Chapter 223: The Tavern Stranger
The Grove family ran a tavern, and he had no father, so he was raised by his mother alone. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Info is similar to Egrim's Golden Monkey Tavern, with the first floor drinking and eating, and the second floor being a place to stay. Although the scale is much smaller than the Golden Monkey Tavern, it is currently overcrowded and business is very hot.
"It's all thanks to the tsunami that left the merchants stranded. Grove regretted it as soon as he spoke, and at this moment, he was sitting in his tavern feeling the hostility from all sides.
The stranded merchants were drunk and had nowhere to go, and their hearts were already depressed, and they couldn't listen to Grove's words. With some alcohol, some people are so anxious that they almost get up to shoot the case. Grove's face turned white with fright, and he shuddered and turned his head in the direction of the counter, asking for help from the tavern's leader, his own mother.
"Children are not sensible, don't take it seriously. The small shop still needs you to take care of the business, come on, come on, tonight's wine is my treat!" is worthy of being the proprietress of the tavern, although her appearance can't catch up with Angelina of the "Golden Monkey", but her momentum is not lost to her at all.
For the sake of the proprietress face, the businessmen don't care, after all, she is the only hotel here, plus the free drinks, the customers who are full of business experience can quickly calculate the gains and losses, so as to relieve the tense spirit.
The proprietress came over with a jar of wine, placed it on the table next door, turned around and raised her hand to hit Grove's head: "What a loser, as soon as I come, I will lose a lot!"
"Come on, haven't you been so happy that you can't sleep at night?" Grove whispered, this time he had learned to be obedient.
"Alas, you little rabbit cub, if it weren't for your friend's face, the old lady would have whipped you!" the proprietress then changed into a welcoming smile and shouted at the three people opposite Grove, especially Xuanyu.
"I heard that this gentleman made a fortune in the country of heaven, why did he come to the island?"
"We didn't know there was a treasure of feng shui here, but it was only by chance that we encountered a storm near the boat and were lucky enough to meet these friends. Now that I think about it, it's a blessing rather than a curse!" Xuanyu said nonsense in a serious manner.
Although she hasn't been out of the island much, the proprietress still has very vicious eyes. She had seen so many merchants and artists, but there had never been one as personable and imposing as Xuanyu. In addition, when I heard about the prosperity of the country of the heavenly realm, I respected the Oriental man in front of me. From the point of view of making money, Xuanyu is undoubtedly not a fat sheep, if he can be said to come here to do business, become a regular visitor to live, and some oil and water can be fished!
"What business does the gentleman do?"
"I don't stick to one thing, I do whatever the market is good for. Xuanyu replied very calmly, but he did enough work on the surface but was very empty in his heart, and he couldn't think of the answer to the boss's question at all, so he simply said so.
"Then you might as well come and see us, business here is very good!"
Xuanyu smiled: "I can see it." So saying, he looked around, and the merchants' goods were piled up in half a room, and there was indeed a lot of them.
Jasmine was in a bad mood, and she lay on the table without saying a word. Although she was quiet, she was thinking about the next step in her mind, and suddenly, she raised her head and said loudly, "Auntie, let me live here!"
"Jasmine, are you going to live with me?" Grove's eyebrows fluttered when he heard this, "I'll clean up the room right away......!" Ah......h
The proprietress grabbed Grove's ears and said angrily, "How can a little girl live with you!"
After punishing her son, the proprietress said with a smile: "Does Jasmine plan to stay with these two distinguished guests?"
Jasmine nodded at first, and then felt that something was wrong, and then remembered that she needed to ask Xuanyu and Lucia: "You guys can also stay!"
"Miss Jasmine let us stay, how long are you going to stay?" Xuanyu took a sip of the wine poured by the proprietress, only to feel unbearable, and frowned slightly.
"Of course, it's until you can take a boat to leave the island!" said Jasmine.
"But we're going back to Yueqin Village tonight. Lucia, who had been busy eating, finally gave up a table of scraps, and opened her mouth to say, "If you want to stay, you can live by yourself." ā
"It's okay, Jasmine won't go back anyway!" Jasmine turned to the proprietress and glanced at Grove again, and after making sure that he couldn't be the master, she turned to the proprietress again, "Auntie, give me a guest room." ā
"Alas, Jasmine, it's not that Auntie I'm stingy, you can also see it, now there are so many merchants stranded here, and the room is already full!" the proprietress said and glanced at Xuanyu again, "But if this gentleman stays, I can think of a way!"
"Oh, are you afraid that I won't have the money to pay the bill?" Jasmine said bluntly, "You can ask my mother for money!"
This idea is really terrible, even Grove saw it, and shook his head vigorously: "Jasmine, you better squeeze it with me." ā
"Hmph!" Jasmine tilted her head, "Don't think anything wrong about me, if only you and Adonis were the only ones left in the world, I would choose him over you!"
Hey, Jasmine isn't stupid! At first, Lucia, who felt that Grove was not as steady as Adounis, thought of going with Jasmine this time, she put down her knife and fork, picked up the wine glass next to her, drank the residual wine in it, and said: "I think Jasmine, you better go home, the island is so big, and there are only two in the village, and your witch doctor mother can find you out wherever you hide." ā
"That's right," the proprietress continued, "I've known Ophelie well before, and if she were to find a door, it would be a lot of hurt and annoyance." Others still think of my Grove What's wrong with you!" As she spoke, she elbowed the Grove next to her, who was in a petrified state due to Jasmine's refusal just now, and was relieved by this touch, and immediately responded to her mother's words, and at the same time shifted the target from Jasmine to Lucia's side.
"But sir, you really don't plan to stay?" the proprietress was not dead.
"No, let's go back to Yueqin Village!" Lucia couldn't cope with the eager gaze cast by Grove, and Lucia was busy answering for Xuanyu, "Besides, we are penniless. ā
The last sentence overcame all the previous shirks, and after the proprietress heard it, she was stunned and cast an inquiring glance at Xuanyu.
"That's right, our ship sank, and it's a blessing to be able to save our lives, and those things outside of our bodies ......"
Before Xuanyu's words were finished, the proprietress stood up with a "Teng" voice, with a displeased face: "I still have to take care of the other guests, you can read it yourself;." With that, he grabbed Grove by the collar and dragged him out.
"Can I really only go back to Yueqin Village?" Jasmine was still immersed in a slump and couldn't extricate herself.
Lucia tried to enlighten her, but she didn't know how to speak, and in the end, she finally chose to lower her head and eat the food on the plate.
Xuanyu didn't have much appetite, and in this smoky place, his eyes looked left and right, wandering among the drinkers who pushed the glass and changed the lamp. At a table some distance from them sat a man drinking alone. The frequency of his drinking was very different from the people around him, and he sat alone in the corner like a painting on the wall. Although his back is to Xuanyu, he is full of aura, not like a general.
In fact, from the moment he first entered the tavern, Xuanyu noticed him. Even when I sat down to talk to the hostess, my eyes were fixed on the man's back from time to time. And the other party also secretly turned back once or twice and glanced this way. After the proprietress left, Xuanyu patted Lucia's head and whispered, "I really want to meet a fellow villager." ā
"Countryman?" Lucia looked around, trying to find out an extraordinary person from these merchants, in Lucia's heart, only such a person could be called Xuanyu's "fellow countryman", and the result was nothing, "Where is it?"
"I'm not sure yet, you're waiting in there. Xuanyu stood up with the wine glass as he spoke, if it was Xuanyu's original character, he would never care about this person, but now, driven by curiosity, he walked a few steps towards the person and sat down opposite him.
Another black-haired and black-eyed Oriental face, he was in his forties, wearing a green cloth shirt, his hair was combed into a bun, his lips were sparsely bearded, and his eyes were bright.
"Looking at your friend's dress, are you from the country of the Heavenly Realm?" asked Xuanyu as he sat down and split his head.
Lucia saw Xuanyu sitting across from the man, and she was curious to hear them, but even if she used her spiritual power to hear it, it was a language she didn't understand. She rolled her eyes and grabbed Grove, who was forced to help by the proprietress and asked softly.
"The man was very strange, he said he was a merchant, but he did not see his goods, and he just sat here every day, and did not go out or talk to anyone, and he stayed for two months in a row, and he did not see him anxious or annoyed. Grove didn't forget to add, "But he's still very generous." ā
What a weirdo!" Lucia crossed her arms and glanced at the man's back.
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