Chapter 68 Liuxiang Restaurant (1/2)
Bang! Bang! Boom! Boom!
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After the wall had been penetrated, the broken bricks fell to the floor, and the loud crashing sounds shocking the stunned Wu Wentao and the rest.
“Uncle Fan!” The expression of Wu Wentao, governor of Guangling prefecture and Wu family chief, changed entirely. He would never have expected that the youngster could cause Liu Yifan to fly away even after he had displayed the third-grade defense technique, Cold Iron Jacket. Even a level-seven adept could not have such ability.
Wu Second Elder Wu Jingtao, Head Elder Wu Chong and First Young Master Wu Nanxun were all in disbelief as well.
Soon, the four of them walked through the collapsed wall and found the collapsed Liu Yifan more than ten meters away. The robe on his chest was entirely torn, revealing a huge eye-catching bruise. After confirming that Liu Yifan had just been severely injured and not killed, the four others breathed a sigh of relief.
“Head Elder, please bring Uncle Fan downstairs to recuperate,” Wu Wentao instructed Wu Chong. He turned to Wu Nanxun and said sadly, “Xun’er, you saw for yourself… the Wu family is not able to avenge you.”
“Father, it is me who has implicated all of you,” responded Wu Nanxun with a bitter smile. When he witnessed Zhou Donghuang cause Liu Yifan to fly with just a stroke of his weapon, he had realized that the Wu family could not avenge him.
There was simply no one who was Zhou Donghuang’s match. Furthermore, after all that he had seen, he realized that he was incredibly lucky to have survived at Zhou Donghuang’s hands.
“Now, I just hope that he will forgive our disrespect… with his strength, he can easily decimate our whole Wu family,” sighed Wu Wentao.
When the three of them returned to the hall and found that Zhou Donghuang had already left, they all heaved a sigh of relief. This showed that Zhou Donghuang had no intention to continue the dispute with the Wu family.
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To Zhou Donghuang, he had only one aim in going to the Wu family, which was to scare them and not allow them to have any thoughts of revenge. He was not afraid of their revenge, but he had to consider his mother.
“Fu, find a restaurant, we’ll begin our journey after having our meal.” After leaving the Wu household and boarding the horse-drawn carriage, Zhou Donghuang instructed Fu. He did not plan to stay long in Guangling prefecture; he planned to go straight to the Chu royal city. There, he could increase his level of gathered qi more quickly… to him, that was the priority. The resources in even the superior prefecture capitals could not compare to those in the royal cities.
“Yes, Young Master,” responded Fu. He directed the horse carriage to a decent restaurant nearby. As the governor’s household, the Wu family household was in the city center of the capital of Guangling prefecture. Fu found a nearby restaurant in the most prosperous city center of Guangling prefecture capital. It was furnished lavishly and had a huge crowd.
Liuxiang Restaurant was the largest restaurant in the whole of Guangling prefecture and one of the businesses owned by the Wu family. Even Zhou Donghuang’s Yunxuan Restaurant was far inferior to this Liuxiang Restaurant.
The restaurant had a dedicated space for leaving carriages. After Fu stopped the carriage there, he called to Zhou Donghuang, “Young Master, we’re here.”
“Mm.” Zhou Donghuang led Fu into the restaurant and asked if there were any private rooms available. The waiter replied, “Sir, the people’s dining booth, and the earthly dining booths are all not available… though there is one heavenly dining booth remaining, would you like that?”
Right after, he added, “Sir, the heavenly dining booth here at Liuxiang Restaurant come at a minimum of a thousand liang.”
“A thousand liang?” Zhou Donghuang’s eyes flashed. Even in his Yunxuan Restaurant in Qingshan Town of Yunfeng prefecture, the best heavenly dining booth cost only a hundred liang. But to him now, there was no difference between a hundred and a thousand liang.
“Lead the way,” said Zhou Donghuang flatly.
“This way please, sir.” The waiter led Zhou Donghuang and Fu to the last available heavenly dining booth in Liuxiang Restaurant. As the heavenly dining booth of Liuxiang Restaurant, the furniture and decor were all extremely particular. Not only were they elaborate, but they gave one a rare sense of the warmth of home.
“Sir, this is our menu, please take a look.” The waiter had just prepared to hand the menu to Zhou Donghuang, but he already shook his head and said, “No need for that… just bring us the best dishes you have at this restaurant. Make it quick, we still have a long way to go after eating.”
“Yes, sir,” replied the waiter as he left.
“Fu, take a seat. In the past month, so much has happened, but we have not yet had a good meal… we’ll have a good meal here before we make our way to the Chu royal city.”
“Yes, Young Master.” Having served Zhou Donghuang for a while, Fu knew Zhou Donghuang would not take ‘no’ for an answer. When Zhou Donghuang asked him to take a seat, he did not dare to decline at all and sat down immediately. He knew that if he declined, his young master would be even more unhappy. His young master was unlike others: he never treated him as a slave but as a member of his family.
Just as Zhou Donghuang and Fu were seated in the heavenly dining booth and waiting for the food to be served, two figures walked in through the front door of Liuxiang Restaurant. It looked like a 19-year-old teenager with a fifteen or sixteen-year-old young girl.