Just as the two were eating and chatting, a noise came from downstairs, attracting their attention.
They looked over and saw a strong man beating an old man.
The old man curled up on the ground with blood coming from the corner of his mouth, looking very pitiful.
The people around looked at him sideways, but no one dared to step forward to stop him.
Seeing this, Chu Lingxiao looked at Gu Qingze and said, "Let's go downstairs and take a look."
Gu Qingze shook his head and pulled at the corner of his clothes. "Don't be impulsive. Let's see what happens first. I don't believe that this restaurant has been open for so long and doesn't have a way to deal with this kind of thing."
At this time, the strong man stopped what he was doing and glared at everyone fiercely, "Who is meddling in other people's business? I'll fight you all together. If you don't want to die, get out of the way."
At this moment, a waiter came over and said to the strong man with a smile: "Sir, calm down and talk things over nicely."
The strong man yelled, "Stop talking nonsense! This old man stained my clothes and he doesn't want to pay for it!"
The old man said in a trembling voice: "I... I have no money..."
The waiter looked at the old man, then at the strong man, thought for a while, and made a suggestion.
"But if you hit someone, your clothes won't get clean."
"How about this? Shilixiang is short of staff. I'll let him do some odd jobs there and pay him some money. Your clothes are only worth 300 Nebula Coins in the market. When I have enough money, I'll give them to you. How about that?"
The strong man thought about it and felt that there was some truth in it. He was also angry just now.
"Then I want to sign with him."
The waiter looked at the old man with a smile and carefully helped him up from the ground.
"What do you think of this approach?"
The old man coughed a few times and nodded. If it weren't for the waiter, he would have been beaten to death today.
"Great! Another conflict was resolved peacefully today!"
The waiter seemed to not care about what others thought and celebrated on his own.
"This waiter is a little strange."
Chu Lingxiao said to Gu Qingze in a low voice.
"However, his way of handling the situation was indeed acceptable. Although it wasn't entirely fair, it did help to prevent the conflict."
Gu Qingze commented that, after all, if this happened in modern society, the person who hit someone would definitely go to jail and pay for medical expenses, but in this context, being able to handle it to this extent was already quite good.
Looking at another waiter who was watching the incident like them, with an envious look on his face, Chu Lingxiao grabbed him and asked in confusion.
"You seem very envious, why?"
"Oh," the waiter came back to his senses, "It's like this, sir. The owner of the 'Shilixiang' restaurant has a rule: if you can independently resolve a conflict in the restaurant, and everyone around you thinks it's fair, you'll receive ten times the reward that month."
"However, I'm not that powerful. When encountering such a thing, I don't even dare to show up. I can only earn money through hard work."
The waiter envied others and sighed about his own lack of ambition.
Gu Qingze did not focus on this matter. He had just been watching the whole process of the incident and its resolution.
He noticed that before the waiter came out, a man in white had his sword slightly unsheathed. Only after the waiter resolved the matter did he put the sword back with peace of mind.
Because he was facing the man's back, Gu Qingze vaguely felt that the man was inexplicably familiar... as if he had seen him somewhere before.
"Qingze?"
Chu Lingxiao watched him suddenly stand up and go downstairs, and followed him helplessly.
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