern, making it pretty boisterous.
There was a patio in the middle of the patio. There was a platform in the middle of the patio. There was an echo wall behind the platform. An elegant woman was sitting on a stool while holding a dulcimer in each hand. When she was striking the dulcimer strings, the cheerful, sweet-sounding sound drifted out of the platform like spring water, which was fascinating.
The diners gathered in the restaurant sat in a large circle around the patio and ate. While listening to the sound of the dulcimer, cheers could be heard from time to time. From time to time, some guests would throw some copper and silver coins into the water trough in front of the stage as a reward for the performers.
Because it was somewhat inelegant to throw the tips into the box, and it might even affect the performance on the stage, it was thrown into the water trough instead. It fell into the water silently, and it also looked more elegant. After every performance, the shop owner would count the money. After that, they would give the money in the water tank to the artistes. This money was the artistes' water money. Water money was clean money. Across Taixia Country, there were tens of thousands of artistes living on water money. When artistes performed, audiences would reward them. It was a special scenery in the pubs of Taixia Country.
The three of them entered the restaurant. Under the guidance of the waiter, they ascended the stairs from the corridor on the left of the entrance to the second floor. After that, they entered an elegant chartered room.
The chartered room was separated from the outside by a double-layered folding wooden peach wood screen. The back window of the chartered room faced the peach stream. The other window of the chartered room allowed them to enjoy the performance of the artistes downstairs.
"What do you think about this place?"
"Not bad, let's do it here!" Zhang Tie was not picky about these things. If not Yan Feiqing and Bai Suxian, Zhang Tie could even stay in the lobby downstairs. As it was clean and elegant here, Zhang Tie decided to stay here. The three of them then took a seat at the table.
"It's said that the mandarin fish in the peach stream of Xuanyuan Hill tastes good..." Bai Suxian told Zhang Tie with a smile.
"Three guests, we don't have mandarin fish these days. If you want to eat mandarin fish, you have to wait for 2 months..." the waiter said with a big smile at once after hearing Bai Suxian's words.
"Ahh, why?"
"Sir, please take a look!" The waiter pointed at a painting and a couplet on both sides of the painting.
The scene in the painting was the scenery of Peach Creek and Peach Mountain. In the clear water, mandarin fish with slightly fat bellies were swimming. Some mandarin fish were opening their mouths in the water, eating the petals of the peach blossoms floating on the water surface. There were also birds chirping on the peach trees, feeding them. The birds in the nests opened their mouths wide. The birds and the fish were very vivid. On both sides of the painting was a pair of couplets.
"I advise you not to eat fish in March, for thousands of fish are in your bellies."
"I advise you not to eat fish in March, for the children are waiting for their mothers in the nests."
"This is the rule set by the shopkeeper. Most of the restaurants on Peach Mountain follow the same rule. Young Master, please don't blame us …" The waiter explained with a face full of smiles. "These two days, apart from the mandarin fish from the peach creek, our restaurant actually has quite a few specialties and signature dishes. Our peach blossom cake and peach blossom wine are also top notch. I'm sure you'll be satisfied …"
"Okay, then you can serve the dishes!" Zhang Tie replied with a smile as he didn't make the waiter embarrassed. He just let the waiter serve the delicious dishes.
"I reckon that if there are too many dishes, the three of you won't be able to finish them. It would be a waste. How about I give you a few of our signature dishes and some refreshments?"
"Sure!"
The waiter bowed and exited the room.
After throwing another glance at the painting and the couplet in the room, Zhang Tie suddenly told Yan Feiqing and Bai Suxian with a sigh, "I know that the power of Hua people and Taixia Country is not only due to the large number of knights and outstanding battle strength. The root of the power lies in the Hua culture. In other subcontinents, dynasties and clans would rise and fall in each 200-300 years. Dynasties and major clans would rise and fall in each period. However, from the Catastrophe to the present, Taixia Country is growing more and more powerful. Why? Among all the human civilizations and countries, only Hua people know how to cherish blessings and the virtue of God. This is a powerful gene rooted in the cultural inheritance of Hua people. With such a cultural inheritance, Hua people could never be weak!"
After hearing Zhang Tie's words, Yan Feiqing and Bai Suxian nodded at the same time.
Only after a short while, the dishes had been served.
When Zhang Tie, Bai Suxian and Yan Feiqing tasted the dishes, they chatted and appreciated the performance downstairs in a relaxed and pleasant way.
Halfway through the meal, heavy footsteps rang out in the corridor outside. It seemed like a group of people were walking in from outside. Among the footsteps, a loud and coarse voice called out in somewhat irregular Chinese, "What? The standard room upstairs costs less than 30 silver coins, yet you're charging 2 silver coins? Why is it so expensive?"
Hearing this voice, Zhang Tie quivered all over as he stopped moving his chopsticks at once...
Zhang Tie would never forget this voice. Because this voice belonged to Captain Kerlin, the one-eyed man who left the darkest and most terrifying impression in the puberty of all the male horny students in the No. 7 Male Middle School in Blackhot City. Almost all the horny students in the No. 7 Male Middle School were living in the shadow of this man at that time. Even Zhang Tie felt that this one-eyed man might be one of the most terrifying people in the world for a period.
If not that his body had recovered and his hearing was normal, Zhang Tie almost thought that he had an auditory hallucination.
Noticing that Zhang Tie stopped moving his chopsticks after hearing this voice, Bai Suxian and Yan Feiqing fixated onto Zhang Tie out of curiosity. They both guessed that Zhang Tie might be familiar with that person.
"Do you know him?" Yan Feiqing asked Zhang Tie in a secret way. Zhang Tie nodded.
After exchanging a glance with each other, Yan Feiqing and Bai Suxian became silent as they were both curious about the relationship between Zhang Tie and that person outside.
"Kerlin, it's a private room, not a standard room. I've told you many times. Why do you always confuse it?" Another helpless and lazy voice sounded. Zhang Tie was also familiar with this voice. It belonged to Zerom. Compared to Captain Kerlin's half-baked Hua language, Zerom's Hua language was much more fluent. "Fine, now that there are no tables downstairs, we will take the private room upstairs..."
Zerom said the latter words to the waiter.
"Do we still have so much money? Who said that we should be frugal this morning? Although it's cool to dine and dash here, I'm afraid that we can't afford the consequences …" Captain Kerlin mumbled in Hebrew instead of Hua language.
"Who said that we are going to eat and dash? Although we can save some money, we should not feel wronged..." Zerom replied in Hebrew as he entered the private room beside Zhang Tie's. "No matter what, if we run out of money, we will apply for some expenses from Milton..."
"But Milton, that old guy, has been looking more and more strange these days. I feel that he might think that we're liars. He's thinking about how to deal with us by chopping us into pieces!" Captain Kerlin continued to mumble in Hebrew.
"Can you show me your menu?" Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem After entering the private room, Zerom ignored Captain Kerlin; instead, he told the waiter in Chinese.
After ordering some dishes and the waiter left, Zerom's voice sounded once again as he said in Hebrew, "He's just doubting; instead of confirming it. This is Taixia Country, Xuanyuan Hill, a city of human cities and countries. It's a place where even knights would be beheaded if they killed people without any reason. Any big figure in any country has no extraterritorial rights here. Milton doesn't dare do anything to us. Additionally, it's not our fault. After coming here for over 3 months, he didn't even meet the diplomat of Rhesa Republic in Xuanyuan Hill, not to mention the diplomat of Taixia Country. What can we do..."
(To be continued.)
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