Volume Four, Volume 47, Chapter 11, The Old Ones Come
I arrived at Taoshan in the morning and spent nearly four or five hours there. I just visited a small corner of Taoshan. Taoshan occupies a vast area in Xuanyuan Hill and is full of picturesque scenery. There are streams, cliffs, and waterfalls everywhere. Scholars from all ages have visited Taoshan.
The stone carvings of Saoke, as well as the underground palace caves, which are known as one of the ten scenic spots in Taoshan. It would take at least a week to visit Taoshan.
After walking around the place where Yan Feiqing had beaten someone, it was already noon.
Seeing that various restaurants along Taoxi at the foot of Taoshan had begun to become lively, Zhang Tie was satisfied, so he took his two daughters to a restaurant that looked pretty good on Taoxi in Taoshan and went to have lunch.
Take a break by the way.
The waiters who solicit customers in front of restaurants in Xuanyuan Hill are famous in Taixia for their poisonous eyes. These people are used to seeing all kinds of people in Xuanyuan Hill, ranging from princes and nobles to traffickers and pawns.
There are also wealthy merchants, royal families, strange people and strangers from various subcontinents, etc., who have already developed a pair of piercing eyes through experience.
Zhang Tie had just led Bai Suxian and Yan Feiqing to the door of the restaurant called Xiankeju. When the waiter saw the three people, his eyes lit up. Without thinking, he tilted his head and shouted into the restaurant, "
Just like singing, "Three distinguished guests, one private room in the Tianzi No. 1 private room..." After saying this, the waiter immediately smiled with a smile on his face, nodded to Zhang Tie and the others, bowed his waist, and made an invitation gesture, "Please, you three."
, please come inside, please come inside, the three of you will come, the shop will be full of glory, and it will definitely satisfy you three..."
Seeing that the waiter was amusing, Zhang Tie laughed, flicked his fingers, and a gold coin flew towards the waiter, "It's your reward, please lead the way..."
The waiter quickly took the gold coins. The smile on his face became a little more eager, and the service became even more enthusiastic.
It's lunch time now, and there are already many people in the restaurant. It's quite lively.
There is a patio inside the restaurant, and there is a table in the middle of the patio. There is an echo wall behind the table. An elegant woman is sitting on a stool, holding a qin and bamboo in each hand, and is tapping
The cheerful and sweet sound of the dulcimer strings emerged from the qin stand like spring water, which was fascinating.
The diners gathered in the restaurant sat in a large circle around the patio, eating while listening to the watery sound of the dulcimer. From time to time, there were bursts of cheers, and from time to time, some guests threw some copper and silver coins.
Entering the water tank in front of the stage was a reward for the performing woman.
Because the tip money was thrown into the box and the tinkling sound was a bit indecent and might affect the performance of the people on the stage, so I put it into the sink instead. The falling water made no sound and seemed more elegant. Every time
After the performance, the store will count it again, or take a commission, and then take out the money in the water tank to the artist. This money is the artist's water money, and the water money is clean money. The whole Taixia lives on water money.
There are countless artists who perform, and the audience rewards them. This can be regarded as a unique scenery in Taixia Hotel.
The three people entered the restaurant, and under the leadership of the waiter, they went up the stairs from the corridor on the left side of the door to the second floor. They entered an elegant private room.
The private room is separated from the outside by a two-layer folded wooden peach screen. The window at the back of the private room faces Taoxi, while the window on the other side allows you to enjoy the performances of the artists downstairs.
"What do you three think of this place?"
"Yes, let's go here!" Zhang Tie is not too picky about these things. If he hadn't brought Yan Feiqing and Bai Suxian with him, it wouldn't have mattered to Zhang Tie even if he was in the lobby below. Seeing that this place is quite clean and elegant,
So we decided to sit here, and the three of us sat down at the table.
"I heard that the mandarin fish in Taoxi in Xuanyuan Hill is pretty good..." Bai Suxian said to Zhang Tie with a smile.
"You guys, there is no mandarin fish available in the store these days. If you want to eat mandarin fish, you have to wait for two months..." Upon hearing Bai Suxian's words, the waiter immediately said with a smile on his face.
"Ah, why?"
"Please take a look, sir!" The waiter pointed at a painting hanging in the box and the couplets on both sides of the painting.
The scene in the painting is the scenery of Taoxi and Taoshan. In the clear stream, mandarin fish with slightly fat bellies are swimming. Some mandarin fish are opening their mouths in the water to eat the food falling on the water.
The petals of the peach blossoms, as well as the birds chirping on the peach trees, are feeding. The birds in the nest open their mouths wide. The birds and fish are both vivid and vivid. On both sides of this painting is a
Vice couplet.
"I advise you not to eat fish in March, as there are thousands of fish larvae in your belly."
"I advise you not to kill the three spring birds. The son is waiting in the nest for his mother to return."
"This is a rule set by the shopkeeper. Most of the restaurants in Taoshan are also like this. Sir, don't blame me..." the waiter explained with a smile on his face, "In the past two days, except for Taoxi Mandarin Fish,
In addition, the shop actually has many specialty dishes and signature dishes. The shop’s peach blossom cakes and peach blossom wine are also excellent, and they are guaranteed to satisfy you, sir..."
"Okay, then just watch the food being served!" Zhang Tie smiled and did not embarrass the waiter. There was no need to order any dishes. Just let the waiter bring the delicious ones.
"I guess there are too many dishes that three of us can't finish. It's a waste. How about the shop give you a few signature seasonal dishes and some refreshments?"
"OK!"
The waiter bowed and exited the room.
Zhang Tie looked at the paintings and couplets hanging in the room again, and suddenly said to Yan Feiqing and Bai Suxian with emotion, "I know now that the so-called strength of the Hua people and Taixia is by no means just
There are many knights and superior force. The source of the strength of Taixia and the Chinese people is still in the culture of the Chinese people. In other subcontinents, various dynasties and races rise and fall alternately. Every two or three hundred years, there is a new situation. Every time there are dynasties and
Rich families will prosper and then decline, and cannot last long. However, from the Great Catastrophe to the present, Taixia has become stronger and stronger. Why, because among all the civilizations and countries of all races, only the Chinese know what cherishing blessings is and what the virtue of heaven is.
, this is a powerful gene rooted in the cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. With such cultural heritage, it is difficult for the Chinese nation to be strong or not!"
Yan Feiqing and Bai Suxian listened and nodded.
In a short while, the food was ready.
Zhang Tie, Bai Suxian and Yan Feiqing were chatting and enjoying the performances below while tasting the dishes in the store. They were very relaxed and comfortable.
Just in the middle of the meal, heavy footsteps sounded in the corridor outside. It seemed that a group of people were walking outside. Among the footsteps, there was a loud and rough voice, speaking in a somewhat unstandardized way.
shouted in Chinese, "What? If you spend less than 30 silver coins on the standard room upstairs, you will be charged a room fee of 2 silver coins. Why is it so expensive?"
Hearing this voice, Zhang Tie's whole body was shocked. The chopsticks in his hand stopped and he forgot to move...
Zhang Tie will never forget this voice, because the owner of this voice is the one-eyed Captain Colin who once left the darkest and most terrifying impression on all the male beasts among the Seventh Man in Black Flame City during their adolescence. The Seventh Man
At the beginning, few of the animals in the film were living in the shadow of this man. Even Zhang Tie himself felt that this one-eyed dragon might be one of the most terrifying people in the world for a while.
If his body had not recovered and his hearing was not normal at this moment, Zhang Tie would have almost thought that he was hallucinating.
Seeing that Zhang Tie stopped when he heard this voice, Bai Suxian and Yan Feiqing both cast curious eyes on Zhang Tie. They both guessed that Zhang Tie might be familiar with the person who made the voice outside.
"Do you know people outside?" Yan Feiqing's voice reached his ears, and Zhang Tie nodded.
Yan Feiqing and Bai Suxian looked at each other and stopped talking. Both of them were curious about Zhang Tie's relationship with the people outside.
"Colin, this is a private room, not a standard room. I've told you many times, why do you always get it confused!" Another helpless and lazy voice sounded. This voice was equally familiar to Zhang Tie. It belonged to Jerome
, compared to Captain Colin's half-baked Chinese, Jerome's Chinese is much more authentic, "Okay, since there are no tables downstairs, then we will take the private room upstairs..."
Jerome said the last sentence to the waiter.
"Do we still have that much money? Who told us this morning that we should save a little bit. Although it is great to eat the Overlord meal here, I guess we may not be able to bear the consequences..." Captain Colin said in a murmured voice.
Now that I realize it, this sentence is no longer in Chinese, but in Hebrew.
"Who said we have to eat the King's meal? The province is the province, but we can't wrong ourselves too much..." Jerome replied in Hebrew. As he spoke, several people entered the private room next to Zhang Tie and the others.
"Anyway, if the money runs out, then go to Milton to apply for some activity funds..."
"But that old guy in Milton has been looking at us more and more wrongly these days. I think he may think we are liars, and he is thinking of how to deal with us and cut us into pieces!" Captain Colin continued to use
The Hebrew murmured.
"Can you show me your menu?" Entering the private room next to him, Jerome ignored Captain Colin and said to the waiter in the store in Chinese.
After ordering a few dishes and the waiter leaving, Jerome's voice sounded again, saying in Hebrew, "He just suspected, not confirmed, this is Taixia, the hill of Xuanyuan, the city of ten thousand cities of the human race."
The city, the capital of all nations, is a place where knights who kill for no reason will be beheaded. No big shot in any country has extraterritorial rights here. Milton doesn't dare to do anything to us. Besides, he can't blame us. The three of us who came here
For many months, he has been holding a pile of documents, but he has not even seen the diplomats of the Resa Republic stationed in Xuanyuan Hill, let alone the diplomats of Taixia. What can we do..."