4 Black Merchan (2/2)
Two hours later-VIP guest hall-Green lake inn.
In the beautifully decorated hall that have many people in a luxurious robe and gorgeous jewelry that adorned on their body, Many are noble aristocrats from many kingdoms across the continent; many are the merchant that travel across many land and sea. All of them stay in this hall not to taste with the heaven-defying delicious food of this place, but also to meet with the most influential and wealthiest man of this world.
The Black Merchant No one knows about his background or real name. They only know that he calls himself [Black merchant] and prefer to call that. Any attempt on calling him otherwise will offend him, but he's just making life difficult for that person for a year or two, not a life-threatening. But anyone who attempts to uncover his real name. No one survives. All of them disappeared from this world.
”Greeting to you Mr.Black merchant. I'm Wang Zhao, the manager of this Green lake inn. It's an honor to have you dine here in our humble inn.”
Wang Zhao, the manager of this inn, greet the man in a luxurious black robe in front of him with sincerity.
”The honor is mine. Mr. Wang. It's the first time I ever eat the food that so delicious to this degree.”
The man in black robe answer in delight, He uses chopsticks to clamp the meat on his plate before placing it into his mouth and eat it. The fragrance and a chewy feel when chew through this meat give him the happiness that he's not experiencing it from a very long time. It makes him want to kidnap the one who makes this delicious food and make him his chef.
”This taste is very delicious. It's like the one who makes this dish is not a human being but a supreme being that born to be the culinary god.
His high praise makes the manager smile and feels proud of his particular employer which is Zhu Wushang who made this dish. But in all of that praise, he didn't catch a mysterious glint when the Black merchant is looking at the meat.
This tall man that has about 190+ tall in black gold rim luxurious robe that gives the mysterious air is the founder of the Profound trading Association. He's a very mysterious some say he has no cultivation strength, some say that his cultivation is unfathomable and rumor to be the one behind the destruction of the greatest Ascension realm expert clan four years ago.
Both of them chatting for a while before the door of the VIP hall open with the new set of luxurious food that comes with the big cart that customizes to house the whole spirit lamb that's a grill on the small fire to keep the food hot.
The delicious fragrance pervades throughout the hall and makes all of the guests to drool in hunger. The glistening of the oil of the spirit lamb the beautiful decoration and the fragrance, nearly make all of them lose them self to their gluttony.
But this not speaks true to the Black merchant that making his face like the idiot. His jaw drops and eye the person that comes with the new set of food in shock unlike his usual calm and collected demeanor.
His face is shocking in disbelief like he saw his long dead ancestor is waking up from the grave And the target of his shock is the ten years old boy who comes with the new set of food to introduce it as the chef who made it. That's right this boy is Zhu Wushang.
Black merchant is so shocked to the point of all the content that this ten years old boy spoke didn't enter into his head at all. And he didn't even care about his long build image that he tries to portray himself as the calm and collected man. And if not for that ten years old boy who's walking to him by the instruction of manager he might still can't collect himself.
”Uh… oh .. what? what did you say?” He asks stupidly to Zhu Wushang that already introduce himself.
The boy smile to the manager who's smile back at him before re-introducing himself
”Greeting Mr. Black merchant. I'm Zhu Wushang. The chef who made all of the dishes here. I heard that you're very eager to meet me. So, I came here to deliver this amazing dish and greet you in person.” Zhu Wushang smile. But behind that smile, Hidden with the curiosity and waring about the nature of the man in front of him.
This is the first time that Zhu Wushang cannot sense someone true nature at all. This indicates two possibilities. First, He has a true neutral of nature. Literary true neutral and see himself completely detach from this world and know no emotion. But this is impossible because he can see the disbelief and great shock in his eye when the Black merchant has seen him.
And this confirms his second hypothesis. This black merchant is not a human. To be precise, he doesn't have the mindset of a human or normal intelligent being. And this guy is not a simple animal like a dog or cat that didn't have the human mindset. Which mean, he's not a normal intelligent being. But who he really is. He doesn't know, or at least. Right now. He doesn't know
With the re-introduction of Zhu Wushang make Black merchant jolt back to the present from his many thought of the hypothesis debate and disbelief within his mind. He tries to collect himself before smile and politely bow to Zhu Wushang.
”Greeting Mr.Zhu. Please forgive my manner. It's because of your excellent culinary that brought joy to me more than I expected to, and it's out of my expectation that the youth at your age is the one who made this excellent dish.
Black merchant answers him and tries to justify his behavior a moment ago. But Zhu Wushang knew that this is just a pretense from the Black merchant to hide his true feeling.