Chapter 159: Following Closely
A waiter in the restaurant quietly entered a room and called out in a low voice.
The manager of the wine house is now calculating accounts in this room.
"What's going on?" The county magistrate asked in a deep voice after hearing the shout.
"Manager, Xia's young master Xia Yan has come to the restaurant for dinner. He is in the large hall on the second floor with a dog, which is the same stray dog that bit off Ma San and Xu Yang's arms!" The waiter said quietly, carefully glancing at the manager who was calculating accounts behind the table.
Wisdom
The manager's face changed, and he suddenly stood up, startling the waiter.
"Is that Young Master Xia Yan?" The manager's eyebrows rose, and a sharp glint flashed in his eyes. "Mmm, well done! I'll go out right away to welcome Young Master Xia Yan personally. You can get back to work now, and this month's wages will be five silver coins more!"
With a slight wave of his hand, the waiter smiled and thanked him profusely before retreating, secretly delighted.
Five silver coins, this is also a considerable sum. His monthly salary was only five silver coins, and now it's doubled all at once.
Slowly walked out, the waiter went back to busy with his own affairs.
The manager picked up the account book and tidied his clothes before walking out of the room.
As for Xia Yan's identity, he also had to tread on thin ice. Previously, in the rumors, Xia Yan was always a gentle young master, extremely polite to almost everyone. But after what happened at Juxian Building, people would no longer think that Xia Yan didn't have a temper. The impression of Xia Yan also underwent a huge change.
Many people have discussed in private that the one who will inherit the position of the head of the Xia family will absolutely not be Xian Cao! Although Young Master Xia Yan is usually gentle, whoever touches his reverse scales should prepare their coffin!
The manager, Li Yu, walked out quickly with a warm smile on his face and rushed to the second floor. At a glance, he saw Xia Yan, a young and beautiful woman, and that spirited mutt.
In the Beifang district of Xiajia town, about half of the shops are owned by the Xia family, while the other half are rented out to allow businessmen to do business.
In the downtown area, there are now about 500 shops. Among these 500 shops, even if they are not owned by Xia's family business, all of them have already met Xia Yan.
Even if they had never seen Xia Yan before, they all tried to find out what he looked like. They didn't want to offend this young master Xia Yan unintentionally. In case something went wrong, the Gathering Immortal Building would be a good example. The owner of the Gathering Immortal Building, Old Ma, was also a well-known figure in Yushui City, but when facing Young Master Xia Yan, he didn't even dare fart.
The Xujian Building, worth 100,000 gold coins, was demolished just like that. Now, the Xujian Building is still under reconstruction. Without three or four months' time, it's impossible to complete the construction.
For Old Horse, his losses were not just 100,000 gold coins. Demolishing the wine house cost 100,000 gold coins, rebuilding it would also cost 100,000 gold coins, and several months without doing business was also an indirect loss.
"Master Xia!"
With a warm smile, Manager Liang Yu walked up to Xia Yan's desk with an old yellow menu in hand.
Xia Yan took a look at this person, who was of medium height. He had a slightly plump build and wore a long shirt with golden trim.
"Who are you?" Xia Yan had never seen this person before.
"Hehe, Young Master Xia Yan, I am Liang Yu, the manager of the wine house. You may not have seen me before, hehe. But I've seen you, Young Master!" Liang Yu said with a low bow, extremely respectfully.
Xia Yan nodded and smiled, "Thanks, Manager Liang".
Liáng Yù shook his head and said: "Xià Yán young master, it's a great honor for our restaurant that you can come to eat here. Hehe, this is the menu, what do you need to order?"
Xian summer words gaze turned to the woman beside him, Liang Yu again hastily said: "This miss, our wine building inside has a characteristic dish, for beauty is very effective use of a treasure tofu!"
The surrounding diners, seeing Liang Yu personally entertaining this table of guests, couldn't help but cast sideways glances and whisper to each other. Liang Yu was the manager of the wine tower and was usually a very overbearing person, he naturally wouldn't fawn over ordinary customers.
Xia Yan and Xiao Qing quickly ordered their dishes, and then Liang Yu went over to greet them before slowly backing away.
But when the dishes were brought up, the diners in the hall couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice.
Because, apart from a few simple vegetarian dishes, these two young people actually ordered a whole table full of meat dishes.
There are so many dishes, even ten big men might not be able to finish them. Xia Yan and Xiao Qing don't seem like the kind of people who can eat a lot either, yet they ordered this many dishes, which seems quite wasteful.
"Wow, they're really rich!" someone whispered in admiration.
"Don't talk nonsense! That's Young Master Xia Yan of the Xia family!" another person reminded.
Upon hearing the reminder, the person who spoke first turned pale and hastily closed his mouth, staring at Xia Yan with a shocked sidelong glance.
Everyone looked over, apparently most people thought Xia Yan and Xiao Qing were wasting their time.
Even Liang Yu didn't quite understand why Xia Yan had ordered so many dishes. However, he also couldn't ask too much. Even if he bought the entire restaurant, Liang Yu believed that Xia Yan wouldn't think it was a big deal.
A few days ago when dismantling the Juxian Building, Xia Yan took out a large sum of gold notes on the spot.
Just as everyone shook their heads and sighed in secret admiration, another astonishing scene appeared.
That inconspicuous native dog, at this moment, its eyes emitted a green and eerie light, and with one fierce bite, it pounced on a roasted sheep's head.
Roar
At the moment of biting down, he let out a very pleased cry.
Of course, the local dogs also dare to do so after getting permission from Xia Yan.
"A dog can actually eat like this in a wine house?" Everyone looked at Xia Yan's direction in shock.
Even those wealthy families wouldn't be willing to let a dog indulge in food and drink in such a restaurant, would they?
The crowd's astonishment had not yet fully dissipated when they saw that a whole roasted lamb had already been devoured. That local dog, its eating speed was incredibly fast. All they saw was its mouth opening and closing at an extremely rapid pace, then the whole roasted lamb, which three or four people couldn't finish, was gone, without even any bones left over.
After eating the roasted lamb, the local dog licked its tongue and turned its gaze to another golden and tempting roast chicken!
In just three or four bites, this golden roasted chicken completely disappeared before everyone's eyes.
"My god, what kind of dog is this?"
Someone couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
Actually, everyone has such an outcry in their heart.
"Slow down for me!" Xia Yan glared at the local dog, who let out a couple of "wah wahs" and sneaked a peek at Xia Yan before calming down.
Xiao Qing giggled and picked up the white jade chopsticks to start picking dishes, she first gave Xia Yan some. Of course, they were all some more delicate vegetarian dishes.
After a fragrant moment, a table full of dishes enough for more than ten people was completely wiped out. The local dog hummed contentedly at this time, patted its belly with its front paws, and blinked its eyes that emitted a frightening green light. It swept the wine house with a glance. Those who saw its gaze all dodged away.
This mutt is too scary!
I don't know where all that meat went either. A whole table of sumptuous meat dishes, almost all of it ended up in its belly.
When Liang Yu returned, his eyes were also wide with shock. Originally, he thought that Xia Yan and Xiao Qing couldn't possibly finish a table of food by themselves, and at first, he thought Xia Yan had ordered so many dishes just to show off or out of habit. But now the table was empty. He was naturally shocked in his heart.
Liáng Yù originally didn't want to charge for this meal. However, Xià Yán wouldn't agree, he didn't want to owe such a favor. In the end, Liáng Yù repeatedly asked and Xià Yán agreed to let him collect 80% of the cost of this meal.
Under the terrified gaze of the crowd, Xiaoyan slowly walked out of the wine house with Tudou.
Some people who recognized Xia Yan also heard about the ferocity of the native dog by his side in rumors, and now that they see it can eat so much, most people also believe that this native dog is not ordinary.
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The next morning at dawn, Xia Yan hastily left the Xia family's mansion with Tǔ Gǒu, exited through the north gate, and quickly headed in the direction of Yù Shuǐ Mountain.
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Two shadows, swiftly running on the official road.
However, Xia Yan didn't speed up too much. The air was freshest in the morning, and the scenery on both sides of the open field was pleasant. The wind blew across his face, which was quite comfortable.
The little dog was happily jumping around, occasionally tilting its mouth towards Xia Yan.
"I hope that after using this specially prepared medicine, my Linggong acupoint will achieve a pretty good effect!"
Xia Yan's eyes flashed, and he secretly thought to himself.
"Huh?"
Her heart skipped a beat, and her body trembled slightly. Her gaze naturally turned towards the back.
"It seems like someone is following me!" The speed didn't slow down, "Has it been since we left the city? What does this person want?"
Roar
The dog opened its mouth and revealed sharp teeth, letting out a low growl. It seemed to have also discovered that someone was following them.
However, Xia Yan's eyebrows soon furrowed because although he felt someone was following him, when he turned around, he didn't see anyone.
To know that on this vast wilderness, with Xia Yan's eyesight, he could discover someone even if they were a thousand meters away. But now, Xia Yan didn't have any discovery.
"No, there must be someone following!" Xia Yan looked at the reaction of the mud dog and was even more certain in his heart. "He's a master, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to escape my eyes!"
Xia Yan felt like someone was following him, but he didn't slow down and soon arrived at the foot of Yushui Mountain.
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With a sudden burst of energy, Xia Yan's body flew out at an odd angle and landed nimbly under a low shrub in the woods. The rapidly running dog, however, continued to dash forward.
Just now in the rush, Xia Yan had instructed Tǔ Gǒu that when he dodged sideways into the woods to continue running forward. This was done, of course, to lure out the person who was following them.
However, after waiting for a while, Xia Yan still didn't see anyone appear.
"Could it be that I've misfelt?" Xia Yan couldn't help but feel some doubt, shaking his head. If you want to know what happens next, please support the author.
