Chapter 88 (1/2)
Chapter 88: One and His Enemies Are Bound to Meet
Translator: GravityTales Editor: GravityTales
The Everlasting Feast Hall had a total of three floors with interesting and appealing antique interior decorations. The first floor was an open-style dining hall with 200 dining tables. The second floor was for 108 private dining boxes with a spacious and comfortable environment. And the third floor was for the Honorable Guests area. And the number of people who were eligible to enter this floor could be counted with one’s hands.
The restaurant manager had already been notified about Tang Xiu’s arrival and greeted warmly, “You’re Mr. Tang, yes? I’m the manager of Everlasting Feast Hall, Chu Yanqing. Little Boss has already informed me that the Honorable Guest’s lounge on the third floor has already been prepared. You and your friends can dine there right now. Your necessities are on us, free of charge.”
“Please lead the way!” Tang Xiu calmly nodded.
Jia Ruidao was somewhat quite excited and followed Tang Xiu at his side. He then smiled and said, “Brother Tang, we’ve been sucked into a limelight just because we’re with you. Do you know that countless dignitaries want to dine on the third floor and got stopped by the security guards? I have never thought that I could also dine in the Everlasting Feast Hall’s Honorable Guest Lounge today.”
Tang Xiu shook his head and said, “It’s just a mundane life enjoyment. It has no significant meaning.”
Jia Ruidao smiled wryly, “Each person has a different pursuit in life. For you, it’s only trivial and mundane, and such a person like you is very rare!”
Tang Xiu thought that Jia Ruidao’s words were quite reasonable. Everyone had their own pursuit. Some were after fame and mundane life enjoyment. Some others pursued spiritual balance and advancement. He himself also only pursued 2 points, wanting to be with his mother and make her happy, and cultivating himself.
The third floor had a total of 18 private halls, with each nearly 200 square meters big. Although the interior decoration was also filled with antiquities, but it was luxuriously and exquisitely designed. Even though Tang Xiu wasn’t an antique expert, he could see that those objects inside were antiquities.
“Ah, painting?” The moment Jia Ruidao entered the private hall, he found the wall was filled with calligraphies and paintings. After having observed for awhile, he suddenly exclaimed.
The restaurant manager smiled, “Our boss once participated in an auction at the port area. So she bought this painting from there. I heard she had spent 9 digits to win the bid.”
Tang Xiu’s complexion moved and asked, “You have seen your boss? What I mean is, not your Little Boss.”
The restaurant manager nodded and said, “Of course! I have seen her when I got bankrupt due to my gambling addiction. I even listed the company and lost my CEO position. My family was broken, we couldn’t even have a decent full three meals a day that time. It could be said that life for me was falling into the abyss. Then, I met Boss. She paid my debt, taught me martial arts, and let me manage this Everlasting Feast Hall for her. Time does fly fast. It has been 20 years since I’ve been here.”
Tang Xiu asked, “What’s your Boss’s name? How old is she?”
The restaurant manager answered, “We cannot easily expose our boss’s name. But for her age… I have seen her 4 times in the last 10 years. When I first met her, she looked like she was in her 20s. And the last time I saw her in the last 10 years, she was still just like in her 20s. And this also made me feel strange. It is as though time doesn’t leave any traces on her at all.”
20-year-old appearance? Wasn’t it almost the same as Gu Xiaoxue?
Tang Xiu frowned. A little girl’s appearance emerged in his mind. The first time she left him, her appearance was in her 18s.
Tang Xiu suddenly said, “Please help me find a pen and paper.”
“Please wait a bit!”
Restaurant manager immediately informed Tang Xiu’s request to another attendant through his walkie-talkie. He then put the menu in front of Tang Xiu and the others. When Tang Xiu and the others had finished ordering the food, he handed the pen and paper to Tang Xiu. Whilst waiting for the ordered dishes to come, Tang Xiu painted someone’s face on the paper.
It was his first apprentice’s appearance in the Immortal World that he was painting. He painted her in her 18s’ appearance, the blooming flower-like age. Along with Tang Xiu’s drawing, a vivid-lifelike girl portrait gradually presented itself. It was as though the painting was alive, and the girl was very beautiful, she would even be able to conquer people and country alike with her smiling appearance. The girl being portrayed on the paper was smiling, as though the painting was alive.
“What a beautiful painting!” Jia Ruidao and his apprentices said inside the hall, as well as the restaurant manager who was being attracted deeply by the girl painted by Tang Xiu. They were as though in a trance seeing such a country-toppler-gorgeous girl. It was as if she was standing and smiling in front of them.
“Take a look, did she look like this?” Tang Xiu turned and spoke to the restaurant manager, and asked in a deep tone.
The restaurant manager was abruptly awoken from his trance-like fascination. He reluctantly moved his eyes from the painting, shook his head and then replied, “What you painted is a fairy. Although our Boss is very beautiful, but she’s completely different from your painting.”
“Is it not her?” A trace of loss and a disappointed feeling arose inside Tang Xiu’s heart. But, a trace of relief also surfaced. He did indeed want to see his first apprentice that he had brought up and cared about, but he was afraid that she was also involved with those who had betrayed him.
“Forget it, then. Thanks, you can go back to your work!”
“Alright!”
The restaurant manager complied and then left the hall.
Delicious and exquisite delicacies, as well as exquisite wines were unceasingly sent to their dining table. 2 young pretty attendants didn’t leave the hall as they served and filled wine cups for Tang Xiu, Jia Ruidao, and the others.
“The wine is decent enough!”