Chapter 14
Eat a bite of beggar's chicken, and your neck will stretch two miles.
Xiao Yue walked out of the alley and came to Yanting Bridge. Feeling the cool breeze, he slowed down his steps towards South Street and took in the scenery of Liuyun City along the way.
Although this small town is located in a remote area, its architectural scenery is not backward at all. There are schools, temples, flower fields, and various shops... From a distance, it is full of the flavor of life.
As the sun slowly sets, lanterns light up under the eaves and in front of the stalls, creating another kind of prosperous scene.
Not to mention the bustling South Street, which is crowded with people and has everything for sale.
As soon as Xiao Yue arrived, his eyes lit up again and again, and before he knew it, his hands were full of things.
She didn't count how much money she had spent. She had only earned a few days' salary and had no chance to spend it normally, so now was the time to spend it.
When night falls, South Street is completely lit up with bright lights.
Xiao Yue was playing with an ancient gadget in his hand and stopped in front of a shop called "Li Ji Restaurant".
Speaking of which, she has never eaten food from this era, and to be honest, she is a little curious about what it tastes like.
But thinking back to the prices of delicious food in Floating Cloud City...is this money enough for a meal?
Xiao Yue pondered it secretly and decided to ask.
In such a big restaurant, you can’t possibly not allow customers to ask about the price of the food, right?
After thinking it through, Xiao Yue walked in.
As soon as I entered, the waiter came to greet me with a smile and a very enthusiastic expression.
"What would you like to eat, girl?"
Xiao Yue looked up at the small wooden sign hanging above the counter, on which were engraved the names of the dishes.
She looked at one of the dishes and asked, "How much is your stewed beef?"
The waiter was stunned for a moment. He was probably not the first to ask the price like this. He smiled and said, "Young lady, you have a good eye! This is our Li Ji's special signature dish. It's only 788 copper coins!"
"Where's the goose cooked in vinegar?" Xiao Yue's expression remained unchanged, and he glanced at the next wooden sign.
The waiter kept smiling: "This dish is also good, people often order it, it only costs 560 copper coins!"
"Eight Treasure Rice Pudding?"
"This one is even better for beauty and skin care, and it's only four hundred and ninety-six!"
"… Where's the beggar's chicken?"
"…This one is cheaper, only four hundred and ninety!"
The two asked and answered each other, and their tone became a little subtle at the end.
After Xiao Yue asked about a vegetarian dish worth 150 copper coins, he was silent for a moment. In front of the waiter's expectant face, he spoke word by word -
"Thank you. I'll have beggar's chicken."
The waiter almost couldn't hold back his smile and laughed, "Girl, you want this dish?"
"No?" Xiao Yue gave a polite smile and asked back.
The waiter choked and immediately put on a smile: "Okay, of course! Miss, this is your first time at Li Ji, let me introduce it to you. This is called Flower Chicken, but it is the most sophisticated way of making it at Li Ji, using..."
While listening to him, Xiao Yue followed him to an empty table and sat down.
It’s just that the location is a bit remote, right next to the stairs leading to the second floor. Inside the stairs is a passage leading to the backyard, and even the light seems a little dim.
"Girl, sit down first!"
After the waiter delivered the food, he left a few words and left.
Xiao Yue raised his eyebrows, looked around at the quiet surroundings, and sat down without saying anything.
Her attention was not on the waiter's different treatment, but on the beggar's chicken she ordered alone.
When food is so expensive that it is unbelievable, people usually don’t wonder why it is so expensive, but instead become curious.
——I would like to try it. Why is it so expensive?
This is what Xiao Yue thought. He couldn't understand why a mere beggar's chicken could be sold at such a high price.
She often heard customers in her store say that the food in this city was expensive, and a certain restaurant was even more expensive and unpalatable. If they set foot in it, their life would be over.
It wouldn't be like this in other places, right?
"Here comes your beggar's chicken!"
Not long after, the waiter came over with a plate of beggar's chicken and placed it on the table.
Xiao Yue looked down and saw that the beggar's chicken had been stripped of its outer layer of mud and was only wrapped in a layer of lotus leaves, which smelled faintly of grass leaves.
She pushed aside the slightly hot lotus leaf, and a puff of hot steam instantly came out, revealing the tender and golden chicken inside.
Hmm, the portion is quite small, but it smells surprisingly good?
Xiao Yue felt a little bit of anticipation in his heart, so he twisted off a chicken leg and put it into his mouth along with the chicken skin.
The first bite was bland and tasteless.
Xiao Yue blinked and started chewing.
The second bite was dry and tough.
Xiao Yue paused for a moment, began to chew slowly, and took a long time to swallow.
She pondered for a while, looking at the dish of beggar's chicken on the table, which had good color and fragrance but lacked taste, and didn't know how to comment on it for a moment.
High emotional intelligence: It’s tasteless to eat, but it’s a pity to throw it away.
Low EQ: That’s it, why is it so expensive?
No quality: Damn, whoever buys it will be wronged.
At this moment, Xiao Yue was the big victim. Looking at the chicken leg in his hand that he had only taken a bite of, he felt that the chicken had died in vain.
No wonder when I bound the system, the system said that the taste and price of food in this era did not match.
Is this a mismatch?
This is pure fraud!
A beggar's chicken is not only small in portion, but also costs nearly five hundred copper coins. Even the chicken legs are cooked so badly.
I dare not think about it. Xiao Yue doesn’t dare to think about it at all.
If the chicken legs are so tough, then if you take a bite of the meat from other parts of the chicken, wouldn’t the neck be so dry that it would stretch two miles?
Xiao Yue closed her eyes.
What could I do? Take one bite and stop eating?
Xiao Yue couldn't afford to be so wasteful, the only thing he was thankful for was that the beggar's chicken was small in portion. This was probably the only advantage he could find right now.
She opened her eyes, took a deep breath, and continued to eat as if it was tasteless. The more she ate, the more numb her expression became.
It wasn't until the last bite of the beggar's chicken was left that Xiao Yue felt relieved.
In her life... no, including her previous life before she traveled through time, she had never eaten such disgusting chicken!
If you cook a chicken like this, you will be laughed at by your classmates even if you die!
Xiao Yue quickened his chewing speed and looked around, wanting to call the waiter to settle the bill.
Coincidentally, the other party just walked over, with an expression as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.
"Pay the bill." Xiao Yue turned a blind eye and didn't want to care at all. He just wanted to leave here quickly.
Curiosity killed the cat, and she was no longer stubborn.
I'm already honest, please let me go!
Just as he swallowed the last bite, Xiao Yue wiped his hands, stood up, and prepared to look for the copper coins.
Unexpectedly, the waiter stretched out his hand to stop her and said awkwardly, "My lady, Master Zheng said he wants to invite you to the second floor to eat together. What do you think..."
Xiao Yue paused and before he could say anything, a drunken male voice came from the second floor.
"Young lady, can you please give me a favor?"
Xiao Yue looked up at the sound and saw a mature and suave man sitting in a private seat at the fence on the second floor.
He raised the wine jug, looked down with a slightly red face, and there was a blatant scrutiny in his eyes.
Treat her to a meal like this?
"No need, I don't know him and I don't want to go." Xiao Yue refused three times in a row, retracted his gaze, took out his purse, and counted out the money for the beggar's chicken.
Unexpectedly, Master Zheng just laughed, as if he didn't hear what she said.
"I have been observing you for a long time. This is the first time I have seen someone come to Li's for dinner, but he only ordered one dish because it was too expensive. But how can one dish fill you up? How about this, you come up and sit here, I have all the dishes, and I will buy you a drink?"
Xiao Yue sensed the contempt and frivolity in these words and suddenly laughed, and responded calmly.
"This is the first time I've seen someone so picky about a meal. Not only can he not understand what people say, he can't even speak it."
Xiao Yue didn't even look up at him again, and was ready to leave after she finished speaking.
Unexpectedly, the next second, a sound of footsteps came from the second floor.
Xiao Yue saw the waiter step forward and block her way with his hand. He looked apologetic and embarrassed, and didn't dare to look her in the eye.
What's the meaning?
Xiao Yue frowned slightly and looked back, and saw that the man was indeed walking down step by step.
He was still holding the wine jug in one hand and the wine glass in the other, and he was walking and pouring, staggering towards her.
"If you don't want to come up, then I'll come down." The man no longer smiled, staring at her with his eyes, and handed her the wine glass: "Come, have a drink with me?"
Xiao Yue smelled the strong stench of alcohol on him and felt like vomiting, but suddenly a smile appeared on her face.
The cold face suddenly became bright as a flame, which made Master Zheng stare at it in a daze, and his Adam's apple rolled.
The next second, he saw Xiao Yue stretch out his fair hand to take the wine glass, and he became excited.
"The taste of this wine..." Xiao Yue lowered her eyes and gently shook the glass, then looked up at him, her tone suddenly cold: "Just like you, disgusting."
Xiao Yue raised his hand and poured the wine directly onto his face.
Master Zheng was caught off guard and was drenched. He froze in place for a moment, letting the wine drip onto his face and hair.
"roll."
Xiao Yue had a cold expression on his face. He smashed the wine glass at his face and let it roll to the ground.
Idiot, teasing her?
Xiao Yue rolled her eyes and turned away.
But the next second, she felt a force on her shoulder and a hand pressed her down forcefully.
Xiao Yue moved, but not only could he not break free, he also felt a slight pain.
She was really annoyed this time, but before she could make any effort, a gray figure rushed over like the wind and tore her hand away.
“Pah—”
The sound of a resounding slap echoed throughout the lobby on the first floor, and Master Zheng was knocked directly onto the table nearby.
Xiao Yue was stunned and looked carefully. This time, the person standing in front of him was a woman, a familiar woman.
Fang Sanhong?
Xiao Yue was a little slow to react. She lowered her voice, stepped forward and kicked the man hard with her full weight.
"You daring bastard, try to touch me again?"
Master Zheng was already stunned by the slap she gave him, and now he rolled over on the ground screaming, unable to stand up for a while.
But he was still swearing incoherent and unpleasant words.
"square……"
Xiao Yue came back to his senses. He couldn't see Fang Sanhong's expression clearly. He could only see her back shaking with anger. She turned around and punched and kicked the waiter.
"Is this how Li's Restaurant does things? Not only do they condone people molesting young girls, but they also dare to help block the way? Do you want to die?"
The waiter grimaced in pain, but he dared not breathe or even make a sound.
Fang Sanhong became more and more angry as she watched, her chest heaving, and she raised her hand to untie the apron around her waist.
Only then did Xiao Yue notice how she was dressed. She looked like a dishwasher in a restaurant.
But at this moment, Fang Sanhong threw her apron hard at the waiter's face, took Xiao Yue's hand and led her out.
No one stopped me this time.
Xiao Yue felt the warmth of Fang Sanhong's palm and followed him without saying anything.
In the huge restaurant, Mr. Zheng, who had failed to molest someone, had already lost the ability to move, and the waiter was crying as he tried to help him up.
But he was so frightened that his whole body ached and he couldn't exert any strength.
Just at this moment, a woman wearing an apron walked in from the passage downstairs on the second floor, seemingly attracted by the scene.
"Liu Mei!" The waiter saw her with sharp eyes, and immediately found a place to vent his anger: "You are blind and deaf! Why don't you help to help Mr. Zheng up? What do you want to do?"
“Here, here I come!”
Liu Mei didn't understand the situation and rushed forward in a hurry. Unexpectedly, she stepped on a wine glass, slipped, and fell onto the waiter.
"Ouch--"
"Liu Mei!!!"
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