jdhmnovel Chapter 544 The Case of Missing Persons
Chapter 544 The Case of Missing Persons
The eighty-eight taels is only for the food, not including drinks.
Wenbin doesn't drink alcohol, but he ordered a pot of tea.
We also ordered two jugs of wine for the staff, so the meal cost a total of 110 taels.
Although it was expensive, no one felt very full.
After all, Liuxiang Pavilion caters to high-ranking officials and nobles, who are pampered and do not engage in physical labor, so their appetites are naturally not large.
Wenbin and his men had worked all day, and just standing all day was exhausting, not to mention they were constantly working with their hands.
Cyclamen offers rice and noodles as its main dishes, and everyone tacitly agreed to each order an extra bowl of noodles.
After all, they had already seen the rice bowl; it was very small.
The noodle bowl is at least a normal size, so it should be enough to fill you up.
However, to their surprise, the bowl of noodles was quite large, but there were only a few noodles inside.
Even so, it still costs 200 coins a bowl.
With these two hundred coins, you could buy dozens of bowls of noodles at a street stall or a small eatery.
This cyclamen is really overpriced, and the noodles are just regular chicken noodle soup, nothing special.
"Alright, alright, it's our first time here too, we have no experience. Next time, let's not come when we're so hungry."
"There's going to be a next time?! You've got to be serious, Manager! This noodle dish is making me feel really uncomfortable."
"Exactly! Are these noodles made of gold or silver? Are just a few strands this precious?"
Ah Niu touched his belly, which was only padded with a small piece of dough, and looked somewhat resentful.
However, Cyclamen Restaurant operates on a reservation system. Main dishes can be ordered on the spot, but banquets cannot and must be booked in advance.
Now, even if they want to eat something else, the restaurant won't serve it to them.
"Alright, alright, I miscalculated. Let's go to Liu's Noodle Shop and have a few big bowls of his braised noodles while it's still not too late!"
"Haha, good, good, good. Liu's is still the most affordable and reliable. Their noodles are so chewy, I can definitely fill up after eating two bowls."
Ah Niu's eyes lit up at this moment; he could eat six or seven bowls of noodles at Liu's Noodle Shop.
However, a bowl of vegetarian noodles only costs five coins, and a bowl of meat noodles only costs ten coins, which is affordable.
"Okay, wait for me outside, I'll go pay the bill."
When Wenbin paid the bill, the owner of the restaurant asked him if he was satisfied with the meal and if he would come again.
Wenbin could only smile and say something against his will, "It's very good, no wonder it's the best restaurant in the whole capital."
The owner of the cyclamen restaurant was quite pleased with himself after receiving a compliment from the owner of the Liuxiang Pavilion restaurant.
Everyone says that Liuxiang Pavilion makes a fortune every day, but my own Xiankelai is no less so.
It's quite unexpected that the manager of Liuxiang Pavilion brought his staff to eat at their restaurant today.
The owner of Liuxiang Pavilion is really generous to his subordinates.
If it were their employer, they would reluctantly agree to even provide meals for the waiters, let alone serve them their own dishes.
Then look at what the shop assistants at Liuxiang Pavilion are wearing. That's the finest cotton cloth that even I, the head manager, wouldn't normally buy.
Not to mention the manager of Liuxiang Pavilion, whose jade pendant at his waist is probably enough to support him for a year.
Comparing yourself to others will only make you miserable. Forget it, you're not as good as some, but you're better than others. You should be content with what you have.
Looking around the entire capital, how many masters are like the owner of Liuxiang Pavilion?
The wages paid to the employees were the same as those paid to the manager, and the wages paid to the manager were even more outrageously high.
Sigh, that's a bit too ambitious.
Wenbin and his group were unaware that they had been being watched and marveled at by the owner of Xiankelai for a long time.
Everyone's been craving Liu's noodles!
Liu's hand-pulled noodles are all made by the owners, a husband and wife team. The noodles are chewy and the soup is flavorful.
Although it's not made with chicken broth, it's still a real soup made from large bones.
The pork vendors on the street all said that Liu Ji always buys a lot of pork bones and leg bones from him, just to make the broth for the noodles.
Therefore, both the bone broth noodles that cost five coins a bowl and the shredded pork noodles that cost ten coins a bowl were extremely popular.
Liu's noodle shop has made a name for itself in the world of soup noodles that are affordable for ordinary people, thanks to its genuine products, generous portions, and good taste.
It's no wonder the guys crave this dish; after all, they often go to Liu's for dinner because they don't have time to go home for meals after work.
They had been on paid leave for more than ten days, and it had been more than half a month since they had eaten Liu Ji's noodles. How could they not miss it?
We had planned to have noodles together after work today, but who would have thought that the head manager would actually bring us a feast of gold and jade?
We spent so much silver, and we still haven't had enough to eat. How many bowls of noodles could we have bought with that hundred-plus taels of silver?
Even the most expensive shredded pork noodles can buy tens of thousands of bowls; if you buy vegetarian noodles, you can buy more than 20,000 bowls.
Good heavens, we'll be eating this forever!
The more I think about it, the more my heart bleeds; I can't think about it anymore.
"Brother Liu, Sister Liu! Twenty bowls of shredded pork noodles, please! Extra shredded pork and extra noodles!"
Wenbin immediately ordered two bowls of noodles for everyone, without considering whether they could finish them.
He knew how much these kids could eat; they'd used up a lot of energy today, so they had to finish their food.
"Alright, Manager Wen, please come in. Everyone, please have a seat. There aren't many customers today, and our noodles will be ready soon."
Wenbin also noticed that Liu's restaurant was rather deserted today. Was it because it was getting late?
In less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, twenty bowls of shredded pork noodles were served.
Without further ado, everyone grabbed two bowls and started eating.
Ah Niu ate the fastest; while others were still finishing their first bowl, he had already emptied his second.
Wenbin and Wangchuan tacitly pushed their untouched second bowls of noodles towards each other.
Ah Niu was already used to it and started eating right away.
"Brother Liu, ten more bowls of shredded pork noodles, please."
Some of the waiters with smaller appetites waved their hands, indicating that they had enough and could not eat anymore.
Wenbin still ordered ten bowls, and also some braised dishes.
The only wine sold in the store was the cheapest and worst kind of cloudy wine, but Wenbin didn't mind and ordered a large jar.
The wine was brewed by the proprietress herself, so this big jar wasn't very expensive, only two hundred coins.
And just like that, the proprietress's eyes crinkled with laughter; she had finally met a big customer.
Normally, when people come here to eat noodles, they wouldn't be willing to buy a jar of wine to drink.
The most you could get was a small pot for ten coins, and that was it.
When the noodles he ordered for the second time arrived, Wenbin casually asked why there were so few people today.
"Sigh~ It's all because of that incident a couple of days ago. Several young adults have mysteriously disappeared from our street."
Now that it gets dark, nobody wants to go out. Look how late it is; most of the usual diners have already gone home.
"Missing person? Wasn't it reported to the Prefectural Governor's Office?"