The official smiled and opened the food box, taking out the food.
"This is fried peanuts, this is stir-fried pork with green peppers, there's braised lion's head, and there's a bowl of tomato and egg soup."
"Ten white flour steamed buns, ten mixed grain steamed buns, and three meat buns..."
"And a jug of wine."
The official took out a palm-sized wine jug from the food box and carefully placed it in front of Wu Ma Chaofu.
"Sir, the restaurant can only make these dishes, and it cost a total of 150 taels of silver."
"There is also a basin of water for adults to wash."
The official waved to his subordinate, who immediately walked over to Wu Ma Chaofu with the basin and let him take a look.
Wu Ma Chaofu looked at the three dishes and one soup on the table, and the corners of his mouth twitched twice.
At first glance, the fried peanuts didn't even fill the bottom of the plate, and the stir-fried pork with green peppers barely formed the bottom.
The braised lion's head was only as big as two eggs, with a thin slice of tomato floating in the tomato and egg soup, and the egg flowers were not clearly visible.
Steamed buns, dumplings, and steamed corn bread are all half the size of what they used to be, only about the size of an egg.
The wine in the jug was probably only enough for him to take two or three sips.
Black marketeers, this is simply robbery.
Wu Ma Chaofu looked at the dishes on the table and became more and more angry, but he couldn't let the officials make a wasted trip.
This is the current market situation. I guess even if I spend so much money in the next city, I may not be able to eat such food.
The officials were so frightened by Wu Ma Chaofu's ugly face that their hearts were in their throats.
I guess he won't be asked to subsidize the 40 taels of silver.
Wu Ma Chaofu gritted his teeth and pulled out fifty taels of silver from his pocket and stuffed it into the official's pocket.
"Thanks for your hard work!"
"It's not hard, it's not hard!" The official took the banknote and finally put down his hanging heart. As long as he didn't lose money, it would be fine. It would be fine if he earned less.
"Please have your meal, my lord. We will take our leave now."
The official collected the banknotes and quickly left the room with his men.
Wu Ma Chaofu paid the silver and turned around to see that the female official with the gap teeth had already taken a meat bun.
"you....."
Wu Ma Chaofu glared at the female official with the gap in her teeth, and seeing her reaching out for the meat buns again, he quickly grabbed the remaining two meat buns in his hand.
The female official with the gap-toothed hand grabbed nothing, and then reached out to the white flour buns and grabbed two, one in each hand.
She was really starving to death. Who could stand eating just this one meal a day?
The toothless female official stretched her neck out of choking and picked up a spoon to scoop out the tomato and egg soup.
Wu Ma Chaofu looked at the female official with a gap in her teeth who was increasingly disregarding her image while eating, and rolled his eyes at her.
"You are at least a first-class lady-in-waiting to His Majesty. If someone saw you behaving like this, they would think you were a refugee from somewhere."
Fortunately, those secret guards could find food for themselves. If he had to provide them with food, the little silver he brought would not be enough to cover their expenses.
The empress only gave him two thousand taels of silver for travel expenses, and he had already spent more than three hundred taels of silver before he even spent half of it.
After the gap-toothed female official ate a meat bun and a steamed bun, her hunger finally subsided and she began to eat more elegantly.
"Don't blame me, Master Wu Ma. I'm so hungry that I can't even think about my image."
Wu Ma smiled softly at Fu, picked up the wine jug and took a sip.
"Hiss~"
Wu Ma Chaofu drank some wine and ate some peanuts with his dishes.
With such a small amount of food, the two of them finished it all in no time with the steamed buns.
Wu Ma Chaofu picked up the two remaining steamed buns on the table and prepared to give them to the crazy beggar while burping.
"Sir." The female official with gap teeth rolled her eyes and quickly stood up to grab the plate from Wu Ma Chaofu's hand.
"I'll go take some food to the crazy beggar. You've been tired all day, just rest early."
Along the way, she discovered that the crazy beggar didn't need Wu Ma Chaofu's instructions to eat. As long as the food was placed in front of him, he would stuff it into his mouth woodenly.
She asked Wu Ma Chaofu, who said it was an instinctive reaction and that he would eat when he was hungry.
Otherwise, he would order people to go out on long missions, and if they didn't eat or drink, they would starve to death.
Wu Ma Chaofu looked at the female official with the gap-toothed face, then lowered his eyes to glance at his trembling thighs.
"Okay, just drop it off on your way. Don't mess with crazy beggars, or you'll be the one in trouble."
Wu Ma Chaofu looked at the female official with gaped teeth seriously.
This woman seemed to have a grudge against the crazy beggar. Several times he found her staring at the crazy beggar with malicious eyes.
Thinking of this, Wu Ma Chaofu frowned and said, "Forget it, I'll go by myself."
He was really worried, but it was just next door anyway, and making one more trip wouldn't tire him out.
"Oh, don't worry, sir. I know what I'm doing. I've eaten so much of your food, and running errands can only tire me out."
The female official with the gap-toothed face directly protected the plate in her arms, stretched out her hand to push Wu Ma Chaofu down to sit down.
"I'll just go back to my room and do it, saving you the trip."
"My Lord, please go to bed early..."
The female official with the gap in teeth walked towards the door while speaking and quickly closed Wu Ma Chaofu's door.
The moment the door was closed, the female official with the gap in the tooth raised an evil smile at the corner of her mouth.
A crazy beggar is not worthy of eating. Eat nothing.
The female official with the gap in the tooth put the two multi-grain buns in her arms, and when she walked to the door of the crazy beggar, she pushed the door open.
Seeing the crazy beggar still sitting blankly beside the bed, a sneer appeared on the corner of her mouth.
“It’s time to eat!”
The female official with the gap in her teeth deliberately shouted for Wu Ma Chaofu to hear, then walked in and placed the empty plate next to the crazy beggar, and whispered,
"Eat the plate, it's crunchy."
After saying that, the female official with gap teeth walked out of the room with an evil smile on her face.
Xiao Yunhao glanced at the empty plate beside him and chuckled.
I’m quite full, let’s add an activity tonight.
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