Chapter 920 – Knowing Her Highness Through Watching Her Food (1/2)
Chapter 920 – Knowing Her Highness Through Watching Her Food
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
A few patrons who knew of Xuanyuan Po's experiences in the capital gave a few whispered explanations, upon which the rest of the patrons came to know that Xuanyuan Po's right arm had been injured once and had seemingly been crippled.
”Do you really believe the boasts of a cripple like this? And an expert of the Tianhai clan… He might as well just say it was Tianhai Shengxue!”
The drunkard, smelling of alcohol, called out, then spat in front of Xuanyuan Po's feet.
Xuanyuan Po remained silent, not speaking, much less countering. He used his right hand to arduously take the wine pots from his left arm and place them on the tables.
The drunkard was incensed at the fact that he was being ignored. He continued to curse, his words becoming more and more unpleasant.
Several patrons began to follow suit, aiming all sorts of jeers and taunts at Xuanyuan Po.
Xuanyuan Po continued to ignore them. After delivering the wine pots, he turned and prepared to go back.
The drunkard suddenly stood up and called out, ”Hey, bear cub, stop right there.”
Xuanyuan Po stopped and looked over.
The drunkard belched and mumbled out, ”Did you really go to the capital?”
Xuanyuan Po nodded.
The drunkard asked, ”You're really schoolmates with His Holiness the Pope?”
Xuanyuan Po pondered this question, then corrected, ”At the very start, we were both students, but later on, he became principal while I became a supervisor.”
The drunkard roared with laughter, as did many of his fellows. They felt this response to truly be too absurd.
The drunkard pointed at Xuanyuan Po's right arm and jeered, ”Just look at his arm. This is a cripple without a single bit of strength, only good for washing dishes. And he has the nerve to say that he was a supervisor of the Orthodox Academy? That's the Orthodox Academy we're talking about here!? If you have that capability, what are you doing washing dishes here?”
The capital of the Great Zhou was simply too far away from the world of the demi-humans, so the specific details of the events taking place there would rarely reach the small taverns of White Emperor City, but any patron of any tavern, no matter how drunk, would know of the Orthodox Academy.
Their most beloved and worshipped princess had once been a student of the Orthodox Academy, and her teacher was the current Pope.
If Xuanyuan Po really had stayed in the Orthodox Academy and had even been a supervisor, how could he be washing dishes in a filthy little tavern like this?
Several patrons seated around a corner table creased their brows and glanced at each other, quite confused. These people were low-level enforcers working for trading companies and had once accompanied a caravan to the capital. They knew that Xuanyuan Po wasn't lying, but they also didn't know why he was in his current situation.
”His Holiness the Pope hasn't appeared once since he's left the capital. He might not even have time to take care of himself, so how can he worry about this guy?”
”What about Her Highness?”
”It is a matter from quite a few years ago, and how can a noble remember something from so long ago? Besides… I heard that Xuanyuan Po left the capital before the coup of the Mausoleum of Books. Based on the time he left, he probably saw the way the wind was blowing and ran away, so how can he still have the face to see Her Highness?”
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The owner of the tavern saw the crowd getting rowdier and rowdier, so he harshly reproved Xuanyuan Po and sent him back into the kitchen.
Xuanyuan Po didn't have much of a response. He took another tub of dirty dishes to the back and continued to silently wash them.
In these past three years, he had been jeered at and cursed as a cripple countless times, but he had never once cared. It wasn't because he had grown numb, nor was it because of his wooden personality. It was because he knew that he wasn't a cripple, nor did he feel like he had fallen into disgrace.
When his right arm had been crippled by Tianhai Ya'er, he had withdrawn from Star Seizer Academy on his own volition and taken a job in the capital's night market washing dishes. All he was doing now was taking up his old profession.