After sizing up Ayman who called himself "manager", Connor fished out a dark green banknote from his wallet with Raul II's face printed on it and handed it over.
"Ten gold pounds. From now on, I want to reserve the restaurant for an hour!" Connor said with a calm expression.
Connor's words immediately caused Ayman, this fat middle-aged man, to be extremely astonished. However, as the manager of this restaurant, Ayman still had a polite smile on his face as he replied, "My apologies sir, there are still customers eating in the restaurant. Forgive me for not being able to agree to your conditions!"
Connor wasn't annoyed by Ayman's rejection. He nodded calmly and took out a dark green bill that was exactly the same as the one before and handed it over.
"Twenty gold pounds for an hour!"
The temptation of two dark green banknotes immediately caused Ayman to struggle. He hesitated for a moment before probing, "Sir, are you serious? Twenty gold pounds for an hour's reservation? "
Connor nodded solemnly, indicating that he wasn't joking.
Seeing this patron in front of him so certain, Ayman gritted his teeth and said, "Sir, please wait a moment!"
Ayman smiled apologetically and walked to the side of the customers eating in the restaurant. He bent over and explained something.
As a gentleman, Connor bowed slightly to express his apologies when he sensed the astonished gazes of the customers who were eating and Ayman's explanation.
Under the temptation of twenty gold pounds, Connor wasn't surprised by Ayman's choice. In the Kahman Empire's monetary system, gold pounds were the highest unit of currency. It was the gold standard currency. Gold pound banknotes could be directly exchanged for gold from the empire's bank. One gold pound was equivalent to twenty shillings. Gold pound banknotes had denominations of one, five, ten, and a hundred and four.
The second unit of currency below gold pounds was shillings. One shilling was equivalent to twelve pence. There were denominations of one, five, and thirteen. At the bottom of the pyramid was the penny. Although it was at the bottom, the penny was the most widely used currency of the Kahman people.
As the highest unit of currency in the Kahman Empire, the purchasing power of the gold pound was rather strong. According to Connor's calculations, one gold pound was equivalent to three thousand yuan. The twenty gold pounds he paid was equivalent to sixty thousand yuan. A restaurant like Clover Grass might not even be able to earn twenty gold pounds in two to three days after deducting rent, employee salaries, and various other costs. However, Connor's request was to reserve the restaurant for an hour. As long as the manager wasn't an idiot, he wouldn't refuse such a windfall.
Five minutes later, the only two tables of customers in the restaurant had finished their meals under Ayman's apologies and free of charge. Suddenly, the restaurant that could accommodate hundreds of people at the same time had no customers other than the waiters and Connor.
After finding a seat in the restaurant, before Ayman could ask what he wanted to eat, Connor spoke first, "I don't want to eat anything. I just want to sit here for a while. Without my request, don't come near. I'll leave in an hour." After saying that, Connor handed two ten gold pound banknotes to Ayman.
Seeing Connor's strange behavior, Ayman opened his mouth to say something. However, he ultimately chose not to meddle in other people's business. After receiving the banknotes, he bowed slightly to Connor and retreated.
Following Ayman's departure, Connor slowly closed his eyes. Although he could receive a considerable sum of money from the fund that his mother had prepared for him, twenty gold pounds was still not a small sum to him.
The reason why he had chosen to spend this money in such a 'wasteful' manner was not without purpose. Whether it was Zhang Tongming on Earth or the current Connor, they both viewed their lives as extremely important. To him, money was precious, but life was even more valuable!
Thus, he had come here and booked the entire Clover Restaurant for an hour at an exorbitant price. Connor's goal was to be able to use the environment here to help him recall the details of what had happened at the Clover Restaurant without being disturbed by others. The seat that Connor was currently sitting at was the seat that he had sat at at the Clover Restaurant on the last night of his memories.
'A.I. Chip! Retrieve Connor's last memory of the Clover Restaurant and begin scene recovery! 'Connor commanded in his heart.
[Beep! Following host's will, mission established. Beginning scene recovery.]
Following the A.I. Chip's voice, the scene of a man and a woman eating appeared in front of Connor's eyes five seconds later. It was as if a movie had been played.
It was a man and a woman. The man was tall and had a handsome face. Needless to say, he was the current Connor. As for the woman, she was also very beautiful. She had a tall and slender figure, fair and smooth skin, a round oval face, slightly curled blonde hair, and lastly, vivid ruby-like eyes. Even though Connor had seen countless beauties on the Internet, he had to admit that this young girl's charm was very difficult for a man to resist.
Carefully sizing up the woman in the scene, Connor's eyes narrowed. This woman was the Miss Rebecca that George had mentioned to him. She was also the last person that Connor had seen in his memories.
After George had mentioned this woman in the morning, the curious Connor had used the A.I. Chip to search for information on Miss Rebecca in his memories. However, the contents of the memories unexpectedly piqued Connor's interest, and led to everything that Connor was doing now.
According to Connor's memories, this young lady named Rebecca was the acknowledged beauty of the history department of Loen University. At the same time, she was Connor's dream lover. In order to understand everything about Rebecca, Connor had once hired a private investigator at a high price to investigate Rebecca's background. The information that the investigator had obtained was shocking. The young and beautiful Rebecca was actually the illegitimate daughter of Loen's great merchant, Fabinho. She was also the product of a night of debauchery with a stripper after Fabinho had gotten drunk.
In fact, investigating Rebecca's background wouldn't have been such a bad thing as long as he cleaned up his mess. Unfortunately, things went south here. Rebecca found out that Connor had investigated her background, and this made her furious. She publicly declared that she would rather find a vagrant as her boyfriend than date a noble like Connor.
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